Working

By Patrisha McLean

Additional Column Posts (1 - 19 of 19)

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  Working: Cindy Nelson

  By Patrisha McLean - Apr 03
  The job description was preparing sandwiches and blueberry muffins at a neighborhood market in Camden. But Cindy blew that baker’s assistant ...
  
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  Working: Michele Cox

  By Patrisha McLean - Feb 27
  Growing up in Laramie, Wyo., the highlight of the day for Michele Cox was mimicking the ballroom dancers on the Lawrence Welk TV show. Now in ...
  
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  Working: Ted Benner, Jr.

  By Patrisha McLean - Feb 08
  Asked if he’s related to an elderly veteran in the area with the same last name, Ted Benner, Jr., said, “No, but I used to sell him potato chips ...
  

• Working: Pam Swartz

  By Patrisha McLean - Jul 17
  “I’m just a really good listener,” said Pam Swartz, which is a good thing since her two careers have depended on it. “You always had customers who ...
  

• Working: Nellie Gentle

  By Patrisha McLean - Jun 27
  Seven years ago, a family friend spotted Nelli Gentle at the cash register of a local art supply store. “It looks like you have energy to burn,” ...
  

• Working: Wayne Marshall

  By Patrisha McLean - May 30
  One day the loons are calling and the lake is like glass and the next day Wayne Marshall is still cold in a turtleneck, flannel shirt, hoodie, ...
  

• Working: Ian Fleming

  By Patrisha McLean - May 16
  “I never thought I’d have the job for nine years but here I am. Pretty weird.” So said Ian Fleming, who does just about everything there is to do ...
  

• Working: Liz Czak

  By Patrisha McLean - Apr 24
  Muffin, Wally, Sasha and the rest trot out from their appointments, shiny, fluffy and smelling great, keeping to themselves what it took to get ...
  

• Working: Jim Smith

  By Patrisha McLean - Apr 10
  “My whole life for all of those years was deadlines,” said Jim Smith, about his 40 years working for a local chain of newspapers. At the opposite ...
  

• Working: Kenneth Smith

  By Patrisha McLean - Mar 15
  “Only one in the world,” Kenneth “Smitty” Smith said about the brass belt buckle that reads "McDonald’s." It reflects his current job as janitor ...
  

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  Working: John Blodgett

  By Patrisha McLean - Mar 12
  What’s the difference between something that looks like an instrument and something that plays like an instrument? “A lot of work,” according to ...
  
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  Working: Brigitte Robinson

  By Patrisha McLean - Feb 13
  Brigitte drove trucks as a reservist in the army. She ferried the handicapped and elderly to appointments in California. And she drove a school ...
  
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  'Where will they lean?'

  By Patrisha McLean - Oct 23
  This photo sums up McDuck’s for me, especially if you notice the time on the clock — 10 past 5, and that’s a.m. A couple of years ago I spent ...
  

• Working: Tracie Thanh

  By Patrisha McLean - Jul 04
  Tracie was a 21-year-old manicurist in Boston when she decided to open her own business. A client told her, “Maine is beautiful,” so “I drove all ...
  

• Working: Maureen Gordon

  By Patrisha McLean - Jun 19
  Maureen Gordon happily taught Outward Bound classes to adults for 10 years and spent a year in the middle school (“We’ll skip that one,” she said ...
  

• Working: Fred Cullen

  By Patrisha McLean - May 24
  Fred Cullen learned to appreciate art while keeping the public a respectable distance from it. This happened, in part, because “I got to know ...
  

• Working: Stell Shevis

  By Patrisha McLean - May 09
  Stell and Shevis (each known by one name, her by her first and he by his last) have lived together and worked together as artists for more than 70 ...
  

• Working: Richard Frost

  By Patrisha McLean - Apr 19
  “I love the beauty of it because it’s so simple. I give you money, you pay me back.” That’s how Richard Frost describes the work he does in ...
  

• Working: Dan Heydon

  By Patrisha McLean - Mar 22
  For Dan Heydon, saying goodbye to his wife for four months a year is the worst part of his job. The best? “I don’t have to put up with anybody ...