How a Depression-era ‘Hooverville’ turned into UMaine’s hippie paradise

This story was originally published in April 2023. The area adjacent to the Rangeley Road entrance to the University of Maine campus, off Park Street in Orono, is an empty field now. For nearly 70 years until the 1980s, however, it housed a community of cabins dubbed “Hungry Hollow” by residents and neighbors alike, light-years […]