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America, the plum blossoms are falling.
New Jersey. If there's anyone more purely foolish than a New Yorker, it's a fellow from New Jersey.
New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions.
There are areas of New England, plenty of them, with quaintness to spare, with color-changing leaves and folksy folks full of folksy homespun wisdom accompanied by folksy accents
Seattle, Washington.
Many small towns I know in Maine are as tight-knit and interdependent as those I associate with rural communities in India or China; with deep roots and old loyalties, skeptical of authority, they are proud and inflexibly territorial.
E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out sailing any more in his sloop.
Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor, intruder, insister, you have found a resister.
During the warm season (August 8 and 9), Maine is a true vacation paradise, offering visitors a chance to jump into crystal-clear mountain lakes and see if they can get back out again before their bodily tissue is frozen as solid as a supermarket turkey.
I'm originally from a town called Ipswich. I currently live in Newburyport. It's a port city, so I'm right on a river. It's really close to New Hampshire; I can pretty much throw a rock. I like where I'm from.
In America one of the first things done in a new State is to make the post go there; in the forests of Michigan there is no cabin so isolated, no valley so wild, but that letters and newspapers arrive at least once a week.
I left New York in 2009 when I fell in love with someone who had a farmhouse in New Hampshire ... Portland, Maine, felt like the inevitable place for us.
My greatest fear in the state of Maine: newspapers. I'm not a fan of newspapers.
I'm in a New York state of mind
Another Country,
I'm from all over the Northeast.
Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.
New Hampshire is one of the birthplaces of American freedom and independence - a place with a love and a passion for liberty.
I'm a kid from New Hampshire who's pretty normal.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA REPUBLIC OF AMERICA
Bagby Hot Springs.
Florida, just because you're shaped like some combination of a gun and a d*ck doesn't mean you have to act that way.
Now what state do you live in?'
'Denial.
I was born and raised in a small town in Maine, Waterville. I enjoyed living there - still do - and my goal in life was a fairly specific and focused one of practicing law in Maine.
I was born in Massachusetts and lived there until I was thirteen years old.
Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
Oklahoma
Where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain.
I grew up in Oregon, and then I lived in San Francisco and New York.
You mean in the state?State-- Abe Lemons
Just as the Red Sox proved the critics wrong, Maine can compete and can win.
I grew up in Boston, so it's a nice change to be cold after living in California.
This was something that happened in bad horror movies, and books written by people from Maine.
I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.
If the Pilgrims had landed in Santa Monica Bay rather than Boston, we'd have six states out here!
You don't want someone to think you're from New Hampshire, because who cares about New Hampshire? You're basically just a pass-through.
...Minnesota, Wisconsin, all around there... has the kind of women I liked when I was younger. Pale-skinned and blue-eyed, hair so fair it's almost white, wine-colored lips, and round, full breasts with the veins running through them like a good cheese.
California is always in my mind.
I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine.
I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain.
Bumble-fuck, Minnesota.
I'm working for the people of Maine, not the whales of Maine.
Minnesota! It smelled like raspberries and sunlight and tender grass. It was summer and everything was more beautiful than any picture she had carried with her ... There had never been a place in the world as beautiful as Minnesota.
want to live someplace that
New York is home to me.
State and home country, there's a difference
California, here I come, right back where I started from.
Goldsboro, North Carolina.
But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders.
I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.
The frozen ocean ... of Boston life.
I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.
I don't know why I stayed in this big lost corner of New Hampshire. Probably because I can blow bubble pipe bubbles at absolute zero and nobody up here pays me any mind.
California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.
I grew up in Maine working at a video store and found myself being pulled more and more to on-camera stuff.
Did you know that New Hampshire has more hamsters per capita than any other state?
Cadence, n.
I have never lived anywhere but New York or New England, but there are times when I'm talking to you and I hit a Southern vowel, or a word gets caught in a Suthern truncation, and I know it's because I'm swimming in your cadences, that you penetrate my very language.
New England is quite as large a lump of earth as my heart can really take in.
I live wherever I happen to be.
New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
Brooklyn, New York, and
I think Maine needs people. It needs diversity. It needs to be able to respect people. Openness is crucial for this state because we don't want to be known for having the oldest state in the nation. We want young families.
What I love about New Hampshire and what we have in common is our extreme love of liberty ... You're the state where the shot heard round the world in Lexington and Concord.
Washington, or as I like to call it, 68 square miles surrounded by reality.
Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in adolescence.
I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too.
I schooled in the Boston area.
I grew up in a town called Hopedale, Massachusetts. I was born there in 1964, and the only thing I hate outside of myself is everything else.
Thanks to the morning light, Thanks to the foaming sea, To the uplands of New Hampshire, To the green-haired forest free.
Hung Island, Georgia,
Maine's welfare program is cannibalizing the rest of state government. To all you able-bodied people out there: Get off the couch and get yourself a job.
Boston: Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good.
Over the years, I've traveled to many places for inspiration and research, including Pennsylvania, Ohio, South Carolina, California, and Hawaii.
As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.
I live in Connecticut, but eventually I'd like to move back to New Orleans. I grew up there; the pace is a bit slower. Plus, I love crawfish and po'boys.
I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.
I taste the honey from a flower named Blue
Way down in California
And New York drowns as we held hands
I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.
Renewable energy has economic advantages that extend beyond steady, predictable electric rates - and Maine is in a good position to capitalize on those opportunities.
The jobless recovery in Maine is much more of a reality than we thought it was.
I've found places that are just as beautiful as New England, but this is my home.
I was born in New Jersey, but it doesn't sound like I'm from a certain region.
When I go to a bar, I don't go looking for a girl who knows the capital of Maine.
I am a New Yorker.
I'm from Michigan and a down-home girl.
California is lucky, the East Coast is lucky because we get great seafood and a lot of produce from Florida, locally in good weather, but in the winter we have to buy it.
New York is my home.
What state do you live in? Denial.
Lancaster, California ... that promised land sometimes called 'the west coast of Iowa.
Michigan is my antidote to Manhattan. This is where I come to relax.
I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.
I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills.
If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully.
I came from Mechanicsville, Virginia, where you have four seasons.
New Jersey gives us glue.
A region where the men love their women one beat shy of a heart attack. A corner of the world proving there are some things hotter in the South than the weather.
California: bordering always on the Pacific and sometimes on the ridiculous. So, why do I live here? Because the sun goes down a block from my house.
I taught up in Maine a couple of times and wasn't able to take a single picture. All that blue sky! Ugh. Sparkling clear air, just terrible. I couldn't do it.
here you are in Bath, andBath-- Jane Austen
I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.
About 47 percent of able-bodied people in the state of Maine don't work.