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features A passion for the classroom / 13 Scott Voisine helps high school students get a head start on college through Pleasant Street Academy.

Transforming and Saving Lives / 16 The Eastern Maine AIDS Network is a small organization with a great big job.

Maritime Excellence / 20 Maine Maritime Academy in Castine offers a college experience like no other. not your average film fest / 30 Filmmakers and film lovers flock to the Midcoast each fall for the Camden International Film Festival.

A Piece of Maine: greenville / 38 Outdoor enthusiasts love this community located on the banks of Moosehead Lake.

Kitchen envy / 58 If you love blueberries you won’t want to miss this amazing meal.

40 paper / 60 Patrick Dean is a hometown boy who runs the kitchen at this favorite local hot spot.

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eye on industry / 14 See Maine’s forest for the trees.

TaLk of the Towns / 8 Noteworthy news items from Caribou to Bangor.

Metro Wellness / 19 Change your mindset and you’ll be amazed at what you can accomplish. woods & waters / 66 Even bird dogs sometimes have to go back to school. last word / 72 Riding your bike across the country will get you closer to nature.

Biz Buzz & sightings / 10 People and places on the move.

What’s Happening / 46 Early fall events for the whole family.

Metro sports / 56 A high school football stand-out and Unity’s woodsmen’s team.

Perspectives / 64 College athletics through the lens of Haley Johnston. savvy seniors / 67 Drivers ed for all ages.

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loved college. I spent a total of six years earning my undergraduate and graduate degrees. In total, I attended four-ish universities—the “ish” in that last sentence refers to my semester at Disney University in Florida.

Sure, I bounced around a lot during my early 20s, but it was worth it. I spent my freshman year at Northeastern University in Boston, my sophomore year split between the University of Maine in Orono and Disney University, and the rest of my undergraduate career at Towson University just north of Baltimore. I moved to New York City for my graduate degree.

Disney University was, by far, the strangest college experience I had.

While at UMaine, I interviewed with a recruiter from the Walt Disney World College Program (WDWCP), who was looking to hire a handful of Maine college kids for the spring semester. I did it on a whim, figuring there was no way that, out of the hundred or so students who applied, that I would get a spot. I saw it as a way to practice my interviewing skills.

When I was accepted into the program as a cast member (which is what Disney calls their employees) my parents practically fell out of their chairs because they were laughing so hard. I packed my bags and left for Florida during the ice storm of 1998. The sunny skies and warm temperatures of Florida were a welcome change to the days of no electricity at my parents’ house.

For the next five months, I sold princess costumes at MGM Studios while participating in the WDWCP educational seminars. The program today is a bit different than the one in the late 1990s, now offering actual courses in organizational leadership, human resource management, and corporate communications, to name a few. I completed the requirements expected of me and earned my Ducktorate Degree. I’m not kidding.

Participating in this program was one of the best things I’ve ever done. Not only did I get to experience the Walt Disney World parks and resorts as an insider, I had a ton of fun. I still have close relationships with the friends I made during that semester, and I treasure the memories we made during our college years, and continue to make as lifelong friends.

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Bangor: Thanks to a federal grant, the Bangor community will have its very own AmeriCorps Program. The national volunteer program engages more than 80,000 Americans in intensive community service each year. Since it’s founding in 1994, over 800,000 AmeriCorps members have contributed over one billion hours of service across the country.

The State of Maine, the City of Bangor, and Eastern Maine Community College have collaborated to bring AmeriCorps to our area. The $210,336 in federal grant money will provide 12 fulltime and 20 part-time volunteers who will work with 11 community-oriented organizations in our area.

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tions in the Bangor community and work together towards the common goal of enhancing the lives of Bangor’s citizens,” says Dr. Pamela Proulx-Curry, EMCC’s academic dean. Some of those partner organizations include the Eastern Maine Development Corporation, Bangor Housing Authority, United Way of Eastern Maine, and the University of Maine Bodwell Center for Volunteerism.

In exchange for 1,700 hours of service throughout the year, each full-time volunteer will receive a modest living allowance and an education award. Parttime volunteers who serve 300 to 450 hours a year will receive an education award that they can apply to their own college costs or to the college costs of a child, foster child, or grandchild.

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Caribou: Echoes, a quarterly journal that highlights rural culture in northern Maine, is celebrating its 25th anniversary. The journal features traditional themes of sustainability and nature, and is centered around the sense of community, both past and present, that is special to the area, but is disappearing elsewhere.

“The idea of community is more than just geographic,” says co-founder, editor, and designer Kathryn Olmstead. “It gives subscribers a sense of being at home, even if they are reading the magazine elsewhere.”

Twenty-five years ago, Olmstead and Gordon Hammond, both transplants to Aroostook County, were struck by the beauty and culture of the region. They were inspired to create a magazine that would portray the lifestyle and traditions shared by its people and their connections with each other and the land.

“When we came to Aroostook County, we thought we found a place that people could imagine,” Olmstead says of her and Hammond’s arrival.

Because Aroostook County is so large—the largest county east of the Mississippi River—Olmstead says that the magazine features different regions each issue. One of the perks of such a large, community-centered county is that they always have a wealth of submitted material to draw from.

Included in each issue are life stories of people who have ties to the region, features, essays, photography, and a poetry and fiction section. Regardless of the section, each piece tells a story.

“Each issue kind of coalesces,” Olmstead says. “We try to pick stories that complement each other. It’s an organic process.”

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Easy Access Dover-Foxcroft: For the people of Piscataquis County, access to programs provided by Department of Health and Human Services is closer and more convenient than ever before, thanks to an electronic kiosk installed at the Dover-Foxcroft Penquis office.

The kiosk in Dover-Foxcroft is one of several that have been installed statewide.

Not only do they save locals the costs that come from traveling to the nearest DHHS location, they also save time. Now people can use the kiosk to create an account with My Maine Connection, which will then allow them to complete a pre-screening for benefit eligibility and enter most of the information necessary to make a determination. Applications for programs, including Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), still require a face-to-face interview to finalize benefit eligibility.

Clients who need to enter information to continue their benefits, known as re-certifying, are also able to do so right at the kiosk.

“The Office for Family Independence in the Department of Health and Human Services is looking at new ways to do its work and to use technology to both help the consumer and improve how the work is being done, in terms of efficiency and productivity,” says John Martins, director of communications for Maine DHHS. Several organizations worked together to bring this idea to fruition. According to Martins, Penquis CAP and Helping Hands with Heart worked in collaboration with DHHS to make the electronic kiosk possible. www.bangormetro.com Bangor Metro / 9

biz buzz On the Move Machias Savings Bank recently promoted JASON APPLEBY, AVP to branch manager of their Machias branch. Appleby was previously the assistant branch manager in Machias. KARI REYNOLDS has been promoted to retail banking and branch operations for Machias Savings Bank. Reynolds, a vice president, has been with the bank for more than 20 years and, most recently, has worked as the Machias branch manager. www.machiassavings.com

of leadership positions at the college, including co-charing the college’s accreditation committee, serving as the institution’s affirmative action officer, and leading the WCCC faculty association. www.wccc.me.edu LAURA CONNORS, PA-C has joined the medical staff of Penobscot Community Health Care’s Community Care and Geriatrics, whose multi-provider team serves patients in area nursing homes, at rehabilitation facilities, and in-home.

Prior to joining PCHC, Connors received extensive clinical training at hospitals in Maine and New Hampshire. www.pchc.com

The College of the Atlantic has added three new trustees to the Bar Harborbased institution: ALYNE CISTONE , BECKY ANN BAKER , and DYLAN BAKER .

Cistone is the executive director of Island Housing Trust and the Bakers are New York City-based actors whose daughter attends the school. www.coa.edu COKIE GILES, RN, president of the

Maine State Nurses Association and a nurse at the endoscopy clinic at Eastern Maine Medical Center, has been elected as one of four presidents of the National Nurses Organizing committee, one of the largest and fastest growing directcare RN unions in the country. www.nationalnursesunited.org

AMY FREEMAN, MBA,

senior commercial credit analyst at People’s United Bank, has joined the board of directors at Penobscot Community Health Care.

Freeman has been employed with People’s United Bank since 2011 and worked for Northeast Cardiology Associates prior to that time. www.pchc.com Machias Savings Bank recently hired LEEANNE BOUTAUGH as a mortgage specialist at their Bangor branch. Boutaugh was most recently the loan servicing team manager for Bank of America. www.machiassavings.com DANIELLE BURKE has joined Bangor Savings Bank as vice president, treasury and payment services officer for the greater Bangor area. Burke resides in Bangor and is actively involved with Penobscot Theatre as a board member. www.bangor.com JOSEPH CASSIDY has been

appointed president of Washington County Community College in Calais. An attorney, Cassidy has been a member of the WCCC faculty for the past nine years. He has held a number

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ISAAC J. RUDLOE , MD has joined

Coastal Eye Care. Prior to his new position, Rudloe was the director of Tufts New England Eye CenterLeominster and held the academic title of assistant professor of ophthalmology at Tufts University School of Medicine. www.coastaleyecare.net ANDREW SOMES has been appointed as the branch relationship manager for the Winter Harbor office of Bar Harbor Bank & Trust. Somes joined the company in 2012 as a personal banker at the bank’s Ellsworth branch. www.bhbt.com LISA FRAZELL has joined the Bangor

Public Library as its director of marketing and development. She will be responsible for ongoing education and promoting awareness of the library’s services and programs, as well as leading its fundraising efforts.

Previously, Frazell worked for The American Red Cross as the marketing and media liaison for the greater Bangor area. www.bpl.lib.me.us MARILYN MOSS ROCKEFELLER has

been chosen by the board of trustees at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art to lead a $4 million capital campaign aimed at relocating the Rockport nonprofit to new quarters in the downtown area by 2015. Rockefeller conducted the organization’s first major capital campaign 25 years ago. www.cmcanow.org

Awards BANGOR BEACON COMMUNITY is one

of five hospital-led collaborative programs to receive the AHA NOVA Award for the American Hospital Association (AHA). Established in 1993, this award recognizes hospitals and healthcare systems for their collaborative efforts toward improving community health. www.emh.org Several attorneys from Rudman Winchell, Couselors at Law in Bangor have been recognized by Chambers and Partners, a worldwide legal rankings firm. Recognition goes to GEORGE F. EATON for Corporate/M&A, FRANK T. MCGUIRE for Labor and Employment Law, DAVID C. KING and PAUL W. CHAIKEN for Litigation, and WILLIAM H. HANSON for Real Estate. www.rudmanwinchell.com THE AROOSTOOK MEDICAL CENTER

received two awards from Avatar Solutions, a survey, data measurement, and performance improvement company. The Exceeding Patient Expectations Award is presented to healthcare organizations that deliver care beyond what is expected by patients in a number of areas, including quality of care and reliability. The Blue Sail Award recognizes TAMC for its efforts in improving patient care and experience, including renovations to its emergency services in order to meet the

needs of patients, their families, and the community. www.tamc.org Eight attorneys from Eaton Peabody were recognized in the 2013 Chambers USA rankings for the State of Maine.

Recognition goes to DANIEL G. MCKAY and DAVID M. AUSTIN for Corporate/M&A, P. ANDREW HAMILTON for Environmental, CLARE HUDSON PAYNE for Labor & Employment, BERNARD J KUBETZ and NEAL F. PRATT for Litigation, KAREN A. HUBER for Real Estate and Timberland/Conservation, and EDWARD FEIBEL for Labor & Employment: Employee Benefits & Compensation. www.eatonpeabody.com VACATIONLAND INN & CONFERENCE CENTER in Brewer has been given a

TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence award. This accolade, which honors hospitality excellence, is awarded to the top-performing 10% of businesses listed on TripAdvisor. www.vacationlandinn.com The Maine Department of Economic and Community Development recently named the CITY OF PRESQUE ISLE as the newest Certified Business-Friendly Community. The review committee highlighted the city’s steps to stabilize and reduce its tax rate and the city’s focus on revitalizing its downtown as two of the many reasons for designation. www.pichamber.com KEN NADEAU, PA-C, associate medical director at the Helen Hunt Health Center in Old Town, was named the 2013 Outstanding Maine Physician Assistant by the Downeast Association of Physician Assistants. He was chosen for his care, leadership, career of excellence, and service to the people of Eastern Maine. www.pchc.com JEREMY LISEE , owner of Ellsworth Collision & Service Center, was honored with the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Patriotic Employer Patriot Award. This national award reflects efforts made to support service members through a wide range of measures, including flexible schedules; time off, prior to and after deployment;

and caring for their families. www.facebook.com/ELLSWORTHCOLLISION-SERVICE-CENTER LUCY RICHARD, WHNP, CNM at The Aroostook Medical Center, was named the Preceptor of the Year by the University of New England. This award was given to her by the faculty and students of the Physician Assistant Class of 2013 and recognizes clinical adjunct faculty that support the program. www.tamc.org

Grants The HANCOCK COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION has been awarded two USDA Rural Development grants. They received a $12,900 Technical Assistance Training Grant that will provide for workshops and training to reduce threats to drinking water and will assist municipal officials in identifying failing waste disposal systems. The $29,500 Solid Waste Management Grant will help Hancock County increase recycling rates, help towns find new methods of composting organic matter, and improve construction and demolition debris. www.hcpcme.org

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The PASSAMAQUODDY TRIBAL COUNCIL HOSPITAL at Pleasant Point Reservation has received a $65,104 Technical Assistance Grant from the USDA Rural Development office. The funds will be used to identify and evaluate solutions to water issues relating to source, storage, treatment, and the distribution of safe drinking water. www.wabanaki.com The NORTHERN MAINE DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION received a $29,500 USDA Rural Development Solid Waste Management Grant to help reduce the influx of garbage and recyclables that will come from the 2014 World Acadian Congress convention. www.nmdc.org

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3: Amber Small and Anne Schmidt at a recent Waterfront Concerts event.

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1: Brianne Smith, Allison DeFilipp, Kathleen Whitty, Sheri Valley, Ali Botello, Deanna Michaud, and Erica Cote enjoy the Bangor Convention & Visitors Bureau Garden Party at Windswept Gardens.

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4: Michael Curless of Acadia Fire accepts a check from Sam McGee of Bar Harbor Bank & Trust for the Bank’s 20th Annual David R. Harding Memorial Charity Golf Tournament, which was played at Kebo Valley Golf Club.

