If you check the dictionary, there should be a picture of Harold Alfond next to the word “philanthropist.” But his picture could also be displayed next to the words “loyal” or “loyalty.” Or “humanitarian.” He was one of a kind. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
It was the handshake that got me. It was the first week of my first job in the newspaper business at the Aroostook Republican & News, a weekly newspaper in Caribou. Leaning on the office counter on this late summer day was Gerry Duffy, Caribou… Read More
A little more than a year ago, the e-mail arrived. I was one of 116 people to receive it, according to the attached list. Looking back this morning, re-reading the bleak message it contained, I realize that everyone who received it probably reacted the same way I did. Read More
Gary Dumond first met the man who would change his life back in 1967, during his senior year in high school. That man – Maine warden pilot Jack McPhee – suggested Dumond look into a U.S. Army program that let students go “from high school… Read More