Behind the Scenes at Acadia
Most of the visitors who pour into Maine?s only national park each summer have no idea that the pristine ?natural? splendor is kept up by a veritable army of workers.
By Abby Zimet
At the soaring top of the Sargeant East Cliffs - past a sheer rise of rock and a pile of pickaxes and a maze of cables strung through the accommodating trees - Michelle Braley is having a good day. At 6 a.m., she and Adrien Rawley as usual scrabbled their way up the new trail they are building; to make it passable they are forging rough steps of granite, monster rocks of up to 500 pounds each that they lug, winch, slice, and wrestle mightily into place. Typically, they figure one rock per person per day.