5: Grimace attends the grand reopening of the McDonald’s restaurant on Hogan Road in Bangor.

6: The Cheese Roll is the most exciting event at the annual Celtic Festival held in Belfast.

7: U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud poses for a photo with Corlene Singletary at the Maine Potato Blossom Festival in Fort Fairfield.

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Classroom Scott Voisine makes lifelong learning his livelihood.

By kaylie reese

hen the first matriculating class of Pleasant Street Academy was marching up the aisles to receive their high school diplomas, Scott Voisine, Dean of Community Education at University of Maine at Fort Kent (UMFK), was in the front row.

“I felt like a proud papa,” Voisine says.

“It was a very proud moment for me.”

What makes these 17 graduates from Fort Kent Community High School unique is that many of them have completed about a year of college as part of the Pleasant Street Academy early college program, co-funded by UMFK and SAD 27. Voisine, a native of the St. John Valley, has always had his eye on education and its integration into the community. While the focus of the program is on encouraging students to fulfill general education requirements, since gen-ed credits are the ones most likely to transfer to college. The program is flexible in allowing students to tailor their coursework toward the college program they are interested in pursuing.

Voisine describes the program as a supplement to high school academics; the college courses only replace high school electives. Classes are taught by highly qualified educators at both the high school and UMFK, which is conveniently located just across the street.

Many of the classes enroll college and high school students, giving the Pleasant Street Academy students a realistic experience of what to expect from college courses. With careful scheduling, students can complete up to one year of college education at no cost to them by the time they graduate high school.

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“It’s not about the numbers; it’s about giving kids opportunities.” —Scott Voisine “This is all about the students,” Voisine makes clear. “It’s not about the numbers; it’s about giving kids opportunities.”

There are a few numbers, however, that shouldn’t be ignored. With the rising cost of obtaining a college education, any opportunity to reduce the financial burden of higher education is an advantage. Voisine has been a critical player and advocate for the program, which is now entering its third year. Of the nearly

400 students at the high school, approximately 40 juniors and seniors are enrolled in the program each year.

“I think that this early college/high school model is really where education needs to be going in the future, especially in a rural community,” Voisine says. “In a rural state like Maine, we’re all struggling for the same pot of money. We know there are going to be cutbacks. In a community such as ours, in the St. John Valley, it only makes sense to me that the higher education programs work together to achieve the same ends for students while spending less money. I think people will start to realize this, and I think we’ll only be seeing more collaborations like this in the future. I’m passionate about that—that’s the blood that runs through my veins. The K-16 community needs to come together. There needs to be a collaborative effort.”

Voisine considers himself a teacher at heart. He graduated from UMFK with a bachelor of arts in education and later received a master’s degree in education. Voisine is particularly interested in curriculum development and works fervently to develop community outreach programs, in his new job as dean of community education.

Voisine says that about 80% of his work is focused on Pleasant Street Academy, but he also works on several other early college and community education programs. Another early college program he works with is the high school aspirations program, which allows students across the state to take college classes at a reduced rate and is funded by the Maine Department of Education.

He also works on community education programs, such as Career Pathways, which focuses on adult education in the state by taking under- or unemployed and incumbent workers and preparing them for higher education.

It was no surprise to anyone who works with Voisine that in 2008, he won the Dirigo Award for Education for his innovative and committed approach to integrating education in- and outside of the classroom.

“I see what education has done for me: It has given me the opportunities to have a really exciting career,” Voisine says. “Pick what you’re passionate about and follow it, get the credentials to support it, and be the best you can be.” www.bangormetro.com Bangor Metro / 13

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Maine’s forests have been the backbone of our economy for centuries. With so much wonderful lumber in our state, it’s easy to see why.

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aine’s forests have been, and continue to be, its greatest asset. Last January we published an article outlining the economic impact of the pulp and paper industry, but Maine’s forestland supports many more economic activities. From recreation and tourism to saw mills, wafer board production, and wood pellet mills, the impact of this resource is diverse and profound.

Maine has the largest percentage of forestland in the country. Don Mansius of the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry points out that there is a difference between forestland and timberland. “Timberland refers to acreage that can be harvested while forestland would also include acreage that is in resource protection,” he says.

Maine has 17 million acres of timberland and a history of harvesting these acres in a sustainable way. Timberland

becomes certified for sustainable forest practice by meeting the criteria for designation of either the Forest Stewardship Council or the Sustainable Forest Initiative. Eight million of Maine’s 17 million acres is certified for sustainable forest practices. This high percentage stems from Maine’s longtime practice of protecting this valuable resource.

A number of studies have been conducted over the years to assess the economic impact of Maine’s forest. A 2001 study by the North East State Foresters Association found that people spend over $1.2 billion annually on forest based recreation in Maine. Another study done by Maine state economist Michael Levert in 2009 ranked Maine and Oregon as having the highest percentages of jobs that are related to forest products. This would include employment in the pulp and paper industry. Raw figures from the State Forestry Department are also impressive.

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recreation in hermon Each year, Maine harvests 2.7 million green tons of saw logs, which equates to 466 million board feet of softwood and 158 million board feet of hardwood. This would represent 1.3 to 1.4 million cords of wood.

In 2010, the U.S. Census Bureau’s annual survey measured Maine’s valueadded wood-product manufacturing at $776 million; furniture and related product manufacturing totaled a bit over $171 million. These figures do not include pellet manufacturing or biomass plants.

Adding those businesses would easily push the figure over $1 billion.

The Maine Department of Labor’s employment figures for 2010 show that forestry and logging employ 2,455, woodproduct manufacturing employ 4,103, and furniture and related product manufacturing employ 1,091. These 7,649 jobs equal over $283 million in wages. Again, these figures do not include biomass and pellet production.

As is the case with the pulp and paper industry, the multiplier effect makes the impact of these industries even greater.

Some of the multiplier jobs are in the related industry of forest management.

Bangor companies Prentiss & Carlisle and Seven Islands Land Company, and Old Town companies James W. Sewall Company and Huber Resources Corp. have been managing timber resources in Maine for decades. Although these companies have been in the same business for years, that business has changed.

“The large tracts used to be predominantly owned by paper companies,” says David Edsen of Sewall. “Today we are managing for equity investors and their objectives are different.”

Most of Maine is touched by the forest products industry, whether you are a logger in Fort Kent or a lawyer in Portland, says Pat Strauch, executive director of the Maine Forest Products Council.

“Roughly one in every 20 jobs in Maine is associated with our industry, and its impact is greatly magnified in the state’s rural areas,” Strauch says. “The forest economy includes pulp and paper mills, sawmills, loggers, truckers, biomass energy plants, and more than 17 million acres of forestland.”

When you take into account all the different aspects of the forest products economy, you see that it is the backbone of the Maine economy. This is particularly true in the Bangor Metro Region.

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Transforming and Saving Lives Eastern Maine AIDS Network provides a beacon of light for the area’s population who battle HIV/AIDS. By Tom Avila-beck 16 / Bangor Metro September 2013

Sharon Paul and Sean Weber outside the Eastern Maine Aids Network office in Bangor.

(PCHC) in July 2010, EMAN’s mission is to improve the lives of those impacted by HIV/AIDS by providing support services; actively promoting education, prevention, and confidential HIV testing; and advocating to attain fair and effective programs and policies.

This might make the work that EMAN is doing seem very tidy, but that notion is quickly dispelled by simply asking the in-

of the universities. Wherever they’ll invite us in. We test a wide range of ages, from 18 and into the 70s and 80s.”

Paul also oversees EMAN’s needle exchange program, which helps ensure the proper disposal of used hypodermic needles. Weber is quick to reinforce the importance of the education work and programs like the needle exchange, programs that have been controversial

“We sit and listen, and talk, and they cry, or they scream, or laugh, and they know that someone heard them for that day.”

—Sean Weber

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T

o many, the most instantly recognizable occupants of Bangor’s Intown Plaza are the bakery and the Robert O’Cupcake toy store.

Folks dashing in for one of Gosselin’s famous doughnuts likely don’t give a second glance to the nondescript glass door just down the row, but they should. That’s where the Eastern Maine AIDS Network (EMAN) is, without any exaggeration, transforming and saving lives.

A nonprofit, community-based agency that was started in 1987 and merged with Penobscot Community Health Care

dividuals who work there what it is they do. Make no mistake, the pause and deep intake of breath is not because there is any confusion about how the staff spends their days; it’s because the list is exhaustive.

“We’re an agency here to help people who are infected with HIV/AIDS,” says Sean Weber, M.ED, LCPC-C, EMAN’s program manager/case manager. “They don’t need a referral, and they don’t need an appointment. They can just walk in and say, ‘I have HIV, and I need help.’

“We can help them find housing,” Weber explains. “We can help them get a primary care doctor, get them an appointment with an infectious disease doctor, help with dental issues, food and nutrition issues, legal issues, mental health issues, or substance abuse issues. We can help them find insurance.

We can help them find a way to get their medications paid for, and we have a food pantry that our clients can access in an emergency.” Here Weber trails off, clearly trying to think of what he’s missed rather than actually having completed the vast catalog of services EMAN provides.

Weber’s colleague Sharon Paul oversees another aspect of EMAN’s work, teaching people how to avoid contracting HIV/AIDS and providing testing services for HIV/AIDS and, since early this year, Hepatitis C. “I’m a prevention educator and outreach worker,” Paul says. “I do HIV testing here in the office and at different places in the community: the methadone clinic, the jail, the homeless shelter, some

when introduced in some areas. “I’ve been here going on five years and we’ve not had one needle exchanged test positive for HIV,” Weber says. “Now imagine that program going away. Now you have thousands of needles going back out into the community, being re-shared, people being stuck, now you have an increase in HIV and Hepatitis C and you’re starting this fight all over again.”

EMAN has a grant that allows it to do outreach and education with medical providers throughout the state, working everywhere from Kittery to Madawaska.

They host conferences and workshops to ensure that medical providers and professionals—a group that ranges from doctors and nurses to dentists and pharmacists—have access to the most up-todate information possible. Among these is one of the largest HIV/AIDS conferences in New England that focuses on serving the Native American community.

“Outreach can be difficult,” says Paul, who is both Native American and HIVpositive. “Trust is an issue. Bringing people in from the outside, who don’t have our experiences, to tell us what we need or want doesn’t work. It’s about showing respect, which is a big thing in our community.”

Respect is also an important part of the greater culture at EMAN, treating everyone that walks through the door with dignity. “So many of our clients are treated badly,” Paul says. “But we really care about their well-being. weFister haven’t seen Dr. If Carey and one of someone in a while, weher worry if patients. they’re pediatric www.bangormetro.com Bangor Metro / 17

doing alright and if they’re taking care of themselves.”

“Some of our HIV/AIDs clients just want to come in to get a hug,” Weber adds. “They want to know that some-

“ ...it takes a toll on the body, it takes a toll on our health care system, it takes a toll on our communities and a toll on future generations.”

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one is there to talk with them. So we sit and listen, and talk, and they cry, or they scream, or laugh, and they know that someone heard them for that day.”

Not surprisingly, chief among the challenges that EMAN faces is funding. Many grants and opportunities are designed to provide assistance to urban centers. Maine’s small and relatively homogeneous population makes it difficult to make the case for funding, particularly when competing with organizations serving large, recognizably diverse cities like Boston or New York.

Add to that the fact that HIV/AIDS is not receiving the attention it once did.

For much of the 1980s and 1990s, HIV/ AIDS was an inescapable part of daily conversation. It was the subject of countless newspaper and magazine articles, movies and television miniseries. It was virtually impossible to walk down the street without seeing someone sporting a red ribbon on their lapel.

That’s no longer the case, which leaves the impression that, in the U.S. at least, HIV/AIDS is no longer an issue.

Weber debunks that myth.

“The numbers are not decreasing,” says Weber. “They’re increasing. Yes, HIV/AIDs has become more of a chronic condition, but it takes a toll on the body, it takes a toll on our healthcare system, it takes a toll on our communities and a toll on future generations. And it’s preventable. It’s a completely preventable disease.”

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Mind over Matter If you can learn to think you are amazing, you will be.

By Emilie Brand Manhart

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have found the secret to staying fit.

No matter what you are doing for exercise, do something that makes you not only proud of yourself, but impressed with yourself, and you will stay motivated. When your alarm goes off in the morning, you have to think that you are the most amazing, athletic character to ever grace the quiet streets of your neighborhood. You need to imagine video montages of yourself working hard and getting stronger. You need run while listening to the song “Hall of Fame.” “You can be the greatest. You can be the best. You can be the King Kong banging on your chest.”

You need to have delusions of grandeur.

When my two children were very, very young, and I wanted to get back into shape and reclaim my body, I decided that I wanted to run a race. The main problem was that I could not run—not even a quarter of a mile without stopping (and gasping and swearing). But I was determined, and my pre-pregnancy jeans did not fit me, so I had some work to do. I chose a run-walk program that gradually transitions from mostly walking to mostly running. The program called for four 25-minute run/walks a week, and getting out of the house for even that much time was a huge deal for me as a new mommy.

After six weeks of shuffling slowly around my neighborhood and fantasizing about finish lines, I ran the full 25 minutes without stopping. And I burst into tears right there in my driveway, be-

cause I had met my first goal. I also ran the slowest two miles in the history of the universe, but I didn’t care. I believed for years and years that I could never run, and I had run. I was pretty impressed with myself.

To celebrate, I ran a 5K. After I crossed my first finish line (and made myself cry again), I was officially hooked. Setting goals and meeting them, working hard, getting sweaty—it all felt so good to me.

Next I trained for and completed a sprint triathlon, then I lost my mind a little and signed up for a half marathon (13.1 miles).

My children are now six and eight, and I have completed 16 half marathons, four full marathons, and seven triathlons.

And while no one else is moved to tears at the sight of me finishing these races (except my mother), I always cry tears of joy at the finish line. Every time.

I am slow, so I’m just proud to finish a race—always near the back of the pack.

I’ve never even gotten close to winning an age-group award or gaining any sort of official recognition. And I’m not sure why I get emotional about my modest fitness life. I think it’s that I had spent my first 30-ish years convinced I could never do anything competitive or athletic, and now training and racing are a huge part of my life, and, well, it makes me teary.

Most races give out a finisher’s medal at the end. I covet these medals, and to me it does not matter that everyone who hauls him- or herself across that fin-

ish line gets one. My six-year-old is still thrilled every time I bring home a medal because he thinks that “Mommy won!”

