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July 2017

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50 Mainers 116

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by Brittany Cost and Paul Koenig | Photography by Christina Wnek

Four generations stay connected through their family camp in Gouldsboro.

Castine by Pentagoet 102

Summertime is in full, bright swing along a deep harbor where old salts, young sailors, and world travelers gatherâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;on boats, at the yacht club, and sometimes in a late-1800s inn with a cozy, fascinating pub. by Sandy Lang | Photography by Peter Frank Edwards

These 50 dedicated individuals make Maine a better place for all living and working here.

High Concept 166

Perched high within the trees on the coast of Georgetown, three clever little homes are providing ample inspiration to Maine travelers. by Katy Kelleher | Photography by Erin Little

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Patrick Dempsey, founder of the Dempsey Center in Lewiston. Photography by Christina Wnek

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Cruising the waterways around Castine. Photography by Peter Frank Edwards

THERE + THEN 028 Going out, giving back: supporting nonprofits + local businesses in the vital work they do year-round SOCIAL MEDIA 041 Sharing memories of the state sparked by social media NEW + NOTEWORTHY

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Stories from around the state

Our annual 50 Mainers feature recognizes 50 independent leaders across our state. Their fields vary—you’ll read about artists and entrepreneurs, conservationists and philanthropists, scientists and doctors—but they all share the same commitment to improving the state (“50 Mainers Leading by Example,” p. 116). Succeeding in Maine isn’t without its challenges. It’s one of the more sparsely populated states, and its location can make it feel isolated from the rest of the country. But these 50 individuals thrive despite what some may see as constraints, establishing cultural and recreational destinations in the woods, teaching new Mainers skills to succeed, and revitalizing regions left behind by time and progress. As one honoree, Dr.

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Kevin Strange of MDI Biological Laboratory, puts it, “Maine is attractive to people who like to blaze new trails and who want to make a difference.” You’ll find more individuals blazing new trails in this issue. On a plot of land in Georgetown, two brothers and their partners saw an opportunity to build something special (“High Concept,” p. 166). They constructed three tree houses—all designed with Scandinavian-inspired features—that sit in the canopy, providing a view of the ocean that didn’t exist from the ground. Writer-and-photographer team Sandy Lang and Peter Frank Edwards discover that Castine, on the edge of a peninsula in Penobscot Bay, attracts its own brand of independent thinkers (“Castine by Pentagoet,” p. 102). At the Pentagoet Inn, they meet a revolving cast of unique

characters, including the innkeepers, Julie Van de Graaf and Jack Burke, who spent much of his career in the Foreign Service. A longtime summer resident, David Bicks, who gives Lang and Edwards a tour of the area by boat, sums up Castine’s character succinctly: “You don’t get here by accident.” The same could be said for Maine. You can’t discover it by passing through other states. People living here are often here by choice. And like our 50 Mainers, when people choose to live here, many are making a commitment to the state and all of its residents—no matter the challenges.

Paul Koenig Managing Editor pkoenig@themainemag.com

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WE LOVE MAINE. We fill our work days creating Maine-centric media products—publishing magazines and guides, producing radio shows, managing social media sites, developing websites, filming videos, producing events—because of this simple tenet. Our staff stayed here, came back here, or moved here because they love Maine’s rich history, its unique character, and the people who live here, and most importantly we believe in Maine’s potential. We simultaneously love the Maine we grew up in, while fully embracing the reality that things change and evolve. And we bear witness to that happening here. We are cheerleaders for Maine as a place for people to live, stay, and thrive—a place for people from away to move to, as a place for second homeowners to buy into, a place to raise children, a place to start and operate a business, as a place to visit and explore, as a place to escape and heal. And, as a place to be inspired. We cover Maine in a positive light. We very intentionally leave the negativity and snark to other media outlets. There is a place for everything, and we honor that. But that place is not here. So if you love Maine, please turn to us with your reading eyes, your listening ears, your follows and your likes, your attendance, and your advertising and sponsorships. Explore what we believe is the best Maine has to offer on the pages of our magazines, guides, through the airwaves, at events, and via social media.

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PUBLISHER’S NOTE Photography by Heidi Kirn

This issue of Maine magazine features 50 Mainers who have contributed greatly to our state. Throughout the year we make note of the interesting people we meet, and in the months preceding this annual listing, we collaborate with a few well-informed individuals, often previous 50 Mainers themselves, to get their input. The process is exhilarating as we learn more, get closer to a final list, and feel the pulse of our state through the process. Our photographer, Christina Wnek, crisscrossed the state logging 2,700 miles and 200 hours to capture each of our 50 Mainers in his or her natural setting. Managing editor Paul Koenig and editorial assistant Brittany Cost researched and wrote each individual’s story. And editorin-chief Rebecca Falzano led the effort, from the earliest meetings to finalizing our selections

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and notifying each individual on the list. We wouldn’t have this issue without this group’s commitment.

something or someone, and stuck to it with fervor. They worked hard, and they achieved great things as a result.

This year we’ve also included all of our prior 50 Mainers classes: 2016, 2015, 2014, and 2013. Combined, these 250 people have moved mountains in Maine, and we are thankful for their contributions. To honor them further, we co-hosted an exclusive gathering for all of them called Shaping Maine at Saint Joseph’s College in Standish. It’s humbling to know a definitive list is simply not possible, and there are always more inspiring people than our pages can accommodate.

As a native of Aroostook County and the progeny of farmers, the importance of work ethic is deeply ingrained. We were taught that determination matters not only to our cause and our job, but also to our family and friends and the community to which we owe so much. In an era of theories about “doing less to do more” and where being busy can be a cause of shame, I’m encouraged by the persistence of these 250 people. I’m awed by their resulting accomplishments. And I’m grateful that their efforts made our lives here in Maine better in ways known and unknown.

As I consider the attributes that allowed these women and men to make their impact on Maine, one trait stands above the rest: hard work. Their educational backgrounds are varied; their access to wealth is inconsistent; some are from Maine; others are from away; there are analyticals and creatives. But consistently, each of these individuals made a commitment to

Kevin Thomas Publisher and CEO kthomas@themainemag.com

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CONTRIBUTORS

ERIN LITTLE finds joy in capturing unique spaces and the people who inhabit them. The tree houses in Georgetown were wonderfully unique and challenging to shoot in such a tight space. When she’s not holding a camera, she’s running Back Cove and through the West End, or exploring with her daughter and bulldog. “Counting Their Blessings,” p. 088, “High Concept,” p. 166

As food editor, KAREN WATTERSON has accepted the challenge of eating her way through the state, from downeast lobster pounds to fine dining restaurants. Her love of Maine started young, spending summers at overnight camp here, learning to waterski and make lanyards. She and her family made the move to Yarmouth 12 years ago and have never looked back. Eat, p. 178

The only thing editor-in-chief REBECCA FALZANO enjoys more than exploring Maine is sharing it with readers of Maine, Maine Home+Design, and Old Port magazines. She lives in Falmouth with her husband and two tiny explorers. 48 Hours, p. 046

Managing editor of Old Port magazine, SUSAN AXELROD spent summers in the midcoast before her longtime dream of moving to Maine came true in 2013. She and her husband, Ted, live with their two boisterous rescue dogs at Rainbow Farm in Yarmouth, and try to balance home-improvement projects with making time for hiking, kayaking, and travel. “Counting Their Blessings,” p. 088 July 2017 25

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SHAPING MAINE 2016

Celebrating innovative leaders from around the state In honor of Maine magazine’s annual 50 Mainers issue, community members gathered at Saint Joseph’s College in Standish in June 2016 to celebrate individuals who are making a difference in Maine. Read stories of this year’s class of 50 Mainers on page 116.

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“I am constantly inspired by the innovators who continue to make Maine a great place to live. This year’s event promises to be equally as inspiring with the state’s most important influencers all in attendance.” —Kevin Thomas, publisher and CEO of Maine Media Collective

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01 Louise Rosen, consulting director at L/A Arts; Jaleh Hojjati, teacher at Portland Public Schools; and Reza Jalali, coordinator of the University of Southern Maine Office of Multicultural Student Affairs 02 Lindsay Skilling, CEO of Gifford’s Ice Cream, and Jason Skilling, contractor 03 Justin Walker, executive chef at Earth at Hidden Pond, and Danielle Walker, general manager at Earth at Hidden Pond 04 Kevin Thomas, publisher and CEO at Maine Media Collective, and Dr. Lisa Belisle, wellness editor at Maine magazine 05 Thomas Judge, executive director at the LifeFlight Foundation and LifeFlight of Maine, and Steve Malcom, owner and CEO of Knickerbocker Group 06 Dorothy Foote, former CEO and head of schools at Wayfinder Schools, and Fred Williams, managing director at Old Port Advisors 07 Jack Leonardi, CFO at Maine Media Collective; Lynda Leonardi, registered nurse and care transition specialist at Option Care Home infusion; and Eric Hopkins, Art Collector Maine artist 08 Julia Sleeper, founder and executive director of Tree Street Youth Center, and Paula Marcus-Platz, social worker

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MARSDEN HARTLEY’S

MAINE Marsden Hartley’s Maine is organized by the Colby College Museum of Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

It is made possible by the Henry Luce Foundation, Bank of America, Betsy Cohen and Edward Cohen/Aretê Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Everett P. and Florence H. Turner Exhibition Fund.

A grant from the Wyeth Foundation for American Art has supported the Colby College Museum of Art’s scholarly contributions to the exhibition catalogue published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The catalogue is made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Charles Butt, and Laura and Robert W. Stone.

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LIFT360: DELICIOUS DISCOURSE

A series of events featuring dinner and dialogue Lift360’s Delicious Discourse dinner series took place at locations around Maine throughout the month of April. Hosts opened their homes and businesses to over 150 Lift360 guests, and each evening offered food, drink, and informal conversation with a featured Maine leader. Proceeds from the event series support Lift360’s Springboard program, which offers pro bono community expertise to local nonprofit leaders through facilitated brainstorming sessions. 01

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“At a sold-out dinner at Lynn and Jim Shaffer’s home, Senator George J. Mitchell shared his profound perspective on current politics nationally and internationally. It was a beautiful and engaging evening that showcased an inspiring example of leadership and statesmanship in Maine.” —Carol Walker Aten, senior associate at Lift360

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01 George J. Mitchell, former United States senator, and Jim Shaffer, chair of board of directors at Portland Ballet 02 Tom Rumpf, acting director of Lift360, and Carolyn Nishon, executive director of Portland Symphony Orchestra and board member at Lift360 03 Nancy Pierce; Tara Hill, executive director of Maine Cancer Foundation and board member at Lift360; Stuart Hill, systems analyst at Maine Medical Center; and Chris Pierce, chairman of the Dingley Press 04 Liz Murley, independent charity governance consultant, and Meg Baxter, president and CEO of the Mitchell Institute 05 Meg Baxter, president and CEO of the Mitchell Institute, and Carol Walker Aten, senior associate at Lift360 06 Hugh Wilkinson, founder and principal of Coral Hill LLC, and Andrea King, associate publisher and COO at Maine Media Collective

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MAY CINQ A SEPT

A monthly after-work gathering of friends and colleagues Community members congregated in May at Cliff House in Cape Neddick to share conversation and explore the newly opened Gallery at Bald Head Cliff, featuring works by artists William Crosby, Jane Dahmen, and Ann Sklar, among others. The evening was sponsored by Maine Honda Dealers.

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“This Cinq A Sept was the perfect opportunity to show off the redesigned Cliff House, complete with our new Gallery at Bald Head Cliff, and to reconnect with our community in the Ogunquit area.” —Andrea King, associate publisher and COO at Maine Media Collective

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01 Sweeping ocean views at Cliff House. 02 Margaret Ybarra, account strategist at Impact Branding and Design, and Joe Ybarra, developer at Thinkbean 03 Jason Moody, managing partner at Richard Moody and Sons Construction; Jeffrey D’Amico, director of sales at Maine Media Collective; Josh Moody, managing partner at Richard Moody and Sons Construction; and Jon Moody, managing partner at Richard Moody and Sons Construction 04 William Crosby, Art Collector Maine artist 05 Erin Lengas, editorial operations coordinator at Departures magazine, and Nikki Bock, publicist at DKC 06 John Bradway, director of sales and marketing at Cliff House, and Emily Ambrose, marketing communications manager at Cliff House 07 Christopher Lynch, founder and president of Legacy Properties Sotheby’s International Realty, and Andrea King, associate publisher and COO at Maine Media Collective

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WORDS FROM OUR READERS Love an article from last month? Have a place in Maine you want us to cover? We welcome comments of any kind. Send your notes to letters@ themainemag.com or message us on Facebook @themainemagazine.

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My wife and I have homes in Orlando and Windham and split our time between the two. We love food and live music, so articles about off-the-beaten-path restaurants and places like Stone Mountain Arts Center in Brownfield are top in our minds. I was born and raised in Maine (Lewiston), so I’m happy to reconnect with my home state. —Steve Triggs, Orlando, FL

We are from Pennsylvania and have visited Maine for the past 20 years (since our honeymoon). Since the first time there, it truly feels like a second home. We love to take the kids and dogs, too. We recently got a puppy and named her Biddeford Grace, Biddy for short. We can’t wait to introduce her to Maine! —Jessica Lawless, Nazareth, PA

I have been reading Maine, Maine Home+Design, and also Old Port since you started publishing. I love the magazines and your website. I grew up in Boston, spending weekends in midcoast Maine—Sheepscot village to be exact. Since I live in South Florida, my family and I spend most of the summer in Boothbay Harbor, where our interests are boating, golfing, and exploring as much as possible. Your 48HRS pieces are fantastic for ideas and information. —John C. Doering, Fort Lauderdale, FL I am very excited to have Maine magazine on a monthly basis! Maine is absolutely beautiful, and although I’ve lived here my entire life, I am still learning all the things Maine has to offer. My fiancé and I recently became beekeepers. We thought it would be a cool hobby, beneficial for our garden, and a bonus to harvest the honey. We learned that there are tons of beekeepers in Southern Maine and across Maine. It’s like a secret community! It would be interesting to explore and bring awareness to Maine’s beekeeping world. —Rachel Bachelder, Hollis Center, ME

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EVENING:

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We arrive at our cozy family-friendly suite at the Beachmere Inn, turn on the gas fireplace, and step outside onto our porch overlooking the ocean. An entrance to the Marginal Way Footpath that winds along Ogunquit’s rocky shore is just a few steps away, so we head down for a pre-dinner walk. We stumble upon a small lighthouse with a camera attached, which I later learn is a webcam that transmits the panoramic view to anyone tuning in online. For dinner, we head across the grassy expanse (in the summer, the inn holds lobster bakes here) to the Beachmere’s restaurant, Blue Bistro, where we enjoy baked haddock and perfectly cooked steak inside, while a group of women drink cocktails outside around the fire pit.

SATURDAY MORNING:

Most of the shoreline of this small York County resort town is open to the public, including Marginal Way, a paved shoreline footpath spanning more than a mile of rocky coast and connecting Perkins Cove to Ogunquit Beach. 01

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Shop hopping and an out-of-thisworld massage We wake up to an early spring snow and head over for breakfast at the inn before hitting up Main Street to do a little shopping. Harbor Candy Shop is filled with Easter goodies and is a big hit with our four-year-old, who— after much deliberation—picks out a rainbow lollipop and some jellybeans. I pop in next door to H&M Crumpets for some soaps and toiletries, “mom’s candy,” as a fellow shopper jokes. We pick out some wine and beer at Village Food Market, which has been selling specialty provisions since 1978, and grab some baked goods to go from Bread and Roses Bakery. Back at the inn, I indulge my eight-months-pregnant self with a prenatal “Beach Baby” massage, which renders me so utterly relaxed that I almost walk right into innkeeper Sarah Diment on the way out. Diment is part of the third generation of her family to work at the inn, and her fondness for its history is palpable. The property dates back to the late 1880s, including a period during World War II when the

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04 01 Just steps from the Beachmere Inn, Ogunquit’s Marginal Way beckons for a walk along the rocky shore. 02 Inside Northern Union. 03 The Front Porch has been an Ogunquit icon for more than 40 years. 04 It’s hard to choose between sweet treats at Harbor Candy Shop. 05 A small lighthouse on Marginal Way. U.S. Coast Guard took over the inn to house the men patrolling Marginal Way looking for German submarines. Noteworthy guests include Bette Davis and President Richard Nixon. I noticed the guestbooks in our suite go back almost ten years—there are even stories about how three generations of one family honeymooned in the same room.

AFTERNOON:

Lobster lunch and more shopping We take the drive to the beautiful Cliff House, where we head over to the resort’s Nubb’s Lobster Shack, a takeoutstyle restaurant overlooking the ocean. At the window we order our feast: a classic lobster roll, chicken wings, hot dog, and fries served on a tray with a blue numbered buoy that serves as our pick-up “ticket.” My daughter

and husband play air hockey and shuffleboard, and I take in the view while we wait for our food. Today is blustery and snowy, but I can imagine the garage doors open on a summer day to picnic tables and a much calmer sea breeze. After lunch we drive by the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, which is closed for another few weeks before its opening exhibition of works by the late Maine legend Dahlov Ipcar. We head back to Main Street to the shops we missed in the morning, including Tea Space, where we visit with owner Eileen Conlon, who has a doctorate in education but always wanted to open a tea shop. I pick out some local tea from Nellie’s Tea to take home. We visit Stonehome Estate Jewelers, where we ogle some beautiful antique jewelry. Stonehome also has a location in Kennebunkport. Nearby on Shore Road we

stop in to women’s clothing and accessory shop Lazy Daisy and chat with co-owner Judy Bean. We drive by the iconic Front Porch, which has been in business for more than 40 years and, as of March, has a new owner, Scott Vogel. (Vogel actually worked as a server there as a summer job in college.) The place offers three experiences in one: a restaurant, a lounge, and a piano bar that draws people from all over the country to saddle up and sing along.

