Presentation: Biographer Alice Arlen on Louise Dickinson Rich, Author of “We Took to the Woods”

Join us on Tuesday, June 11 when Alice Arlen, generally considered to be the foremost biographer on Maine author Louise Dickinson Rich, will talk in Brunswick about Rich’s life and the influence her early writing had on the Maine tourist industry during the sporting camp era. Louise Dickinson Rich, now an iconic Mainer, was the author of one of the most famous books on life in the Maine woods. Louise Dickinson met her future husband, Ralph Rich, on a canoe trip to western Maine at age 31. Shortly after marrying, the pair moved to the banks of the Rapid River in Rangeley to escape city life and it was from there that Rich experienced the self-reliant Maine life she later chronicled. Their home was inaccessible by road and had no running water. Each gave up their city professions to live there. On Tuesday, June 11th Alice Arlen will bring to life Louise Dickinson Rich by relating facts about Rich’s life and telling stories about her early and later years as a young girl, mother, woodswoman, and writer. Join Alice for a potluck dinner at 6pm. Bring a potluck item to share and your own dinnerware (plate, utensils etc.). Drinks will be available. Or, simply come for the talk at 7pm. The Curtis Memorial Library is located at 23 Pleasant Street, Brunswick, 04011. For more information, please download a flyer (92KB PDF) or email Meetings and Education Chair John Mullens. All events are free and open to the public.