George Smith: Thanks to conservationists, so much land, so little time
Central Maine is lucky to have people so committed to protecting its natural assets.
By George Smith
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Longtime columnist George Smith, whose work filled this space every Wednesday for three decades, died Feb. 12. For the next several weeks, we will reprint some of George’s best columns. Here’s one from Sept. 13, 2017.
As a kid growing up in Winthrop, I would sometimes hike all the way from our house on Lambert Street to the top of Mount Pisgah a long hike that took me through wonderful forests, with only a single road crossing about halfway there.