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Books by Kathryn Olmstead

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About the Author

Kathryn Olmstead co-founded Echoes with Gordon Hammond in 1988 and oversaw the magazine for its entire 117-issue run. She is a former Bangor Daily News columnist, prior editor of the Aroostook Republican, and served on the University of Maine journalism faculty for 25 years -- the last six as associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She lives in Caribou, Maine.


Olmstead is author of True North, Flight to Freedom: World War II through the Eyes of a Child, The Story of Philomena Keller Baker and editor of Stories of Aroostook. 

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True North

Finding the Essence of Aroostook

Northern Maine retains qualities of life that many people long for in today's world. The pace can be slower, nature is close, the...

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Stories of Aroostook

The Best of Echoes Magazine

For nearly thirty years, Echoes magazine brought the culture, heritage, landscape, and people of Aroostook County to ...

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Flight to Freedom

The Story of Philomena Keller Baker

Philomena Baker is well known throughout Maine and New England for her long career as a professional portrait ...

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