From Erica’s existing North Country photograph collection.
Come for the books. Stay for the river.
Pull up a chair.
The river is here.
Put on a little sound, settle into a chapter, and spend a few minutes in the landscape that holds these stories.
The river before the novels
A valley with a long memory.
These are moments from the region’s real history. The characters, crimes, and North Star Motel in Androscoggin After Dark are fiction.
1829 · Berlin, New Hampshire
A town takes its name.
Berlin was incorporated as a town in 1829. The river and the working landscape around it would shape the community that grew here.
Read the historical source →Real places. Fictional shadows.
The world beyond the page.
