Brunswick

outside.

So this is between Brunswick and Augusta on the seacoast.

Yeah.

I used

to live in Brunswick.

You lived in Brunswick.

So where were you from, Eddie? What was your town? In Maine, what town did you grow up in?

Milo.

Some of these institutions already contribute directly to their host communities.

Bowdoin, for example, makes a substantial annual contribution to Brunswick.

Colby pays part of property taxes on certain properties it owns in downtown Waterville.

The University of New England has a pilot agreement with Biddeford.

And then, um, and then I went from there because I was pretty junior.

I went from there to VP 92 in Brunswick, Maine and did a second full three-year department head tour in a tar P3 squadron.

Okay.

And, um, and what was happening was that reserve P3s were going away.

So what

had happened was while I was in Brunswick, uh, they started realizing that their calculations on the P3 longevity were wrong back in the 50s.

Okay.

and they started parking airplanes in the desert because of wing spars.

And it's eerie because many of us are still here, some of us are not, but it kind of puts us all in the same category of feeding this machine, right? We are in some ways exactly like the spirits that are channeling ourselves into this machine for others who are living to access.

Aviva Briefel is an English and cinema studies professor at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.

Her latest book is called Ghosts and Things, The Material Culture of 19th Century Spiritualism.

Coming up, an AI agent seems to have a temper tantrum.

Next up, Judy from Blue, Maine, pronouns she and her.

My husband and I recently completed a trip from Brunswick, Maine, through Boston, Chicago, to Seattle, then to Emeryville in the Bay Area.

From there, we went back to Chicago, then Boston, back to Maine, all on a train.

Because we stopped over in Chicago, I absolutely had to flip the bird at the ugly tower.

And so I lose out on a lot of the intricacies of that game.

But I was at the Buffalo Wild Wings in Brunswick, Maine one time.

And that's when the main state like smash association like every third monday of the month like go that's where they meet up and like they do their tournaments and i just like i was like i was like what's going on they're like oh this is like yeah we're doing a smash tournament like we come here i was like this this rules at the b-dubs at the buffalo wild wings oh in brunswick maine if you're in maine and you want to play competitive smash that is the spot and you get wings while you're there so who doesn't love that

I used to do it.

yeah this is how you can talk yourself out of a job in about 4.2 seconds uh Well, it starts with final rounds.

Final rounds got on the bestseller list, and we were in Maine on the coast near Brunswick.

If you ever know L.L. Bean, we live very close there.

And so one day I'm sitting and it's snowing, and it's November, and it was starting to snow, and my publisher, Bantam, said, we want you to go on a book tour.

San Diego up the coast of California, then across Canada into Toronto, and then home to Maine.

It was three nights, two or three nights before Christmas.

My wife had taken the little kids up to Northern Maine, and I had promised a little lady that ran our bookshop in Brunswick, Maine, I would come over and sign books, which I was very dubious about to begin with, because A, Mainers are the cheapest people on earth.

And they were never going to buy a new book.

I want to talk to people about ArtVan.

Art Van is a nonprofit organization based out of Brunswick, Maine, that is mobile art therapy for communities.

So, Bill, I am blessed.

I have been on their board of directors now for two full years.

She put together her own little program.

She named it Art Van.

And 23 years later, it's a 501c3 organization currently based out of Brunswick, but serving up to 800 people annually.

800 people annually, somewhere between 700 and 800 is the actual number.

O- one thing that Maine is known for is having, like, just the best pristine reservoir water.

Not in Brunswick, Maine.

Our drinking water is amazing.

What?

Do not get water from Brunswick, Maine.

Really?

That was the most polluted place for PFAs, the most polluted.

Really? In the country?