SUN JOURNAL • January 16, 2021
In her book, “Through Woods & Waters,” Laurie Apgar Chandler recounts her solo journey, both on foot and by canoe, through Maine’s most fabled watershed, the Penobscot River. From its upper beginnings and on down through the East Branch and the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, Chandler paddles it all. Her depth of feeling for natural things and her keen powers of observation and introspection make her book a special read, on a par with the works of the iconic Mr. Thoreau himself. The book offers well-researched and factual historical extras that I found both transformative as a former outspoken opponent to the establishment of the National Monument. ~ V. Paul Reynolds