Reflections on a family’s 4 decades in the wilderness of Maine’s Rangeley Lakes region

SUN JOURNAL • October 29, 2025

I’ve spent countless hours paddling over ponds, motoring across lakes and wading through rivers and backwoods streams in Maine’s backwoods. What some conservationists and environmentalists seek in the great silence found only in the most wild and distant places, I have seen in the clear, clean current of small mountain brooks and learned from the resilience of the wild fish there. Whether this world is a reflection of the Creator or a part of nature’s grand scheme, I hope you find your way to your own little stream or perhaps a bit of woodland or a garden path, where you may discover your own truth and perhaps even encounter a brook trout or two along the way. ~ Bob Romano