Gordon Weil moved through government starting at an international organization, then the U.S. Senate staff, Maine state government and finally as a town selectman. He has led an energy consulting firm and has headed several publishing enterprises. The author or editor of 14 books, he reported for the Washington Post and Newsweek and was a television commentator on public broadcasting station WNET in New York. Holder of a Columbia University Ph.D., he was nominated for the Polk Journalism Prize and a New York-area Emmy. He arrived in Maine in the 1950s to become a Bowdoin College student, and he and his wife, Roberta, raised their children in Harpswell. He is a committed boater and hockey fan. Out of all this experience, he writes his weekly column. Recent columns by Gordon Weil
OPINIONS SPECIAL PROJECTSHENRY DAVID THOREAU
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. Not Thoreau. 150 years ago he ventured into Maine's woods. The high drama of the nature Thoreau encountered made its way into the equally dramatic prose of his book, The Maine Woods. We mark the 150th anniversary of Thoreau's 1857 trip as well as the legacy of this transcendentalist, nature lover and, as author Ted Williams writes, contrarian who loved Maine in its wildest and most rugged incarnations. For more, click here.
SPECIAL REPORT: Hunger Series
"For I was hungry," a seven-part editorial series, documents the depth and breadth of hunger in Maine, from the dramatic increase in food pantries to the thousands of children who come to school hungry to the elderly with bare cupboards. For more, click here.
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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. Not Thoreau. 150 years ago he ventured into Maine's woods. The high drama of the nature Thoreau encountered made its way into the equally dramatic prose of his book, The Maine Woods. We mark the 150th anniversary of Thoreau's 1857 trip as well as the legacy of this transcendentalist, nature lover and, as author Ted Williams writes, contrarian who loved Maine in its wildest and most rugged incarnations.
