By Daniel Kany
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And yet, as artist Dan Mills reveals, Thoreau’s traipsings through Maine comprised merely a bit of the common Wabanaki paths in what was to become an American state about 200 years ago.
But Mills’ images go off like a bomb. The small-handed notion is to imagine Mills’ works take down Thoreau, but they don’t: Mills forces us to want the Wabanaki expertise. And this means everything. We learn from him something was never at our fingertips before.
—Daniel Kany
