Freeport

That old-school approach extends across the business.

The family-owned company still operates about 60 brick-and-mortar stores in 22 states, and its flagship in Freeport, Maine, the only L.L. Bean store open 24 hours a day year-round, just completed a four-year, $50 million renovation.

The famous print catalog isn't going anywhere either, even though mailing volumes have been dropping 10% to 14% a year.

Elder says it's still produced without AI, real photography, real products, and real people.

It's in Maine, one of the largest retail outdoor camping, family-owned, multi-billion dollar company, many generations.

So anyway, she started 4 to Midnight in Freeport, Maine, on the selling retail.

She went into product development, went into becoming the store manager, and then went into, became a vice president, okay? So we had, we were, we used to call them dinks, double income, no kids, okay? And one of the employees from Beans came to work for me, and she was going to therapy.

And 34 years ago, that was never heard.

And just before he gets murdered, there is a copy of that book in the background.

Harry McGraw says in the episode that it's 124 miles to Cabot Cove from Boston, which would place the fictional Cabot Cove in the vicinity of Freeport, Maine.

Okay.

And in Starkey's office is a painting of Martin Luther King.

Boothbay Harbor.

And spent a little time in Portland and in, uh, Freeport.

You know, had to hit that LL Bean.

You had to hit that-

[laughs] Had to hit that LL Bean

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the Freeport outlets?

They had, however, they had the big boot-

get your comments on that and get your thought process on how it comes to just site selection and where RAN's built out.

Like I'm thinking in particular last summer, I was able to stop at your Freeport site in Maine, visiting the Northeast.

It was great.

Like it's an area where at least when I was there last year, it may have changed now.

The Rescue of Molly Finney.

In 1756, Thomas Mains had cleared some acres in what is now Freeport, Maine, and had put up a comfortable log house, but he was not to enjoy his possession long.

The Indians came to the place in the night, slew him and one of his children, wounded his wife, and carried into captivity his sister-in-law, the pretty, pert, and lively Molly Finney.

One of the Red Raiders had been shot, and on the six weeks' march into Quebec, where the band was to collect the bounty offered by the French for English and Yankee scalps, and where they expected to sell their captive, the girl was compelled to serve as nurse to the wounded man.

I am at home, believe it or not.

I am in Freeport, Maine, and I will head out to a coastal island later today.

I was hoping to take the call out there, but, uh, the internet service out there is a little spotty, so I decided to stay at home where I know the, uh, internet service is much more dependable.

But, uh, the person doing the interview is not all that capable when it comes to new technology.