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5/8/2013 0 Comments

My Original Face

My Original Face
​My original face was stone;
Ledge covered in moss. 
Wisdom, age, beauty, stability, 
Solid rock.

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4/10/2013 0 Comments

A Sense of Place

Plum Island, Newburyport, Massachusetts
My family landed in Guilford, Connecticut, in the 1600s and never left. Growing up, my grandfather would tell me that it didn't matter how far I traveled, I would always belong to this place and would always love the farm. In my adolescence, I didn't believe him — in fact, I was bound and determined to prove him wrong. At the earliest opportunity, I left New England to attend college in Washington, D.C.

​My parents referred to it as the "murder capital of the world."

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3/13/2013 0 Comments

Sweet Memories of Maple Grove Farm

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New England winters can be interminable. By the time February rolls around, the skies are gray and the snow is brown. March shows signs of warmer weather as thin sheets of ice stretch across the frozen mud. I understand why some people don’t like this time of year. But growing up, the weeks between Presidents’ Day and St. Patrick’s Day were a sweet, golden amber dream known as maple syrup season.

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    ​Erica Holthausen grew up on a small family farm in New England. As a child, she could often be found in the branches of an old maple tree absorbed in a book. Not much has changed. Today she sits in her grandfather's old chair reading, writes in one of her many half-started journals, and browses the shelves at her favorite local independent bookseller. She lives in Newburyport, Massachusetts, with her cat, The Artful Dodger, and is currently working on several personal essays and her first novel.

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