title: Writing on Stone: Scenes from a Maine Island Life
author:  Christina Marsden Gillis 
description: "Writing on Stone offers resonant pictures of a remarkable community. Peter Ralston's photographs add color intervals to the narrative, and his colleague Philip Conkling's citation from Goethe about the shock of recognition sets the stage for the memoir that follows. "-- "Working Waterfront"<br /><br />..".Gillis' poignant and melancholy memoir of 40 summers spent with her family on Gotts Island, living in the house once owned by poet and writer Ruth Moore...reflects that influence of dark mood and damp atmosphere, with emotion and thoughtful reflection."-- "Kennebec Journal"<br /><br />"Gillis's range of reference is broad and engaging. She will bring in the Cuban artist Ana Mendieta or Virginia Wolff or that famous island couple, the Kellams, from nearby Placentia Island, to highlight a point about island life. She also sketches portraits of islanders: Russie Gott, Lyle and Vee Reed, Norma Stanley, Uncle Mont. Locals and summer people end up sharing a lot, from solitude to the solace of memories of better days. Writing on Stone offers resonant pictures of a remarkable community. Peter Ralston's photographs add color intervals to the narrative, and his colleague Philip Conkling's citation from Goethe about the shock of recognition sets the stage for the memoir that follows. 'The island is a gathering, ' Gillis writes. 'It is a site for undertaking the archaeology of memory. It is the perfect medium.' The author knows whereof she speaks."-- "Working Waterfront"<br /><br />If you leave a copy on your visitors' bedside table, better buy another because it will disappear when they leave.-- "Lincoln County News (Damariscotta, Maine"
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  This publication is a work of fiction. The names, characters and events in
  this publication are products of the author’s imagination or are used
  fictitiously. Any similarity to real persons living or dead is coincidental
  and not intended by the author.
  
  
  
  
  
  Published by Emerald Light Press
  
  
  Copyright © 2019 by Kate Kennelly
  
  
  
  
  
  All rights reserved. Neither this publication, nor any parts within it, may be
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  ISBN (paperback): 9780999097755
  
  
  eISBN: 9780999097748
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Dedication
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  For my daughters. I love you so much. Stay weird.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Table of Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  [Dedication](part0002.html#id_Toc2162312)
  
  
  [Table of Contents](part0004.html#id_Toc2