In this episode, Bill Green and Jensen Bissell interview Chris Blackie and John Crowley - Maine Forest Service Pilots

In this episode, Bill Green continues his interview with former Park Director Buzz Caverly

In this episode, Bill Green interviews former Park Director Buzz Caverly about growing up in rural Maine, visiting the Great Nothern Hotel, getting hired as a ranger, awesome Helon Taylor stories, and why his two BSP heroes are Percival Baxter and Ralph Heath. Stay tuned for Part Two.

Retired Chief Ranger Chris Drew is a master storyteller in the great Maine tradition. Chris has a 36-year career with Baxter State Park and is a Baxter legend, as well as one of the most respected veterans of the Park. Chris worked on the front lines for decades and tells some wild and entertaining stories about people, hunting, fishing, outhouses, families, bears, Grizzly Adams, search and rescues, and all things Baxter.

Lester Kenway was the Parks first Trail Crew Leader. He worked for 22 years for BSP, and his innovative and enduring work is visible in many of the Park’s most iconic and popular trails. Lester’s description of his standards for his leadership of his crews is as enduring as his work on the Park trails:

Meet the first president of Friends of Baxter State Park, John Neff. John has a remarkable history with Katahdin, serving as the Maine Appalachian Trail Club president, an Appalachian Trail Conservancy board member, and for 20 years, he was the steward of the last section of the Appalachian Trail, the final hike to the northern terminus, the summit of Katahdin.

John also served as the first president of Friends of Baxter State Park and is the author of Katahdin: An Historic Journey - Legends, Explorations, and Preservation of Maine's Highest Peak.

Part 2 of our interview with Friends of Baxter State Park Historian Howard Whitcomb.

Meet Howard Whitcomb. Join us for an in-depth look at Baxter, the man, and his legacy, with foremost Baxter expert Howard Whitcomb, author of "Governor Baxter s Magnificent Obsession: A Documentary History of Baxter State Park 1931-2006."

Hosts Jensen Bissell, former Park Director, and Maine's own Bill Green are members of the board of directors of Friends of Baxter State Park. Howard Whitcomb is Friends' Historian.