https://www.michaelgseamans.com https://www.michaelgseamans.com/OVERVIEW/thumbs https://www.michaelgseamans.com/OVERVIEW/1/pf-media/TollOfDesperation_001.JPGTollOfDesperation_001.JPGShannon Cimaronn, 68, of Silver City, with Battalion Search and Rescue, stands near a skull on the desert floor in an area Santa Teresa, N.M. on Saturday, December 28, 2024. The skull was originally discovered during a search in November. The authorities were notified and still, the skull rests on the desert floor. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/OVERVIEW/2/pf-media/UkraineEvacuation.JPGUkraineEvacuation.JPGMYKOLAIV, UKRAINE MARCH 27, 2022 Ukrainian military forces are seen going in the opposite direction through the bus windows of Team Humanity as they evacuate soon-to-be war refugees to Moldova as they leave the war sieged city of Mykolaiv, Ukraine as on Sunday, March 27, 2022. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center/USA Today) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/OVERVIEW/3/pf-media/RisingUp_Overview.JPGRisingUp_Overview.JPGSara Juliano, 38, holds her ârigâ, also know as a syringe loaded with heroin and fentanyl, as the camp fire illuminates the campsite she calls home on the island in the wetlands of the Kennebec River in the South End of Waterville on Monday, September 12, 2022. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/OVERVIEW/4/pf-media/BeyondCovidPreview.jpgBeyondCovidPreviewDonald Thibeau receives treatment on his amputated leg from Keely Taylor, a medical assistant at the Jackman Health Clinic, at his home in Jackman on July 26, 2021. Reduced home health care services in rural areas has lead to an increase in home visits, especially in communities like Jackman. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/OVERVIEW/5/pf-media/Ebola011.JPGEbola011.JPGNIMIYAMA CHIEFDOM, SIERRA LEONE - DEC. 14, 2014 A member of the Sierra Leone police enters a home in the rural village of Nimiyama during a surprise search for hidden Ebola virus victims on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2014. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/OVERVIEW/6/pf-media/Delta017.JPGDelta017.JPGFirst responders from Delta Ambulance and Waterville police and fire remove a man from his home in full PPE in Waterville on Friday, April 17, 2020. Any cardiac event triggers a full PPE response by all responders. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/OVERVIEW/7/pf-media/Sarah_Story_16.JPGSarah_Story_16.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE-SEPTEMBER 8, 2022 Sarah Wallingford, 31, overdoses on heroin at a campsite shared by several homeless addicts as officers from the Waterville police and fire departments treat her on Thursday, September 8, 2022. Wallingfordâs life was saved by tent mate, Amanda Frasier. Frasier, also a homeless addict, performed CPR and administered 3 doses of Narcan moments before rescue services arrived. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/OVERVIEW/8/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen.JPGADeadlyShadeofGreen.JPGRIGOLET, NEFOUNDLAND/LABRADOR, CANADA - NOVEMBER 10, 2019 Karl Michelin, of Rigolet, takes a break from dressing a jar seal he hunted in Lake Melville near Big Island where he has a hunting camp on Sunday, November, 10, 2019. Michelin supplements much of his food source with seal meat. The meat is used to feed him and his family along with Inuit elders in the community who can no longer hunt as easily as when they were younger. Seal is a staple in the Inuit diet, a food source that is being threatened by effects of the Churchill Falls Dam that empties in to Lake Melville, one of North America's largest estuaries. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/OVERVIEW/9/pf-media/LewistonShooting_002.JPGLewistonShooting_002.JPGMaria Wilson speaks about the unknown status of her loved one, Arthur Strout, at the reunification center at the Auburn Middle School in Auburn, Maine following a mass shooting in several locations throughout neighboring Lewiston on Wednesday, October 25, 2023. The shooting left 18 people dead, including Strout. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/OVERVIEW/10/pf-media/EDITORIAL001.JPGEDITORIAL001.JPGChase Foss, 9, left, stands with the rare doe with a four-point rack of antlers at his home in New Sharon on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018. Foss bagged the deer, his first ever, on his first day of hunting on Monday with his father, Daniel Foss near their home in New Sharon. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/OVERVIEW/11/pf-media/EDITORIAL030.JPGEDITORIAL030.JPGJanet Rivira cools off with her child, Devon, 3, in the water spray at Castonguay Square in Waterville on Thursday, July 19, 2018. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/OVERVIEW/12/pf-media/PSES_9703189977_ForestHillsDynasty_010copy.jpgPSES_9703189977_ForestHillsDynasty_010copyForest Hills Consolidated School's Brandon Gilboe (5) draws the foul as he drives to the basket on Schenck High School's Isaac Adams (22), left, and Kaden Hannan (21) right, in the class D state championship game at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor on Saturday, March 2, 2019. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/OVERVIEW/13/pf-media/Canoeniverse.JPGCanoeniverse.JPGJerry Roberts and Hunter Smith paddle their canoe through sufocants of decaying material on the surface of the Kennebec River in Waterville on Sunday, June 6, 2021. The foam, or sufocant, is from decaying materials like insects and leaves bubbling to the surface of the water. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/OVERVIEW/14/pf-media/CometNEOWISE002.JPGCometNEOWISE002.JPGSMITHFIELD, MAINE - JULY 17, 2020 Comet NEOWISE reflects in Bog Stream at the northwest part of North Pond as the sun sets over North Pond in Smithfield on Friday, July 17, 2020. The celestial visitor is visible after sunset in the northwest night sky just below the Big Dipper or Ursa Major. