Maine Times, July 27, 2000- Review by Neil Rolde
"County histories are not very frequently done. . . They are often works of love of a single individual; they can be lengthy. . . Baker has taken an interesting approach to the task of depicting, in this day and age of television and the Internet, an entire county's past. She uses the device of three families whose members and geographic locations do, indeed, weave a tapestry of York County as a whole. . . . Like town histories, Baker sometimes tells you more than you want to know and other times not quite enough. But a reviewer's usual quibbling pales in this instance before the astonishing breadth and thoroughness of Baker's work. This is a big book - with notes and index, running 460 pages, and they are large pages. Nevertheless, it makes for a compelling read, is artfully constructed and, I suspect, for future York County and Maine historians, will be an indispensable reference."

Review in Architecture Boston, Summer 2000 By Cynthia Howard
". . .for anyone who admires traditional New England towns and landscapes and wants a greater understanding of why we look the way we do, or for anyone grappling with how we might best protect those environments, this is a fascinating book. . . . This is a scholarly work, with statistics on farm output, urban/rural populations, transportation changes, ethnic in-migrations. But by telling the story through the lives of real people, using their own works and letters, maps, newspaper accounts, and family photographs, this history comes alive. It's a good read, compelling in the manner of a novel, about the intimate lives of our ancestors."

Review in York County Coast Star, December 15, 1999 By Jeffrey Libby
"Tracing the economic fortunes of three families in three towns - the Lougee farmstead in Parsonsfield, the Goodall woolen mills of Sanford and the Bradbury village store in Cape Porpoise - Woven Together weaves a warm narrative of Mainers living in and adapting to evolving market forces. While Baker's history is peopled with countless incarnations of the hard-working, independent Maine native - whether he or she be modest farmsteader, gritty fisherman or high-stepping mill owner - the real story for Baker is the inexorable forces of economic and technological change."