LEWISTON – The television stations of Maine Public Broadcasting System will premiere Wilderness and Spirit: A Mountain Called Katahdin at 7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 10.
The show is directed by Huey, an independent filmmaker from Portland who has spent more than five years working on it.
Capturing the spirit of Katahdin and the people who have been drawn to Maine’s “Great Mountain,” the documentary explores ways of thinking about the wilderness and how people from many walks of life, past to the present, have found spiritual solace and strength in Mount Katahdin.
The film brings together writings of Henry David Thoreau, paintings of Frederic Church and Marsden Hartley, legendary stories, dances and music of the Penobscot people, and the recollections of Millinocket residents and hikers and climbers of Katahdin.
Wilderness and Spirit: A Mountain Called Katahdin also includes interviews with many who know the mountain intimately, including Donn Fendler, subject and co-author of “Lost on a Mountain in Maine;” Barry Dana, chief of the Penobscot Nation; Irvin “Buzz” Caverly, Baxter State Park director; and Gov. Percival Baxter’s descendants.
The documentary will be rebroadcast at 8 p.m. Aug. 14, at 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. Aug. 17 and at 8 p.m. Aug. 18.
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