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Awards/1 https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Contact/1 https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Motion/First-Ascent---Bomb-Cyclone/thumbs https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Motion/Skeet-and-the-Cannon/thumbs https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/sports/thumbs https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/sports/1/pf-media/SPORTS013.JPGSPORTS013.JPGBANGOR, ME - MARCH 2, 2019 Forest Hills Consolidated School's Brandon Gilboe (5) draws the foul as he drives to the basket on Schenck High School's Isaac Adams (22), left, and Kaden Hannan (21) right, in the class D state championship game at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor on Saturday, March 2, 2019. (Morning Sentinel photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/sports/2/pf-media/PortfolioBuzzerBeater.JPGPortfolioBuzzerBeater.JPGUniversity of New Mexicoâs Nelly Junior Joseph (23) celebrates with teammate Mustapha Amzil (22) right, after a buzzer-beater shot in overtime to beat the University of Nevada at The Pit at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, N.M., on Friday, January 3, 2025. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/sports/3/pf-media/PortfolioStateChampMom.JPGPortfolioStateChampMom.JPGRobertson High Schoolâs Jesse James Gonzales (12) hugs his mother Antionette Gonzales after defeating St. Michaelâs High School in the Boys 3A championship game at The Pit in Albuquerque on Saturday, March 14, 2025. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/sports/4/pf-media/SPORTS026.JPGSPORTS026.JPGColorado State University wide receiver Luke Roberts (82) makes the reception in tight coverage with University of New Mexico line backer Zach Arnett (49), top, and safety Tyson Ditmore (9) bottom at Hughes Stadium in Fort Collins, Colo., on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2006. The Lobos went on to beat the Rams 20-19 with a last second filed goal. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/sports/5/pf-media/SPFT_9703189977_LAXGoalJube.JPGSPFT_9703189977_LAXGoalJube.JPGMessalonskee High Schoolâs Isabella Morrill (16) scores on Mt. Blue High School goalie Maddie Keller (30) in the first quarter in Farmington on Tuesday, May 9, 2023. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/sports/6/pf-media/SPORTS027.JPGSPORTS027.JPGFOXCROFT, MAINE - JUNE 3, 2017 Maine Central Institute's Victoria Friend compete in the triple jump in the Class C State Championships at Foxcroft Academy on Saturday, June 3, 2017. Friend finished second with a her longest jump at 32-03.25. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/sports/7/pf-media/SPORTS015.JPGSPORTS015.JPGS. CHINA - ME - 05-07-2016 Winslow High School left fielder Tanner Jackson (6) goes over the outfield fence head first on the home run hit by Erskine Academy's Luke Peabody (14) at Erskine Academy in South China on Saturday, May 7, 2016. Winslow defeated Erskine 12-8. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/sports/8/pf-media/HighFlyer.JPGHighFlyer.JPGJoao Paulo Fernandez gets tossed from the back of Wooly Bully during PBR Velocity Tour rodeo competition at the Cross Insurance Center on Friday, July 23, 2021. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/sports/9/pf-media/SPORTS010.JPGSPORTS010.JPGLEWISTON, MAINE - OCTOBER 11, 2014 Forty-seven-year-old John "Rumble" Webster knocked from the ring onto the doctor at the New England Fights event at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee in Lewiston on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/sports/10/pf-media/SPAC_9703189977_QuarterbackKeeper.JPGSPAC_9703189977_QuarterbackKeeper.JPGUniversity of Maine quarterback, Joe Fagnano (1) gets tackled by Colgate Universityâs Tyler Flick (47) and Ethan Malachi West (40) in Orono on Saturday, September 10, 2022. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/sports/11/pf-media/SPAC_9703189977_WrestlingBend.JPGSPAC_9703189977_WrestlingBend.JPGSkowhegan High Schoolâs Bryce Bowden wrestles Cony High Schoolâs Jordan McDaniel in the 132 pound weight class at Cony High School in Augusta on Friday, December 23, 2022. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/sports/12/pf-media/SPFT_9703189977_ShotPutWindUp.JPGSPFT_9703189977_ShotPutWindUp.JPGMessalonskee High School sophomore, Ben Ireland, competes in the shot put at Mt. Blue High School in Farmington on Friday, May 12, 2023. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/sports/13/pf-media/P_NCS_Portfolio_44.JPGP_NCS_Portfolio_44.JPGA group plays four on four at North Street Park with some lighting help from their cars on Saturday, November 7, 2020. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/sports/14/pf-media/SPFT_9703189977_LightsOutGame.JPGSPFT_9703189977_LightsOutGame.JPGFreeport High School players warm up in the head lights of a Winthrop police cruiser at Maxwell Field in Winthrop on Friday, Oct. 15, 2021. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/sports/15/pf-media/SPAC_9703189977_MarquisMatch.JPGSPAC_9703189977_MarquisMatch.JPGSKOWHEGAN, MAINE-JANUARY 14, 2023 Mt Blue High Schoolâs Preston Garland wrestles with Hampden Academyâs Brody Simons in the 106 pound championship bout at the Skowhegan High School wrestling invitational in Skowhegan on Saturday, January 14, 2023. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/sports/16/pf-media/NCS_Portfolio_10.JPGNCS_Portfolio_10.JPGDevon DeFazio, 16, works out on the heavy bag at his home on Water Street in Waterville on September 7, 2020. DeFazio has been teaching himself how box with his time at home during closures from the coronavirus. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/sports/17/pf-media/SPFT_9703189977_GarageMeetingPlace.JPGSPFT_9703189977_GarageMeetingPlace.JPGThe Cony High School football team warms up in the vocational garage at Cony High School before taking the field to play Mt. Blue High School in Augusta on Friday, October 28, 2022. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/sports/18/pf-media/SPFT_9703189977_SafeConfirmed.JPGSPFT_9703189977_SafeConfirmed.JPGAraratâs Brady Hiltz (8) signals the safe sign as the umpire calls him safe after scoring on a passed ball by pitcher Remy Brown (6) left, at Purnell Wrigley Field in Waterville on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/sports/19/pf-media/PSES_9703189977_VacationlandSkydiving_006.JPGPSES_9703189977_VacationlandSkydiving_006.JPGSkydiver Steve Staub hangs backwards from the wing of the Cesna 182 that carried him to the 10,000 foot jump altitude above Waterville on Wednesday, July 28, 2021. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/sports/20/pf-media/SPAC_9703189977_Scrum.JPGSPAC_9703189977_Scrum.JPGSeacoast Christian School's Ethan Huss (10) center, tries to keep the ball away from Forest Hills High School's Jeremiah Hale (33) right, and Parker Desjardins (14) left, in the Class D North quarterfinal game at the Augusta Civic Center on February 15, 2020. