Crossword-Solution: RANGELEY 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

There was no tavernous village of Rangeley; that would have been too great a contrast, after the forest and the lakes, where loons are the only disturbers of silence,--incongruity enough to overpower utterly the ringing of woodland music in our hearts.

But Rangeley had been the _minus_ town, and by all the speech-makers really neglected; there was danger that its voters must deposit their ballots according to their own judgment, without any advice from strangers.

And to the Red School-House, at five, crowded the men, ay, and the women and children, of Rangeley and thereabout.

The people of Rangeley disappeared as mysteriously as they had emerged from the woods, having had their share of the good or bad talk of that year of freedom.

Maine,--the Rangeley lake region; New Hampshire,--occasional near the Connecticut river; Vermont,--frequent in the western part in the Champlain valley, occasional in all other sections, especially in the vicinity of the Connecticut; Massachusetts,--occasional in the Connecticut river valley and westward, doubtfully reported from eastern sections; Rhode Island,--doubtful, resting on the authority of Colonel Olney's list; Connecticut,--doubtfully reported.