Wednesday, November 16, 2011

The Maine Woods

Here are a few pictures from my visit to Moosehead Lake in the summer of 1985 or 86.

This is me, hiking up Mount Kineo.

















I don't know whether this was the same Old Town that Thoreau mentions; this one is about 115 miles SSE of Moosehead Lake.































This is a view along the shore of the lake.





































And this is a view of Mount Kineo, approaching in a canoe.


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  1. Nicholas BirnsNovember 19, 2011 at 7:25 AM

    Almost sure it is the same Old TOwn, in Thoreau's day the name had Native American associations, meaning the old Indian town.

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  2. Nicholas BirnsNovember 19, 2011 at 7:26 AM

    The slightly desolate quality conveyed by these pictures, that slight pulling of the sublimity towards the 'unassimilable' that drew Thoreau to the area, is captured in these photographs.

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