A Lumberjack's Life in Allagash, Maine

The river and woods that define the small community of Allagash, Maine, also define the long life of Louis Pelletier. This is the story, told with his daughter, acclaimed novelist Cathie Pelletier, of a hard-working individualist who made his livelihood in the Maine woods. In brief vignettes, Pelletier recalls growing up and working in a simpler time--before there were satellite dishes, computers, or snowmobiles--when the sun was their timepiece, the forest their work, and storytelling was their spiritual sustenance.

CATHIE PELLETIER is the author of fifteen books, including The Funeral Makers (a New York Times Notable Book), The Weight of Winter (winner of the New England Book Award) and Running the Bulls (winner of the Paterson Prize for Fiction). Two of her novels as K. C. McKinnon became TV films. She co-wrote Proving Einstein Right with National Medal of Science recipient, physicist S. James Gates. Her most recent book is Northeaster. She lives in Allagash, Maine, in the family homestead where she was born.