Shoutin' Into the Fog: Growing Up on Maine's Ragged Edge

By Thomas Hanna

Book Overview

Shoutin' Into the Fog is a gritty Depression-era memoir of life in Midcoast Maine. Author Thomas Hanna, a longtime resident of Bath, grew up in the village of Five Islands on Georgetown Island, in a small, crowded bungalow pieced together on the edge of a swamp with secondhand wood and cardboard. He was the eldest son and the second of eight children born to his young mother and his father, a World War I veteran big on dreams, but low on luck. Drawing on insight gleaned from his eighty years, Hanna's Shoutin' Into the Fog is a book written with sensitivity, humor, and subtle emotion about a hardscrabble way of life, old-time Maine, and the meaning of both family and forgiveness. His personal tale casts an honest light not only on his own family, but helps illuminate a way of life common to the coast in the 1920s and 1930s that is slowly fading from memory.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0976323184
• ISBN13: 9780976323181
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Islandport
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"