Liz Soares Liz Soares has been writing for publication since age 12. After a career in journalism that included stints as a reporter, copy editor and editorial writer, she "retired" to library work and freelance writing. Liz has written columns and feature stories for the Kennebec Journal since 1987 and, in 2007, her column began to appear in the Morning Sentinel as well. Her work has appeared in numerous regional and national publications, including the Christian Science Monitor, and she is the author of a young adult biography of Maine Gov. Percival P. Baxter. Liz and her husband live in a Victorian cottage in Augusta with a chocolate labrador retriever and four cats. Recent columns by Liz Soares
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.
