Coomer's Stonington Texan Novelist Spellbound by Coast Relates His Appreciation by Setting His 'Pocketful of Names' On Maine Harbor

Summary

---

Two summers ago, an old man in Stonington stood on a street near the harbor and pointed up to the old John L. Goss house. Goss was the king of granite in Stonington in his day. He made his money selling the light-gray-flecked-with-pink granite he called "Goss Pink," and from his spoils, he built one of the town's finest Victorian homes in the 1880s. Or at least it was one of the finest, until the 20th century when another owner converted it into apartment units, and parts of it, including the front porch and a tower, were lopped off along the way.

"Some writer bought it," the old man said.

See the full content of this document

Extract

---

Coomer's Stonington Texan Novelist Spellbound by Coast Relates His Appreciation by Setting His 'Pocketful of Names' On Maine Harbor

What he didn't know those two summers ago was that the writer, Joe Coomer, a Texan, was not only deep into restoring the Goss building (including the tower), but he had also taken long gazes into the harbor, imagining a story taking place on one of those little islands in the distan...

See the full content of this document

---