Life Cohorts
Calais Maine isn’t the sort of town one would expect to produce writers, artists or thinkers. Most folks worked at the papermill in the next town over. And everyone else achieved the enforced equality that comes from borderline poverty. For teenagers, entertainment was limited. In summer, there was drinking in the woods. In winter, when the ice turns porcelain, folks would hunker in their trucks in the empty parking lot of Gays Shop ‘n Save, roll down the…