John Bird

Bird has compiled a series of columns that originally appeared in The Herald-Gazette in his weekly feature, "Local Heroes." Through interviews and research, he puts the spotlight on several individuals, businesses, and organizations that have helped to bring about a resurgence of the community, what is sometimes called the "Rockland Renaissance.

Paul G. Merriam writes, "This informative and highly readable little book has profoundly important messages to share with readers across Maine and the country: that community decline is not inevitable; that renewal can come from multiple directions, not all of them predictable in advance or apparent in action; and that a town with local heroes can actively adapt and respond to change, and by so doing alter the fate to which the national and global trends and forces would otherwise consign it."

Trade paperback, 6" x 9"
136 pages with b/w photographs
ISBN 978-1-936447-79-4  $16.95