Quotes of Katahdin: Mt Katahdin in Song and as Inspiration

Quotes of Katahdin

Help! In writing the song "Mt Katahdin", the band TagYerit encountered a mystery.
The song is inspired by a quote that is carved somewhere on the mountain but we don't know where. ... Do you?
Also - we'd love to add your photos or art work of Mt. Katahdin so they can be rotated through the selections next to our lyrics.

Listen to Mt. Katahdin by TagYerit
Mount Katahdin ©R&F Newman Mount Katahdin - hike her side Every cell springs alive Right by me - I hope it’s you Breathin’ in that breathless view When I get to the top Carved there in the rock is -

Here’s a hail to each flaming dawn Here’s a cheer to the night that’s gone May I go a-roamin’ on Until the day I die

When I get stressed and feel not good It’s then I drag me into the woods It never fails to win my soul Despite the depths I’ve dug my hole As I clamber out - my insides shout Here’s a hail ...

Here’s wishing that carver’s wish came true Hope we’ll be roaming right thru too And may we never break our stride And hike straight thru to the other side As I begin again - I want you with me friend

Yeah, that’s us you’ll see in each flaming dawn We’ll be the moonlit night you saw - we’ll shimmer And may you keep on keeping on Until the day Until the day We watch you hike on by	Matt Mattingly enjoying an apple and the view on Mt Katahdin in 1979 (and the solver of the poem's source! Contact us about sending your photos and quotes

The Mystery

Several books say that the following poem is carved in a rock on Mt. Katahdin.
"Here's a hail to each flaming dawn
Here's a cheer to the night that's gone
May I go a-roamin' on
Until the day I die"
We wrote our song around this public uncredited poem. Only recently did we discover its origins. We have never seen this rock, nor found any further information about this rock on or off the web. Of course, Considering that MT. Katahdin is covered in thousands (millions?) of rocks this may not be so surprising. If you have any knowledge of this carving, please let us know.

We'll be happy to provide you with credit & links as well as a download of our song in exchange for any leads. If you can provide a photo of the carving along with the location, we'd love to send you a copy of our CD Shimmer that includes the song.

The mystery of the poem has finally been solved (1/3/2011). A friend was able to trace it to the original poem "A Rolling Stone" (1912) by Robert W. Service. The quote is also reportedly carved on a gravestone in the Adirondacks, so possibly it was a popular poem at one time. The only thing about finding the original poem that still stymies me, is why I failed at finding it sooner on my own searches. Still need to find out where the carving is/was?

A Source of Inspiration

At an elevation of 5,270 feet, Katahdin is the highest mountain in Maine. The Penobscot Indians, the native people of Maine, had named it Katahdin which means “The Greatest Mountain.” (Does this make 'Mount Katahdin' a redundant expression?) To them, Katahdin was the home of the storm god Pamola and so they avoided the area. The Penobscot Indian Nation is a tribe of the Wabanaki Confederacy (sometimes called Abanaki) of the northeastern United States.

In the 1840s, Henry David Thoreau climbed Mount Katahdin. His observations are recorded in a chapter in "Maine Woods". After climbing Mt. Katahdin Thoreau called for the creation of a national parks system: “Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which the bear and panther, and some even of the hunter race, may still exist, and not be civilized off the face of the earth.”

In his essay "The Poet," (1844) Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: "Yet America is a poem in our eyes. Its ample geography dazzles the imagination." The beauty of North America has filled poets, writers and other artists with a need to create and share this experience. We hope the works we've assembled here will inspire you as well.

From 1930 to 1962, Percival B. Baxter, (governor of Maine 1921-1924) used his personal wealth to buy & donate 201,000 acres to the state of Maine with one condition: that it be kept forever wild. Known as Baxter State Park it includes Mount Katahdin.. ...Upon his death, Gov. Baxter left a trust of 7 million dollars to the park, with these words: "…shall forever be used for public park and recreational purposes, shall be forever left in the natural wild state, shall forever be kept as a sanctuary for wild beasts and birds, that no road or ways for motor vehicles shall hereafter ever be constructed ..." He also wrote the following:

"Man is born to die,
His works are short-lived.
Buildings crumble,
Monuments decay,
Wealth vanishes.
But Katahdin in all its glory,
Forever shall remain
The Mountain Of
The People of Maine."

