Summer People

by Gail Collins-Ranadive

Abandoned!! I felt utterly abandoned, stranded in front of the neighborhood ice cream stand, reading the ‘closed for the season’ sign. It was after Labor Day, the official end of summer, and 25,000 copies of the Farmer’s Almanac had just been handed out at the York toll booths inviting people to come back again to “Maine, the way life should be.” The su…