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/sports/21/pf-media/532720190515ClassASoftball004.JPG532720190515ClassASoftball004.JPGBREWER, ME - JUNE 15, 2019 Skowhegan Area High School third baseman Mariah Whittemore (8) fields a ground ball against Scarborough High School in the Class A state championship game at Brewer High School on Saturday, June 15, 2019. Scarborough defeated Skowhegan 11-1. (Morning Sentinel photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/sports/22/pf-media/SPORTS014.JPGSPORTS014.JPGRichmond Regional High School catcher Lindsy Hoopingarner, 7, right, holds on to the ball as Deer Isle-Stonington High School's Chelsea Brown, 13, collide at home plate in the Maine Principals Association Class B Softball State Championship game at ST. Joseph's College in Standish, Saturday, June 16, 2011. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/sports/23/pf-media/WEBMtAbramHallDaleBSKTBL07.JPGWEBMtAbramHallDaleBSKTBL07.JPGSALEM, MAINE - FEBRUARY 15, 2023 Hall-Dale Academyâs Jackson Leach (23) grabs the rebound against Mt. Abram High School in Salem on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/sports/24/pf-media/612520190824winslowplayday001.JPG612520190824winslowplayday001.JPGWINSLOW, MAINE - AUGUST 24, 2019 Winslow High School head coach MaryBeth Bourgoin performs with the field hockey team in the dance-off at the Winslow High School field hockey play day in Winslow on Saturday, August 24, 2019. (Morning Sentinel photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/sports/25/pf-media/SPORTS018.JPGSPORTS018.JPGColby College pitcher Wiley Holton (6) warms up in the bullpen before a game with Husson University in Waterville on Friday, March 31, 2017. The new turf has made early spring games a bit more manageable with the late snow in the forecast. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/sports/26/pf-media/Outdoors020copy.jpgOutdoors020copyRANGELY - MAINE 01-23-2016 Rave X rider, Travis Philpot, crashes on a trick attempt during the Rave X stunt performance during the annual Snodeo in Rangely on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016. The show drew over 3,000 people to the sleepy town for the one-hour performance. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/sports/27/pf-media/POYiPortfolio_45.JPGPOYiPortfolio_45.JPGMitch Lundquist, the driver of car 519, extinguishes his own engine fire in the midst of the consolation heat of the annual demolition derby at the Skowhegan State Fair on Friday, August 20, 2021. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/sports/28/pf-media/SPORTS028.JPGSPORTS028.JPGBELFAST, MAINE - OCTOBER 20, 2018 Hermon High School's Breaden Stevens (288), center, collapses at the finish line with Belfast High School's Eamon Goscinski (238), left, in the Class North Regional Championships in Belfast on Saturday, Oct. 20, 2018. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/sports/29/pf-media/PSES_9703189977_CalRipken_008.JPGPSES_9703189977_CalRipken_008.JPGAndy Valley's Carter Holbrook (19) reacts after hitting in to an out against Brunswick in the 11U Cal Ripken semi-finals game at Purnell Field in Waterville on Wednesday, July 24, 2019. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/sports/30/pf-media/BOPPORTFOLIO006.JPGBOPPORTFOLIO006.JPGThe Waterville Senior High School's bench cheers after a three-pointer against Hermon High School in the Class B North championship game at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor on Saturday, February 22, 2020. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/sports/31/pf-media/SPORTS003.JPGSPORTS003.JPGWATERVILLE - MAINE 02-02-2016 Waterville Senior High School's Nicholas Denis (7) facing, celebrates his period goal against Messalonskee High School with teammates as Linda Saulter celebrates in the background at Colby College in Waterville on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/sports/32/pf-media/SPORTS006.JPGSPORTS006.JPGBELFAST, ME - OCTOBER 20, 2018 Presque Isle High School's Jaron Leach (332) comforts his teammate and brother Ezra Leach (331) in the Class North Regional Championships in Belfast on Saturday, Oct. 20, 2018. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/sports/33/pf-media/LightMoment.JPGLightMoment.JPGLawrence High School's football team stand in the last rays of sunshine for the day as the National Anthem plays to kick off the first game of the 2021 football season at Lawrence High School in Fairfield on Friday, Sept. 3, 2021. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/News/thumbs https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/News/1/pf-media/Portfolio_News_0015.JPGPortfolio_News_0015.JPGRaymond, 34, shoots a mixture of fentanyl and heroin into his neck late on the night of September 10, 2022 at the homeless encampment. Ray, as his friends call him, does not want his last name identified, has been living in various homeless encampments throughout the greater Waterville area. There has been a sharp rise in IV drug use in central Maine and Fentanyl is responsible for 77 percent of the overdose deaths reported in the state since 2020. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/News/2/pf-media/PortfolioPleaVerdict.JPGPortfolioPleaVerdict.JPGTara Trujillo, mother of the late Ruben Trujillo, is comforted by her son Rudy Trujillo, as she becomes emotional during the sentencing hearing for Daniel Martinez for fatally shooting Ruben Trujillo in Judge Ellingtonâs court room in District Court in Santa Fe on Wednesday, April 9, 2025. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/News/3/pf-media/Portfolio_News_0013.JPGPortfolio_News_0013.JPGTim Emrich (cq) maintenance manager for Skowhegan Plaza, inspects the flood damage to the parking lot in Skowhegan on Monday, May 1, 2023. About thirty feet of gravel is missing from underneath the pavement making the parking susceptible to collapse. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/News/4/pf-media/SPNW_9703189977_CareContinuum_001.JPGSPNW_9703189977_CareContinuum_001.JPGChase Fabian, left, an officer with the Waterville police department and water rescue unit, left, assists a member of the fire department remove a man from the Messalonskee Stream on Sunday, August 23, 2020. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/News/5/pf-media/335320210111KingStFire001.JPG335320210111KingStFire001.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE- JANUARY 11, 2021 A firefighter from the Waterville fire department emerges from a structure on fire with a live kitten on King Street in the South End of Waterville on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2021. (Staff Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/News/6/pf-media/WebSpotNews014.JPGWebSpotNews014.