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Hear Old-Time Mainers Describe Life In Small Town Rockport, Maine

I lived in Rockport Maine for more than 25 years starting in 1975. Although I was an outsider coming from New York City, once I had lived through a few winters with my family and become part of town life, engaged with the YMCA and other local social causes, I was accepted by the most extraordinary group of independent individualist Americans, some of whom had families who had lived there for several hundred years and some of whom, like me, were outsiders who had decided to move to Maine to live that extraordinary lifestyle. Cold it was. Sometimes very cold. But in the winter, those of who stayed (the very rich left for warmer places) gathered around fires in homes and in commercial establishments and got to know one another. We could depend on one another. So when it came time for Rockport to celebrate an anniversary, I decided to make a film for the town. The old-timers agreed to tell their stories and together, we produced a film that gives a feeling for life in Mane, for life in America, for small-town life, for how people managed mostly, to get along despite the cold. I don't want to say it was always cold because we did have, as they used to say, "the 10 best days in Maine" each year and I can still remember them. Rockport was and is a beautiful town iand Camden Maine, the nearby town, is classic. You can visit there today and still feel what it was like going back before the Revolutionary war and yet, it is a very contemporary town as well. Whether or not you are from Maine, I think you will enjoy the feelings expressed in this film by the old-time Mainers (I love their accents) who shared their memories. Though I have been gone from Rockport for over 30 years, I plan someday soon to return to the town and walk the streets as I did so many days and have people young and old past me and say good day Mr. Hoffman.