EVENING:

Dinner out and a movie in We have an early dinner reservation at Northern Union, and when we walk in, owners Lauren and Matt Wickert greet us warmly and give us our pick of the place. We choose a cozy corner in a windowed room, which we have all to ourselves. The restaurant, originally a house, was redesigned in that spirit, with several distinct and separate dining areas. The restaurant’s specialty is an extensive wellcurated wine list and small plates masterfully executed by chef Romann Dumorne (formerly of the White Barn Inn). Our server brings out small plate after small plate, each one an experience to savor: vadouvan spice carrots with parsnip, coconut cloud, pecan granola, and local honey; braised pork belly on steamed buns with slaw and barbeque sauce; spicy chicken drumettes with tzatziki dipping sauce; and shredded potato latkes with herbed crème fraîche. Chef Dumorne even whips up some pasta and broccolini for our not-so-adventurous daughter, who devours it. Two hours later we’re so delightfully stuffed that we head back to the inn, pick out a DVD from the front desk

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01 Our tray filled to the brim at Nubb’s Lobster Shack at Cliff House. 02 Fishing village and artists’ haven Perkins Cove. 03 The Perkins Cove drawbridge, which people can operate if the harbormaster isn’t around. collection (handed to us with a bag of popcorn), and settle in for the night. The snow is still coming down.

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SUNDAY MORNING

Brunch and gallery browsing In classic Maine fashion, the weather has done a complete 180 from yesterday’s snowstorm. Today we wake up to clear blue sky and 50 degrees. From our suite we can see the beach filling up with people eager to get out in the sun. We head to Five-O Shore Road for brunch—they’ve just opened for the season a few days before. I’ve only ever been here for dinner; this time we enjoy our pancakes and eggs in broad daylight to the sounds of Frank Sinatra. On our way out of town we visit with Doreen Chalif of Panache Fine Jewelry and Art Gallery, a brick-and-

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mortar gallery that has been selling custom-made abstract art in Ogunquit for nearly 25 years. Chalif tells us that she and her partner, Rhonda Desisto, work with 300 artists from around the country to create customizable artwork and jewelry. Ten-foot-high walls (purposely sized to help customers visualize how the art will look at home) are adorned with oversized dimensional paintings, colorful glass sculptures, and handcut metal mirrors that Chalif tells me are very popular right now.

AFTERNOON:

One last breath of fresh air Fishing village and artists’ haven Perkins Cove is home to a handful of galleries, shops, and restaurants—plus a drawbridge that you can operate yourself with the push of a button if the harbormaster isn’t around. We go for one last walk along the wide sandy expanse of Ogunquit

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FRIDAY EVENING:

A warm welcome at a renovated B&B and dining favorites

Russell House Bed and Breakfast sits back from the road, white with a red roof, surrounded by a carefully maintained lawn. It reopened in December 2016 after an extensive renovation. Wellknown local hotelier Scott Larson and Steve Malcom, owner of construction firm Knickerbocker Group, have teamed up to offer luxury accommodations yearround. Nancy Long, the innkeeper,

helps us settle into the first-floor Harlow Suite, with a sitting area and Erin Flett graphics gracing the walls. Boothbay Region Art Foundation has been promoting visual arts since1963, and tonight it is hosting the twelfth annual Maine Photography Show. We’re heading over to see entries by Maine magazine photographer Dave Dostie, who won the Committee Choice Award, and others in our creative circle. When we arrive the crowd has swelled out onto the sidewalk. Robinson’s Wharf is a local food and drink landmark and one of our favorites. The last time we visited, we came by boat from Yarmouth and tied up with several other boaters to enjoy live music and open-deck seating. Tonight, we listen to a live band on the first floor for a few minutes before heading to the upstairs bar.

02 A local friend has recommended that we have dinner at the Thistle Inn, which is under the new ownership of Anya Heyl and Dick Reid. The 1860s building’s restaurant has dark wood, a couple of fireplaces, and four dining areas. All the rooms are lively with conversation, the dinner courses are delicious, and the staff and owners are personable.

SATURDAY MORNING:

Exploring Ocean Point We drive east on Route 96 toward East Boothbay. We ditch the car near Smuggler’s Cove Inn and run a four-mile route south on 96 and Van Horn Road, and then hug the waterfront on Shore Road. This is Ocean Point, and whether you run, walk, or bike, you should plan to enjoy the unobstructed views of Linekin Bay and the dozens of quintessential

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04 01 Danielle and Brad Betts in the midst of renovating the new home for Down East Gallery. 02 Lobster roll lunch at the Trevett Country Store. 03 Old signage from Linekin Bay Resort hangs at the Carriage House Restaurant. 04 The footbridge that connects the two sides of Boothbay Harbor. 05 Riverside Butcher Co. owners August and Abby Avantaggio and their daughter, Edith. 06 Water views in Boothbay Harbor. gravel road to a small parking lot before walking a dirt path to the small chapel on the water that holds 100 people. A long dock juts out into the bay for parishioners who choose to arrive by boat. There is a lot of history in this place, and it’s a beautiful spot to enjoy some quietude.

We’re back at the Russell House to enjoy the complementary homemade breakfast that Long makes for all of her guests. Today she serves waffles with blueberry compote, cut fruit, yogurt, and granola.

We visit the town landing with a view of Cuckolds Lighthouse and Newagen Seaside Inn across the water. Continuing on, we drive toward Pratt’s Island but take the right to visit Oliver’s at Cozy Harbor. There is no more picturesque spot in the area to enjoy a lobster roll on a warm summer day. From there, we continue north and stop at the Southport General Store and meet co-owner Oliver Cusano. He and his wife, Janet, moved here 13 years ago from San Francisco, and in addition to offering great sandwiches they

AFTERNOON:

A seaside chapel and local landmarks in Southport

We’ve made a plan to meet Rev. Kit Sherrill and get a tour of the All Saints by-the-Sea chapel in Southport as research for a story Lisa will be writing for the August issue. We drive down a

are known for their well-curated collection of wines. Since we’re close, we visit Hendricks Harbor for a glimpse of the lighthouse. We’re ready for an espresso and lunch, so we head back to Boothbay Harbor. Our Facebook followers have been encouraging us to stop at Red Cup Coffee House. We get our espresso and enjoy some homey comfort among several groups huddled and talking at small cafe tables. Just up the street is Sherman’s Books and Stationery, and we never pass up a bookstore, especially Sherman’s. I’m pleased to see that they are selling over 20 different magazines from our collective, including guides and back issues. After a quick dash into Coastal Maine Popcorn Co., we visit with Dennis Gleason at his venerable Gleason Fine Art gallery. We need a lobster roll, one with lobster overflowing from a toasted hot dog bun, and we know that Trevett Country Store is the place to go. The path to Trevett’s takes us past the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, past a fish house on the banks of the Back River, and across the bridge to Barters Island. We get our two lobster rolls, the last lobster meat of the day for the store, along with a bag of chips and a root beer. Best lunch ever.

I’ve been wanting to see the new Boothbay Harbor Country Club since it reopened last year. Local philanthropist and businessman Paul Coulombe has spent $50 million to upgrade the club and his attention to every detail is evident throughout the clubhouse. The restaurant, Paul’s Steak House, is open to the

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01 Alexander Neese and Kelly Farrin at the Carriage House Restaurant. 02 Tamari-glazed roasted salmon at the Carriage House. public. From there, we drive north to visit with Danielle and Brad Betts at the new farmhouse location for their Down East Gallery. They’ve transformed the upstairs, where Brad’s art is already hanging, while they work on the first floor. The barn, with long sweeping views of fields behind, will be renovated for event space. On the return to town, we stop quickly at the Boothbay Railway Village.

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bar. We leave our car and run back over the footbridge that has connected the two sides of Boothbay Harbor since 1901. Our five-mile route takes us through and out of town and towards the Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club in West Boothbay Harbor. Along the way, we pass Island Teak Company in town, and are reminded we need to come back for summer furniture. After breakfast at the Russell House, we drive to Linekin Bay Resort for a look at the progress of the renovations. Several common buildings and individual cottages are being renovated at this storied camp that has been accommodating summer guests since 1919. We hope to come back again via boat, as we did last summer.

AFTERNOON:

An artist and a butcher As we head north, we stop in Newcastle at the home of Jane Dahmen, one of our artists at the Portland Art Gallery. She offers us a tour of her house and art studio, and it does not disappoint. She’s working on a new body of work that will be shown later this summer. Our final stop is a new butcher shop that we’ve been hearing about for months, the Riverside Butcher Co. in Damariscotta. Owners August and Abby Avantaggio are there with their young daughter. They’ve had a great first year of operation, and we’re pleased to hear that both locals and summer folks have added Riverside to their list of provisioning sources. As we drive home, we reflect on our trip and make note of the places we will visit when we return this summer.

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PARADISE POINT WATERFRONT

Classic Maine shingle style home in East Boothbay with a spacious kitchen, fireplace, and 3 bedroom suites. Expansive porch with views of Linekin Bay. Quaint 2BR guest cottage on pilings, with deep water dock. $1,550,000

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OCEAN POINT WATERFRONT

4BR/3BA meticulously maintained 3,800 sf. home overlooking Linekin Bay. Offers a family room with fireplace, master suite, garage, generator, security system, and beautiful landscaping. Private deep water dock & float. $1,150,000

WEST BOOTHBAY HARBOR

Stately 3+ BR/2.5 BA home with a large living room, fireplace,water view dining room, sunroom & master suite. Recent addition of a playroom/office. Large open deck & charming cottage on property. Close to yacht club. $365,000

SPRUCE POINT WATERFRONT

Custom designed 5BR/4BA home with 200’ +/- deep waterfront with dock and float. Living room with stone fireplace, sunroom and recently renovated kitchen. Stunning panoramic views of outer Boothbay Harbor. $1,395,000

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Blue Sky Farm grows organic, saltwater berries that visitors can harvest with a winnower and rake on the edge of the ocean. Follow a morning in the fields with a picnic lunch at Bakeman Beach overlooking Penobscot Bay.

SPILLER FARM | WELLS

In mid-July, blueberry season kicks off at Spiller Farm with a selection of highbush berries. Children can admire the cows and calves, while a farm store offers light lunch and snacks.

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Beginning in early August, Perseverance offers a unique, sour-top strain of lowbush berries. The harvest experience is traditional and involves a rake, bucket, and antique winnower.

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Libby and Son U-Picks offers 30 acres of sustainably grown highbush berries, as well as a tram and children’s activities like face painting. In the afternoon, hike in the nearby Sawyer Mountain Highlands or try one of their homemade blueberry donuts.

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Highbush U-pick starts at Winslow Farm in the middle of July and continues through the first week of September. During a visit, purchase organic produce and herbs, along with perennial and annual flowers.

RUPERT BERRY FARM | TURNER

Raspberries, elderberries, and highbush blueberries at Rupert Berry Farm draw in visitors, who rave about the quality of the fruits and service.

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ASHLEY BRYAN:

Making Art on a Maine Island The Monday morning boat from Northeast Harbor has a full complement of passengers. A man with a skateboard and a timid Chihuahua hangs out on the stern, near several boxes of groceries destined for Great and Little Cranberry Islands. In the cabin, an island schoolteacher sips a cup of coffee, her laptop computer in a black case beside her. The benches are crowded with people who are making a reverse commute from Mount Desert Island via the Beal and Bunker Mail Boat and Ferry. As the vessel cuts through the looking-glass ocean, trailed by a wake of glinting sunlight, it is easy to understand why the internationally acclaimed artist and children’s book author Ashley Bryan has made a Maine island his home. Bryan has published 50 books in the past five decades. He has won multiple Coretta Scott King Awards, a Newbery Honor award earlier this year for Freedom Over Me, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award in 2009 for his lasting contribution to children’s literature. But people on the mail boat know him simply as their neighbor: Bryan has lived in Cranberry Isles full time since his retirement from teaching at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1988. After cruising past Sutton Island and stopping to let the majority of the passengers off at Great Cranberry, the boat docks at Little Cranberry, which holds the village of Islesford (winter population: 65). Street signs are absent from the handful of quiet thoroughfares that transect this 200acre island. Walking past a city block’s worth of landlocked lobster traps and an open field, we find Bryan’s house tucked around a corner, beside a garden cart labeled “Choice Potatoes.” Opposite page: A view of the harbor after arriving at Little Cranberry Island. This page: The Storyteller Pavillion in Islesford is the primary repository of Ashley Bryan’s sea glass windows. Visitors can also see a display of his puppets. July 2017 77

Bryan watercoloring an illustration in his home studio. Opposite, from left: A lobster boat cutting through the waters of the harbor. A few of Bryan’s many found objects and gifts from around the world from which he draws inspiration.

Bryan’s assistant, Jasmine Samuel, opens the door. The 93-year-old artist is immediately behind her, his arms open and his eyes bright. “When someone asks me what is the most important thing, I’ve always said it’s this moment being with you,” says Bryan, greeting photographer Matt Cosby and Love Maine Radio audio producer Spencer Albee. “Because that is what my day will be.” Bryan’s gray-shingled house is crowded with artifacts of a life well lived. Letters from grateful children are stacked on bookcases. Fanciful mobiles and model airplanes pirouette in the air above us. Samuel, who also owns a permaculture farm on the island, has brewed coffee for us. The 1992 Maine Library Association Lupine Award for Bryan’s book Sing to the Sun hangs above a kitchen table set with cookies and dessert bread. “Hospitality is important to Ashley,” explains Samuel. “This is Ashley’s way.” Born in Harlem, New York, in 1923, Bryan was the second of six children. His parents’ families came from the Caribbean island of Antigua. His father was a printer by trade and kept a houseful of birds as pets; his 78

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mother loved to sing and made clothing for her children. Bryan still has the scissors she once used. “During the Depression so much was done by hand in the home,” says Bryan, who grew up in the Bronx. “For the family— my sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles—presents were always something that I created.” Bryan made his first foray into literature while still in kindergarten, with an ABC book. “I have never stopped making books,” he says. Bryan is a persuasive storyteller. His words become louder, then softer, then louder again—as if he is entertaining an entire crowd of children. He has deep gratitude for those who have paved his way. “My teachers from elementary, junior, and high school—all white teachers—encouraged me, gave me material…I have never forgotten that,” he says. Bryan, who never married, has returned the favor many times over, encouraging students to follow their dreams. In 2011, the Islesford Elementary School was renamed the Ashley Bryan School. Last year, 14 students in kindergarten through eighth grade attended classes there. Pushing himself up from the wooden kitchen

chair, Bryan retrieves a brochure about stained glass windows that he designed and created. Depicting the life of Jesus, they are now located at the Islesford Congregational Church. As a child, Bryan saw the glowing stained glass in the windows of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church near his home and told his mother, “I’d like to go to that great big pretty church.” She obliged, and the family became part of the congregation. In the back room of Bryan’s house, several unfinished window panels lie on a table; a family of oversized handmade puppets keeps watch. Bryan has a love of found objects— especially those rescued from the nearby beach. He has incorporated well-worn pieces of sea glass into his windows; the puppets are formed from items like fishing net and seashells. “I’ve always enjoyed re-creating from what’s thrown away,” says Bryan. Bryan was once in danger of being thrown away himself. After he graduated from high school at the age of 16, an art school refused him. “They said it would be a waste to give a scholarship to a colored person,” says Bryan. “They explained that there would be no place in the field of graphic arts, where I would be

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employed.” After this rejection, he spent a year teaching younger children at his former school, and then tried his luck at a different institution. This time, the selective Cooper Union admitted him, providing a tuition-free education. In 1943, Bryan was drafted at the age of 19 and became a stevedore in the 502nd Port Battalion of the U.S. Army. He and his segregated unit trained in Boston and Glasgow, eventually landing at Normandy on D-Day. He served through the end of World War II. After the war, Bryan returned to Cooper Union to complete his degree. Although his hair is now gray, and his fingers laced with wrinkles, his voice carries traces of the young soldier he once was. “I was so spun around by the disasters and the sufferings of war that I said I must find out why man chooses war,” says Bryan. He went to Columbia University to do graduate work in philosophy. “Of course I didn’t get more answers, I got more questions,”

he says. Bryan has made peace with this lack of clarity. “It’s like Socrates said, ‘The unexamined life is not worth living,’” quotes Bryan. “You’re always asking questions of yourself and everything.” After Columbia, Bryan’s pursuit of the examined life took him to the University of Marseille at Aix-en-Provence in France, using money from the G.I. Bill. He later returned to Europe on a two-year Fulbright grant to study at the University of Freiburg in Germany. He slides easily into the words of that German poet Rainer Maria Rilke: “‘Weisst du, ich will mich schleichen leise aus lautem Kreis…’” The syllables are like the soft rush of a waterfall tumbling over pebbles as they leave his lips. “’Understand, I’ll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd,’” he translates. “It’s lovely, it’s so lovely…You can’t translate the sound of a language,” muses Bryan. “You can translate the feeling and the mood, but it won’t sound the same.”

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The dock from which passengers board the mail boat back to the mainland. Opposite page: Bryan’s tools in his home studio.

