Peter Nielsen’s son told him he wanted to go to circus school. Skeptical at first, Nielsen began investigating this performing arts culture. What he found were incredibly talented young people who were athletic and innovative, with career options such as
In 2015, Nancie Atwell was the inaugural recipient of the Global Teacher Prize, referred to as the Nobel Prize for teaching. The award, given by the London-based Varkey Foundation, highlights the impact great teachers have on their students and their profession.
The Developmental Disorders Program at Maine Behavioral Healthcare is one of the only specialized hospital program in the country for children with autism and other developmental disorders who are experiencing emotional or behavioral crisis, and Dr. Matthew Siegel is the program’s director. Each day Siegel is driven by his desire
Andrew and Briana Volk were living in Portland, Oregon—he was working in a cocktail bar and she was in the advertising world—when they decided it was time for a change. Briana trusted her husband’s love of Portland, Maine, and they moved east and opened Portland Hunt and Alpine Club. The couple felt they were
Jean Maginnis founded the Maine Center for Creativity (MCC) to promote and guide partnerships between the arts and industry. “These sometimes unexpected partnerships support innovative approaches to economic and community development, which can be so important to Maine’s overall economic vitality and cultural vibrancy,” says Maginnis. Along Route 295 is her most
In 2011 Tanja Hollander set out on a journey to visit her 626 Facebook friends in their homes. Hollander set up in-person meetings, mostly in living rooms, and traveled all over the country and internationally to photograph her “friends.” Her now well-known series “Are you really my friend?”
Paul Coulombe was born in Lewiston, and that’s where he inherited his father’s liquor business, White Rock Distilleries. Coulombe’s business grew from three employees to over 200 employees and became one of the 25 largest businesses in Maine in 2012 with revenues that exceeded 200 million dollars per year. When
Stuart Kestenbaum has been the director of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts for 27 years. The Deer Isle-based school began in 1950 as a place to teach fine craftsmanship and carry out research and development with crafts. Today students of
A Maine native, Bill Green is an anchor and reporter for WLBZ 2 and WCSH 6. He has been in the television business for four decades. For the past 15 years, Green has had his own series called Bill Green’s
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