My eight year old is onto me; she points out, “Everyone gets one, right Mom?” “Right kiddo, and I will let you touch my medal if you’re good.”

In between races, I just try to find time to run, bike, or swim as often as I can.

Sometimes I’m out for a run and it feels really slow, or especially painful. I just say to myself, “Good job. You have a really busy day today and you got in some sweat anyway.” You don’t have to be fast or talented or have some perfect body to have a fit life. You just have to find your own measures of personal glory. You just have to learn to think you are amazing, that you can do anything.

Whether you’re ready to get into shape or ready to take your fitness to a new level, set a goal. When you meet that goal, because you will, give yourself some love.

Tell yourself you’re the champion. Flex your muscles in the mirror. Make yourself the star of your own fitness story.

You will impress yourself when you cross your finish line and set your sights on the next one. But don’t forget to pack your tissues.

Emilie Brand Manhart is a mom, runner, and triathlete who co-chairs the English Department at Bangor High School and writes the blog One Mom in Maine. www.bangormetro.com Bangor Metro / 19

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Maine Maritime Academy offers a robust, handson learning experience for students who love the sea, whether it’s learning how to navigate the ocean or how to protect it from climate change.

By Craig Idlebrook

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en Stevens’ freshman year at Maine Maritime Academy didn’t go as planned. While many freshmen in Maine were worrying about their classroom finals, Stevens was aboard a ship, the Training Ship State of Maine, fighting for his future.

An Islesford resident, Stevens enrolled in Maine Maritime Academy because it offered a strong career path, with job placement above 90% after graduation. Once enrolled, he joined the school’s regiment of midshipmen, a program with a military-like bearing that’s mandatory for maritime school students vying to hold a license in marine engineering and marine operations. About half of Maine Maritime’s students are part of the regiment.

“I mentally prepared myself like I was going to go military,” Stevens says. “It turned out to be a lot easier than I expected it to be.”

Stevens’ first academic year in the classroom was a success, and he made the Dean’s List. Then he climbed aboard the State of Maine, the school’s 500-foot training vessel, for a two-month voyage that freshmen and juniors take. Somewhere at sea, his kidneys started to shut down, a reaction to an infection. He was rushed ashore to the John Hopkins Hospital in Maryland, where he was told he was close to needing dialysis. www.bangormetro.com Bangor Metro / 21

Getting out on the water is one of the many recreation opportunities available through the college’s 27 clubs and organizations.

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The MMA campus is comprised of 35 acres in the coastal village of Castine, including waterfront for the college’s 60 training, research, and pleasure vessels.

Stevens recovered, but he faced a new hurdle. He had three days to study for and take the required onboard exams, or he faced repeating much of his freshman year. The course of study was structured in a way that it made it impossible to advance academically without completing the ship-time experience. He climbed aboard and went straight to the engine room to cram, but he wasn’t alone. Several shipmates stood by him and offered a step-by-step tutorial to prepare him.

“People in the regiment, we become really close friends,” Stevens says. “Even if you don’t become friends, everybody’s got everybody else’s back.”

Stevens passed, and he says his freshman experience has changed his career path. He has signed up for the U.S. Navy ROTC program.

“The whole serve-your-country thing kind of got me,” Stevens says.

A Legacy At Sea The Maine Maritime Academy (MMA) in Castine was established by an act of Maine’s 90th legislature, and it welcomed its first class shortly before the U.S. formally entered World War II. With the draft, the U.S. hungered for more trained merchant marines to ship goods—and later military supplies—around the world.

The academy’s first class numbered just

29 students, but 384 students eventually saw action at sea by the end of the war.

With its training vessel, the State of Maine, the school has kept Maine’s seafaring and shipping tradition alive, says Nathan Lipfert, chief curator at the Maine Maritime Museum, which is not connected with the school. In the 19th

the discipline of the regiment program.

“The whole regiment program was incredibly appealing to me: Just the structure, the standards, the way people talk about Maine Maritime,” she says.

Fouquette’s time at sea was a cornerstone of her schooling at the academy. In addition to the two voyages on the State

The student population now stands at just over 900 students made up of both seafarers and landlubbers. century, Maine had a thriving shipping industry, bringing ice and wood to the South in schooners and returning with cocoa and tropical goods. By World War I, without a steel fleet, most of that activity disappeared. By having a training vessel that provides at-sea experience for license-seeking mariners, the school has ensured Mainers continue to roam the seas, Lipfert says.

The school’s nautical legacy and its hands-on training style remain a huge draw for many incoming students, like Angela Fouquette, a New Gloucester student finishing her studies in marine systems engineering this coming school year. Fouquette says she also was drawn to

of Maine, students like Fouquette are required to have a practical experience on other shipping vessels or in land-based engineering and power-production jobs during their sophomore year. Fouquette says the school experience has given her a wealth of hands-on experience and some unforgettable memories.

“I love talking about what I’ve done because so few people can do what we get to do,” Fouquette says.

MMA is much more than uniformed students at sea, however. In fact, the school would not have survived if that were all there was to it. In the 1970s, enrollment fluctuated wildly, tied to the ups and downs of a shipping industry www.bangormetro.com Bangor Metro / 23

buffeted by the oil crises of the decade.

The school’s leaders saw a need to expand academic offerings. MMA gained college accreditation and began to offer courses of study that are often oceanbased or engineering-based, but not tied to obtaining a Coast Guard license. The move worked and stabilized enrollment.

The student population now stands at just over 900 students, consisting of both seafarers and landlubbers.

About half of the students on campus pour into non-regiment academic disciplines such as the Corning School of Ocean Studies, a division established at the school in the mid-1990s. Ann Cleveland, chair of the department, says the 24 / Bangor Metro September 2013

non-regiment-based departments are founded on the school’s same practical, hands-on ethos. Cleveland’s students do fieldwork, such as studying clown fish in the Philippines, and get out of the classroom as often as possible.

“We’re the best-kept secret in Maine,” Cleveland says.

Although each department’s students tend to bond closely, the school makes every effort to encourage regiment and non-regiment students to mix, both socially and academically. This fall, Cleveland will be team-teaching an honors seminar with a shipping captain and a humanities professor. She says the school knows how important it is for the

shipping captains of tomorrow to know how the ocean is being affected by climate change, for example.

“We’re saying that this is a system in flux and in trouble, and there are ways your chosen careers are going to affect the ocean,” Cleveland says.

MMA boasts a job placement rate of over 90% within three months after graduation. That’s in part due to a strong alumni network. Cianbro CEO Peter Vigue, a Maine Maritime alumnus, says it’s rare to go into a U.S. power plant and not find a Maine Maritime graduate among the ranks. Those alumni are often eager to hire the school’s graduates, he says. And the school’s reputation ex-

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from a lack of effort to make the school feel welcoming.

“The community is small,” she says.

“They look out for each other.”

It wasn’t always that way. Even after the 1972 Title IX ruling, which required schools that receive federal financial assistance to offer equal opportunity to all genders, U.S. maritime academies were reluctant to admit women. Dempsey was the first to try and succeed in 1976. In a way, she was uniquely qualified for the task. Growing up in Vermont, she had

been a tomboy and faced discrimination before. Dempsey’s father coached a Little League team, and she practiced with them. Come game time, however, she was forced to sit on the bench. Then, during one game, her father ran out of pitchers and put her on the mound.

“I was booed off the field by the parents of the other team,” she says.

Dempsey studied physical science in college, but it didn’t excite her, so she ended up piloting yachts for work. A family friend suggested she apply to MMA.

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feature story Applied technology laboratories, at-sea training opportunities, and cooperative education experiences are vital components to a Maine Maritime Academy education.

The school has made it a priority to boost female enrollment and retain those students once enrolled, says Dr. William Brennan, MMA’s president. Over the

“I love talking about what I’ve done because so few people can do what we get to do.”

—Angela Fouquette right time and the right thing to do, to take the plunge. Still, Dempsey says, it was not easy breaking the gender barrier.

“Being the only woman there was difficult, and you end up with a career that’s more about gender than being a professional mariner,” Dempsey says.

Despite the hurdles, Dempsey won over many professors and fellow classmates with her work ethic and skills. She was valedictorian of her graduating class and went on to forge a groundbreaking maritime career as a captain.

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years, that has meant making sure women are a strong presence in all faculty departments, doing away with exclusionary traditions, and striving to make every student feel supported.

“Our goal is to get the number of women in this community to a critical mass,” he says.

Even with those efforts the enrollment rate remains stubbornly low, and that rate is only as high as itCaption is because Caption please!!! caption of the high rates of women entering departcaption caption please. ments like Ocean Studies. The problem,

Brennan fears, is that aspects of the curriculum may not be as attractive to young high school women as are other programs. Still, those who do and complete their studies are uniquely qualified for the path ahead, says Dr. Elizabeth True, vice-president for student affairs and enrollment management at the school.

“These students will not be intimidated in future predominantly male work environments,” True says. “They are used to making valuable contributions even when in the minority.”

Sailing Ahead Dr. William Brennan took the reins of the school in 2010, and has been praised for his dynamic leadership. Under his watch, the school’s relationship with Castine has markedly improved, says Gus Basile, a Castine selectman.

“It’s excellent right now,” Basile says.

Recently, that relationship hit some choppy waters. In 2009, the town and the school ended up in court over a zoning

Photo: courtesy of Maine Maritime Academy

The timing was fortuitous. While some other maritime academies were resisting the inclusion of women, Maine Maritime’s administration decided it was the

dispute. The school had purchased a historic home off campus to use for the president’s residence. The town argued that the school was violating Castine zoning rules by having an official school building beyond campus. But a Maine Supreme Court judge ruled in favor of the school.

Castine officials and school officials say the dispute is far behind. Since then, the school has gone out of its way to improve relations with the town. Although it’s not required to pay taxes, Maine Maritime contributes something in the neighborhood of $130,000 a year to the town to help with shared infrastructure costs, says Basile. And both sides come together nearly every month for “town and gown” planning meetings. There’s even talk of undertaking a shared waterfront renovation project. Basile believes it’s helpful that both Brennan and his wife, Heather, have strong familial ties to the community. Brennan says reaching out to the town is just good policy.

“We’re neighbors, and that’s the way I approach this: Neighbors talk to neighbors,” Brennan says.

Also under Brennan’s term as president, the school has undertaken several groundbreaking projects in maritime power generation research. This spring, the school played a strong supporting role in helping erect the first U.S. offshore wind turbine tied to the power grid, VolturnUS. The project was a partnership with the University of Maine and Cianbro. The school also has obtained a permit for four test tidal-power installations in the Bagaduce River.

Maritime renewable energy offers a new and profitable career path for Maine Maritime graduates, and the practical experience they gain working on such projects at school will be invaluable in a developing field, Vigue says. “I think that the school is ripe for educating the next generation of renewable energy engineers,” Vigue says.

Such a field may at first seem a far cry from the school’s roots, but Vigue believes it’s right in line with the Maine Maritime tradition of rigorous, hands-on study. That, more than obtaining a Coast Guard license, is what the school is all about, he says.

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The Camden International Film Festival is fast becoming a must-do for documentary filmmakers and fans nationwide, thanks to hometown boy Ben Fowlie and his team of dedicated artists. By Henry Garfield

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idcoast Maine is a magnet for accomplished people From Away. But Ben Fowlie, founder and executive director of the Camden International Film Festival, is a local boy who went to high school with the sons and daughters of people who now sit on the festival’s board of directors. Or, as he puts it, “Some of my

biggest supporters are the same people who taught me how to play basketball.”

Fowlie’s father owns a convenience store in Camden and is a former state legislator. His grandfather worked for Dragon Cement in Rockland, and his grandmother worked in a fish plant. His mother’s family owned a five-and-dime store in Camden. www.bangormetro.com Bangor Metro / 31

feature story At the ripe young age of 32, Fowlie has steered the festival through its first nine years, seeing it become one of the top 20 showcases for documentary films in the world. This year’s festival, which runs from September 26 to 29, will feature more than 80 films, plus shorts, workshops, pitches, parties, and discussions at venues in Camden, Rockport, and Rockland. It’s a chance for film aficionados of all levels to see new documentary

sion-makers. A new feature this year is the first live-video pitch event in North America hosted by the New York Times for its “Op-Docs” forum: short, opiniondriven films between three and 10 minutes. Both the Points North and the New York Times pitch sessions are open to all attendees of the festival.

After graduating from Camden High School, Fowlie studied film at Emerson College in Boston. He interned at the

“Every filmmaker loves coming here, because one, Ben’s programming is tops, and two, you get to show your work to a local audience that’s smart and worldly.”

—Caroline von Kuhn films and rub shoulders with the people who make them.

“I’ve always liked Camden’s sense of community,” Fowlie says. “Like everyone else, I want to see people who grew up here stay here.”

The Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) is known as a filmmaker’s festival. At most of the screenings, the filmmakers are in attendance and available afterward to talk with the audience.

The festival also features a two-day forum called the Points North Pitch, where documentary filmmakers present worksin-progress to a panel of industry deci-

Nantucket Film Festival, but his primary creative outlet in those days was music. After college, he toured with a band, playing progressive, psychedelic postrock, but he maintained a strong interest in documentary film.

“Everyone wanted to go to L.A. and be the next Quentin Tarantino,” he recalls. “I didn’t want to be one of 200 people from my school doing that. I thought that there had to be another way to work in film and not go that route.”

The first Camden International Film Festival took place in 2005. Fowlie curated the films and invited several of his

college friends to help him get the festival off the ground. “This area seemed to be so supportive of the arts, with the Bay Chamber Concerts, the Camden Conference, the Maine Media Workshops,” he says. “The only thing that was really lacking was a cinematic arts culture. We had two good art houses in the Bayview Street Cinema and The Strand Theatre.

We decided to take the plunge.”

It was almost a one-and-done event.

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Photo: (left) Ben Krebs

Ben Fowlie (center) poses with filmmaker David Redmon and executive director of the LEF Foundation Lyda Kuth.

CIFF at The Strand Theatre in Rockland.

Photo: (Above) Kevin Kratka

The student population now stands at just over 900 students made up of both seafarers and landlubbers.

at a time, trying to go as big as we could,” Fowlie says. “We managed to raise barely enough money to cover our expenses.”

