The Big-little World of Doc Pritham

by Dorothy Clarke Wilson

The little world is not hard to find. Take any road into Maine. Follow Route 15 to Greenville. If you are a beauty hound, stop about seven miles out of town and feast your eyes on twenty-two mountains marching along along the horizon. Stop again at Indian Hill Farm for your first view of Moosehead Lake, which Thoreau described nearly 120 years ago as "a suitably wild-looking sheet of water, sprinkled with small low islands, covered shaggy spruce and other wildwood." Though its wilderness may be somewhat tempered, its pristine beauty remains unchanged, its blue-clear waters unpolluted. Remember later to climb Blair Hill and revel in the view at sunset.
Read more to enter the fascinating and beautiful world of F. J. Pritham, M.D.

320 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1971

About the author

Dorothy Clarke Wilson (May 9, 1904 – March 26, 2003) was an American writer, perhaps best known for her novel Prince of Egypt (1949), which was a primary source for the Cecil B. DeMille film, The Ten Commandments (1956).

Source: Wikipedia

Reviews

[Robert · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fascinating portrait of an incredibly influential rural doctor in Greenville Maine.

[T · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this account of Doc Pritham. He's a legend, even almost 50 years after he passed away, in our little town of Greenville, Maine.
I knew he had a big area of wilderness to cover.
I had heard about how he made his own snowmobile.
But I had no idea about the situations he encountered over the years.
Would you ever walk from Greenville to Rockwood and back? In the same day? He did that and more. Like jump from moving trains, or swim in icy cold waters - not by his choice.
With every twist and turn, I wondered how he survived as long as he did. The Moosehead region was sure lucky to have him as their doctor for over sixty years.
If you enjoy memoirs, if you like history, if you want to learn more about northern Maine, or you just want relive what it was like a century ago - read this book.

[Kayla Carpenter · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved loved loved this book. If you like old time adventures and Maine history this is the book for you! It starts out a little slow but the second half of the book completely makes up for it.