Monthly Archives: September 2009

Talk about a captive audience. Team members had plenty of work to do getting ready for last night’s community conversation in Hallowell, but none of it involved begging for customers. Nearly 50 people showed up for the festivities in this … Continue reading →

It was a small, but lively group in the community room at the McArthur Library in Biddeford last night for the MCHP team’s community conversation event. Small often means big when it comes to fostering discussion. Every person gets a … Continue reading →

That salient question was posed, albeit rhetorically, by an audience member during last night’s lively community conversation in Bangor, ably facilitated by team leader Deborah Averill and held in the lecture hall of the Bangor Public Library. (If you’ve never … Continue reading →

In Robert Frost’s famous poem “The Road Not Taken,” the speaker finds himself at a crossroads in a “yellow wood,” divergent paths at his feet. Sorry he “could not travel both / And be one traveler,” he lingers, debating which … Continue reading →

In “A Morning View of Blue Hill Village,” painted in 1824 by the town’s first minister and Renaissance man Jonathan Fisher, there is barely any water visible–just a tiny patch of the bay on the left-hand side. The primary focus … Continue reading →

During Lincoln’s Community Conversation Tuesday night–the first of the eight MCHP teams to host a public announcement of the project–Beth ByersSmall, Mattanawcook Junior High School’s technology teacher (and team member), speculated on the reason for the high turnout of nearly … Continue reading →

It was clear to the Biddeford team from the get-go (that would be way back when the MCHP application process began) that the city’s diversity should be the focus of its work this year. Diversity, however, can mean different things … Continue reading →

In the spirit of “you learn something new every day,” I picked up a lovely little detail at the Scarborough team meeting this past Wednesday. Quick question: Who knows what “bog shoes” are? I didn’t. But there are some in … Continue reading →

Although the suggestion of heading down to the The Liberal Cup after last night’s second team meeting in Hallowell was only half-serious, it would have been a fitting way to toast the work that the team has done thus far. … Continue reading →

I was in Guilford for its Maine Community Heritage Project team’s second (already!) meeting on Wednesday night, September 2. What a gorgeous drive up Route 23 that day–the sun glinting off Dexter’s Wassookeag Lake and the stained glass windows of … Continue reading →