Inner City Students get a Taste of the AB Way

This article was originally published in the Bangor Daily News, July 28, 2007

Along the transcendentalist's route, teens discover selves in north woods
By Nick Sambides Jr.
Saturday, July 28, 2007 - Bangor Daily News

Who has not found the heaven below
Will fail of it above.
God's residence is next to mine,
His furniture is love.

- Emily Dickinson


MAUSER ISLAND — Chesuncook Lake shimmered beckoningly in the late afternoon sunlight. The water was warm, the canoes empty, the waves slight and the campground pristine as eight black and Hispanic teenagers from New York City sat in a circle on Thursday discussing ... transcendentalism.

Amid the glory of a Maine summer day, how much meaning could inner-city high-schoolers glean from an early 19th century literary movement that found keys to spirituality within man’s relationship to nature?

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