Portions of Henry David Thoreau's Ktaadn passage from "The Maine Woods":

"On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the railroad and steamboat ... Ktaadn, whose name is an Indian word signifying highest land, was first ascended by white men in 1804.(Charles Turner). It was visited by Professor J. W. Bailey (professor of chemistry, mineralogy & geology) of West Point in 1836; by Dr. Charles T. Jackson, (R.W. Emerson's brother-in-law. Mt Jackson NH is named for him.) the State Geologist, in 1837; and by two young men from Boston (Edward E Hale & William F Channing) in 1845. All these have given accounts of their expeditions. ... very few, even among backwoodsmen and hunters, have ever climbed it, and it will be a long time before the tide of fashionable travel sets that way. ... some hours only of travel in this direction will carry the curious to the verge of a primitive forest, more interesting, perhaps, on all accounts, than they would reach by going a thousand miles westward.

... (Sept 8th) In the morning, after whetting our appetite on some raw pork, a wafer of hard bread, and a dipper of condensed cloud or waterspout, we all together began to make our way up the falls, .... But soon my companions were lost to my sight behind the mountain ridge in my rear, which still seemed ever retreating before me, and I climbed alone over huge rocks, loosely poised, a mile or more, still edging toward the clouds; for though the day was clear elsewhere, the summit was concealed by mist. The mountain seemed a vast aggregation of loose rocks, as if some time it had rained rocks, and they lay as they fell on the mountain sides, nowhere fairly at rest, but leaning on each other, all rocking-stones, with cavities between, but scarcely any soil or smoother shelf. They were the raw materials of a planet dropped from an unseen quarry, which the vast chemistry of nature would anon work up, or work down, into the smiling and verdant plains and valleys of earth. This was an undone extremity of the globe; as in lignite, we see coal in the process of formation.

At length I entered within the skirts of the cloud which seemed forever drifting over the summit, and yet would never be gone, but was generated out of that pure air as fast as it flowed away; and when, a quarter of a mile farther, I reached the summit of the ridge, which those who have seen in clearer weather say is about five miles long, and contains a thousand acres of table-land, I was deep within the hostile ranks of clouds, and all objects were obscured by them. Now the wind would blow me out a yard of clear sunlight, wherein I stood; then a gray, dawning light was all it could accomplish, the cloud-line ever rising and falling with the wind's intensity. Sometimes it seemed as if the summit would be cleared in a few moments, and smile in sunshine: but what was gained on one side was lost on another. It was like sitting in a chimney and waiting for the smoke to blow away. It was, in fact, a cloud-factory, — these were the cloud-works, and the wind turned them off done from the cool, bare rocks. Occasionally, when the windy columns broke in to me, I caught sight of a dark, damp crag to the right or left; the mist driving ceaselessly between it and me. It reminded me of the creations of the old epic and dramatic poets, of Atlas, Vulcan, the Cyclops, and Prometheus. Such was Caucasus and the rock where Prometheus was bound.Æschylus had no doubt visited such scenery as this. It was vast, Titanic, and such as man never inhabits. Some part of the beholder, even some vital part, seems to escape through the loose grating of his ribs as he ascends. He is more lone than you can imagine. There is less of substantial thought and fair understanding in him, than in the plains where men inhabit. His reason is dispersed and shadowy, more thin and subtile, like the air. Vast, Titanic, inhuman Nature has got him at disadvantage, caught him alone, and pilfers him of some of his divine faculty. She does not smile on him as in the plains. She seems to say sternly, why came ye here before your time? This ground is not prepared for you. Is it not enough that I smile in the valleys? I have never made this soil for thy feet, this air for thy breathing, these rocks for thy neighbors. I cannot pity nor fondle thee here, but forever relentlessly drive thee hence to where I am kind. Why seek me where I have not called thee, and then complain because you find me but a stepmother? Shouldst thou freeze or starve, or shudder thy life away, here is no shrine, nor altar, nor any access to my ear.
"Chaos and ancient Night, I come no spy
With purpose to explore or to disturb
The secrets of your realm, but . . .
. . . . . . . as my way
Lies through your spacious empire up to light."(Paradise Lost, Book II, John Milton)

The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult to the gods to climb and pry into their secrets, and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there. Simple races, as savages, do not climb mountains, — their tops are sacred and mysterious tracts never visited by them. Pomola is always angry with those who climb to the summit of Ktaadn.
... at length, fearing that my companions would be anxious to reach the river before night, and knowing that the clouds might rest on the mountain for days, I was compelled to descend. Occasionally, as I came down, the wind would blow me a vista open, through which I could see the country eastward, boundless forests, and lakes, and streams, gleaming in the sun, some of them emptying into the East Branch. ...Now and then some small bird of the sparrow family would flit away before me, unable to command its course, like a fragment of the gray rock blown off by the wind.

