Infinite Road
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Up the Maine coast to Acadia. Tap a numbered dot and listen.

Narrated by The Chronicler 281 km · about 176 min · 34 stories

The stories

In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.

  1. 1
    Portland, Maine

    The Portland Observatory Signal Tower

  2. 2
    Falmouth, Maine

    Portland's Industrial Locomotive Era

  3. 3
    Yarmouth, Maine

    The Pioneer John Cousins

  4. 4
    Freeport, Maine

    Yarmouth's Royal River Shipbuilding

  5. 5
    Freeport, Maine

    Harriet Beecher Stowe's Brunswick Years Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3

  6. 6
    Topsham, Maine

    Harriet Beecher Stowe's Brunswick Years Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3

  7. 7
    Topsham, Maine

    Harriet Beecher Stowe's Brunswick Years Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3

  8. 8
    Bowdoinham, Maine

    Kennebec River Log Drives

  9. 9
    Richmond, Maine

    Thomas Jefferson Southard's Industrial Empire

  10. 10
    Gardiner, Maine

    Gardiner's Ice Harvesting Industry

  11. 11
    Farmingdale, Maine

    The Rise of Peter Grant

  12. 12
    Augusta, Maine

    Hallowell's Granite Industry

  13. 13
    Sidney, Maine

    The Rise of Augusta Maine Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3

  14. 14
    Sidney, Maine

    The Rise of Augusta Maine Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3

  15. 15
    Waterville, Maine

    The Rise of Augusta Maine Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3

  16. 16
    Waterville, Maine

    Waterville's Maine Central Shops

  17. 17
    Benton, Maine

    The Benton Grange Movement

  18. 18
    Clinton, Maine

    The Connected Farmstead of Springdale

  19. 19
    Pittsfield, Maine

    Sebasticook Lake Ancient Fishweirs

  20. 20
    Pittsfield, Maine

    The Maine Central Railroad Expansion

  21. 21
    Palmyra, Maine

    The Unique Hexagon Barn

  22. 22
    Plymouth, Maine

    The Bangor Lumber Barons

  23. 23
    Etna, Maine

    The Etna Owl Incident

  24. 24
    Carmel, Maine

    The Ruggles Family Wilderness Trek

  25. 25
    Hermon, Maine

    The Great Fire of Bangor

  26. 26
    Hampden, Maine

    The Founding of Hampden Academy

  27. 27
    Brewer, Maine

    Mount Hope Cemetery

  28. 28
    Holden, Maine

    Penobscot Nation Land Stewardship

  29. 29
    Dedham, Maine

    The Lucerne-in-Maine Dream

  30. 30
    Ellsworth, Maine

    Brewer's Historic Shipyards

  31. 31
    Ellsworth, Maine

    The Penobscot Expedition Disaster

  32. 32
    Ellsworth, Maine

    Agassiz and the Glacial Theory

  33. 33
    Trenton, Maine

    The Lucerne Inn Architectural Evolution

  34. 34
    Bar Harbor, Maine

    Fred Lincoln Savage's Architecture

Where the stories come from

Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.