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The Ashley Bryan Center has made a promise to Bryan that his life’s story will continue to inspire others to “never give up,” and will ensure that his books and artwork will remain available.

wrote a piece called “The All-White World of Children’s Books” for the Saturday Review. This article convinced publishers that change was necessary. An editor at Atheneum Books, Jean Karl, took a chance on Bryan and arranged for him to begin working more consistently in the field. He would go on to illustrate other books, including Moon, For What Do You Wait?, a book based on the poetry of Bengali Nobel Prize-winning author Rabindranath Tagore, in 1967. “I had known of his poems,” says Bryan. “They were written to be sung—very simple and beautiful. I loved doing art for it.” He wrote his first book for children, African Tales, in 1965. After his retirement from teaching, Bryan focused his efforts on writing and illustrating. His books offer stories that beg to be told. Pulling out a copy of Walk Together Children (2002), he runs his fingers over the illustrated musical score for the spiritual “Swing Low Sweet Chariot.” “Blacks were not allowed to learn to read or write,” says Bryan. “But they would hear these Bible stories, and they incorporated those stories into creating these songs.” Bryan nearly breaks into song himself as he pages past illustrations for “He’s Got the Whole World in his Hands” and “This Little Light of Mine.” “I just love the imagination and the vocabulary of black slaves,” says Bryan. “That’s why I worked to honor them.” Bryan weaves music and words into public presentations as well. Using a poem by Langston Hughes, he asks people to repeat it after him like the call and response of children in a school assembly. “When I go to give a program and there’s an audience of adults, I have a direct connection with them,” says Bryan. “They have all survived childhood, just as I have, so I’m going to tap back to that experience of the child in each one of them.” Bryan has continued to travel, despite health issues last winter that necessitated a two-month stay at a Portland rehabilitation facility. In April he spent a week in Atlanta, where the High Museum of Art had opened an exhibition of his work. While he was there the Alliance Theatre Teen Ensemble performed a reading from Freedom Over Me (2016), a book inspired by slave documents

Bryan found ten years ago at an auction in Northeast Harbor. “[The students] not only caught the spirit [of the book], but they developed their own spirit and relation to it, which made it so exciting,” says Bryan. Bryan remains avidly curious. Samuel tells us that Bryan requires additional luggage room for the many books he brings with him when he travels. His shelves at home are like the stacks of a winter woodpile. “I try not to have favorites about anything,” says Bryan. “At one point, I may need a Shakespearean sonnet. Another time I want an Edna St. Vincent Millay poem. It varies.” During a break in the conversation, Bryan takes a few moments to sit by his tiny woodstove and read from a book of poetry, his hands cradling the yellow cover. Bryan is currently illustrating a book featuring the nursery rhymes of nineteenth-century English poet Christina Rossetti. “The poem that I always remember as a child was ‘Who Has Seen the Wind?’” says Bryan. “‘Neither I nor you, but when the leaves hang trembling, the wind is passing through.’” Bryan has collected and cultivated what might otherwise have been forgotten. He is beloved, yet thoroughly humble. In 2013, a small group of his friends and family created The Ashley Bryan Center to preserve and protect Ashley’s work. “You’ll have to ask them about that,” Bryan says. “That’d be the last thing in the world for me to do. But I was very touched that they wanted what I’ve been doing to go further.” Retracing our steps to the mail boat, my colleagues and I take a detour past the two-room schoolhouse that bears Bryan’s name and hear the conversations of children tumbling out the open window to mingle with spring birdsong. We stop at Islesford Congregational Church to admire the panels of sea glass reflecting colored sunbeams onto the wooden pews. Bryan’s advice echoes in our memories: “Anything you’re doing that’s creative, stay with it, no matter what. Don’t let anybody tell you, you’re no good at it, or you won’t make a living doing it. If it’s something you love to do, that’s how you get to know who you are.”

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COUNTING their Blessings Four generations stay connected through their family camp in Gouldsboro.

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From left: Adirondack chairs provide a perfect spot to reminisce and catch up and to take in the spectacular view of the bay. Every visitor to the camp since it was built in 1935 has signed journals kept by the family. It’s estimated that they contain 2,000 different signatures. The old photo was taken at the outdoor fireplace, which still stands.

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Paul had acquired the property in exchange for barrels of sugar, flour, and other staples. The day after school ended for the summer, the Valentes loaded their seven children into the back of a pickup truck and drove the 90 miles from their home in Milo to the camp, which they had named Seldom Inn. “Every so often he would stop and ask us if we wanted ice cream or a hot dog,” recalls

Orrin Valente—known as Dud to his family. “My father brought us here for the whole summer because he thought he was keeping us out of trouble.” That may have been true, but the remarkable place Paul and Alta created did far more than that; it continues to enrich the lives of four generations of their descendants. It’s July Fourth weekend 2016, and photographer Erin Little and I are spending the day at Seldom Inn with 100 or so members of the Valente clan, who have

gathered for their annual reunion. Because there are limited beds in the main house and guest cottage, a couple of campers are among the cars lining the dirt road leading to the camp, and several tents are pitched in a grassy area next to the barn. A wide swath of lawn stretches in front of the house, and beyond it, the blue water of Joy Bay. About four of the original 20 acres have been lost to erosion, so apple trees that were once surrounded by field are now perched at the edge of the rocky shore. A few lobster boats are moored in the distance—the only sign

that anyone else inhabits this part of the bay. The view across the water to Lobster Island looks much like it must have when Paul first stood on the point and decided this would be his family’s summertime Shangri-La. Our invitation to Seldom Inn came from Windham resident Renee Valente Tringali, one of Paul and Alta’s grandchildren, who has jokingly warned us in advance about her “loud, crazy, Italian family.” From the porch on the side of the house, shaded by a large maple tree, we can see a group of adults

playing bocce, while others lounge in the sun. American and Italian flags wave lazily from a tall flagpole, and a stone fireplace is piled with wood, ready for this evening’s bonfire. “This is a pretty tough crowd,” she says. “They were going until four this morning and up at 5:30 to get the most out of every minute here.” Many family members still live in Maine and elsewhere in New England, but some have made the annual pilgrimage from as far away as Florida. Renee leads us inside the house to check July 2017 91

Clockwise from top left: The lobsters were caught in the waters off the camp, delivered by the fisherman, and cooked in salt water from the bay. Paul and Alta’s great-great-granddaughter Jozie Somes explores the mudflats at low tide. Part of the infamous wall of names and numbers in the main room of the camp, with a photo of Paul and Alta’s children, nicknamed the Big Seven. A child twirls a sparkler on the lawn. Paul and Alta’s grandson Dickie Hall rows out into Joy Bay. A group of cousins and grandchildren pose for a photo. Lobster Island viewed from the camp.

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Opposite page: Virgil Valente, the youngest of Paul and Alta’s seven children, is the family historian and spokesman. This page: Great grandchild Jenna Valente selects a freshly cooked lobster.

out “the wall,” an extraordinary family tree that covers the length of the main room and features plaques with names and numbers for every member of the family. Paul and Alta’s plaques, numbers one and two, are at the very top, up against the ceiling, followed by a row of green plaques for their children, nicknamed the Big Seven: Angela, Georgia, Mary, Lewis, Henry, Orrin, and Virgil. Next to their names are plaques for their spouses, and underneath, their children, their children’s spouses (red plaques), and their grandchildren (blue plaques). Near the bottom are a few white plaques for greatgrandchildren. “My grandparents didn’t have money; they had foresight,” says Renee. “They knew they were building something that would last.” Every family member we meet at the camp introduces themselves by both their name and their number, except for the remaining members of the Big Seven, Georgia, Lewis, Orrin, and Virgil. (This was Lewis Valente’s last Fourth of July. He passed away in November 2016.) “I’m 15 and I’m still meeting new cousins,” says Brendan Byther, #141. John Somes, #45, is married to Angela’s daughter Judy, #14. “I came down in ’66 and really saw something marvelous here,” he says. “My first summer job at 17 was Judy and I taking care of all these kids, cousins. I finally found out what family was, and I embraced it.” Renee, #34 (her husband, Paul Tringali, is #111), gives us a tour of the house, which is modest and homey—I can feel the joy that has been nurtured here. Photographs, certificates, and humorous mementos dot the walls, including an illustrated limerick: “There once was a couple from Maine/Who made passionate love in the rain/The results were 7!!!/Bimbos from heaven/Who drive all their children insane.” In front of the main room, an enclosed porch is furnished with long tables and benches for family meals. The first floor also has a roomy kitchen with two stoves and two refrigerators, a full bathroom, and a bedroom reserved for the most senior member of the clan. Upstairs, the kids’ bunkroom is flanked by a row of five tiny bedrooms, each just large enough for a double bed, with a curtain for a door. We head back outside to find a group gathered around one of three picnic tables digging into trays of steamed Dungeness crabs procured from a local fisherman, who

delivered them to the camp by boat. Orrin explains that when he and his siblings were kids, clamming and fishing for crabs and lobsters were regular activities. “We would get hot dogs and rolls and row over to the sandbar out there, make a fire to cook them on and go swimming,” he says, pointing to a spit of land out in the bay. As we chat with various family members, a child comes running up with a question for his mother—“Is it OK if Kullen sleeps in the top bunk?”—then dashes away again. There are at least a dozen children here, and I haven’t seen a single electronic device. “It’s always

been an unspoken rule that camp is a cell phone-free zone,” says Renee. “My father wanted a place where kids could play, and we’ve got it,” says Lewis. The group laughs as they share memories of Paul and Alta, and the arrangement that keeps Seldom Inn alive with the couple’s spirit. Each of the seven “branches” gets to use the camp for two weekends every summer, with the exception of July Fourth holiday, when the whole clan is invited. If there is room, other family members join their aunts, uncles, and cousins for “their” weekends at camp. “Before our father died, he said, ‘Don’t fight July 2017 95

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The view from the camp at sunset is “heaven on Earth,” says grandchild Renee Valente Tringali.

or I’ll come back and haunt you,’” says Virgil. “And we never do.” From the beginning, Seldom Inn was not just a place for family. Paul and Alta encouraged their children to bring friends, and the couple was known for inviting nearly anyone they encountered. “Our mother and father would go shopping and meet people and say, ‘Come on down,’” says Orrin. “Somebody drove down the road looking for directions and my grandfather got him and his wife out of the car,” says Dickie Hall, #17. “They had lunch, they had supper, we had after-supper activities, and they spent the night. That’s the DNA of this place.” The hospitality gene was inherited by successive generations. Renee’s father, Henry—who coined the family slogan, “Ain’t it great?”—once met a couple in Ellsworth who had just gotten married but didn’t have a place to stay for their wedding night, so he invited them to the Seldom Inn. “We’ve taken family trips to Italy three times, and the tour director has been here,” she says. In the house are stacks of notebooks signed by everyone who has visited the camp; she estimates that combined they contain at least 2,000 signatures. There’s one exception to the open-door policy: dogs. “Last year we had 14 dogs, so we decided no more,” says Virgil. Later in the afternoon, Virgil presides over one of the holiday weekend’s time-honored activities, the children’s auction. With a few dollars from their parents clutched in their hands, kids cluster around the table on the porch, bidding with gusto for sparklers, stuffed animals, and other toys. The adult auction is held at night, after dinner. There are always a few special, sentimental items in the mix—this year it’s maps of Maine painted on panels made from one of the camp’s old picnic tables. As for the rest: “You bring anything you don’t want,” jokes Orrin. The money raised at both auctions goes toward upkeep of the camp. Steamed lobsters and corn on the cob are served at four, and dinner preparations get underway not long afterwards. For the holiday weekend, each family group is responsible for one lunch or dinner: purchasing the food, cooking, and cleaning up. Tonight is spaghetti night, with meat and non-meat sauces, garlic bread, and salad. In the kitchen, Dean Martin croons “Volare” from the stereo, and the cooks sing along while stirring pots of sauce on the stove and chopping lettuce for a huge tub of salad. Family members begin showing up July 2017 97

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The camp flagpole flies both the American and Italian flags in tribute to the family’s Italian heritage.

sporting eye patches and bandanas tied over their heads—every reunion has a costume theme, and this year it’s “pirates and wenches.” “One year our kids dressed up as us,” says Virgil. “When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie—that’s amore,” two women sing with glee as they link arms and dance around the kitchen. Bottles of red wine are uncorked, and amid teasing and laughter, everyone circles around the kitchen table to pile up their plates. Food and drink are so much a part of the Seldom Inn legacy that the family has produced two cookbooks of favorite recipes.

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More family lore emerges as we tuck into our plates of spaghetti. The older generations chuckle at the memory of wet paper towel fights in the kitchen. “My mother would start them,” says Orrin. “My brother Lew one time got pissed off, ran out the front door, and got the hose and sprayed the whole kitchen. We never let him have the hose again.” The stories about their father focus on his generosity. “He’d get a whole box of watermelons, and he’d call all the kids in the neighborhood over,” says Georgia. “He had such a good philosophy of life.” 98

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The sun is low in the sky when I begin to say goodbye. There are lots of hugs, and everyone urges me to stay for the bonfire and fireworks. I’m tempted, but my own family beckons. Steff Valente, #44, jokingly threatens to put holes in my tires so I can’t leave. On her left arm is a tattoo of the Seldom Inn with the words “Family Tradition 1935” inked above it. Her cousin, Angela Mercieri, #97, is tattooed with her parents’ numbers and the coordinates of the camp. “If you put these into a GPS it will bring you right to the fire pit here,” she says. “This place means more than anything to me.” As I pull away, it occurs to me that while the setting of the camp is gorgeous, that’s not what makes it so special. It’s the love that Paul and Alta Valente’s children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren have for each other that provides the real beauty. On April 30— Alta’s birthday—the newest member of the family was born. The baby girl was named Alta Grace, and this summer, a white plaque with her name and #190 will grace the wall at Seldom Inn.

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night in town. And I’ve long been intrigued by the Pentagoet and, particularly, its appealing first-floor pub. Photographer Peter Frank Edwards and I have dinner reservations at the inn’s restaurant and arrive early to settle in on a settee with velvet cushions. Small lamps and sconces add soft light, and as we sip wine from Cinque Terre and wait for an order of Taunton Bay oysters, I focus on who’s around us—figuratively, at least. Throughout this parlor room that’s now named the Baron Pub, nearly every square inch of wall space is filled with vintage framed portraits of world leaders, dictators, and thinkers. Peter Frank and I begin trying to name, or at least recognize, the faces all around us from the Americas, old Russia, Europe, colonial Britain, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. I see Einstein, Castro, Queen Victoria, Gandhi, Lenin, Somoza from Nicaragua, and a likeness of Gorbachev (with slimmer cheeks and without his large birthmark). One prominent portrait is of a bearded man with a cap who Burke explains was a seventeenth-

century French baron who became the Castine namesake, Jean-Vincent d’Abbadie de Saint-Castin. While Burke pours the wine, I can’t help but notice a resemblance between him and the portrait. The innkeeper is an interesting sort in this town of about 1,370 residents. He spent much of his career in the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service, and he explains that many of the framed pictures are prints of photographs, painted portraits, or propaganda posters that he gathered while on assignments to far-flung places. I imagine much intrigue and adventure, and we point and ask about various pictures. “Oman was beautiful,” he tells us, “and then Kenya where [Daniel arap] Moi was protecting the elephants. But in Kuwait we found no beer and no fun for four days.” I notice that every time I type the name Pentagoet, the auto-correct changes it to “Pentagon.” Coincidence? Burke has a good sense of humor about such questions, but the truth behind the name is that it was the

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oysters is brought to our table on vintage porcelain plates that are dainty, almost. With bits of bacon and a squeeze of lemon, the oysters are exceptional. Peter Frank and I clink our glasses and decide to remain in this room for the rest of dinner talking of explorers, elites, scientists, czars, and scoundrels.

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We’re staying for a couple of nights at the 16-room Pentagoet, and the next morning after breakfast, Van de Graaf mentions that she’s often struck by the depth of interesting people who visit, or stay for the season or year-round in Castine. David Bicks is one of those people. Wearing a Castine Yacht Club hat, polo shirt, and salmon-pink shorts, he happens to stop by the inn while we’re finishing coffees. A securities attorney in New York City, he’s owned a waterfront summer house here for decades, and when we meet he’s talking excitedly about the Castine Classic Yacht Race that was held a few days earlier. (This

summer’s event is set for August 2-3.) He says the annual gathering attracts a fleet of impressive vessels to race about 20 miles across Penobscot Bay to Camden. The 2016 edition included the 52-foot yawl Dorade, a restored, circa-1929 transatlantic racing yacht. Preeminent yacht designer Olin Stephens, who lived in Hanover, Maine, in his retirement, designed the vessel, and Bicks recalls that Stephens sometimes attended the Castine festivities, including on his hundredth birthday in 2008. “The greatest asset Castine has is the deepwater harbor,” Bicks says. “All the way from Newport, boats come here for safe harbor when there’s a hurricane—Smith Cove is a hurricane hole.” Bicks insists it’s essential to see Castine from the water to understand the town, and graciously offers to take us out on his boat. I grab my hat before we start walking down to the water in the August sunshine. The water around the Castine Yacht Club is busy

“ALL THE WAY FROM NEWPORT, BOATS COME HERE FOR SAFE HARBOR WHEN THERE’S A HURRICANE—SMITH COVE IS A HURRICANE HOLE.”