I found my companions where I had left them, on the side of the peak, gathering the mountain cranberries, which filled every crevice between the rocks, together with blueberries, which had a spicier flavor the higher up they grew, but were not the less agreeable to our palates. When the country is settled, and roads are made, these cranberries will perhaps become an article of commerce. From this elevation, just on the skirts of the clouds, we could overlook the country, west and south, for a hundred miles. There it was, the State of Maine, which we had seen on the map, but not much like that, — immeasurable forest for the sun to shine on, that eastern stuff we hear of in Massachusetts. No clearing, no house. It did not look as if a solitary traveller had cut so much as a walking-stick there. Countless lakes .... The forest looked like a firm grass sward, and the effect of these lakes in its midst has been well compared, by one who has since visited this same spot, (J. K. Laski) to that of a "mirror broken into a thousand fragments, and wildly scattered over the grass, reflecting the full blaze of the sun." ... We had to console ourselves with the reflection that this view was probably as good as that from the peak, as far as it went; and what were a mountain without its attendant clouds and mists? Like ourselves, neither Bailey nor Jackson had obtained a clear view from the summit.

... Perhaps I most fully realized that this was primeval, untamed, and forever untameable Nature, or whatever else men call it, while coming down this part of the mountain. We were passing over "Burnt Lands," burnt by lightning, perchance, though they showed no recent marks of fire, hardly so much as a charred stump, but looked rather like a natural pasture for the moose and deer, exceedingly wild and desolate, with occasional strips of timber crossing them, and low poplars springing up, and patches of blueberries here and there. I found myself traversing them familiarly, like some pasture run to waste, or partially reclaimed by man; but when I reflected what man, what brother or sister or kinsman of our race made it and claimed it, I expected the proprietor to rise up and dispute my passage. It is difficult to conceive of a region uninhabited by man. We habitually presume his presence and influence everywhere. And yet we have not seen pure Nature, unless we have seen her thus vast and dread and inhuman, though in the midst of cities. Nature was here something savage and awful, though beautiful. I looked with awe at the ground I trod on, to see what the Powers had made there, the form and fashion and material of their work. This was that Earth of which we have heard, made out of Chaos and Old Night.(Paradise Lost by John Milton) Here was no man's garden, but the unhandselled globe. It was not lawn, nor pasture, nor mead, nor woodland, nor lea, nor arable, nor waste-land. It was the fresh and natural surface of the planet Earth, as it was made for ever and ever, — to be the dwelling of man, we say, — so Nature made it, and man may use it if he can. Man was not to be associated with it. It was Matter, vast, terrific, — not his Mother Earth that we have heard of, not for him to tread on, or be buried in, — no, it were being too familiar even to let his bones lie there, — the home, this, of Necessity and Fate. There was there felt the presence of a force not bound to be kind to man. It was a place for heathenism and superstitious rites, — to be inhabited by men nearer of kin to the rocks and to wild animals than we. We walked over it with a certain awe, stopping, from time to time, to pick the blueberries which grew there, and had a smart and spicy taste. Perchance where our wild pines stand, and leaves lie on their forest floor, in Concord, there were once reapers, and husbandmen planted grain; but here not even the surface had been scarred by man, but it was a specimen of what God saw fit to make this world. What is it to be admitted to a museum, to see a myriad of particular things, compared with being shown some star's surface, some hard matter in its home! I stand in awe of my body, this matter to which I am bound has become so strange to me. I fear not spirits, ghosts, of which I am one, — that my body might, — but I fear bodies, I tremble to meet them. What is this Titan that has possession of me? Talk of mysteries! — Think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, — rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! the actual world! the common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? where are we?

... What a place to live, what a place to die and be buried in! There certainly men would live forever, and laugh at death and the grave. There they could have no such thoughts as are associated with the village graveyard, — that make a grave out of one of those moist evergreen hummocks!
Die and be buried who will,
I mean to live here still;
My nature grows ever more young
The primitive pines among.(This verse is Thoreau's) ..."
(You can read the full text at http://thoreau.eserver.org/ktaadn01.html)

A Description of Natardin or Catardin Mountain An extract from a letter written by Charles Turner who recorded the 1st climb in August 1804.

