Moosehead Lake from the Indian Trail on Mt. Kineo. Kineo is home to a Penobscot creation story and inspired the famed essays of naturalist Henry David Thoreau.

Celebrating The Maine Woods!

The annual Thoreau-Wabanaki Trail Festival commemorates the ways the Wabanaki people and naturalist philosopher Henry David Thoreau’s three trips into the Maine Woods, two of which were launched with Penobscot guides here on Moosehead Lake. The trail consists of traditional Wabanaki canoe routes and portages over the great Maine rivers of the Kennebec, Penobscot, and Allagash drainages,  which Thoreau made universally famous in his book “The Maine Woods.”

Schedule:

Thoreau-Wabanaki Ways in the Woods

Children’s Guided Nature Walk 10 - 11:30 a.m.
with Greenville Educators Kathy Bishop, Prudy Richards, and Dawna Blackstone
A guided nature walk through an easy in-town school trail, learning about local trees, flowers, plants and the smells of the woods. The walk is immediately followed by an outdoor reading of the Lupine Award’s “Many Hands, A Penobscot Indian Story”.
Participants meet at the field bleachers, Greenville Consolidated Schools

The Thoreau-Polis Relationship to Wabanaki Land Back Movement

with University of Maine Professor Darren J. Ranco, 7:00 p.m.
Festival closes with the dynamic scholarship of Dr. Ranco, who carries the historical context of the relationship between Thoreau and Penobscot Guide Joe Polis into today’s Wabanaki land movement. Dr. Ranco is the University of Maine’s Chair of Native American Programs and a member of the planning team for the Wabanaki Commission on Land and Stewardship. Questions are welcomed!

Location:  Lakeside Event Center, East Cove, downtown Greenville, Maine