A Letter from the County

For twenty years Echoes has been a labor of love.


Four times a year, a dozen or so friends laden with casseroles and goodies — fuel for a day’s work — arrive at Kathryn Olmstead’s home in Caribou. “The Echoes house is a big, old house with lots of rooms,” Glenna Johnson Smith says, “so we spread out and stay until the job is done.”
  
That job — slipping nearly three thousand copies of the latest issue of Echoes magazine into envelopes for a journey that may be as close as the nearest town or as far away ass[for the rest of this story, see the February 2008 issue of Down East]

 

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