" This Mountain is composed of Rocks, which appear to have broken or split. The rocks except at and near the top are of a coarse grain, of light grey colour, and most of them are crumbling, and of these crumbles the soil, if such it may be called, is composed. The Rocks near the top are of a finer contexture and of a bluish colour. The table land was formerly covered with wood of various kinds; with hard-woods near the streams where the soil was good; but with spruce in other parts, the trees lessening in height and ascended as we approached the mountain, untill they became dwarfs of only 2 feet in height, and finally came to nothing at about a half mile from the summit. The rocks and soil in the ascent were covered with a deep green moss. The table land and mountain on the South and East have been burnt over, and are entirely bare, except near the springs and streams. The ridge between the streams on the west seemed to have escaped the fire, and this circumstance enabled us to ascend with greater facility.

... The elevation was so great as sensibly to affect respiration. The day was very calm and sultry, and our toil so great, that when we had found several springs of very clear cold water, our company were inclined to drink of them too freely. Some felt the ill effects immediately, and others were taken to vomitting in the course of the night following; indeed our whole company, which consisted of eleven, found on the following morning, our throats sore and inflamed. Whether this arose wholly from some ill quality in the water, or partly from eating a variety of fruits, such as Raspberries, blue whortleberries, black currants, boxberries & bog cran-berries, which we found in abundance from the place where we left our boats to near the top, we could not determine. Though to us, in our thirsty and fatigued condition, the pure spring brought to our minds the fabled Nectar of the Poets, yet we found had that it (had)a very perceptible astringent quality, and appeared to impregnated with minerals.

... It is difficult by any orthography, precisely to express the name of this mountain, and convey to nasal sound which the Natives give. Ne-tar-dn or Ca-ta-din is as near perhaps as the powers of letters will admit. The Indians have a superstition respecting this Mountain, that an Evil Spirit, whom they call Pamola, inhabits it, at least in the Winter, and flies off in the Spring with tremendous rumbling noises. They have a tradition that no person i.e. native, who has attempted to ascend it, has lived to return. They alledge, that many moons ago, seven Indians resolutely ascended the mountain, and that they were never heard of afterwards, having been undoubtedly killed by Pamola in the mountain. The two Indians, whom we hired to pilot and assist us in ascending the mountain, cautioned us not to proceed if we should hear any uncommon noise; and when we came to the cold part of the mountain, they refused to proceed ahead however, when they found that we were determined to proceed, even without them, they again went forward courageously, and seemed ambitious to be first on the summit. ...."

Scanned copy of the letter with complete text at the Maine Memory Network

J. K. Laski, in the Bangor Courier, 1847, reprinted in The Maine Naturalist of June 1927 refers to "mirror broken into a thousand fragments, and wildly scattered over the grass, reflecting the full blaze of the sun.", which Thoreau cites in his "Maine Woods".

Click to read the full text!!!

Dr. Aaron Young led a botanical expedition in the fall of 1847. The reporter for the party was J.K. Laski a geologist, a member of the field team who wrote “Dr. Young’s Botanical Expedition to Mount Katahdin,” which was published in the Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, September 9, 1847. The newspaper account is signed by “one of the party,” but it has later been confirmed to be John Kimball de Laski (1814-1874), a doctor with an interest in geology. De Laski later published three papers in the American Journal of Science, one of which refers to his 1847 ascent of the mountain. The article has been reprinted with changes in The Maine Naturalist, VII, 2 (June 1927), pp. 38-62.

In researching on the web, I also found a series of pages that discuss the events around Young's expedition in the Journal of The New England Botanical Club Vol. 37. January, 1935. No. 433. This article is hosted at Botanicus.org, but I found the article through a google search and wasn't able to find the front door, so I'm providing a series of links if you'd like to follow these pages in succession (I've skipped several insignificant pages) 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19

This expedition was part of Young's attempt to create a study of the Flora of Maine " ... on August 18, 1847, at nine A. M., a party consisting of seven persons left Bangor for an exploration of Mount Katahdin. The party consisted of Dr. Aaron Young, Jr., in charge, aged 28 years; Dr. George Thurber of Providence, R. I., later noted as a botanist and horticultural editor, aged 26 years; Rev. Ariel Parrish Chute, a clergyman of Harrison, Maine, aged 38 years; Mr. J. K. Laski, later known as Dr. John De Laski, and a writer on the Glaciology of Penobscot Bay, then probably of Bangor, aged 32 years; John Emerson of Glenburn, Maine, a young man, George Emerson of Bangor, a youth, and James Cowan of Bangor, guide.