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE - OCTOBER 4, 2018 Investigators with the Maine State Police and Waterville police investigators solemnly walk the body of a man found dead under the North Street railroad overpass to a waiting hearse at the scene on North Street in Waterville on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2018. The man was later identified as Anthony Kershner, 46, of Center Street in Waterville. No foul is suspected. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/News/7/pf-media/TheGoodSeats.JPGTheGoodSeats.JPGWorkers at Huhtamaki peer out of an office window as crews from Arbo's towing clear a one vehicle roll-over on College Avenue in Waterville on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018. The car apparently lost control after the mechanic working on the vehicle accelerated out of Maurice and Sons Body Shop on to College Avenue for a post work test drive with the car coming to rest on its roof next to manufacturing plant. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/News/8/pf-media/WebSpotNews003.JPGWebSpotNews003.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE - NOVEMBER 11, 2010 Laura Cobb consoles her neighbor's child, Logan Eaton, at their Spring Street apartment residence that was damaged by a fire on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2010. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/News/9/pf-media/WEBStormAccident.jpgWEBStormAccidentWATERVILLE, MAINE - FEBRUARY 28, 2023 Rescue crews from Waterville fire department and Waterville police talk to the driver, front center, of a Toyota pick-up truck who was involved in a single vehicle roll-over accident on North Street in Waterville on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. Icy and snow covered roads appeared to be the cause of the accident. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/News/10/pf-media/P_NSC_Portfolio_Review_58.JPGP_NSC_Portfolio_Review_58.JPGJanet Weeks reaches out to touch the glass of the door separating her from her mother, Jeanne Jacques, with her granddaughter Mikaela Pollard, 4, on Jacques 90th birthday at Northern Light Continuing Care Lakewood on Kennedy Memorial Drive in Waterville on Friday, March 20, 2020. The coronavirus has suspended all visitors from the facility to protect some of the most vulnerable population from the pandemic. "It's the first time in 62 years I haven't been able to embrace my mother on her birthday." https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/News/11/pf-media/PortfolioSenatorMemorial.JPGPortfolioSenatorMemorial.JPGErin Yokoi wipes tears from her eyes during a memorial for former state Sen. Bill O'Neill, D-Albuquerque, as he lies in state in the Rotunda at the Roundhouse in Santa Fe on April 24, 2025. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/News/12/pf-media/Portfolio_News_0016.JPGPortfolio_News_0016.JPGWaterville fire department Battalion Chief, Drew Corey, inspects the remnants of the bar section of the Last Unicorn that firefighters from multiple agencies as far as Augusta and Skowhegan, battled on Silver Street on Sunday, April 23, 2023. The historical building was completely destroyed but firefighters saved the adjacent buildings. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/News/13/pf-media/WebSpotNews029.JPGWebSpotNews029.JPGWaterville firefighters mop up a major fire that destroyed a local business on Drummond Street in Waterville on Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2013. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/News/14/pf-media/004A.JPG004A.JPGNEW VINYARD, MAINE - MARCH 11, 2011 Pastor Rick LeClair, clutches a painting he was able to salvage from his mother's second home at 256 Anson Valley Rd. in New Vinyard on Friday, March 11, 2011, that was nearly destroyed by fire earlier this week. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/News/15/pf-media/WebSpotNews004.JPGWebSpotNews004.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE - APRIL 14, 2011 Kathy Phelps, right, stands over Ben Duffy after he fell in to the street stopping traffic on Main Street in Waterville Thursday afternoon, April 14, 2011. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/News/16/pf-media/WebSpotNews009.JPGWebSpotNews009.JPGPhoto by Michael G. Seamans Sgt. Peter Michaud with the Maine State Police lights a cigaret for a man he just arrested on Wood Lane in Fairfield Center after a high-speed car chase that included Oakland, Fairview and Waterville Friday afternoon. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/News/17/pf-media/P_NCS_Portfolio_57.JPGP_NCS_Portfolio_57.JPGWINSLOW, MAINE - JUNE 16, 2020 Black Lives Matter protesters march down Bay Street in Winslow on Tuesday, June 16, 2020. (Morning Sentinel photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/News/18/pf-media/tornadosurvivors.JPGTORNADO CHURCH SERVICEChurch goers lay thier hands on Shad (cq) Wiekstrom and his duaghter Faith, 9, during a church service hosted by two Windsor churches diplaced by the deadly tornado on Sunday, May 25, 2008. Windsor Community Church and Church on the Ancient Path hosted the service to help people effected by the tornado. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/News/19/pf-media/10586620160416MullenFuneral009A.JPG10586620160416MullenFuneral009A.JPGOAKLAND- MAINE - 04-16-2016 Angela Mullen is comforted by her sons Dale, right, and Shawn, back, as she cries over the casket of her third son, Aaron, during his funeral services at Lighthouse Ministry in Oakland on Saturday, April 16, 2016. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/News/20/pf-media/WebSpotNews012.JPGWebSpotNews012.JPGJanice Goings, center, the mother of Devion Goings, 17, is restrained by friends at the scene where her son was shot and killed at the bus stop on Sail Drive in Baton Rouge, La., Friday, March 2, 2007. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/News/21/pf-media/WebSpotNews020.JPGWebSpotNews020.JPGFAIRFIELD, MAINE - MARCH 22, 2012 Sunglasses and hair remains on the windshield of a white Dodge minivan that hit Melody Leary, 56, of Fairfield as she tried to cross Western Avenue in Fairfield on Thursday, March 22, 2012. Leary suffered a concussion, rib fracture, laceration to her liver, fractured pelvis and a fracture in one of her vertebrae, Fairfield police Officer Shanna Blodgett said. "There is no brain damage, so far, that they can confirm and she's in ICU at Central Maine Medical Center in stable condition, which is very good," Blodgett said Friday. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/News/22/pf-media/WebSpotNews019.JPGWebSpotNews019.