Donna Anderson is the executive director of the McLaughlin Garden & Homestead in South Paris. She has been a museum professional for 30 years, working with art, history, natural history, and science institutions in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Before moving to Maine in January 2015, she was the coordinator of the Yager Museum of Art & Culture at Hartwick College, where she taught museum studies. She now lives in Harrison with her husband, a graphic designer and photographer.
Adelyn Bell is a graduate of Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, where she concentrated her studies on creativity and well-being. She is an avid musician, dancer, and writer, and has performed in various productions throughout the state. Coming up, she will be reading some of her poetry at the Whitehall in Camden in the first evening of a new live poetry series, beginning on May 17th. She loves dessert, summer in Maine, and spending time with her husband and two daughters, Isana and Constanze.
James Bell is a graduate of the New England Culinary Institute in Montpelier, Vermont, and has served as chef at such esteemed restaurants as The Cafe at Pat’s, and Ri Ra in Portland, Maine, and The Hearth and Candle in Jeffersonville, Vermont. Currently, he is the Campus Director of Resident Dining at Avita of Stroudwater, and Stroudwater Lodge in Westbrook, and is committed to providing residents and families with nutritious, scratch prepared meals that foster wellness and community. He resides in New Gloucester with his wife and two daughters, Isana and Constanze.
