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Nat Goodale
Nat Goodale has flown planes from Belfast, raised sheep in Montville, and run commercial picnics from Searsport, and now sells Norwegian boats in Lincolnville. He is working on his third book.
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A tale of fish and a fish tale
By Joanne Bander - Oct 10Ellen gave me a summer of fish tales when she, a summer friend from Spruce Head, surprised us in Miami one late spring morning en route to a ...
Dispatch from flight level
By Nat Goodale - Oct 08Cuenca, Ecuador - I have been writing every day about life here and our reactions to it, about the unexpected, about the stunning thrills (driving) and each of our ...
Vacationland: Chapter 2
By Nat Goodale - Mar 22Delano Cabot slid his bone china cup off to the side. He and Eliza sat at the heirloom dining table that had cost a fortune. The morning sunlight ...
Vacationland: Chapter 34
By Nat Goodale - Dec 22An excerpt from the novel "Vacationland," due out in the fall. CHAPTER 34 The bullet shattered the port side window. The sound was so ...
Eating disorder
By Nat Goodale - Jul 07I have an eating disorder, do you know what I mean? Of course you don't, but stay with me here. I'm sitting on the sofa in the kitchen, about six ...
Jack
By Nat Goodale - May 05Take my dog, please. No, but really, you gotta hear about this little guy. Terrier, need I say more? But he's got it in spades, the nasty little ...
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Eel Pie
By Hugo Heinz-Smith - Oct 09Rockport - We'd just bought a piece of land. My guess is this was the spring of '72. I was 5 and we'd moved from England the previous fall. My stepfather had ...
Vacationland
By Nat Goodale - May 17This is Chapter 22 of the contemporary novel Vacationland, available this summer. To refresh your memory, Shelly is the 19-year-old summer girl, ...
Vacationland: Chapter 1
By Nat Goodale - Jan 28Introduction to Chapter 1: Vacationland is a contemporary novel set in Lincolnville, where the underlying tensions beneath the veneer of sail-on-ho...
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Vacationland, Chapter 25
By Nat Goodale - Aug 04An excerpt from the novel "Vacationland," due out in the fall. CHAPTER 25 The lobsterboat races were supposed to start at 10 in the morning, ...
Greece
By Nat Goodale - Jun 02A straight talk refresher, or how about some refreshing straight talk? Now pay attention, you have to follow real close. We have Greece with the ...
Sitting ducks
By Nat Goodale - Apr 07So my buddy Bob and I are in my little car headed up one-way Preble Street, T boning on Congress in downtown Portland last Friday, early afternoon,...
