Boothbay resident Eileen Higgins is living proof of the old adage, “Do something you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.”

Breanna Lawrence does not like to wait.
The Jefferson contractor also doesn’t like to sit still or keep people waiting. Emails, text messages, and phone calls are returned quickly and she almost always answers her phone because “you just never know,” she said.

It might surprise some people, but Allison Eddyblouin was not born into the Catholic Church. Her mother was Catholic, but her father was Episcopalian. It was through her mother’s family that Eddyblouin grew up adjacent to the faith. She converted when she was 23.

On the mend from a case of meningitis he contracted in April, David Pope is currently living a new normal.

Jennifer Casad is a slender pillar of muscle and bone. Veins bulge from her rippling forearms, which meld into impressive biceps that pop and flex as she excitedly punctuates her conversation with calloused hands.

Elizabeth “Liz” Matta said she has been lucky enough to always know what she wanted to do and where she wanted go. As a grade school student she watched a teacher inspire a struggling student and was inspired for life.

Tom Raymond is 92 years old and producing some of the best work of his wood turning career. Almost every day, the retired engineer descends into his basement workshop in Damariscotta where he spends hours turning blocks of wood into bowls, wine stoppers, and anything else that strikes his fancy.

In the days when Richard “Dickie” Spofford was Boothbay’s fire chief, the firefighters under his command would refer to him in the reverential tones sailors might use for a particularly effective captain.