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Our Townie: Our Townie, Nick Bent: Medievalist dilettante
Brunswick - Brunswick, Maine. Approximate pop.: 23,000. But that number needs revising if we consider those whose bodies dwell in Brunswick but can't be said to live here. It's (why not?) a rainy night. You're puddle hopping Maine Street in a mad dash to reach Gelato Fiasco before 11 p.m.
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Our Townie: The fruitless search for a neutral world
In deference to a sensible student who publically denounced my use of the term "townie," I shall experiment with a few other words.
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Our Townie: Guns and scripture: Richard Fisco
If you're walking down Maine Street toward the Androscoggin, turn left on Lincoln Street, pass the Church of Scientology, and find yourself standing in a pebble-packed courtyard. This is the antechamber of The Book Barn: a cluttered den of "trash" antiques, yellowed paper-backs, chipped enamels, tin gimcracks, a "Manhattan-Billiards Table," and, most fascinating of all, the owner himself —Richard Fisco. He's a townie you should meet.