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Small Maine Towns, Big Local Community Involvement

Small Maine towns, big local community involvement.

When you live in a small Maine town, you volunteer. All the time. Year after year, you are expected to show up and put in the effort to make the local event you worked on last year even bigger the next. This working together and home grown productions makes folks know each other better. Working side by side on a local community project is reward on a lot of levels.

Making Music, Small Maine Towns Community Members Hummed Together To Pull Off Amazing Events!

Summer Outdoor In The Park Music Concerts. McGill’s Band, Houlton ME.

This blog post shows a couple examples of local community involvement.

Pick a season and the local natives are working behind the scenes to pull off the event. Working with the same members on some and totally new committee members on others. These local community projects are one super way to know the talents of those living in our home town. You get to know the people very well in the conversations had while performing local community service.

Here’s a video on the Rotary International Dessert Silent Auction.

Another video to play, listen and watch as the 27th annual Northern Maine Soap Box Derby kicked off another all down hill gravity racing event.

The 4th of July parade, demolition derby, the mud runs are big too when there is a local state agriculture fair like the one in Houlton Maine. Watch the video, check out the many local events that just happened.

Do you pay money to purchase tickets for an event where you live now?

Or do you spend a year planning the next one? Meetings right after an event so everything is fresh to tackle the next one? Get togethers around the year to brainstorm and plan for the local Maine small town event, those are fun and the community benefits. Learn about the many small communities in Maine I get to serve in my real estate job and through service projects. Many of the projects are outdoors any of the four seasons.

Welcome To Maine, A Place With Many Facets To Visit.

It is not one project and then not lift a finger to volunteer until next year’s rerun of the event.

Several projects and mix and match of the individual members and service clubs tapped to coordinate to pull them off to benefit the tourists and local community members alike.

All Ages Love Going Up To A Maine Camp. Pets Too!

Lucky to live in a small Maine town and enjoy traveling instate to visit other parts of the state.

Many of these vacation trips are used for the blog post substance to capture in image, video and then hunt and peck out a Maine blog post. Thank you for stopping by to check out the latest blog post on some local events in small town Maine that just happened where I live in Aroostook County.

Maine, The Way Life Should Be! Welcome To Vacationland! Common Sense Still Used In Our Daily Life. Not Outdated.

Working on the next Maine blog post and trying to give you fresh content and a worthwhile read to not waste your time.

More and more videos are the best show and tell option to relay what is it like where I live in a typical small Maine rural town.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

July 10, 2022
Maine, Most Of Your Life’s Missing Puzzle Pieces Are Here.

Houlton ME Boys Win Gold State Basketball Trophy.

Pieces to a life puzzle, in Maine the ones you need are plentiful because the folks you meet are anxious to help you find them.

There is an awareness in Maine. A sense of real “community”. That you, me are all strongly connected. Maybe it’s due in part to less people.And the ones in Maine we do have being hard working. Willing to step up over and over to volunteer for tasks needing to be done. Home grown not store bought. On the local town level, thru out the neighborhoods where we live, raise our families, work to make a living.

Survival, not being spoiled by material items or needing lots of money to be happy another reason why puzzle pieces are plentiful here. Money, titles, things, stuff, material collections to impress people is not why you move to Maine. Who the person deep inside is, what I can learn from you, you from me is the two way communication sought out, needed. I have puzzle pieces you need, you have ones I have been searching for.

Experiences with the canvas, the backdrop Maine’s four season beauty too. The life lessons happen quicker when they are not artificial, not man made. Your surroundings in Maine with no traffic, the 4th lowest crime statistic, peace and quiet to think, to enjoy life are the foundation any one needs. When you are on top of Cadillac or Katahdin, those Maine mountains and the expanse for miles and miles literally get you “on top” of things. As you ski down a little or major Maine mountain, canoe a river, you get it. Kids, their sports are the center of most of our volunteer efforts in Maine.

You realize what is important, that you matter and have an important role on a local level. Not just with your family, but that strong connection with your communities, your state and a strong sense of pride is the mortar between all those puzzle pieces. Strongly cemented, glued together. Maine people are like that. Appreciating what we have, not lamenting material items we wished we owned. We have everything we need, but in fleeting moments not everything the television says we have to have, should want. Basics, simple living is Maine with your feet on the ground.

The local beauty of Maine overwhelms, fills you with a sense of wonderment, contentment.

In a four season setting unlike no other with rock bound coast lines, international ties with Canadian relatives just across our borders in Quebec, New Brunswick.

Maine, come collect some puzzle pieces. Share some of your life lessons on how to fill that life with what matters day in, day out. Life is short. But no one said it could not be fun, rich in the things that matter. Maine, wake up, start your dream. Would love to help you with your part time, full time move, relocation and investment in Maine, the way life should be.

I’m Maine Real Estate Broker Andrew Mooers
207.532.6573
info@mooersrealty.com.

June 15, 2010
Capturing Maine Digitally Is Like Trading In Your Bow And Arrow For A Gatlin Gun.

     The gatlin rapid fire gun was introduced during the civil war in 1861 to reduce the number of deaths and the size of the northern army.

     The digital camera revolutionized picture taking in the same dramatic way. With a high pixel resolution the new images are the size of a barn or one of the smaller fifty states. Instead of accurate camera aim to capture the subject, new point and shoot cameras take in the subject and everything within three miles around it.

     You can now shoot elephant with the typical hand held and with a simple learning curve image editor, crop all

Hey, Come Back Here With My French Fry Bird.

what you don’t want with the remaining section of the image plenty big enough for clarity, size and application. Without concern for the cost of processing and the actual film expense per roll of unexposed medium, digital allows rapid fire image taking increasing the odds of a quality shot.
     I like to capture Maine both with a still digital camera and video clips to later edit into a movie that shows the flavor of Maine. The colors of the seasons, the sounds of a Maine spring, summer, fall and winter are so varied and special. Natural lighting during the magic twenty minutes before sunset or just after sunrise enhances the lake, ocean, mountain, woods or field scene. And when coupled with the unique hard working, down to earth character of Maine people, anyone can collect, post and share the essence of Maine.

     Salt and peppered in this MeInMaine blog, I hope to stock the shelves with bits and pieces of imagery, video, and copy that conveys my piece of Maine, what Maine means to me. This Maine video explains why I live in Maine, what my life journey has been so far. Our video efforts show everything from youth picking Maine potatoes video, to a local 4th of July 4 day Houlton ME celebration video, a Maine 14 inch snowstorm, local Maine tournament baseketball game or a local Maine hockey contest and everything in between. We also pay the bills with local Maine real estate videos mixed in between the community videos too. Scan roughly 900 of my Maine images over over 750 Maine blogs posts with video and imagery attached or embedded at ActiveRain and eventually in this home grown Maine local community living blog, MeInMaine.
Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers

March 20, 2009