Maine Coast Explained

While up in Maine I started a fascinating book called The Lobster Coast, Rebels, Rusticators and the Struggle for a Forgotten Coast by Colin Woodard. Woodward starts with the Wabanaki Indians and traces the arrival of French, English, Scottish and Portuguese fishermen that plied these bountiful waters. He also covers some little know facts such as what is now the State of Maine was owned by New York at one time. 1816 was know as,” eighteen-hundred-and-froze-to-death”. The glaciers that swept the coast of soil, deposited that soil on the seafloor, making it one of the great fishing spots.

The book then goes into today’s fishing and lobstering industry and the hardships endured. Best of all are the descriptions that really define today’s Mainer. The people of Maine really do have their own identity. No one defines it better then Woodard.