In Columbia Falls, many were stunned by the scale. Slick presentations showed what amounted to a patriotic theme park, replete with gondolas to ferry visitors around. There would be a 4,000-seat auditorium, restaurants and monument walls with the name of every deceased veteran dating to the Revolution. Morrill Worcester envisions a village with living history museums telling the country's story through veterans' eyes. Here's how Morrill Worcester, founder of Worcester Wreath, tells it: “We want to bring Americans together, remind them of the centuries of sacrifice made to protect our freedom, and unite a divided America."īut that isn’t all.
To promoters, the $1 billion project, funded in part by donations, would unite people of all political stripes and remind them of shared values in an era of national polarization. And atop it? A massive American flag bigger than a football field, visible from miles away on a clear day. Which makes it a striking backdrop to one family's bold vision for the region: a flagpole jutting upward from the woodlands toward spacious skies - the tallest one ever, reaching higher than the Empire State Building. 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 on the East Coast unspoiled by development.
Farmers tend expanses of wild blueberries. COLUMBIA FALLS, Maine - (AP) - Lobster boat engines rumble to life in quiet coves.
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