Katahdin from Northern Shores by Danny Diamond & Brian Miller -- Northern Shores

The Penobscot word for “great mountain” gives us the name for the tallest mountain in the state of Maine. In the small towns near Mount Katahdin it was once common for teenaged boys to set out in the fall in search of winter employment in a live-in logging camp. Some such boys had fathers who came from the north of Ireland where seasonal work at harvest time in Scotland drew young men over the North Channel each year. Katahdin seems to be a variant of the song known in the north of Ireland as Brockagh Brae or The Roslea Farewell that references the Ireland to Scotland pattern.

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