After being mugged for the third time in twenty years, Andrea Suarez-Hill knew she could no longer live in New York City.
She and her partner, Arthur Hill, read a three-line advertisement in Down East Magazine, Last land on the coast of Maine for sale and went to take a look.
What they found was eleven acres of trees which had been logged twenty years before and blighted by an infestation of spruce budworm.
But, the beauty of the Chandler River with an old farm on the opposite shore .