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Shoutin’ into the Fog

Created by: Thomas Hanna
Publisher: Islandport Press
SKU: ISL011

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“Shoutin’ Into the Fog” is a gritty Depression-era memoir of life in Midcoast Maine. Author Thomas Hanna, a long-time resident of Bath, grew up in the village of Five Islands on Georgetown Island, in a small, crowded bungalow pieced together on the edge of a swamp with second-hand wood and cardboard. He was the eldest son and the second of eight children born to his young mother and his father, a World War I veteran big on dreams, but low on luck. Drawing on insight gleaned from his eighty years, this is a book written with sensitivity, humour, and subtle emotion about a hardscrabble way of life, old-time Maine, and the meaning of both family and forgiveness. His personal tale casts an honest light not only on his own family, but helps illuminate a way of life common to the coast in the 1920s and 1930s that is slowly fading from memory.

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The first part of the 1900s was a time of change, turmoil, and too often, struggle on the Maine coast. Young Tommy Hanna grew up right in the middle of it all. He was born dirt-poor on Georgetown Island, the eldest son and second of eight children. By 1930, his family, descended from successful nineteenth-century seafarers and entrepreneurs, lived in a tiny bungalow pieced together with second hand wood and cardboard. They struggled against the Great Depression, cold Maine winters, insufficient food, and the embarrassment of being “on the town.” Yet, Tommy, who also struggled against growing, seemingly unalterable estrangement from his father, found small ways to transcend the poverty and despair –whether a game of baseball, old-time radio shows, playing guitar or fashioning a homemade bobsled to run down a snowy hill on a cold winter’s night.

Writing with sensitivity and humor about family, forgiveness and overcoming adversity, Hanna’s personal tale also helps cast a light on the native Mainers who struggled in the face of wrenching transition, as traditional fisheries and coastal trade died away, yet “King” Lobster, tourism and World War II had yet to rally the economy and lift people from hard times. It is a real part of Maine history that Hanna writes about with tender, subtle splendor.

 

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Weight410 g
Dimensions5.5 × 8.5 in
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Paperback

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Date Published

August 18 2010

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No of Pages

304

ISBN

9780976323181