FRYEBURG, Maine — Brad Fuller approaches a community the way novelist James Michener did, but with a camera instead of a notebook.
Four years ago, Fuller produced "Brownfield, Maine: An Illustrated History," a fat album of vintage photographs of the people and places in Brownfield, Maine, accompanied by excerpts from published histories, biographies, newspapers and archival sources. It opened with the Ice Age and closed with Brownfield's best-known event, the devastating fire of 1947.
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