Then reality set in. “After the first year, we pulled the reins way back,” Fowlie says. “We screened 30 films the first year, 15 the second year. We literally cut our program in half. We were all 23, 24 years old. A few people left for paying jobs. It forced me to figure out how to make this work, to make it manageable for an even smaller group of people to put together.”

An important partner from the begin-

ning has been the University of Maine, which has offered a documentary arts course in conjunction with the festival since its first year. The course, simply titled “Camden International Film Festival Course,” is cross-listed in three departments. It’s team-taught by Tony Brinkley of the English department, Michael Grillo of the Art department, and Mike Scott of the New Media department. All students attend the festival as part of the course.

“The course has always been experimental,” Brinkley says. “Students create

their own documentary art—not always film, sometimes in writing or drawing or photography or music—in response to the festival. For me, it has been a fascinating opportunity to see what students, my colleagues, the filmmakers, and the festival discover from year to year.”

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University of Maine,” Fowlie says. “Just knowing that we had 40 students coming, we could guarantee filmmakers that we’d have people around to see their films.”

Prior to the fifth season he secured a grant to inaugurate the Points North Documentary Forum, bringing in people from the film industry. “Once we started to get some industry buzz, the festival took on a life of its own,” he says. “I’ve thankfully been able to cobble together an extremely talented staff, who have enabled me to re-envision what the organization could be.”

Now in its fifth season, CIFF’s Points North Documentary Forum, directed by Sean Flynn, has become New England’s largest gathering of documentary filmmakers and industry decision-makers.

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Flynn is a documentary film producer and cinematographer who has worked internationally in India, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the West Bank, specializing in socialissue films. In the fall, he will attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a research assistant and master’s candidate in interactive filmmaking.

The Points North program features workshops, panel discussions, exhibitions, and networking events. On Saturday, September 28, selected filmmakers will take the stage at the Camden Opera House and will be given exactly seven minutes to present a verbal pitch and a trailer or sample clips from works in progress. This pitch session is free and open to the public, providing a glimpse into the process of how documentary

films are developed and evaluated in their early stages.

Six selected filmmakers will be eligible to win the Points North Pitch Award, which includes a $1,000 cash prize and 60 hours of free sound mix or color correction services, worth approximately $10,000. Selected New England filmmakers will also be eligible for a separate prize, which includes three half-hour consultations with the Tribeca Film Institute and a $3,000 tuition scholarship to the Maine Media Workshops in nearby Rockport.

Past winners of the Points North Pitch Award include Jason Mann and Cecily Pingree, who made Betting the Farm; Jesse Epstein and Hannah Rosenzweig, who made Mosquito; and Mike Attie and Meghan O’Hara, who made In Country.

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Caroline von Kuhn is CIFF’s managing director. She’s also an independent film director whose first film, Like the Water, hit the festival circuit last year. The film was shot in Camden and featured the acclaimed Camden-raised actress Caitlin Fitzgerald. Von Kuhn has worked for the Tribeca Film Festival in New York and began hearing about Fowlie through the independent film grapevine.

“I came to the Points North pitch session last year as an audience member and fell in love with the experience,” she says. “The room was filled with people who didn’t necessarily know film but got to see the process.”

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Ben’s programming is tops, and two, you get to show your work to a local audience that’s smart and worldly,” von Kuhn says. “Filmmakers are enamored with this festival for all the right reasons. Other film festivals can be so massive that you’ll have a two-minute conversation at a cocktail party, exchange cards, and that’s it. Whereas here, people are sitting around a table, and concrete things for their film work are coming out of it.”

“It’s important to incorporate the artist within the community,” Fowlie says.

“That kind of dialogue and conversation can’t happen if you’re just screening work. It doesn’t really help the filmmaker if they’re not able to connect with their audience.”

Fowlie spends much of the year traveling to various film festivals and events, always on the lookout for material for the festival. At first, he researched and selected the films himself. But for the past several years, the festival has accepted submissions. As CIFF’s reputation grows, so does the number of submissions. Last

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year’s festival received about 350 submissions; this year the number is up to around 530.

“It’s pretty exciting that filmmakers are now contacting us,” von Kuhn says. “They want to premiere their films at CIFF.” And the local audience seems to want to see them. Many screenings sell out, and both Fowlie and von Kuhn say that the engagement of the community helps to make the weekend one of the highlights of the year in an area that already boasts many entertainment choices.

“We seem to have built an entire community of critics,” Fowlie says with a laugh. “They’re invested in the work, and I think the artists really appreciate it.”

“It’s fun to see people walking around town with their festival badges or gathered at a local coffee shop, discussing the films they’ve seen,” von Kuhn says.

A new feature of this year’s festival is a program called the Engagement Summit, a daylong program focusing on an issue of interest here in Maine. “The idea is to think of a thematic program that will engage Mainers throughout the year,” Fowlie says. “We want to bring together filmmakers, activists, advocates, and nonprofit organizations to create a strategic plan to utilize this media within their own communities.”

For its first year, the Engagement Summit will focus on aging. Films will highlight issues such as end-of-life care and the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. “It’s a timely issue in Maine; we’re the oldest state in the country,” Fowlie says. “It seemed like an important topic to start with.” The plan is to tour topical films around the state throughout the year and use them as a springboard for dialogue within and between Maine communities.

“We’re interested in furthering the conversation, and sharing what we do with a much larger population,” Fowlie says.

The festival has a 17-member board of directors, which Fowlie describes as engaged and supportive. “We’re still a young organization and want to make sure we’re maturing in the right way,” Fowlie says. “These are people who’ve given money, in some cases a lot of money, and definitely lots of time. But more importantly, over the past nine years, they’ve become really good friends.”

The festival program is announced

in late August, at about the same time this issue of Bangor Metro hits the newsstands. The festival itself runs from Thursday night to through Sunday night.

Workshops, pitch sessions, and discussions are held at the Camden Opera House, which serves as the nexus of the festival. Films are screened at the Opera House and the Bayview Street Cinema in Camden; The Strand Theatre and the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland; and this year, for the first time, at Union Hall in Rockport.

Tickets for individual films are $10. A festival pass gets you into all screenings and all events surrounding the Points North Documentary Forum. A VIP pass grants the same admissions as a festival pass, plus all special events and invitation-only parties. Festival and VIP passes are $75 and $150 until August 16, and $85 and $175 thereafter.

“We’ve been known to throw some decent parties, which I think is helpful,” Fowlie says. “The word ‘festival’ is in our title; it has to be a festive experience.”

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ake a drive through Greenville and you’ll notice a common theme: moose. There are moose lawn ornaments, moose silhouettes on mailboxes, signs, and in store windows. You can buy moose key chains, light-switch plates, socks, and Christmas tree ornaments. The town is crawling with moose memorabilia—and for good reason. Moose love Greenville as much as people do.

History The Piscataquis County town of Greenville was formed from humble and hard 38 / Bangor Metro September 2013

working hands. It was first called Township 9, Range 10, North of the Waldo Patent—T9 R10 NWP for short. In 1812, the land was granted to Saco’s Thornton Academy from the Massachusetts General Court. Nathaniel Haskell from Westbrook bought 11,000 acres of the grant in 1824 and began clearing trees near Wilson Pond, located about two miles east of present day Greenville village.

By 1827, Haskell built a house and sent for his family. He sold some of his land to others, including Isaac Sawyer, Edmund Scammon, Oliver Young, William Cummings, Enoch Shaw, and Ichabod Tufts.

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In 1831, the town was originally called Haskell Plantation, but it went through a couple of name changes—to Cuba and New Saco—before it was incorporated as Greenville in 1836.

Early inhabitants erected saw mills, gristmills, and farmed the land. They raised cattle, horses, and sheep, and grew hay and grain. From the forest they made masts for ships as well, as cedar and pine shingles for homes being built in the Bangor area.

By 1836, the land had been cleared along the shores of Moosehead Lake, and a village sprouted. Henry Gower cleared the land and built The Seboomook House hotel, which flourished as land speculators and lumbermen were making their way to the area. Gower opened the first store in 1845. One year later the town grew to include two houses, a couple of blacksmiths’ shops, and a schoolhouse.

The logging industry in the area started in the mid-1830s. Steamboats were integral to the logging operation, as they helped tow the logs across Moosehead Lake. Rail lines came through town in the summer of 1884, thanks to the Bangor and Piscataquis Railroad—which

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“I sort of fell in love with her. I don’t think there are many people who come to our region who go out on the Kate and don’t fall a little bit in love.”—Liz Cannell

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became the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad. The Canadian Pacific Railway came through the village in 1888. These rail lines helped to grow the logging industry in the area and also helped bring tourists to the woods.

Visitors then and now are drawn to Greenville for its beauty, but also for the outdoor adventure and relaxation the area provides.

Steamboats The very first steamboat to traverse the waters of Moosehead Lake was called the Amphitrite. She hit the water in 1846 and measured 90 feet long. Her top speed was six miles per hour. In the spring she towed logs, and in the fall she carried lumbermen and their supplies.

The increase of lumbering activity on Moosehead Lake eventually led to the need of a more powerful vessel. The Amphitrite was just too slow for business, and tourists wanted something with more class for their pleasure cruises.

In 1849 the steamship Moosehead was built to appease these tourists. She could cruise up to 14 miles per hour and had fine furnishings for a comfortable ride.

The Moosehead was used in the spring for towing logs, but she was exclusively a passenger ship in the summertime.

The very first Katahdin was a wooden hulled vessel and began operating in the summer of 1896. Its engines caught fire in 1913, and work on a replacement was soon underway by Bath Iron Works.

The second Katahdin was launched on

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A ride on The Katahdin is a great way to experience Moosehead Lake.

In 1993, it was determined that she needed more restoration. Elizabeth Noyce, a Maine philanthropist, and Louis Hilton, the ship’s primary benefactor, together seeded a $500,000 campaign for restoration by donating half of the money. The ship needed a new hull skin, shaft and propeller, main deck, electronic equipment, and roof.

While the Kate was in drydock, the Moosehead Marine Museum was being constructed on the site of the old Sawyer filling station—property owned by Louis Hilton. Bath Iron Works and Cianbro Inc. worked together on the new steel hull, and the Kate was back in the water in 1995. Just this past year, the boat had her keel reclad to be in tip-top shape for the season.

The Kate cruises Moosehead Lake from the last weekend in June to Columbus Day. On a clear day, cruisers can see a number of mountains, including Mount Kineo, the Spencer Mountains, Big Moose Mountain, and the majestic Mount Katahdin.

“People here feel a sense of ownership and pride in this boat,” says Liz Cannell, the executive director of the Moosehead Maritime Museum. As a teenager, Cannell, whose father was the executive director at the time, made her give tours on the Kate. “I sort of fell in love with her. I don’t think there are many people who come to our region who go out on the Kate and don’t fall a little bit in love.”

The Kate turns 100 years old in 2014, and Cannell and her board are already working on how to make next year’s season extra special.

August 20, 1914. This ship was 115 feet long and weighed 250 tons. It would haul booms of more than 6,000 logs in the spring, and ferry passengers throughout the summer. In 1935, Scott Paper Company bought the ship to haul log booms until the historic “Last Log Drive” on July 12, 1975.

In 1977, the Kate, as the ship is affectionately known, was given to the nonprofit Moosehead Marine Museum Inc., which couldn’t keep the ship afloat for long without the assistance of funds for repairs. Through grants and donations, the group financed repairs.

In 1985, the Kate was taking people on tours around the lake as a cruise ship on a regular basis.

But a ship this old doesn’t last forever.

Doing Business The birth of the paper industry in Maine in 1880 brought a surge of activity to the Greenville area. You won’t see logs floating on Moosehead Lake anymore, but the forest still attracts business. Mechanism changed the logging industry throughout the country, to make it more efficient and to require less manual labor. This transition has taken a toll on Greenville.

As a result, the town of Greenville has turned its focus on the tourism industry to strengthen its economic base.

“Greenville’s economy is centered around tourism,” says Amanda Hunt, the owner of Northwoods Camp Rentals and the president of the Moosehead Lake Region Chamber of Commerce. “Business

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owners need to find their niche on how to either bring people here on vacation or service them once they get here.”

Like many people who make Greenville their home, Hunt grew up in the area, moved away for college, and then moved back home. She worked at Northwoods Camp Rentals during the summers, holidays, and over spring breaks. When she graduated from the University of Maine in Orono in 1999, she had the opportunity to buy the business—and she took it. “I am fortunate to be able to live in an area where people want to come on vacation,” she says.

And what these vacationers want to do in Greenville is to see a real, live moose. Businesses have sprung up to make this dream a reality. You can take a moose safari ride on back roads or a wildlife canoe or kayak tour on the water.

While most people are happy to just see a moose—or a deer, beaver, hawk, etc.— there is a whole other group who likes to hunt them.

Where do you go to get your hunting or outdoor gear for your Greenville vacation? The Indian Hill Trading Post

is a good place to start. This outfitter and grocery store is many people’s first stop on the way into Greenville. Thirty-five years ago it was a small general grocery store that measured about 5,000 square feet. Today it is a 30,000 square foot supermarket and sporting goods store, owned by Craig Watte and his family.

“If it wasn’t for tourism, we wouldn’t be able to be here,” Watte says. Mother Nature plays into business big time in Greenville. If the deer population is low, hunters don’t come. If there’s no snow, snowmobilers stay home. “Bird hunting is huge, and fishing is doing really well right now. The lake is as healthy as it’s been in 25 years.”

Even the local hospital, Charles A. Dean Memorial Hospital, keeps the tourism industry in mind. They have to take the summer boost in population into consideration when planning their budget.

“Our biggest growth area is people aged 65 and older—people retiring to the area,” says Geno Murray, president and CEO. Even though C.A. Dean is the smallest hospital in the state, you’d never

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Greenville Village from the air.

know it by looking at the numbers. The hospital is the largest employer in the area with 170 employees at their three locations—the main hospital is in Greenville, and clinics are located in Monson and Sangerville. The 25-bed critical access hospital provides acute care, 24-hour emergency medical services (including an ambulance and full-service emergency department), diagnostic services, laboratory, digital imaging, CT scan, ultrasound, mammography, rehabilitation services, urology services, as well as podiatry, general, and orthopedic surgery.

They’ve received awards for their quality, patient satisfaction, and their website from state and local associations.

“The things we can do we want to do very well,” Murray says. “Every disease and injury has an entry level application in how you treat it. What we do on the front end matters through to recovery.

