Mary Freeman

This is a story about new-found relationship, in which love and duty vie for supremacy. It describes the journey real people go through when the consummation of their love is threatened not by a rival but by their own soul-mate's "better self." For all four people heading together from Maine to Haiti on The Wake (a yacht), it it is also a story of self-discovery and awakening.

For her children, Mary Freeman describes the interior of her ancestral home, the Blazo-Leavitt house at Blazo Corner, North Parsonsfield Maine (located opposite Parsonsfield Seminary) in iambic hexameter. The long narrative poem describes each and every room in the house. Also included is an inventory of the family library of the house and biographical information its owners. It is, in a real sense, a ghost story.

A short history of Pacific Northwest artist Robert Hanson by his sister, detailing early influences on the man and his work. It includes commentaries by wife and fellow artist Judy Cooke, Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson, curator of Northwest art at the Portland Art Museum, Anne Johnson (interview of the artist entitled "I want the image to blow apart: A Conversation with Robert Hanson"), and D. K. Row of the Oregonian.