‘Inflexibly territorial’
1913 postcard of the way Downeast community.
Cutler, Maine, harbor.
“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 (born 1941), famed travel writer and novelist