We are patient oriented and friendly.”

Murray is a local boy who has been with C.A. Dean for 32 years. He earned his EMS license in 1982. Although his role for the past 10 years has been on the administrative side, he still puts his paramedic license to good use. Murray’s biggest hurdle in overseeing a rural hospital is in resource management—it can be hard to recruit staff to Greenville. But what C.A. Dean can’t offer its patients can easily be remedied through telemedicine. For example, the Greenville hospital doesn’t offer psychiatric services on site, but they

can connect to Acadia Hospital, which, like C.A. Dean, is a member of Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems. A psychiatrist located in Bangor can consult with doctors and “visit” patients though their computers by using a program that works like Skype.

Because of their rural location, C.A. Dean sees more snowmobile trauma than any other hospital in the state. They have designated snowmobiles with an attached rescue sled that they use to get to patients along trails and other remote areas where a vehicle can’t go in the winter. C.A. Dean’s snowmobiles and ambulance carry GPS so that, if needed, LifeFlight can find them deep in the woods. “The fact that we can operate a hospital in Greenville, Maine and provide the amount of services that we offer the community is wonderful,” Murray says.

The Great Outdoors People have been enjoying the beauty of Greenville for centuries. Ninteenthcentury rusticators flocked to the area by stagecoach and rail to enjoy the fresh air, welcoming accommodations, Moosehead Lake, the surrounding mountains, and the relaxation and adventure that comes from the Maine woods.

The heyday of tourism happened between 1890 and 1934, when people flocked to the Mount Kineo Hotel, which was one of the premier resort hotels in the northeast. The Great Depression took

a toll on Greenville, and hotels in the area.

The Katahdin saw declining business, too. The onset of World War II also had a devastating affect on tourism activities in the region. But it’s coming back.

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A view of Greenville Village.

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native and is entrenched in the local community. He’s the chair of the economic development committee and is the president of the Moosehead Marine Museum.

“Greenville is a civic-oriented community—it’s what makes it great,” he says.

Muzzy worked in real estate for 20 years before joining Plum Creek, which expanded to Maine in 1998. Primarily a timber company, Plum Creek realized that some land that was just too valuable to harvest and would be better suited for recreational use that would lead to economic development.

In 2006, Plum Creek submitted the largest development plan the state had ever seen to the Land Use Regulation Commission. Their original proposal permanently protected more than 340,000 acres of land in the Mooshead region and proposed to sell 975 house lots, create two resorts, a golf course, a marina, a few campgrounds, and rental cabins. The plan was finally accepted in March 2012.

“We are the gateway to two million acres of land that’s never going to

change,” Muzzy says. “You can’t find that anywhere anymore.” An economy based on natural resources will bring in economic activity that is sustainable, Muzzy says. The major development of their approved plans is on hold for now, but what Plum Creek has been doing is working on their natural infrastructure.

“We have been implementing hiking trail construction. We have the opportunity to create a motorized and non-motorized trail system that will rival any on the eastern seaboard. Eight miles of trails that people can depend on year after year.”

Muzzy is passionate about the region and it’s natural resources, and for good reason. Moosehead Lake is the largest lake in Maine, and the largest mountain lake in the eastern United States. It’s about 40 miles by 10 miles with over 400 miles of shoreline. New ATV trails and top-notch cross-country and snowmobile trails draw people to the area all year long. Muzzy pulls out a map where he’s calculated the distance between Greenville and Freeport and Mount Desert Is-

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5th Annual Acadia Night Sky Festival Bar Harbor • September 26–30 Enjoy the pristine night skies of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park by stargazing on Cadillac Mountain, a picnic with the planets, or a boat cruise under the stars. Other activities include ranger-led talks, kids’ activities, and photographic workshops at venues, both indoors and outdoors.

40th Annual International Seaplane Fly-In Greenville • September 5–8 Every year, after Labor Day weekend, seaplanes from all over the world fly in to the Moosehead Lake Region.

The weekend will consist of float plane competitions, educational exhibits, the Moosehead Lake Region’s largest craft fair, and lots more.

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August 29-September 1 Country Bluegrass Fort Fairfield Bands from Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Nova Scotia will be on hand for this Labor Day weekend event. Ticket prices vary.

227-6242 • www.countrybluegrass.com August 29-September 2 Blue Hill Fair Blue Hill Situated in the small coastal town of Blue Hill, the Blue Hill Fair is a true “down to earth” country fair. Always scheduled around Labor Day weekend, the fair boasts some of the finest entertainment, attractions, and exhibits.

374-3701 • www.bluehillfair.com August 30-September 1 Camden Windjammer Festival Camden The magnificent festival begins on Friday, as the schooner fleet arrives. The festival will be complete with family activities, a build-a-boat contest, lobster-crate races, a maritime heritage fair, a Sea Dog show, pirates, boat open houses, a schooner crew talent show, and fireworks.

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Events August 30-September 2 Springfield Fair Springfield Fairgrounds This year’s Springfield Fair is returning, with bigger and better carnival rides.

And don’t miss a performance by Travis and Tim Humphrey and American Idol Finalist Ayla Brown. 8 am-8 pm. $12; $25 per carload.

738-2888 • www.katahdinmaine.com August 31-September 1 Eastport Salmon Festival Eastport Celebrate some of Maine’s most delicious specialties at the Eastport Salmon Festival. The weekend event focuses on the salmon aquaculture industry; fish and shellfish specialties, such as oysters on the half-shell; chowders of all kinds; and other delicious foods. Peruse wonderful Maine arts and crafts, green-living vendors, and watch craftsmen as they demonstrate their talents.

853-4644 • www.eastportchamber.net August 31-September 1 Vintage Motorcycle Meet & Antique Aeroplane Show Owls Head Transportation Museum This is a much anticipated annual gathering of up to 250 antique and classic bikes. 9:30 am-5 pm. $15 adults; free for children under 18.

594-4418 • www.ohtm.org September 1 Windjammer Sea Dog Show Camden Public Landing P.A.W.S. Animal Adoption Center’s annual event is open to well-behaved canines of all ages and breeds. Prizes will be awarded in several different categories. 11 am.

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Enjoy the spectacular fall colors on a fun, fast, and furious rafting trip. 8:30 am.

474-3621 www.skowheganchamber.com September 2, 9, 16, 23, & 30 Historic Rockland Walking Tour Rockland Take a self-guided tour through neighborhoods of homes and buildings on the Historic Register, stopping at four historic inns of Rockland. Proceeds support Pies on Parade, a fundraiser for Rockland’s food pantry. Ticket purchase includes a cookbook and light refreshments. 12:30-3:30 pm. $15; $25 per couple.

596-6611 September 2 Flash! In the Pans Ellsworth Ramada Inn The Flash! In the Pans community steel pan band will perform their infectiously entertaining music at their last outdoor concert for the season. 7:30-9 pm.

326-9227 • www.flashinthepans.org September 2 Toby Keith with Kip Moore and The Mallett Brothers Band Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion, Bangor Toby Keith brings his Hammer Down Tour to Bangor on Labor Day, with special guests Kip Moore and the Mallett Brothers Band. Gates open at 5 pm. $38-$102.

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road race. 10:30 am.

768-4982 • www.pichamber.com September 4-22 Fox on the Fairway Bangor Opera House A tribute to the great Broadway farces of the 1930s and 1940s, Ken Ludwig takes the classic farce genre and applies it to the modern world.

942-3333 • www.penobscottheatre.org September 5-8 40th Annual International Seaplane Fly-In Moosehead Lake and Greenville Airport After every Labor Day weekend, seaplanes from all over the world fly in to the Moosehead Lake Region. The weekend will consist of float plane competitions, educational exhibits, the Moosehead Lake Region’s largest craft fair, and lots more.

695-2928 September 6 8th Annual Belfast Garden Club Open Garden Days Troy Howard Middle School, Belfast Let teacher Jon Thurston and his middle school students show you over 100

Music varieties of vegetables and flowers. This is the last event of the season for the Belfast Garden Club Open Garden Days, so don’t miss it. 10 am-4 pm.

338-3105 • www.belfastgardenclub.org September 6 First Friday Art Walk Bar Harbor Enjoy art at venues all over downtown Bar Harbor. This dynamic downtown gala showcases a wide variety of fine art and craft, with special theater and music performances throughout the town. 6-9 pm.

288-9428 • www.barharborinfo.com September 6 & 21 Mount Hope Cemetery Tour Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor Take a tour of the second oldest garden cemetery in the country. Walk along the trails and hear stories about some of Bangor’s more famous people who have been laid to rest at the cemetery.

5 pm Friday; 10 am Saturday. $10 adult; $5 children under 12; free for children under 5.

947-5205 www.visitbangormaine.com

museums Aroostook County Caribou Historical Society Caribou 498-2556 • www.cariboumaine.net Hancock County Abbe Museum Bar Harbor 822-3519 • www.abbemuseum.org George B. Dorr Museum of Natural History Bar Harbor 288-5015 • www.coamuseum.org Knox County Coastal Children’s Museum Rockland 596-0300 www.coastalchildrensmuseum.org Farnsworth Art Museum & Wyeth Center Rockland 596-6457 www.farnsworthmuseum.com 48 / Bangor Metro September 2013

Maine Lighthouse Museum Rockland 594-3301 www.mainelighthousemuseum.com Owls Head Transportation Museum Owls Head 594-4418 • www.ohtm.org Penobscot County Hudson Museum at the University of Maine Orono 581-1901 www.umaine.edu/hudsonmuseum Maine Discovery Museum Bangor 262-7200 www.mainediscoverymuseum.org University of Maine Museum of Art Bangor 561-3350 • www.umma.maine.edu

September 7 Lawn Chair Concert Series: Stesha Cano Winterport 4Points BBQ & Blues House is hosting a performance by Stesha Cano as part of their Lawn Chair Concert Series.

6-9 pm.

223-9929 • www.4pointsbbq.com September 7 Annual Brennen Lowe Memorial Golf Tournament Causeway Club, Southwest Harbor Each year, more than 40 golfers come together for a fun morning of golf, followed by awards, prizes, and a delicious lunch. Proceeds benefit the Brennen Lowe Scholarship Fund and Harbor House youth sports. 8 am-2 pm. $80; $300 per team of four.

244-3713 • www.harborhousemdi.org September 7 Camden Snow Bowl Public Chairlift Rides Camden Snow Bowl There might not be any snow on the ground, but the chairlifts are running to the summit of Ragged Mountain, providing a spectacular view of the coastal mountains of Maine. Mountain bikers welcome. 10 am-5 pm. $5 per ride; $15 unlimited rides.

236-3438 • www.camdensnowbowl.com September 7 Paint Bangor Day Bangor Public Library Attend this community event, where artists of all ages and abilities are invited to paint Bangor as they see it. 6-8 pm.

947-8336 • www.bpl.lib.me.us September 7 Bangor Car Show: Wheels on the Waterfront Bangor Waterfront Hundreds of classic cars will be on display at this annual Bangor event. Car owners and oglers alike will be certain to enjoy the events, including a drive-inthemed dinner and an appearance by a celebrity, who’s a fanatic for classic cars.

8 am-2 pm.

947-5205 • www.visitbangormaine.com September 7 A.E. Robinson Fall Golf Classic Dover-Foxcroft The A.E. Robinson Fall Golf Classic is a

much anticipated yearly event. Teams from around the region compete for glory and prizes to support the work of the Piscataquis Regional YMCA. 564-7111 • www.prymca.org September 7 11th Annual Medieval Tournament Fort Knox, Prospect Knights in armored combat, medieval music, arts and science displays, and an archery demonstration will be featured at this event-packed day. 10 am-4 pm. $5 per vehicle donation requested.

469-6553 www.fortknox.maineguide.com September 7 Orono Festival Day Orono Spend the day in Orono at this festival, which features a 5K run, vendors, children’s activities, canoe trips on the Stillwater River, a ropes-course adventure, and a beer garden, with live music at night.

866-2556 • www.orono.org

September 7 & 8 Life in the American Revolution Leonard’s Mills, Bradley Reenactors bring Revolutionary War history to life at Leonard’s Mills. See for yourself how people in Maine (then a part of Massachusetts) lived during colonial times. 10 am-3 pm. $10 adults; $5 children.

974-6278 • www.leonardsmills.com September 7 & 8 Bangor Gun Show Cross Insurance Center, Bangor With over 100 vendors gathering at the new Cross Insurance Center, this yearly event, hosted by the Penobscot County Conservation Association, is a must-see.

9 am-5 pm Saturday; 9 am-2 pm Sunday. $7-$8; free for children under 12. www.conservationassociation.org September 7 & 21 High Water Release: Kennebec River The Forks The Kennebec River Gorge is one of the most beautiful in the East, with

Tastings offered daily. For more information visit us at MAINEWINE.COM The Winery: 367 Youngtown Road, Lincolnville, Maine 04849, (207) 763-4478 The Villa: 47 West Street, Rockport, Maine 04856, (207) 236-2654

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steep rock walls covered in conifers on both sides, and waves that are 4- to 6-feet high as a result of the high water release. Enjoy a hearty meal after a day of paddling while watching a slideshow of the day’s adventures. $60-110.

663-2121 www.skowheganchamber.com September 7-14 BikeMaine Inaugural Tour Central, Coastal Maine In the inaugural BikeMaine ride, 350 riders will pedal across Maine’s varied landscapes on a fully supported ride, camping along the way in friendly and unique communities that will highlight what makes Maine great. The route begins and ends in Orono; riders will travel to Dover-Foxcroft, Belfast, Castine, Bar Harbor, and Ellsworth. www.bikemaine.org September 7-22 Rabbit Hole Camden Opera House The Everyman Theater is performing Rabbit Hole, which charts characters Becca and Howie Corbett’s bittersweet search for comfort in the darkest of places and for a path that will lead them back to the light of day. 7 pm.

470-7066 www.camdenoperahoue.com September 8 Pedal the Penobscot Road Ride Bangor Waterfront Bangor Land Trust needs your support to secure public access to local lands, conserve wildlife habitat, and maintain trails. Your participation shows that biking is fun and important, and it will help to make Bangor more bicycle friendly. Choose from 14-, 28-, 76-, and 100-mile routes.

942-1010 • www.bangorlandtrust.org September 8 Lawn Chair Concert Series: The Old Blues Kats Winterport 4Points BBQ & Blues House is hosting a performance by The Old Blues Kats as part of their Lawn Chair Concert Series.

