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Writer and political activist Jean Hay Bright is now semi-retired, running an organic farm in Dixmont Maine with her husband David Bright. Her two political books are "Proud to be a Card-Carrying, Flag-Waving, Patriotic American Liberal (1996), and "A Tale of Dirty Tricks: Susan Collins v. Public Record" (2002) about Maine's 1996 U.S. Senate race. In 2006, she was Maine's Democratic candidate who ran against U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe. Her 2003 memoir, "Meanwhile, Next Door to the Good Life," about homesteading next to authors Helen and Scott Nearing, was revised in 2013 to include a chapter on Scott Nearing's FBI file. OpEd News Member for 998 week(s) and 0 day(s) 18 Articles, 3 Quick Links, 61 Comments, 0 Diaries, 0 Polls Please Note: If you want to contact one of our OpEd News writers, we ask that you login to your OpEd News account. If you don't yet have an account, you can signup, free. PLUS post comments and maybe even submit articles or blog diaries. We would be delighted to welcome you. |