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LITERARY Maine: A reader's pilgrimage, from Longfellow to Stephen King

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From: AP Worldstream
Date: 20050624
Author:BETH J. HARPAZ, Associated Press Writer

BETH J. HARPAZ, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
06-24-2005
Dateline: CAMDEN, Maine
Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote a poem that would bring her fame, "Renascence," about the view from Mount Battie in Camden. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in 1850 while living in a house near Bowdoin College. And tiny Bucks Harbor, in South Brooksville, still looks a lot like the drawings in Robert McCloskey's beloved 1952 children's book, "One Morning in Maine."

Literary pilgrims can find these and many other places associated with famous writers all over Maine, from Portland, birthplace ...

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