From left: Artist Joshua Adam in a former horse barn in Castine that’s now Adam Gallery. David Bicks under the burgees strung inside the Castine Yacht Club. Opposite page: A summertime afternoon sail on the Guildive.

with children zigging and zagging about in dinghy sailboats, and we catch a ride on a club tender to where he keeps the Marian B. on a mooring (the comfortable cruiser with a wooden deck is named for his wife). Along the way, Bicks shares some of Castine’s history, from the first European settlers in the 1600s to the twentieth-century visitors and residents, including Eleanor Roosevelt and the poets Robert Lowell and Philip Booth. Once underway, we pass Holbrook Island, where he notes the ledges are often full of seals. He points out Dyce Head Lighthouse and the tidal pool at Wadsworth Cove, a community gathering place for summer swimming. We’re fortunate to get such a personal tour. His own family has long been connected to the yacht club and Castine’s town life, including his daughter, Jenny Bicks, a writer and producer who also lives part-time here, and whose credits include more than a dozen episodes of the television series Sex and the City. I’m struck by the natural beauty, the stately homes, and the green of trees on the shoreline. The whole town feels like a 108

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yacht club, an enclave. The houses, stately and upright, look even more so from the water. “The thing that saved Castine [from overdevelopment],” Bicks notes, “is that you don’t get here by accident.”

THE BOATYARD

Castine is about a three-hour drive from Portland, and it’s located on the point of a peninsula. By land, it’s not on the way to anywhere else, so visitors arrive on purpose. The sheltered harbor is also home to the iconic, rustic Eaton’s Boatyard. Built on wharf pilings in the early 1800s, the boatyard’s main building is a tall wooden structure full of marine gear and engine parts. It’s all attached to the boatyard dock, where locals still service boats and bring in lobsters. It’s here, through an introduction by David Bicks, that we meet Kenny Eaton himself. He’s sitting inside and has just opened a can of beer. He’s a third-generation boatyard man who has a white beard and an old-salt, Ernest Hemingway look. He invites us to sit down, and we find chairs amid the hulls, tools, wood pieces, and workbenches. I ask about his grandfather, Mace Eaton, and father, Alonzo

Eaton, who were both well-known downeast boat builders. The 20 or so Mace Eaton sailboats they built in the 1950s and 1960s are still in use around Castine and Brooklin, including one owned by the Bicks family, the Caroline B., that we’d seen earlier on a mooring while tooling around the harbor. The afternoon goes on with a few stories. Eaton and Bicks are old friends and launch into a wild tale about the two of them rescuing a boat that had gotten stuck on a ledge, and another story that leads to Eaton pulling from his office a black-and-white framed photo of a day when Ted Kennedy sailed in and met him on the very dock where we are standing.

THE VILLAGE

The views of Castine from the water have been so striking, Peter Frank and I decide to board the Guildive the next afternoon for one of its daily summertime sails. Zander Parker is the captain of the handsome, 56-foot sailing yacht built in 1934, and once underway, we take in even wider views of the deep harbor, passing the massive hull of the State of Maine, the working educational ship of Maine Maritime Academy.

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From left: Kenny Eaton inside the main building at Eaton’s Boatyad on Castine’s harbor. The Pentagoet lobster bouillabaisse, just served. Opposite page: A view from the water of the Dyce Head Lighthouse (also spelled Dice) in Castine, where the Bagaduce River meets Penobscot Bay.

Once the engine is cut and the sails are hoisted we hear only the whoosh of wind and water and truly see the surroundings near and distant—Cape Rosier, the mouth of the Bagaduce, Smith Cove, and the squat Dyce Head Lighthouse, which one of the other four passengers notes is worth locating by land so you can follow the paths to the shore below it. It’s a gorgeous, two-hour sail and another terrific introduction to the history and beauty of Castine. We do walk by the lighthouse later—it’s privately owned and not open to the public, but the seaside pathway gives a high vantage point above the water. Elsewhere in town, we stop alongside the golf course, which was established in the 1890s and then redesigned in the 1920s by the famous Scottish golf architect, Willie Park, Jr. Pride in history is a living thing in Castine, I’ve noticed, and so is art. Each summer the local art association hosts the popular Castine Plein Air Festival, and there are several active galleries. We stop in at the light-filled restored horse barn that’s 110

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the Adam Gallery up on Battle Avenue. Joshua Adam shows us around and explains that he and his wife, Susan Parish Adam, both show their work here—sailboats and the waterfront are often subjects. After the two had earned fine arts degrees and begun painting careers, he explains, they moved east from California because of her family’s roots in Castine that date back to the 1940s.

THE BARON AND THE PUB

Yes, one more time. Before we leave Castine and the Pentagoet this trip, we return for a last visit to the Baron Pub. “It’s a world room,” Burke says as he notices us again studying the walls. “I pepper in good, bad, and indifferent leaders.” If the innkeepers’ intent is to spur conversation, it’s working. For Burke, the fodder for his own worldly tales began early when he and his four brothers would help his father deliver boats up and down the Atlantic coast. That’s how he first saw Castine, he tells us, and I can almost see him flashing

back to long-ago stopovers when the boys would collect mussels on nearby Nautilus Island. With that, the yarns begin again on a summer night in a cozy pub in this town of yachtsmen, artists, seals, and sailboats—a place Bicks had lauded earlier as “a little off the beaten track, at the very end of Maine.”

WE CLINK OUR GLASSES AND DECIDE TO REMAIN IN THIS ROOM FOR THE REST OF DINNER TALKING OF EXPLORERS, ELITES, SCIENTISTS, CZARS, AND SCOUNDRELS.

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50 Mainers LEADING BY EXAMPLE

Maine isn’t short on independent spirit. We have a long history of artists calling Maine home, escaping to the woods and sea to find inspiration. Small businesses drive our economy, which has one of the highest percentages of self-employed workers in the country. But what makes the individuals on the following pages special isn’t just their self-reliance; it’s their drive to do what’s best for their communities, no matter the odds or expectations. They take action, even if they don’t know who will follow. In the process they make their communities healthier, more prosperous, more educated, more diverse, and more culturally rich. They’re creating world-class research institutions in the outer edges of the state. They’re focusing investment in neighborhoods and regions abandoned by past industries. They’re providing jobs and support to Maine’s most vulnerable populations. They’re doing this all for their communities, because if they don’t, who else will?

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Deirdre Nice

EXECUTIVE AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF ST. LAWRENCE ARTS, COFOUNDER OF SILLY’S RESTAURANT When Deirdre Nice purchased the vacant St. Lawrence Church on Munjoy Hill in 1993, she didn’t plan on eventually leading an arts organization. “At first, all I wanted to do was save this big, old, beautiful historic building from destruction and make an arts center,” Nice says. She bought the former church to save it from disrepair and then helped form the nonprofit organization that renovated the parish hall side of the building into a 100-seat theater. At the time, she was also running Silly’s Restaurant with her sister, Stefani. After they sold the restaurant, Nice was hired as executive and artistic director at St. Lawrence Arts. The organization’s ultimate goal is to rebuild the sanctuary side, which was demolished in 2008, into a 400-seat performance hall; it currently hosts a full schedule of musical, theatrical, and other performances in the smaller theater. “Art transcends all cultures, all languages, and all circumstances,” Nice says. “The importance of making performing arts accessible is what fills divides and builds bridges in a community.” Nice has dedicated herself to community and the arts beyond St. Lawrence, serving as a board member at 317 Main Community Music Center and as an advisory board member at Mayo Street Arts, and volunteering at East End Community School’s Rise and Shine and Walking School Bus programs. She also worked as a volunteer DJ at WMPG for 21 years. “Silly’s has become bigger and better since I left,” Nice says, “and I hope that St. Lawrence Arts, once the building is whole again, will do the same.”

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Lucas St. Clair

PRESIDENT OF ELLIOTSVILLE PLANTATION, INC. When President Barack Obama created the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument in August 2016, it capped off five years of work by Lucas St. Clair to conserve 87,500 acres of land in Maine’s North Woods. Before St. Clair took over his family foundation and the effort in 2011, his mother, Burt’s Bees co-founder Roxanne Quimby, had worked for more than a decade to turn tens of thousands of acres into a national park. Since the national monument designation, the region has seen a boost in visitors, real estate values, and economic activity. Even people who previously opposed the monument have defended it, saying it’s brought new energy and helped unify the region. “Rather than sitting there waiting for the next mill to open or the next big thing to come along, people are really recognizing that they need to own this,” St. Clair says, “and they’re working hard and working together, and that is something that’s really phenomenal to see.” His family foundation, Elliotsville Plantation, Inc., had been building out infrastructure in the land prior to the designation, including a 22-mile round-trip loop road around the southern portion of the monument and trails for hiking and biking. “My hope is that a lot of people come up and visit and explore and see what the interior of Maine has to offer,” St. Clair says.

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Mary Dempsey

FOUNDING MEMBER AND COMMUNITY SERVICES COORDINATOR AT THE DEMPSEY CENTER When Mary Dempsey’s mother, Amanda Dempsey, was first diagnosed with cancer, the Dempseys realized how much that diagnosis impacts the entire family. Mary Dempsey was part of a small team, including medical professionals at Central Maine Medical Center, that helped define what the Dempsey Center would be and develop its original mission. Today, as community services coordinator, she often works directly with cancer patients and families, providing front-line communication with clients who call or walk through the doors of the center. “What fills my cup every day is being able to give, support, and make a difference for people impacted by cancer,” she says. “It gives me joy to help others bring much-needed comfort to people dealing with a cancer diagnosis.” Dempsey works to keep her mother’s spirit alive at the center and to offer hope to those navigating a difficult journey. In recognition of her commitment to the community, she received an honorary doctor of public service degree from St. Joseph’s College on Mother’s Day 2015, a year after her mother passed away.

Patrick Dempsey

FOUNDER OF THE DEMPSEY CENTER In 2007, ten years after his mother, Amanda Dempsey, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, actor Patrick Dempsey approached Central Maine Medical Center with the idea of creating a cancer support center in his hometown of Lewiston, where his mother first received cancer treatment. Founded in 2008, the Dempsey Center provides free quality of life care to people impacted by cancer, including cancer patients, their families, and caregivers. “That human interaction, that human touch is really important to the healing process,” he says. Every year Dempsey cycles in the Dempsey Challenge, an annual fundraising event for the center in October that includes cycling races of various distances and a 5K and 10K walk/run. Last year Dempsey, who says he’s most proud of the involvement and commitment from the community, took on an advisory role at the center. “Without question it’s the most rewarding thing I do. It really makes you appreciate what you have and want to give back,” Dempsey says. “In the world we live in right now that’s so divisive and so divided, when you have a center like this, it’s symbolic of what our community is and the wellness of our own community.”

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ENTREPRENEUR, FORMER MAINE SENATE PRESIDENT

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In Justin Alfond’s career as politician, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, he has concentrated his efforts on helping the state and its residents reach their potential. “My parents and grandparents taught me to believe in myself and my community,” he says. “Every person has a talent and deserves an opportunity to succeed.” Alfond served in the Maine State Senate for eight years, becoming Maine’s second-youngest Senate president in 2012. In 2006, as director of the Maine League of Young Voters, Alfond and the organization worked to create what became the Opportunity Maine program, which provides tax credits to college graduates in Maine paying off student loans. He cofounded Full Plates Full Potential, which brings together businesses, chefs, nonprofits, and government to collaborate on solutions to end child hunger in Maine. In his entrepreneurship work, Alfond has invested in Portland’s Bayside neighborhood. He opened Bayside Bowl in 2010 and recently completed a $3.5 million expansion. Nearby, Alfond helped establish Fork Food Lab, a coworking kitchen for food entrepreneurs. “Every part of our state is intertwined and interdependent,” Alfond says, “and we have to embrace this by investing in Maine’s competitive assets, raising the bar, and holding each other accountable.”

Erin Flett TEXTILE DESIGNER

Featured in more than 45 magazines around the world, Erin Flett’s vibrant, graphic prints have made a resounding impact on the world of design. First a graphic designer for businesses, Flett branched out into freelance work when she was four months pregnant. “I wanted to make things that would brighten someone’s life by surrounding them with mindfully made, beautiful things,” she explains. She began creating her prints in her basement and then expanded into the Dana Warp Mill in Westbrook. Since then, her company has grown to include a small staff, and she values the local production of her work. Flett’s recognitions are numerous: Better Homes and Gardens selected her as a top “Stylemaker” in 2016, and in the same year she won an Etsy competition in which she pitched her products to several large companies, winning two of the six available prizes. She was also named a Designer to Watch by HGTV. Recently she produced over 200 linen hand-printed pillows for the Portland Harbor Hotel. Despite international accolades, Flett continues to be inspired by Maine. “As I grow, my design grows, but it is all rooted here in Maine in every facet,” says Flett, who is pictured in front of her painting, Mother Moon. “This state has always spoken to me, and I am inspired every day just living here.”

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Deanna Sherman

PRESIDENT AND CEO OF DEAD RIVER COMPANY Deanna Sherman began at Dead River Company in 1986 as assistant manager of procurement. Over the next two decades she moved up to district manager, region manager, and then vice president of the energy division. In 2016, she became president and CEO of the 108-yearold, family-owned company. “I have remained here that long due to the people I work with, the customers we serve, the positive culture of caring, and the opportunities I have been afforded to grow professionally as the company has grown,” Sherman says. In her time at Dead River, she has led several acquisitions, including the company’s largest, the acquisition of Webber Energy Fuels’s home-heating division five years ago. A graduate of Colby College, Sherman earned her master of business administration degree from the University of Southern Maine while working at Dead River. In her community involvement, Sherman has focused on providing educational opportunities to others in Maine. She’s a director on the boards of Educate Maine and the USM Foundation, and served on the United Way of Greater Portland board (UWGP) for six years. She continues to volunteer with UWGP and helped established Women United, an affiliated group that supports the advancement of single mothers and their children in the Greater Portland area. “In working with these organizations,” she says, “I am staying connected to do my part in advancing educational opportunities for Maine children and adults.”

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Craig Lapine

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND FOUNDER OF CULTIVATING COMMUNITY

The goal of Cultivating Community, which Craig Lapine founded in 2001, is to democratize the ability to produce or consume healthy, local food. Its programs include community gardens, farmer training, teen programs, and partnerships that help schools create gardens and garden-based curriculum. As executive director of the Portland-based organization, Lapine says he’s most proud of Cultivating Community’s efforts to raise issues of equity, inclusion, and fairness within the local food conversation. He and his team have worked with the city of Portland to ensure that access to community gardens mirrors the diversity of the city, and have enabled teenagers, especially young people of color, to join conversations about social, environmental, and racial justice. “And I’m very proud that we have supported the launch of dozens of farm businesses owned and operated by new Americans who are reshaping in wonderful and unexpected ways Maine’s farming landscape,” Lapine says. The organization’s refugee and immigrant farmer training program, based mostly at the Packard-Littlefield Farm in Lisbon, provides instruction on growing food in Maine’s climate, understanding customer preferences, and business skills. Last year four graduates of the program launched New Roots Cooperative Farm, a 30acre farm in Lewiston. “That’s a huge win for us,” Lapine says. “If people can get out of the incubator farm and continue to have profitable businesses, that’s really exciting.”

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Stephen D. Sears, M.D., MPH CHIEF OF STAFF AT VA MAINE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM

Dr. Stephen D. Sears has spent his entire career in the public health field, from his time on the faculty at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health to hospital administration at MaineGeneral Health and Mercy Hospital to serving as the state epidemiologist and now chief of staff at VA Maine Healthcare System. Sears, born and raised in Maine, did his fellowship in infectious disease at the University of Maryland and his master of public health at Johns Hopkins around the time the AIDS crisis in the United States was emerging. When he returned to Maine in 1988 to work as vice president for medical administration at Kennebec Health System, he helped craft solutions for responding to HIV/AIDS in Maine and served on the governor’s task force. Sears says public health always appealed to him because he wanted to look at the bigger picture of improving the health of communities. His infectious disease philosophy is rooted in that mindset. “You are actually able to get upstream from the disease process,” he says. “If you can prevent them, you don’t have to end up having as many people getting sick from things.” While at Kennebec Health System, Sears helped oversee a merger with Mid-Maine Health Systems to create MaineGeneral Health and MaineGeneral Medical Center in 1997. “This allowed me to put together my three professional passions: improving health system delivery, public health, and taking care of patients,” Sears says. After serving as the chief medical officer and chief quality officer at Mercy Hospital, he became the state epidemiologist. Since 2014, he has been chief of staff at VA Maine Healthcare System, where he helps improve the delivery of care to veterans.

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Adele Masengo Ngoy PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER OF WOMEN UNITED AROUND THE WORLD, FOUNDER OF ADELE MASENGO DESIGNS, OWNER OF ANTOINE’S TAILOR SHOP AND FORMAL WEAR Fashion designer Adele Masengo Ngoy rose to prominence in southern Maine through her vibrant, skillfully crafted styles and support of a growing design community in Portland. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ngoy attended fashion school and worked as a professor. When she came to Portland as a refugee and single mother in 2000, she couldn’t speak English and felt “hopeless and lost,” as if she had lost the power to express herself. “It was very challenging until I could do my art and my work,” she says. She eventually learned English and re-established herself as a designer, founding Adele Masengo Designs and purchasing Antoine’s Tailor Shop and Formal Wear. She wanted to support other immigrant women who might not have the skills to immediately find the well-paying jobs that are necessary to build new lives in Maine, so in 2011 she founded Women United Around the World. The organization promotes the leadership development of female immigrants, teaches sewing, and provides workshops and connections for new immigrants in the community. Thirteen women went through the sewing program, and several have already found jobs in the sewing industry. She is thankful for the board members of Women United Around the World and for her friends in the community who have supported her, saying, “I’m proud to be in Portland.”