6-9 pm.

223-9929 • www.4pointsbbq.com September 8 “Raise the Roof” Live Benefit Auction 50 / Bangor Metro September 2013

Music for Historic Hammond Hall Winter Harbor Proceeds from this auction will benefit historic Hammond Hall, home of Schoodic Arts. 1 pm.

963-7955 • www.acadia-schoodic.org September 8 10th Annual Maine Wienerfest Steamboat Landing, Belfast Come see these little dogs who think big!

Enjoy the Long Dog Derby, The Grand Parade, and the Earthdog events. There will be a parade, costume contest, races, food, vendors, and more. 12-4 pm. $2. www.friendsofbelfastparks.org September 8-14 Lobsterpalooza Penobscot Bay Region Tie on your lobster bibs for this weeklong shell-cracking celebration, which will have you eating lobster morning, noon, and night. In addition to eating Maine’s favorite crustacean, events include a lobstermen’s talent show, the chance to pull traps, and children’s activities. The week ends with a Lobster in the Street Party, complete with lobster tastings, live music, games, contests, and fun for the whole family. www.mainelobsterpalooza.com September 10 Bangor Greendrinks Bangor If you have an interest in building community around green businesses, organizations, and ideas in the Bangor area, attend this fun, monthly gathering of green-minded people. Location TBD. 5-8 pm. www.bangorgreendrinks.org September 10 WoodenBoat Sail-In Brooklin The fall gathering of the fleet takes place on the waterfront at the WoodenBoat School. This annual event includes live music, local refreshments, and boat school tours–not to mention a harbor full of schooners.

1-800-807-WIND www.sailmainecoast.com September 10 & 24 Devil’s Half-Acre Tour Bangor Waterfront Discover Bangor’s historic site of vice

and violence, known as the Devil’s Half-Acre, where, despite Maine’s 1851 Prohibitory Law, saloons and drinking establishments thrived in Bangor alongside brothels and overcrowded tenements. Recommended for adults only. 7 pm.

947-5205 www.visitbangormaine.com September 11 All-Day Sail & Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse Tour Camden Public Landing Celebrate Maine Lighthouse Week by taking a full-day sail to the Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse. Food and refreshments will be provided.

9:45 am-5 pm. $125.

236-2323 • www.maineschooners.com September 13 The Avett Brothers with Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion, Bangor Come see The Avett Brothers, Trombone Shorty, and Orleans Avenue. Gates open at 5 pm. $32-$58.

800-745-3000 www.waterfrontconcerts.com September 13 Fairmount Cemetery Walking Tour Fairmount Cemetery, Presque Isle The one-hour walking tour of Fairmont Cemetery offers a glimpse of Presque Isle’s history and some of its better known citizens who have been laid to rest there. 5:30 pm. $5.

762-6333 • www.pihistory.org September 13 Comedy Show Spectacular Event Center Comedians Michael Cho and Kyle Crawford will take the stage for a night of laughs. Doors open at 7:30 pm. $15.

941-8700 www.spectaculareventcenter.com September 13 & 14 Spyder, Motorcycle, & ATV Rally Jackman Come and participate at the first Moose Lodge International Spyder, Motorcycle, and ATV rally. It will be an exciting, extreme event. $30 610-476-1616 www.mooselodgespyder.eventbrite.com

Evans, learning about the history of the vessel—built in 1886—and how the captain and crew are keeping this national treasure alive. 1-3 pm.

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garlic growers alike join together to enjoy a day of entertainment, celebrate the harvest, and raise money for local nonprofit organizations. 11 am-5 pm. $5.

288-0269 • www.nostrano.com

September 14 15th Annual MDI Garlic Festival Smugglers Den Campground, Southwest Harbor This festival is all things garlic!

Restaurants, musicians, brewers, and

September 14 Steel Magnolia Gracie Theatre, Bangor Band members Meghan Linsey and Joshua Scott Jones perform hits from their debut DC featuring their bracing

September 14 Lawn Chair Concert Series: Maine Street R&B Revue Winterport 4Points BBQ & Blues House is hosting a performance by Maine Street R&B Revue as part of their Lawn Chair Concert Series. 6-9 pm.

223-9929 • www.4pointsbbq.com September 14 Open House Aboard Schooner Isaac H. Evans North End Shipyard, Rockland Enjoy a rare opportunity to step aboard historic tall ship Isaac H.

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September 13-15 6th Annual Trails End Festival Millinocket Save the date for the Trails End Festival, now in its sixth year. The Mallett Brothers will perform, along with other wonderful music groups. There will be food, fun, vendors, and children’s activities that will be sure to entertain everyone who attends.

723-4443 • www.katahdinmaine.com

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we’re anything but business as usual “The City has been very supportive and helpful in offering its assistance to help us grow and be successful, particularly with our recent acquisition of Summit Environmental Consultants. We have excellent longstanding relationships with many City staff who are great to work with, and overall, we’ve found that the City is very approachable and sensitive to our business needs. The City works extremely hard to help local companies succeed.”

—Denis St. Peter, President, CES, Inc.

L to R: Denis St. Peter, PE, President/CEO, and Jeff Teunisen, PLS, Executive Vice President

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take of “Keep On Lovin’ You,” which was the highest charting debut single by a co-ed duo in Billboard history. 7:30 pm. $25-$32.

941-7051 • www.gracietheatre.com September 14 Sunset Dinner Sail on Schooner Isaac H. Evans North End Shipyard Help the crew raise the sails, take a turn at the helm, and enjoy a hearty meal prepared on the ship’s wood-burning stove. 3:30-6:30 pm. $65.

594-7956 September 14 Molly the Trolley Citywide Tour Presque Isle Enjoy this 3-hour citywide tour on Molly the Trolley. The tour will begin at the historic fire station. 9 am. $5.

762-6300 • www.pihistory.org September 14 The Bangor YMCA Annual Gala & Auction Cross Insurance Center, Bangor Help the Bangor YMCA continue to support the community at their annual gala and auction. Funds raised will go toward community programs and scholarships, to help those in need. 5 pm.

941-2808 • www.bangory.org September 14 5th Annual Maine Open Lighthouse Day Lighthouses Statewide Over 20 lighthouses throughout the state of Maine participate in this special event, now in its fifth year. Take the opportunity to see, by guided or self-guided tours, the operations of a lighthouse, keepers’ houses and light towers. 9 am-3 pm.

594-4174 • www.lighthouseday.com September 14 SoulQuest 2013: Casting Crowns with Kutless & The Wrecking Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion, Bangor Christian rockers will take the Bangor waterfront by storm for this year’s SoulQuest music festival. Gates open at 5 pm. $38-$73.

800-745-3000 www.waterfrontconcerts.com

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Music September 14 Maine Open Lighthouse Day Deer Isle Visit eight lighthouses on the Deer Isle Lighthouse Trail. There will be boat tours, car tours, and airplane tours.

U.S. Lighthouse Society passports and official passport stamps available.

348-6124 • www.deerisle.com September 14 Pike Lands Applefest Lubec Explore the apple trees at the Pike Lands. This is an all-ages event that starts with exploring and picking apples, but it doesn’t stop there. Learn more about this amazing fruit as gets transformed into apple jelly and pressed into fresh apple cider. Please bring jelly jars, if making jelly. 11 am.

255-4500 www.downeastcoatalconservancy.org September 14 & 15 The Healing Co-Op 2nd Annual Holistic & Wellness Fair Fort Knox, Prospect Come learn and experience a holistic approach to wellness. Featured methods include reiki, massage therapy, chakra clearing, guided meditation, intuition and vibrational healing, and more.

Guest speakers will present throughout the day. 9 am-4 pm.

478-8725 • www.thehealingco-op.com September 15 Maine Open Winery Day Savage Oakes Vineyard & Winery, Union Join many of the 21 Maine Winery Guild members as they welcome visitors to enjoy a behind-the-scenes look at how wine, mead, and other fermented and distilled beverages are being made here in Maine. 11 am-4 pm.

785-2828 • www.savageoakes.com September 15 Lawn Chair Concert Series: Juke Rockets Blues Band Winterport 4Points BBQ & Blues House is hosting a performance by Juke Rockets Blues Band as part of their Lawn Chair Concert Series. 6-9 pm.

223-9929 • www.4pointsbbq.com

September 15 Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure Bangor Waterfront Help fight breast cancer by running, walking, or dancing through the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. 7:30 registration opens; 10 am start. www.komenmaine.org September 15 Summer’s End Tea Boothbay Enjoy a delightful afternoon tea amid splendid gardens at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. Indulge in delicious scones with Devonshire cream, four types of tea sandwiches, and sweets alongside your own pot of tea. 4 pm.

633-4333 • www.mainegardens.org September 19 Sunset/Moonrise Hike Pigeon Hill Trail Head, Steuben Come out for a spectacular evening hike at Pigeon Hill. Attendees should be prepared with flashlights for the hike down the hill after watching a glorious sunset and moonrise.

255-4500 www.downeastcoastalconservancy.org September 19 Full-Moonrise & Sunset Sail on Schooner Appledore Camden Enjoy the islands, mountains, and wildlife of our coastal wonderland as windjammer Appledore cruises the sparkling sun- and moonlit waters of Penobscot Bay. 236-8353 • www.appledore2.com September 19 Full Moon Sail on the Schooner Olad Camden Public Landing Watch the sun go down behind the mountains of Camden Hills State Park.

Then turn seaward and watch the moon rise over the islands of Penobscot Bay. 5:15-7:15 pm. $37.

236-2323 • www.maineschooners.com September 20 Bangor Chamber Golf Tournament 2013 Bangor Municipal Join us for a 27-hole championship golf course for a fun day of golf, networking, and socializing with other chamber members. Coffee and breakfast will be

263 State Street, Suite 1 Bangor, Maine 04401

served in the morning, and a BBQ will follow the tournament. 7 am-4 pm.

947-0307 • www.bangorregion.com

September 20 & 21 Harlem Globetrotters Cross Insurance Center, Bangor The world-famous Harlem Globetrotters will bring their unmatched family entertainment to Bangor. 7 pm. $30-$83.

561-8300 www.crossinsurancecenter.com September 20-22 Common Ground Country Fair Unity The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association is putting on their 25th annual country fair to celebrate rural and organic living. This fair is an event like no other that brings together people from many walks of life, all in the spirit of celebrating the rural and agricultural traditions of Maine. $10 adults; $8 seniors; free for children 12 and under.

568-4142 • www.mofga.org September 21 Bar Harbor Bank & Trust Half Marathon Acadia National Park This USATF-certified half marathon takes has views that can’t be beat. The challenging loop will take runners from downtown Bar Harbor and along Acadia’s car-free carriage roads. 7:30 am for walkers; 8:30 am for runners. $80.

288-3511 • www.mdiymca.org September 21 Ghosts of Fort Knox Guided Tours Fort Knox, Prospect Join the East Coast Ghost Trackers on a guided tour of Fort Knox in search of ghosts and paranormal phenomena.

Please bring a flashlight to this event.

8 & 9:30 pm. $15.

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September 21 Race for Myeloma Bangor Race 5K on the streets of Bangor on a beautiful fall morning to support the research to find a cure for multiple myeloma, a rare blood cancer. $20. www.active.com

September 21 Sam Bush The Strand, Rockland Grammy Award-winning multiinstrumentalist Sam Bush, the bluegrass legend, is stopping in Maine for a special performance. 7:30 pm. $35.

594-0070 • www.rocklandstrand.com

September 21 Golf Scramble 2013 Palmyra Golf Course The Sebasticook Valley Chamber of Commerce is partnering with Hartland/ St. Albans and Skowhegan Lions Clubs to host the 2013 Golf Scramble.

368-4698 • www.ourchamber.org

September 21 Children’s Day Boothbay Railway Village Kids will have a blast enjoying a day that’s catered just for them, with lots of fun activities, including Model-T rides.

633-4727 • www.railwayvillge.org

September 21 Shop for the Cause Midcoast Invite your friends and family members for a fun day of shopping in the beautiful Midcoast region during one of the loveliest times of the year.

Participating merchants have pledged a portion of their sales for the P.A.W.S. Animal Adoption Center.

236-8702 • www.pawsadoption.org September 21 MDI YMCA Fall 5K Bar Harbor Held in conjunction with the Bar Harbor Bank & Trust MDI YMCA Half Marathon, the fall 5K is a professionally timed race on a GPS measured course. 8:45 am. $20-25.

288-3511 • www.mdiymca.org September 21 4th Annual Truck Pulls Millinocket Municipal Airport Northern Timber Cruises present this year’s Truck Pulls in memory of Gerald Pelletier. In addition to the day of events, food and beverages will be available.

10 am-8 pm. $10 adults; $2 children under 12.

538-5827 • www.katahdinmaine.com September 21 Riverfront Harvest Festival Houlton Enjoy music, crafters, food, games, and a 5K river-run at the center of Houlton’s Market Square and Riverfront Park. 9 am.

532-4216 • www.greaterhoulton.com

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September 21 Camden’s Windjammer Barbershopper Chorus Annual Show Rockport Opera House If you enjoy barbershop harmonies that can’t be beat, be sure not to miss this annual event. There will also be featured quartets. 7 pm.

832-5127 www.camdenmebarbershoppers.org September 21 & 22 Earth Movers & Shakers & Antique Aeroplane Show Owls Head Transportation Museum An earth-moving gathering of construction vehicles, large and small.

Enjoy this fun family event, with vehicle demonstrations, Model-T rides, family activities, and more. 9:30 am-5 pm. $12; free for children under 18.

594-4418 • www.ohtm.org September 22 Tommyknockers and More Bus Tour Bangor Waterfont The world’s only literary tour based on Stephen King’s novels happens right in Bangor. See the city through the books and movies of this famous author on an air-conditioned motor coach. The tour is sure to entertain, with a mix of educational, historic, and interactive sites. All tours leave from the Bangor Waterfront. 2-3:30 pm.

947-5205 www.visitbangormaine.com September 26 National Theatre Live in HD: Othello The Strand, Rockland The National Theatre of London presents a major new production of William

Shakespeare’s celebrated play about the destructive power of jealousy. 2 pm; rebroadcast at 7 pm. $23; $15 students.

