The Gorham Recreation Department provides maps of the 15 public recreation trails in the town on their website. These maps show the trails at the neighborhood scale, but they do not do a very good job of showing the location of each trail at the town scale. Unless you are very familiar with the town… Continue reading Gorham Recreation Trails
Please be advised this is a working draft. I am still in the process of adding new content and editing. What is “rural”? This is a question the professor asked our class on the first day of Rural and Regional Economic Development. At first I was befuddled by this question. Here is my original response… Continue reading What is rural?
I scanned these photos taken by my grandparents in the 1950s. My grandparents lived in Camden and also owned camps in Lincolnville and Northern Penobscot County. My great-uncle Oscar owned a camp near East Millinocket. These photos were probably taken in or near Camden, Lincolnville, East Millinocket, T6R7, and Baxter State Park between 1955 – 57. The… Continue reading The Way Maine Used To Be
Here is the presentation I gave in CPD 615: Citizen Involvement and Dispute Resolution. When I have more time I may post an HTML version. I’ve tried to explain the presentation as best I could in the notes section with each slide.
The view of North Gorham from Fort Hill When I was in trade school one of my instructors brought us here – to Fort Hill in Gorham, Maine – on a field trip to study proper subdivision design. He told us farming is the past and subdivisions are the future, so in another 20 years… Continue reading North Gorham and Little Falls
These are a series of Google Sketch-up models I created for a project in my Principles of Town Design class. Some of the buildings are based on real buildings in South Portland, others are more generic. These files are a work in progress; I didn’t pay close attention to the small details as I was… Continue reading Google Sketch-up Projects
