Painting has been overshadowing serious writing on the novel for several months. I have had two exhibitions of my artwork here in Wellfleet. However, I had an article published in
Discover Maine Magazine late May, using the novel's working title"The Ardent Spirit of Miss Harriet Rice." I spent a day in Friendship, imagining where Harriet may have stayed as she recovered from typhus in 1834. The library was not open. Sea air was believed to cure most illness and in the 1830's there were a number of boarding houses and cottages right on the rocky beach.
While I was in Union, I discovered that my family's gravestones at Lake View Cemetery had been cleaned, now gleaming pure white as they were originally. I miss the grey-green-orange patina, the way I first saw it, but lichens eat away at the granite.
