HERMIT ISLAND — In 1907 Sumner Sewall, 10, and his friends rowed across an inlet to a barren island just south of Phippsburg. Dunes dotted the shoreline as they made their way to a man's cabin.

Hermit Island Campground has 271 sites across half an island. Most accept small pop-up campers, but this is primarily a tenter’s campground — no RVs or other campers that don’t fold down. $45–$73, ...

ROME, Maine — A man who lived like a hermit for ­decades in a makeshift camp in the central Maine woods and may be responsible for widespread thefts of food and other staples has been captured ...

All the Hermit Island sites I’d handpicked were booked ... Camping reservations at most Maine State Parks opened on Feb. 6, and three days earlier at Sebago Lake and popular Lily Bay, on ...

A slew of unexplained robberies gave rise to a local legend in central Maine: the North Pond Hermit. Every so often, under the cloak of night, a mysterious man holed up in the woods would descend ...

Staring down through the light jade Atlantic Ocean at its rippled sandy bottom, I could see a multitude of hermit ... Island, looking across Casco Bay at the wharfs and docks of Portland, Maine ...

Christopher Knight, known as the North Pond Hermit, pleaded guilty Monday to ... and camps while living in the woods of the central Maine town of Rome for 27 years before his arrest in April.

Caught after tripping a surveillance wire set up by game warden He was known as the North Pond Hermit in local lore Linked to more than 1%2C000 burglaries -- mostly of food staples ROME, ...

A Maine man who lived 27 years in the woods as a hermit is out of jail. A records officer at Kennebec County Jail says Friday that 47-year-old Christopher Knight was released earlier this ...

ROME, Maine – A man who lived like a hermit for decades in a makeshift camp in the central Maine woods, who may be responsible for more than 1,000 burglaries for food and other staples ...