MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • November 29, 2020
The avid Maine outdoors people featured in this year’s outdoor gift guide were so filled with gratitude for their favorite outdoor gifts, they inspired me to share mine. I was a 6-year-old growing up a half hour outside New York City when the two Irish immigrants who became my first nature guides took me walking along the path that flanks the Bronx River. Their gift was an enduring lesson: Never underestimate the power in a little patch of green. ~ Deirdre Fleming, Outdoors reporter