Maine PBS to present Mount Katahdin film

BANGOR – The television stations of Maine PBS will premiere “Wilderness and Spirit: A Mountain Called Katahdin” at 7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 10.

“Wilderness and Spirit: A Mountain Called Katahdin” is directed by Huey, an independent filmmaker from Portland who has spent more than five years preparing the show.

Capturing the spirit of Katahdin and the people who have been drawn to Maine’s “Great Mountain,” the documentary explores ways of thinking about the wilderness and how people from many walks of life, past to the present, have found spiritual solace and strength in Mount Katahdin.

The film brings together writings of Henry David Thoreau, paintings of Frederic Church and Marsden Hartley, legendary stories, dances and music of the Penobscot people, and the recollections of Millinocket residents and hikers and climbers of Katahdin.

“Wilderness and Spirit: A Mountain Called Katahdin” will be rebroadcast at 8 p.m. Aug. 14; 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. Aug. 17; and 8 p.m. Aug. 18.

In the Bangor area, Maine Public Broadcasting airs on Channel 12, or on cable channel 13 on Adelphia cable.