Maine Author Dean B. Bennett’s New Book

Have you hiked in the Evans Notch area? Or driven the infamous Route 113 between Gilead and Fryeburg? If so, you have been through the Wild River Valley. Dean Bennett’s new book “Nature and Renewal: Wild River Valley & Beyond” will take you there as well, but through time and points of view. Maps, historic photos, Dean’s own pen-and-ink drawings, and his descriptive narrative will usher you from the heavy logging days of the late 1800’s, through its regeneration, land stewardship ordeals, communities forged and abandoned, and to the nationally designated wilderness area much of it is today. FMI