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Cabot Lyman and his wife, Heidi, moved to Maine in 1978 with a plan to work in boatbuilding. At the time, Morse Boatbuilding Company in Thomaston was closing, so he inquired about renting space to work on a boat. When he found out the company had outstanding contracts to build two vessels, he approached the customers about taking over the contracts and bought the business itself, opening Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding. Since then, the company has launched more than 110 vessels. Lyman attributes the success to the quality of the vessels and his own bluewater cruising experience. After graduating from college, Cabot and Heidi spent five years sailing and skippering boats in the Caribbean and Mediterranean. “We had a lot of sailing experience, a lot of miles on the ocean,” he says. “That really helped sell our boats to customers. We could guide them as to what was right and what was wrong.” Lyman has completed more than 150,000 miles of offshore voyages, including three years spent circumnavigating the world with Heidi and their three sons, Alex, Drew, and Zach, on their 49-foot sailboat built at the yard. The company, now led by son Drew, took a significant step forward in 2015 when it purchased Wayfarer Marine in Camden, establishing a presence in the popular Camden Harbor. In 2016, the family moved beyond boatbuilding and opened 250 Main Hotel, a 26-room hotel in Rockland. “It’s important that the area stays vibrant,” says Lyman, pictured with Anna, a 65-foot cold-molded modern classic sailboat under construction. “Our customers like to come to Maine when we build their boats and be a part of it. It’s an important facet, that people like to come here.”

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Jean Hoffman

PRESIDENT OF Q STREET ADVISORS, LLC, FOUNDER AND FORMER BOARD CHAIR, PRESIDENT, AND CEO OF PUTNEY, INC. After a British firm bought Putney, Inc., the veterinary product company Jean Hoffman founded, for $200 million in 2016, Hoffman wanted to recognize the team that made Putney successful. She gave $14,000 to every employee who had worked at the company for at least six months. “Putney was my idea and strategy, but I didn’t build Putney alone,” Hoffman says. “I built a fantastic team, and it was the team, from our industry-leading regulatory experts to our groundbreaking R and D scientists to the persistent relationship builders on our commercial team, who overcame great obstacles to achieve Putney’s success.” Putney, twice named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in the United States, was the second company Hoffman built from the ground up that was later sold. Newport Strategies, a provider of competitive intelligence for the pharmaceutical industry, was sold in 2004 to Thomson Reuters. She is now president of Q Street Advisors, a company she founded for investing in and providing board service to growing companies. “I enjoy building and I enjoy shaking things up,” Hoffman says. “I love giving people opportunities and helping them succeed.” The charity work of her family foundation focuses on supporting community, education, and culture, ensuring access to reproductive healthcare, and promoting the health of pets, the environment, and dialogue with China.

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John Hathaway CEO AND PRESIDENT OF SHUCKS MAINE LOBSTER

“I’m a better dreamer than a businessman,” says John Hathaway, CEO and president of Shucks Maine Lobster, but his business record is impressive. After opening companies all over the world, including a successful real estate development firm, Hathaway returned to his home state of Maine to open Shucks Maine Lobster, a business that supplies raw lobster meat to international and local companies. Soon after it had started, Shucks won two Seafood Prix d’Elite Awards at the Brussels Seafood Expo Global/Seafood Processing Global for the best new seafood product. Shucks now employs about 80 people in Maine. For Hathaway, lobster symbolizes Maine, and selling lobster at fair prices in an expanded market can impact industries from fishing to tourism. He worked to classify Maine lobster as certified sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), and is currently the president of the Fund for the Advancement of Sustainable Maine Lobster, a client group of the MSC. “I believe people should follow their passion, and I’m passionate about Maine lobster,” says Hathaway. Festivals also promote Maine branding abroad, Hathaway says, and so he created the Shucks Maine Lobster Chef World Series. Hathaway has also served as a state senator. He often advises young people, “Dream about what you want your life to be. If you open the first door, you’ll see others.”

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David MacDonald PRESIDENT AND CEO OF FRIENDS OF ACADIA After growing up in Somesville on Mount Desert Island and leaving the state for college, David MacDonald didn’t plan on returning. But he was struck by how much he missed Maine, so he came back and sought out work in land conservation. He started working at Maine Coast Heritage Trust and eventually became director of land protection for the organization. Now, as president and CEO of Friends of Acadia, MacDonald works with Acadia National Park to support, protect, and promote stewardship of the park and surrounding communities. In contrast to many other national parks, the nearby communities play an integral role in how people experience Acadia, MacDonald says. “It makes for a whole different visitor experience, and makes for, I think, a richer interaction people have with this particular national park.” In 2016, the organization led a year-long celebration of Acadia National Park’s centennial, working with more than 400 organizations and businesses that contributed events, products, works of art, and financial gifts to celebrate Acadia. Friends of Acadia also recently completed a $25 million capital campaign to help improve visitor experience, resource protection, youth engagement, and trails and carriage roads. “Among all of Maine’s dazzling array of conservation gems, Acadia National Park is certainly the most popular and world-renowned, but that’s not why I work here,” MacDonald says. “I work here because it’s my home.”

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The first time Christiane Northrup saw a birth as a medical student, she was so moved that she decided to dedicate her life to women’s health, first as an OB/GYN and later as a teacher and writer. When she first began practicing, Northrup found that many women lacked access to comprehensive care, and their bodies were often stigmatized rather than effectively treated. “I created a language of women’s health, instead of women’s pathology,” Northrup says. She believes that women’s bodies are sources of wisdom, and that the process of birth is a blueprint for the shape our lives and creative projects take: “All the stages of labor are physical metaphors for the way creation comes into matter.” Her vision for women’s bodies and mental health contributed to her recognition by Oprah Winfrey, who named Northrup one of 2016’s Super Soul 100. She has authored eight books, including several New York Times bestsellers, such as Goddesses Never Age: The Secret Prescription for Radiance, Vitality, and Well-Being and The Wisdom of Menopause: Creating Physical and Emotional Health During the Change; hosts a weekly internet radio show called Flourish!; and created and hosted eight PBS specials. Based in Yarmouth, Northrup says that “Maine is a hotbed of holistic healing,” due in part to its residents’ inherent respect for others and commitment to the defense of natural resources. “What happens in Maine can transform other parts of the country.”

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Susan Morris and Chip Newell

PRINCIPALS AT NEWHEIGHT GROUP As principals at NewHeight Group, Susan Morris and Chip Newell have a direct hand in the development of Portland. “We aim, in a small way, to support business growth in Portland and create a sense of community along the way,” says Morris of the duo’s condominium projects, 118 on Munjoy Hill and Luminato Condos. Luminato features shared amenities, including a guestroom, lounge, rooftop terrace, and fitness room, that aim to deepen the sense of community and reduce overall living costs for professionals who contribute to Maine’s economy. Previously involved in development in Washington, D.C., Morris and Newell came to Maine for the lifestyle, but soon realized that their skills and passion could positively impact the state, especially Portland. Both want to invigorate the startup community in Maine, especially through their nonprofit work. Newell is on the board of directors at Coastal Enterprises, Inc., the Maine Center for Economic Policy, and Community Housing of Maine. Morris focuses on inspiring entrepreneurs by organizing events such as Maine Startup and Create Week, House of Genius, and TEDxDirigo, and mentoring individuals through Maine Center for Entrepreneurial Development’s Top Gun Track, Women Standing Together, and 2 Degrees Portland. The pair believes that their condominiums play a role in continuing to make Portland attractive for young professionals and other workers. “I see Portland as the economic driver for the state of Maine,” says Newell. “It’s important to keep what makes the city special, like its historic buildings, restaurants, and breweries, but to bring in more workers to drive the economy and benefit the whole state.”

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CO-OWNER OF STONE MOUNTAIN ARTS CENTER, MUSICIAN

Jeff Flagg

CO-OWNER OF STONE MOUNTAIN ARTS CENTER, CARPENTER/BUILDER

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Ever since Carol Noonan and Jeff Flagg opened Stone Mountain Arts Center in the woods of Brownfield in 2006, the barn-turned performance venue has been attracting worldclass musicians, and an audience, from well beyond western Maine. Noonan, a singer-songwriter, and Flagg, a former commercial fishing net builder, moved to Brownfield in 1994. While Noonan was touring, she noticed that many owner-operated venues, where more attention is given to artists and audience members, had closed. She thought they could do better, so Flagg, with volunteers and local contractors, converted the barn behind their house into a venue. “Instead of starting small, which would have been the safe thing to do, we started big so we could get people to travel and find the place,” Noonan says. She used her connections in the music industry and the reputation the venue was developing to book bigger names, like Mary Chapin Carpenter, Lyle Lovett, and Mavis Staples. “The room’s so intimate. When you have an artist they play a different show here because the audience is right in front of the stage,” Noonan says. “When Lyle Lovett is here and you’re five feet away from him, that just creates a different environment for a show.” Looking back, Noonan and Flagg say they were lucky to find success, partly crediting the town of Brownfield for its support. “Had we known what we would be facing,” Noonan says, “we might not have had the guts to do it.”

Dr. Kevin Strange

PRESIDENT AND CEO AT MDI BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY, CEO AND COFOUNDER OF NOVO BIOSCIENCES, INC. Dr. Kevin Strange admits that his decision to leave a tenured position at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine to lead an underfunded research organization was risky. “I’m driven by big challenges,” says Strange. He joined the small, “largely unknown” MDI Biological Laboratory in 2010 as an opportunity to transform a summer research station into a global mecca of scientific discovery. At the laboratory, he would be able to pioneer new approaches in regenerative medicine and develop new drugs to treat diseases and injuries without the bureaucratic constraints of a major institution. “Maine is attractive to people who like to blaze new trails and who want to make a difference,” says Strange. In seven years, the MDI Biological Laboratory has already developed potential therapies to activate the regeneration of damaged tissues and delay the onset of agerelated degenerative diseases. In 2013, he cofounded a spinoff company, Novo Biosciences, and patented a new drug candidate that activates the regeneration of heart muscle damaged by a heart attack. Most recently, he launched the Maine Center for Biomedical Innovation, a technology incubator and innovation hub that trains students for STEM careers and provides startup companies with laboratory space, training, and access to expertise. The center also offers an opportunity to create technology leadership roles in Maine. “Biomedical research will and must play a leading role in Maine’s future and in helping modernize our economy,” he says.

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Sue Roche

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT During an internship with a federal judge in Boston, Sue Roche learned about the complexity of immigrant rights issues in the United States, and discovered a cause to which she could direct her passion for human rights. “Our legal system cannot work unless everyone has access to justice,” Roche says. After finishing law school at Northeastern University, she joined the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project (ILAP) in 2000, which had just become a staffed organization in the same year, and she never left. Now executive director of ILAP, Roche is proud of her small staff of 12, as well as the organization’s board members and over 200 volunteers, including 150 pro bono attorneys who serve over 2,000 clients each year in Maine’s growing immigrant community. Without legal aid, individuals applying for asylum in immigration court face an 88-percent denial rate; ILAP, however, maintains a 97-percent approval rate for fullrepresentation cases reaching a final decision. In 2016, ILAP never lost a case. In the same year, it received the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine’s Gerda Haas Award, which honors excellence in human rights leadership. Roche says those who endure the process of immigration bring skills and values that enrich Maine both economically and culturally, but “without legal status, it’s much more difficult to integrate into the community.” Roche notes that support in the community is growing both for ILAP and for the immigrants the organization represents. “We’re a better community when we’re more diverse,” she adds.

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Daniel Minter

ARTIST, INSTRUCTOR AT MAINE COLLEGE OF ART

Daniel Minter is a multidisciplinary artist working across different mediums. He is a painter and sculptor who is an illustrator at heart. His work is often symbolic and explores broad concepts that are linked to social justice issues, often while weaving in spiritual themes from the African diaspora. “There are difficult stories to tell that are easy to not talk about. Many involve racism, displacement, and bias historically experienced by most people of African descent,” Minter says. “Artwork can provide a starting point for looking deeper, by first inspiring the emotional response to the aesthetics.” Minter has illustrated 11 children’s books, including Ellen’s Broom, which won a Coretta Scott King Illustration Honor. He’s drawn to children’s books because they allow him to insert something of his own story in the artwork. “It is important that children sometimes see characters that look like them and characters that look different from them in the books they read,” says Minter, who is represented by Greenhut Galleries in the Portland area and Soren Christensen Gallery in the New Orleans area. He cofounded and created the bas-relief sculptures that mark the Portland Freedom Trail, a self-guided walking tour of notable sites related to the Underground Railroad and abolitionist movement. “The work I do is my way of making sense of the world through the lens of my people,” Minter says. “The work is also a way of engaging the community and giving them a window to understanding who I am enough to see that my work also carries a reflection of them.” July 2017 137

Tony Owens, M.D.

ATTENDING PHYSICIAN AT THE DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE AT MAINE MEDICAL CENTER, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE AT TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE As a doctor in the Emergency Department at Maine Medical Center, Tony Owens has often observed firsthand the connection between conservation and human health, and as an environmental advocate, he has worked to create stronger conservation policies and inspire the next generation of leaders. In front of a United States Senate committee in Washington, D.C., he testified in support of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, arguing that carbon dioxide emissions from Midwestern power plants contribute to Maine’s high rates of pediatric asthma. Speaking out about climate change, he has suggested that higher temperatures have expanded the range of tick-borne diseases and caused higher incidences of Lyme disease. In 2007, Owens joined the board of the Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM) after his fourth child graduated from college. He was instrumental in the development of NRCM Rising, a subgroup of NRCM that seeks to expand advocacy among people under 40. As a practicing emergency physician for nearly 40 years and an associate professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, he also teaches residents and medical students in the Emergency Department at Maine Medical Center. Leading by example, Owens says, “I’m constantly challenging young people to become more engaged. These people will live much longer than me, and I want to teach them to become better stewards and advocates.”

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Zoe Weil

COFOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE EDUCATION As cofounder and president of the Institute for Humane Education, Zoe Weil envisions education as a path toward a more just world. In 1996, Weil and Rae Sikora founded the Institute for Humane Education in Surry, creating a hub of educational programs offering online and in-person courses, master’s degrees, and an online resource center. The institute posits “solutionary thinking” as a new approach to resolving issues of injustice by recognizing the interconnectedness of human rights, animal protection, and environmental preservation. Instead of approaching issues like conservation from a single perspective, solutionary thinkers combine multiple frameworks; for example, students learn about the connections between water pollution caused by fertilizer runoff and poor health caused by common agricultural practices, and devise solutions that help protect the ocean, restore farmland, and improve human health. Weil has also authored seven books, including her most recent, The World Becomes What We Teach: Educating a Generation of Solutionaries, and she has delivered six TEDx Talks. After training adults for two decades, the institute is now targeting youth. Recently, the institute began developing a solutionary pilot program that involved 350 middle and high school students this past year; in early June, student teams from six schools presented their innovative solutions for local and global problems at the University of Maine during the institute’s first regional summit. “If we can transform education, we can create solutions to virtually anything,” says Weil.

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Cidny Bullens SINGER, SONGWRITER, MUSICIAN, PERFORMER, WRITER, RECORDING ARTIST

“I have never specifically strived to send a message in my work—only to tell a story,” says Cidny Bullens. In the artist’s lengthy career, he has received two Grammy nominations, sung backup vocals for multiple tours with Elton John, written a musical about North Haven with a Tony award-winning producer, and released eight solo albums, including one inspired by the death of his 11-year-old daughter, Jessie. Written in the two years after Jessie’s death from cancer, Somewhere Between Heaven and Earth includes performances by Bonnie Raitt, Lucinda Williams, Bryan Adams, and his elder daughter, Reid Crewe. “I could not have imagined that those ten songs—all moments in my grief—would touch bereaved parents and others all over the world,” Bullens says. Most recently Bullens has been performing his one-person show, Somewhere Between: Not An Ordinary Life, to audiences around the country. The show follows his journey through being a 70s rock-and-roll musician, getting married, dealing with the death of his daughter, becoming a grandparent, and his decision in 2011 to transition from female to male, changing his name from Cindy to Cidny. The theatrical production also includes songs from Bullens’s past and more recent work. “I thought, if I tell my story honestly, maybe whoever sees it would have greater insight into what it is to be a transgendered person,” Bullens says. “But ultimately, it’s a human story—about love, loss, and resurrection. Those things every human being has experienced.”

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Stephanie Primm

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION AND HOSPITALITY HOUSE “It’s an invisible problem here on the midcoast,” explains Stephanie Primm. “One of our clients said it best: ‘Homeless people hide quite well here in rural Maine.’” As executive director at the Knox County Homeless Coalition (KCHC) and Hospitality House, Primm has facilitated the growth of homelessness programs, which have achieved a 90-to 95-percent success rate of sustainable independence for clients who move into permanent homes and continue to participate in the programs. Currently, the coalition offers shelter and sustained comprehensive support for clients. In May, the organization began building a tiny house prototype in conjunction with Midcoast Habitat for Humanity that will increase its supportive shelter capacity, a first step toward

Primm’s vision of permanent affordable communities for lowincome families. Recently the board has approved a plan to begin exploring new social entrepreneurship ventures to help generate funding. The work can be draining, but Primm is encouraged to see quantifiable change in her community in educational achievement and earning potential, among other indicators, and clients often return to the organization as volunteers and advocates. Through multiple collaborative partnerships with organizations that include Preble Street, Midcoast Habitat for Humanity, and New Beginnings, Primm hopes to find sustainable connections to resources and funding, as well as begin to create affordable housing and living-wage jobs through partnership and collaboration.

