That's My Hometown!

From the New York Times, on smelting in Bowdoinham(!):

Rarely are you distracted from the drinking and the talking by the actual need to catch fish,” he said. “It’s an occasion for high sociability — and it’s not like there are so many of them in Maine — masked cleverly as a kind of sport.

Truer words have never been spoken; this is exactly why people up here love smelting.