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The Maine Chapter of the IAT/SIA was invited to participate and exhibit at theThoreau- Wabanaki Trail Festival Geenville, Maine, July 21-23. The event was sponsored by Maine Woods Forever in collaboration with the Moosehead Historical Society; Moosehead Lake Garden Club; Moosehead Marine Museum; Moosehead Chamber of Commerce; Natural Resource Education Center at Moosehead; and the Sierra Club.
Dick Anderson, Walter Anderson, Thomas Urquhart, and Amy McDonald represented IAT/SIA and set up our booth in the Greenville school gym (see photo) along with other exhibitors. We engaged many visitors and dispensed hand-outs, maps, and information concerning Maine and our Maritime chapters. Our display attracted many interested persons and generated numerous queries.
In addition to the participants mentioned above, we were able to network with the: Appalachian Mountain Club; Chewonki Foundation; Maine Wilderness Guides; Maine Rivers; Northern Forest Canoe Trail; National Park Service; North Woods Ways; Penobscot Nation; Birches Resort; and the Thoreau Society. Between the two of us we managed to attend some of the numerous scheduled speaking, photographic, historic, and slideshow events, including, the Penobscot Drum Group and Burnuwurbskek Singers, Readings Dialogue by Thoreau impersonator, Richard Smith, and new Thoreau-inspired songs by Maine singer/songwriter, Dave Mallett. We also witnessed the sculpture unveiling honoroing Thoreau near the shore of the Moosehead Lake in Greenville.
IAT/SIA geologist, Walter Anderson, spoke on the geology of the Greenville/Moosehead region while cruising Moosehead Lake aboard the famous restored steamboat “Katahdin”.
The Festival was well attended and was a wonderful opportunity to communicate with a variety of diverse natural resource interests in New England!
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