Jim Krosschell Author Event

Jim Krosschell will be at the Camden Public Library on Thursday, September 28 at 7:00 pm to celebrate his book One Man's Maine. Sherman's Books will be on hand at the event to sell copies of the books, and Krosschell will be available to sign copies. Maine is a talisman of the American imagination, offering beauty and wildlife to tourists and natives. Over the last few years, Jim has published many essays about the wonders and challenges of Maine’s environment, and One Man’s Maine collects them into sixteen pairs. The first essays of each pair employ the natural icons of Maine – lobster, moose, blueberries, lupine – to reach into matters of human significance. The second essays are broader and more discursive and take on a fuller range of experiences in this beloved state.

Illustrated by the author’s daughter Emma Krosschell.

Advance Praise

From The Boston Globe: “He is an open-hearted scientist, one wedded to facts and yet not afraid to use the word ‘miracle’ or ‘mystery.’  The 16 essays appear in pairs — the first in each couple looks at Maine’s natural icons, berries, lupine, loon, lobster, and the second grapples with wider concerns. It is a view that will help even those who feel they know the state to see it anew.” – Nina MacLaughlin

“Jim Krosschell’s essays are an inviting and thought-provoking revelation of how Maine has pulled in and transformed the life of a man from ‘away.’ His essay on Thoreau, for example, thrills the soul. He writes of this intriguing 19th-century man from ‘away’ that he (Thoreau) ‘represents the bravest attempt to
make the connection between nature and spirit, a sojourn away from pettiness, the way life
should be no matter where you live it.’ Then Krosschell adds, ‘I’ve got a long way to go to find such a place.’ Well, Krosschell is finding it. His essays beautifully and caringly reveal this in depth and love.” —John Rensenbrink, Professor Emeritus Bowdoin College, Co-Founder US
Green Party, Maine Green Party

About the Author

Jim Krosschell worked in science publishing in the Boston area for 30 years, starting as a 29-
year-old production assistant, avoiding the real world until then by grad school, Peace Corps,
travel and TESOL teaching. Those years included hundreds of visits to Maine. After
retirement, he began writing much more regularly: more than fifty journals and magazines have published his essays, many of which are collected in this volume. He now divides his time between Newton, Massachusetts, and Owls Head, Maine. Besides writing and contributing to the welfare of the Maine Turnpike, he is president of the Board of Directors, Coastal Mountains Land Trust, in Camden, Maine. Visit the author’s website at http://onemansmaine.blogspot.com/.