DENMARK, Maine — A local teen has documented a cross-country trip he took with his father amid the COVID-19 pandemic in a photo book he’s published called “Isolated on the Road.”
Parker Fairfield Jr., 19, spent two weeks on a road trip this spring with his dad, Parker Fairfield Sr., helping a friend of the family clean up his rental property on the West Coast.
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