‘Downeast’ Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America

Author GiGi Georges brings us the story of five girls coming of age in one of the most challenging and geographically isolated regions on the Eastern Seaboard, rural Washington County, Maine.

Georges transforms our understanding of life in small towns and offers hope for the future of rural America.

On Good Morning NH, Georges documents rural poverty, joblessness, and opioid addiction, but also how so many through goodness helps one another during trying times.

Jack Heath talks to Gigi, and two of the women her book documents, as the young women trying to chart out their future.