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CONTENTS Consider the Apple 044

David Buchanan connects people to forgotten flavors with his cider from foraged rare apples by Kate Gardner | Photography by Matt Cosby

A Maine Export Returns Home 054

The founders of Cousins Maine Lobster find success by staying true to tradition by Susan Axelrod | Photography by Nicole Wolf

Ducks, Dogs + Decoys 060

From his Camden workshop to the panorama of Merrymeeting Bay, a southern boatbuilder carves out something new by Sandy Lang | Photography by Peter Frank Edwards

50 Mainers 088

These 50 individuals are moving the state forward while preserving its unique traditions by Kate Gardner and Paul Koenig | Photography by Christina Wnek

Beautiful Imperfections 142

An almost-perfect apartment in the West End is filled with antique finds, clever fixes, and one-of-a-kind artworks by Katy Kelleher | Photography by Erin Little

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on the cover

Geo Soctomah Neptune, a Passamaquoddy basketmaker, educator, and drag performer, with one of their baskets. Photography by Christina Wnek

on this page

David Buchanan pulls down apples and collects them on a tarp spread out below. The owner of Portersfield Cider in Pownal makes cider from foraged rare apple varieties. Photography by Matt Cosby

THERE + THEN 018 Going out, giving back: supporting nonprofits + local businesses in the vital work they do year-round CREATE

022 Daniel Quintanilla

by Kate Gardner Photography by Dave Dostie

INNOVATE 024 Sarah Alexander

by Kate Gardner Photography by Dave Dostie

EXPLORE 026 Grafton Notch State Park by Kate Gardner Photography by Nicole Wolf

48 HOURS

028 Bath, Phippsburg + Georgetown; Saco + Biddeford

by Blair Best and Emma Simard

A-LIST

042 Family-Friendly Fall Activities

by Kate Gardner Photography by Peter Frank Edwards

EAT 080 Long Grain

by Susan Axelrod Photography by Nicole Wolf

CAPTURE 160 Brian Stowell EDITORâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S NOTE 013 CONTRIBUTORS 015 EVENTS 020

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Mainers can be a stubborn bunch. Some traits, such as frugalness and persistence, can be helpful in a state with cold winters and high energy costs. But other elements of the traditional Yankee persona seem to restrict progress. Even the moniker “Mainer” is fraught with territorialism and a potentially dangerous narrow-mindedness. Part of the state’s appeal is that so much of it has remained unchanged by time. Maine’s gorgeous natural landscape has been around for centuries and has, for the most part, avoided homogenized overdevelopment. Traditional industries like fishing and forestry significantly contribute to the state’s economy and identity. Despite continued mill closures, in 2016 an estimated 1 out of 24 jobs in Maine were associated with the forest product industry. The key is recognizing that Maine can evolve while holding on to the parts that make it so special. This year’s class of 50 Mainers is full of individuals who understand that, and who are moving the state forward, preserving Maine’s best qualities (“50 Mainers,” p. 88). One of them, Evelyn King, has been sharing her passion for fly-fishing by encouraging more women to participate in the sport. A member of the Sebago Chapter of Trout Unlimited, she founded the chapter’s Maine Women Flyfishers group and leads annual fly-fishing trips

with other women. Another, Fletcher Kittredge, CEO of GWI, has brought high-speed internet access to rural communities. “It is not about streaming videos and social media, but rather solving the fundamental community problems—health care, aging in place, workforce development, business attraction, and telecommuting,” he says. Maine needs be welcoming to all people, especially if it wants to reverse the trend of a shrinking workforce. As a black woman, Shay Stewart-Bouley found the whiteness of Maine’s population to be jarring when she moved here from Chicago, so she started a blog to talk about her experience and spark discussions about racism. “I believe this state has much to offer as far as quality of life,” she says, “but it must be safe for all—that is what keeps me in this work.” Maine’s challenges should keep us all at work but not deter us from celebrating why we love it here. We should be leveraging our unique assets—a high quality of life, beautiful outdoors, access to the ocean, hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland, and a stubborn, persistent entrepreneurial spirit—to make Maine a better place for all.

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CONTRIBUTORS

CHRISTINA WNEK is a photographer who loves

Editorial intern BLAIR BEST was raised on the midcoast and graduated from New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and Tisch School of the Arts. When not on assignment, she can be found hiking in the mountains, writing on the beach, or training in the studios of Portland Ballet. For this issue, she visited Bath, Phippsburg, and Georgetown (48 Hours, p. 28).

Associate editor KATE GARDNER lives in Portland with her boyfriend. She longs for a pet cat but, sadly, doesn’t have one. She likes to read, play with goats, and get emotional while listening to Taylor Swift. In this issue, she profiled cider maker David Buchanan (“Consider the Apple,” p. 44) and 35 of this year’s 50 Mainers (p. 88).

The food editor for State 23 Media and editor of Old Port magazine, SUSAN AXELROD has written about food and drink for nearly two decades. She loves exploring Maine and discovering restaurants such as Long Grain in Camden, which she wishes was closer to home so she could indulge in a bowl of Spicy Night Market noodle soup more often (Eat, p. 80). When she’s not dining out, she’s cooking at the farmhouse in Yarmouth she shares with her husband, Ted, and two dogs.

to travel but feels at home in Maine. She spent this spring driving across the state photographing Maine magazine’s 50 Mainers for the second year in a row (“50 Mainers,” p. 88). From Ogunquit to Millinocket, Mount Desert Island to Carrabassett Valley and towns and islands in between, she met the best of Maine and saw much of the beauty our amazing state holds.

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A golf and gala fundraiser to support the Alfond Youth Center This two-day event in July welcomed 230 guests at the Sugarloaf Conference Center. At the Mary Nash Beaupre Chef Gala, Major League Baseball alumni joined local business owners and philanthropists to enjoy dishes and cocktails prepared tableside by over 15 award-winning chefs. Live music was provided by Katie Daggett and 11-year-old fiddler Owen Kennedy. On the second day, more than 30 teams of four hit the Sugarloaf Golf Course for the Ray Haskell MLBPAA Golf Classic. The event raised funds for youth programming at the Alfond Youth Center. 01

“Thanks to the support of these two amazing communities, Sugarloaf and Waterville, through the efforts of John Beaupre and Ray Haskell, we are able to feed our food-insecure kids and teach them a garden-to-table lifestyle.” —Ken Walsh, CEO of Alfond Youth Center

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01 John Beaupre, founder of Maine Celebrity Classic, town of Carrabassett Valley selectman, and Sugarloaf-area business owner; Lee Jones, farmer and owner of the Chef ’s Garden; and Mark Beaupre, director of food and beverage at Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center 02 Melissa Legare, pastry chef at Primo, and Melissa Kelly, chef and owner of Primo 03 John Diller, former general manager of Sugarloaf, and Scott Wentzell, director of marketing at State 23 Media 04 The Maine Celebrity Classic takes place each year at Sugarloaf in Carrabassett Valley. 05 Ken MacKenzie and Isaac Pendleton, student and sous chef 06 Kyle Craig and Aaron Upham, executive chef at Sugarloaf 07 Christina Maguire, CFO of Mount Desert Island Hospital, and Steve Nelson, former New England Patriots player

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by Kate Gardner PHOTOGRAPHY BY DAVE DOSTIE

hen Daniel Quintanilla tells a story, his audience isn’t on the outside looking in. They are fully immersed. For the filmmaker’s latest project, At the Periphery, the sense of being in someone else’s shoes is especially important. This virtual reality film exposes viewers to the daily experiences of immigrants living in Maine. At the Periphery is named for the feeling many immigrants have, as if they are nearly invisible to other Americans. It is part of the exhibition Making Migration Visible: Traces, Tracks, and Pathways, which will run from October 5 to December 14 at the Maine College of Art’s Institute of Contemporary Art in Portland. Over 40 artists and organizations are contributing to the exhibition, which features artwork

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accompanied by a series of events, including lectures, films, performances, and community conversations. All of the events and art installations focus on themes of immigration, migration, and border crossing.

cupied by immigrants: a community farm started by the Somali community in Lewiston, a Mexican take-out restaurant in Milbridge, and a blueberry camp also in the downeast region. Filming took three days, and post-production took almost a month.

Quintanilla, who’s based in Rockland, is the creator of A Shared Space, a collection of virtual reality videos focusing on minority communities in Maine. The 360degree videos require the participant to wear a headset through which they can see and hear everything in the scene around them. “To me it’s a different type of storytelling,” Quintanilla says. “It’s sensory. I wanted to explore what it’d be like to bring people to spaces they normally wouldn’t go to.” In his project for the exhibition, viewers experience three different spaces oc-

In the video, participants hear people talking, but when they turn toward the voices, no one is there. “It’s about being alone in that space,” Quintanilla says. “You’ll just hear a soundscape of people and activity.” The experience is supposed to represent how alone immigrants often feel in a new country. Quintanilla, who was born in Mexico and moved to the United States when he was 12, says he hopes the project will help others empathize with immigrants and be more open. “It’s an invitation to step into a different experience.”

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Sarah Alexander brings food advocacy experience to her new role as executive director of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association

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hen Sarah Alexander learned about factory farming, industrialized agriculture, and the chemicals used in growing crops, she became “fired up.” As a college student, she started researching organic farming and realized it was a way to change the food industry in the United States. She organized a self-directed class at Northwestern University on food production and led an alternative spring break trip to the White Earth Nation Reservation in Minnesota to help restore traditional food systems. “It’s been a real calling for me,” says the new executive director of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA). Alexander started in the position in August after Ted Quaday, who led MOFGA for five years, retired.

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MOFGA, which is the oldest and largest state organic organization in the country, has more than 13,000 members and almost 40 people on staff. It does educational trainings, agricultural apprenticeships, organic certification, and public policy work, as well as hosting the Common Ground Country Fair. Alexander, who moved to Maine three years ago and lives in Portland, has been working to make food systems more fair and sustainable for over 15 years. She was drawn to MOFGA for its advocacy work in areas such as pesticide control and regulations for organic labeling. “Most of my career has led up to this point,” she says. After graduating from college, Alexander was offered a job on

the White Earth Nation Reservation, where she helped farmers apply for organic certification for their berry farm. Her career has also led her to Washington, D.C., where she worked to protect standards for organic food and to fight for labeling of genetically engineered food. Her advocacy work, most recently as a strategist helping progressive nonprofits, was ideal preparation for leading MOFGA. Protecting consumers and growing healthier, more organic food is important to Alexander because it affects everybody. “Food is such a central part of our lives,” she says. “It directly impacts our health. We are made of what we eat, and I think we forget that.”

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Grafton Notch State Park offers beautiful foliage views for hikers of all skill levels

isitors to Grafton Notch State Park in October are greeted with canopies of red, orange, and yellow, signaling the beauty that lies farther up the mountains. The 3,100-acre park, located in Grafton Township in western Maine, is home to some of the best hiking vistas for foliage in the state. Tim Healy, the manager of the state park, recommends leaf peepers visit during the first and second weeks of October to see the brightest foliage. October weather in Maine can be unpredictable, however, and it’s not unusual for Grafton Notch to see some snow. Hikers should dress in layers to keep warm and wear boots with good traction. The park is open year-

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round, but rangers are at the park only during its May 15 to October 15 season. The various trails within the park are accessible from Route 26. Healy recommends one of the shorter trails: Table Rock, a 2.4-mile loop up Old Speck Mountain that takes about two hours to complete. “It’s probably the best view you can get on a short hike,” he says. Another loop trail, the Eyebrow, is very slightly shorter but much more challenging, taking two to three hours to complete. That trail, which also goes up Old Speck, includes iron rungs and cables to hold onto along some parts, making it unsuitable for dogs and small children. Healy suggests that hikers climbing the Eyebrow take the orange trail up so they are climbing up the rungs instead of down them.

More seasoned hikers can trek up the 7.6-mile Old Speck Trail to the top of Old Speck Mountain. According to Healy, the hike is challenging simply because it’s so long: it takes about seven hours. The peak is forested, but there’s a viewing platform hikers can climb to get a great view of the foliage. The presidential mountain range in New Hampshire is visible from the top. A hike up Baldpate Mountain is another challenge, but a rewarding one. There are two trails to choose from: the 5.8-mile hike up the west peak or the 7.6-mile trail to the east peak. Healy suggests the latter for those looking to see amazing fall colors. “The view from East Baldpate is outstanding if you have good weather,” he says.

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EVENING

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The sky is a pink and blue canvas as I arrive in Phippsburg and find the 1774 Inn looking out on the Kennebec River. Innkeeper Stuart DeVan greets me with a handshake and an extensive tour of the historic property. The inn is named for the year James McCobb, an Irish sea captain, built the Georgian-style mansion, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. My room at the end of the second-floor hallway is named after the third owner of the home and one of the most successful shipbuilders of his time, Charles V. Minott. My window, which is covered in Frenchinspired drapery, looks out onto one of the oldest trees in Phippsburg. I notice that the swaying branches of the ancient beauty are beginning to pick up speed, and I wrap a sweater around my shoulders before heading off to dinner in Georgetown.

The sun peeks through the curtains and follows me downstairs to the dining room, where I meet my boyfriend and the other guests gathered for breakfast at the communal farm table. Sarah DeVan, Stuart’s wife, is a chef who has cooked in Michelin-starred restaurants across the globe. She finds inspiration for each meal from the local farmers’ market or her garden. This morning we enjoy homemade yogurt and granola topped with hand-picked blueberries, a glass of fresh watermelon juice, pour-over coffee, freshly baked chive scones, and Dutch babies served hot in the pan.

The crowd in the parking lot at Five Islands Lobster Co. is thinning as I arrive to meet my father on the pier. He has placed an order for two of the biggest soft-shell lobsters, one pound of steamers, two ears of corn, and three red potatoes. He says it doesn’t get any more Maine than this, and as we sit at one of the bright red picnic tables, sipping on Coronas and gazing out over the Sheepscot River, I can’t help but agree.

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After breakfast, we walk through the Bath Farmers’ Market. The colorful produce stands and bouquets of bright flowers make leaving with an empty basket impossible. I choose a wild sunflower bouquet from Goranson Farm in Dresden to bring back to the inn.

AFTERNOON

hike across a river and up the mountain. Along the trail, we stop to fill our palms with wild blueberries and to photograph 180-degree views of ocean wetlands and sprawling coastline. At one point the air cools and I hear the faint hum of the ocean: Seawall Beach is near. During our hike back, the rain sets in. Without raincoats, we have to rely on the treetops for coverage. We drive to Spinney’s Restaurant on Popham Beach. The waitress sets our drinks of pinot grigio and Shipyard Summer Ale on a table overlooking the beach. Our laminated placemats have an eight-step diagram of how to eat a lobster “Spinney’s style.” We order a side of fried clams, a broiled haddock sandwich, a large garden salad, fried calamari, lightly breaded onion rings, coleslaw, and two pickles. It is classic Maine fare with unbeatable views. After lunch, we walk along the beach to Fort Popham, where we read a bit of history and peek through cannon holes. Our next stop is the Bath Brewing Company, which sits near the banks of the Kennebec River and overlooks Front Street. We enjoy local beer and wine and peoplewatch from the street-side bar.

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01 A collection of buoys hang from the side of North Creek Farm and Market. 02 Sarah DeVan, innkeeper and chef at the 1774 Inn, harvests greens from her kitchen garden. 03 The first course served at the 1774 Inn consists of homemade hummus, carrots, turnips, cured meat, sage leaves, salt, and two edible flowers. 04 Bath City Hall in downtown Bath. 05 A quintessential Phippsburg barn. 06 Fresh blueberries from the Bath Farmers’ Market. 07 A Lebanese tomato salad from Salt Pine Social. 08 The sandy entrance to Reid State Park. 09 Bouquets of wildflowers from Goranson Farm’s stand at the Bath Farmers’ Market. 10 The historic Fort Popham. 11 Maggie’s Bygones Antiques and Collectibles, a favorite shop for Phippsburg locals.

