‘Inflexibly territorial’

Cutler, Maine

Waldoboro, Maine, in the late 19th Century,long after much of it had been deforested for farming.

“Many small towns I know in Maine are as tight-knit and interdependent as those I associate with rural communities in India or China; with deep roots and old loyalties, skeptical of authority, they are proud and inflexibly territorial.’

— Paul Theroux (1941), American travel writer and novelist.