The Third Fig March 2025
In any literal sense, Maine has more thistles than figs.
Through the long slog of its winters and its vacation-length summers that seem ready to pack-up as soon as they’ve settled in, our state’s seasons don’t harbor enough Mediterranean or Levantine sunshine to warmly nurture a crop of figs. . .
Almost a decade has passed since a group of concerned neighbors and friends toured a neglected property in Rockland, Maine, and took the first steps in the long process of saving the deteriorating double house that was the birthplace of the beloved and pathbreaking poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for her verse.