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An island of a different sort
There are a lot of things that I have learned in my first year as an Island Fellow, such as: if it’s cold enough, peppermint oil will not deter mice and that the noon boat rarely comes at 12 p.m. The most surprising lesson that I have learned, however, is that you don’t have to
Island life: ‘Improvise, adapt and overcome’
Once, during my first winter in Maine, I told my grandmother (a born and raised Minnesotan) that the temperature had not risen above zero degrees Fahrenheit for a whole week. And, in the way that only a grandmother can, she told me to get over it. She said that the cold makes your blood thicker