Hundreds of river miles have passed under Earl Brechlin’s canoe since he and a group of relatives and friends began staging elaborate Maine camping trips some 31 years ago.
There have been miscues — “They say you can’t call it an adventure if everything goes according to plan,” Brechlin explains — and tragedy. Friendships have been forged, tested and relied upon.
And at some point along the way, Brechlin, an award-winning journalist and founding editor of the Mount Desert Islander, decided there might be a few tales worth sharing.
“I’d been working on this Maine guide adventure love story novel, and I’d written a few chapters and sent them off to an agent in New York, and I realized I was using the novel to steer these stories about these people [that I went camping with],” Brechlin said.
To read the rest of “Maine author chronicles outdoor adventures, tragic loss in latest book,” an article by contributing Bangor Daily News staff writer John Holyoke, please follow this link to the BDN online.
