Roy Barrette

Roy Barrette was born in America, but raised in England. He got his first glimpse of Maine in 1919, while working as a deckhand on an 800-ton coal barge. After ten years at sea, Barrette began a successful business career in Philadelphia. After retiring in 1958, Barrette and his wife Helen purchased a saltwater farm on Naskeag Point in Brooklin, Maine where he tended his garden, kept a few barnyard animals, and wrote an award-winning weekly column for The Ellsworth American and The Berkshire...See more

Roy Barrette was born in America, but raised in England. He got his first glimpse of Maine in 1919, while working as a deckhand on an 800-ton coal barge. After ten years at sea, Barrette began a successful business career in Philadelphia. After retiring in 1958, Barrette and his wife Helen purchased a saltwater farm on Naskeag Point in Brooklin, Maine where he tended his garden, kept a few barnyard animals, and wrote an award-winning weekly column for The Ellsworth American and The Berkshire Eagle . His essays also appeared in Down East and Yankee magazines. Barrette penned two more books, A Countryman's Bed Book and A Countryman's Farewell , before his death in 1995 at 98. See less