Maine Metaphor: The Green and Blue House

How to live in rural Maine? How--in the 1980s, when descendants of Maine''s settlers wonder about our coming out of the Rust Belt in search of work, in search of a life? They were not bitter about our coming here, where jobs were already scarce--they were incredulous. Why did we come? Sometimes I answered, "God." God brought us, the formerly middle-class inept, to live among these most hardy and c...