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5@50: A hero dog, a sale at Paul’s and a lost drone
Best of 2015: Dance, dedication and Drucker
This is day 11 of 12 collections of my favorite work in 2015. Today, I’m dedicating this post entirely to my story on a young ballet dancer from Bowdoinham named Caroline Gill. She and her family were gracious in letting me in on part of their lives. I am still very grateful. This story first appeared […]
‘The sails will mend their tatters and the mast will rise again’
I watched a wooden schooner sail (and motor) into Portland Harbor today. Then, a bunch of young and old idealists loaded its hold, which once held 80 tons of fish, with Maine-made and Maine-grown stuff. Friday, they set sail for Boston, just like the old days. It was a pretty cool story to shoot. It made […]
VIDEO: Portland. Yes, the weed’s good (and sort of legal) here
Well, it’s been an interesting year in Portland, my home town. We’re getting our floating link to Nova Scotia back and the city has wrestled with what to do about panhandlers in the median strips. There’s even been talk about replacing city lawnmowers with sheep. But the two stories that have been kicking around in my noggin are […]