Originally from Maine and a frequent visitor to Bath, Bibi Gaston is a licensed professional Landscape Architect. She has provided landscape architecture, design, site planning, and environmental consulting services for public and private clients throughout the United States since 1986. She believes in the founding precepts of her profession, that landscape architecture, at its best, reflects a balance between man and nature.

Not a story of the great man or the great event, but a narrative by and for the people. Here are 226 unknown men and women whose work in the woods, on the plains, and in the desert made it possible to live the lives we do, who held a mirror to our deepest selves. Here are men and women we can be proud of, whose words matched their deeds, who were humble, grateful, and full of anticipation for the America that was yet to be. Here is a reason to fall in love all over again with the dream of America as it once was and will be once again.

Accommodations for the author provided by The Benjamin F. Packard House Bed & Breakfast.