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01 The New Place Market owner Lucy Comaskey stands before her flower display. 02 The entrance to the historic 1774 Inn.

chef, and Stuart, as sommelier, offer a seven-course tasting menu with wine pairings. Each course features vegetables and protein from the kitchen garden or recent foraging or fishing trips. Highlights include Sarah’s garlic scape pesto, a fire-roasted tomato gazpacho shooter, hand-crafted pappardelle pasta paired with black trumpet mushrooms foraged earlier today, a celery root puree topped with lobster that Stuart trapped yesterday, fresh honeycomb chunks, and homemade ice cream with fresh strawberries.

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As the humidity rises, we make our way back to Phippsburg and down to a local swimming hole. On the side of Parker Head Road is a rock wall and two ladders that lead to a freshwater inlet. We swim with the neighborhood kids and two black Russian terriers—each eager to find relief from the midday heat. After we dry off in the sun, we visit North Creek Farm and Market just up the road for cold fruit smoothies and a shaded place to sit and admire the farm animals and wild gardens.

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Four curious alpacas from Thistle Dew Alpaca Farm crane their necks in curiosity as I drive past on my way to Bath. Nearby is Anna B’s Antiques, where collectable items such as old maps and Raggedy Ann dolls decorate the shelves. On the deck at Mae’s Cafe and Bakery my mother and I enjoy breakfast sandwiches on toasted wheat bread, plus yogurt, granola, and a grilled blueberry muffin.

In downtown Bath, we find Dot’s Ice Cream Shop and share a scoop of coffee toffee crunch rolled in chocolate sprinkles before walking to dinner at Salt Pine Social. Picnic tables grace the restaurant’s outdoor patio, and large sunflowers decorate each windowsill. Sitting outside, we indulge in oysters from West Bath, a Lebanese tomato salad, za’atar-marinated grilled T-bone lamb chops, and grilled vegetable skewers.

Café Crème, one of Bath’s coffee shops, is only a three-minute walk from Mae’s. We order teas before shopping along Front Street. We visit The New Place Market, where owner Lucy Comaskey has just finished her second week of business. The market sells beer, wine, cheese, meats, and other grocery items. At Bohemian Rose, a clothing store that aims to help women find confidence with its products, my mother finds a new pink summer dress.

The sun begins to set along the Kennebec, giving us our cue to leave for Georgetown’s Reid State Park. Once on Mile Beach, we settle on a log of driftwood and watch the rippling tide. As the sky slowly shifts from rose to violet, we are overcome by a familiar tranquility—the same peaceful tenor that greeted me only 48 hours ago.

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FRIDAY EVENING

Finding the way When my roommate Anna and I arrive in Saco, our first stop is for dinner at The Run of the Mill. The pub’s atmosphere is laid-back. We opt for outside seating and split some dishes: Saco’s Tacos, a side of sweet potato fries, and duck poutine. It’s enough to keep us satisfied while we explore the area for the rest of the evening. We head toward the Saco Heath Preserve, which features a mile-long trail and boardwalk that cuts through a bog, but it’s becoming too dark to walk. We turn around then stop at Way Way Store. The store’s inside is every bit eclectic as the its red and white concrete brick exterior—there’s so much to look at, and there is every candy imaginable. We order ice cream cones, the perfect dessert on this hot, muggy day. After our ice cream, we drive back into town and

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stop at Up and Up, a cocktail lounge in downtown Saco. The setting is dark but relaxed and welcoming. Board games line the walls and rest on various tables. We grab a spot on some couches in the corner and order drinks from the whiskey-drinks menu—I get a mint julep, Anna gets a Sazerac—and we play several rounds of Connect Four and Guess Who?. A waitress points out the snack station, where everything is free. I grab some nachos to munch on before we head home.

SATURDAY MORNING

Biddeford bagels and museums I start my morning at Rover Wood Fired Bagels and Pizza. I order a poppy seed bagel with lemon, honey, and thyme cream cheese and an iced coffee. The cream cheese is sweet but not overpowering, and the bagel is fresh-baked and crispy in all the right places. I grab a seat in the window and pass some time before my tour of the Pepperell Mill Campus.

I meet up with the tour group for the Biddeford Mills Museum outside the mill, near Portland Pie Company. As we get started, our tour guides, Ray and David, give us some background. They are both very knowledgeable and funny, and they have had firsthand experience working in the former textile mills. I am led through many corridors, rooms, and stairwells, each one with its own intriguing story.

AFTERNOON

Rose-colored drinks and vintage dreams My friend Maria joins me for lunch, but we decide to get dessert first, at Sweetcream Dairy in the Pepperell Mill Campus. I order strawberry ice cream with handmade whipped cream and sprinkles; Maria orders the coffee ice cream, which is made with Speckled Ax coffee and coffee beans and topped with salted caramel sauce and whipped cream. The ice cream is perfectly delicious. We eat at the tables outside before walking over to Banded Brewing Company. Maria and I both decide on the Alternate Rhizomes

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01 A view of the mill from the Saco River. 02 The on-tap offerings at Banded Brewing Company. 03 A friend leads the way through the East Point Audubon Sanctuary. 04 Eggs and corned beef hash, pancakes, and bacon at Palace Diner. 05 A wall of books at Elements: Books, Coffee, Beer. 06 A glimpse into artist Stephen Maka’s gallery, Just a Moment. 07 The sign out front at Up and Up cocktail lounge.

sour ale, which is light and crisp and has just the right amount of flavor. We sit at a side bar overlooking the brewery and snack on pretzel bites. Next we make our way to Dreaming Tree Vintage in downtown Saco. The store’s bright exterior and quirky window displays draw me in like a moth to the flame. Inside, there is much to see and find. I could easily spend hours in there looking through a treasure trove of vintage goods. Maria and I spend time shopping, trying on clothes, and chatting with an old friend, Belle, who is working behind the counter.

EVENING

Rainy night in Saco Maria has to leave for work, so I make my way alone to Bay View Beach in Saco. By now, a light rain has started, but I don’t mind. There are only a few families on the beach in this weather. The tide is low, and I walk the shoreline. I stumble across a large tidal pool filled with hermit crabs. I watch as some bury themselves in the sand while others wrestle each other for a larger shell.

For dinner, I consider Elda, a small restaurant in downtown Biddeford that’s garnered praise since opening at the end of 2017, but it’s already booked with reservations for the night. New Moon Restaurant, located just off Main Street on the Saco side of the river, also comes highly recommended and is open for dinner on Friday and Saturday nights. The hosts help me find my cozy seat, and I order the baked haddock. It comes with a cracker-crumb topping and lemon-butter sauce and is served with garlic mashed potatoes, roasted carrots, and cream-corn sauce.

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Breakfast and books My other roommate, Nicole, and I are up early for breakfast at Palace Diner. Inside it’s a midcentury dream with counter-only seating. We order pancakes, eggs with corned beef hash, a side of bacon, and orange juice. The pancakes are fluffy with an unexpected kick of lemon; the eggs and corned beef hash are cooked perfectly, and the orange juice is a generous size.

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After eating, we make our way to Elements: Books, Coffee, Beer. I fall in love the second I walk inside. Bookshelves line the walls, and a barista behind a counter that wraps around the center of the store is waiting to take our order. The bookstorecoffeeshop-bar also hosts live music and other events. We browse the shelves and find some books to take home.

AFTERNOON

Cloudy-day sanctuaries The weather is overcast, but Nicole and I drive to the East Point Audubon Sanctuary at the edge of Biddeford Pool and park on the side of the road. Along the winding trail, we find a pebble beach and take in the views for a moment. The sound of the waves crashing and pulling pebbles back into the water is captivating. After completing the 1.5-mile loop, we head back into town for lunch. At George’s Sandwich Shop we grab some of the best Italians either of us have eaten—I order salami, she orders ham. To conclude our trip, we make our way back to the Pepperell Mill Campus and climb the stairs to Just a Moment Gallery, which is owned by nature photographer Stephen Maka and filled with art and optical illusions. Stephen gives us a quick tour of the space and tells us a bit about his work. After talking with Stephen, we say goodbye to these former mill towns and make our way back home.

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01 A mini cairn at a pebble beach off of the East Point Audubon Sanctuary trail. 02 The exterior of the iconic Palace Diner. 03 Vintage finds in front of Dreaming Tree Vintage in Saco. 04 Ice cream cones from Way Way Store.

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Pumpkin Valley Farm | Dayton

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The Brick Store Museum’s fall walk, led and narrated by costumed hosts, takes families through Kennebunk’s Hope Cemetery to hear the tales of residents from the past three centuries. The October 28 tour is for both children and adults.

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CONSIDER THE APPLE David Buchanan connects people to forgotten flavors with his cider from foraged rare apples by Kate Gardner // Photography by Matt Cosby 44

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With his gazetteer by his side, in the fall of 2016 farmer David Buchanan put over a thousand miles on his car in search of hidden fruit. It was a difficult year for apples, and he had to head north from his farm in Pownal to find what he was looking for. He stopped in fields and forests from Rumford Notch to Deer Isle to forage for misshapen, rough-skinned apples. He knocked on strangers’ doors whenever he saw apple trees on their property. After getting permission from the property owner, Buchanan would pull down fruit and tug on branches, catching his haul in a tarp spread out below the tree, then he’d move on to the next location. “I go where the fruit is,” he says. The “wild” apples Buchanan collects are rare varieties, many of which are close to extinction. With origins in Maine, they look different from the larger, unblemished apples found in grocery stores. Instead of eating this fruit, Buchanan presses and ferments it to make a historic New England drink: hard cider. “I like to collect rare trees and give people access to their flavor,” he says. “For me, it’s not enough to just collect the apples. I like to do something with them. Not doing that would be a limitation.” In 2012 Buchanan bought a Pownal farm to grow fruit trees—he currently has over 200 apple varieties—and last year he opened a tasting room on the property. He also grows and sells peaches, pears, plums, cherries, and raspberries.

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Despite being a young company, Portersfield Cider is steeped in history. Its name is derived from Dr. Aaron Porter, Buchanan’s ancestor and the namesake of the town of Porter. Buchanan’s home on the property is almost 130 years old, and the tasting room is made of hand-hewn timber from a Guilford farmhouse built in the 1820s. It’s the apples, though, that connect people to the past here. Buchanan’s 600 trees grow modern and heirloom apples, most of which can’t be purchased in stores. Over the past several years, Buchanan and a small team have been for-

aging apples, collecting seeds and grafting trees for his Pownal orchard, and harvesting apples for cider. Some trees take ten years to yield fruit, and fermentation takes two to three months. “I like to ferment slowly,” he says. “It’s less predictable, but it’s more interesting.” Buchanan enjoys the process, but his favorite thing about making cider is introducing people to new flavors. Wild apples produce a different-tasting cider than other hard ciders people may drink, he says. Buchanan’s natural fermenta-

tion process gives the cider a bite and allows the natural flavors of the apples to come through more strongly. He likes to remind people of the possibilities Maine has to offer, and that it’s offered for hundreds of years. “We’ve lost that palate,” he says. “It feels like a missing piece of our New England cuisine. I’m trying to show the range of flavors that are possible in apples.” Buchanan especially likes to find “one-off wild seedlings” because it allows him to make something truly unique. “It’s a local drink,” Buchanan says. “This is our native wine.”

From left: Buchanan lives on the property in a 130-year-old house near the entrance to Portersfield Cider. The cider is fermented and bottled in the tasting room adjacent to Buchanan's home. Opposite: Buchanan picks apples from the trees on his orchard and also forages them throughout the state.

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Portersfield Cider sells two cider varietals year-round (the Original Dry and the Aronia), plus small-batch ciders on a rotation. Buchanan used to sell his bottled cider at farmers’ markets, but he now offers bottles and pours from his small tasting room only. The space, painted a rustic white with exposed beams and high ceilings, has an intimate, cozy feel. Buchanan enjoys being in the tasting room with customers, explaining flavors to them and helping them to pair light food options with their drinks. It’s important to him that people understand the process of making the cider so they can feel more con-

“IT FEELS LIKE A MISSING PIECE OF OUR NEW ENGLAND CUISINE. I’M TRYING TO SHOW THE RANGE OF FLAVORS THAT ARE POSSIBLE IN APPLES.”

nected to their drink and where it comes from. The farm’s rolling apple orchard is visible on a slight hill just beyond the tasting room. “I don’t just grow fruit trees,” Buchanan says. “The whole purpose of this farm isn’t to produce a product. It’s to bring the community in. I like to see people connecting with the farm and the land.” Buchanan also hopes to connect people with the past. He’s not looking to recreate an old-fashioned way of life, but he does make his cider through a traditional process. Foraging for fruit is strenuous at times, but it’s the only

Buchanan pulls down apples and collects them on a tarp spread out below. Opposite: Portersfield Cider sells two cider varieties all year (the Original Dry and the Aronia) as well as small-batch ciders on rotation. The bottles are for sale in the tasting room.

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way to find apples that would otherwise be forgotten. “I like that it’s a piece of our tradition,” he says. “I forage for wild seedlings because it’s how I find interesting fruit.” Making relatively unknown apples more accessible is a challenge, so it’s something Buchanan doesn’t do alone. He has been helping the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) develop a heritage apple orchard in Unity. The goal of the preservation site, called Maine Heritage Orchard,

is to grow every variety of apple known in Maine, of which there are more than 600. The orchard is about halfway there and has apple varieties from all 16 counties. Some come from trees dating back to 1630. Buchanan hopes to make the rare apple varieties more plentiful so they will no longer be on the verge of extinction. He wants Mainers to enjoy the different flavors for years to come. “I feel like I’m just scratching

the surface,” he says of the apples he’s collected. “It’ll take a generation or two to bring these into cultivation.” For now, Buchanan will continue digging through the woods and pulling to the side of the road in search of interesting tastes and flavors. To him it’s an act of creativity as much as one of preservation. “It’s exciting to come up with something that has its roots deeply right here,” he says. “I feel like I’m trying to do something that’s rooted in heritage while also looking forward.”

Opposite: Buchanan loves searching for new apple varieties and often grafts trees found in the wild to plant on his farm. This page, from left: Portersfield Cider's tasting room is open year-round and sells flights of cider as well as individual glasses. Buchanan enjoys talking with customers about the different cider flavors and what foods they pair well with.

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n a hot July afternoon at Fort Williams Park in Cape Elizabeth, cousins Sabin Lomac and Jim Tselikis stand on a sharply sloped boulder at the water’s edge, arms outstretched and wide smiles on their faces. Veterans of many television appearances and photo shoots, the men are in their element, hamming it up for a photographer while Tselikis’s wife, Maggie, balances a few feet away, gamely holding a flash on a tall pole. Lomac and Tselikis, founders of Cousins Maine Lobster, are also right at home here—the sprawling park on Casco Bay near their respective childhood homes in Scarborough and Cape Elizabeth. Six years after launching their inaugural Cousins Maine Lobster food truck in Los Angeles, they introduced their wildly successful brand to Maine this summer with a cart at Portland Head Light, serving their signature lobster rolls, lobster tacos, and lobster tots— tater tots with warm lobster meat, pico de gallo, and cilantro lime sauce— among other items. “We didn’t want to start on day one in our own backyard, where there’s a plethora of lobster, and everyone can find it,” says Tselikis. But 31 food trucks, eight restaurants, and a best-selling book later, the timing finally seemed right. “We got the key to the city of Portland,” says Lomac. “It felt very rewarding that locals said, ‘These guys have done a good job representing us on a national and global level.’” The cousins and I find a patch of shade and sit on the grass, shoes off. Friendly and engaging, they are on an extended break to visit family in Maine. Lomac, whose fiancée, Erika Hartounian, and baby son, Enzo, are in

tow, has just wrapped the first season of his new Cooking Channel series, Seaside Snacks and Shacks, crisscrossing the country for alligator sliders on the Louisiana bayou and “campfire whitefish” in Michigan, along with local specialties: from the Shack in Old Orchard Beach, the Garage BBQ and Salty Bay in Scarborough, and Silly’s in Portland. A book, Cousins Maine Lobster: How One Food Truck Became a Multimillion-Dollar Business, was released in April, garnering positive reviews for the cousins’ lighthearted telling of their bootstrapping success story. The tale begins in Los Angeles, where Lomac was living when he and Tselikis, who was working in Boston, decided to jump into the fledgling food truck market, investing $20,000 of their own funds to launch Cousins Maine Lobster. “The original plan was to start a food truck and break even, not lose money,” says Lomac. “I would stay in California and keep my job; Jim would stay in Boston and keep his job.” The first day the truck was in operation, 80 people lined up in the California sunshine for Maine lobster rolls, and the cousins knew they had stumbled onto something bigger than they expected. “The only intentional thing we did was sell Maine lobster,” Lomac says. “We wanted everyone to know where we were from—we’re very proud of that.” The name, intended to be a placeholder, stuck when they realized it told their story. “It speaks to exactly how we tried to recreate our childhood,” says Tselikis. “Which was summertime with our crazy cousins and everyone running around, our parents and too much chardonnay, and lobster.”

