Views from this scenic midcoast mountain inspired a famous poem

Views from this scenic midcoast mountain inspired a famous poem

This story was originally published in March 2023. More than a century ago, a young woman with bright red hair hiked to the top of Mount Battie in Camden. She took in the view of the ocean and surrounding hills, and she wrote a poem. “All I could see from where I stood, was three long mountains and a wood,” it begins. “I turned and looked the other way, and saw three islands in a bay.” Published in 1912, the poem was called “Renascence.” The poe…