Mainers are like Norwegians

In far Downeast Maine Lubec, West Quoddy Head Lighthouse and Quoddy Narrows, with Grand Manan Island, Canada, in background.

“Almost everyone I spoke with in Maine who’s involved with the Arctic told me that Mainers have more in common with people from Iceland and Norway than they do with people from New York or California – they all live in relatively small communities with fairly extreme weather, and mainly depend on the ocean and other natural resources.”

Tatiana Kennedy Schlossberg (born 1990), environmental journalist, daughter of Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy