Popular Culture
- Henry David Thoreau published an account of travelling up the Penobscot from Bangor in 1846, to climb Mount Katahdin in his work, Ktaadn.
- Author Stephen King placed his fictional town of Derry, Maine on the Penobscot.
- The Penobscot is also featured in the film adaptation of the Tom Clancy novel, The Hunt for Red October as the location chosen in which to hide the Soviet submarine from spy satellites.
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