Old and grumpy

Autumn in Stratton, Maine

“I grew up on a dirt road in Maine, and pretty much everybody on that road was related to me, and they were old. And so grumpy.’’

— Elizabeth Strout (born 1959), Brunswick, Maine -and New York City-based novelist and short-story writer

Harriet Beecher Stowe House, in Brunswick, where, in 1850-1852, Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin