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Aroostook , river, c.140 mi (225 km) long, rising in N Maine and winding E to the St. John River in New Brunswick, Canada. The Aroostook War , caused by boundary disputes between Maine and New Brunswick, took place in the Aroostook valley. The river gives its name to a county in the United States famous for potatoes.

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Lady of the Aroostook, The

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Lady of the Aroostook, The, novel by Howells, published in 1879.

Lydia Blood, a Massachusetts schoolteacher, sails for Venice on the Aroostook. She becomes the object of the attentions of Hicks, a drunken ne'er‐do‐well, and is saved from his advances by James Staniford, a member of Boston society. Staniford, gradually made aware of Lydia's native nobility that has been veiled by her provincialisms, falls in love with her and they are married in Venice.

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