Opposite: Sabin Lomac, left, and Jim Tselikis at Portland Head Light. The founders of Cousins Maine Lobster, they introduced their first food cart in Maine this summer at Fort Williams Park. This page: The Connecticut-style lobster roll is served warm with butter and lemon. Cousins Maine Lobster also offers a traditional Maine-style lobster roll with mayonnaise.

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We wanted everyone to know where we were from—we’re very proud of that.”

Cousins Maine Lobster buys all of its lobster from eight Maine buying stations it partners with; the meat is processed in Portland and shipped to the various locations, which as of August included a restaurant on the beach in Taiwan. The rolls are from New England–based Country Kitchen, and the whoopie pies are baked in Maine. “As we grew, we wanted to make sure that the logistics and the supply chain were buttoned up and very secure,” says Tselikis. Initially, the cousins did their trainings in California, but now they bring all of their franchisees to Maine to immerse them in the culture that is the heart of their business. “They see how hard it is—hauling ten lobsters up and throwing nine of them back,” he says. “They come to Jimmy’s house and sit in the backyard with his mom,” says Lomac. For him and Tselikis, family is a recurring theme extending well beyond the close-knit circle of relatives that includes Tselikis’s sister, Annie Tselikis, the executive director of the Maine Lobster Dealers’ Association. Barbara Corcoran, the celebrity investor the cousins convinced to partner with them on ABC’s Shark Tank, is also considered family, says Lomac. Corcoran first visited the cousins in Maine to film some teaser footage before the October 2012 episode was scheduled to air. Lomac gave her a list of hotels, but said she was also welcome to stay with him at his mother’s house in Scarborough. Corcoran took him up on the offer. “We shot during the day, and at night we’d play Scrabble and drink wine—it felt like family immediately, and it’s only gotten stronger,” says Lomac.

The producers of Shark Tank had approached the cousins just two months after they launched their first food truck. Recognizing they needed mentorship, the cousins prepared for the show—in which entrepreneurs compete for investors—by watching 50-plus episodes and grilling each other with questions. Corcoran’s resulting $55,000 investment and her business acumen are “the gift that keeps on giving,” says Tselikis. “But we didn’t just focus on TV, we focused on the product and Maine and the story.” His sister has also helped them tell this story, connecting them to the lobster industry in their early years and keeping them up to date on developments. “We would call her: ‘Annie, we’re going on CNN; how should we talk about this?’” says Lomac. We peel ourselves off the grass and wander over to the cart, where operator Mike Carmody, who grew up playing hockey with Tselikis, is serving a Connecticut-style lobster roll (warm, with butter) to a man from California who’s thrilled to have discovered his favorite food truck on his Maine vacation. He recognizes the cousins, and they happily pose for pictures with him and his two young daughters. “How is it?” Lomac asks. “As good as in Sacramento,” the man says. Tselikis and Lomac’s smiles widen. Consistency with a simple product—one that would be easy to get wrong, given the perishability of seafood—is a cornerstone of their success. So is the close, continuing connection to Maine, where each hopes to have his own home someday. “We happen to live near Hollywood in California, but we’re the opposite of Hollywood guys,” says Tselikis. “We’re just two guys from here.”

Opposite, clockwise from top left: Lobster grilled cheese and lobster tots—tater tots with lobster, pico de gallo, and cilantrolime sauce. Waiting for an order at the cart at Fort Williams Park. Eleven-year-old twins Morgan and MacKenzie Hays from Palm Peach, Florida, taste their first lobster in a grilled cheese sandwich from Cousins Maine Lobster.

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Sawdust on the floor, dozens of painted test-spots in variations of the color green, the charred smells of a woodburning tool—that’s only a fraction of what’s to be noticed here. This is Frank Middleton’s workshop in a converted barn in Camden. We’ve just maneuvered around the 36foot hull of a lobster boat he’s been restoring. It dominates the center of the space, but the boat isn’t what this longtime boatbuilder has been concentrating on lately. On countertops that line the walls, stacked on shelves, and catching the autumn day’s light on window ledges there are whole birds and parts of them—loose feathers, heads with beaks, singular outstretched wings—all carved from wood. The lobster boat has been relegated to backdrop and staging area for the duck decoys Middleton is making, along with an array of decorative bird sculptures that are fit to display as fine art. A tall man with reddish hair and glasses, Middleton carves waterfowl and mourning doves, wild turkeys and quail. He has been working on a commission for a five-bird sculpture of the extinct Carolina parakeet—wooden feather by wooden feather at times—for over two years. He continues to build boats and renovate homes, but decoys and bird-sculpture commissions are his primary craft now—he’s made more than 500 decoys so far. In the barn, which is connected by an ell to the old farmhouse that he and his wife, Mary Middleton, bought a few years ago, he’s surrounded himself with the study and pursuit of wild birds.

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Previous spread: Haley, ready to retrieve ducks during a late November hunt on Merrymeeting Bay near Bowdoinham. A traditional duck-hunting region, the expansive bay includes marsh and open waters of the Kennebec and Androscoggin Rivers and the smaller Muddy, Cathance, Abagadasset, and Eastern Rivers. This page: Frank Middleton in his Camden workshop. Opposite: The boatbuilder now also crafts wooden bird sculptures and duck decoys for hunting.

A GUSHING SKY The workshop keeps Middleton near his family, some of whom wander in while we’re talking. Cassie, his 11-year-old daughter, is carrying a recent birthday present her father made for her: a framed carving of a single great blue heron feather. When Middleton’s son Connor, 9, notices Cassie holding the sculpture of a feather that looks light and delicate enough to be real, he dashes back to the house to retrieve his own gift from his dad, a pintail duck decoy. Connor holds it proudly and says he keeps the carved bird above his bed “so I can look at it at night.” “I like the green,” he adds. There’s life and warmth at every turn at the Middleton house. Mary is in the kitchen baking scones with the youngest child, Cate. The family’s two dogs, Haley and Tripp, are alternately sleeping near the woodstove and nosing in and signaling to be let out into the backyard to run. The dogs have chocolate-colored fur with wiry white strands and tufts of white on their muzzles, and they make a striking pair. Known as Deutsch-Drahthaars,

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they are German hunting dogs, and Middleton says the first time he saw one of the dogs, he recalls thinking, “What is that? Now, there’s a regal-looking beast.” He’d eventually adopt one to train, and then another, figuring they would fit well into his outdoor pursuits and join him to retrieve ducks on hunts. Growing up in Charleston, South Carolina, Middleton says, the expectation was that he would be a doctor or lawyer. Instead, his interests were in the natural world. “I always wanted to build something,” he says. He fished with his grandmother as a child, and when he raised a Labrador retriever when he was a teenager he found that he was good at training dogs. He worked as a carpenter in Montana, earned a geology degree at a North Carolina college, and eventually started Middleton Boatworks on a rural sea island near Charleston. Middleton’s first introduction to Maine was during a Thanksgiving visit when his younger brother was a student at Bowdoin

College. The brothers went duck hunting on Merrymeeting Bay, an inland freshwater delta that’s known to be a waterfowl haven. Middleton was fascinated by the expanse of water, the tall-growing wild rice, and the impressive variety of waterfowl that the bay attracts. “Around Thanksgiving, when it starts to freeze out up north,” he says, “the sky’s just gushing birds (over Merrymeeting Bay) for one, maybe two weeks.” After that first trip, whenever he could arrange it, returning to this part of Maine would be Middleton’s two-week fall tradition. Merrymeeting Bay gave him miles and miles to explore by water and land. The Kennebec, Androscoggin, and four smaller rivers empty into the bay on their way to the Gulf of

Maine, and it contains four-mile-long Swan Island, situated between Richmond and Dresden. Along the rivers, coves, and marsh, Middleton found remnants of a classic style of hunting. He noticed, for example, that some of the old-timers hunted in locally made wooden gunning floats, built to nose through the wild rice. As he sought to improve his own gear, something didn’t seem right about the plastic duck decoys that he and many hunters released on tethers to float in the water and attract passing ducks—they didn’t fit the aesthetics of the natural scene. “You might as well float a Clorox bottle,” he says. A friend gave him a few L.L.Bean cork decoys to use, and he found that the lightweight hand-painted decoys, sold since the 1930s, were a definite improvement.

Opposite: Around Frank Middleton's workshop beside the family's farmhouse in Camden are tools, paints, and wooden birds in various stages, including a study for a five-bird sculpture of the extinct Carolina parakeet, a commission. This page, from left: Paint studies and parakeet wings. A mallard decoy—Middleton paints the birds after carving.

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One species, two views: On this page, Connor Middleton, nine, holds a male pintail duck decoy that he keeps in his bedroom. Opposite, Frank Middleton holds another that he carved and painted with a slightly different head position and size.

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RICE ATTRACTION Meanwhile, back in South Carolina, Middleton’s boatbuilding company kept him busy. It had grown to 12 employees, and they were building more and larger boats. But when the economic downturn hit in the late 2000s and boat commissions fizzled, Middleton and his wife seriously began to consider moving to Maine and starting anew. If they relocated near enough to Merrymeeting Bay, Middleton thought, he could hunt all season long. “I either needed a shrink or I needed a hobby,” Middleton says about starting to carve decoys in earnest during those lean years. He’d had a decoycarving book since high school, and he’d once told a college art professor that he’d like to focus on decoys, to which the educator replied, “Decoys are not art.” He would later buy a few decoys made by acclaimed carver Tom Boozer in South Carolina. He says he’ll never forget the day he floated them out and successfully shot ducks over them. By then, he was certain he wanted to make his own. Boozer encourage him to try—that is, to lob off big chunks of wood and begin to create the organic shapes of a bird using a drawknife, then do the finer gouging, carving, burning, and painting. His first decoys were rough, Middleton admits, but he persisted. “This would be the one thing I could do.” When I meet the Middletons, they are well settled into the rhythms of life in Camden. They moved to Maine in 2012, and these days, while Mary Middleton works as an accountant and the kids are in school, Frank Middleton carves and paints decoys and sculptures, often 7 to 10 hours a day, four to five days a week. “Or just 20 hours a week, because the weather’s right and the birds are here,” he admits. Before we leave the workshop, he invites photographer Peter Frank Edwards and me to join him on a duck hunt in a few weeks, in late November.

Each year wild rice grows tall on Merrymeeting Bay. Here, Frank Middleton navigates through the fallen stalks with his dog, Haley, on a chilly, end-ofNovember morning duck hunt.

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HUNT DAY We decide to stay in Camden the night before hunting so we can get an early start. First we’ll need to drive to Merrymeeting Bay together, hot coffees in hand. Middleton has scones to share and just-baked hermits: chewy cookies made with molasses, ginger, nuts, and spices. Since we woke up before three in the morning, it’s still well before sunrise when we arrive in Bowdoinham and make our way to the shore a few miles from the town landing. Temperatures are in the 20s, and the tide is incoming—“the feeding tide,” Middleton calls it. The shore mud is frosted and crunches as we walk across it in our chest-high rubber waders, layered in camouflage-pattern coats, gloves, and hats. Middleton has a headlamp on his head, and Haley is bounding along nearby. All of us step into the boat, including Haley, who makes a graceful leap, looking as if she barely gets her

paws wet. The three-year-old dog is a smart one, I’ve noticed. She stays on dry land whenever possible, and she escapes the cold in an insulated, igloo-style fort that Middleton has for her in the front of the boat. Middleton says the 60-pound dog has learned the benefits of keeping warm and dry, and “will circle a pond to get to the other side to retrieve a duck.” The bulrushes and the wild rice stalks are spent for the season, hay-brown and fallen. We’re towing two canvas-topped gunning boxes, also known as coffin boxes, which Middleton built, each with rafts of fallen rice arranged across the top. Watertight, boxy, and large enough for one person to lie down inside (covered with the camouflaging stalks), these are to be positioned on the exposed mudbanks with a dozen or two duck decoys set nearby. They’re not boats, Middleton reminds us, and he notes that, once the

Opposite: Three-year-old Haley jumps aboard Frank Middleton’s boat, a Merrymeeting Bay gunning float crafted locally by Buster Prout. This page: Stacked on the boat and across the bow are fallen rice stalks and a canvas bag of wooden duck decoys.

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As the sun rises and temperatures hover in the 20s, Haley waits at the ready on the boat, tucked inside her insulated camouflaged shelter.

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tide pushes enough water in that we start to float, we’ll need to get out of the boxes—and carefully, because they’re prone to tipping over. Middleton is reclined in his boat with his shotgun, and Peter Frank and I are in the boxes, all within yards of each other. It’s a windless morning, and I watch the starry sky from my snug coffin. My only movement is wiggling my toes—one foot is feeling especially cold and damp. It’s taken us three hours to get to a cove on the Abagadasset River—by car, by boat, and then wading in our boots to the boxes—and now we’re watching Merrymeeting awaken to a new day. In an instant, two mallards and a black duck appear and fly overhead. Middleton gets off two shots, but the angle is a tough

one and no ducks fall. In the minutes after the sound of the shotgun blasts subside, I notice the sparkle of frost that has built up on my jacket. We soon see distant wisps of ducks in the sky in the dawn’s first, soft light. “That’s a ball of teal right there,” Middleton whispers across the water. And later a line of boisterous, noisy geese fly just along the tree line, honking. But no other ducks appear in close enough range to attempt a shot. Within an hour, I feel water start to rise beneath the gunning box. Like a cradle, it begins gently rocking as the tidal flow pushes farther into the bay. As it washes in, we load back into the boat, Middleton gathers the decoys, and he ferries us back to the now sun-washed shore and the truck.

From his boat, Frank Middleton uses one of his duck calls to try to attract birds to fly near. Opposite: With the small engine on the Merrymeeting Bay gunning float lifted out of the water, Middleton can propel the boat forward in the traditional way: with a paddle fitted through a port in the transom and swished back and forth underwater in a shallow figure-eight motion.

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Around Thanksgiving, when it starts to freeze out up north, the sky’s just gushing birds over Merrymeeting Bay for one, maybe two weeks.”