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE - SEPTEMBER 30, 2014 Only boots were left behind after a woman jumped to her death from Carter Memorial Bridge on the Winslow and Waterville town line on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/News/23/pf-media/008.JPG008.JPGDENVER, COLORADO - NOVEMBER 8, 2005 Marines from the A Battery and MACS 23, Buckley Air Force Base, Aurora, Colo., prepare to remove the remains of fellow Marine, Lance Cpl. Jeremy Tamburelloâs coffin from the horse-drawn caisson at Fort Logan National Cemetery in Denver, Colo., Thursday, November 17, 2006. Lance Cpl. Tamburello died from injuries sustained from an Improvised explosive device during combat operations outside of Rutbah, Iraq on November 8, 2005. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Motion/The-Long-Goodbye/thumbs https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Motion/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/thumbs https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Feature/thumbs https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Feature/1/pf-media/EDITORIAL030.JPGEDITORIAL030.JPGJanet Rivira cools off with her child, Devon, 3, in the water spray at Castonguay Square in Waterville on Thursday, July 19, 2018. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Feature/2/pf-media/PortfolioStateHouseRotunda.JPGPortfolioStateHouseRotunda.JPGThe last two people walk through the Rotunda at the Roundhouse state capitol in Santa Fe on Thursday, March 20, 2025 after the end of the legislative session. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Feature/3/pf-media/PortfolioSantuariodeChimayoPilgrimage_010.JPGPortfolioSantuariodeChimayoPilgrimage_010.JPGMonks carrying a statute of Jesus Christ place it in a place for prayer at Santuario de Chimayo on Friday, April 18, 2025. Statues of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary were walked through the holy grounds to their place of worship. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Feature/4/pf-media/PortfolioAlewives.JPGPortfolioAlewives.JPGBENTON, MAINE - MAY 25, 2024 Fisherman net alewives from the Sebasticook Stream in Benton, Maine on May 25, 2024 to sold as bait for lobster fishing (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Feature/5/pf-media/CanoeniverseSingle.jpgCanoeniverseSingleJerry Roberts and Hunter Smith paddle their canoe through sufocants of decaying material on the surface of the Kennebec River in Waterville on Sunday, June 6, 2021. The foam, or sufocant, is from decaying materials like insects and leaves bubbling to the surface of the water. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Feature/6/pf-media/POYiPortfolio_35.JPGPOYiPortfolio_35.JPGA cowboy waits with the bulls during PBR Velocity Tour rodeo competition at the Cross Insurance Center on Friday, July 23, 2021. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Feature/7/pf-media/Portfolio_Feature_0019.JPGPortfolio_Feature_0019.JPGOwen Libby, 8, rides the mechanical bull at the Skowhegan State Fair in Skowhegan, Maine on Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. Libby made it 8 seconds before leaving the bull on his own terms. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Feature/8/pf-media/PortfolioBurrowRaces.JPGPortfolioBurrowRaces.JPGJessica Carranza, hugs her donkey, Mugshot, after competing the annual burro races in Cerrillos on Saturday, May 3, 2025. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Feature/9/pf-media/Portfolio_Feature_0018.JPGPortfolio_Feature_0018.JPGHunter Willett dives into the Messalonskee Stream at the bridge connecting Mayflower Hill Drive and Gilman Street in Waterville on Thursday, July 6, 2023. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Feature/10/pf-media/DSC_2038.JPGDSC_2038.JPGKOIDU CITY, SIERRA LEONE - JULY 21, 2011 A bar tender slings beers for the locals from underneath the trademark red light at the Red Light Bar in Koidu City, Sierra, on July 21, 2011. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Feature/11/pf-media/FTSG_9703189977_ForceReading.JPGForce ReadingChristina Dorman, a STEM librarian at the Maine State Library, browses the fiction section at the Waterville Public Library on Tuesday, May 4, 2021 dressed as a Storm Trooper to honor the auspicious date for Star Wars fans. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Feature/12/pf-media/WebPortrait016.JPGWebPortrait016.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE - AUGUST 16, 2012 Bradford Russell walks through the parking lot at Railroad Cinema in pouring rain Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012. Russell noted it could be worse. "I'd be really wet if I didn't find this perfectly good plastic bag." https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Feature/13/pf-media/EDITORIAL022.JPGEDITORIAL022.JPGJanet White, center, instructs husband Jeff White,left, and son Rusty Wing,14, right, on the interior decor as the family moves in to their new apartment on King Street in Waterville. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Feature/14/pf-media/WebEbola019.JPGWebEbola019.JPGKONO DISTRICT - SIERRA LEONE 04-02-2015 Only 48 hours after giving birth to twin boys, Salome Kamara is back to work at home preparing a rice and cassava dinner for the family of six in Dorma Village in Sierra Leone's rural Kono District on April 2, 2015. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Feature/15/pf-media/BOPPORTFOLIO005.JPGBOPPORTFOLIO005.JPGAiden McGinty, 13, left, and Xavier Rodriguez, 14, right, each do a flip in to the Kennebec River from the pedestrian bridge in Skowhegan on Friday, September 11, 2020. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Feature/16/pf-media/BackyardHockey.JPGBackyardHockey.JPGBENTON, MAINE - DECEMBER 24, 2019 Landen Parker works on his hockey skills in the front yard of his family's home on Falls Road in Benton on Tuesday, December 24, 2019. (Morning Sentinel photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Feature/17/pf-media/NCS_Portfolio_08.JPGNCS_Portfolio_08.JPGA young child named Maggie, 4, climbs a mound of man-made snow at Quarry Road Trails in Waterville on Dec.16, 2020. Quarry Road Trails is the only nordic center in Maine with snow. The unseasonable weather has left much of Maine bare of snow. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Feature/18/pf-media/international009.JPGinternational009.JPGFREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE - APRIL 5, 2015 A young boy walks the rocky shoreline in the Aberdeen District of Freetown, Sierra Leone on April 5, 2015. