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Swan Island in the Kennebec —

Island of Eagles

  • WHERE TO FIND MY BOOKS
  • CAPTIVE RETURNS – A JOURNEY THROUGH WILD MAINE FORESTS IN THE 1700’S
  • LOST HOMES OF SWAN ISLAND
  • PHOTO GALLERY – SLIDESHOW
  • LOGGING OPERATION ON ISLAND
  • VIEWS OF RICHMOND, MAINE ARCHITECTURE
  • STORIES
  • POEMS
  • WALL MASKS with PERSONALITY
  • ACRYLIC PAINTINGS
  • STAINED GLASS
  • RESPONSES, please tell me what you enjoyed or disliked:
  • INSTAGRAM
  • WHERE TO FIND MY BOOKS
  • CAPTIVE RETURNS – A JOURNEY THROUGH WILD MAINE FORESTS IN THE 1700’S
  • LOST HOMES OF SWAN ISLAND
  • PHOTO GALLERY – SLIDESHOW
  • LOGGING OPERATION ON ISLAND
  • VIEWS OF RICHMOND, MAINE ARCHITECTURE
  • STORIES
  • POEMS
  • WALL MASKS with PERSONALITY
  • ACRYLIC PAINTINGS
  • STAINED GLASS
  • RESPONSES, please tell me what you enjoyed or disliked:
  • INSTAGRAM

Author: Swan Island Maine

T. Blen Parker is an emerging author whose native state of Maine has family roots reaching from Blinn Hill in Dresden, to Swan Island in the Kennebec River, onto historic Monhegan Island off Port Clyde. SWAN ISLAND in the KENNEBEC was her first historical novel, invites readers to enter the world of the isolated island, where the Village of Perkins Township was incorporated and thriving in 1847, but abandoned in the late 1930s, when ferry service was discontinued. Ferry service has once again been discontinued by the State of Maine in 2022, but access is free with personal watercraft. The historic novel BOOK ONE begins with the arrival of Englishmen at Sabino in 1607, encompassing the time period of the first contact between coastal explorers and fur traders with Abenaki natives in the 1600’s, (who named the island Sowan-gen-Swan, translated as tribe or gen from the island of eagles), forward into the twenty-first century. Be looking for BOOK TWO of the Swan Island Trilogy! In process now. Picks up when the kidnapped Noble family infant is returned at age 13. Details of how the island and surrounding areas began to populate what later became the state of Maine outline the hardships and victories early settlers experienced along the Kennebec River and into the New Frontier. Check AMAZON for upcoming details in 2025. Swan Island sits in the middle of the Kennebec River, between the rural towns of Dresden and Richmond, Maine, sixteen miles upriver from the mouth of the Kennebec in Bath. Showcasing the small, self-sufficient community of Perkins Township, the book proudly boasts of how lumber, ships filled with ice, and cargo holds filled with Swan Island bricks and river rocks sailed across the oceans touching every continent in the world, returning with spices from far away lands for residents of Richmond & Dresden. To taste the flavor of the book Swan Island in the Kennebec, read short stories, “Thanksgiving,” “Life On Swango,” and “Chewing Surprise,” in the 2011,2012, 2013 and 2014 Anthologies published by Maine’s Goose River Press of Waldoboro. The 2015 Goose River Anthology presents her Little Red Brick Schoolhouse poem, a tribute to her 5th and 6th-grade teacher, about her attendance at the one-room schoolhouse in Dresden, now the home of the Schoolhouse Museum and Dresden Historical Society. In 2017, Maine publisher, Goose River Press added the poem about the Kennebec River entitled: "Queen Kennebecca". Terri's second book is a children's adventure story, illustrated with memory paintings created by the author who lived as the sole family on island, with her grandparents being mostly home-schooled on the island until beginning high school in the 1960's when she moved to live with parents and graduated in 1969. Find CINNAMON'S SWAN ISLAND ADVENTURES on AMAZON, BARNES & NOBLE, SHERMAN'S BOOKSTORES OF MAINE, or at several Maine Coastal shops. MWPA AUTHOR LOCATOR: http://find.mainewriters.org/writers/t_blen_parker e-mail: swangomaine@gmail.com WORDPRESS: www.SWANISLANDMAINE.COM INSTAGRAM: SWANGOMAINE

WISTERIA ARCHWAY

March 14, 2026March 21, 2026 Swan Island MaineLeave a comment

8″ X 10″ CANVAS SIZE

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OXALIS – SHAMROCK

March 4, 2026 Swan Island Maine2 Comments

A WATERCOLOR DONE ON 50 LB. PAPER

An artistic illustration of green clovers and small white flowers on a soft pink background.

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CHRISTMAS CACTUS IN BLOOM

February 21, 2026February 21, 2026 Swan Island MaineLeave a comment
An abstract painting featuring pink flowers with green leaves on a golden background.

CANVAS SIZE: 8″ X 10″

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CHAIN-DRAPED STONEWALL

February 15, 2026 Swan Island MaineLeave a comment
Abstract painting featuring a textured dark background with vibrant green foliage and overlapping red circular shapes against a muted base layer.

LOCATION: SHRUBBERY-LINED MAIN STREET, MONHEGAN ISLAND, MAINE

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SNOWY FRIEND

February 11, 2026February 12, 2026 Swan Island MaineLeave a comment
A close-up painting of a deer with a focus on its face, featuring dark eyes and a soft brown fur texture against a light blue background.

A hungry doe born last year appeared at my bird feeder post to scoop up all the dropped seeds,

just before the Sunday snowstorm!

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