In the midst of rapidly changing directives surrounding the cononavirus response, more people are taking walks around the roads less traveled — or even the roads well traveled. Avoiding frost heaves and the occasional pothole, there are bound to be views one doesn’t see or note while driving or even biking. Here are a few from a recent stroll.
Readers — do you know where this is?
One of Maine’s most famous statesmen and his wife, Harriet, are buried at this site on a hill overlooking Augusta.
[Answer is at the bottom].
This walk took us to the Blaine Memorial, at the top of Green Street in Augusta, where James G. Blaine is buried. Blaine (1830-1892), reprsented Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, and was secretary of state twice, under three different presidents. He also ran for president but, obviously, didn’t win. He was first buried in Oak Hill Park in Washington, D.C., but moved to Augusta when Blaine Memorial Park was estastiblished in 1920. The three-acre park, designed by Carl Rust Parker, of Olmstead Brothers, originally had 2,800 plants.
(Maureen Milliken photos)
