A new novel captures Presque Isle’s early days

A new novel captures Presque Isle’s early days

Maliseet heritage, French fur traders and a stolen Scottish brooch — all three cultures collide in a new novel by Aroostook writer Barry Wright. A student of archaeology and a former history teacher, Wright has long been consumed by curiosity about who roamed northern Maine in the centuries before recorded history began. The notion stayed with him throughout his teaching career. For decades he pondered creating a fictional story about the settl…