Bridging cultures to build community in the Midcoast On a recent sunny September afternoon, the Mid Coast New Mainers Group hosted an Open House at the Community Garden on Washington Street in Bath, a collaborative effort between Bath gardener Hugh Briggs and the Mid Coast New Mainers Group. About 20very enthusiastic people showed up including […]

You want to borrow some money. The bank will make the loan, because you have an excellent credit history and valuable property to back up your ability to repay. Later, you tell the bank you won’t be making any more loan payments. The bank says that your credit is so good, you can even borrow […]

Eleven years ago I said “yes” to running The Gathering Place. I was a little apprehensive at first as I had little direct experience supporting the poor and unsheltered in our community. I quickly went from being afraid of homeless people to engaging in conversation, learning how wonderfully strong they really are. There are so […]

In the fall of 1989, I went out on my own, naming my “company” Treadwell Associates, although I was the only employee. Working out of the basement of our condo in Boxbrough, Massachusetts I prepared admissions and fundraising materials for colleges and schools throughout the U.S. Sometimes I’d sell the job directly and then hire […]

The Equinox always unbalances me. It seems all about tipping — toward day’s end, toward the southern horizon, toward winter. So, it seems right that I go on this day to the open water we hold in common. In this needle-boat that asks for focus, I will learn balance again by rounding Orr’s Island. Once […]

My buddies Ayres and Klinger and I walked its crowded corridors for hours on Friday nights, hoping to meet girls. That’s what we did at South Hills Village Mall in the late 1970s, when we were teens and the American Mall was in its heyday. Built in the mid-1960s, and the very first indoor mall […]