On a bright Saturday afternoon in January, Mary Bayer stirs homemade carrot soup in her log home just a few paces from Lovejoy Pond, in the central Maine town of Fayette. Nearby, her husband Leon Bresloff loads logs into a wood-burning stove set into a dramatic two-story chimney built from massive granite stones. The quiet […]

Until well into his eighties, Merton Henry went to his Portland law office daily, continuing the estate practice that brought him into contact with the Maine Community Foundation Born in Hampden, Maine, just outside Bangor, Henry moved to South Portland when he was 14 and later graduated from Bowdoin College, the first of his family […]

Just after World War II, when Jack and Anne Spiegel were young Boston-area newlyweds, they decided to do something quite surprising: embark on their new business of making moccasins in Maine. Jack was just out of the Army. His training had been in social work. Anne was a medical secretary. Neither had business experience, but […]

Sitting in their cozy home overlooking Harpswell Sound for an interview in 2009, Robert and Anne Woodbury mused over a life of service: Bob in higher education, Anne, first as an elementary school teacher, later as a hospital chaplain and author (she wrote and illustrated The Box Lady, a children’s book about recycling, which has […]