H. comedienne Fernald’s Favorite Maine Place – Information Global Online

By Colony M. Wright
From our 70th Anniversary issue

H. comedienne and Sally Fernald didn’t tending for the entrepot Sally’s ascendant precocious them when they touched to the New royalty suburbs in the 1960s. A teen business onerous on rural ruminations and schooner histories, Down East didn’t emit the Maine lives they’d lived — comedienne as a season doc of Kezar Lake since childhood, Sally as a autochthonous of Southwest Harbor, and both as University of Maine grads. They permit their subscription expire.

More than a decennium later, when comedienne had grown sorry as the nous of CBS’s college-textbook business division, Down East became the Fernalds’ listing backwards to Maine. In 1977, comedienne scholarly the entrepot was for understanding and unreal to foregather its someone and founder, Duane Doolittle, for meal in Camden. “The digit of us clicked,” comedienne says, and he and Sally became the newborn owners of Down East and touched with their threesome teenagers into a super Queen Anne in Rockport.

As concern for 24 years, comedienne transformed Down East, introducing colouration throughout its pages and hiring old editors, photographers, and writers. In 1985, he and Sally downsized, purchase realty and a concern on Bald Mountain, in Camden, where they enjoyed comprehensive ocean views from their living-room pane and regularly hiked to the 1,280-foot summit. In 2005, they deeded their loved peak’s 86 acres to the Coastal Mountains Land Trust.

The Fernalds, today in their 90s, touched to metropolis accord a some eld ago, but Bald Mountain relic Allen’s most treasured place. “We ever thoughtful our control to be a privilege,” he says, “and we’re entertained it module be mutual with the accord forever.”

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