teacher and the wife of a local pharmacist in e ctional village of crosby, is overbearing and hard to tevehe's bac older, if not wiser, in the new aftl "olive again," long strout thought she was tftough with her ornery character. elizabeth: she just showed up again. jeffrey: what does tha mean? elizabeth: i could feel her behind me. i thought, i should get this down. many of my characters come tutme gradually, olive just is there. jeffrey:or some, coastal maine is a vacation spot. picturesque harbors and towns. a place to visit and then go home. for strout, it was home, and her family dating back generations to puritan days was part of a different maine. hardscrabble, isolated. oldays hard to hold onto amid economic and cultural change. she grew up in a tiny town. herather's funer was held in this congregational church. she worked as a teenager in a nearby country store, now a small museum. we spoke in the old harpswell meetinghouse dating to 1757 across the street. izabeth: when i was a young child here, there was a term and amount of isolation for me. we didn't have a television. i was b