The Lumberman
by John Greenleaf Whittier
From "Songs of Labor" 1850

Wildly round our woodland quarters,
Sad-voiced Autumn grieves;
Thickly down these swelling waters
Float his fallen leaves.
Through the tall and naked timber,
Column-like and old,
Gleam the sunsets of November,
From their skies of gold.
O'er us, to the southland heading,
Screams the gray wild-goose;
On the night-frost sounds the treading
Of the brindled moose.
Noiseless creeping, while we're sleeping,
Frost his task-work plies;
Soon, his icy bridges heaping,
Shall our log-piles rise.
When, with sounds of smothered thunder,
On some night of rain,
Lake and river break asunder
Winter's weakened chain,
Down the wild March flood shall bear them
To the saw-mill's wheel,
Or where Steam, the slave, shall tear them
With his teeth of steel.
Be it starlight, be it moonlight,
In these vales below,
When the earliest beams of sunlight
Streak the mountain's snow,
Crisps the hoar-frost, keen and early,
To our hurrying feet,
And the forest echoes clearly
All our blows repeat.
Where the crystal Ambijejis
Stretches broad and clear,
And Millnoket's pine-black ridges
Hide the browsing deer:
Where, through lakes and wide morasses,
Or through rocky walls,
Swift and strong, Penobscot passes
White with foamy falls;
Where, through clouds, are glimpses given
Of Katahdin's sides,--
Rock and forest piled to heaven,
Torn and ploughed by slides!
Far below, the Indian trapping,
In the sunshine warm;
Far above, the snow-cloud wrapping
Half the peak in storm!
Where are mossy carpets better
Than the Persian weaves,
And than Eastern perfumes sweeter
Seem the fading leaves;
And a music wild and solemn
From the pine-tree's height,
Rolls its vast and sea-like volumes
On the wind of night;
Not for us the measured ringing
From the village spire,
Not for us the Sabbath singing
Of the sweet-voiced choir
Ours the old, majestic temple,
Where God's brightness shines
Down the dome so grand and ample,
Propped by lofty pines!
Keep who will the city's alleys,
Take the smooth-shorn plain,--
Give to us the cedar valleys,
Rocks and hills of Maine!
In our North-land, wild and woody,
Let us still have part:
Rugged nurse and mother sturdy,
Hold us to thy heart!
O, our free hearts beat the warmer
For thy breath of snow;
And our tread is all the firmer
For thy rocks below.
Freedom, hand in hand with labor,
Walketh strong and brave;
On the forehead of his neighbor
No man writeth Slave!
Lo, the day breaks! old Katahdin's
Pine-trees show its fires,
While from these dim forest gardens
Rise their blackened spires.
Up, my comrades! up and doing!
Manhood's rugged play
Still renewing, bravely hewing
Through the world our way!

To A Pine-Tree
by James Russell Lowell 1843

Far up on Katahdin thou towerest
Purple-blue with the distance and vast;
Like a cloud o'er the lowlands thou lowerest,
That hangs poised on a lull in the blast,
To its fall leaning awful.
In the storm, like a prophet o'ermaddened,
Thou singest and tossest thy branches;
Thy heart with the terror is gladdened,
Thou forebodest the dread avalanches.
When whole mountains swoop valeward.
In the calm thou o'erstrechest the valleys
With thine arms, as if blessings imploring,
Like an old king led forth from his palace,
When his people to battle are pouring
From the city beneath him.