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Feature/19/pf-media/international014.JPGinternational014.JPGHAVANA , CUBA - MARCH 8, 2017 A classic car glides down Neptuno Street in Old Havana on Wednesday, March 8, 2017. Classico autos are the trade mark sight for tourists visiting Cuba. Although, many Cubans who own these classic autos tend to pay more to keep them on the road. As well as a special permit to be a taxi. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Feature/20/pf-media/EDITORIAL017.JPGEDITORIAL017.JPGTORONTO, ONTARIO - CANADA - MAY 1, 2017 A diver cleans the alewives tank during her shift at Ripley's Aquarium of Canada on Monday, May 1, 2017. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Feature/21/pf-media/DinosaurJunior.JPGHead GamesAmber Steston, 12, left, gestures to her mother Allie, right, as they trick-or-treat on Burliegh Street in Waterville on Thursday, October 31, 2019. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Feature/22/pf-media/EDITORIAL028.JPGEDITORIAL028.JPGBENTON, MAINE - MAY 27, 2017 Jen Durgin picks weeds from the rice paddy as her six-month-old daughter, Aila Durgin Camara, rests on her back at The Wild Fork Farm in Benton on Saturday, May 27, 2017. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Feature/23/pf-media/EDITORIAL002.JPGEDITORIAL002.JPGConnor Tulley, 17, of Fairfield, handles milking cows on the industrial revolving milking machine at Flood Brothers Farm on River Road in Clinton on Wednesday Sept. 27, 2012. Farmers across the state are anxiously awaiting a resolution on the so-called Farm Bill, which was stalled in Congress during the last session and won't be be addressed until a lame-duck session after the election, or in January, after new lawmakers are sworn in. (Published Sept. 30, 2012) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/The-Wilds/thumbs https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/The-Wilds/1/pf-media/Outdoors019.JPGOutdoors019.JPGOURAY, COLORADO - JULY 4, 2012 Chad Jukes, of Ouray, CO., traverses the southwest ridge of Mt. Sneffles in the San Juan Mountains in southwest Colorado. Jukes, who lost his right leg below the knee after his Army unit was hit by an IED while on patrol near Baghdad in 2007. Jukes has since become an ambassador for Paradox Sports, a non-profit organization that helps amputees realize their outdoor dreams. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/The-Wilds/2/pf-media/Outdoors021.JPGOutdoors021.JPGBAXTER STATE PARK, MAINE - JUNE 23, 2013 A hiker cautiously navigates the Knife's Edge on Mt. Katahdin in northern Maine on June 23, 2013. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/The-Wilds/3/pf-media/Outdoors009.JPGOutdoors009.JPGQUEBEC CITY, QUEBEC - DECEMBER 27, 2017 A pair of climbers climb the giant ice dome formed at the base of the impressively large Montmorency Falls in Quebec on Dec. 27, 2017. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/The-Wilds/4/pf-media/MoosesTooth022.JPGMoosesTooth022.JPGRUTH GORGE, ALASKA - MAY 8, 2010 A skier takes advantage of the fresh powder as climbers wait for a safe window to climb the Mooses Tooth in the Alaska Range on May 8, 2010. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/The-Wilds/5/pf-media/Outdoors006.JPGOutdoors006.JPGOURAY, COLORADO - MARCH 10, 2010 Mark Miller hits the crux of an overhanging dagger on a mixed climbing line in the Ouray Ice Park in Ouray, Co., on March 10, 2010. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/The-Wilds/6/pf-media/Outdoors011.JPGOutdoors011.JPGBAR HARBOR, MAINE - JUNE 6, 2016 Chris Pyun, of Bartlett, N.H. leaps over the gap between a rock tower and Otter Cliffs during a day of rock climbing at Acadia National Park, in Bar Harbor, Maine on Monday, June 6, 2016. Acadia National Park is home to some of the best coastal rock climbing in North America. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/The-Wilds/7/pf-media/Outdoors003.JPGOutdoors003.JPGOURAY, COLORADO - JANUARY 8, 2010 Mark Miller tops out in the Ouray Ice Park finishing the free solo of Tangled Up In Blue in Ouray, Co., on Jan. 8, 2010. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/The-Wilds/8/pf-media/Outdoors007.JPGOutdoors007.JPGCAMDEN, MAINE - JANUARY 8, 2018 Ryan Howes, pulls through the 120 degree overhanging ice and rock ice climbing route at Barrett's Cove in Camden Hills State Park, Camden, Maine on Monday, Jan. 8, 2018. Thanks to an unusually wet autumn and a below average month-log cold snap with temperatures consistently below zero degrees fahrenheit created the unusual conditions to form this small ice blob that has not been seen in at least 25 years. Howes is a one in a million climbers with the technical skills and strength to climb such a challenging route that has never before been attempted. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/The-Wilds/9/pf-media/Outdoors005.JPGOutdoors005.JPGOURAY, COLORADO - MARCH 9, 2010 Chad Jukes leads through the confines of an ice chimney as he ice climbs in the Ouray Ice Park in Ouray, Co., on March 9, 2010. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/The-Wilds/10/pf-media/CARD1ALASKA0164.JPGCARD1ALASKA0164.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/The-Wilds/11/pf-media/Outdoors004.JPGOutdoors004.JPGJACKSON, NH - FEBRUARY 20, 2012 A climber who only wanted to be identified as Lou, descends the summit ridge of Mt. Washington in sustained 88mph winds with a negative 62 degrees fahrenheit on President's Day, Monday, Feb. 20, 2012. Climbers make the annual pilgrimage up the mountain that boasts the worst weather in the world named after the nation's first president to celebrate President's Day. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/The-Wilds/12/pf-media/Outdoors008.JPGOutdoors008.JPGQUEBEC CITY, QUEBEC - 01-31-2016 A climber picks his way up a frozen section f the 275 foot-high Montmorency Falls in Quebec, Canada, on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/The-Wilds/13/pf-media/ThunderHole1.JPGThunderHole1.JPGAshlee Stradtman and Justin Downs brace themselves as a wave crashes in to Thunder Hole at Acadia National Park in Bar Harbor on Sunday. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/The-Wilds/14/pf-media/Outdoors020.JPGOutdoors020.JPGOURAY, COLORADO - JULY 4, 2012 Climbers walk the Blue Saddle on Mt. Sneffles in the San Juan mountain range between Ouray and Telluride, Colorado on July 4, 2012. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/The-Wilds/15/pf-media/Outdoors022.JPGOutdoors022.JPGCALAVERAS, CA. - AUGUST 5, 2017 A hiker dips her head in Beaver Creek during a day of exploration at Calaveras Big Trees State Park near Arnold, Ca., on Aug. 5, 2017. