One dark and electrically stormy night, the lights blinked out in our rented Maine cabin. Lacking candles or a flashlight, my mother knew just what to do: she poured the hamburger grease from a frying ...

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In the summer of 1988, I moved from Centralville section of the city to the suburbs of East Dracut and had to give up my Sun newspaper route and find a new summer job. The closest business I could ...

Authors are often told to write what they know—advice that Jane Brox seems to have embraced. Between 1995 and 2004, she published a trio of books about the farm where she grew up in Dracut, Mass., a ...