A rugged road trip into the Thoreau country, beloved by writers.
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Brian Kevin is a former Down East editor. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, Outside, Audubon, Travel + Leisure, and other publications. He’s the author of The Footloose American: Following the Hunter S. Thompson Trail Across South America, which won the Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction. He lives in Hope.
What are Aroostook County values, and why should they matter to the
rest of us? We asked Kathryn Olmstead, a founding editor of Echoes magazine, who’s spent her career chronicling what sets the County apart.
Among the few remaining torchbearers of a storytelling tradition made famous by the Bert and I records of the ’50s and ’60s, 68-year-old Tim Sample is shepherding that old Maine humor into a new age. Can it get there from here?
A fishing village grapples with beauty, community, and authenticity in the Instagram era.
Big on local sourcing, the "values-based" restaurant splits the difference between folksy and frilly.
Editor in chief Brian Kevin likes the woodsy vibe of this midcoast hamlet.
Before she was a widely-traveled leader in indigenous education, Marie Battiste was an Aroostook County girl.
How Lafayette National Park became Acadia.
The Portland Ballet director loves waiting in the wings.
Congressman Jared Golden on the Leeds countryside.