Profiles
Linda Greenlaw
PROFILE-May 2010
By Chelsea Holden Baker | Photographs by Jack Montgomery
Swordboat captain, best-selling author, islander, guardian
At the Porthole Restaurant on Custom House Wharf in Portland, Captain Linda Greenlaw clasps her hands on top of a table. She looks still, but excitement is radiating from her, the taught energy of a line that’s hooked a fish. “I’m going to the International Seafood Show in Boston on Sunday and I’ll be wearing my badge that says Hannah Boden—people are gonna get it.”
What they’re going to get, is that Captain Greenlaw is back on her boat. Greenlaw has never owned the 100-foot fishing vessel Hannah Boden—the boat made famous by Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm—but only because she never wanted to. Hannah Boden is more like a long-lost lover than a wife. All she has invested “is a pair of boots.”
Randy Regier
PROFILE-April 2010
By Peter A. Smith | Photographs by Scott Peterman
Artist, craftsman, sculptor, dreamer
The entrance vestibule to the old brick Central Maine Power building, in a bleak industrial section of Waterville, is lit 24 hours a day. A sign outside says, “NuPenny” and “I Love You.” Whoever put this toy store here is not making it obvious.
Inside, a gray faceless clock ticks away. Shelves are lined with boxes and boxes of bright, shiny toys. A silver flying saucer tow-truck! The chrome glimmers, like diamonds under a jeweler’s case. Everything is rendered in photographic grayscale, expect for a single brass penny on the floor.
Habib Dagher
PROFILE-April 2010
By Peter A. Smith | Photographs by Jarrod McCabe
Engineer, professor, catalyst
Discussed: Off-shore wind power, oil, hurricanes, composite material, bridges in backpacks, integrals, and making a difference
Edie Caldwell
PROFILE-April 2010
By Peter A. Smith | Photographs by Jarrod McCabe
The Rockport gallerist talks about her life, her practice, and her desire to slow us all down.
Tom Chappell
PROFILE-March 2010
By Peter A. Smith | Photographs by Jarrod McCabe
Rambler, entrepreneur, philanthropist
Kim Swan
PROFILE-Jan/Feb 2010
By Chelsea Holden Baker | Photograph by Nathan Eldridge
Maverick realtor, business addict, life of the party
Ask Kim Swan what she does for a living and she’ll say, “real estate.” Which is true, except that Swan may have the most expansive definition of “real estate” in the business.
Rob Tod
PROFILE-Jan/Feb 2010
By Peter A. Smith | Photographs by Trent Bell
Brewer, innovator, zymurgist
David Hodgkins
PROFILE-Nov/Dec 2009
By Jonathan Levitt | Photographs by Nathan Eldridge
Clothier, gentleman, arbiter of good taste
David Wood Clothiers. Established 1978. Portland, Maine.
Karen Mills
PROFILE-Nov/Dec 2009
Edited + transcribed by Peter A. Smith | Photographs by Nathan Eldridge
Businesswoman, venture capitalist, mother, Obama’s Small Business administrator
Discussed: Economic recovery, cluster development, robotics, Brunswick, boats, and organic beer
Karen Mills lives in Brunswick and works in Washington, D.C., as the head of the largest single financial backer in the country—the Small Business Administration, an agency holding over $45 billion in loans.
Joe Kievitt
PROFILE-Nov/Dec 2009
By Peter A. Smith | Photographs by Nathan Eldridge
Artist, craftsman, designer, carpenter, mosaic maker
Ted Ames
Fisherman, lobsterman, scientist, historical ecologist, blooming optimist
PROFILE-October 2009
Edited + transcribed by Peter A. Smith | Photographs by Nathan Eldridge
Discussed: Ecological fish stewardship, the perils of being a genius, Maine’s groundfishing industry, sustainable lobster, and the return of the 100-pound codfish
Coco + Gil Corral
Music curators, artists, family
PROFILE-October 2009
By Peter A. Smith | Photographs by Nathan Eldridge
The Hog Farm Studios Annex, a musical speakeasy, is at the end of a long hallway in the old Woolworth’s building on Main Street in Biddeford.
Brian Smith
Winemaker, organic grape grower, father, oenological explorer
PROFILE-September 2009
By Nancy Heiser | Photographs by Nathan Eldridge
In Warren, Oyster River winemaker Brian Smith has begun the arduous search for grapes that may eventually represent the terroir of Knox County. His two-year-old winery is already producing highly drinkable, intoxicating results.
Heidi Julavits
Writer, editor, mother, Mainer
PROFILE-September 2009
Photographs by Nathan Eldridge
Discussed: Brooklin, New York, boatbuilding, fog, neighbors, The Uses of Enchantment, and getting lost.
