Robert Skoglund
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PublishedOctober 1, 2022
The humble Farmer: Unexpected parallels between dishwashers and newspaper columns
Not owning a dishwasher is like never shopping at a big-box store – it gives one a warm feeling of superiority.
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PublishedSeptember 17, 2022
The humble Farmer: Very good times on the Victory Chimes
I spent the summer of 1958 on the wooden schooner, which is up for sale next month. Diary entries remind me of the ‘best job I ever had.’
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PublishedAugust 27, 2022
The humble Farmer: Memories are made of music and long-ago favors
On singing along to songs from the 1940s and recalling kindnesses extended to those in tractor cabs.
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PublishedAugust 20, 2022
The humble Farmer: Times change. The memory of our B&B will live on.
‘Bills evolved when Maine innkeepers started charging people from Massachusetts so much that they couldn’t look them in the eye.’ A lot else has evolved, too.
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PublishedJuly 30, 2022
The humble Farmer: A Maine farm seethes and roils with adventure
On cataract surgery, cows, genetic fortitude and the meaning of ‘small change.’
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PublishedJuly 2, 2022
The humble Farmer: There are none so blind as those who wait for cataract surgery
A trip to the hospital prompts observations of the youth of doctors, the good sense of nurses and the chores waiting at home.
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PublishedJune 18, 2022
The humble Farmer: Volumes spoken in the correct pronunciation of the word ‘filth’
With curled lip and bared teeth, the writer's wife gives voice to an emotion as old as humankind.
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PublishedMay 21, 2022
The humble Farmer: Party in the rhubarb patch, and other spring revels
’Tis the season when an old Maine man enjoys the unfamiliar sensation of a hand-me-down shirt that fits.
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PublishedMay 7, 2022
The humble Farmer: Detective-novel fan puzzled by real-life crime
I’m trying to learn how a very bad, very tall man was able to simply walk out the front door of a jail.
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PublishedApril 23, 2022
The humble Farmer: Press ‘1’ to be connected with absolutely nobody
As I try to settle my brother’s estate, state-of-the-art banking technology is no help at all.
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