594-0070 • www.rocklandstrand.com September 26-29 Camden International Film Festival 2013 Camden, Rockport, & Rockland Nestled against the mighty Atlantic during fall’s explosion of color, the Camden International Film Festival becomes a uniquely intimate setting to experience the very best in international documentary film. CIFF is recognized as one of the top 25 documentary film festivals in the world. $8.50 per individual screening; $75 festival pass; $150 VIP festival pass.

593-6593 • www.camdenfilmfest.org September 26-30 5th Annual Acadia Night Sky Festival Bar Harbor Enjoy the pristine night skies of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park by star gazing on Cadillac Mountain, a picnic with the planets, or a boat cruise under the stars. Other activities include ranger-led talks, kids’ activities, and photographic workshops at venues, both indoors and outdoors. www.acadianightskyfestival.org September 27 Vinfest 2013 Dinner & Dance Cellardoor Winery, Lincolnville Save the date an evening of gourmet food prepared by talented local chefs and dancing. There will be spectacular performances by The Company Men and Taylor Dayne. 5:30 pm dinner; 8-10 pm dessert, concert. $75.

763-4478 • www.mainewine.com September 28 Walk MS 2013 Belfast Belfast is hosting a walk and paddle to raise funds and awareness for a world free of multiple sclerosis. Paddlers, who can bring their own boat or may rent one, will be led on a route by Belfast Paddle Sports. Walkers will follow a three-mile route. 9 am.

1-800-344-4867 • www.walkmsgne.org September 28 Vinfest 2013 Wine Extravaganza Cellardoor Winery, Lincolnville

Experience the midcoast amid the brilliant colors of fall foliage with a ground-to-glass affair for wine lovers of all palates. The all-day affair features guided tastings of wine flights, food and wine pairings, cooking demonstrations, and winery tours and demonstrations.

11 am-2 pm. $50.

763-4478 • www.mainewine.com September 28 Taste the Grapes, Taste the Wine Savage Oakes Winery, Union The Savages invite guests to their vineyard for a unique wine tasting experience. After a tour of the vineyard, grapes from their own vines will be sampled. Then guests will enjoy wine, enhanced by delicious hors d’oeuvres from the Badger Cafe and Pub in Union.

Event limited to 25 participants. 3 pm. $30-$40.

594-5166 • www.georgesriver.org September 28 Guided Walking Tour Presque Isle Begin at the Vera Estey House Museum and embark on a guided walking tour of historic downtown Presque Isle. The tour lasts about two hours. 10 am. $2.

762-6300 • www.pihistory.org September 28 Vinfest 2013 Harvest Party Cellardoor Winery, Lincolnville Enjoy an evening of food, wine, cocktails, and music to celebrate the harvest season under the beautiful vineyard tent at Cellardoor Winery. The elegant cocktail party will feature fun, gourmet food stations, and delicious goodies by Kitchen Chicks. 7-11 pm. $90.

763-4478 • www.mainewine.com September 28 Tour of Vera Estey House Presque Isle Take a guided tour of the Vera Estey house, built in 1875. The tour lasts approximately 1 hour. 1 pm. $2.

762-6300 • www.pihistory.org September 28-29 BDN Maine: Man Expo Cross Insurance Center, Bangor The “ultimate man-cave experience” will showcase every toy or experience a man could ever want: snowmobiles, guns, gadgets, ATVs, a cigar lounge,

swimsuit models, and an appearance by a celebrity—you name it. $7 adults; free for children under 12. www.bdnmaineevents.com September 29 BSO: Scottish Fantasy Collins Center for the Arts The Bangor Symphony Orchestra will kick off its season with a musical tour of Scotland. Violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley, the concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, will be the guest performer for the evening. 3 pm.

581-1755 • www.bangorsymphony.org September 29 6th Annual Lincolnville Fall Festival Lincolnville Beach Celebrate the season’s best in Lincolnville with parades, rides, food, and fun activities.

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A Born Leader Foxcroft Academy’s Hunter Law is a three sport athlete who is a leader both on and off the field. By Kaylie Reese

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unter Law is one of those students you could call a triple threat, leading ranks in three high school sports.

Not only was the Foxcroft Academy teen the starting quarterback for the football team during his junior year, he was also a starter for the basketball team and an AllPVC selection for the 2012 Eastern Maine baseball champions.

On the football field, the soft-spoken Law views himself as a choreographer ,who works to stay poised and keep the team calm and focused. That focus starts with his pregame rituals.

“There’s a prayer that I came up with, so I say that prayer by myself every game in the locker room,” Law says. “I have to put my pads on in the same order every time. Then the whole team goes up to the gym, and we listen to music and get pumped up.”

Law is certainly a leader on the field, but the respect he has for his coaches off the field is what guides him.

Law cites a game from the 2012 season as a pivotal moment in his high school sports career, and he speaks of the inspiration that came from his coach.

“This year is definitely something I look back on. It changed the way we played this season,” he says. “The homecoming game against Orono changed my [perspective on the] game. Last year we played them, and we got stomped by

them, 56-6. We had a bit of a chip on our shoulders going into the game. We have a very emotional coach, and he gave us a really great speech before the game. We played them, and then beat them, 40-0.”

Law looks to his baseball coach, too, as a source of inspiration. While the baseball season might be a few months away, it’s still fresh in Law’s mind. As he is looking around at colleges, where he would like to study mechanical engineering, he would also like to play baseball. There is no doubt that varsity baseball coach Mark Chevalier is in full support of Law’s ambitions.

“When he came in as a freshman, it was obvious that he was athletic,” Chevalier says. “We could see the seeds of something great; we could see the potential.”

According to Chevalier, Law has always been a leader. But his ability to put the team first truly makes him a standout player.

“I would say…the most important thing to him is winning,” Chevalier says.

“He’s always going to put the team in front of individual goals.”

Going into his senior year, Law is poised to have a big impact in each sport he plays.

“He leads by example, and by style of play and intensity,” Chevalier says. “He’ll be the glue and the unquestioned leader for next year.”

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hortly before dusk on a late spring day along Quaker Hill Road in Unity, the sounds of chopping and cries of encouragement issue forth from the Vickery Woodsmen’s field on the campus of Unity College.

Members of the Woodsmen’s team, a coeducational oddity in the hyper-segregated world of inter-collegiate athletics, are preparing for yet another meet.

Though their sport receives spotty television and almost no print media coverage, students who pick up an axe and try their hand on Unity’s deeply committed team tend to bond with each other in ways that defy traditional boundaries and expectations. Both male and female members of the Woodsmen’s team speak with an affection for their sport that borders on religious devotion.

The uninitiated are sometimes shocked when they casually attend a Woodsmen’s meet at one of the few colleges in Maine

Unity College’s Woodsmen’s team pushes the boundaries of traditional college athletics.

By Mark Tardif

that hold them—Colby College, Unity College, and the University of Maine are among those that do—and discover the level of athleticism, intensity, and danger the sport offers.

One of Unity’s most talented Woodsmen’s team members, Travis Courser, won the Northeast Qualifier competition in April at Finger Lakes Community College in New York. In June he competed at the Great American Lumberjack Feud in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Finishing in second place might have elated many competitors, but not Courser. He had his sights on winning the top spot. He plans to continue pursuing the sport he loves, periodically competing in the STIHL TIMBERSPORTS Professional Series.

Courser and his teammates may consider themselves to be trailblazers. The STIHL TIMBERSPORTS Collegiate Series has grown each year since its inception in 2003. In 2006, a mere six collegiate

teams competed. Now that number has crested at 62, with no reason to think the sport will recede from popularity.

For Jennifer Michaud of East Hampton, Connecticut, her experiences as a Woodsmen’s team member have defined her college experience. Like Courser, she won the Northeast Qualifier. Woodsmen’s team coach Pat Clark, a longtime professor at Unity College, points out that there is no national championship for women. By winning the Northeast Qualifier, Michaud essentially won the nationals for women.

“When I joined the team, it was just sink or swim,” Michaud said. “I was either going to catch on or not.” She caught on.

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food file

Kitchen Envy

Nancy Leavitt and David Yarborough love to share food with their friends. And the artist and blueberry expert have come up with some tasty ways to enjoy the flavors of all four seasons. By Tom Avila-Beck

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ou can’t help but have kitchen envy when you’re in the Stillwater home of Nancy Leavitt and her husband, Dr. David Yarborough.

Their bright, open kitchen is the center of this couple’s art- and book-filled home. It’s a place that manages to simultaneously evoke the clean lines of a modern space and the comforting details of a shabby chic cottage. Easy conversation sets the stage for ambitious enterprises.

More jealousy-inducing is the fact that, from the cooking island around which the well-curated space revolves, one has clear views of the home’s outside spaces. Tangles of garden patches and a quirky tree patio frame the spring and summer views, a picture-perfect stretch of snow leading down to the river in the winter.

The couple is even more interesting than the view and the setting. Leavitt and Yarborough are the kind of hosts who are not only willing but excited to sit down with their guests for a beer or a glass of wine and some conversation as they prepare dinner. The two are not likely to kick things off with small talk about the weather. Leavitt is a book artist and calligrapher whose work has been placed in the collections of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., in London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, and in numerous other collections and museums. She’s a passionate researcher and exuberant experimenter, with her artistic pursuits leading her to the discovery of lost authors, brilliant bits of trivia, and the excuse to invite fellow adults to make cut-paper snowflakes (which they do readily, and with great enthusiasm).

Yarborough, a professor of horticulture and blueberry specialist at the University of Maine, joined the faculty in 1979, after graduating with his Masters of Science. His work is focused on helping the state’s wild blueberries maintain an edge over cultivated crops which, given the increasing attention paid to local economic issues as well as to what and how we eat, offers great fodder for conversation.

The duo says they didn’t cook all that much when they first met, but their cooking has evolved and changed, thanks to better availability of food, the opening of local farmers’ markets, the Internet,

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Often a breakfast or dessert food, blueberries shine in this main dish.

and, not surprisingly given the groaning shelves that fill their house, cookbooks.

“It really started out being about what we liked and how we like to eat,” says Yarborough. “You don’t need a lot of ingredients to make a good meal.”

The blueberry chicken recipe that they make, taken from Molly Shole’s East Meets West Spruce Mountain cookbook, is a perfect example of that mindset.

“This is the recipe we pull out for people ‘from away,’” Leavitt jokes.

Served on a pristine white plate with some rice and a simple green salad, it’s easy to imagine the chicken as the perfect intimate supper with which to impress a date. If you look off to the side of where the couple are doing their preparations, however, you’ll see a list of notations running down the side of a plasticcovered copy of the recipe.

Leavitt laughs. “Those are conversions from when we made this for 105 people at a church dinner.”

The pair also notes that they’ve learned a lot from friends who like to

cook, and a group of them try to get together for potluck dinners on a regular basis. They’ll cook based on a theme, which may be as simple as a region or ethnicity or as challenging as a color, and share the results. “We may be cooking with the same ingredients, but they’re put together so differently,” says Leavitt.

For anyone living in Maine or much of New England, that kind of creativity can get you through a growing season that can sometimes feel incredibly short.

“When you have really long winters and want something interesting to eat and can’t be going out all the time, you have to make it yourself,” Leavitt says. “We don’t eat exotic things, but we come up with interesting combinations that are hearty, good, and in season.”

“We eat more salads and do more grilling in the summer, more soups and stews in the winter,” Yarborough says.

There are, of course, some allowances made for off-season dining. “We always have a box of blueberries in the freezer,” he says.

Spruce Mountain Blueberry Chutney Chicken

1 lb. boneless, skinless chicken breasts 2 cloves garlic, diced 1-inch piece of fresh ginger, peeled and diced Salt and pepper to taste 4 Tbsp. unsalted butter or vegetable oil 1 bunch green onions chopped, green portion included 2 green chilies (optional) 1/3 cup blueberry wine 1/2 cup chicken stock 1/2 cup Spruce Mountain Blueberry Chutney 1/3 cup sour cream In a heavy skillet, sauté garlic, ginger, onions and chilies (optional) in the butter or oil. Add and brown chicken breasts. Remove chicken breasts from pan and place in a baking dish. Add the wine and chicken stock to the skillet and swirl to gather up all the bits of garlic, onion, and ginger.

Remove skillet from heat and add sour cream and chutney. Mix well and pour over chicken breasts. Cover casserole and bake for 30 to 45 minutes in a 350° oven.

*Taken from the Spruce Mountain cookbook, East Meets West.

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kitchen confidential Where are you from and how did you end up in Maine?

I was born and raised in coastal Maine.

I left the area after high school to attend culinary school and eventually found myself living and cooking in Boston. While I really love that city, I have always had a great connection to Maine and always find myself drawn back to this beautiful state. Now that I’m married, with family here on both my and my wife’s side, I feel that no matter where our lives take us, Maine will always be our home.

What is your first food memory?

While I was in high school, I had the chance to go to Hungary for a few months. We stopped in a little bar one afternoon in Kalocsa, a small town south of Budapest, and ordered pizza. I expected simple fare but what we got blew me away! The grilled flatbread was clearly made-to-order, with a beautiful spicy tomato sauce, fresh torn herbs, and sweet and savory ham. I remember thinking, “This is what a pizza should taste like!”

That memory stayed with me and piqued my interest in the culinary arts.

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Any family influences on your style and taste?

Most of the flavor profiles and techniques I use today have been developed through school, travel, and my work experience.

But when I was growing up, my parents shared the cooking responsibilities and imparted a lot of individual wisdom that I still use today. Another constant influence on my style is my wife. Her great attention to detail and high expectations as a foodie continue to drive me as a chef.

Where did you study/apprentice?

After high school, I studied culinary arts at Southern Maine Community College

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What are some of your early cooking experiences?

Growing up in the hills of Belfast, I was always running through the woods with my brother collecting wood for my Dad, who loved to barbecue. Using the wood my brother and I had foraged, he taught me how to cook on an open flame. He gave me detailed lessons on slowly basting meats and showed me when to move and flip everything at exactly the right time. It seemed like a very delicate process, and I was infatuated right away.

favorite aspect is something not seen by most of our guests—our kitchen! We’re lucky to have a spacious area with high ceilings, natural light, and a lot of counter space. Having worked in some dark, dungeon-like kitchens in Boston, our kitchen ranks among the best I’ve seen.

