Feature stories

Lifelong educator Rod Abbott models an active retirement                                                                

Bethel Citizen

“I learned much more from him than he ever could have known he taught me,” said Jeffrey Dunham, Abbott’s student in the 1980s. “The biggest influence he had on me, though, came from his confidence, his kindness, and his respect for others. He believed in himself and he believed in us, his students.”

What happens when you grow up in the Bethel, Maine area, move away in pursuit of education or adventure, then find yourself living back in your hometown?
A new local initiative aims to bring a community together to experience making maple syrup the old-fashioned way.
A feature about Gould Academy’s innovative Farm & Forest program that appeared in the quarterly alumni newsletter shortly after the first livestock arrived at the Maine school’s new student-built barn.
“It takes your mind off everything else. It’s just you and the fish,” says Iraq veteran Dave Walker, of a program that brings wounded veterans and active duty soldiers to fish the hallowed waters of Louise Dickinson Rich’s Rapid River in Maine’s Township C.