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/The-Wilds/16/pf-media/Outdoors017.JPGOutdoors017.JPGLONGMONT, COLORADO - APRIL 9, 2010 Chad Jukes relaxes by the fire with a beer after a day of climbing at the Flatirons in Boulder, Co., on April 9, 2010. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/The-Wilds/17/pf-media/Outdoors002.JPGOutdoors002.JPGCALAVERAS, CA. - AUGUST 5, 2017 A student with Apogee Adventures stands inside a giant Sequoia tree at Calaveras Big Trees State Park on Aug. 5, 2017. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/The-Wilds/18/pf-media/Outdoors016.JPGOutdoors016.JPGBAXTER STATE PARK, MAINE - JUNE 27, 2016 A deer hangs out in camp at the Roaring Brook campground in Baxter State Park as dinner is prepared on June 27, 2016. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/The-Wilds/19/pf-media/06102019_MoBeck_AcadiaClimbing_002.JPG06102019_MoBeck_AcadiaClimbing_002.JPGMaureen Beck rappels down the famous Otter Cliffs above the Atlantic Ocean at Acadia National Park on Monday, June 10, 2019. Beck, a world champion para-climber and 2018 National Geographic Athlete of the Year will be competing in the IFSC Paraclimbing World Championships in Brandon, France in July. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/The-Wilds/20/pf-media/FTSG_9703189977_OspreyFishing.JPGFTSG_9703189977_OspreyFishing.JPGBENTON, ME - MAY 15, 2019 An Osprey plucks an alewife from the waters of the Sebasticook River in Benton as the alewives make their annual run up river on May 15, 2019. The Sebasticook River has become one of the largest concentrations of birds of prey in the lower 48 states. A testament to the improved river health. (Morning Sentinel photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/The-Wilds/21/pf-media/WebOutdoors30.JPGWebOutdoors30.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/The-Wilds/22/pf-media/Outdoors012.JPGOutdoors012.JPGCHATHAM, NH - AUGUST 6, 2012 The night sky and Milky Way hover over a bevy on the summit of Bald Face Mountain in Evans Notch, NH on Aug. 6, 2012. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Portrait/thumbs https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Portrait/1/pf-media/WebOverview023.JPGInternational-WebOverview023.JPGKONO DISTRICT, SIERRA LEONE MARCH 30, 2014 A child cries as he waits to see a traditional healer as fears of going to the hospital rise with the spread of the Ebola virus in Koivu City, Sierra Leone. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Portrait/2/pf-media/Ukraine_Refugee.jpgUkraine_RefugeeMYKOLAIV, UKRAINE MARCH 27, 2022 Luda Maygyr peers out of the Team Humanity evacuation bus to her husband who has to stay behind as other families say goodbye to their fathers, brothers and boyfriends as they board a bus to evacuate Mykolaiv, Ukraine run b Team Humanity on Sunday, March 27, 2022. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center/USA Today) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Portrait/3/pf-media/Firefighters.JPGFirefighters.JPGDavid Jones, fire chief for the Norridgewock fire department, stands for a portrait at the department in Norridgewock on Wednesday, February 26, 2020. Jones is requesting $50 thousand from the town of Norridgewock to hire two more firefighters to cover the region. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Portrait/4/pf-media/EDITORIAL001.JPGEDITORIAL001.JPGChase Foss, 9, left, stands with the rare doe with a four-point rack of antlers at his home in New Sharon on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018. Foss bagged the deer, his first ever, on his first day of hunting on Monday with his father, Daniel Foss near their home in New Sharon. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Portrait/5/pf-media/WebPortrait008.JPGWebPortrait008.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE - MARCH 3, 2011 Junot Diaz, whose 2008 book âThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Waoâ won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, spoke Thursday night, March 3, 2011, to a packed audience at Colby Collegeâs Lorimer Chapel in Waterville on March 3, 2011. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Portrait/6/pf-media/WebPortrait015.JPGWebPortrait015.JPGStaff photo by Michael G. Seamans Father JJacques Dolbec performs a special mass for the election of the pope at the Servants of the Blessed Sacrament on Silver Street in Waterville Wednesday. Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, from Argentina was elected making him the first Jesuit and South American to be pope. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Portrait/7/pf-media/WebPortrait004.JPGWebPortrait004.JPGPhoto by Michael G. Seamans Richard Moreau, holds a picture of his daughter, Kimberly Ann Moreau, at his home in Jay recently. Kimberly Ann has been missing since 1986. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Portrait/8/pf-media/WebPortrait011.JPGWebPortrait011.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Portrait/9/pf-media/WebPortrait007.JPGWebPortrait007.JPGStaff photo by Michael G. Seamans Chuck Lakin, 67, stands inside one of his hand-made coffins in his workshop in the basement of his Waterville residence on Saturday. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Portrait/10/pf-media/WebPortrait003.JPGWebPortrait003.JPGHOLDEN, ME - JANUARY 26, 2018 Richard Sukeforth sits for a portrait at his daughter's mobil home in Holden on Friday, Jan. 26, 2018. Sukeforth has been living with his daughter since he was evicted from home in 2015. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Portrait/11/pf-media/WebPortrait006.JPGWebPortrait006.JPGDORMA VILLAGE - SIERRA LEONE 03-27-2015 Sembu, a local witch gun maker, sits in his home in the village on Dorma in Kono District, Sierra Leone, on Friday, March 27, 2015. With guns are used for a variety of purposes, some good, some bad. This with gun was made to cast a curse on a person. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Portrait/12/pf-media/MaroniteWorship007.JPGMaroniteWorship007.JPGDaja Gombojav prays with her family during Easter service at St. Joseph's Maronite Church in Waterville on Sunday, April 12, 2020. Worship restrictions are in place to curb the coronavirus infection numbers. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Portrait/13/pf-media/international025.JPGinternational025.JPGGBENSE CHIEFDON, SIERRA LEONE - DEC. 12, 2014 A woman mashes cassava leaves at her home in Gbense Chiefdom, Sierra leone on Dec. 12, 2014. