Poetry and art of Maine and beyond illustrated in color with 18 of the poet's paintings. Trudy Overlock has a wide experience of life, from department store work on many levels to public relations to legal secretary and paralegal work to photo-colorist to private secretary for a Wall Street financier to minister's wife to advertising copywriter to mural and stage artist for dance studios to baker and supplier of pies to restaurants. Trudy was a professional vocalist, singing at a wide range of venues, from Maine's Lakewood Inn to the grandstand at the Skowhegan State Fair, with freebees singing for the Togus VA Medical Center and the Maine State Prison. She designed and had built the home where she raised her two stepsons; in Vassalboro she has established a gallery where a hundred of her paintings are on display in the eighteenth-century house she has restored and which is cited on the National Register of Historic Places.