Articles
Potato Country
A local harvest, unearthed
By Matthew Bellico, Boston Globe Correspondent
October 5, 2008
It was 4:30 a.m., and they were already talking potatoes at a small television station on the outskirts of town. In the waning hours of summer, with the thermometer struggling to reach 28 degrees, I arrived half asleep and half frozen to listen to the conversation firsthand. Read More >>
Another World
Far north in Maine, 'The County' offers trails, water…food
By TIM JONES
For the Monitor
October 19, 2007
Our friends who live in Portland, Maine, gave us a funny look when my sweetheart Marilyn and I told them we were on our way to Aroostook County for three days of outdoor adventuring. Their only comment was a puzzled: "why?"Well, after a wonderful day of biking on miles and miles of recreation trail through unbelievably scenic surrounding, and another day of paddling a kayak down the lovely Aroostook River, a couple of meals as good as any we could have had in the famed restaurants of Boston, and so much more stuff that we want to do but don't have time for, my only comment is "Why not?!" Read More >>