Question

A granite slab along this state’s Cider Hill Road marks the spot where John Greenleaf Whittier saw a farm girl collecting water from a spring, inspiring his poem “Maud Muller.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this U.S. state, whose fictional village of Dunnet Landing provides the setting for the local color novel The Country of the Pointed Firs.
ANSWER: Maine (the second author is Sarah Orne Jewett.)
[10e] This author, who parodied the New England dialect of “Maud Muller” in his poem “Mrs. Judge Jenkins,” used local color to depict gold rush California in stories like “The Luck of Roaring Camp.”
ANSWER: Bret Harte [or Francis Brett Hart]
[10h] An author with this surname and first name Helen recounted three years in the Maine woods in Nine Mile Bridge. A Georgist who went by this first name wrote of Midwestern agrarian life in books like Main-Travelled Roads and Jason Edwards.
ANSWER: Hamlin [or Helen Hamlin; or Hamlin Garland; accept Hannibal, as in Hannibal Hamlin Garland]
<Petrosino + McAvoy-Bickford, American Literature>

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2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo10/28/2023Y120.00100%100%0%
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)10/21/2023Y316.67100%67%0%
2023 Penn Bowl (UK)10/28/2023Y220.00100%100%0%
2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC10/28/2023Y110.00100%0%0%

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NYUJHU A010010
UMD AColumbia A1010020