Watchman,
I drove from Calais to Bangor on 9 in October of 2001. It didn't seem very populated to me but the road was definitely under construction...additional lane being added. I remember thinking how odd it was to have big money being spent to widen a highway that had so little traffic. Of course, it was snowing heavily so maybe I was one of the few nuts on the road at that time. Or the locals knew alternative back roads to avoid the construction. There still didn't seem to be many road signs for 'turn right ahead' to go to such and such a town. I can't imagine such a huge invasion of people to any of those small towns in Maine...and for the most part they are all small!!!
The town I work in is a sleepy little rural village and it has a population of 1100. Once a year there is a big Civil War re-enactment...Battle of Cedar Creek (VA)..and the population swells twenty to thirty-fold. I know the impact that has on 'our town' so just can't imagine four times that many people in a little bitty town. Yuck!
SheilaB
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