Hidden History of the Sebago Lakes Region: Literary inspiration from the Sebago Lakes Region

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Literary inspiration from the Sebago Lakes Region

Frye's Leap, Sebago Lake

(Vintage postcard in author's collection.)

Chapter 2 of Hidden History of the Sebago Lakes Region relates the tale of Frye's Leap (also known as the Images) on Sebago Lake. Although the Frye's Leap legend may be familiar to local residents, campers and summer visitors, most folks don't know that Frye may have been the inspiration for James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, a popular novel published in 1824 about the infamous attack on Fort William Henry (1757).

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About the author

Marilyn Weymouth Seguin was born and educated in Maine and has spent parts of the last twenty-seven summers vacationing at camps in the Sebago Lakes Region. She recently retired from full-time teaching in the Writing Program of the English Department at Kent State University in Ohio, so now she and her husband can spend even more time at their camp on Little Sebago Lake. Marilyn is the author of seventeen books, mostly historical fiction for young readers. She is a member of the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.