Visitors to Maine often expect to find such colorful characters at every turn. In fact, Governor Angus King once said that if he could just strategically position a suitable crusty yet benign Mainah on the porch of every general store or end of every lobster wharf, giving people asking for directions the standard reply of You can't get theyah from heyah, tourism revenue would triple.

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For the greater part of three thousand years since the date of the Trojan War, the imagination of poets and dramatists has been busy with its story.

Here are spellers, readers, translators of Gospels, translators of Bibles, and lastly repetitioners, or those who can repeat passages, as the expressive Irish idiom has it, by heart.