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At a lobster eatery in Wiscasset, Maine, in high summer.

"Summer person: "Nice little town, so old and quaint. But I suppose you have a lot of oddballs, too.''

Native: "Oh, yes, quite a few. You see 'em around. But they're mostly gone after Labor Day.''

--Adapted from Inside New England, by Judson D. Hale Sr.