[Magdalen] Hog Island?

[Molly Wolf]

My parents lived in Portland fro,1968 to my mother's final illness in 2002.  I used to be quite familiar with the place, although I never lived there (I was at Grinnell College when they moved).  It was a terribly run-down place when we moved there, but it's got a lot of Victorian charm.

Molly

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain

> On Dec 12, 2014, at 10:18 AM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I was in Portland as a 16 yr old.  I rode the bus from Montreal and at the Portland dock boarded a ferry to, if I recall,  either Big Chebeague or Little Chebeague where I would spend a few weeks with a school friend and her interesting somewhat elderly parents.  Mother was the granddaughter of Anna Leonowens of ' The King and I' fame. Father was a very eccentric flame-haired doctor.  They had a Siamese cat, Ming Ping.
> 
> Marion, a pilgrim
>> On 12/11/2014 10:37 PM, Christopher Hart wrote:
>> I like Portland too.
>> 
>> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Charles Wohlers <
>> charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hey, I *like* Portland!. It's a nice, small city.
>>> 
>>> Maine does have puffins, but they're nowhere near Wiscasset. Way up the
>>> coast, almost to New Brunswick.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Chad Wohlers
>>> Woodbury, VT USA
>>> chadwohl at satucket.com
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message----- From: ME Michaud
>>> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 7:44 AM
>>> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Hog Island?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I've never been there, but, checking the map, it's near Wiscasset and
>>> Damariscotta
>>> and Rockland. Nice towns, interesting area (especially Rockland, where city
>>> folk have the mind-bending experience of seeing huge oil paintings in
>>> gallery windows without pull-down grates to protect them from miscreants).
>>> The Farnsworth is worth a visit.
>>> 
>>> Puffins are a hoot. You know that they nearly went extinct because they're
>>> delicious. Or so the old-timers told us.
>>> 
>>> Stay the heck out of Portland.
>>> -M
>>> 
>>> On Wednesday, December 10, 2014, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Thoughts? Suggestions?
>