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Ep 13: The Lost Boy

· 44 min · Episode 13

Episode Ep 13: The Lost Boy

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When twelve-year-old Donn Fendler loses the trail on a family hike, he has to survive in the Maine wilderness all alone.

Sources for this episode include the documentary Finding Donn Fendler; the book Lost on a Mountain in Maine, by Donn Fendler, as told to Joseph B. Egan; “Fendler Remembered as a True American Hero,” by John Holyoke in the Bangor Daily News; “Fendler Boy Found Alive in Woods Eight Days After Becoming Lost,” in the New York Times; “70 Years Ago a Mountain in Maine Challenged a Boy’s Will to Survive,” by Nok-Noi Ricker, in the Bangor Daily News; and “Remembering Donn Fendler,” by John Thurlow, in Down East.

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