Hiker Not a Hack

A letter to the editor from Priscilla J. Jenkins in the 28 May 2007 issue of the Kennebec (ME) Morning Sentinel (with the headline "Deane Jones isn't a 'hack,' but has 'high integrity'") defends Jones against the accusation in someone else's earlier letter to the paper in which Jones was called "a party hack." Jenkins, in defending Jones, mentions that

"He is a registered Maine guide (one who hiked the entire Appalachian Trail), retired from the printing business, and now is serving the children of his town also by driving a school bus."