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Living In A Small Maine Town, What’s It Like?

Andrew Mooers — Sun, 26 May 2024 16:11:39 +0000

Living in a small Maine town, what’s it like? Maine is a handful of cities and over 450 small towns, plantations, unorganized areas. More open space and wildlife, less people and no billboards. There is no shortage of opinions on anything these days. Where you should be living is one of those hot topics. Strong […]

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Migration Back To Small Rural Maine Towns

Andrew Mooers — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 21:11:48 +0000

Migration back to small rural Maine towns. It’s happening and it’s not a fluke. This blog post is a look at why the former trend of outward migration and population loss is reversing in my small town rural area of Maine. I see it and hear the reasons why every day as a Maine real […]

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Halloween Trick Or Treating In A Small Maine Town

Andrew Mooers — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 12:29:45 +0000

Halloween trick or treating in a small Maine town. Halloween is a big dea in Mainel. I know in large cities, parents worry about sending their little goblins, witches and monsters out on the door to door candy parade. But in small Maine towns, the trick or treating tradition is big. COVID caused a wrinkle. […]

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Parades, Fourth Of July In Small Maine Towns.

Andrew Mooers — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 13:35:48 +0000

The connection of small Maine towns. Some folks argue they don’t like the vibe. The connection that somehow everyone in the small Maine town is wired jointly in a myriad of ways. Beyond just the DNA strands that share common genetic make up. Many who move, relocate to Maine comment on the closeness with fondness […]

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The Toxin That Can Stunt, Cripple A Small Maine Town.

Andrew Mooers — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 13:59:58 +0000

Don’t let the blog post title throw you off track. Not about some shuttered, boarded up industrial factory in Maine that goes belly up. Not about contaminated soil and heavy metals, PCB’s. And in the wake of the defunct, rusting status and emptiness, the sea of pink slips, a major hole that is made from […]

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Life Goes On, Small Maine Towns Help The Hurt.

Andrew Mooers — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 10:42:51 +0000

Large crowded areas, high concentrations of people are not so connected with each other. Small Maine town rural living is way way different. More intimate, open, life freely shared, on a more personal level. I was at a Maine State REALTORS Convention & Trade Show this week to learn, network and improve my career. And […]

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Bartering And Hey, What If There Was Less Inflation?

Andrew Mooers — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 15:33:20 +0000

Do you have skills, talents beyond just what you do in the primary chase, hunt down? In the bag and tag of the weekly paycheck? What you may have a background, a degree, training of some type in. That all around you just automatically associated with you. When they think of when it’s time to […]

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Watching, Learning, Growing Up Bumping Into A Maine Sign Painter.

Andrew Mooers — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 13:03:55 +0000

Small Maine towns are filled with lots of interesting people that make the communities sparkle, special, different. The career path for one young lad in one small Maine town in Aroostook County started early. Always drawing, sketching. Guiding either a number two graphite lead or colored pencil in his hands. Eventually dabbling in paint colors. […]

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The Mother Ship’s Eerie Bright Blue Belly Light Snapped On.

Andrew Mooers — Fri, 30 May 2014 11:16:41 +0000

Hovering, then slowly descending, the ship lands in a small hidden rear Maine farm field. Underneath, the craft’s intense wash of blue light stops. The alien crew inside away from planet Earth for thirty years. It’s mission to return. Study, observe and document the day to day changes, advances, attitudes of the inhabitants. Like a […]

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What About ME ?

Andrew Mooers — Mon, 05 May 2014 10:34:31 +0000

When you raise kids in Maine, you teach them there is a big wide open World out there to explore, discover. To sample in the journey of life. The many neat people we bump into along the ride. And things rub off that help shape a person from the experiences, conversations your kids have in […]

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