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T. Blen Parker is an emerging author whose native state of Maine is a familiar topic. Her family roots reach from Blinn Hill in Dresden to Swan Island in the Kennebec River, onto historic Monhegan Island off Port Clyde.
Her current projects, Swango Princess (memoir) and Swan Island in the Kennebec (historical novel trilogy) invite readers to enter the world of the isolated island. There the Village of Perkins Township was incorporated and thriving in 1847 but abandoned in the 1940s when the ferryman retired the service.
The historical novel trilogy begins with the arrival of Englishmen at Sabino in 1607, encompasses the time period of "first contact" between coastal explorers and fur traders with Abenaki natives in the 1600's and forward into the twenty-first century. Naming the island Sowan-gen=Swan, in English translates into tribe or gen from the isle of eagles.
Swan Island sits in the middle of the Kennebec River, between the rural towns of Dresden and Richmond, Maine, sixteen miles upriver from the mouth of the Kennebec in Bath. The book boasts of how the small, self-sufficient community of Perkins Township shipped ice and cargo holds of Swan Island bricks and river rocks touching every continent in the world.
To taste the flavor of the book Swan Island in the Kennebec-Journey to Sowangen, Island of Eagles, visit AMAZON.COM for ISBN #: 978-1-59713-198-8 or read her short stories, "Thanksgiving," "Life on Swango," and "Chewing Surprise," in 2012, 2013 and 2014 Anthologies published by Maine's Goose River Press of Waldoboro.
The 2015 Goose River Anthology presents her "Little Red Brick Schoolhouse" poem, a tribute to her 5th and 6th-grade teacher, about her attendance at the one-room schoolhouse in Dresden, now the home of the Schoolhouse Museum and Dresden Historical Society.
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