Great Northern's wilderness thoroughfare replaced the Penobscot log drives — and opened the woods to a new kind of visitor.
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Murray Carpenter has reported for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and NPR, and is the author of Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts and Hooks Us. He interviewed George Smith occasionally in the late ’90s as a staff writer for Maine Times and in the late ’00s as a reporter for Maine Public Radio.
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