Contributed photoAROOSTOOK COUNTY — Echoes magazine begins its 28th year of continuous publication with the release of its 113th edition this month. The only Aroostook County magazine produced in print, Echoes has published quarterly since 1988.
With the glow of a sunrise over South Branch Lake in a wrap-around cover photograph by Scott Wardwell of Lagrange, the new Echoes contains features on the intrepid Aroostook runners known as the Musterds, the restoration of a Swedish log house, and a series of encounters with baseball legend Ted Williams.
In a “true confession,” former industrial manager John Cancelarich explains why there are seagulls in Aroostook County, while an essay by forest consultant Lloyd Irland analyzes the pattern of rising average annual temperatures in Caribou between 1939 and 2015.
In a personal life story, Carola Day Nickerson attributes the success of her 67-year marriage to the good start it got when she and her husband Don spent 1946 tending the Maine Forest Service tower at Three Brooks near Winterville and Eagle Lake.
Don Cyr of Lille continues a series of articles about the restoration of the former Notre Dame du Mont Carmel church with a look at some of the hundreds of artifacts he has collected since he began the project in the 1970s.
Kristine Bondeson of Woodland picked Raspberry Delight as an apt summer recipe to share in her column “Kristine’s Kitchen.”
Echoes 113 contains essays and poetry on a variety of topics, with contributions from regular columnists Glenna Johnson Smith, John Dombek, Dottie Hutchins and Kathryn Olmstead.
Dedicated to rediscovering community, Echoes is available on newsstands in northern Maine and by subscription. For information visit www.echoesofmaine.com.
