Beam, Lura, — A Maine Hamlet.

Augusta, ME, Lance Tapley, (1957). G PB. "The very best book about old-time Maine." John Cole A sensitive and accurate portrait of a coastal Maine village at. the turn of the century. Full of detailed information about customs, institutions, beliefs and practical life of a remote coastal community around 1900. Beam, daughter of a sea captain, native of a hamlet, Marshfield, near Machias, about which she writes.