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Extra! Extra! The TILBURY CHRONICLES are here at last! If you don't do anything else today, read the Chronicles! |
 Entire contents ©2005 by Robert D. Demers. All rights reserved |
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the turn of the century a Pulitzer
prize-winning Maine poet, Edwin Arlington Robinson, made occasional
references in his poems to a place he called Tilbury Town. Local
readers concluded that it was a code name for Gardiner, Maine, where
the poet grew up. Robinson denied that this was so, admitting only that
it could be any small New England Town. So there.
Tilbury is also home of the famous Theatre-On-The-Fritz where locals and visitors go to soak up culture and watch the bats mate. The theatre is also the meeting place of the Tilbury town council whenever a quorum is present. This last happened in 1976. So where exactly is Tilbury Town? It will come as a surprise to a lot of folks that Tilbury Town is, in fact, located on an island around a bend of the Kennebec River just north of Gardiner, Maine. (See MAP) Tilbury folk are charming, if not downright frightening. After visiting with them for a spell on the PEOPLE PAGE you might even start thinking about moving there to live. Few have actually done this, and fewer still have ever left. We recommend that you resist the urge at all costs. But if you can't resist, then a visit to the REAL ESTATE BOUTIQUE is in order. You can also fiddle around with the CONTENTS to the left. You won't find much on the other pages yet, but the music is cute (if you're equipped to hear it). ENJOY
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