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		<title>Noise or the Absence Thereof in Our Part of Maine</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 19:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lamoine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lodging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quality of life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Remote spots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[decibels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hearing damage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[horns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[noise]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.affordableacadia.com/?p=6279</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m selling a house in a medium-sized Michigan city on a busy road. Forty mile per hour traffic is a stone&#8217;s throw away and it never lets up. If there happens to be a lull, say around 2 AM, the background roar of the nearby six lane interstate comes to fore. Then there are sirens, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lamoine’s Silver Mines</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 22:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[abandoned mines Maine]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.affordableacadia.com/?p=6247</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since moving here in 1995 I&#8217;ve been hearing rumors about a silver mine in Lamoine. I formed visions of mine shafts, glittering veins of silver and overnight riches, sometime in the distant past. I always wondered exactly where it was, and if there were any remains. I  finally decided to investigate. This is one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye Detroit?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 13:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[depopulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Detroit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dystropia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[urban destruction]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.affordableacadia.com/?p=6200</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This winter I have been in Michigan preparing a house in Ann Arbor for sale. On one occasion I traveled the 45 miles to the heart of Detroit with a friend so he could buy hardwood. What I saw shocked me. The streets were mostly empty of traffic and pedestrians. Litter was everywhere. Businesses were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jamestown and Popham Colonies: A Comparison</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 01:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acadia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cannibalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Popham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jamestown colony]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maine boatbuilding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Popham colony]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[starvation in Jamestown]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.affordableacadia.com/?p=6178</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[1607 was an important year in American history. Thirteen years before the Mayflower sailed two colonies were founded, one each in what are now Virginia and Maine. Because the Jamestown colony was founded first by a few months, on May 14 verses August 13 for Popham, it shall always be the most important. However if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Type of Wind Power in Maine</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 12:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adam Rein]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.affordableacadia.com/?p=6164</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This past winter in Limestone, Maine a new and radically different wind turbine was tested at the former Loring Air Force base. The device looked like something right off the cover of Popular Mechanics magazine. It is basically a conventional blade set and generator mounted in a jet engine-shaped balloon, referred to as an aerostat. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maine High School Grad Rates Up Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Maine quality education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bangor Daily News announced the results of the Maine Department of Education&#8217;s measurement of the 2012 state graduation rate. For the third year in a row that rate has increased, and is now at 85.34% This puts Maine in the top quarter of the US graduation rates. Comparisons to other states are difficult because it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Silence of the Clams</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Good Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Out on the water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fish consumption Maine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fish safety Maine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freshwater VS saltwater fish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mercury levels in Maine fish]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.affordableacadia.com/?p=6135</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have just spent over a month in Michigan. Ann Arbor is a great town and has a dazzling array of restaurants, but I found myself avoiding seafood. How fresh can a clam be in Michigan? OK, I&#8217;m spoiled. I can go down to the shore here at SeaCat&#8217;sRest and dig clams so fresh they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maine’s Margaret Chase Smith</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[colorful characters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eisenhower]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph McCarthy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Chase Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Olympia Snowe]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.affordableacadia.com/?p=6093</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Maine Republicans, with a few exceptions, are a breed apart. Being Republican in Maine meant being in favor of abolitionism, state&#8217;s rights, your father&#8217;s fiscal conservatism and personal freedoms. For the most part modern Maine Republicans have steered clear of the Bible-thumping, &#8220;other&#8221;-bashing, anti-compromise, gun toting, conspiracy-spewing qualities our congress now seems infected with. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maine and the North Pole</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 17:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acadia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colorful characters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Admiral Peary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herbert Leach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maine explorers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maine latitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matthew Henson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Pole]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.affordableacadia.com/?p=6060</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some folks look at a distorted map of the US, where Maine curves up like a hitchhiker&#8217;s thumb and think Maine is the last stop before the North Pole. This post is not about Maine&#8217;s undeserved reputation as an arctic peninsula, but how many expeditions to the North Pole had something to do with Maine. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maine Lawn Rebel</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 13:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gardens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom Lawn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hannah Holmes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial lawn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lawn care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maine lawns]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.affordableacadia.com/?p=5976</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I grew up in a land of conformity. The houses were all on 1/4 acre lots in a new subdivision and the measure of a family&#8217;s social standing had a lot to do with whether their lawn had dandelions and if the edges which met the sidewalk were cut razor straight, with no blade of [...]]]></description>
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