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The Maine Event
Last August, a wedding in Maine became a COVID-19 superspreader event, ultimately infecting 177 and killing seven. On the one-year anniversary of pandemic lockdown, ELLE journeys to the center of the drama. Mar 15, 2021
By winter, “the Millinocket wedding” had basically become shorthand for a “coronavirus superspreader event.” Stories about COVID-19 that ran in local papers were sometimes accompanied by a photo of the Big Moose Inn Cabins & Campground for no other reason than that everyone associated the one with the other.
By KEVIN NEVERS
Early in November I asked my editor whether given the sheer godawfulness of 2020 he’d still be interested in the
Chesterton Tribune’s traditional ”Year in Review” wrap-up, always run on the last publication day in December: a brief summary of the major stories in Duneland over the past year, and my (exhaustive or tedious, depending on your taste) catalogue of the headlines by month.
My personal feeling: there is really only was one story in 2020, and any account of the uncountable ways in which it infected, disrupted, distorted, and blasted everything else in our lives this year would be superfluous. My editor