I had a call this morning from the Grafton, New York Peace Pagoda where Buddhist nun Jun-san Yasuda is based. They called to say that a dozen Japanese would be coming to our Maine Drone Peace Walk.
We'll have about 20 folks at our house tonight in Bath for dinner and sleeping and then we head off early in the morning for the long drive north to Limestone. We'll stop in Bangor to pick up a couple more people and then some others will meet us at the start point. So far the weather reports look real good. The colors are changing on the trees and as we begin the walk in Maine's potato county it should be beautiful. We'll see the Mars Hill wind farm, the Amish horse drawn buggies and hopefully a friendly reception.
Our hosts in Caribou and Presque Isle are excited and have been alerting the local media. The semi-secret plan to try to turn Aroostook County into a "weaponized drone test bed" is now on the table.
Yesterday Frank Donnelly called to say that last Sunday he made a bunch of copies of our peace walk flyers and stood outside the sold-out WERU Community Radio 25th anniversary concert in Ellsworth and talked to people about the walk. WERU has been promoting the walk quite a bit and they are sending a reporter to walk with us on Oct 12 when we pass thru Bangor.
Come walk with us for a day or more.
You can find the daily details of walk route and schedule here
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