In the Shadow of the Border
For people living in the St. John Valley, the war on terror has had an unexpected casualty -- their traditional way of life.
By Virigina Wright, Photography by David A. Rodgers
L'long pi l'court(The long and short of it)
When Don Levesque joined the U.S. Army, he was asked how many times he'd been to a foreign country. "Hundreds," he wrote on the form. Soon after, he was pulled aside and interrogated. Why, suspicious officers demanded to know, did he travel out of the country so often? He shrugged. "Where I live, it's like crossing the street."
Levesque tells this story from the back porch of the St. John Valley Times, whose offices sit above the fast-moving St. John River in Madawaska, the most northeastern corner of the United States.
