Meadow Rue MerrillMeadow Rue Merrill is an award-winning journalist with two decades of published writing experience. She recently published a memoir about her family called Redeeming Ruth (Hendrickson Publishers, 2017). She also regularly contributed to “Motherlode,”a popular column of the New York Times. She began reporting for the Times Record, a daily newspaper in Brunswick, Maine, and spent the following eight years corresponding for the Boston Globe. Most recently she has written for Harvard University. She has regular columns with the Portland Press Herald, Maine’s largest newspaper, and Down East magazine. Read More Read Less