”In 1909 Harry Smith Shorey started making his own shoes in Downeast Maine.  Today, the tradition continues in Perry , on the shores of Passamaquoddy Bay, smack dab on the 45th parallel; half-way to the North Pole and as far east as you can travel in the continental U.S. Quoddy harkens back to the time when hand-made was the norm, when output was measured in dozens, not thousands.  In a large modern factory individual shoes pass through the hands of as many as seventy people before leaving the factory floor.  At Quoddy, one person  handsews your shoes at their bench - the quality of that pair is a testament to the individual skill that went into making them.”