Opposite page: Patrick Dean. Above: Bucatini alla Carbonara.

for two years. I then headed to Boston, where I was able to train under some great chefs at an Italian restaurant called Rocca, located in the North End. It was while working there that I developed a strong passion for Ligurian Italian cuisine. As a growing cook, I was also given a piece of great advice that guides me to this day: no matter where you are or what kitchen you are working in, you should always strive to learn, grow, and create interesting, flavorful dishes.

When did you realize you were a chef?

When we opened 40 Paper, we really hit the ground running. It was one of the first times I was able to build a menu from start to finish. I felt very much like a chef in those moments. I was doing research on specific food regions, using and finding inspiration in local ingredients, and executing authentic fare that

no one else was doing in our area. It was all very exciting.

When did 40 Paper open? How/Why did it happen?

We opened just over two years ago with a lot of energy and ambition. We felt we had a chance to fill a culinary void by bringing authentic, yet unpretentious, Italian food to our small Midcoast community.

40 Paper was able to assemble an amazing team of professionals, who were all excited about change and eager to try something new. The restaurant gave us all a sense of renewal and opportunity, and our staff has really flourished.

What do you love about your location?

There are a number of obvious benefits to our location: we’re in a beautiful historic building that is located on a major intersection with a large outdoor patio. But my

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What is your favorite ingredient to work with?

Coastal Maine is home to a wide variety of wild mushrooms and working with those during the summer is such a treat for me. We’ve seen abundant wild harvests the past couple of years, and I am always sure to find some interesting varieties at the farmers market. But we are also lucky to have local foragers that stop at the restaurant almost daily, offering me their beautiful finds. In my mind, it’s a great day when I get to play with these unique, locally foraged, wild mushrooms.

What is the dish we will be featuring?

How did it come about and what ingredients are used?

Bucatini alla Carbonara is a dish we’ve had on our menu since we opened, and it will probably remain there until we close. Consisting of only six ingredients, we make sure to source the best of each one, taking care to cook them precisely and then allowing the dish to speak for itself. Despite its simplicity, the pasta is full of flavor and is something I never tire of making—or eating.

What is your favorite restaurant?

In Camden we are lucky to have Long Grain, an authentic Vietnamese street food restaurant. My wife and I love to fre-

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kitchen confidential quent it on a fairly regular basis. Handmade ramen noodles, house-made kimchee, and local produce fill their menu, and the husband and wife team have worked hard to keep their tiny dining room full nearly year-round.

Least favorite job-related task?

In the winter, it’s a brutal journey to take the trash out to the dumpster. It’s located up the hill from the kitchen’s back door.

What does a perfect day off look like?

In what little free time I have, I love to be outdoors. Fishing, especially, is something I have enjoyed since I was young.

Also, my wife and I like to go out to eat, experiencing all the different cuisines in the area. It’s exciting to see what everyone else is doing and support other local restaurants.

What do you love most about your job?

I love to cook and I love making people happy through food. I love pulling a finished dish out of the oven and seeing people get excited about it. And it is so satisfying to take a final taste of a dish and know that it is exactly the way you wanted it to be, just as you’d imagined it would be.

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Accolades: Voted Best Cocktails by Bangor Metro readers. Recently featured restaurant in Maine magazine.

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Bird Dog Even bird hunting dogs need to go back to school for remedial training.

by Brad Eden

his seems like a good time for an update on my springer spaniel Cash, since we are closing in on the Maine upland birdhunting season. I ended a column two years ago with, “…Cash is just over three months old, and like his predecessors, is well on his way to becoming a beloved family dog as well as my hunting partner and companion—and certainly subject matter for more columns to come.”

I suspected I had a firecracker of a flushing spaniel right out of the box.

He has proven to be precocious, clever, and a quick study (like all spaniels), and above all, athletic. He was a tad over six months old his first bird hunting season and was equipped with the training fundamentals he needed—control and obedience, retrieving, introduction to game birds (both raised and wild), and the ever important gunshot introduction, so he didn’t become gun-shy but associated the sound of a shotgun with something fun and exciting.

He started out bird hunting with a reckless abandon I had never witnessed in previous dogs. He was fearless and fast, with no concern or cognizance of the inherent dangers lurking in the Maine ruffed grouse and woodcock covers—like barbed wire, open wells, old glass-strewn dumps, and porcupines.

He crashed through the woods like a bull in a china shop. Every time I let him off heel with the words “hunt ‘em up,” I clenched my teeth, as he hurled himself into the woods. I knew if I kept him from killing himself, and once his gangly legs caught up with his growing body, he’d be my best hunting dog yet.

He spent part of his first hunting season on injured reserve. I’ve been very fortunate that none of my dogs ever had a propensity to attack porcupines. My

He could turn and stop on a dime, accelerate, and spring high into the air to get a better view of the surrounding area. luck ran out with Cash. An encounter with a porcupine resulted in me pulling out a muzzle-full of quills and then carrying him a half mile back to the truck because he couldn’t walk. Apparently the porcupine swatted him with its tail, 66 / Bangor Metro September 2013

embedding a cluster of small quills under the skin of his chest over a shoulder bone. A couple hours later I left the vet’s office with a hefty bill and Cash, with two incisions in his chest held together by staples. My vet thought she got all of the quills but couldn’t guarantee it. Sure enough, I ended up working two more through the skin in weeks to follow. We did manage to salvage the last half of the season.

Despite being quilled, he had done so well his first season I had slacked off with his “summer school” training. By his second season he had matured into a compact, muscular specimen and pounded cover like a running back on the gridiron. He could turn and stop on a dime, accelerate, and spring high into the air to get a better view of the surrounding area.

Gone was the hell-bent recklessness, replaced with a more calculated, but no less intense and exciting, hunting style.

No game bird was safe when Cash was on its tail. After his flush, it was left to me to make my wing shot count so he could carry the prize back to me. And that’s about when the terrible twos struck. He conveniently forgot most of what he had been taught. He found birds just fine but flushed them way out of shotgun range.

I wasn’t completely surprised. I knew he had a lot of desire or “birdiness” as we bird hunters say, and it was my job to get a handle on it so we could be successful as a team.

So, Cash has been going through some remedial training this summer. We are renting a place near a lake with herons and ducks, and encounter all manner of birds including bald eagles and even a roaming flock of guinea fowl. This is the perfect scenario for the control training of a hunting dog that lives to chase and flush anything with feathers. He will now consistently heel when we approach a raft of ducks or guinea fowl pecking in the yard, and sit on command, until I let him go. This coming fall is when I expect it to all to come together for us.

As I predicted, Cash has become a beloved family dog and my companion and hunting buddy. He may not be quite the “Crazy Cash” of his puppyhood, but has adopted a new nickname, “Cash Money,” because he is priceless.

Brad Eden is an artist, writer, and Registered Maine Master Guide.

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Safe Driving Saves Lives Head back to school this fall by enrolling in the AARP Driver Safety Program. by carol higgins taylor

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It starts in grade school and continues on in our consciousness as Back to School sale flyers fall out of the paper every weekend triggering flashbacks.

One-day classes can fill that need to learn without a commitment to a longterm arrangement. The AARP Driver Safety Program is one of those classes. It was designed to give seniors 50 and older a chance to update their driving skills while keeping them in step with today’s drivingrelated hazards and complicated situations. There are no written or road tests, only useful information to help seniors stay safe on the busy roads.

While summer may be over in Vacationland, the tourists are lingering. The out-of-state cars are a welcome sight, as the occupants will undoubtedly spend

their money in Maine, but the roadways are burdened. Simple math dictates that more automobiles mean a higher risk of accidents, with driver inattention being one of the main causes of fender-benders.

Back in the day, when many seniors got their driver’s licenses, the largest driving distraction was kids fighting in the backseat and the radio blasting. Today, the pace of everyday life has increased and distractions are numerous.

Talking on cell phones and texting while driving are two of the most prevalent distractions. While likelihood of seniors engaging in these activities is slim, everyone on the road is put at risk by someone who is a distracted driver. Extra diligence is required today more than any time in history.

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Being mindful of the following suggestions could prevent an accident: • When the traffic light turns green, hold back a few seconds and look both ways to make sure other motorists have stopped for their red light before proceeding. It is an everyday occurrence for the driver with the red light to ignore the signal and drive through the intersection without even slowing down. It is never safe to trust that other drivers will automatically stop if their light has turned red.

• Four-way stops are prevalent in Maine and can encourage accidents when drivers fail to yield the right-of-way or to wait their turn when proceeding, which is due to disagreements about who actually appeared at the intersection first. When in doubt, let the other driver go first. One of the biggest mistakes that older drivers make is not yielding the right of way to other cars.

• Always use turn signals. There is a Maine joke that turn signals are for the “weak” and “real” Mainers don’t use turn signals. Ridiculous. This attitude could cause bodily injury and property damage.

• Keep eyes focused ahead for potentially challenging road conditions.

• Practice the three second rule—keeping three seconds of time between your car and the car in front of you.

• Eliminate distracting activities, including eating and drinking, smoking, and the use of electronics.

Although geared to drivers age 50 and older, the AARP course is open to everyone and membership in the organization is not required, although the fee may be slightly higher for non-members.

Maine law mandates that motorists, who complete a state-sanctioned driving refresher course, receive reductions or discounts on auto insurance. The discounts may vary based on age, driving record, and other factors. Check with your insurance company. This short class is offered at various locations across the state and online at AARP.org.

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Is the high cost of your prescription drugs making you sick?

Why are some drugs more expensive than others?

By Jane Margesson

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illions of Americans take prescription drugs. For some, their drugs are a temporary measure to help them recover from an illness or injury.

For many people, however, prescription drugs represent the only shield they have to relieve crippling pain, while for others, prescription medications are literally a lifeline. Sadly, if one takes a look at the trend of retail prices for widely used prescription drugs in America, it is no wonder that many consumers are struggling to afford the drugs they need.

The American Association of Retired Persons’ (AARP) Public Policy Institute (PPI) periodically publishes an Rx Watchdog Report, which studies these prescription drug pricing trends. A PPI report issued in 2012 examined retail prices for the 514 prescription drugs most used by Medicare beneficiaries. The report found that between 2005 and 2009, there was an increase of 25.6% in the retail prices of these drugs. In dollars and cents, this had a huge impact on consumers’ wallets. For a consumer taking a drug on a regular basis, the average annual cost rose over $1,000 during the same time period. This increase is due to the fact that while there was a substantial price decrease among generics, brandname and specialty drug prices soared.

Specialty drugs, commonly known as “biologics,” are a big part of the discussion regarding the affordability of prescription drugs. Biologics are used to treat patients with certain chronic illnesses such as cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, or HIV. These powerful drugs are made from animal proteins and are far more expensive to develop and manufacture than chemical drugs. Their efficacy is well known, as is their price tag. A

biologic drug can cost a consumer tens of thousands of dollars per year.

Currently, the pharmaceutical industry maintains a 12-year period of exclusivity on a biologic drug before making the generic available. The industry maintains that this lengthy period is necessary to recoup the costs associated with the development of the drug. However, AARP and others have argued that drug makers typically recoup the costs of developing biologic drugs within the first three years. Biologic generics or “biosimilars” could be accessible to many more patients if the 12-year period of exclusivity were shortened. There may be a broad-based financial benefit as well, since it is estimated that biosimilars could save Medicaid and Medicare $9 billion over 10 years.

PPI’s report also highlights the fact that AARP is working with Congress to help lower prescription drug costs by creating more competition in the marketplace. The Association has a trio of priorities for lawmakers: allow for the safe and legal importation of prescription drugs from abroad, improve the pathway for the approval of generic biologic drugs, and allow Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices directly with drug makers.

In the meantime, if your doctor says that taking a brand-name drug rather than a generic is medically necessary, there are ways to find the lowest cost for your prescriptions. First of all, shop around. Different pharmacies charge different amounts for the exact same drug, and you may be able to save on your medications just by comparing prices. Secondly, Consumers Union, which publishes Consumer Reports, has an excellent website that can offer sound

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Finally, stay in touch with us at www. aarp.org/me, as we continue to fight for lower prescription drug costs.

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his summer I had the opportunity to cycle from my home in Maine to the larger and hotter state of Texas.

The trip was amazing and a great opportunity for me to enjoy much of the United States at 15 mph, while profusely sweating—much like an operator of a smart car without air conditioning.

A biker enjoys a perspective on the world not enjoyed by general tourists. In order to complete our journeys, we must endure strident motorist personalities, avoid plentiful streetside garbage, and dodge pungent roadkill.

Before this trip I had not biked outside the state of Maine.

For that reason, I was under the assumption that the majority of wild animals in the country that sometimes failed to cross major roads successfully were largely limited to deer, raccoons, squirrels, and porcupines. I was wrong.

When I entered Virginia an entirely new world of roadkill opened up to me. I traveled across scary looking rat remains, which I later learned were possum, the face of each looking as if the beasts were frozen while playing the monster in some obscure B movie. Even more revolting were the bodies of snakes that were about an inch thick and roughly three feet long. After being subjected to those images, I was never again able to look ahead to a vehicle’s discarded fan belt lying in the road shoulder without assuming it was another such reptile.

Tennessee ushered in a new and unique species of highway martyr: the armadillo. It is unfortunate, really, that I can say I’ve seen dozens of these creature, but still not one of them alive.

They are interesting looking animals, but apparently are not great at navigating through traffic.

I was able to ride successfully enough to not end up as these fallen creatures. I did fall off my bike once but was thankfully protected from harm or death by my helmet. It would have been hard to lead a successful life if I had busted my only brain, even though it’s not one of the top models. I need it for various tasks throughout the day, and as far as suitable replacements are concerned, there isn’t yet an app for that.

I did endure a uniquely freakish episode when a minivan passed me and hit a monarch butterfly, which then ricocheted off the windshield and smacked me in the forehead. I was able to keep my focus on the road, despite the distraction, and avoided having a large accident that I would have had to embarrassingly explain to my mocking friends as “the time I ran into a butterfly.”

I am now back in Maine, with a greater appreciation for elements in our home region that were once taken for granted.

After experiencing the flat, virtually unchanging elevations of Arkansas and Texas, I have to say that it’s nice to see Maine hills again. Although they make life a bit more difficult for a biker, hills add personality to a landscape.

We confidently state that Maine is the way life should be, which implies that it should contain ups and downs. The metaphor seems entirely accurate, since all of us experience high and lows in our lives. To continue the metaphor, if middle Arkansas was the way life should be, we would each aspire to a monotonous, comatose existence.

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