A Journey of Hope
A unique organization based in Maine believes in the healing power of nature for people who find themselves at a personal crossroads.
By Edgar Allen Beem, Photography by Carl D. Walsh
One fine late-summer day, seven people set out from the Waldoboro shore in five kayaks to paddle the three and a half miles across Muscongus Bay to Harbor Island. Nothing unusual in that. In August, the coastal waters of Maine come alive with boats large and small. But this voyage was different. This party consisted of five women and two men, all bound for a weekend of kayaking, beachcombing, camping, conversing, and, most importantly, healing. For this was a Two Roads Maine trip.Since its inception in 2000, Two Roads Maine, a nonprofit organization affiliated with the Chewonki Foundation in Wiscasset, has taken more than two hundred people on this and similar camping trips -- hiking to remote ponds, mountains and islands, canoeing and kayaking, in search of the healing power of nature.
