by Pauline Armstrong Cates

In response to a child’s question about life during her grandmother’s childhood, the author answers by describing scenes from her years in downeast Maine in the nineteen fifties and sixties.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Pauline Armstrong Cates is a retired teacher with a Master’s in Classroom Instruction from the University of Maine. For 28 years of her 35-year career she taught grades 5–8 in a two-room K–8 school and also served as a teaching principal for 18 of those years. Her interests include reading, sewing, raising a vegetable garden, and collecting vintage photos of the area where she lives. She has served as a literacy tutor and volunteer librarian and is a member of the Down East Community Hospital Women’s Auxiliary board.

Pauline grew up in Machias, Maine, and now lives in Cutler, a small Maine fishing village, which was her mother’s hometown and where her grandfather was the keeper of Little River Light. Her husband is a lobsterman, and he and Pauline have three grandchildren, one of whom inspired her to write this memoir, her first book.

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