Inside America’s Most Remote East Coast Community



Inside America’s Most Remote East Coast Community

Hey Reader,

Our newest episode of Unique America takes us 20 miles off the coast of Maine to a tiny island community called Matinicus.

There’s no grocery store. No restaurants. The ferry only comes a few times a month. And before we arrived, we had been warned more than once that this was a very small, tight-knit community.

So naturally, we had a lot of questions.

How do you get groceries when the mainland is 20 miles away?

What happens when the power goes out?

What does school look like when there are only a handful of kids?

And maybe the biggest question of all...

Why would anyone choose to build a life this far from everything?

Over 48 hours, we went lobstering with a fourth-generation fisherman, visited a one-room schoolhouse, learned how healthcare reaches these remote islands, and met some of the people who have spent their lives keeping Matinicus going.

But the part that stuck with us most wasn’t how isolated this place is.

It was how much the people here depend on one another because of that isolation.

And our final conversation with a woman named Donna put the entire story into perspective for us.

We really love this one, and we hope you’ll watch it with us.

As always, thank you for coming along on these adventures and helping us uncover the people and places that make America so interesting.

Cheers,

Cole + Emily
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We’re Cole and Emily Crews, the husband/wife duo behind Unique America, where we travel the country in search of its most unique experiences. Through cinematic storytelling, we turn each place into a story worth remembering.

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