THE HOUSE AT BUNGANUC LANDING SUSAN DRINKER MORAN

When Susan D. Moran and her husband bought an historic house at Bunganuc Landing in Brunswick, they lived a rich life with good cheer. Their joyful life was interrupted by her husband's unexpected and serious illness. The House at Bunganuc Landing tells the story of the Moran's adjustment to that slow decline, death and the ultimate resolution. Moran writes with honest reflection-extending her exploration to the history of her house, the surrounding community and the families who have shared her home and neighborhood for over two centuries. This is a heartbreakingly beautiful book, the story of an old house across from a cove of Casco Bay, a prominent house in the tiny vulnerable courageous community of Bunganuc Landing, with all it changes of fortune, trading fishing, shipbuilding, lumbering, its history precariously lived-out over the centuries. And in interwoven chapters is the story of this house as the place the author still lives, and where her husband, a great scholar, lived until he died and their happiness in a house they valued so much not only for themselves but for what it was and what it had been. All this in a beautiful but not easy, ever-changing environment of bay, and woods, and brook, and flowering fields, and snow, and storms, wonderfully described. In this book Susan Drinker Moran brings together her gifts as an historian and as a gifted teller of stories. David Ferry, is a poet and translator. Recent books are Of No Country I Know (poems) and a translation of Virgil's Georgics. This book is a moving account of how a couple faced and met the challenges of the end of life for one of them and is combined with a story of an old house in which they accomplished this difficult task. Paperback 252 pages