SMOOTH SCULLING After not getting a bird over the decoys, Middleton wants to try another approach: sculling. His wooden boat, with its sharply pointed bow, rounded bottom, narrow decks on the sides, and square stern, is crafted specifically to steadily and stealthily push through the rice. It was built of pine, oak, and cedar by Buster Prout, a legendary local maker of the Merrymeeting Bay gunning float. At 16 feet, the float is long enough for two people to hunker down inside. It is so finely made, it “looked like a gorgeous piece of wood furniture” when he bought it, Middleton says. Prout delivers the boats with the wood unfinished, so Middleton painted the interior and added an epoxy resin fiberglass to the outside to protect the white pine strips that form the hull. This specialized craft can be run with a small motor, but it’s traditionally propelled forward using a long paddle with the handle end inside the boat. The paddle is fitted through a port in the transom and swished back and forth underwater in a shallow figure-eight motion. The idea is to advance on the wary ducks without noise. But we’re not hunting on this pass. Middleton does the sculling while I stretch out on my back with my head tilted up to observe the birds over the Cathance River on this November morning. Overhead, ducks are flying in big arcs. They fly distantly and near, in pairs and lines, small flocks and large ones. Their flying appears distracted at times. Other times it looks purposeful, as if they know exactly where they’re going. Or the ducks disperse suddenly, startled by a bald eagle or maybe having noticed the gunning float, or us. We try another spot or two before stopping for a hunter’s breakfast of brisket hash and eggs at the Town Landing Cafe in Bowdoinham. Finally, we use Middleton’s spotting scope on a tripod to see ducks at Green Point, a public park on a pine ridge. Flocks of mallard, pintail, merganser, and black duck are out there. While Haley sits at the base of a tree alert to a squirrel above, Middleton scans the horizon a final time and talks joyfully about the day, even though we have no ducks for dinner—or for him to study for his next decoy or sculpture. He notes that people often don’t take the time to enjoy the geography, flora, and fauna that first attracted them to a place. “Just think,” he says with wonder, “this morning we had all of Merrymeeting to ourselves.”

Opposite: Leaves drop and autumn fades into winter. Rafts of fallen wild rice and bulrush add an organic brown texture to the shoreline of Merrymeeting Bay. This page, from top: A mallard from a successful hunting trip in the first week of January, the final week of duck-hunting season. In a wind-driven tidal surge, there were moments during this January hunting trip when Frank Middleton says he couldn’t see past five boat lengths.

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n early August, Bon Appetit magazine named Portland the 2018 Restaurant City of the Year. It’s a big accolade for Maine’s largest city, which is small by national standards. But, as Mainers and food writers from well beyond the state also know, restaurant greatness is not limited to Portland. Witness Maine’s 11 James Beard Award semifinalists this year, 5 of whom are from outside the city. One of these, and a semifinalist for the fifth time, is Ravin “Bas” Nakjaroen, chef and co-owner along with his wife, Paula Palakawong, of tiny Long

Grain in Camden. Entirely self-taught, Nakjaroen has made his mark with what he says is the simple food of his childhood, prepared with local ingredients and a good measure of both pride and love. Nakjaroen came to Camden in 2009 from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he and Palakawong—both natives of Bangkok—had owned a Thai restaurant for three years, and where he received his first James Beard Award nomination. He had been recruited to open a now-closed Camden restaurant, White Lion, and she

was eager to raise their baby daughter, Py, somewhere other than Florida. They had had no plans for another restaurant of their own, but in 2010 they opened Long Grain in a narrow leased space with no signage on Elm Street, Camden’s main thoroughfare. The New York Times discovered them in 2012, and the first James Beard Award nomination came in 2014. The following summer, the couple bought a building just around the corner on Washington Street. The ground floor had once housed a pizza restaurant, Zaddick’s, as well as the short-lived Fromviandoux. Nakjaroen

Opposite: Spicy Night Market noodle soup was served to restaurant staff and friends before becoming a Long Grain menu staple. It features ground pork and slices of roast pork from Maine farms, noodles, and vegetables in a flavorful broth, topped with peanuts and fried pork rinds. This page, from left: Prik khing curry with local pork belly and sugar snap peas. Long Grain’s “Magic Sauce.” Spicy Szechuan-cumin lamb from a local farm with hand-stretched noodles, Napa cabbage, and hot peppers. October 2018 81

and Palakawong spent two years on an extensive renovation then opened at the new location this past June. “We didn’t share much,” says Palakawong, who kept the project’s progress a mystery. “I didn’t post any photos on Facebook or Instagram—we were just too busy.” Both inside and out, the new space displays the style and character that defines Nakjaroen’s cooking. The clapboard that wraps the exterior was finished using the Japanese process called shou sugi ban, in which the wood is charred to preserve it and make it weatherproof. Inside, a display wall of open shelves divides the dining room from the new Asian market, where a rustic hutch holds jars of Long Grain’s “Magic Sauce.” The bright,

airy space resembles a modern French bistro more than a typical Asian restaurant, with a marble-topped bar and a dark wood bench against a wall papered with a contemporary pattern. Vintage finds, including milk glass lamps and a collection of kitchen tools from the old space, hang as wall art, creating a minimalist yet warm decor. Tables with mismatched chairs are widely spaced. “We didn’t move because we wanted a larger restaurant,” says Palakawong, adding that there are only five or six more seats here than at their previous location. “We needed a better kitchen, and we wanted the restaurant to be comfortable.” On this Friday afternoon, most of the tables are still occupied with customers

finishing lunch while I chat with Palakawong and Py, now a friendly, chatty nine-year-old who helps out in the market. “The old kitchen was so small; there were a lot of things that we wanted to do that we couldn’t do,” Palakawong says. One of these was Peking duck, which Nakjaroen prepares in the traditional manner: basting the whole birds with a soy sauce–based mixture, blowing air underneath the skin so it will crisp in the smoker, and hanging the mahoganyskinned smoked ducks in an interior window display alongside glistening slabs of smoked char siu pork belly and ribs—visible to diners from a hallway. Diners eager for Peking duck are advised to make an early reservation; the dish sells out quickly, says Nakjaroen.

Long Grain’s new space recalls some elements of its original location, including a wallpapered wall and the display of vintage kitchen tools. Opposite: Chef Ravin Nakjaroen, left, and his wife, Paula Palakawong, opened their restaurant in 2010 on Elm Street, Camden’s main thoroughfare. This past June, they moved it into a completely renovated space on Washington Street with a few more seats and a much larger kitchen.

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He now has space to hand-pull the broad, flat wheat noodles that share a bowl with spicy, tender chunks of Szechuan-cumin lamb—locally sourced, as is the pork, chicken, seafood, and much of the produce in Nakjaroen’s dishes. Ground pork and slices of roasted pork belly mix with rice noodles, ground peanuts, and a heady blend of spices in the Spicy Night Market noodle soup, a particular favorite of his wife’s. The dish wasn’t originally on the menu, though. “We thought it was too spicy, too much going on,” Palakawong says. “We started to make it for our friends and staff to try, and they loved it. We discovered people want to be surprised—they don’t like things that are too simple.”

The bright, airy space resembles a modern French bistro more than a typical Asian restaurant, with a marble-topped bar and a dark wood bench against a wall papered with a contemporary pattern.

While Nakjaroen is continually expanding his repertoire, his mussels in spicy coconut-lemongrass broth is a dish he has carried with him from the restaurant in Florida, to White Lion, and now to Long Grain. The plump, meaty mussels—preferably Pemaquid but always from Maine—are bathed in a rich, aromatic, and perfectly balanced broth, in which the lemongrass strikes just the right note and slivers of kaffir lime add brightness. Balance is also the word that comes to mind as I sample a fragrant and soulful prik khing curry with pork belly, a classic Thai dish that usually contains green beans; here Nakjaroen has substituted local, in-season snap

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peas. Palakawong says dried shrimp is key to the rich flavor of the curry. Home-style Thai dishes such as the curry are the foundation of Long Grain’s menu, but the new, larger kitchen allows Nakjaroen to branch out into other Asian cuisines. “We used to do Thai and, here or there, Korean or Vietnamese,” says Palakawong. “Now we do a lot more of everything: Indian, Chinese, Taiwanese—far beyond just Thai food.” For inspiration, the couple returns once a year to Bangkok, which, like any large cosmopolitan city, has restaurants of all types. They also travel internationally, “always where there is good food,” says Palakawong. Yet Nakjaroen doesn’t stray far from what he learned in his childhood kitchen. “We’re just focusing on simple food; we try to go back as far

as we can,” he says. “It’s more from my memory when I was a kid, but we’re also trying to make it as good and as highquality as possible.” He is serious about representing Asian culture, but doesn’t hesitate to use Maine ingredients such as garlic scapes, ramps, or smoked mackerel from Ducktrap River of Maine in Belfast. The result is a menu full of dishes that “people are not just willing to try, but eager to try,” says Palakawong. Both she and Nakjaroen are deeply appreciative of how they have been received in Camden and value their relationship with the community. “We love to have all types of customers: teenagers, older people, families, workers taking a break for lunch,” she says. This mission is reflected in the prices, which are reasonable, and the

portions, which are generous. “Good food doesn’t have to be expensive,” she says. Main dishes range from $12.50 to $17.50, and specials top out in the mid20s. Our conversation winds down as the restaurant’s daily break between lunch and dinner nears its end. Servers—many of whom have been at Long Grain for years—are quietly resetting the tables, and Nakjaroen returns to the kitchen. The mood is cheerful and calm, and I find I’m reluctant to leave this homey place. But Palakawong is packing up my leftovers, sending me off with boxes of flavor memories. I find when I get home that she has included the broth from the mussels, all of which I had eaten. She knows, and I agree, it is just too good to waste.

Opposite, from top: Long Grain now has an Asian market, which sells many products not previously available north of Portland; customers can purchase jars of Long Grain’s “Magic Sauce,” displayed on the shelves at top right. Nakjaroen’s mussels in spicy lemongrass broth were served at his first restaurant in Florida, and he has carried the recipe with him to subsequent kitchens. This page: Long Grain’s dining room is open and airy, with well-spaced tables and a casual vibe.

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Much of what makes Maine so appealing—its outdoor recreational opportunities, dramatic coastline, and independent spirit—hasn’t changed for centuries. Yet, there’s a lot of Maine that needs to change. Ask residents of towns with shuttered mills. Or someone who doesn’t fit in the 95 percent white majority. Or a business owner who can’t recruit enough skilled workers. The individuals on the following pages are all making significant contributions to their communities and our state. They’re providing recreational opportunities and meals to kids in need. They’re connecting rural parts of the state to high-speed internet. They’re sparking conversations about how to combat racism and improve sexual education. They’re protecting our waters and our wildlife. And they’re doing it for a love of Maine —and for what Maine could be. Opposite: Lani Love, owner of Allagash Canoe Trips, paddles down the Allagash River on a clear spring day.

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CAROL A. WILSON, FAIA PRINCIPAL OF CAROL A. WILSON ARCHITECT

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Carol Wilson could have been an architect anywhere in the country, but she chose Maine. After a few visits to the state in the ’70s and ’80s, she was so inspired she decided to stay. The environment influences everything she creates at her Falmouth-based firm. “Our work is a direct result of living in Maine,” she says. “It responds to every physical aspect of Maine.” The climate, landscape, and topography are carefully considered with each design Wilson creates and affect the end result of each project. She says Maine is an engaging place to be an architect because of the geographical variety. Designing a home by the ocean calls for a different approach than one in the woods, which is also different from one built

in one of Maine’s more urban areas. “Architecture is inseparable from both the physical landscape and its inhabitants,” Wilson says. “Design in architecture demands problem solving.” She shares the power of her field with others through curated exhibitions her firm hosts to showcase modern architecture in the state. She says the events “help people understand the potential of architecture.” Wilson’s work has won numerous awards from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Maine and AIA New England. Wilson doesn’t do her work for awards, though. “I cannot imagine doing anything else,” she says. When she started architecture school at age 17, she says, “everything about it felt like a perfect fit. It still does.”

LESLIE OSTER EVENTS + FUNDRAISING DIRECTOR AT FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL

When Leslie Oster was the catering and creative director at Portland’s Aurora Provisions, she oversaw meals for high-profile clients. In 2012 she catered a dinner for President Barack Obama at the Portland Museum of Art. The “incredibly surreal” experience included making an entirely Maine-sourced menu for the president and the guests at his fundraiser. On a different occasion, Oster catered a private luncheon for Michelle Obama. Although these meals were swanky, the Obamas weren’t Oster’s most important diners. The volunteer work she was doing outside of Aurora Provisions held more meaning. As an early member of Slow Food Portland and a board member of Cultivating Community, Oster worked with

organic farmers, supported garden-based education for kids, and cooked at events to support ending food insecurity. Being a volunteer for Full Plates Full Potential led Oster to her current role as the organization’s events and fundraising director. The nonprofit works to end childhood food insecurity in Maine. For Oster, working with the organization is a dream come true, especially considering that her longtime career goal has been to “fix school lunch” and provide kids with access to healthy food. She coordinates with local businesses to donate a portion of profits to programs that provide students with meals at school. “I wake up every morning to a job that fills me with purpose and hope,” she says.

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CHRISTY GARDNER DIRECTOR OF THE NEW ENGLAND WARRIORS SLED HOCKEY PROGRAM ASSISTANT CAPTAIN OF THE U.S. NATIONAL SLED HOCKEY TEAM After Christy Gardner was injured overseas while serving in the U.S. Army Military Police Corps, she was told she’d never be able to do the things she once loved. “As a disabled veteran, the drastic change in life and lifestyle when you get hurt is often worse than the injury itself,” she says. “To go from a scholarship athlete and a female soldier that met the male fitness standards to being told I would never be ‘active’ again was a terrible blow.” Gardner, who sustained brain trauma, spinal damage, skull fractures, and the loss of both legs below the knee, was determined to make the most of her life after the injury. She discovered adaptive sports, returned to college, and earned a degree in therapeutic recreation. “I wanted to give that feeling of breaking down barriers to other folks, too,” she says. Gardner is now the director of the New England Warriors Sled Hockey Program, which offers the sport to disabled veterans throughout New England. She is also the assistant captain of the U.S. Women’s Sled Hockey Team, and in 2013 she was named USA Hockey’s Disabled Athlete of the Year. “My body and spirit were badly broken, but with the help of other disabled veterans, I’ve learned that there’s still so much I’m capable of,” Gardner says. “I learned to believe in myself again and that I could actually do, and have done, all of the things the medical team said I never would. Now no one can tell me what I can’t do.”

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LAURA FREID PRESIDENT OF MAINE COLLEGE OF ART Laura Freid says what drew her to Maine College of Art (MECA) was the opportunity to work with artists and creative entrepreneurs and to give students “everything they need to achieve the most success in life.” Freid, who became the eighteenth president of the 136-year-old institution in 2017, spent the previous decade as executive director and CEO of Silkroad, a nonprofit arts organization founded by Yo-Yo Ma based at Harvard University. She also served as executive vice president of Brown University and publisher of Harvard Magazine. Freid said she feels fortunate to be leading the college at a time when Portland is “just realizing its true potential.” Design is also becoming more and more integral to everyday life. “I think design is everything. We’re living in a world that’s becoming increasingly visual. Everything we do, even conversations we’re having, is based on how we see things,” Freid says. “Whether we’re using an app or texting on our phone or using Bitmoji, everything we’re surrounded with has been touched by an artist or designer.” Freid says about half of MECA’s graduates start their own businesses in Maine or bring their creative skills to local employers. “Whether students are at MECA for four years in the bachelor of fine arts program or for four weeks in a continuing studies class,” she says, “MECA prepares our students to be part of the new innovation economy in Maine.”

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BILL RYAN, JR. CHAIRMAN + PRINCIPAL OWNER OF MAINE RED CLAWS When Bill Ryan, Jr., makes an investment, one of his top considerations is how the project will impact Maine’s growth and development. “My family loves Maine, and we want to continue to develop a prosperous economy in the place we call home,” he says. Along with being the principal owner of Maine Red Claws, Ryan is a co-owner of Portland Pie Company and a former owner of the Oxford Plains Speedway. Ryan was also a principal in the early stages of the Thompson’s Point development project in Portland. When he founded the Maine Red Claws in 2007, he says, not everyone believed in the project, because they didn’t think a basketball team was necessary. Seeing the effect of the team on Maine’s entertainment industry has changed minds, he says, and has proven to Ryan that it was worth the risk. Further proof can be found on the faces of fans. “It is gratifying to see people having a great time with their families and leaving with smiles,” Ryan says. “We all have responsibilities that can drag us down. Fun experiences with our family and friends can pick us back up.” Getting up during tough times is a lesson Ryan learned through sports. Facing problems on the field as a college athlete taught him how to better handle issues in other aspects of life. “If you can stand toe to toe with an opponent on a football field, it makes a tough business negotiation seem a little less intimidating,” he says.