Informational Links

Baxter State Park Authority
Katahdin Area Chamber of Commerce
Katahdin Cam
Katahdin - A Film by Huey
Katahdin: An Historic Journey Legend and lore from Maine's highest mountain
Katahdin stereoview cards
Maine Memory Network _Mt. Katahdin -Contains some wonderful archival photographs and documents relating to Mt. Katahdin
Maineshome.com/mt-katahdin - includes beautiful photographs of Mt. Katahdin as well as many other scenic views.
Mt Katahdin - Maine Geological Survey
Mount Katahdin - Katahdin Wikipedia entry
Mount Katahdin and the Appalachian Trail
Mt. Katahdin Facebook Page
"The People of The Dawn" - ANH Public TV page with background and video of the Abenaki (Wabanaki)
Smithsonian Albert Smalls Document Gallery - Earl Shaffer Exhibition
Summitpost - Katahdin Hiking & Climbing info
The Wabanaki Connection to Katahdin - "To go to Katahdin is to experience the spiritual aspects of Wabanaki life at its source, to feel the interconnectedness of oneself with that of ancestors and future generations."
Weather conditions and webcam of Mt. Katahdin

Inspirational Links

The Alchemist: Part1 Blog with photos October 26, 2009
Aroostook County Unfolding - Forensic Reflections Through Poetry Diane H. Schetky, MD
The Bear Dogs of Katahdin And Other Recollections of a Baxter State Park Ranger by Steve Tetreault
Frederic Church - Hudson River Painter

"Mount Ktaadn", 1853 Oil on canvas Yale University Art Gallery - In Church's painting the wilderness is distanced from the viewer by an idyllic settlement with cattle, a horse and trap and even a large saw mill. No such features existed at that time.
"Mount Katahdin"1856
"Mount Katahdin from Millinocket Camp" 1895

"Circling Katahdin" - Katherine Ellis produced a ten poem work and presented it with composer Jan Gilbert athe University of Maine in 2005
The Earl Shaffer Foundation Earl Shaffer was the first to hike the Appalachian Trail continuously from its beginning to the end at Mt. Katahdin. He was a writer, songwriter, & dedicated environmentalist.
From Togue Pond National Park Service 1938
Marsden Hartley an American Modernist painter was particularly drawn to towering Mount Katahdin, which he depicted in several impressive paintings." I know I have seen God now", he declared after climbing up the mountain

Hiking With Jack - Online video -Father and son go on a hike on Mt. Katahdin 12:32
In the First Place - The Maine Poems by Tom Fallon - 2005
Karen's Climb - The Karen's Climb Foundation was inspired when Karen Larlee Grant overcame extreme physical odds to climb Katahdin when she was a teenager. Karen climbed in spite of her disabling cystic fibrosis
Katahdin a poem by Brandon E. Frank published by the Autumn Leaves Online Poetry Journal
Katahdin a poem by Daisy
"Katahdin Mp3" from "the light beyond" Guitar Instrumental track By Stuart Hamm (bass) feat. Steve Smith (drums) & Frank Gambale (guitar) - Drummer play along track with chart & 2 mp3s with & without drums.
Katahdin Studies: A Painting Workshop - by Michael E. Vermette
Stanley Keach - Bluegrass songwriter whose passion is writing songs about Maine. His latest CD "Cry of the Loon and other original songs about Maine" includes the beautiful ballad 'Donn Fendler' about Donn who at the age of 12 was lost on Katahdin for 9 days. (more info on Donn's book listed below)
Jan Kronsell 2005 - Photography
Minstrelsy of Maine: Folk-Songs and Ballads of the Woods and the Coast - a book by Fannie Hardy Eckstorm, Mary Winslow Smyth; Houghton, Mifflin, 1927
contains the song Katahdin Green pg 76 by John Ross...
North to Katahdin - a book by Eric Pinder 2005 - Eric Pinder contemplates what draws people to the mountains.
The Remarkable Survival of Donn Fendler True story of the 12-year-old Boy Scout from Rye, N.Y., who was lost on Katahdin’s vast Tableland in July 1939.
Running Press "Call of the Wild: Quotes from the Great Outdoors" - one of the books which held the quote for TagYerit's song Mt Katahdin.
Wilderness & Spirit, A Mountain Called Katahdin - DVD A Film by Huey
Wilderness & Spirit, A Mountain Called Katahdin - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Composed by Tom Myron
2 Calendar item Bates college May 2008 Artist Chris Huntington presents his movie Katahdin Lake: Painter’s Paradise & Bates Gallery
Taking Different Trails: The Artists’ Journey to Katahdin Lake: Scenes of and from Katahdin Lake, known for its views of Maine’s tallest mountain, by artists who took part in a historic public-private effort to preserve nearly 7,000 acres of land including the lake and old-growth forests around it.

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