“University of Maine at Presque Isle”
LOL! Save the tuition and take a vacation there instead!
A distinction without a difference.
I’ve lived up in The County (Aroostook County, Maine)
UMPI is used for two things: a “jumper” school for local kids to get basic courses out of the way cheaply before moving out of the house (and The County) to a “real” school in Civilization, and to generate teachers. Many of you hsve noticed, that new teachers these days are generally in the bottom third of their graduating class. And “The County” has been in a brain drain for DECADES, accelerated by the shutdown of Loring AFB, over a decade ago.
” “University of Maine at Presque Isle”
LOL! Save the tuition and take a vacation there instead!”
Apologies to iowamark. U of Maine at PI is in extreme northeast Maine. No vacationers in summer (they flock to Maine’s coast, hundreds of miles south); few in winter - winter sports stuff is south and west. Presque Isle is closer to more Canadian cities than US ones. Aroostook County is noted more for potatoes and blueberries.
Loring Air Force Base (closed 1994) was there only because of WWII: as the closest point in continental US to Europe, it was USAAF’s final refueling stop for aircraft on the long haul that Theater.