David B. Offer retired as executive editor of the Kennebec Journal and the Morning Sentinel at the end of 2006, ending a 42-year career in journalism. Before moving to Maine in 2000, he was briefly executive editor of the military newspaper, Stars and Stripes. Earlier, he was editor of the Newport, R.I., Daily News for 13 years and was a reporter and editor in Wisconsin, Connecticut and Washington state. He was a member of the board of directors and treasurer of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association and of the Society of Professional Journalists, where he was also national chairman of the organization's Ethics Committee. He served four times as a juror for the Pulitzer Prize. He is past president of the New England Associated Press News Executives Association. He and his wife, Susan, live in Augusta. Recent columns by David B. Offer
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.
