Wind Tunnels: Themes in Maine Literature and Their Relevance to Schooling

• Main Author: Lawrence, Barbara Kent
• Format: Dissertation
• Language: English
• Published: 1994
• Subjects: Community Change; Cultural Context; Educational Attitudes; Elementary Secondary Education; Literary Criticism; Maine; Regional Attitudes; Regional Characteristics; Regional Literature; Rural Education; Rural Population; State History; Tourism; Values; Work Ethic; Maine

This paper examines themes in Maine history and literature related to the character of traditional Maine people, particularly coastal people, and their attitudes toward education. The historical survey touches upon early settlement, subsistence farming, frontiers in the woods and on the islands, inf...