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The #MaineGearLibraryNetwork.

"The Maine Gear Library Network exists to share resources and knowledge in order to grow equitable and low-barrier access to outdoor gear for communities across the state.

Gear libraries statewide:
Adaptive Outdoor Education Center – #BrunswickME
Katahdin Gear Library – #MillinocketME
#KindlingCollective – #PortlandME
Maine Bound Adventure Center – #OronoME
#MaineGearShare – #BrunswickME
Skowhegan Outdoors – #SkowheganME
#OldTownME / #OronoME Gear Library – In Development

Partners:
#CurtisMemorialLibrary of Things – #BrunswickME
#Wabanaki Public Health & Wellness – #BangorME
Maine Office of Outdoor Recreation – Statewide

The Maine Gear Library Network is a growing coalition of community organizations working together to make outdoor adventures more #accessible, #affordable, and #sustainable.

From #tents and #backpacks to #snowshoes and #kayaks, gear libraries around the state are helping more people get outside, regardless of income, experience, or zip code. By sharing resources and knowledge, the Maine Gear Library Network is building a culture of collaboration and sharing, ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to explore and enjoy Maine’s incredible natural places.


What is a Gear Library?

A gear library is a community-powered lending program that provides low-cost access to outdoor equipment, such as kayaks, #bikes, backpacks, snowshoes, and more. Their models may differ, but these gear libraries share a common goal of supporting equitable access to the outdoors by removing the barrier of gear ownership, inviting more #Mainers to connect with nature."

FMI:
https://www.mainegearshare.org/maine-gear-library-network

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#BlueskyArtShow #Summer

Kayaks for rent at Lake Tahoe, California

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History teaches us possibilities. It shows us that the new battles are old.
-- Teri Kanefield (@Teri_Kanefield)

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By "educated" I would mean what Jefferson meant...having read the major works of literature, having an understanding of the broad periods of history into which the world's past is divided, perhaps speaking another language or at least being aware of other languages and having some competence. But I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.
-- John Keegan

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I define legacy system as any system that's been up long enough to work.
-- Clement McDonald

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The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
-- Roland Barthes

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No young man should go into politics if he wants to get rich or if he expects an adequate reward for his services. An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.
-- Harry S. Truman (Diary, April 24, 1954)

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The diagnosis helps the doctor, the story helps the patient.
-- Carl Gustav Jung

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I had fallen victim to the fallacy of the 'growing edge'; the belief that only the very frontier of scientific advance counted; that everything that had been left behind by that advance was faded and dead.
-- Isaac Asimov

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There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
-- James Thurber

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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll ("The Creed")

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When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this infallible sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
-- Jonathan Swift

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I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
-- Tom Stoppard

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The mind commands the body and the body obeys. The mind commands itself and finds resistance.
-- Saint Augustine

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Fortune favors the prepared mind.
-- Louis Pasteur

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May you live every day of your life.
-- Jonathan Swift

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History teaches us possibilities. It shows us that the new battles are old.
-- Teri Kanefield (@Teri_Kanefield)

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will make better soup.
-- H. L. Mencken

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Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
-- Joseph Conrad

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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
-- James Thurber

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