Wheels #39

Brandon Gillard

Brandon Gillard, manager of Kennebunkport Bicycle Company, says, “mountain biking has been my life since I was ten years old.” Brandon’s parents used to playfully indulge his obsession, assuming that it wasn’t the kind of passion that becomes a career. After college, Gillard opened a bike shop with his family, and the next thing his parents knew, their obsessed son was inviting them to the Oval Office to meet his friend and biking buddy, then-president George W. Bush.

Working with the Kennebunkport Conservation Trust, for the past three years, Brandon and his friends have put in hundreds, possibly even thousands, of hours (they are having too much fun to count) into constructing seven miles of trails and reclaiming three miles of old fire roads.  Brandon was featured in the Maine Magazine article, On the Presidential Trail.

Tom Bradbury

Tom Bradbury has led the Kennebunkport Conservation Trust as President or Executive Director since 1979. In 1996 he was the first to win the American Land Conservation Award, recognizing the leading citizen conservationist in the United States. In 2004 the U.S. Department of Environmental Protection presented him with the Environmental Merit Award for Lifetime Achievement. In the years of his stewardship, he has completed nearly 100 projects, preserving in the process many of the community’s most loved properties.

Kevin Thomas

Kevin Thomas, publisher of Maine Magazine and Maine Home and Design, enjoys bicycling in Kennebunkport.  When interviewed at his beginnings with Maine Magazine he said, “The people who come to Maine for its energy, the vistas, the coast, they enjoy the restaurant and cultural scene and want to be involved in their communities … that is the particular person that we want to attract.”