Damn, we always stop in Bucksport for a soft ice cream on the way to Bar Harbor. It’s right across the Penobscot from the original Fort Knox, an impressive granite fortification erected to keep the British North Americans from stealing all the timber on the Penobscot. I’ve driven by that plant dozens of times. I was always amazed they could keep it open all these years.
I’ve met two Buckportians outside of Bucksport, one a young woman who worked at our company, and later moved to Montana where her husband was from. The other was a young airman in Alaska who was assigned to drive me someplace. They both saw no future in Bucksport.
I heard that it's in some disrepair. Have you been recently?