MATTHEW O’MALIA, AIA PRINCIPAL AT GO LOGIC + PARTNER AT GO LAB When Matthew O’Malia started GO Logic in 2008, he and his business partner, Alan Gibson, weren’t sure if a sustainable design and construction company would be financially feasible, but they were driven by a “personal commitment” to the environment. “In architecture and construction, there is no neutral position in relation to the environment,” O’Malia says. “The buildings we create will either contribute positively to solving our environmental problems or worsen them.” With this in mind, he works to protect natural resources and construct buildings that work within their landscape. With each project, he looks at the community, the environment, and the local economy to build things that will be sustainable over time. “It is my responsibility as an architect to create buildings that not only meet current performance standards, but also anticipate future standards and contribute to the well-being of future generations,” he says. Last year O’Malia and Gibson partnered with Joshua Henry to start GO Lab, a research and development company that develops sustainable building materials. GO Lab will be using locally sourced wood residuals to manufacture low-density wood fiber insulation boards to be used when building homes and other buildings. O’Malia plans to open a plant in Maine to produce of this material, which would bring a new industry sector to the state. He says the wood fiber insulation will save people money on heating costs and “is locally made, healthy, fully renewable and recyclable, and supports our local economies.”

JONATHAN BOROFSKY ARTIST Jonathan Borofsky’s towering public sculptures are located in cities around the world, but it wasn’t until 2016 that the Ogunquit artist had an exhibition in Maine. A solo show of Borofsky’s work marked the openings of Rockland’s Center for Maine Contemporary Art, where a 24-foot-tall sculpture from his Human Structures series is installed in the courtyard. The structure of 12 colorful steel figures, bolted together and stacked on top of each other, signify a common theme in his work: humanity uniting together. “The title kind of seeps out of it—Human Structure— that seems to be what we’re all doing. We’re all connecting to each other. We’re all building our world,” he says. The unveiling last year of similar sculpture by Borofsky marked the opening of a new sculpture garden at the Portland Museum of Art, and in 2008 he created a 64-foot-tall sculpture of his interconnected, colorful figures for the Beijing Olympics. As a child, Borofsky had visited Ogunquit in the summer with his parents, and his first painting lesson was in Ogunquit. After college and graduate school, Borofsky lived, taught, and worked in New York City and Los Angeles for more 20 years before moving to Ogunquit in 1990 to “get away from a lot of activity and kind of hide out.” His work at his Ogunquit studio has been largely focused on sculptures for public locations around the globe. “For me, art has always been my way of understanding my world and the world around me,” Borofsky says.

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EVELYN KING FOUNDER OF MAINE WOMEN FLYFISHERS When Evelyn King first started fly-fishing, she felt self-conscious about participating in a traditionally male sport. As her passion grew, she wanted to show other women how powerful and enjoyable fly-fishing is. A member of the Sebago Chapter of Trout Unlimited, King founded the chapter’s Maine Women Flyfishers group. “Fly-fishing has long been a passion of mine, and my goal is to share this passion with other women and encourage them to spend time outdoors in Maine’s beautiful countryside,” King says. One of her proudest accomplishments was passing the Federation of Fly Fishers certified casting instructor exam in 2015, which took two years of practice and studying. King leads annual fly-fishing trips with other women to go deep into nature and disconnect from the outside world. “We will spend the weekend fly-fishing completely off the grid with no one within miles of the camp,” King says. “It was something I have done with my husband numerous times, but it felt so rewarding to be able to share this with other women.” King, who is a paralegal by day, is also a volunteer guide and casting instructor with Casting for Recovery, a fly-fishing weekend retreat program for women who have breast cancer. “It is a rewarding experience for both the participants and the volunteers,” she says, “and I am continually amazed at how therapeutic fly-fishing can be for these brave survivors.”

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DEB SOULE FOUNDER, OWNER + HERBALIST AT AVENA BOTANICALS As an herbalist, Deb Soule believes in the power of plants. The bornand-raised Mainer fell in love with medicinal plants and gardening over 40 years ago. In 1985 she started Avena Botanicals to help people heal using plants. Over the years the company has evolved from a mail-order business to include a small herb shop on a biodynamic farm in Rockport, but Soule’s desire to help people has remained the same. “Having grown up in rural Maine, I wanted to make high-quality medicinal herbs available to women and their families living in rural areas,” she says. Helping others understand and embrace alternatives to traditional Western medicine is important to Soule, and she teaches classes at Avena about different ways of using plants. She says it’s important to proactively care for one’s health. “We need to shift from a reactionary health care model where we only think of healing when we are sick, toward a more life-affirming model of health that includes the well-being of our whole planet,” Soule says. As a place known for its natural resources, Maine is the perfect place to do her work, Soule says. “I am grateful to do this here in Maine, where my roots grow strong.”

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MARSHA H. DONAHUE ARTIST + OWNER OF NORTH LIGHT GALLERY Marsha H. Donahue paints to protect. The artist was active in the Campaign for Katahdin Lake that successfully added the lake to Baxter State Park in 2006, and, more recently, in the effort to create the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. “These two efforts blended the role of artist and conservator for myself and many other artists in being able to educate the public about the unique quality of Maine and in being able to protect and share it,” says Donahue, who owns North Light Gallery in Millinocket. In 2016 she received a leadership award from the Maine Natural Resources Council for work done on the national monument campaign. The painter uses oils and watercolors in her landscapes, which often depict the Katahdin region. “Visual art is a powerful communicator, especially when you are taking people to places few have discovered,” she says. “Many of us who have been away and come back realize the value of the deep green woods and cooling waters and want to share it to create a more peaceful world.” Her hope, Donahue says, is that people will fall in love with Maine’s natural beauty and want to preserve it. Her gallery and studio in Millinocket also displays other artists’ work and hosts classes and community events. “I am proud of North Light Gallery, where I promote the works of others and myself, allowing artists a dignified living and giving the public the opportunity to discover and support them,” she says.

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JEAN M. DEIGHAN FOUNDER + CEO OF DEIGHAN WEALTH ADVISORS Two years into her career as a litigator, Jean Deighan married a lawyer from a different firm. Fearing a conflict of interest, the partners at her firm asked her to step down. “Although I was very unhappy at the time, today I could write them a thank-you note,” she says 40 years later. Instead of finding a different job in law, Deighan left criminal defense behind and started a new career in trust banking. From there she became an independent investment advisor and co-founded Deighan Wealth Advisors with Jenifer Butler in 1994. Although “moving out from under the glass ceiling was very satisfying,” Deighan says it was challenging to start her own company. “It was like stepping off a cliff not knowing whether the drop would be three inches or 300 feet,” she says. Today Deighan Wealth Advisors, located in Bangor, manages over $160 million for 200 clients. While Deighan is proud of the growth, she’s equally proud that the firm is led by women. She says it’s satisfying to work with a passionate group of women, as well as men, who help clients by giving them thoughtful, constructive financial advice. Although it wasn’t her original plan, she’s found running her own business to be rewarding. “I am constantly surprised that it is so enjoyable and satisfying to work very hard,” Deighan says. “When you have a clear vision and mission that is embraced by all in the firm, life is good.”

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GEORGE SMITH WRITER FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE SPORTSMAN’S ALLIANCE OF MAINE George Smith has been synonymous with the Maine outdoors for three decades. Smith served as executive director of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine for 18 years, retiring at the end of 2010 to write full-time. His passion for the outdoors dates back to his childhood, when he hunted with his father, and now comes through in his weekly newspaper columns, blog posts, and other writing. “I was born a Maine sportsman, spent much of my youth in the woods and on the waters of our beautiful state, and have worked my entire life to protect and enhance the Maine I love,” Smith says. As head of the sportsmen’s group, Smith sponsored legislation that established protected waters for native trout and created the Maine Outdoor Heritage Fund, which has given over $20 million to conservation and outdoor recreation projects. Maine Conservation Voters presented him with the 2017 Harrison Richardson Environmental Leadership Award. At the beginning of the year in his weekly Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel column, Smith announced his recent diagnosis of ALS, which has limited the longtime sportsman’s mobility. He’s continued to write using voice-typing software, advocating for conservation and environmental causes. “I was very lucky to have the jobs and opportunities to devote time to do this work, which never seemed like work to me,” Smith says. “I have traveled our nation, learning how very special Maine is, and how important it is to protect our state.” October 2018 101

SEBASTIAN BELLE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF MAINE AQUACULTURE ASSOCIATION

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Sebastian Belle has spent most of his career working to make Maine a national leader in aquaculture. “I have worked all over the world but came back to Maine because I believe that aquaculture can play a critical role in diversifying the economic base of our coastal communities and help increase the resiliency of Maine’s working waterfronts in a rapidly changing world,” he says. As the executive director of the Maine Aquaculture Association and a policy analyst for the Maine Department of Marine Resources, Belle has helped make aquaculture more common in Maine and more accessible for fishermen. As aquaculture becomes more popular, Belle has seen new challenges arise and has hired more staff to meet the needs of the

industry. Major challenges include the changing environment, gentrification in coastal communities, and high competition for the seafood market. Belle and his team at the Maine Aquaculture Association have been working to help established aquaculturists thrive while also helping new farms start up. A large part of Belle’s work has involved working with aquaculturists in Maine to develop best management practices. “Many of those methods are now recognized as some of the most progressive aquatic farming methods out there,” he says. He helped design 14 aquaculture projects in nine different countries and was the winner of the 2017 World Aquaculture Society Lifetime Achievement Award.

JUDY CAMUSO DIRECTOR OF WILDLIFE FOR MAINE DEPARTMENT OF INLAND FISHERIES + WILDLIFE Protecting Maine’s wildlife is a job Judy Camuso can’t do alone. In addition to relying on her staff, she works to educate and empower the public to protect the state’s animals. As director of wildlife for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW), she’s broadened the department’s audience and has encouraged people to engage with wildlife more. “I started my career at Maine Audubon, and one of my core missions always was to connect people to wildlife and nature, knowing that people will protect and conserve the things they love,” she says. After her time at Audubon, Camuso became MDIFW’s only female regional biologist and is now the department’s first female director. It’s important to her to advocate for women in the department and in the wildlife field in general. “I strive to encourage women to excel at this agency and try to be a model for advancing women in a male-dominated industry,” she says. In her position, Camuso directs wildlife research, monitors projects (such as controlling the state’s moose population), and represents the department on policy and legislative issues. Her work also contributes to Maine’s economy. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services estimates residents and visitors spend more than $1 billion on wildlife-related activities in Maine each year. “Mainers are incredibly passionate about wildlife, and to actively oversee, enhance, and protect Maine’s amazing wildlife resources is my dream job,” Camuso says.

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TIM CHURCHILL PRESIDENT + CEO OF WESTERN MAINE HEALTH CEO OF FRANKLIN COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK In a state as large as Maine, Tim Churchill knows how challenging it can be to make sure residents in every county have access to quality health care. “Mainers expect and deserve excellent health care,” he says. “Being able to help work towards that goal, particularly in our rural communities, has really been rewarding.” The Maine native spent the first 20 years of his career in Philadelphia and other areas of Pennsylvania before returning home in 1996 to become president and CEO of Western Maine Health and its flagship, Stephens Memorial Hospital in Norway. Three years later, Churchill helped make the hospital a member of MaineHealth. “That decision has immensely benefited the hospital and region, in terms of access to health care,” he says. “I think our membership brought added value to the MaineHealth system as well.” Churchill’s efforts to increase rural coverage have also resulted in Stephens Memorial Hospital gaining recognition by The Leapfrog Group as a top rural hospital. The medical professional, who also became CEO of Franklin Community Health Network this year, says, despite strides that have been made, he continues to focus on the “critical shortage” of primary care physicians and nurses in rural Maine. Solving this issue will be difficult, he says, but more than worth it. “Though certainly very challenging, complex, and sometimes frustrating, the opportunity to play a role in helping to try and ensure that access to appropriate, high-quality health care is available for people in the communities we serve is a professionally satisfying experience.”

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KEN WALSH CEO OF THE ALFOND YOUTH CENTER When Ken Walsh moved to Maine 26 years ago to become director of the Waterville Boys and Girls Club, the organization had been running a deficit for the past decade. Its dilapidated 50-year-old building needed to be renovated. Within a few years Walsh had helped the organization get back on its feet and raised $2.1 million to renovate the club. With support from the Harold Alfond Foundation, Walsh later led a pioneering effort to combine the Boys and Girls Club and YMCA to create the Alfond Youth Center (AYC), the only such merged organization in the country. “Partnerships and collaborations between nonprofits are crucial for the success of communities and missions,” Walsh says. “The more we work together, we become more efficient, resulting in better outcomes.” The center now serves over 5,000 youth members from 191 towns and provides over 100,000 free meals to kids per year. Walsh also led efforts to build the only two licensed replicas of Major League Baseball ballparks in the country: a Fenway Park replica at AYC’s Camp Tracy in Oakland and a Wrigley Field replica in Waterville. In the years since the parks were built, central Maine has become a destination for youth baseball tournaments, including the upcoming 2020 Cal Ripken under-12 World Series. “I think what’s kept me here is the people,” Walsh says. “The people who are involved in this community, who really put their hearts and souls into making this community unique, and it’s paid off.”

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LUKE HOLDEN FOUNDER + CEO OF LUKE’S LOBSTER Luke Holden’s family has been lobstering in Maine for generations, but his post-college plans took him in a different direction. After graduating from Georgetown University, the Cape Elizabeth native moved to New York City and got a job in the finance industry. Wanting to create a taste of home in New York, Holden and his business partner, Ben Conniff, opened a lobster shack in 2009 in the East Village. Luke’s Lobster has since grown to 39 locations across three countries. Holden says “naïve passion” helped the pair find success. Their commitment to the lobster industry also led to them to create the Tenants Harbor Fisherman’s Co-op, which buys members’ catches at or above market price. Half of the profits from the Luke’s Lobster in Tenants Harbor go back into the co-op. “I want to follow in my father’s footsteps and have a positive impact on the lobster industry,” Holden says. “Maine is home, plain and simple. The lobster industry is in my blood.” Earlier this year, Holden got Luke’s Lobster certified as a B Corporation, reflecting the importance of social and environmental standards in the company’s business model. Getting the certification is rare for a restaurant, but Holden says he wanted to show how serious he is about using sustainable seafood.

