Year of Togo will draw attention to a legendary Maine sled dog [Video]

POLAND – On its face, it’s a little hard to understand why a century-old dog sled journey across the Alaska wilderness has much to do with Maine.

But it does.

Poland Spring Resort, dog sledders and an assortment of fans are organizing to honor a Seppala Siberian sled dog that Time magazine once called “the most heroic animal of all time.”

They’re going to make 2025 “the Year of Togo,” said Cyndi Robbins, owner of the resort.

Togo spent his glory years leading a dog team on the ice and snow of the Yukon River valley and Bering Sea, including a famed trek in 1925 that delivered diphtheria serum to save the children of the isolated Alaskan town of Nome.

In the way of things, though, Togo wound up, like many a retiree back in the day, sitting beside a warm fire at the Poland Spring Resort. He lived out his final years …