We Took to the Woods Author:Louise Dickinson Rich Between the time Louise Dickinson gave up wanting to be a brakeman on a freight train and definitely decided to become an English teacher, she would say when asked what she was going to do with her life that she was going to live alone in a cabin in the Maine woods and write. Years later, when she received a letter from a friend exclaiming, "Isn... more »'t it wonderful that you're at last doing what you always wanted," she realized with a start that she was living her old dream. There is, however, one pleasant difference between the imagined and the real. Louise Dickinson is not living alone in her woods. She and her husand, Ralph Rich, have a cabin in the heart of the Rangeley Lake region of Maine. There is nothing at all on the hills but forest, and nobody lives there but deer and bear and wildcats. The lakes come down from the north like a gigantic staircase to the sea. This is the backgound for Mrs. Rich's unique and enchanting story.« less