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half a mile pretty well since I've been coming here for fifteen summers. Sutton is one of the smaller in the Cranberry Isles group. None of the four narratives is exactly of this place except that I've used names and have described certain spots & many general aspects of the island hereabouts and I pictured the life much I knew it must have been. "Delphinium" had a slight foundation of fact behind it: "The Old Gods Come to Somesville, Maine" while not actually taking place in Somesville was partly true and a friend of mine really has seen the stolen Gods. But I did not like to use the name of the real town. "The Shell, the Comb & the Bird" is mostly art of my own imagination with a few bits from Old Celtic folk tales. "Bathsheba Berry" is a well known folk tale put into a Maine coast setting. So, there there are.

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Rachel Field