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Tae Chong

BUSINESS ADVISOR AT COASTAL ENTERPRISES, INC. When Tae Chong’s family came to Maine from South Korea 40 years ago, the transition was very difficult. “The Maine community was not ready to receive people of color, especially those from other countries,” he says. “We struggled.” As a consultant with Coastal Enterprises, Inc.’s StartSmart program, Chong now helps immigrants and refugees start and manage their own businesses. “Using an economic development mindset, I work to foster new opportunities and unlikely partnerships, which ultimately impact not only individuals and their families, but contribute to the state’s overall economic health and progress,” Chong says. He’s been a longtime advocate for the immigrant and refugee population. In 2002, he became the first Asian-American elected to public office in Portland. He served on the school board, where he advocated for resources and equity for disenfranchised populations. He later cofounded a statewide certification program for interpreters and translators, Language Access for New Americans, which helps speakers of nearly 70 languages access services. Chong has also given talks, co-authored research papers, and co-written articles on the importance of attracting immigrants to Maine. He encourages educators, business leaders, and policymakers to see immigrants and refugees as a solution to the state’s population and workforce challenges, and as an opportunity to grow the economy. “If we do not find more people to replace the large numbers of retiring Maine workers, our way of life is in peril,” Chong says.

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Nik Charov

PRESIDENT OF LAUDHOLM TRUST, CHAIRMAN OF WELLS NATIONAL ESTUARINE RESEARCH RESERVE “I’ve always worked on behalf of science institutions because science is the way we discover truth,” says Nik Charov, chairman of the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve and president of its nonprofit partner, the Laudholm Trust. “Truth is what we need right now; it’s also what we can’t afford to ignore.” By his own standards, truth has directed the course of Charov’s life and that of his organization. Previously employed in science and environmental nonprofits in New York, he continues to raise funds, awareness, and understanding of educational, research, and conservation opportunities at the Wells Reserve at Laudholm. The reserve studies how changes in climate and land use transform salt marshes, fisheries, watersheds, and coastal communities. “Coasts are amazingly diverse and dynamic because they’re where land and sea meet,” Charov says. “I feel the same way about ideas—the more opposites we can mix together, the more solutions we can make.” Since joining Wells Reserve in 2012, Charov has worked with the federal government to make the research center Maine’s first entirely solarpowered nonprofit organization. This year he inaugurates the Summer of Art and Science, an event series that includes a sculpture exhibition and sale, workshops, festivals, and concerts. Charov says both art and science are “two complementary ways of approaching the natural world, and they both require attention.” As the Laudholm Trust grows, he hopes it will develop new strategies for diversifying revenues and programs. “I’m proud to put whatever talents I have to work for a better future for my kids,” he adds. “To do otherwise would be the pinnacle of negligence.”

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Jane Dahmen ARTIST

Jane Dahmen has been painting the Maine landscape for the past four decades. Her paintings are inspired by the natural world around her, often looking through trees at water or sky beyond. “Walking in the woods, in fields, and along the Damariscotta River near my home, I see paintings everywhere,” she says. “The natural world is my point of departure, but playing with the wet colors leads me into emotional terrain, and the form, color, and surface texture evolve as the painting comes alive.” Before moving to Maine in 2004, Dahmen would sketch the rocky forested islands while sailing the reaches of Casco Bay, returning to her studio to create paintings from the rough pencil sketches. Her paintings don’t necessarily represent specific places, but instead capture the feelings they inspire. The paintings, which have grown in size over the course of her career, create immersive environments that enable viewers to enter into her experience of the midcoast landscape. Her work is part of numerous private and corporate collections around the world. Since 2013, Dahmen has curated Talking Art in Maine: Intimate Conversations, a series of one-onone conversations with other artists and curators in front of an audience at Lincoln Theater in Damariscotta. In her paintings and the Talking Art series, Dahmen likes to explore unknown territory. “Pushing boundaries and risking failure is what leads to good art,” she says, “and it is inspiring to hear firsthand the challenges artists face.”

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Danielle M. Conway DEAN AND PROFESSOR OF LAW AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SCHOOL OF LAW As dean and professor of law at the University of Maine School of Law, Danielle M. Conway teaches students about their obligation to defend the United States Constitution, to promote the rule of law, and to represent the most vulnerable in society. “As a lawyer and a teacher, I belong to two noble professions that view leadership as service and demand that such service be prioritized above self,” Conway says. As the state’s only law school, Maine Law produces the state’s next generation of lawyers and serves as a community and government resource. Its Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic provides free legal services to individuals and families based on low-income guidelines, while teaching law students practical skills that complement their critical thinking skills honed through engagement with the core curriculum. In one of Conway’s most recent projects, the law school has launched a three-year pilot project to address an expected shortage of lawyers in rural counties in Maine. The University of Maine School of Law Rural Lawyer Pilot Project will place law students with practitioners in communities that would otherwise have limited access to legal services. Conway has put service above self throughout her career, spending 27 years in the United States Army, the United States Army Reserve, and the Maine Army National Guard, reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel before retiring in November 2016. But her passion is the law. “Law has the power to protect individuals and their communities by drawing on core values such as liberty, equality, and fairness,” she says. “With a focus on these core values, law’s fundamental purpose—to foster an organized, civilized society—offers one of the best opportunities for collective community engagement and progress.”

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Beth Shissler

PRESIDENT AND COO AT SEA BAGS Beth Shissler envisions her company, Sea Bags, as part of a revolution to bring fashion production back to Maine, which has a long history of cutting and sewing. Constructed from recycled sails, the nautical carryalls are designed and sewn at Custom House Wharf in Portland. Sea Bags products rely on American-manufactured thread and New Englandproduced rope, and whenever possible, materials come directly from Maine. In the 11 years since she joined, the company has employed 180 different people, and it now operates out of 12 different storefronts across the country. She believes that it’s her responsibility as an employer to support the people who work for her. “We create career paths

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for folks,” says Shissler, who helps her employees find long-term fits within the company. Six of her employees have created businesses of their own, and although she doesn’t take credit for their ingenuity, she’s proud to have created “a business model that is replicable and sustainable.” Outside of Sea Bags, Shissler supports the community through her work as a board member at the Maine State Chamber of Commerce and the Gulf of Maine Research Institute. “If you buy a product made locally, you’re supporting all your neighbors,” she says.

David Herring EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AT WOLFE’S NECK FARM FOUNDATION Since 2012, David Herring has led the Wolfe’s Neck Farm Foundation and the organization’s 626-acre saltwater farm and educational resource center in Freeport. Wolfe’s Neck offers educational programs for children and families, including summer camps and a teen agriculture program through which teenagers can learn about sustainable farming while managing the farm’s fruit and vegetable production. Last year Wolfe’s Neck received a $573,256 federal grant to expand its two-year residential Organic Dairy Farmer Training Program. With the average age of farmers being almost 60, Herring says it’s critical to develop training programs like the organic dairy apprenticeship that will support new food producers. “The work we’re doing at Wolfe’s Neck will help produce the next generation of organic farmers and food producers,” he says. “We’re helping people of all ages develop a greater connection to the source of their food and gain a greater understanding for the impact their food choices have on their health, the economy, and the environment.” Before Herring joined Wolfe’s Neck, he helped start Maine Huts and Trails and was hired as its first executive director in 2006. “Maine has something special that we need to continually work to protect and enhance,” Herring says. “Through my work at Maine Huts and Trails and at Wolfe’s Neck Farm, I’ve been very blessed to have such great opportunities to add to Maine’s quality of place.”

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Susan D. Shaw, DrPH

FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE MARINE AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE As an environmental scientist, Dr. Susan D. Shawâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work over the last three decades has focused on the toxic exposure of people and animals to hazardous chemicals. In 1980, because of her background in both film and public health, photographer Ansel Adams commissioned her to write the first book on health hazards of photographic chemicals. The book, Overexposure, published in 1983, launched her early career and ultimately transformed the field. In 1990, she founded the Marine and Environmental Research Institute in Blue Hill following a mass die-off of 20,000 harbor seals in polluted waters of Europe. Over the next two decades, the centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s research focused on understanding the health impacts of toxic chemicals on ocean sentinels, like seals, which can provide advance warning of risks to humans. Named a Gulf of Maine Visionary by the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment in 2007, Shaw was credited as the first scientist to reveal widespread contamination of fish and marine mammals in the Gulf of Maine by flame retardant chemicals. She was also the lead scientist on a 2013 study of San Francisco firefighters that investigated the role of occupational chemical exposures in their high cancer rates. She has since provided scientific testimony for safe chemicals policies in Maine to benefit firefighters and all Maine residents.

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David Edson PRESIDENT AND CEO OF SEWALL

David Edson began his career at Sewall in 1974 as a forest technician, later becoming executive vice president and eventually president and CEO. The engineering and forestry consulting company has served Maine clients since 1880 and now serves clients worldwide. In Maine, Sewall contributed to the establishment of the Certified Logging Professional program, an effort by the Maine Forest Products Council and others to create a safety program for loggers that has saved lives and helped sustain a viable logging force in Maine’s timberlands. The company also helped pioneer the introduction of geospatial sciences into sustainable forest management and community governance. Edson says effective forestry management requires using metrics to anticipate the impacts of change, either taking advantage of positive developments or mitigating challenges, like insects or climate change. One of his favorite projects has been assessing the impact of the spruce budworm on Maine’s forests. During the last outbreak in the 1970s and 1980s, the insect killed between 20 and 25 million cords of spruce and fir, resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue for the forestry industry, according to a 2016 report on how the state is preparing for the next infestation. “This time we are better prepared,” he says. Edson has served on the boards of the Maine Tree Foundation and Maine Forest Products Council, and as president of the Maine Forest and Logging Museum. He currently serves on the MDI Advisory Committee for Maine Coast Heritage Trust and is a board member of Friends of Acadia. “For me, Maine is home, professionally, culturally, and emotionally,” Edson says. “Maine is a brand that warrants respect and value nationally and internationally.”

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Gary Lawless

EDITOR, PUBLISHER, AND POET

The author of 21 poetry collections, Gary Lawless has often pursued and expressed the development of his own ideas, but he also works to encourage others to find their voices. He and Beth Leonard opened Gulf of Maine Books in Brunswick 38 years ago as a community hub. “We saw the bookstore as central to a community of ideas,” Lawless says, in reference to the shop’s support of local and small presses, as well as the diversity of perspectives and opportunities for conversation that it offers. Books are “tools and resources,” and to author one can be empowering. Through working with various communities in Maine for decades, he has encouraged and published the work of combat veterans, prison inmates, immigrants, and refugees. At Spindleworks Art Center in Brunswick, he has helped adults with disabilities produce three anthologies of poetry and is in the process of contributing his talents to a film about their dreams; as an artist-in-residence at Preble Street Resource Center in Portland, he has produced an anthology of poems written by homeless and low-income authors. In honor of his community work, the Maine Humanities Council awarded Lawless the 2017 Constance H. Carlson Public Humanities Prize, and the Emily Harvey Foundation offered him a residency grant to spend one month in Venice this upcoming autumn. “The books I publish, the books we sell at the store, and the conversations we have all move us toward a wider, more informed, and more loving community,” he says.

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Dr. Melik Peter Khoury PRESIDENT AND CEO OF UNITY COLLEGE Dr. Melik Peter Khoury was the first member of his immediate family to get a degree beyond high school. Growing up in West Africa, he says, higher education was a privilege. “Once I had achieved my bachelor’s degree I realized I wanted to dedicate my life to making sure that anyone who wants an education has an opportunity to get one,” Khoury says. “And now, as the leader of America’s Environmental College, I’m finally at a point where I can help others break through their own barriers and realize their own educational goals.” He first fell in love with the state when he attended the University of Maine at Fort Kent. As he became more aware of the environmental situation of the state, the country, and the planet, he says it became clear that Maine has a strategic advantage, with three climate zones and an abundance of natural resources. “What better place to become the hub of environmental science research and education than Maine?” Khoury says. Along with developing a vision for higher education that responds to pressing environmental and social problems, Khoury sees an opportunity for environmental education to be an economic driver for the state, encouraging some of the millions of Maine’s annual visitors to stay full time and pursue education in the environmental sciences fields. During his succession from senior vice president for external affairs to executive vice president to chief academic officer, and, finally, president, he oversaw significant institutional gains, including three consecutive years of record enrollments and over 20-percent enrollment growth.

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Edward Miller

FORMER CEO OF THE AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION OF MAINE, PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY CONSULTANT

“Maine is a place where things get done,” says Edward Miller. During a work-study job at the Harvard School of Public Health, Miller, who served as CEO of the American Lung Association in Maine between 1986 and 2007, found a love for public health policy that would define the course of his life. In the 1970s he penned one of the first professional articles that demonstrated the positive health impact of an excise tax on cigarettes, and he has worked on nearly all of the smoke-free legislation in Maine since 1980. Between 1996 and 2006, he worked collaboratively on a program that reduced the youth smoking rate in Maine by over 60 percent. Of the reduction in smoking rates, Miller says, “I feel proud to be part of the group of people who demonstrated that big changes in society can happen when people work together.” At the American Lung Association of Maine, he facilitated the growth of the annual bike Trek Across Maine to a multimilliondollar fundraiser, the largest single fundraiser in the nation for the American Lung Association. He also helped to create the Fund for a Healthy Maine, which redistributes settlement money from the tobacco industry to health-forward initiatives within the state. Miller remembers that at one point it seemed “impossible” that smoking could be reduced so extensively across society. “It gives me hope with some of the serious issues we’re facing today, like the opioid epidemic,” he says, “that there is hope, there is an answer.”

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ANDREA L. IRWIN

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF MABEL WADSWORTH CENTER

As executive director of Mabel Wadsworth Center, a feminist healthcare provider in Bangor, Andrea Irwin works to normalize abortion within the context of reproductive healthcare. Irwin has driven the center toward more inclusive policies that meet community needs; for example, the healthcare provider now treats men as well as women and provides gender-affirming hormone therapy for transgender people. In partnership with the American Civil Liberties Union, the Mabel Wadsworth Center sued the Maine Department of Health and Human Services to restore Medicaid coverage of abortion, a case that has not yet been settled. The center’s continued refusal of all state and federal funding allows it to provide all types of counseling and treatment for clients across the boundaries of age, gender, sexual orientation, ability, race, and ethnicity. “When people have choices to make decisions about their own healthcare, they have the ability to make choices in other areas of their life,” she says. “It’s really about empowerment.” Her grandmother had only an eighth-grade education, and Irwin, born into a greater wealth of options than her female predecessors, has attended law school. She has also had an abortion, and believes that sharing personal stories reduces the shame and stigma that stifles dialogue about pregnancy termination. “I want all girls and women to know that their lives have value and that they deserve to be treated with dignity and respect,” she says.

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Jess Knox

DIRECTOR AT MAINE ACCELERATES GROWTH INITIATIVE, FOUNDER OF MAINE STARTUP AND CREATE WEEK, AND COFOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF VENTURE HALL Jess Knox came up with the idea for Maine Startup and Create Week (MSCW) in 2012, two years before he would eventually kick off the organization and event series. “Maine is a world-class place with all the raw materials to drive a high-impact startup movement, but we need the courage to do so,” says Knox. Believing that collaboration is essential to economic prosperity, Knox set out to design a weeklong conference that would foster creative dialogue, the development of soft skills, and innovation. Since its inception, MSCW has brought together 10,000 people from more than 30 states and three countries. As the director of Maine Accelerates Growth and cofounder and president of Venture Hall, a startup accelerator partnered with Unum and Maine Health, Knox has played a vital role inspiring the Maine startup community. Due in part to Knox’s efforts at promotion, Maine’s startup community has “gone from an underground effort to a nascent movement,” he says. As examples of recent success stories for Maine startups, Putney, Inc., and Kepware Technologies were acquired by other firms for $200 million and $100 million, respectively, and Vets First Choice raised $52.3 million in a new investment round. In 2015, Knox received the Robert R. Masterson Award for economic development from the Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce in honor of his contributions to the city. Of Maine, Knox says, “I love this place, and that’s why I fight for it.”

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Ann Lee Hussey

ADVISER TO ROTARY INTERNATIONAL POLIOPLUS COMMITTEE, ROTARY’S REPRESENTATIVE ON THE GLOBAL POLIO ERADICATION INITIATIVE’S TRANSITION MANAGEMENT GROUP Over her lifetime, Ann Lee Hussey has immunized tens of thousands of children all over the world against the poliovirus. In 1955 at the age of 17 months, Hussey contracted the poliovirus while growing up in South Berwick. During her childhood, a woman who read about her illness in the newspaper began sending her gifts and letters, and her mother massaged and exercised her legs for three hours every night; both women inspired her toward a life of advocacy and service. Although she recovered her ability to walk, she knew that “as long as polio still exists anywhere in the world, all children, even here in Maine, remain at risk.” She began working with Rotary International in 2001, through which she promoted a hands-on approach to eradicating polio, traveling and creating relationships that spanned the globe. The World Bank recognized Hussey this year as a Woman of Action, and in 2013 President Obama recognized her as a White House Champion of Change. Expanding her advocacy to include social and economic welfare, she has helped to develop a small village in Nigeria, fundraising to construct a school, two wells, and a toilet block, along with infrastructure that provides access to commerce and health services. “I am proud that I am able to share my story and inspire others,” Hussey says.

