EASTPORT, Maine — Perched quite literally on the edge of America, Eastport is a place where people take community seriously.

How else to explain the fascinating mix of locals and newcomers who define daily life there? Or the spirit that drives the annual New Year’s Eve drop of the giant sardine?

It’s a place of history, of good times, and hard times. It's a place—admittedly pretty remote—where people say everyone is willing to help their neighbor.

That may explain why more than 100 people turned out on a recent Saturday to move mustard.

Yes, mustard.

“It had to be done,” Kevin Raye said.

Raye works with his wife, Karen, and is the fourth-generation owner of Raye’s Mustard Mill.

“We’re getting ready for this renovation project, so we had to move," he explained. "Today, we had to move

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