People at Two Echo
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Nancy
grew up in N.H. and has lived mostly in
Massachusetts and Maine for the past 40+ years. Nancy is a retired Nursing Educator, and has, since retirement, taken up spinning, weaving and textile studies. She has enjoyed traveling in Asia and Central America with focus on health care and textiles. She's looking forward to getting to know members of the community AND getting her weaving studio up and running.
Joy and Steve are just finishing their timberframe home. They lived near Boston for the past 12 years and are excited to explore the beautiful Maine coast. Avid sea kayakers, hikers, and cross-country skiers, they are drawn to the area's natural beauty as well as its arts, culture, and intellectual pursuits. Two Echo's warm and welcoming community made the decision to move here an easy one, and they look forward to starting their family here. Steve is a cabinetmaker and Joy consults to various local non-profit organizations for land use planning and project management.
Hallie and Zeke lived in the Boston area for the last 20 years. They have long been interested in community-building. The Two Echo residents, community context and beautiful setting fit their desires of how and where they wanted to live. Hallie has worked with children and their families as a clinical social worker for 9 years. She is exploring other ways to use her skills and pursue her interest in people in the way of the healing technique of Reiki the Polarity Way and mentoring/assisting young people in the local school system. Zeke is a software developer for a healthcare informatics firm in Massachusetts. He enjoys sailing and the coastline of Maine, and Hallie enjoys long walks, reading and relaxing moments with nature and neighbors. Their son enjoys reading, sailing, playing flute in various venues and many sports especially soccer and basketball. As a family, they enjoy quiet strolls under the evening stars, interacting with the neighbors and community activities and attending local high school and college sports events.
Helen
moved from Pennsylvania to Two Echo with her menagerie of aging dogs. She is a retired Chief Petty Officer who served in the U. S. Navy for 27 years. Her grown son was a Crab Fisherman in the Bering Sea for ten years and has recently graduated from Embry Riddle Aeronautical
University in Florida and is now Flight Instructing in Connecticut. David and Associate Member Mary are planning their wedding here at Two-Echo in August. Helen enjoys kayaking the many local rivers and beautiful Maine coast and working with New England based Second Chance Boxer Rescue (a canine rescue group) by fostering and transporting rescued boxers.
Clare and Larry have lived in the Brunswick area for some time. They have three children (13, 11, and 9). Clare is a stay-at-home mom who taught special education in the public schools before choosing to stay home full-time. She is hoping to publish some children’s stories that she has developed over the years. Larry is a self-employed lobster fisherman who fishes out of Harpswell. They enjoy camping, skiing, and spending a lot of time with their little ones.
Enid and Robert
came to Maine in 1979,
while in their early forties, to get away from it all (New York and New Jersey and an academic life of engineering, math and physics). They took up gardening and raising goats, sheep and chickens. Both are now "officially" retired.
Alex
was a teacher and administrator in schools in several states before coming to Maine in 1984. He retired from a second career as a "faceless bureaucrat" for the state of Maine in 2001, and moved to Two Echo from Yarmouth with his adult son, David, in 1998.
Since becoming gainfully unemployed, Alex has continued his involvement in volunteer endeavors. He also enjoys travel, kayaking, walking and the myriad cultural and gustatory delights of Brunswick and nearby Portland.
Amy and Chris and their two children (14 and 10) have been involved in Two Echo from its earliest days. Chris works for an alternative energy company, primarily on the solar heating end. Amy works as Director of Finance & Publications for the Convention and Visitors Bureau in Portland. They enjoy being outdoors: canoing, kayaking, camping, gardening, hiking, etc. as well as participating in the many Two Echo Common House dinners, game nights, movie nights, in-community concerts and all the other activities that make up a busy Two Echo social life.
Randy and Betty
have spent most of their 'career' years involved in one way or another with people with developmental disabilities. Now 'retired,' Randy works part time at L.L. Bean and does a lot of bike riding. They have two grown children, a son who recently graduated
from Hampshire College and a daughter who is married and living in nearby Freeport. In their free time they like to camp, travel, kayak and cross-country ski. Randy is an avid catch and release fly fisherman and likes listening to the blues. Betty has been known to garden in the rain and likes to make things with her hands.
Alison is a self-employed consultant who works out of her home office. She has also been known to enjoy fly fishing and gardening. Alison has a young son who is quite taken with acting and music.
James and Linda
have two boys (15 and 20). Linda has taught preschool for many years and is currently teaching the three-year-olds at a small private elementary school in Portland. She enjoys crafts of all kinds, especially quilting, but seems to spend much of
her current free time driving her oldest to soccer and track events. James works at a large insurance company in Portland. He likes to listen to jazz (and attends his fair share of soccer games as well).
John and Karen and their two children moved from Portland to Two Echo four years ago. John works for the State of Maine as the Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator and is an enthusiastic cyclist and runner himself. Karen is now occupied home-schooling their youngest. As a family they are quite involved in their local church, and enjoy camping trips and excursions to nearby White's Beach to beat the summer's heat.
Rob and Katie
and their two children (13 and 10) now live in their Two Echo home that Rob (and some other guys) built. Rob is a builder who has his Master’s Degree in Public Policy and Management. Before having children and staying home full-time with her children, Katie was a second grade teacher. Her teaching experience comes in handy as they are homeschooling. Rob longs to kayak and
go to movies again sometime soon, and Katie hopes to try her hand at writing children’s books before too long.
Jean came to Maine after having lived in New Hampshire, Kentucky, Vermont, and New York. During earlier years in her life, Jean raised four children, taught school, ran for local political office, raised chickens, canned vegetables and dabbled in designing her future “dream houses.” Jean is just down the pedestrian lane from her daughter, Katie (mentioned above), and her delightful grandchildren.