Comments on: Rue Cottage Books

By: Syed

Syed — Mon, 05 May 2025 22:19:22 +0000

We visited Southwest Harbor in 2006, and I’ve just pulled my autographed copy of Against the Machine for my son to read this summer when he studied abroad in Costa Rica. While staying at a local B&B, we happened upon your bookshop.

He was a few months old then, and is considering a degree in the ethics of AI; I look forward to his reflections on the book, with hopes for a return trip to the region. Warm Blessings, with gratitude for the memories.

By: lisa strattan

lisa strattan — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 03:27:50 +0000

I know where Niki is–
Send mail with a stamp to Niki Fox Eastport Maine–it will get there.

By: Janet Koplos

Janet Koplos — Sat, 27 May 2023 23:52:05 +0000

I’m looking for a way to contact Nicols Fox to ask about the New Art Examiner. Can this message be forwarded to her, along with my email address? Thanks!

By: candis cantin kiriajes

candis cantin kiriajes — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 04:54:49 +0000

Dear Ms. Fox,
I am currently reading your book on the Luddites. We were staying in Sedgwick this past fall and came across your book at the Brooklin library and bught it! Your book describes so beautifully all the people and places that I have been so drawn to for decades. It is so well written and engaging. We had hoped to meet you while in Maine but we asked people if they, knew where you now live and no one had the answer. If you get this email, please write back to me. Thank you for your book, beautiful spirit and inspiration. We are definite
Neo luddites. Wood stove for heat, gardens, herbs and flowers. No cell phone, no tv since 1970, no dishwasher, but we do have a lap top and email and a land line phone!

By: J.T.

J.T. — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 18:19:07 +0000

I believe we stayed at Rue Cottage a few years ago. Our kids loved it, once they became used to the stained glass window.?

By: Nicols Fox

Nicols Fox — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 17:35:49 +0000

It’s hard to imagine that folks will still find this fascinating article. (one tends to find oneself fascinating, I admit). While I sell a few books now and then, sadly, Rue Cottage Books is no longer open. In fact, I sold that lovely cottage and now live even further Down East. Illness and age have taken their toll and Mount Desert Island is too full of tourists for me.

I have those bookstore signs still and feel quite nostalgic reading the observations about our encounter. I only wish I’d started Rue Cottage Books earlier so that I could have had a longer time as a bookseller. It was the best part of my wandering life.

No, wait. Writing books–researching, thinking–was a wonderful period as well. I’m still writing–just not completing–which is obviously an essential part of writing. But I find I have vanished from Wikipedia–fame is fleeting–and even my own website seems to have disappeared when I wasn’t paying attention. There’s something amusing about that–I think.

Perhaps I’m due a renaissance. Perhaps I could find something in all my scribbles worth completing. I’m still alive, anyway, and can be found with, I suspect, very little effort. Best, NF