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Driving New England

From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Length: 09:41

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Kennebunkportcove_small A drive from New York north to Skowhegan, Maine. Being led by Mable the map finder, stopping at not your normal B & B then visiting presidential homes and stopovers as in Kennebunkport and Sturbridge Village

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Piece Description

A drive from New York north to Skowhegan, Maine. Being led by Mable the map finder, stopping at not your normal B & B then visiting presidential homes and stopovers as in Kennebunkport and Sturbridge Village

Broadcast History

KWMR morning show. Monday August 6 2007

Transcript

Summer 2007
Driving New England
At noon on Saturday we drove out of Manhattan and onto the Bronx River Parkway. We were off, for two weeks of semi-vacation that would include a visit with family in Cambridge, Massachusetts and the Skowhegan School of Art and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine. Our first stop was for lunch with friends. An hour out of the city the enclave of Waccabuc consists of a post office and country club. Houses hide among the trees, while a stone chapel sits beside an unpaved road marked only in the faintest gray on the map. This was our friends first weekend to entertain in their remodeled home. After lunch the wives drove to the post office to walk Linda and Ellen?s favorite loop. We passed by Ellen?s old home which she viewed with a detached smile. The talk between them was of old gossip and who was now letting who join the Country club. These two middle aged Jewis...
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