Anyone can aim a camera or a phone and click off a bunch of pictures. Eric Storm is all over Maine from 4 AM on, year ‘round, and photos you’ve seen forever, as photo’d by him, take on a whole new meaning because of how he presents them.  Storm’s pictures tell us all haunting, curious stories.

(Recording date: February 21st, 2021)

Caroline Byrne is a biologist who loves and studies  all animals but in particular, bats! She tries hard to dispel the creepy stories about them and works at showing us all how important they are to all of us, especially because our local Maine bats are keen on ridding us of mosquitoes, their favorite food.

(Recording date: December 6th, 2020)

She had developed Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, her back ached, other parts of her body were seriously hurting and finally after the fates kept “showing” her info on Tai Chi she took the hint, took some lessons, and immediately felt great.  In time she began to learn how to teach, she now has lots of students, and Diane Doiron has never looked back.

(Recording date: December 13th, 2020)

Jen Marchiani's Wildlife Rehab is located in Auburn and is run almost completely alone by Jen Marchiani who lost her heart to all living things as a child and so today runs her Wildlife Rehab business.  Her stories are sad and happy and always challenging.  If a damaged creature is curable, Marchiani cures it.

(Recording date: December 20th, 2020)

Wendy Flynn of Brunswick loves dogs and people too, but she and her husband take in special dogs as part of their first training for Guiding Eyes, an organization that perfectly matches people who have sight disabilities, with fabulously trained, brilliant dogs, usually Labs. These marvelous animals give blind people safe and happy lives.

Sarah teaches us that these funny, smart and clean animals make charming, sweet and loving pets. She has placed countless domestic rats into worthy homes and has definitely removed the “eeeuuuw” factor from them.

(Recording date: January 3rd, 2021)

He started out as a chef and while becoming very good at that became fascinated at the ice sculptures often displayed at the hotels where he was preparing fabulous meals — often sculpting vegetables into beautiful shapes for the diners. Bluck yearned to learn ice sculpting and today is in great demand from New England to DC for his magnificent creations. 

(Recording date: September 27th, 2020)

In spite of great success at ballet, Elizabeth Druker's journey through years of ballet training, and dancing with the most famous dancers and in world-famous dance productions in New York City and elsewhere, showed her that she was not 100% satisfied in doing just that; when she began to teach ballet is when she knew she'd discovered what she really was meant to do in the world of dance. She has taught well over 100 students, loves her job and is sure she will never stop. 

(Recording date: September 20th, 2020)

Jim's story on how he discovered musical instruments and music in wood and stone and glass and other things makes us all wonder why we too can't hear the things we see. His exquisite, weird instruments, sold around the world, are so precise and so beautiful they are often bought as works of art even if the new owner is not musically inclined at all. 

(Recording date: September 13th. 2020)

Phyllis Blackstone of Brunswick, Maine tells us how all our whole life is a story, and the telling of it can tell the world who we are and why and how. She also tells us how she taught school for 43 years using story telling as her strongest tool, and she looks forward to coming back on Amazing Mainers to tell some of her favorite made-up tales.

(Recording date: September 6th, 2020)