Good thing's in Maine (Washington: organic, beach, farmers market)

[dramamama6685]

Originally Posted by dmyankee

MOXIE

Fried Clams...Ken's or Baileys

Doctors that actually stay in the rural hospitals and even make house calls on their own time!

LOL...my husband hates that we can't get Moxie here in Ohio. We wiped out the Eastport IGA 2x while we were up. The second time, we also grabbed tons of the "real" hot dog buns.

He has since joked that he should start running cigarettes up and Moxie and hotdog buns back for a living.

[deerislesmile]

Community support for high school sports. I can't comment on how this is in other states, but it seems that especially in the smaller towns, there is great interest and support of high school sport teams (actually, even for non-sports teams, too), even from folks who don't have a player on the team. When the DI-S boys took the state championship this year in basketball, not only did we greet the players with a motorcade almost 6 miles long (!) when they came onto the island, but some of our biggest fans at the tournament were folks from our rival team who drove up to Bangor to cheer for us. I definitely put that in my "feels good to live in Maine" file.

[Bydand]

Sorry for resurrecting a dead thread, but one just hit me.

MARDENS

Now that is a good thing about Maine. I've been all over and haven't seen anything quite like mardens. Not as great of deals as they used to have years ago, but sometimes you can find a real gem in the mix. Still better than buying things at Wally-World, or K-Fart.

[DavidoftheNorth]

Skating on an outdoors rink with your pals when you are 10 years old and it's -15F.

[mollysmiles]

OMG I remember those days....I would come home with feet so cold I could cry....sometimes I did!!

[DavidoftheNorth]

Yes, but with that pain went the early glimmers of hormonal potential and with it the sudden sense that life might be filled with a mysterious ecstacy (or something like that)? But there was something indescribably exciting about the frigid cold and the bright blue skies...though late afternoon and evening was very exciting, also. Do you share similar memories, Molly?

[mollysmiles]

and now I'm sitting here trying to decide how to answer that..... .......yes.....

[Northern Maine Land Man]

In the catalogs you'll find Remington insulated camouflage waterproof overalls for $129. Mardens had some in XL and XXL for $19 a pair. I bought a pair and love them. In hindsight I should have bought them all and sold them to the other members in the snowmobile club.

"I should have bought it when I saw it at Mardens."

[moughie]

Marden's is the best. No denying...

I visited both Gray and Exit 8 locations twice last week. Picked up some great books, stationary gifts and delicious swiss Toblerone chocolates ( 99 cents each)

[Zymer]

I wonder how LTTT is doing. Last post was 20 Sept, said he'd be gone for a week. He's a bit overdue. Wouldn't want anything bad to have happened to him.