Passing Parade: Flagpole of Freedom Park

Nelson A. Pryor: Guest Columnist Just outside Columbia Falls, Washington County, Maine, near Bar Harbor, is a proposed park, to be dedicated to the veterans of these united States.  Lobster boat engines rumble to life in quiet coves. Lumberjacks trudge deep into the woods. Farmers tend expanses of wild blueberries. Maine’s Down East region is where the sunlight first kisses the East Coast of the United States each day, where the vast wilderness and ocean meet in one of the last places u