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PETER RALSTON PHOTOGRAPHER OWNER OF RALSTON GALLERY COFOUNDER OF THE ISLAND INSTITUTE Described by fellow Island Institute cofounder Philip Conkling as “the most notable Maine coast photographer since Eliot Porter,” Peter Ralston has been capturing the coast and its people for four decades. Ralston moved to Maine at the urging of Andrew and Betsy Wyeth, who were his next-door neighbors when he was growing up in Pennsylvania. He has spent his career photographing around the world, but he says Maine is the first place he has felt like he is home. “The Maine coast has two defining characteristics,” Ralston says. “The rugged beauty of the coast is the more obvious, but it’s the fundamental character of the people and working communities here that is, to me, far more compelling. It is particularly the latter which I have sought to understand, honor, and celebrate as best I know how.” His best-known photograph, Pentecost, encapsulates a bit of the character and appeal of the coast. In it, a lobster boat is towing a dory full of sheep bound for Allen Island, heading toward a horizon line barely visible through thick fog. The scene—stunning, thrilling, and a bit bizarre—imparts a sense of Yankee independence and ingenuity, and also of interconnectedness. The idea of communities putting personal differences aside to overcome challenges is a lesson Ralston has learned from the people along the coast and tried to capture in his photographs. “America needs much, much more of that—especially now—and in my own small way as a storyteller,” he says, “I try to share that message.” October 2018 107

ROBIN ALDEN FOUNDING EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE MAINE CENTER FOR COASTAL FISHERIES Robin Alden’s work may be specific to Maine, but she knows it has the opportunity to impact the planet. Her love of fishing and her passion for the industry led her to create the Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries in 2003. She retired from the organization this year. The nonprofit works to secure the future of fishing by implementing innovative, sustainable programs. “Commercial fishing requires respect for the environment to succeed,” Alden says. “Done right, fishing is an excellent economic activity and feeds the world.” Alden believes small community fisheries have the ability to create lasting change in the industry, because the people involved understand what needs to be done to preserve fishing. She has worked for decades to connect fishermen with decision makers in the scientific and policy communities. In 1976 she cofounded the Maine Fishermen’s Forum, which brings together fishermen, scientists, and government officials. She also served in former governor Angus King’s cabinet, where she led the development of changes to Maine’s lobstering laws. Now that she’s retired, Alden plans to draw on her 45 years of experience to continue making fishing more sustainable, so it can be practiced by generations to come. “Fishing is an interesting business, because its long-term success requires both restraint and excellent environmental practices, and it uses a natural resource in a changing environment,” she says. “It is, in many ways, a metaphor for the human challenge of living from and caring for this planet.” 108

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EKHLAS AHMED ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNER TEACHER AT WESTBROOK MIDDLE SCHOOL COFOUNDER OF DARFUR YOUTH OF TOMORROW When Ekhlas Ahmed first came to the United States as a child, she felt alone. Now, 12 years later, she’s become an English Language Learner (ELL) teacher so she can help students become more comfortable as they adjust to life in America. “I couldn’t look to people and resonate with their stories,” she says. “I want to close the gap between ELL students and mainstream students and fully integrate them so they’re not isolated, because this is their home now.” This spring, Ahmed completed her master’s degree in teaching English to speakers of other languages at the University of Southern Maine. Originally from Darfur, Sudan, Ahmed says she turned to writing when she first moved to the U.S. as a way to express herself. “I write a lot of poetry that reflects on struggles of being a black woman in the state of Maine, of being a Muslim woman trying to use my voice,” she says. Ahmed uses her voice not only to express herself but to help others. She is the cofounder of Darfur Youth of Tomorrow, an organization promoting awareness of the Sudanese genocide. Ahmed says Maine has become a more welcoming place over the past several years, but she’d like to see more change. “From person to person, we need to check our biases and not come to conclusions right away,” she says. “Don’t look at refugees or new Mainers as strangers, because this is their home now.”

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HANNAH PINGREE FORMER SPEAKER OF THE MAINE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES BUSINESS MANAGER OF NEBO LODGE + TURNER FARM CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR OF NORTH HAVEN SUSTAINABLE HOUSING CO-HOST OF THE MAINE EVENT “I have always believed that spending my time and energy focused on making good things happen—whether it is at the state level or in my home community—is the most important thing I could be doing,” says Hannah Pingree. The youngest woman ever elected both majority leader of the Maine House of Representatives and speaker of the House at ages 30 and 32, respectively, Pingree served in the Maine Legislature for a decade. In that time she focused on energy efficiency, housing, health care, and passing a bipartisan budget. She co-sponsored legislation that became the Kid-Safe Product Act, a first-inthe-nation law that addressed the problem of toxic chemicals in household products. After terming out of the legislature, Pingree turned her focus to her family and her hometown of North Haven, where she’s served on the school board since 2010. She has led fundraising campaigns to build an island community center, a new public school, and, mostly recently, an eldercare facility that was completed this year. “Growing up in a tiny isolated island community, the concept of being a good neighbor who participates is essential,” she says. “The smaller the town, the more likely it is that you have to pitch in or lead the charge to make good things happen. And I think Maine is much the same way.” She’s stayed connected to statewide issues as co-host of The Maine Event, a weekly Maine Public television program, and says she would eventually like to return to state politics. 110

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SHANE DIAMOND FOUNDER OF SPEAK ABOUT IT Shane Diamond wants more people to speak about sex. The Portland resident is the founder of Speak About It, a program that teaches about consent, pleasure, and communication through performances at high schools and colleges. “We’re shaking up a lot of the belief systems that people have around communication and sexuality by breaking down gender stereotypes and encouraging folks to focus on their own and their partners’ pleasure,” Diamond says. The nonprofit seeks to prevent sexual assault by discussing healthy sexuality and by teaching bystanders to speak up if they see concerning behavior. Diamond says that, in the eight years the nonprofit has existed, he has been proudest when people shared how the performances affected them. He’s also proud of the programming he’s helped create for retirement communities, students with developmental disabilities, military academies, LGBTQ+ youth, and parents. Diamond says that, despite the fact that most people have sex in some capacity, a lot of people are afraid to talk about it and for it to be a subject of education. He says people need to be educated and informed about healthy sex instead of being taught fearbased or abstinence-only sex education. “The fear is that, if we give people information about how to have safer sex or healthier relationships, it will be the end of productivity and we’ll all descend into an animalistic sexcapade,” he says. “If we can shift our perspective so that mutual pleasure is the focus of every sexual encounter, our hope is that we change the future of sex education by eliminating fear-based tactics and encouraging communication.”

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FLETCHER KITTREDGE CEO OF GREAT WORKS INTERNET

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Fletcher Kittredge doesn’t think good internet access should be a luxury. The CEO of Great Works Internet (GWI), a Maine-based internet service provider, believes it’s a basic necessity for all. “It is not really possible today, and in the future will be impossible, to participate in society, hold a job, receive quality health care and education, or receive governmental services without a network connection,” he says. Over the past 25 years, GWI has been committed to digital literacy, open access, market competition, network neutrality, and data privacy. He says reliable internet access enriches communities and helps them thrive. “It is not about streaming videos and social media, but rather solving the funda-

mental community problems—health care, aging in place, workforce development, business attraction, and telecommuting,” he says. Communities won’t grow if they’re stuck in the past, because young people won’t want to live there and companies won’t want to locate there, Kittredge says. The CEO was a principal investor in the Three Ring Binder project, which completed a 1,100-mile fiber network to connect rural areas of Maine to the internet in 2012. Kittredge is also a board member of the Maine Center for Entrepreneurs. “The best way to create jobs is to expand entrepreneurship, particularly beyond the traditional, highly educated urban males to women, the less educated, and rural areas,” he says.

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When Kim Swan sells a house, she does so with care. Not only is she helping a family find a new place in Maine to call home, she’s working to continue the lives of the buildings themselves. “My real estate career has been deeply steeped in working with historic homes,” she says. “The history of Bar Harbor and its rusticator period is most interesting to me, how it evolved to the building of magnificent cottages and how we, as a community, have respected these homes through the years.” Many of these historic buildings have been converted to bed-andbreakfasts and boutique hotels, businesses that Swan also works with. Her love of history extends beyond homes to her hometown’s

storied past. As a board member of the Bar Harbor Historical Society, Swan was the executive producer of the film The Fire of ’47, which tells the story of the historic fire that destroyed the town in 1947. Her work with the historical society and as a business owner won her the 2017 Cadillac Award from Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce. The award recognizes individuals who are leaders in public service in the community. Swan was also a Bar Harbor Town Councilor for a decade, and in 2017 she was appointed to the Maine Council of the Humane Society of the United States. “The soul of Maine is driven by people with a passion for giving back,” she says. October 2018 113

JILL HOY ARTIST + OWNER OF JILL HOY GALLERY Jill Hoy has never needed to look far for inspiration. The plein air painter spent her summers in Deer Isle starting when she was nine, and is now a part-time resident of Stonington. “There is something deeply authentic, profoundly raw, and beautiful here,” she says. “Maine is a hardworking culture, close to the bone, and that essentiality and struggle is a rich combination for inspiring visual work.” Hoy paints Maine and its people by sweeping bright colors dramatically across the canvas. She considers herself a documentarian who paints places in their natural state, especially “places untouched by gentrification.” She says, “I am drawn to landscapes that have maintained themselves from the beginning of earth’s existence.” For the past 32 years, Hoy has run her own studio, Jill Hoy Gallery in Stonington, where she displays and sells her work. Recognizing her good fortune to be able to support herself while doing what she loves, Hoy often donates her work to town offices, hospitals, schools, libraries, and other public places. She says it’s important to her that people get to experience art for free.

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SHAY STEWART-BOULEY CREATOR OF BLACK GIRL IN MAINE: BGIM MEDIA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY CHANGE INC. When Shay Stewart-Bouley moved to Maine from Chicago, she found the “very white space” to be jarring. To talk about her experience as a person of color in the state, she started a blog, Black Girl in Maine. “In creating a space for myself, it has become something much larger,” she says. “The conversations that my work sparks are well overdue, not just in Maine, but nationally.” Stewart-Bouley splits her time between her home in Maine, where she writes, and her day job in Boston, where she leads Community Change Inc., a nonprofit focused on anti-racism efforts. For Stewart-Bouley, calling out racism and working to end it is what motivates her work. “All of my work is centered on anti-racism, because racism is America’s original sin, and we are still living with it,” she says. “We are only just starting to wake up to the fact that racism is not just about personal feelings; it is woven into the fabric of this nation.” In addition to writing for her blog, Stewart-Bouley writes about race for a number of other publications. She has been named the best Portland blogger by Portland Phoenix readers and has received a New England Newspaper and Press Association award for her work. This year Portland Phoenix readers named her blog the best media publication in Portland. Stewart-Bouley says her work is her life and that the urgency of the issues she fights for keep her engaged. “I believe this state has much to offer as far as quality of life, but it must be safe for all— that is what keeps me in this work.”

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LORI K. PARHAM, PHD STATE DIRECTOR OF AARP MAINE Lori Parham has been interested in aging issues her entire life. Her childhood felt like growing up with the Golden Girls, she says, because she spent so much time with her grandmothers and their friends. “I work every day to show that age is just a number,” she says. “No one should be limited by age. I try to make the point to lawmakers, nonprofits, businesses, and others that people over 50 bring value to Maine in so many ways.” The state director of AARP Maine has worked for the AARP for over 13 years. Part of working with the aging population has been dealing with end of life issues. Parham previously served as a hospice volunteer and did her doctoral research on hospice care in nursing homes. To help cities and towns prepare for an aging population, she has helped almost 60 Maine communities join the AARP Network of Age-Friendly Communities, which provides resources so people can stay in their homes. “Across the country people over 50 tell us they want to age in place in their homes and communities,” she says. “Maine is the oldest state, so the need here is greater in the short term.” Parham says supporting people who want to age in place is possible because “Mainers are innovative, and in Maine change happens at the local level."

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LANI LOVE OWNER OF ALLAGASH CANOE TRIPS When she was growing up, Lani Love’s family thought being outdoors meant “walking from the house to the car,” she says. In the years since then, she developed a love for Maine’s wilderness and married into a family with a long history of guiding. In 2000 Love and her husband, Chip Cochrane, took ownership of Allagash Canoe Trips, which was founded by her father-in-law, Herb Cochrane, in 1953. “I am so proud to be part of this family, and not just continue the Cochrane legacy but to be able to do this as a woman in a ‘man’s world,’” she says. For Love, guiding others down the Allagash River is a chance to help people disconnect from their lives and become more confident outdoors. “So much of our current existence is consumed by external stimuli and instant gratification,” she says. “In the woods and water, life slows down, and everything is about living in the moment.” Love is energized by her work when she sees people relax, come alive in nature, and connect with the environment. She is also a winter backcountry ski guide with Maine Huts and Trails. People learn the most about nature, and themselves, when they face tough conditions head-on, she says. “I believe a bit of adversity makes you stronger and helps you value the importance of life.”

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NANCI BOUTET EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL SURFERS Special Surfers started in 2003 with Nanci Boutet taking three kids on the autism spectrum out surfing. The effort evolved into a nonprofit organization that now helps more than 300 people with disabilities surf each summer. Hundreds of volunteers descend on Gooch’s Beach in Kennebunk on the third Tuesday of June, July, and August for Special Surfers nights. “I would like every kid to feel like they fit in somewhere,” Boutet says. “Society is hard enough when you have special needs, and Maine doesn't exactly have the best recreation programs for people with special needs. Once you see what having fun does for these people—kids, adults, family, and friends—you’re hooked.” There is no cost, and all the equipment is provided, including boards with chairs for those who have difficulty with mobility. Boutet, who also founded Aquaholics Surf Shop in Kennebunk, says what she loves most about Special Surfers is the joy it brings to people who face hurdles and struggles every day by allowing them to feel limitless for a few hours. “When they are in the water with us, they are all just a bunch of surfers,” Boutet says. “Imagine surfing or seeing your child or friend surf when you never would have dreamed it was possible?” 118

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LESLIE B. OTTEN FORMER OWNER OF SUNDAY RIVER FOUNDER OF MAINE ADAPTIVE SPORTS + RECREATION When Leslie Otten’s friend invited him on a family ski trip in 1956, a whole new world opened up for the seven-year-old. “You could say that those ski trips in the ’50s had more influence on my life than just about anything else,” he says. He fell in love with the sport, and by the age of 23, he was the manager of Sunday River ski resort. In the role, he expanded the ski area into a tourist destination and economic driver for the state. “Building Sunday River from a remote little ski hill to what it is today became the launching pad for many things in my life,” he says. After seven years as manager, Otten purchased the resort in 1980, and in 1995 he founded American Skiing Company, which operated ski resorts around Maine and the country. Growing Sunday River “was key to the growth of Bethel,” he says, and allowed him to pursue other ventures in the area. Along with Omar “Chip” Crothers, Otten founded Maine Adaptive Sports and Recreation, one of his proudest accomplishments. The organization helps adults and children with disabilities participate in sports. “Maine Adaptive has given opportunity to people whose lives might otherwise have been left short of what the program enabled them to accomplish both personally and professionally,” he says. Otten is also the chairman emeritus of the Cromwell Center for Disabilities Awareness, on the board of trustees of the Portland Museum of Art, and is the former vice chairman and partner of the Boston Red Sox.

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BONNIE RUKIN COORDINATOR OF SLOW MONEY MAINE From raising funds to renovate a former jailhouse into a gristmill to providing working capital to an organic dairy farm, Slow Money Maine has boosted Maine’s food system by connecting food businesses with financing and other assistance. The organization, which Bonnie Rukin established in 2010, has helped funnel $14 million into Maine’s food economy through loans, grants, and equity investments. The organization is a chapter of Slow Money, a national nonprofit organization that assists local food businesses acquire capital. The Maine group now has a network of about 1,750 individuals from various industries. “Though Maine has a burgeoning local food movement, it is a state that is primarily rural and poor, with little state government support for agriculture and fisheries,” Rukin says. Slow Money Maine provides connections to food producers who want to grow their business, leveraging human and financial resources to access funding and technical assistance, she says. “Given the risks associated with investments in the food sector, many conventional funders are not supportive of food producers.” Slow Money Maine has also established two investment clubs, No Small Potatoes and Maine Organic Lenders, which bring individuals together to pool funds for loans to local food producers. Collectively, the clubs have made over $350,000 in loans, and the model has been replicated in more than ten states. 120

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LARRY WARREN FOUNDER OF MAINE HUTS + TRAILS When Larry Warren was at the start of his career in the late 1960s, he was certain of his professional path. He was working at an accounting firm in Boston and was on his way to becoming a certified professional accountant. A trip to Sugarloaf changed everything. He fell in love with Maine and was soon making the trip up every weekend. By the early ’70s, Warren was working as the controller of the Sugarloaf Mountain Corporation. “Work was an adventure that focused on converting a backwoods ski area to a viable resort community and in the process attempting to maintain the down-to-earth Sugarloaf attitude and friendliness,” he says. Over the past few decades, Warren has remained focused on development and outdoor recreation. He was one of the founders of the town of Carrabassett Valley and helped propel the development of the region between the ’70s and ’90s. Warren’s crowning achievement came in 1999 when he founded Maine Huts and Trails. Located in Kingfield, the nonprofit operates a system of multiuse trails and lodges and takes people on guided adventures, such as canoeing, skiing, and hiking. Warren says he’s always believed in the importance of finding adventure through outdoor activities. “It broadens one’s appreciation of our natural environment and provides exposure to wild and scenic places,” he says. For Warren, the most meaningful part of his work is the “significant land conservation and public access it provides for existing and future generations.”

