'Deep roots and old loyalties'

Colorized photo of Wiscasset’s green in 1910.

Colorized photo of Wiscasset’s green in 1910.

“Many small towns I know in Maine are as tight-knit and interdependent as those I associate with rural communities in India or China; with deep roots and old loyalties, skeptical of authority, they are proud and inflexibly territorial.’’

— Paul Theroux, novelist and travel writer