Word: heider
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...This is my favorite place on earth," declares Carl Heider. The place is 108-sq.-mi. Mount Desert Island, midway up the Maine coast. Heider, a retired New Jersey teacher, helped set up the family "camp" at the island's COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC 10 years ago, and has returned every summer since to help kids and grownups learn about the environment while enjoying Maine's rugged beauty...
...some 25 families who attend one of the six week-long programs, Heider and local naturalists lead geology and ecology hikes around the island's Acadia National Park, the only national park in New England. On participants' free half-days, Heider and staff guide them to remote places on the island. "They know all the nooks and crannies," says Marsha. "What's nice is that when you get to some of the beaches they know about, no one else is there." Each week offers a boat excursion on the ocean to observe humpback whales and a trip to the mainland...