“There is a web of family connections,” Delia Mae Farris, 64, says of her hometown, Cutler, located about ninety miles east of Bangor on a remote stretch of Maine coast. “We just kind of live it, but sometimes it’s fun to try to untangle it. Everyone is woven together, you see. I can look up town and see many of my relatives’ houses, and they can see mine. We live in a fish bowl. To live that way requires real skills in small-town etiquette and appreciation for each person’s need for privacy. You live your own lives with as much dignity as you possibly can in a live-and-let live way, but when there’s an emergency, we’re all there for each other.”
Read about Cutler – and watch a video of the Cutler Coast Preserve - in the September issue of Down East magazine.