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David T. Flanagan

DIRECTOR AT THE HAROLD ALFOND FOUNDATION, DIRECTOR AT MAINEGENERAL MEDICAL CENTER, DIRECTOR AT DEAD RIVER, INC., FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE, FORMER CEO OF CENTRAL MAINE POWER COMPANY

Kaye Flanagan

CHAIR OF THE STEERING COMMITTEE FOR THE DEBORAH MORTON SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND David and Kaye Flanagan note that while civic engagement is declining around the country, Maine has maintained a strong sense of civic duty. Exemplifying the local work ethic, the Flanagans have made it their mission to contribute to the greater good. David has led several organizations that have stimulated Maine’s economy, from controlling costs and improving efficiency as CEO of Central Maine Power Company to to assuring affordable and accessible higher education as president of the University of Southern Maine, where he led a successful effort to balance the budget and restore financial stability. Outside Maine, he also led an investigation regarding Hurricane Katrina for the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, under the direction of Senator Susan Collins. Now a director of the Harold Alfond Foundation, he says that he “deeply admires the Alfond family’s commitment to funding transformational changes in health care, educational opportunity, and economic development.” In Maine, Kaye found the opportunity to combine her two careers, nursing and teaching. At Catholic Charities, she worked to create a new coordinated program that provided home care support services for senior citizens, and she later became the director of the organization’s home care agency, where she instituted a community mental health program. With David as campaign co-chair, she raised $1.4 million for a new facility for the Children’s Center in Augusta, a preschool program for children with special needs. “Helping individuals and families through illness and other crises is very gratifying,” she says.

Jim Gerritsen

FORMER OWNER OF WOOD PRAIRIE FAMILY FARM

As the owner of Wood Prairie Family Farm in Bridgewater for the past 40 years, Jim Gerritsen dedicated his life to organic farming and the politics that go along with it. His life’s work has been to realign our culture and the food it consumes by protecting the rights of organic farmers and promoting their products. As cofounder and president of the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association, Gerritsen was the lead plaintiff in OSGATA et al v. Monsanto, a federal lawsuit filed in 2011 in which farmers disputed the validity of Monsanto’s transgenic seed patents, arguing that genetically modified seeds negatively impacted human health; the farmers also challenged the implication that if organic farmers’ products were inadvertently contaminated by Monsanto plants, they could be sued for patent infringement. He received the Jim Cook Award from Food For Maine’s Future in 2013 in honor of his contributions to Maine’s local food movement. In early 2014, Gerritsen helped Maine and the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association pass the historic LD 718, which would require food with genetically modified ingredients to be labeled if five contiguous states adopt legislation requiring mandatory GMO labeling. He has also combatted multiple attempts to weaken Maine’s Department of Environmental Protection’s mining regulations. He now describes himself and his wife, Megan, as “farm hands” at Wood Prairie since their 23-yearold son, Caleb, has taken over the family business. Through hard work as active citizens, Gerritsen says, “We can make this the state we want to live in.” July 2017 157

David A. Greene

PRESIDENT AT COLBY COLLEGE David A. Greene, who became Colby College’s twentieth president in 2014, has made the revitalization of downtown Waterville a priority for the college. Once located downtown, the college moved to its spot on Mayflower Hill thanks to Waterville residents who rallied to raise the funds needed to buy the land in the early twentieth century. “Today, while Colby is stronger than ever, Waterville is facing challenges,” Greene says. “With mill closings and fewer local businesses downtown, the city needs a new way forward. I believe that the city and Colby have found that new direction together, and we are committed to making it a reality.” Under Greene’s tenure, the college has bought several downtown buildings it plans to redevelop, spurring additional private investment in real estate. CGI Group, an information technology company, plans to create 200 jobs after it moves to a building purchased by the college, and Colby is developing a boutique hotel on another site it acquired. Earlier this year, Colby announced it had received a gift of more than $100 million to establish the Lunder Institute for American Art, a research center that will complement the Colby College Museum of Art. As president, Greene has established collaborations with several Maine organizations, including the Herring Gut Learning Center, Jackson Laboratory, the Maine Lakes Resource Center, and Up East Foundation, which is supporting projects for students on Allen Island, the family retreat of painter Andrew Wyeth. “Colby is very much a part of Maine,” Greene says, “deeply rooted in its community, connected to the state’s amazing natural resources, and partnered with organizations that reflect Maine’s impact on the world.”

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Mary Allen Lindemann

COFOUNDER AND COMMUNITY BUILDER AT COFFEE BY DESIGN When Mary Allen Lindemann and Alan Spear opened their first Coffee By Design (CBD) location on Congress Street in Portland, the downtown was experiencing a 40-percent vacancy rate. Coffeehouses have a history as “community centers,” as Lindemann notes, which allowed the pair to pursue their love of high-quality coffee while also making a difference in their community. “We were young folks with a vision,” says Spear, “and we didn’t have doubt.” As Portland has evolved, CBD has grown, too, and Lindemann and Spear now employ more than 60 people and operate six retail locations, as well as a roastery with over 500 accounts. For all their success, Lindemann and Spear have not forgotten their love of Portland. In each of their locations, they respect the character of the neighborhood and try to strengthen the area through the creation of a community space, rather than transforming it. In the past 23 years they have committed almost $750,000 in cash and in-kind donations to fund various community development projects, including international projects in communities that grow their coffee beans, such as a wellness facility in Jardin, Colombia, and an educational program in Coorg, India. Back in Maine, Lindemann is the cofounder of Portland Buy Local, an organization that supports Portlandbased businesses and preserves the city’s strong identity. The pair started the Rebel Blend Fund grant program to support art projects around the state. Sustainable practices continue to define the CBD brand, as exemplified by its B Corporation certification, which represents a business’s commitment to measure its impact on all stakeholders, including the community. “We have always been focused on planet, people, and then profit,” says Lindemann. Of their success, Spear adds, “I just feel blessed by how we have been embraced by the community. All of us are lucky to live in Maine.”

Alan Spear

COFOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF COFFEE BY DESIGN

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Xavier Botana SUPERINTENDENT OF PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Portland superintendent Xavier Botana is proud of his district’s diversity. Botana, who came to the United States as a Cuban refugee who didn’t speak English, notes that given an influx of immigrant families into Portland, his experiences are similar to those of many children in the district. Inspired by his work in Portland’s changing community, he says, “Education can transform lives in this land of opportunity.” His commitment to diversity is unwavering. Following an alleged hate crime against students of color, he helped the school board to pass three resolutions that validated the staff’s right to free speech and established anti-Islamophobia and safe-haven protections for students. In December, the school board adopted a comprehensive plan for providing an education that not only teaches academic subjects, but also helps to reduce disparities in achievement that are often defined by race and socioeconomic status. The plan also recognizes that only a diverse and committed staff can reduce barriers to student success. Botana worked with the school board and the city council on a proposal to rebuild up to four elementary schools, which will be presented to city voters in November. Portland public schools already provide an excellent education, and in part Botana credits the system’s diversity. “Our students benefit from learning in a diverse environment that is constantly challenging them to do their best thinking, question their assumptions, and look at the world through new lenses,” he says.

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Kay Rand

CHIEF OF STAFF FOR U.S. SENATOR ANGUS KING Through Angus King’s two gubernatorial campaigns, two terms as governor, United States Senate campaign, and current term in the Senate, there has been one constant: Kay Rand. Rand, a native of Ashland, managed all of King’s campaigns and has served as his chief of staff since he was first elected to the Blaine House in 1994, running as an outsider against former Democratic governor Joseph Brennan and Republican Susan Collins in a “campaign that few thought could be successful,” says Rand. “While winning that campaign was a oncein-a-lifetime heady event, it has been equally as special to support his style of leadership as governor and now as U.S. senator.” Rand’s entire career has revolved around public policy in Maine, first as a lobbyist for the Maine Municipal Association, representing Maine’s towns and cities. As a consultant at Bernstein Shur Government Solutions, she helped develop STRIVE U, a first-inthe-nation postsecondary education and training program for young adults with developmental disabilities. Although she now works in Washington, D.C., connecting with people from Maine is a meaningful reminder of why the work is worth doing. “Every variation of my career has furthered my respect for the elected officials who work in Maine at every level of government,” Rand says. “It has been a privilege to be a participant in a host of public policy decisions that have impacted the state in which I was born and that I have always called home.”

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Maureen Drouin

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AT MAINE CONSERVATION VOTERS AND MAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE As a child, Maureen Drouin loved playing outside—swimming, hiking, fishing, and camping. Now she works to protect Maine’s natural heritage for future generations. As executive director of Maine Conservation Voters, Drouin and her colleagues have quadrupled the political advocacy group’s budget and grown its staff, as well as its partnerships. At Maine Conservation Alliance, an affiliated organization at which she also serves as executive director, Drouin has helped to create the Maine Environmental Priorities Coalition, a partnership of 34 conservation and public health organizations that represent 100,000 collective members. “We are building Maine’s environmental movement into a powerful political force,” says Drouin, referencing the campaign strategies, policy agenda, and accountability measures that she has helped to implement. In the 1990s and 2000s, Drouin drove across Maine’s North Woods from Grand Lake Stream to Greenville as an organizer for the Northern Forest Alliance, identifying the places that were important to local communities and mobilizing community members. She understands that Maine jobs depend on the health of our environment, from fishing and farming to forestry and tourism. At a time when many of the state’s natural resources are at risk due to warming waters, ocean acidification, and downwind pollution, Drouin sees her role as empowering communities and individuals against environmental degradation, protecting the local economy, along with Maine principles. “The values of clean air, water, and land unite us as Mainers,” she says, “regardless of political party.”

David C. Driskell ARTIST, DISTINGUISHED UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR OF ART EMERITUS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK

David C. Driskell first came to Maine in 1953 as a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture residency program, and has always felt that the state was a special place for artists. At his studio in Falmouth, where he lives during the summer, he feels at one with nature and considers it a privilege to have the peace and quiet needed to keep his creative spirit alive. “Even when I create compositions that relate to memory, history, and the broad aspects of American culture, Maine helps to fuel my ideas because of the rich history of artists working in Maine over the years,” he says. Driskell, one of the world’s leading authorities on African American art, received honorary doctoral degrees from four educational institutions in Maine. In 2001, the University of Maryland established the David C. Driskell Center to honor his work as an artist, scholar, collector, and curator. He says being represented in the permanent collections of some of the top museums in his adopted state, including the Portland Museum of Art, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Colby College Museum of Art, Farnsworth Art Museum, and Center for Maine Contemporary Art, adds validity to his love of Maine. “My life has been enriched by being a part of a cultural continuum in which my art has been promoted and collected in Maine on the basis of a quality canon that has little to do with the fact that I am African American,” Driskell says. “The entire nation could benefit measurably by adopting and enforcing such an enlightened point of view.”

For the past five years we’ve celebrated the achievements of people who have devoted their energy and talents to shaping the business and creative landscapes of our state. We’d like to reintroduce you to those who have graced the pages of our magazine in years past.

2013 ALEX KATZ ANGELA ADAMS BARRY MILLS BEN FOWLIE BETTINA DOULTON BILL BURKE BRENDA GARRAND BRUCE BROWN CHRIS GARDNER COLIN WOODARD DAVID HOWES DAVID TURIN DON PERKINS DON TUSKI DONALD SUSSMAN DORA ANNE MILLS GEORGE MITCHELL HODDY HILDRETH JIM PAGE JOAN BENOIT SAMUELSON JOE WISHCAMPER JOHN COLEMAN KATHIE LEONARD KEVIN HANCOCK LARRY PUGH LEIGH SAUFLEY LEON GORMAN LINDA GREENLAW LISA LETOURNEAU M. MICHELLE HOOD MARK BESSIRE MARK SWANN MEG BAXTER MEG WESTON MELISSA KELLY MELISSA SMITH MEREDITH BURGESS MICHAEL DUBYAK MILES THEEMAN PETER DETROY PETER AND PAULA LUNDER

PHILIP CONKLING DR. REED QUINN DR. ROBERT MCAFEE RONALD KREISMAN SAM HAYWARD SUZETTE MCAVOY THEODORA KALIKOW TIM HARRINGTON

2014 AARON STEPHAN AMY BELISLE AMY BOUCHARD ANDY SHEPARD BARBARA DAMROSCH AND ELIOT COLEMAN BEN SHAW BILL RYAN SR. CARL SODERBERG CHRIS KILGOUR CLAYTON SPENCER DEBORAH DEATRICK DONNA MCNEIL DOT FOOTE DOUG WELCH DR. KATHERINE POPE EDISON LIU ELEANOR BAKER FATUMA HUSSEIN GEORGE DENNY GEORGE KINGHORN GREG POWELL HAROLD PACHIOS HUGH FRENCH JAMIE WYETH JILL MCGOWAN JOHN FITZSIMMONS JOHN WOODS KRISTEN MIALE LAUREN WAYNE LISA DESISTO MADELEINE CORSON

MEG SHORETTE MICHAEL MCCARTHY NAT MAY NORM DINERMAN AND TOM JUDGE OLYMPIA SNOWE PETER VIGUE RAFAEL GROSSMANN SARA BURNS SCOTT SIMONS SEVERIN BELIVEAU SHANNON BARD SHARON L. CORWIN STEPHEN KING STEVE PODGAJNY TIM SAMPLE TOM CHAPPELL WENDY WOLF

2015 ADAM BURK ADAM ROGERS ANDREW AND BRIANA VOLK ASHLEY BRYAN BILL NEMITZ BILL WILLIAMSON CAROLANN OUELLETTE CATHERINE CLOUDMAN CHRIS AND PAIGE GOULD CHRISTOPHER MCCORMICK DAN CREWE DARRON COLLINS DAVE COUSENS DESMOND FITZGERALD DONALD TRAMUTO EUGENIA L. O’BRIEN GABRIELLE RUSSELL GEORGE CAMPBELL GRAHAM SHIMMIELD JAMES DLUGOS

JAN KEARCE JANINE CAREY JEAN MAGINNIS JOE PAYNE JULIA CLUKEY JULIE MARCHESE LOUISE ROSEN LUKE MUZZY MARY BONAUTO MATT KEARNS NANCIE ATWELL PAUL COULOMBE PAUL ANDREW MAYEWSKI DR. PAUL WELDNER DR. PETER BATES DR. PETER CHALKE PETER NIELSEN RICHARD BLANCO ROB TOD ROBIN ZINCHUK RODNEY EASON SCOTT NASH SETH WESCOTT STUART KESTENBAUM TANJA ALEXIA HOLLANDER TESS GERRITSEN TIM HUSSEY YELLOW LIGHT BREEN

2016 ALAN CARON AMBER LAMBKE ANDREA CIANCHETTE MAKER ANNA ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ANNA GOULD ARLIN SMITH, MIKE WILEY, AND ANDREW TAYLOR BILL GREEN CHARLES NORCHI DANIELLE RIPICH

DEBORAH CAREY JOHNSON DON GOODING ELIZA TOWNSEND ELIZABETH NEPTUNE ERIC HOPKINS GORDON SMITH DR. HABIB DAGHER DR. HECTOR TARRAZA JAY FRIEDLANDER JIM GODBOUT JONATHAN BUSH JULIA SLEEPER JUSTIN AND DANIELLE WALKER KATE MCALEER KATHRYN FOSTER LAURIE LACHANCE LINDEN FREDERICK LINDSAY GIFFORD-SKILLING LUKE LIVINGSTON LYN MIKEL BROWN MARGO WALSH MARK CURDO MATT POLSTEIN NANCY SMITH PHIL COUPE AND FORTUNAT MUELLER REZA JALALI ROBERT MOORE RODNEY MCCRUM ROGER MILLIKEN, JR. RON PHILLIPS SHANA READY SHAWN MOODY STEVEN ROWE SUSAN CORBETT TALYA EDLUND TED QUADAY ZAMZAM MOHAMUD

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PERCHED HIGH WITHIN THE TREES ON THE COAST OF GEORGETOWN, THREE CLEVER LITTLE HOMES ARE PROVIDING AMPLE INSPIRATION TO MAINE TRAVELERS. by KATY KELLEHER Photography by ERIN LITTLE Opposite page: The tree dwellings were designed by Marsha Dunn and constructed by Loren Francis. They sit on a long slope of woodland overlooking the Back River in Georgetown. This page: The bedrooms feature swing arm wall sconces designed by Marsha, reclaimed wood windows, and comfortable king-size beds. July 2017 167

What is so appealing about sleeping in a tree house? It’s a question I return to time and again as I explore three tree dwellings that have been erected on the coast of Georgetown, a series of little woodland homes perched high in the pines. Their size makes them cute, and that’s certainly appealing. They are also rather whimsical— and well designed, with Scandinavianinspired interiors and cleverly laid-out floor plans. But it’s more than that, says builder and co-owner Loren Francis. He’s covered in sawdust and his long wild hair is pulled back in a bun. He balances his baby daughter, Pippy, on his hip as he talks, sometimes lifting her over his head playfully. “Tree houses make you feel like a kid again,” he says. “They take you back.” There’s also something to be said for the view. I’m sipping coffee on an unstained Adirondack chair that has weathered to a light dusty gray, looking out through reclaimed windows down a long wooded

slope to marshlands divided by the sinuous curve of the Back River. I don’t usually observe the world from this viewpoint—it’s the perspective of a squirrel or a chipmunk, high above eye level, but not as high as a plane or a bird. “When you’re in the trees and you feel the breeze coming in, you feel as though you’re part of nature in a different way. There aren’t any boundaries between you and the trees, there’s a continuous flow between inside and outside,” says Marsha Dunn, who, along with her husband, Philip Francis (brother to Loren), and Ida Lennestål (Loren’s partner) comprise the four-person team behind Seguin Tree Dwellings. “There’s a tranquility to the view up there,” she adds. This view inspired the project, explain Loren and Ida, who currently live in a vintage camper that they bought and renovated and parked on his parents’ nearby property. (Vintage campers are another obsession of Loren’s—he’s bought five of them in the past

few years.) “My family has been here since the 1970s—they were part of the back-tothe-land generation,” explains Loren. As kids, both Philip and Loren often looked across the water from their parents’ 55-acre property in Georgetown, wondering about this forested hill, this wild piece of land. When it went on the market in 2015, Loren decided to explore it in earnest, taking long walks through the woods. One day, as he stood on the crest of the hill, he realized that there was something missing from the real estate listing. “He saw there was this possibility for incredible views,” Marsha remembers. “He said to me and Philip, ‘Let’s do something with it. Let’s get the land.’” They closed on the property on Leap Year Day, February 29, 2016. From that day, the foursome has been caught up in a whirlwind of work, constructing the three dwellings (a job overseen by Loren), managing bookings and sales (Philip handles this end of the business), and figuring out the aesthetics of

Opposite page, from left: The kitchen packs a big punch into a small space. Marsha kept the colors simple to let the view take center stage. The tree houses are constructed on ground level in the Francis family workshop, then lifted into the trees and installed. This page: Adirondack chairs from Island Teak Company in Wiscasset pair with stumps taken from nearby trees. The houses are available to rent online during the summer months.

