Ally Rose

“For most American women, culture has defined anything beyond walls and social protections as wild and dangerous.”
― Lilace Mellin Guignard, When Everything Beyond the Walls Is Wild: Being a Woman Outdoors in America

“And there are people, strangers at first, who end up bringing you the faith and perspective you never quite realized you were missing. So it was for me Downeast.”
― Gigi Georges, Downeast: Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America

“these were the experiences I wanted my son to remember. The mother I wanted him to know. The mother I wanted to be.”
― Lilace Mellin Guignard, When Everything Beyond the Walls Is Wild: Being a Woman Outdoors in America

“But by the time you get far enough north to the coastal county marked in gray on the map—Washington County—you’re universally acknowledged to have arrived Downeast.”
― Gigi Georges, Downeast: Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America