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Taylor Allen got his start building boats as a teenager at Rockport Marine, which his father founded in 1962. After college, he returned to Maine and eventually became president of the boatyard, which specializes in designing, building, and restoring wooden yachts. The company now employs around 50 people and is largely run by Allen’s stepson, Sam Temple. While at the helm of the company, Allen shifted its work toward new construction and restoration, as well as increasing winter storage capacity. In 2011 Allen helped open Front Street Boatyard in Belfast with three other well-known boatbuilders: JB Turner, now president of Front Street Boatyard; Steve

White, owner of Brooklin Boat Yard; and Kenneth Priest II, former CEO of Kenway Corp. The shipyard, which employs around 100, has brought new energy to Belfast’s waterfront. It began construction this year on a new facility that will allow it to work on larger vessels and add 40 more jobs. Allen says the growth at Front Street Boatyard furthers Maine’s reputation as a quality place to keep boats and have boats repaired. “I grew up here. It’s my home and turned out to be a great place to do work,” he says. “The state of Maine is known for high-quality boatbuilding and motivated, hard-working employees who dedicated to delivering the best product and value for our customers."

EMILY ISAACSON FOUNDER + ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF PORTLAND BACH EXPERIENCE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF ORATORIO CHORALE + MAINE CHAMBER ENSEMBLE

Since Emily Isaacson was 15, her dream was to become a conductor. She grew up in Maine, but she left the state for college, two master’s in music, and a doctorate in conducting. Between degrees she taught music at a public charter school in Washington, D.C., and then again in Boston. Isaacson also helped launch Roomful of Teeth, a Grammy-winning vocal music ensemble. She always wanted to return to Maine, though, and she got her wish in 2013 when she became the artistic director for the Oratorio Chorale and Maine Chamber Ensemble. Since then, Isaacson has launched the Portland Bach Experience, a nonprofit that presents world-class classical music events throughout the city through a series of festivals. The June festival included classical music performanc-

es in unexpected locations, such as a concert at Bayside Bowl and the playing of all six of Johann Sebastian Bach’s cello suites in different public locations throughout the Portland area. Those events were part of Isaacson’s goal to make classical music feel more approachable and less elitist. “I resist the sterile way in which we experience classical music in the twentieth and twenty-first century. I want to return classical music to its natural habitat, which is social and weaved in to people’s everyday life,” Isaacson says. Another goal of the festival is to draw people to Portland who will boost the local economy. “Entrepreneurship is a core part of the Maine spirit, and it’s in the arts, too,” she says. “You just need to work really hard and have a great idea.”

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TOM BRADBURY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF KENNEBUNKPORT CONSERVATION TRUST Tom Bradbury’s roots in Maine run deep, with his first ancestor having come to the state in the early 1600s. For the past 40 years he has dedicated himself to protecting the land his family has called home. “Working with the Kennebunkport Conservation Trust has allowed me to forever preserve some of those wonderful properties around which the history, beauty, and character of our community has been formed,” he says. In Bradbury’s time at the trust, the organization has preserved 12 islands in Cape Porpoise Harbor and has protected 2,400 acres of land on which 20 miles of trails have been built. Volunteers started the trust and have driven the work. “We had a passion for wanting to save those properties on which we had played as children, but no actual knowledge about how to accomplish it,” he says. “We used our community to create a network of protected lands; now we are using those protected lands to build a stronger community.” To ensure people know how to care for and protect the lands around them, Bradbury has helped develop a nationally recognized education program. Being good stewards is important if people want to continue enjoying Maine’s natural beauty. “It is our responsibility to pass on the best of this state, to pass on that same gift that we have been given,” Bradbury says. “I wanted to pass that on to our children and our children’s children, so they could come to love this special place as we now do.”

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MERLE HALLETT COFOUNDER OF MS HARBORFEST FORMER OWNER OF HANDY BOAT For Merle Hallett, sailing is more than a hobby or passion—it’s a way to give back. In 1982 he cofounded the MS Regatta, now the MS Harborfest, to raise money for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. The event, which includes a race around Casco Bay, has raised more than $3 million over the past three decades. “I feel an obligation to pay back for all of my good fortune, and Maine is the natural place for me to contribute,” Hallett says. The Portland native grew up on Munjoy Hill and learned to sail at East End Beach, where he would launch a sailboat he built himself. At age 23, he started working at Handy Boat, a boatyard in Falmouth. In 1966 he bought the business and expanded it continually until he retired in 2008. Handy Boat allowed Hallett to introduce boating to new generations. “This led to being able to give many young people the opportunity to work on the water, learning to appreciate boats, sailing, and sailboat racing,” he says. Hallett has always had a passion for racing and competed in his first boat race when he was 16 years old. Since then, he’s competed in and won races all over the country and world.

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GEO SOCTOMAH NEPTUNE MASTER BASKETMAKER, EDUCATOR + DRAG PERFORMER Geo Soctomah Neptune’s life is a series of opposing ideas: traditionalism and modernism, Western and Native cultures, masculine and feminine spirits. Neptune’s life and work as a Passamaquoddy basketmaker and drag performer embody these oppositions. “I hope that others can see that my basketmaking is an important part of cultural preservation as well as evolution, that my drag is a challenge to Western patriarchal societal norms, and that these two things are not separate, because these art forms are who I am as a two-spirit,” says Neptune, who uses the pronoun they. A two-spirit, Neptune says, is “both male and female, yet neither female nor male.” Neptune’s basketmaking, which has won numerous national awards, allows them to express their identity through a traditional indigenous art form. “I am proud to be able to speak my language and to practice the traditions that my ancestors practiced,” Neptune says. “Every effort was made by the colonizers to kill our language, erase our traditions, and make us forget who we are.” Neptune also works to keep indigenous culture alive as a teacher in a Passamaquoddy language immersion program. Neptune hopes that the effect of their art and drag performances will be “that future generations will experience less racism, less homophobia, and less transphobia than myself and others have, and gain a stronger sense of identity and community as a result.”

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EARLE G. SHETTLEWORTH, JR. MAINE STATE HISTORIAN Earle Shettleworth was only 11 years old when he had his first meeting with Percival P. Baxter, who served as Maine’s governor from 1921 to 1925. It was 1960, and Shettleworth was developing an interest in historic preservation. “Governor Baxter inspired my belief in public service as a worthy pursuit that provided opportunities for creating a better Maine,” he says. As a teenager, Shettleworth was interested in the history of art and architecture and how historical preservation requires a both knowledge of old buildings and the ability to develop strategies to protect them. Now the state historian in Augusta, Shettleworth spent most of his career with the Maine Historic Preservation Commission, first as a board member and then as director from 1976 to 2015. While Shettleworth served as director, the commission nominated nearly 1,600 Maine properties to the National Register of Historic Places. In 1985 he helped secure voter approval of a $2 million bond to improve historic buildings in Maine. Shettleworth says Maine’s history, including its architecture and artifacts, defines the state as much as its natural elements do. It’s important for history to be preserved and made accessible so more people can understand where Maine has been, he says. “A knowledge of local, state, and national history is essential in defining the truth of who we are, where we have been, and where we hope to go.”

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CLAYTON ROSE PRESIDENT OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE Clayton Rose believes education is an opportunity everyone should have, and at Bowdoin College he helps make this a reality. “At Bowdoin, I am deeply proud of our bedrock commitment to ensuring that the best students can come here regardless of their financial situation,” the college president says. Having strong endowment support allows the school to have need-blind admission, no loan requirement in financial aid packages, and a commitment to meet students’ full demonstrated need for all four years. Rose says Bowdoin’s connection to Brunswick and to Maine as a whole makes it a stronger school. “It is quite special to be tied so deeply to our local community and to do this work in Maine, where integrity, authenticity, and a respect for the natural world align with the values of the college,” he says. These values are ones Rose hopes students take with them when they graduate. He believes students leave Bowdoin prepared to understand the global world they’re entering and to engage with it thoughtfully. He also believes the college prepares students for any occupation, although he realizes many young people choose to leave Maine. The key to changing this is to create support that will make people want to stay as well as draw in new people. “We need to support education at every level and in every part of our state, from pre-K through graduate programs,” Rose says. “This commitment to education is what will create the kind of workforce that draws employers to the state and encourages entrepreneurial activity.”

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LOIS LOWRY AUTHOR “Writing is my passion, as are young people,” says author Lois Lowry. “To be able to combine the two in a career has brought me enormous satisfaction.” Lowry, author of classics such as The Giver and Number the Stars, has been publishing young adult novels for decades. She has a simple secret to keeping her books relevant: she avoids trends. “I try instead to address more pervasive themes that resonate with all ages, to raise questions that can provoke discussion and thought among 12-year-olds, and then the same people 10 years later, and 10 years after that,” she says. Although her work has won many awards, including two Newbery Medals, Lowry says her proudest accomplishments have been moments. “Nothing is more gratifying than hearing that a kid and a grandparent are together reading—and talking about— an issue that I have raised in a book,” Lowry says. The part-time Maine resident and University of Southern Maine graduate recalls a time when a teacher told her a student used Number the Stars to teach his mother to read. To keep books in children’s hands, the author has spent a lot of her time fighting against book banning. Literacy and artistic freedom are both very important to her. “My book The Giver depicts a society which, under the guise of protecting its citizens, has lost all art, music, and literature,” Lowry says. “It really is a manifesto for a free society.”

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DAVID EVANS SHAW FOUNDER + FORMER CEO OF IDEXX LABORATORIES MANAGING PARTNER AT BLACK POINT GROUP

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After starting his career working in Governor James Longley’s administration, David Evans Shaw realized he preferred the world of business. He liked the idea of helping others, though, and has focused his career on that goal. “While motivated by public service, I discovered that the framework of entrepreneurial business was especially fulfilling,” he says. “Over the past 35 years, I have come to love building and supporting organizations that create exceptional value through innovative thinking and game-changing technology.” Shaw has founded some of Maine’s largest companies, including Idexx Laboratories and Vets First Choice. He has also been chairman of the board at the Jackson Laboratory. His endeavors have been driven by “restless dissatisfaction with the sta-

tus quo” and a desire to find new, creative solutions. “Their success is a result of impassioned discovery of novel ways to tackle important opportunities in the world,” Shaw says. The business leader is now a managing partner of Black Point Group, an investment partnership based in Portland. He says it’s important to him to be involved in work that creates jobs in Maine and adds to the state’s technology industry, especially as it relates to health care. “We are all beneficiaries of stunning advances in modern healthcare, and I’m proud to be a contributor,” Shaw says. Looking to the future, Shaw envisions entrepreneurs leading the state forward. “Entrepreneurship thrives on a sense of taking responsibility in life, and this resonates with an element of Maine’s culture,” he says.

LEIGH KELLIS FOUNDER + OWNER OF THE HOLY DONUT

It started with a craving. Seven years ago Leigh Kellis wanted a homemade doughnut. But she didn’t like any options around her, so she started making doughnuts in her kitchen on Munjoy Hill in Portland. Once she came up with a recipe she liked (using Maine potatoes), she started supplying them to Coffee by Design on Washington Avenue. At first, she sold the coffee shop 12 doughnuts a day. Less than a year later, Kellis opened the first Holy Donut retail location on Park Avenue with the help of her father, Allan, who co-owned the business and died in 2017. The following year she opened another store in the Old Port, and in 2017 she expanded to Scarborough, both with her brother-in-law, Jeff Buckwalter, along with support from other family and staff. “I never imagined the three shops. I never imagined the Scarborough location with a drive-through. That’s kind of a dream come true,” Kellis says. “I was thinking a little hole-in-the-wall on Munjoy Hill, making doughnuts, and it just kind of took on a life of its own.” The business now has about 75 employees, and gives back to the community by providing paid time off for workers who do specific charitable work and making a donation to a community nonprofit each year. “I absolutely love doughnuts. And I love the nostalgia of a doughnut shop,” Kellis says. “I think it is comforting and a must-have in the community. There are lots of things in life that are not so pleasant. A doughnut shop should bring sweet relief in a busy world.”

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JOSHUA BRODER CEO OF TILSON The workplace environment Joshua Broder has created at Tilson didn’t come about by accident. After serving in the United States Army, he wanted to recreate the strong sense of teamwork and camaraderie felt in the armed services. “Our mission has been to find people who are both good and effective at working with each other,” Broder says. “To make it worth their while we had to find a meaningful mission, bigger than us, and bigger than Maine.” Tilson, an information technology professional services and network deployment business based in Portland, has earned a spot on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing companies in the country for the past

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eight years. Broder started at Tilson as one of three employees in 2006 and became CEO in 2009. Since then Tilson has grown to 400 employees and has installed thousands of miles of fiber optic networks throughout the United States, consulted on local and national projects, and opened offices in 17 states. Half of Tilson’s employees are veterans. “We think vets like to transition home here at Tilson because it’s a place where pushing each other to be better is comfortable, expected, and appreciated,” Broder says. His goal has always been to make a culture focused on taking risks that encourages growth for both individuals and the company.

SANDRA STONE CHAIR EMERITA OF MAINE ANGELS FOUNDER OF SEA COVE SOLUTIONS

Sandra Stone believes in empowering and supporting women. From 2011 to 2015 she led Maine Angels, a private investor network. As chairwoman, Stone encouraged more entrepreneurs, especially women, to apply for investments, and helped add more female members to the investors group. When she first became a member in 2008, she was one of very few women. There are now 15 female members out of 64 total, and Stone stays involved with Maine Angels as chair emerita. “I like being part of creating new approaches, products, services, and collaborations,” she says. “Being an angel investor often provides interaction with inquisitive minds and problem solvers.” When she was leading Maine Angels, Stone helped expand the organization’s resources by having it join the New England Angel Capital Association regional network. Maine

Angels is now considered one of the most active angel groups in the country; it has invested $24 million in 82 companies since it was founded in 2003. One of Stone’s proudest accomplishments has been co-launching the Northern New England Women’s Investor Network, a collaboration between Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont to activate more financially accredited women as angel investors. The goal is to increase startup investments, especially in female-led companies. Stone also has her own consulting business, Sea Cove Solutions, which provides resources and mentorships for female entrepreneurs. “I thrive on collaborating with my colleagues in investor, mentor, and advisor roles as I enjoy learning with and from them, sharing our stories, and building off each other’s energy and ideation,” she says.

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REVEREND KENNETH I. LEWIS, JR. SENIOR PASTOR AT GREEN MEMORIAL A.M.E. ZION CHURCH SENIOR DIRECTOR OF THE MAINEHEALTH CENTER FOR TOBACCO INDEPENDENCE In the days after a white supremacist murdered nine African Americans during prayer service at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, the Reverend Kenneth I. Lewis, Jr., helped organize a memorial 1,000 miles away in Portland. More than 1,300 people turned out for the tribute at Merrill Auditorium. Lewis saw it as “an opportunity for some collective mourning, a memorializing of what transpired to encourage us to remain vigilant as to what our community ethics are and to declare our intolerance for racial hatred.” Lewis has been pastor of the historic Green Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church since 2003 and also serves as the director of the MaineHealth Center for Tobacco Independence. “The wonderful thing about the Green Memorial Church is it is a historic African American institution that is wonderfully diverse,” he says. “For years the statement was made that Sunday is the most segregated day in the United States. But not at the corner of Monument and Sheridan.” Lewis, like Green Memorial, is rooted in the community. He has developed relationships with elected officials, business leaders, law enforcement, and community organizers to address issues of equity in health, education, and economic opportunity. “Our church represents what can be and what must be if our city, state, and nation ever expect to actualize the dream of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,” Lewis says, “to have a beloved community, where race and class distinctions give way to the ties that bind us all: faith, hope, and love.”

