The areas we serve in our real estate business have unique traditions, community events, special customs, that are sacred elements of day to day life, growing up in a home town in Maine, anywhere.
Rural areas like Maine have lots of deep rooted home grown volunteer events that if the locals did not step up year after year to preserve, they would not happen.
There is not the same fire in your belly passion, internal spark excitement to come together if the event only happens with people hired to pull it off.
There is nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer in Maine.
Especially if kids are involved because the whole Maine village raises, guides those kids.
Maine is know for a work ethic. Kids helping clam, blueberry rake, work in the potato and other farm fields. Getting the value of a dollar up close and personal training.
Not letting go of the dollar earned in entry level manual labor so easy either. If the purchase does not equate to the work involved to earn the dollar, the wallet stays in the pocket. Moving on, looking for a better deal or waiting until one comes along.
In northern Maine, the potato harvest does not happen during summer vacation like other work opportunities. So for decades a three week Maine potato recess happens with summer ending three weeks earlier. Then getting out usually three weeks later to get the crop in to storage. Off to the potato markets down state, out of state.
Maine has a Governor LePage who is pushing for "kitchen table discussions" around Vacationland to put common sense back in to the way the state is run. Less bureaucratic red tape, delays, reduction of waste and lack of productivity.
Tinkering with the state educational mandates that do not provide for the unique area events that define life in the sixteen Maine counties is critical to keep what makes each area shine beaming brightly. I know when I worked down country, I saw job discrimination in a good way loud and clear.
When they read on a resume I was from Aroostook County, they safely assumed this guy, all those cats in the north half the state are workers.
It all goes back to lessons learned in the potato field. Being on the chain gang, out in the fall harvest helping area farmers get the crop in around the black clouds and early morning frost.To ever take away those traditions is like ripping out the heart one by one of what makes your area special. Stand up for your local traditions and keep your home town heritage in place. Don't and your apathy and folks that do not know the benefits will dismantle, remove that special unique flavor of your zip code, gps coordinates. Maine, big state, folks are a tad outspoken but hard workers and you know what's on their mind without games, any punches pulled.
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