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The Star City can thank a potato farmer, a postmaster-turned-author and a railroad pioneer for helping it become a hub of northern Maine.

When someone mentions a cemetery to you, what do you think of? And if they asked you to go walk around in one with them, what would you do? Cemeteries are actually very valuable historic resources revealing information about historic events, genealogy, religious beliefs, settlement patterns and more. The symbolism on the carved gravestones is also fascinating.

As seems to be the case, many of our community’s early settlers were what I would refer to as “Renaissance men.”  According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a “Renaissance man” is someone who is well educated and sophisticated and who has talent and knowledge in many different fields of study.

“We could not ask for a better partner,” said Seneca Bernard, associate executive director of Gather.