My older brother, Robert Burkhardt, writes a bimonthly column for the ESTES PARK NEWS in Estes Park, Colorado. I want to share this week’s column because he captured exactly how I feel about the upcoming elections.

Was she an extraordinary woman? Or simply a woman who rose to extraordinary circumstances?

… four young women met in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Where did it go?

The gossip columnist for the NEW YORK POST pops into Maine for a brief visit and doesn’t like what she encounters.

Six-year-old Henry experiences the loss of his first pet.

There we were …. together in the Hamptons.

Ray Shevenell was 74 years old when he retraced the steps of his great-great-grandfather, Israel Shevenell, who had hiked from north of Quebec to the Maine coast in search of a job in 1845. The trek took two weeks, during which he suffered excruciating blisters, but his steely determination got him safely here.

This article just appeared in the Summer TOURIST & TOWN magazine here in southern Maine. Over the years I’ve written countless articles but this is one of my favorites. It’s about a 19-year-old man who walked nearly 200 miles to find a job, trekking from 40 miles north of Quebec to the coast of Maine, in the Spring of 1845.

One of my favorite stories by Maine humorist John Gould