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ELIZABETH STROUT AUTHOR As a child who spent much of her time in Harpswell, Elizabeth Strout knew she wanted to write. She spent her days studying people and reading books, both of which prepared her become an author. “I don’t really have memories of wanting to be anything else,” she says. Strout, who splits her time between Maine and New York City, has written six books, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Olive Kitteridge. The novel, like many of Strout’s books, is set in Maine. The author says she writes what she knows, and for her, that’s Maine; her family has lived in the state since 1603. “That’s an enormous ancestry from a particular kind of culture,” she says. “That has very much influenced my work.” The hardworking grit of Mainers that comes through in her characters has guided Strout herself. Before becoming a successful author, she left Maine and pursued law. The need to be a writer pulled at her, though, and she worked to realize her dream. “I always knew I could do it as long as I stuck with it,” she says. “It’s been striking that I’ve actually done it.” Strout has won a number of awards, including the Story Prize for her recent collection of stories, Anything Is Possible. The honors are important to her, but, Strout says, they don’t “really enter me.” Her Maine upbringing taught her not to draw attention to herself, so she keeps her head down. She’s currently at work on her next project: a novel set in Maine. PHOTO COURTESY OF: LEONARDO CENDAMO

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KERRY GALLIVAN CEO + FOUNDER OF CHIMANI When Kerry Gallivan created Chimani, an app that helps people explore national parks, he knew combining technology and the outdoors looked like an odd match. He views technology as a powerful tool, though, and wanted to use it to help others get out of their comfort zones. “I am driven by the concept of social entrepreneurship, and in my case, the potential for technology to have a positive impact on people,” he says. Gallivan sees information as a way of empowering people and helping them feel more confident outdoors. Chimani includes maps, guides, and tips for exploring all 417 national parks in the United States. Gallivan came up with the idea because he thought not enough people knew what was out there to discover. The app includes many ways to explore and enjoy national parks, depending on the person’s comfort level, interest, and wilderness skills. He says Maine could become the “ultimate outdoor destination” on the East Coast because of the variety of landscapes and outdoor recreation opportunities, and tools like Chimani make the outdoors more accessible to more people. “America’s relationship to the outdoors is changing—less backcountry and more front country—so there needs to be better alignment with the various groups to create more complete experiences,” he says. Making the outdoors more accessible is key to boosting Maine’s economy and bringing more people to the state, Gallivan says.

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CHRIS BROWNAWELL DIRECTOR OF THE FARNSWORTH ART MUSEUM Chris Brownawell joined the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland as director in 2010 after working as CEO at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland, for more than two decades. Since its founding in 1948, the Farnsworth has been a focal point for the arts in Rockland, and in recent years the midcoast town has gained national exposure as an arts destination. In 2015, Brownawell helped secure $17 million in state and federal tax credit financing for significant improvements to the Farnsworth’s Rockland campus and work on the Olson House in Cushing, the setting of Andrew Wyeth’s 1948 painting Christina’s World. “Maine continues to play a significant role in the discourse of American art,” he says. “For generations artists have been attracted to the state for its beauty, its people, and its inspiration. It is an important story to tell.” With a mission of celebrating Maine’s role in American arts and 15,000 objects in its collection, “the Farnsworth is uniquely equipped to tell this story,” Brownawell says. The museum’s works reflect its location, focusing on artists with connections to Maine or the midcoast region. It is home to one of the largest collections of paintings by the Wyeth family and the second largest collection in the country of Louise Nevelson’s work. “The Farnsworth Art Museum is a very special place,” Brownawell says. “It has deep connections to its midcoast community; at the same time it has a national reputation and audience.”

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SUSAN J. HUNTER PRESIDENT EMERITA OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MAINE Besides a ten-month stint as a vice chancellor for the University of Maine System, Susan J. Hunter spent her entire professional career on the University of Maine’s Orono campus. Hunter, who became the flagship university’s first woman president in 2014, retired this summer after a 30-year career that began with a part-time faculty position at UMaine’s Department of Zoology. “Day in, day out, you’re on the campus, that campus,” Hunter says. “To suddenly be absent, it may seem like a bit of an amputation for me. But time marches on.” In her time as president, the university recruited its largest incoming class, boosted out-of-state enrollment, and had record fundraising. But Hunter says she saw her role as making other people’s jobs successful. “As an administrator, the job is not about us. It’s not about me. It’s about what can we do to make the institution successful, which is really what can we do to make the faculty successful because that’s really the talent. They’re the ones teaching. They’re the ones doing the research and working with the students.” The university serves as a major research and development hub and leverages its resources to assist businesses, schools, cultural institutions, government entities, and communities. “Today more than ever, UMaine is an innovator, a partner, a resource that can help make things happen in this region, statewide and beyond,” Hunter says. “That ability to partner to get results is particularly refreshing. I’ve said more than once: There’s no greater job than being a president of a university with this kind of mission and impact, working for the people of Maine.”

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TOM MOSER COFOUNDER + FORMER PRESIDENT OF THOS. MOSER CABINETMAKERS Before Tom Moser pursued woodworking full time, he was teaching speech and communications at Bates College. He and his wife, Mary, had been refinishing and selling antique furniture from their home workshop when he took a year-long sabbatical to see if he could make it as a craftsman, risking the economic security he had as a tenured professor. “I was going to be either a fool or successful, and I guess it turns out I was successful,” Moser says. His eponymous furniture company (although he’s fond of saying that he’s just Tom— the brand is Thomas Moser) has since made chairs for presidents and popes and has outfitted homes and institutions all over the world. “What we create has universality that transcends time and space,” Moser says. “If it’s good in Brunswick, Maine, it ought to also be good in some place in India.” The company’s Auburn workshop employs more than 60 craftspeople, and there are showrooms in Freeport, Boston, New York, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, and San Francisco. Although the company’s pieces are considered heirloom-quality, Moser is emphatic that they are not art. “Art doesn’t require function,” he says. “Craft does.” Still, he sees the company as providing something with more significance than just places to sit. “It takes an American hardwood tree 75 to 125 years to mature and provide what we call lumber,” Moser says. “Whatever we do with that tree should provide meaning and support and utility for at least as long as it took for the tree to grow.”

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othing is too precious,” says Heidi Lachapelle. We’re sitting at her kitchen island drinking cups of bitter, nutty coffee, and she has just explained the ethos of her home. She is referring specifically to the Carrara marble countertops. “They have a honed finish,” she says. “It’s more of a French bistro look. You see the etch marks? That’s something I wanted.” Marble, she says, is “not for everyone.” It gets chips and cracks from use, and it never looks quite as perfect as the day you brought it home. But that’s the point, she says. “It fades over time, and the scratches become a part of it,” she explains. “We like things like that— beautiful, but not precious.” Lachapelle is an interior designer who lives on the first floor of this Portland townhouse with her husband, artist Louis-Pierre Lachapelle, and their infant daughter, Chloé. I’m always curious to see how builders construct their own houses, how architects draw up their dream abodes, and how designers pick and choose items for their own sleeping quarters, their own kitchens. Lachapelle’s home is an interesting amalgamation. It is both a way to showcase her work (a “three-dimensional business card,” she calls it) and a place to escape from the demands of emails and clients and invoices, where she can relax with her husband and child. Thus, it needs to be aesthetically pleasing and livable— beautiful, but not too precious.

“We’re perfectionists, especially when it comes to anything in our own home,” she explains. “We want it to look a certain way.” For instance, that marble countertop? They waited for a slab to come up, one that would fit just right. They didn’t want any seams, but they wanted a ten-foot-long island. It took time, but eventually they got something close to perfect. It’s a nine-foot-long piece with subtle changes in color throughout. Under my fingertips, it is smooth but not slick. It feels natural, like a fortunate accident of nature. Lachapelle enjoys “happy mistakes.” She’s a lifelong artist, like her husband. They met studying printmaking in Rome, and she lights up when she talks about him and his work. They are both printmakers, but they’ve taken slightly different paths. His canvases are large and washed with color, abstract and fierce. Her fine art pieces are more textural, the tones more subdued. His work is his art, and her work is a combination of things. With her sister-in-law, Katie Judkins, she runs Heidi Lachapelle Interiors. She also has designed and built window dressings for Anthropologie. “I saw that as creating art for a corporation,” she says. But Lachapelle and her husband both remain committed to creativity and interested in how forces like gravity can thwart control, how accidental drips can fall so perfectly on a canvas. “There are happy mistakes in

Previous spread, from left: Heidi and Louis-Pierre Lachapelle wanted a brownstone, but this old house ended up being perfect for their family. The sunny living room, which faces the street, was a major selling point. In the dining area, they have a table that Heidi’s father built using wood from a renovation job the couple did in Montreal, as well as vintage chairs sourced from a restaurant in their former neighborhood in Montreal. Louis-Pierre, Heidi, and Chloé Lachapelle hang out in their West End kitchen. Opposite: While the couple loves color, they decided to keep the palette for their house fairly neutral and soothing. “We put up that paneling behind the bed to add a bit of personality and texture to our bedroom,” says Heidi Lachapelle, who also advocated for linen bedding (which she highly recommends).

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the printmaking process, and in painting,” she says. “I think that is what Louis loves in everything he does. We both like imperfections.” This may seem like it contradicts what she’s said before, but it doesn’t. Lachapelle is a perfectionist who enjoys imperfections. She likes to work as hard as she can to create the right space, then allow time and life to mess it up. She’s a lover of antiques who stays current on the latest in furniture styles, and a businesswoman who is also an artist. You could probably find a dozen more contradictions in her life, but that’s not particularly unusual. It’s unusually fortunate, however, that she’s found a way to make her various impulses work so seamlessly together in both life and decor. The house, she says, wasn’t designed around Louis’s paintings, but they do fit in effort-

“I wanted to respect the historic architecture while making it work for present day.”

lessly. In the living room, a large abstract hangs on a sunlit wall by a bookshelf. The piece is covered in large swaths of yellow and spring green, and on the white built-in shelving, someone has chosen to showcase stacks of books the colors of grass and lemons. “A happy accident,” she says. (“Plus,” she adds, “Louis and I tend to like the same color schemes.”) Although the kitchen, with its slate blue cabinetry and brass finishings, is the “heart of the home” and one of Lachapelle’s favorite places to hang out, the living room is what inspired the couple to purchase this particular building. They were drawn to its big bay windows, and while they both had dreamed of owning a brownstone, it turned out not to matter. There are views of the West End’s historic architecture out every window. “I fell in love with these two main rooms,” she says as we walk through the semi-open floor

Opposite, top images: “I’m a neutral person at heart. It was hard for me to get into the mindset to use color,” says Lachapelle of designing her daughter’s bedroom. “I based the room around these oversize paintings Louis made for Chloé. I wanted to use that instead of wallpaper.” Opposite, bottom: When the Lachapelles first bought their home, the kitchen was located toward the front of the house, but they wanted a bigger and brighter space for cooking and entertaining, so they shifted the layout. Now the kitchen opens into their private backyard. This page: The Carrara marble fireplace and mantel was original to the house. “It was a unique feature that I fell in love with, and it was a ripple effect to use Carrara in the kitchen,” says Lachapelle. October 2018 147

plan into the soft light of the living space. “I wanted to respect the historic architecture while making it work for present day.” They refinished the floors, gutted the kitchen (and moved it to the back of the house), ripped out the bathroom, and created a large, open space for entertaining. They also replaced the door to the backyard with a tall, windowed door that draws the eye toward the high ceilings and mimics the high lines of the cabinetry. And they did much of the grunt work themselves. The Lachapelles had restored several houses before, but this has been their most successful to date, although Lachapelle points out that it’s not quite done. They’re still working on a bathroom, and she mentions half a dozen other things she might someday like to do. But they’ve

learned a lot working on this house, too. Lachapelle devised a new way of putting up floating shelving to create sturdy, handsome ash display racks in her kitchen. They’re strong enough to hold stacks of white plates and bowls, her grandmother’s antique ceramic crock, and a curated pile of cookbooks. “We’ve used that method in a few other houses now,” she says. “I love applying methods I used in my home to my client’s projects, and vice versa.” While her style is continually evolving, there are a few items that Lachapelle says will remain constant, such as her pair of blue velvet chairs (which came from her childhood home) and her wall of mirrors (which she installed in the hallway between the kitchen and the living area).

This quirky and brightening collection was inspired by one of Lachapelle’s earliest style icons: her mother. “We had a mirror wall in all of our houses growing up,” she says. “My mom is a huge antiques collector—I get that from her—and I always said I wanted to have one in my house.” To get her started, Lachapelle’s mother gifted her a few select mirrors, and over time she’s added more of her own, sourced from the various places she’s lived and the various flea markets she frequents. “The goal is to have them go floor-to-ceiling,” she says. Someday, she hopes to get this house to the finish line, with a complete mirror wall and a totally up-to-date second bathroom. “And then?” I ask. “We’ll go back in a second time,” she says. “I think we could really work on this house.”

The living room couch was custom-built by one of the couples’ friends who makes furniture. “My mom made all the pillows using vintage textiles we bought in Brimfield,” Lachapelle reveals. Opposite: Below a chandelier from West Elm, Lachapelle sets out plain white plates for dinner. The painting is by Louis-Pierre Lachapelle.

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31 Brookside road, PortLand One of a kind opportunity in the City of Portland! Fabulous 4000sf home on .75 acres with 200’ of tidal frontage, adjacent to Payson Park & Baxter Boulevard. Stunning views of Back Cove and the skyline. Immaculate, landscaped grounds offer outdoor living space, privacy & tranquility. The location permits an unparalleled lifestyle, blending access to recreation with convenience. Launch your kayak, walk/run/bike along the boulevard. Minutes to restaurants, markets, the Old Port, and the cultural offerings of the City. $1,750,000 | MLS: 1362767 Lynn HaLLett, Broker/Owner | 207.671.8187

126 MckinLey ct., Great diaMond isLand

244 east sHore drive, isLesBoro Enjoy sweeping easterly views of East Penobscot Bay with 450 feet +/- of direct frontage in Dark Harbor, Islesboro. Sited on a private 2.3 acres +/-, this charming cottage offers a great lawn to the gravel beach moorage and natural surroundings. A separate two bedroom, one bathroom guest cottage enhances this special offering. Amenities of Islesboro include transportational access by scheduled car ferry and public airstrip.

$675,000| MLS: 1354894 Lynn HaLLett, Broker/Owner | 207.671.8187

$595,000| MLS: 1317814 WiLLiaM davisson, Broker/Owner | 207.523.8116

Historic, brick Surgeon’s Residence at Fort McKinley. The fabulous free standing, year-round residence offers 4 bdrms, 3.5 baths, and 3 floors of living space. Meticulously restored w/ gourmet kitchen, master bedroom suite, formal living & dining rooms, library & a guest suite. Gracious entrance, original wood floors, tin ceilings, 2 fireplaces. Wrap-around porch overlooks gardens, woods & parade grounds. Enjoy the neighborhood association’s pool, tennis courts & fitness center. Walk to the cove to dine, or have provisions delivered to your doorstep.

Town & Shore A SSociATeS, LLc

one union wharf | portland | 207.773.0262

www.townandshore.com

16 CavenDish ROAD Falmouth, ME MLS # 1367621 This impeccably maintained 4 bedroom, 3.5 bath home is a must see. Built for entertaining with a gourmet kitchen and open layout. Features custom built-ins & moldings throughout it’s 4,800 square feet. Located in a very desirable neighborhood on a private 2 acre lot, close to the schools and other local amenities. Call Mark Small today for details!

Mark Small

Ph. 207.807.7889 mark@Landmarkrealtymaine.com

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

s a music photographer, I travel between work contracts with the bands that hire me. Wherever a tour is picking up or dropping off, I try to find nearby national parks and public lands to explore. Last autumn I found myself with a week off before picking up a tour with Ray LaMontagne in New England, so my best friend and I spent the week in Acadia National Park. We were graced with unbelievably warm, sunny weather for the first week of October and were also lucky enough to be visiting right as the leaves were changing. Pictured here is Jesup Path—a short serene walk behind the Sieur de Monts Nature Center in Acadia. Walking the arrow-straight boardwalk over a wetland, through tall, delicate birches and hemlocks, we shared the path with lots of other park visitors. Everyone seemed to approach the path with a solemnity similar to visiting a church—it must be thanks to the cathedral-esque canopy overhead. Jesup Path was one of dozens of walks I took during my weeklong visit to Maine.

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