We’re headed to Blueberries for Sal country–Maine, somewhere around here–for an actual vacation, so posting will be intermittent or possibly even nonexistent until Aug. 13, when we’re back in swampy, mosquito-filled D.C. See you then!
Though the bear in Blueberries for Sal was imagined, the rest of the story was completely real. McCloskey has pictured his own daughter in Sal, and his late wife, Peggy, is the mother in the story. The kitchen illustrated in the endpapers is their own, although the fascinating old stove is like the one that was in Peggy McCloskey’s mother’s home in Hancock, Maine.
