Potowonket, Maine is a fictional town created by Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Winifred V. Jackson as the setting for their short story "The Green Meadow".
Overview[]
Located somewhere on the east coast of Maine, USA, Potowonket is described as a "small seaside village". On August 27, 1913, a meteorite landed in the waters off its coast. When the meteor was dredged from the ocean, it was found to contain a journal, written in Ancient Greek, that related the astonishing tale of a man adrift in the cosmos.
Residents[]
The fishing party that dredges the meteorite from the ocean floor consists of John Richmond, Peter B. Carr, and Simon Canfield; it is Canfield who comments that the object resembles "a piece of slag." The "local scientific authority" is Richmond M. Jones, who identifies it as "an aerolite or meteoric stone"; it's Jones who discovers the manuscript embedded in the "semi-metallic mass," and retains possession of it.