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Daniel Dunkle is the editor of The Courier-Gazette and The Camden Herald, and an award-winning novelist. He is a frequent contributor to Maine Seniors magazine. He lives in Rockland with his wife, Christine, also a writer and journalist, and his son, Wesley, and daughter, Samantha.
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What a united people can accomplish
By Daniel Dunkle - Oct 01When I was a kid, I had a big poster on my wall of the space shuttle, labeling all of its parts. Not unusual, probably, for a kid with Star Wars ...
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Let's Twist again
By Daniel Dunkle - Sep 18Earlier this year, I read “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde and loved it. Here was a book about a young man in Victorian England who ...
Crossing the bar
By Daniel Dunkle - Aug 07Your computer is killing you. At least, I think mine is killing me. I've been thinking about why going out for a walk or puttering in the garden ...
Beach reads of substance
By Daniel Dunkle - Jul 10Christine and I like nothing better this time of year than to sit outside on sunny days under the apple tree here in Rockland and read. After ...
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Discontent – the dish of spring
By Daniel Dunkle - Jun 12“Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of citizens? It is the music of a people Who will not be slaves again.” – Tweaked from Les Miserables...
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Required reading
By Daniel Dunkle - Sep 25Last time we were talking about “Oliver Twist,” which I thought was worth the read, but also a bit of a slog. I hear people say things like, “I'll ...
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The crash of fall
By Daniel Dunkle - Sep 01I was sitting here on the last Sunday of August under the apple tree reading The Shipping News, of all things. The description was of the Newfoundl...
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Style makes the man
By Daniel Dunkle - Jul 24I hate AP Style. Also, I kind of love it. Long ago, I was an English major at the University of Maine at Orono. I was thinner in those days and ...
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Walk about
By Daniel Dunkle - Jul 03The other day I was out walking in a green T-shirt, and a fairly good-sized bee decided I was a pretty, pretty flower, albeit a large one and one ...
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Going Wilde
By Daniel Dunkle - May 29I was looking around in the attic when I came across an old paperback copy of “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde. It was one of those ...
