What is it about that word? Aroostook. ‘The County, ‘ they call it in Maine.
She sat in the Ohio kitchen with books spread out, having just read a word. She said the word aloud. Someone little called. A door slammed. She stood automatically, walked a step, reached up and got out peanut butter. There was cold milk in the refrigerator, and bread speckled with cracked wheat on the counter. The word Aroostook was thickening against the roof of her mouth.
It’s been years, but that’s how she remembers it, living now in Maine. She’d like to go there. But, driving the Town Road in the western mountains today, her spouse asks, ‘Why Aroostook? Why is it so important to you?’
Her answer was purely explanatory: about that Ohio kitchen twelve years behind. About the endless prehistoric primal forest in some corner of that distant northern state. About its transformation into a sea of pine stumps; each five, six, or seven feet in diameter. And of how potatoes now grew in their stead. Aroostook today is an aisle of civilization bordering a rolling plain of farms, edging, in turn, a great industrial north woods filled with thin trees. And she had been listening to its story.
Aroostook, she said, is the mystique of exploring Aroostook.
That’s why they visited the eastern uplands of Maine. S. Dorman tells you of their experience in this book.
Over de auteur
S. Dorman has lived in Maine and studied its ways for thirty years. Maine Metaphor is her series of creative nonfiction. Her Substack, titled ‘Do I Like Free Will?’, engages with speculative fiction, fantasy, 19th and 20th century literature, current culture and human knowledge. She is the author of several works of speculative fiction, including The God’s Cycle, Gott’im’s Monster 1808, and Fantastic Travelogue. Her current work-in-progress is Historical Fantasia: Four British Journalists–Boswell, Chesterton Hitchens, and Orwell–investigate the Hereafter.
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