oldmainetravelers
oldmainetravelers
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| Member | Mar 24, 2011 (15 years) |
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Bio
The Old Maine Travelers are Peter and Jean Richards, who met more than 60 years ago covering President John F. Kennedy on what would become his last trip to Boston.
They worked for many years as wire service and newspaper reporters and editors. Peter did a nightly television show on WGBH, Boston, went into government in 1967 in the administration of Mayor John V. Lindsay and produced the six volume Plan for New York City published by MIT Press to acclaim and remembered as a comprehensive snapshot of the city at a moment in time. After they moved to their brownstone in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, Jean did a spell on Madison Avenue in the real “Mad Men” days, helped launch the War on Poverty in Brooklyn, Harlem and the Bronx and became public relations officer in charge of the news bureau at Chase Manhattan Bank when David Rockefeller was chairman.
Since 1973, Peter and Jean have worked together – first as owners and publishers of a group of award-winning newspapers in Dutchess County, N.Y., and since 1984 as antiques dealers on the coast of Maine where they specialize in 18th and 19th century furniture, metal work and accessories.
For decades they divided their time amongst the pleasures of pre-pandemic life in Maine, their little house in a Medieval quarter of a provincial French town in Aquitaine and a beloved hotel in Hong Kong.
In their eighties, they keep the shop in the big red barn on their Damariscotta property open by chance or appointment in season and wander as much as they can the rest of the year seeing the sights, seeking out museums, stumbling into interesting conversations, savoring local specialties and otherwise bumbling along in their own style. For years they have shared article-length postcards with family, friends, travelers and some media. Many are posted here.
The Old Maine Travelers are Peter and Jean Richards, who met more than 60 years ago covering President John F. Kennedy on what would become his last trip to Boston.
They worked for many years as wire service and newspaper reporters and editors. Peter did a nightly television show on WGBH, Boston, went into government in 1967 in the administration of Mayor John V. Lindsay and produced the six volume Plan for New York City published by MIT Press to acclaim and remembered as a comprehensive snapshot of the city at a moment in time. After they moved to their brownstone in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, Jean did a spell on Madison Avenue in the real “Mad Men” days, helped launch the War on Poverty in Brooklyn, Harlem and the Bronx and became public relations officer in charge of the news bureau at Chase Manhattan Bank when David Rockefeller was chairman.
Since 1973, Peter and Jean have worked together – first as owners and publishers of a group of award-winning newspapers in Dutchess County, N.Y., and since 1984 as antiques dealers on the coast of Maine where they specialize in 18th and 19th century furniture, metal work and accessories.
For decades they divided their time amongst the pleasures of pre-pandemic life in Maine, their little house in a Medieval quarter of a provincial French town in Aquitaine and a beloved hotel in Hong Kong.
In their eighties, they keep the shop in the big red barn on their Damariscotta property open by chance or appointment in season and wander as much as they can the rest of the year seeing the sights, seeking out museums, stumbling into interesting conversations, savoring local specialties and otherwise bumbling along in their own style. For years they have shared article-length postcards with family, friends, travelers and some media. Many are posted here.
The Old Maine Travelers are Peter and Jean Richards, who met more than 60 years ago covering President John F. Kennedy on what would become his last trip to Boston.
They worked for many years as wire service and newspaper reporters and editors. Peter did a nightly television show on WGBH, Boston, went into government in 1967 in the administration of Mayor John V. Lindsay and produced the six volume Plan for New York City published by MIT Press to acclaim and remembered as a comprehensive snapshot of the city at a moment in time. After they moved to their brownstone in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, Jean did a spell on Madison Avenue in the real “Mad Men” days, helped launch the War on Poverty in Brooklyn, Harlem and the Bronx and became public relations officer in charge of the news bureau at Chase Manhattan Bank when David Rockefeller was chairman.
Since 1973, Peter and Jean have worked together – first as owners and publishers of a group of award-winning newspapers in Dutchess County, N.Y., and since 1984 as antiques dealers on the coast of Maine where they specialize in 18th and 19th century furniture, metal work and accessories.
For decades they divided their time amongst the pleasures of pre-pandemic life in Maine, their little house in a Medieval quarter of a provincial French town in Aquitaine and a beloved hotel in Hong Kong.
In their eighties, they keep the shop in the big red barn on their Damariscotta property open by chance or appointment in season and wander as much as they can the rest of the year seeing the sights, seeking out museums, stumbling into interesting conversations, savoring local specialties and otherwise bumbling along in their own style. For years they have shared article-length postcards with family, friends, travelers and some media. Many are posted here.
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