The American Playground
Maine villages have their own brand of diversity.
By Richard Grant
One thing you have to say about raising a family in Maine — getting beyond the usual issues like schools and safety and small-town-versus-suburbs — is that your kids grow up with a wildly diversified peer group. Or to put this less diplomatically, they get to know some truly oddball characters, whose homes and families and general thought-worlds are far removed from your own. [For the rest of this story, see the September 2008 issue of Down East.]
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