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Donn Fendler (BANGOR DAILY NEWS PHOTO BY JOHN CLARKE RUSS)<br /> <br /> CAPTION<br /> <br /> It has been 70 years since Donn Fendler, then a twelve-year-old Boy Scout from Rye, NY, lost his way while hiking with other scouts on Maine's highest peak. After wandering aimlessly for eight days and enduring the elements of Maine's rugged wilderness, he made it out alive. Photographed at his summer residence on Sebasticook Lake in Newport, Maine July 14, 2009. (Bangor Daily News/John Clarke Russ)
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Donn Fendler (BANGOR DAILY NEWS PHOTO BY JOHN CLARKE RUSS)

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It has been 70 years since Donn Fendler, then a twelve-year-old Boy Scout from Rye, NY, lost his way while hiking with other scouts on Maine's highest peak. After wandering aimlessly for eight days and enduring the elements of Maine's rugged wilderness, he made it out alive. Photographed at his summer residence on Sebasticook Lake in Newport, Maine July 14, 2009. (Bangor Daily News/John Clarke Russ)

  • CAPTION<br /> Folksinger David Mallet's most recent album "The Fable True" incorporates Mallett's voice reading from Henry David Thoreau's "The Maine Woods" with original acoustic instrumental music. BANGOR DAILY NEWS PHOTO BY BRIDGET BROWN (WEB EDITION PHOTO)
  • CAPTION<br /> Folksinger David Mallet's most recent album "The Fable True" incorporates Mallett's voice reading from Henry David Thoreau's "The Maine Woods" with original acoustic instrumental music. BANGOR DAILY NEWS PHOTO BY BRIDGET BROWN (WEB EDITION PHOTO)
  • Gov. Angus King and Aarika Duplissie, an eighth-grader at Reeds Brook Middle School in Hampden, surf a Civil War site Tuesday on the World Wide Web. (NEWS Photo by Stephen M. Katz)
  • Bangor's 107 year old Thomas Hill Standpipe stands out amoung nearby houses on a recent fall morning. The structure, designated a national historic landmark holds 750,000 gllons and supplies water to most of the downtown area. BANGOR DAILY NEWS PHOTO BY KEVIN BENNETT
  • The front-page story in the July 26, 1939 edition of the Bangor Daily News celebrated the safe return of Donn Fendler, the 12-year-old boy who had been lost on Mount Katahdin for nine days. (Bangor Daily News photo)
  • Donn Fendler, 78, was lost for nine days on Mount Katahdin during a family trip 65 years ago. (BANGOR DAILY NEWS PHOTO BY GABOR DEGRE)
  • (BANGOR DAILY NEWS PHOTO BY JOHN CLARKE RUSS)<br /> <br /> CAPTION<br /> <br /> It has been 70 years since Donn Fendler, then a twelve-year-old Boy Scout from Rye, NY, lost his way while hiking with other scouts on Maine's highest peak. After wandering aimlessly for eight days and enduring the elements of Maine's rugged wilderness, he made it out alive. Photographed at his summer residence on Sebasticook Lake in Newport, Maine July 14, 2009. (Bangor Daily News/John Clarke Russ)
  • (BANGOR DAILY NEWS PHOTO BY JOHN CLARKE RUSS)<br /> <br /> CAPTION<br /> <br /> It has been 70 years since Donn Fendler, then a twelve-year-old Boy Scout from Rye, NY, lost his way while hiking with other scouts on Maine's highest peak. After wandering aimlessly for eight days and enduring the elements of Maine's rugged wilderness, he made it out alive. Photographed at his summer residence on Sebasticook Lake in Newport, Maine July 14, 2009. (Bangor Daily News/John Clarke Russ)
  • Captain Donn Fendler shows "Lost on a Mountain in Maine" to his son, Dennis , 8, during a visit to Palmyra in July 1962. BANGOR DAILY NEWS PHOTO BY DON BROUGH
  • Donn Fendler (BANGOR DAILY NEWS PHOTO BY JOHN CLARKE RUSS)<br /> <br /> CAPTION<br /> <br /> It has been 70 years since Donn Fendler, then a twelve-year-old Boy Scout from Rye, NY, lost his way while hiking with other scouts on Maine's highest peak. After wandering aimlessly for eight days and enduring the elements of Maine's rugged wilderness, he made it out alive. Photographed at his summer residence on Sebasticook Lake in Newport, Maine July 14, 2009. (Bangor Daily News/John Clarke Russ)
  • Twelve-year-old Donn Fendler (left) grew up to marry and serve 28 years in the U.S. Army. He now summers on Sebasticook Lake in Newport where he was photographed Tuesday. (BANGOR DAILY NEWS PHOTO BY JOHN CLARKE RUSS)<br /> <br /> CAPTION<br /> <br /> It has been 70 years since Donn Fendler, then a twelve-year-old Boy Scout from Rye, NY, lost his way while hiking with other scouts on Maine's highest peak. After wandering aimlessly for eight days and enduring the elements of Maine's rugged wilderness, he made it out alive. Photographed at his summer residence on Sebasticook Lake in Newport, Maine July 14, 2009. (Bangor Daily News/John Clarke Russ)
  • Ben Graham of Lamoine helps friend Cindi Eaton of Bangor with her line as she crests Otter Cliffs in Acadia Wednesday morning. (BANGOR DAILY NEWS PHOTO BY JOHN CLARKE RUSS) bar harbor
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  • INDIANS VOTE FOR THE FIRST TIME -- Princess Watawaso of the Penobscot Indian Tribe at Old Town casts the first vote of an Indian on a reservation in Maine in 1955. The only Indians who voted previously were those who moved to cities and started paying taxes. Behind the princess is her husband, Chief Bruce Poolaw. Clerks (left to right) are Mrs. Mary Cross and Mrs. Hollis Monaghan. (BANGOR DAILY NEWS FILE PHOTO BY DANNY MAHER)
  • Royal Montana sells an eclectic blend of old and new at the Cherryfield General Store. Visitors can find antiques, fresh eggs and hot-from-the-oven blueberry pies, along with handsewn sweaters, socks and blankets. "I'm just touching the surface," he said. "This simple, back-to-the-basics way of living is what everyone is seeking. People come in the door and say, 'Ahhhh.' And that is exactly the type of interaction I want. I want the visitor to feel like he or she has stepped into my home.(BDN photo by Sharon Kiley Mack)
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