Midcoast Maine in the summer is a glorious sight. The Francis family has lived in Georgetown since the 1970s, farming on a nearby peninsula.

“When you’re in the trees and you feel the breeze coming in, you feel as though you’re part of nature in a different way.”

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tree houses make you feel They take you back.â&#x20AC;? Marsha designed the floor plan of the tree dwellings. In the initial sketches, the windows were going to hinge outward from the sides, but in the final product, they have overhead hinges, which make for a better view.

their unconventional project (Marsha is master of this domain). Ida helps out with anything else that might crop up, from driving into town to purchase tools to painting rooms, photographing the houses, building the website, and other tasks big and small—all performed with a baby strapped to her back. Much of the construction took place in the Francis family boathouse, where they build, paint, and finish the tiny houses before moving them to the site and placing them into the trees with a crane. “We had a bit of a tight fit on our first one,” Loren says as he opens the door to the bedroom. The door just barely clears the trunk of the massive oak tree, which rises up from a hole cut into the deck. “We figured out our measurements a bit better on our second house, but this one cut it close,” Ida laughs. In addition to the living trees that lend support to the structure (load-bearing stilts carry additional weight) there are several end tables made of raw sections of trunk, freshly cut with bark still in place, arranged in useful places around the deck and topped with potted geraniums. As I chat with Ida about their design schematic—“We all have similar design sense,” she says of the Scandinavian-chic dwellings— Loren interrupts to direct our attention skyward. “A bald eagle,” he says with a note of reverence in his voice.

like a kid again.

The second and third homes are similarly nestled into nature, yet these structures benefited from the foursome’s experience building the first. One fantastic addition are the swinging rope bridges (designed, like every detail in the space, by Marsha) that connect the kitchen, bathroom, and living area to the bedroom. “When we started out, we were focused on keeping July 2017 173

From left: The decor inside is woodsy and natural, and even includes a few small potted plants. The builders and owners of these tree dwellings hope that visitors will gain a new perspective from staying in their unique rental cottages—perhaps even be inspired to do some creative work of their own.

everything as affordable as possible,” Loren says. “But as we went along, we began to elevate the design. By the end, we were doing all custom kitchens and baths, with custom cabinetry.” As Marsha explains it, the biggest design challenge was to “create an interior space with clean lines and minimalist decor that gave a sense of tranquility and openness to the trees outside without impeding functionality. This led to things like designing a hanging closet into the headboard.” Instead of imposing limits on their creativity, Loren says that the dwelling’s small size encouraged them to dream big. “I wanted to use our creativity instead of monetary resources to build a truly interesting space,” he said. “From the beginning, it was important to me that we build something that people would talk about. It’s those places you remember—the weird ones, like the bar with a secret arcade in the back.” The tree houses also tap into the national 174

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trend of choosing experiential purchases over material ones. Tree dwellings, as Loren intuited, provide fodder for dinner party stories and a scenic backdrop for family photographs. Before the first tree dwelling was even in place, dozens of people on Airbnb had already booked the room. (After I visited the Seguin Tree Dwellings, I went online to book my own stay, only to find that summer 2017 was entirely blocked out for all three houses.) While rentals will play a large part in the future of the tree dwellings, Loren, Ida, Marsha, and Philip hope to use the space for another purpose during the shoulder seasons. “We have a dream of creating a gathering space for artists and students. We may not build more tree houses, but we do want to build another place where people can come together,” Ida says. “It was the real impetus behind the project,” Loren adds. “We didn’t build these to make money. Our goal was to create something interesting

and beautiful, and possibly a place where we could host other creative people.” Artists could use the forested seclusion to disconnect from their daily lives, drawing inspiration from the natural landscape, perhaps gaining a new perspective from their perch in the trees. “Already, a number of people who have visited have said they felt reinspired to bring creativity back into their own lives,” Marsha says. “I’ve been so moved by how much the tree dwellings have already meant to people.” In particular, she recalls one entry in the guestbook that made her feel as though all the hard work, all the effort they put into constructing these elevated houses, was worth it. The guest wrote, “‘Sometimes in your life, you find a place you needed to be, and that place can help heal your soul.’ That,” Marsha says, “meant so much to me.” Thousands of Maine homes, 10 years and counting. Follow us: Facebook.com/OurMaineHomes

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NORTHERN UNION

The bar offers a taste of the Northern Union experience. Opposite page, from left: For chef Romann Dumorne, it’s all about technique and fine ingredients. Each plate is carefully considered and beautifully arranged.

A sophisticated and delicious experience awaits in Ogunquit. When I visit Northern Union to meet owners Matt and Lauren Wickert, it is one of the first warm days of spring. They have the windows open, and as we sit to talk, Lauren asks, “Would you like a glass of rosé?” I immediately know I’m going to like it here. Lauren brings me a glass of Domaine de la Fouquette from Provence, my first glass of rosé of the season, as we settle in at a table in a room they refer to as the library. The Wickerts are engaging and warm, offering the kind of genuine hospitality that puts you at ease within seconds of introductions. They finish each other’s sentences and look to the other to add a detail to a story. “I’m a scientist, he’s an artist,” explains Lauren, who introduces herself as “owner/foodie.” Matt tells me he’s “owner/wino.” I think it’s just a funny thing they say, until I see their business cards, printed with those actual titles. I’m struck by the sophisticated but welcoming vibe of the place that seems to reflect the Wickerts’ personality. “We had an aesthetic we really wanted to convey,” Matt explains. “Clean, modern, slightly rustic, and relaxing. We didn’t want people to walk in and recognize it for what it was previously.” The building, originally built as a house in the 1930s, had previously been renovated for use as a restaurant. When the Wickerts first looked at it, the restaurant had been closed for a year and a half. “It had no character,” says Lauren. “We tore everything out and started over.” The couple was working with John Magnifico of Magnifico Design in Brooklyn to create a logo for their new venture when they hired him to completely re-create the space from start to finish, along with his partners, Abby Bickel and Will Thomas. After getting rid of one-third of the seating capacity to create a more spacious look, Northern Union feels more like

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coming to a friend’s home than restaurant dining. Part of that is certainly the Wickerts’ genuine hospitality, but the arrangement and furnishings of the rooms invite diners to choose their own adventure. Different areas may be more appealing at different times of year, but every space feels special. Here in the library, there’s a vintage Royal typewriter and a pile of books on the side table, along with a tiny bust of JFK. The walls are a steely blue with white bead board below. There’s just one table in this room, with seating for six. The front of the house, in what used to be a porch, offers standard table dining for two or four. But set up by the bay windows are two cozy arrangements of upholstered chairs around a polished tree stump cocktail table. It feels like the perfect spot for a date-night dinner, intimate and elegant. The living room has low tables, love seats, and sculptural wooden chairs, each area topped with a stylish Sputnik chandelier. With a look that’s unfussy and sleek, the overall effect is appealing and attractive, but not trendy. “This is not a beach-style restaurant,” Matt emphasizes. On the other side of the host station, with its floor-to ceiling map of the world, is the wine room, furnished with a four-person high-top table. This L-shaped area connects the bar to the rest of the restaurant and is surrounded by Northern Union’s most dramatic feature, its glass-enclosed wine wall. The entire wine inventory is housed here, a presentation that

lets diners view bottles but also serves as decor for the wine-centric restaurant. Matt has put together a comprehensive wine list, full of choices that are excellent examples of their varietals. “These are great, but not necessarily expensive wines,” he says. “Many are small producers, and we can talk you through choosing a wine.” Wines by the glass change seasonally but always include a selection of favorites and

unfamiliar but exciting types. A Coravin system, which allows wine to be poured without uncorking the bottle, lets wine lovers taste anything from the bottle list, with a commitment to two glasses. “What’s the point of having 120 labels if you can only access a handful by the glass?” says Matt. “The wine list is influenced by memories of our travels: our honeymoon in Greece, a trip to California, even time spent in Japan.”

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The Wickerts’ original plan was for a wine shop, with a little food, maybe some charcuterie on the side. But once they saw this space and its potential, their vision expanded. “This is a full-size space,” says Matt. “It needed more than meat and cheese.” They began the search for a chef with the help of a consultant, and invited one of the applicants, Romann Dumorne, to cook for them as a tryout. Dumorne possesses the same warm, friendly temperament as the Wickerts, making it a perfect match. “I was super organized,” he says. “I served each dish, explained it, then ran back into the kitchen to do the next one. I thought I did pretty well.” “We were laughing out of pure joy,” Lauren recounts. “Before dessert was even served, Matt walked into the kitchen and offered Romann the job.” Dumorne started cooking while in college in upstate New York, using Larousse Gastronomique, the French encyclopedia of cooking, as his guide. He later honed his cooking skills at the White Barn Inn in Kennebunk, under chef Jonathan Cartwright. “I learned very quickly,” he says. “I read, I watched, I paid attention to

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the other cooks from all over the world.” Dumorne’s diligence paid off, and he was promoted to sous chef in less than a year. He now prides himself on the technique he learned there and combines those skills with a love for fresh, local ingredients. A bowl of ramp soup with white asparagus velouté is a stunning example. Both the hue and flavor are bright and bold with the verdant taste of spring, the chef’s talent evident in every smooth sip. The luscious soup is the first dish at this evening’s wine dinner. In the off-season, Northern Union holds wine dinners on most Monday nights, in conjunction with winemakers and importers. It’s an intimate event, with no more than 30 guests, some attending for the first time as well as quite a few regulars. Dumorne and his staff enjoy planning these dinners, using the opportunity to test out new dishes each week and build camaraderie in the kitchen. “Matt brings the wines in, and we all discuss flavors and balance,” says the chef. “We don’t want to bombard the palate with all the same flavors, so we try to go in the opposite

direction with the menu.” This thoughtful consideration goes into every dish Dumorne produces, whether it’s for a special event such as this or the regular menu. Tonight, Ned Swain of Devenish Wines is presenting wines from the Loire Valley. The evening starts with a gathering in the bar area, presided over by bar manager Tim Yee, expertly mixing cocktails. Like Dumorne, Yee uses technique and fresh ingredients to create a roster of uncommonly delicious drinks. Some are inspired by classics and some are original, all fine alternatives to the wine list, should the mood strike. The atmosphere is friendly, and everyone is looking forward to seeing what Dumorne has on the menu. It’s a closely guarded secret until dinnertime. With the exquisite soup, Swain presents a chenin blanc, as well as anecdotes about Loire Valley wines. The entree is an “everything” salmon, spiced with sesame and poppy seeds, garlic, and salt, then artfully arranged with baby turnips and asparagus on chive beurre blanc. Dessert arrives, a neat rectangle of silky chocolate crémeux with crème fraîche ice cream and walnut crumble. The melt-in-your-mouth

dish wows everyone, and Dumorne tells me a little later, “It’s the first time I’ve ever made this,” a testament to his astonishing breadth of talent. “We’re not boxed in to any one style,” says Dumorne. “I use the best product I can get my hands on, then raise it to the next level with technique.” The wine dinner was a small glimpse into the Northern Union experience, a tantalizing tease that left me wanting more. The summer menu is full of tempting dishes, from shareable starters and seasonally inspired main courses to savory snacks. There’s even a chef’s picnic basket, filled with a selection of dips, spreads, and breads, born out of Dumorne’s successful job tryout. “You decide how you want to eat here,” Matt says. I know what I want— another glass of rosé on the outdoor deck, very soon. Northern Union 261 Shore Rd. | Ogunquit 207.216.9639 northern-union.me

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The chef creates his own interpretations of classic izakaya-style food, using fresh Maine ingredients. A gorgeous dish of sparkling fresh sashimi includes local uni, two types of tuna, snapper, and last-of-the-season Maine scallop. Local crab is employed in a savory omelet, and Cooke is excited about the upcoming mackerel season. There are dishes for those who aren’t seafood lovers as well, including the wildly popular JFC, or Japanese fried chicken. I’m assured this is a classic Japanese dish, with the meat marinated in a mixture of sake, mirin, soy, and more, and then fried in potato starch crust until ultra-crispy. The menu is arranged with the lightest dishes on the left, proteins in the middle, and starches at the end. The very best way to get a taste of izakaya food is by ordering the omakase, or chef’s choice, for the table. “It’s very common in Japan,” Alden says.

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The daily roast today is a boneless leg of lamb set in a deep braising pan, headed for the brick oven. Also at lunch time, lighter options include the Brussels sprouts salad, a variation of a favorite holdover from the Bresca menu.

With much anticipation and high expectations, Desjarlais opened the Purple House at the end of last year. Desjarlais is a James Beard Award-nominated chef, former owner of the beloved and defunct Portland restaurant Bresca, Guy Savoy-trained pastry chef, and owner of Bresca and the Honey Bee, a gourmet snack shack at Outlet Beach in New Gloucester.

Desjarlais and her crew will soon be adding to the menu, and outdoor seating will be available now that the warm weather is coming. I’m looking forward to some of her homemade ice cream as well, enjoyed in the shade of a tree. The Purple House is up and running, but the anticipation continues.

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If the original aim of education is to help us expand our awareness, then Dr. George Smith is hitting that mark. Always an innovator, Smith made waves as a graduate student at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, when he wanted to write his dissertation on the relationship between art and literature. The dissertation committee initially rejected his proposal. “The people in the English department worried that I would never get a job, and that it would reflect badly on the department,” says Smith. Smith convinced the committee to let him proceed and finished the dissertation—only to find out that the concerns of his advisors had some merit: he had little success when he applied for traditional teaching positions. “They said, ‘Well, you know half about English and half about art,’” recalls Smith. “‘We need somebody that knows all about English, because that’s what we teach here.’” Nonetheless, Smith went on to become a professor and, eventually, vice president for academic affairs and dean at Maine College of Art. In 2006, Smith took his ideas about education to a new level when he founded the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA) in Portland. “One of the things that I committed myself to was coming up with an idea that would reflect what I would do if I were going to do a Ph.D. again,” says Smith. The IDSVA, which has 75 students, visits locations such as Rome, Italy, and Berlin, Germany, as part of its curriculum. “Our students… go to the places in the world where, historically, art and ideas have come together in such an intersection that it’s changed the future of civilization and history,” says Smith. Smith hopes that his interdisciplinary ideas will continue to gain traction. “The future that I’m hoping for is an endowed institution that will live in perpetuity,” says Smith. “IDSVA has proved to be tremendously effective.”

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The ICA at MECA is pleased to bring American Genre: Contemporary Painting to Portland, Maine this summer.

Curated by artist, writer, and curator Michelle Grabner, who is the Crown Family Professor of Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, this exhibition is built on a triad of traditional painting genres, including still life, landscape, and portraiture. Fifty paintings by fifty American artists offer a critical balance to the conditions of atemporality, affected responses, and the material turn currently shaping much of contemporary painting discourse. Dana DeGiulio, Citizens, 2015, Oil on canvas, 25×19 in

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CAPTURE by Susan Garver

EVERY DAY WE COMB THROUGH OUR INSTAGRAM FEED TO FIND IMAGES FROM FOLLOWERS DOCUMENTING OUR STATE. ON INSTAGRAM WE SHARE A CAPTURE OF THE DAY, AND EACH MONTH IN MAINE MAGAZINE WE HIGHLIGHT ONE OF THOSE PHOTOS.

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The Hadlock Brook Trail in Acadia National Park is one of my favorite hikes. Last spring I decided to make the trek to see the Waterfall Bridge and Hadlock Falls. It had poured for hours that day, and it was still raining when I began the hike, leaving the trail wet and slippery. The air smelled clean and fresh, and the sound of the water in the brook along the trail added to my excitement. Often, especially so early in the

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season, I am the only one at the waterfall. When I finally reached the falls, I was thrilled by its beauty. My goal was to get a different shot of this gorgeous part of the park. After setting up my gear and taking a few photos of the waterfall and then the bridge, I decided to try and capture both in one image. I hiked up a bit higher to get the

Susan Garver lives in Trenton, Maine. She is an amateur landscape and nature photographer who captures the beauty and serenity of Acadia National Park, the ocean, and many local towns and villages. You can follow her on Instagram @iloveacadianationalpark.

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right angle and put a wide-angle lens on my camera. Spray from the waterfall and rain forced me to keep wiping off both my camera and the lens. Acadia is a special place with a magical atmosphere. In the end, I was pleased with the unique image that I captured. This is what I love about the park, and I try to represent this feeling in my photos.

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