Erik Jorgensen
| It was with something of a shock that my wife Tamara Risser and I realized that we'd been living in Maine more or less ever since high school. In other words - we've been here longer than I lived in Harvard or she in Minneapolis, which was 18 years! We met as Freshmen at Bowdoin College, started dating as Sophomores, lived "in sin" for a spell after college then got married in 1991 in Harvard. Now that the cat has vanished, our family numbers three, including our son, William, who was born on September 11, 2001 - a fabulous blast of delight for us on what was an awful day for the rest of the country. Being a parent has been the most interesting thing we've done yet. After college, I worked at Bowdoin for a couple of years as an assistant, then was the director of a regional historical society for eight years, then following a period in grad school I came back and landed in my current position at the Maine Humanities Council, an educational foundation here in Portland. It's interesting work, and I have no complaints. Check out our informative (but fairly ugly) Web site at www.mainehumanities.org. My wife Tamara is one of the managers at Poland Spring water bottling, so we drink lots of bottled water. Living in Maine is a privilege, and the smaller job market here is more than offset by the fabulous quality of life we have in terms of access to mountains, the ocean and other interesting places. Shortly after college we bought an old sailboat, and we figured (correctly it turns out) that we would never have more time to sail than we did then, and in the past twelve summers have explored most of the Maine coast. This past summer, with Will, we hardly sailed anywhere beyond Portland Harbor, and so we're eager to see (though not altogether optimistic) about the prospect of sailing with a toddler this year. The great thing is that we're only 2 hours from harvard, and sooner or later everyone gets to Maine- so by all means drop in if you are in the area! Portland's goofy tourism motto is "a lot of fun for a little city" -- and we'll make sure that if you visit, you'll have just that! |
 
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