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Portrait/14/pf-media/WebPortrait010.JPGWebPortrait010.JPGStaff photo by Michael G. Seamans PROSTHESIS ART: Maeve-Wolf O'Reily, 21, a sculpture student at the University of Maine at Farmington, tries on her prosthetic creation titled "Flights of Fantasy" during the exhibition set-up at the Emery Arts Center at UMF on Wednesday. O'Reiley used over 700 feathers and spect over two weeks creating the winged prosthesis. Sculpture students were challenged to create a prosthesis to overcome their own personal limitations. The exhibition of these creations will be opening Thursday evening. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Portrait/15/pf-media/international015.JPGinternational015.JPGVINNALES, CUBA - MARCH 10, 2017 A tobacco farmer lights up a freshly rolled Montecristo cigar at the farm it was grown on in the heart of Vinales Valley, Cuba on March 10, 2017. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Portrait/16/pf-media/WebPortrait001.JPGWebPortrait001.JPGMartin Lane stands with his dairy cows at his farm, Shady Lane Farm, in New Vineyard on Wednesday, April 4, 2018. Lane witnessed the bull escape and subsequent killing after it escaped from a transport trailer. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Portrait/17/pf-media/WebPortrait012.JPGWebPortrait012.JPGStaff photo by Michael G. Seamans Members of the Mercer Meeting House restoration committee, from left to right, front row Linda Quinby, President, Marlene Redlevske, Treasurer, middle row, left to right, Ina Rilay, Jane Perrault, Kaylee and Amy Tibbetts, Vice President, Bill True, back row, left to right, Bev Bulmer, Francis Fenton and Carol Gilbert pose for a portrait in the Mercer Meeting House in Mercer Thursday evening. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Portrait/18/pf-media/EDITORIAL019.JPGEDITORIAL019.JPGHARMONY, MAINE - AUGUST 25, 2018 Hannah Fairlight, left, and Raelyn Nelson, of mmhmm band, practice back stage at the 28th Hempstock Festival in Harmony on Saturday, Aug. 25, 2018. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/PORTFOLIO/Portrait/19/pf-media/WebPortrait002.JPGWebPortrait002.JPGStaff photo by Michael G. Seamans Phil Mattingly stands above one of his unique and daunting hazards at Diadema Golf Club in North Anson on Thursday, June 12, 2014. If a golfer ends up in the sand trap, the only way out is on the sides or to hit the ball away from the green. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/BIO/1 https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Sarah's-Saga/thumbs https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Sarah's-Saga/1 https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Sarah's-Saga/2/pf-media/SarahsSaga_02.JPGSarahsSaga_02.JPGSarah Wallingford, 31, right, helps inject a rig of heroin and fentanyl into the arm of her fiancé, Charles âChazâ Perri, 50, at the homeless encampment in Waterville, Maine on November 9, 2022. The couple have more of a business relationship than a romantic one. The two are heavy drug users with no family between the two of them. What they have they share. Chaz has been suffering from serious health issues and is often away from the camp and in the hospital for treatment of a heart condition from a three-month battle with Covid-19 earlier in the year. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Sarah's-Saga/3/pf-media/SarahsSaga_03.JPGSarahsSaga_03.JPGSarah Wallingford, 31, and her fiancé, Charles âChazâ Perri, 50, smoke meth by the campfire at the homeless encampment on the island along the banks of the Kennebec River in the South End of Waterville, Maine on September 17, 2022. Wallingford and Perri were evicted from their apartment after missing three months of rent while Perri was in the hospital with complications from Covid-19 which required open heart surgery. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Sarah's-Saga/4/pf-media/SarahsStruggle_03.1.JPGSarahsStruggle_03.1.JPGSarah Wallingford, 31, begins to lose consciousness by the camp fire after shooting up a mixture of heroin and fentanyl at the homeless encampment on the island in the South End of Waterville, Maine on September 17, 2022. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Sarah's-Saga/5/pf-media/SarahsSaga_04.JPGSarahsSaga_04.JPGSarah Wallingford, 31, stands among the campfire smoke as she prepares breakfast in the homeless encampment she calls home on the island along the banks of the Kennebec River in the South End of Waterville, Maine on Wednesday, September 7, 2022. Overdose deaths in Maine have doubled since 2020 with Fentanyl accounting for 77 percent of those deaths. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Sarah's-Saga/6/pf-media/SarahsSaga_05.JPGSarahsSaga_05.JPGSarah Wallingford eats an old tuna fish sandwich she found discarded in a Cumberland Farms dumpster in her tent on the island in Waterville, Maine with her friend Sara Juliano on September 6, 2022. âThis tuna smells funny.â She said. Wallingfordâs fiancé is once again back in the hospital. Since his bout with Covid-19 he has suffered from major heart problems. His poor health means Wallingford needs to fend for herself on the streets. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Sarah's-Saga/7/pf-media/SarahsSaga_06.JPGSarahsSaga_06.JPGSarah Wallingford prepares to shoot heroin and fentanyl into her arm while hanging out with her friend Sara Juliano at her tent on the island on the Kennebec River in Waterville, Maine on September 15, 2022. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Sarah's-Saga/8/pf-media/SarahsSaga_07.JPGSarahsSaga_07.JPGSarah Wallingford walks her bike along the nature trail that has become a homeless encampment for several people since the beginning of the summer in Waterville, Maine on September 9, 2022. Her bike, the only source of transportation, will likely take her to the soup kitchen and then her drug dealerâs apartment. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Sarah's-Saga/9/pf-media/SarahsSaga_08.JPGSarahsSaga_08.JPGSarah Wallingford smokes crystal meth by headlamp during a night at the homeless encampment on the island on the Kennebec River near the south end of Waterville, Maine on November 6, 2022. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Sarah's-Saga/10/pf-media/SarahsSaga_09.JPGSarahsSaga_09.JPGSarah Wallingford is arrested on an outstanding warrant for missing a court appearance at her tent on the island in the southend of Waterville on Tuesday, September 27, 2022. Police presence has become nearly nightly. Sometimes the police walk through to check on people, other nights they make arrests when warrants are filed. Most arrests are for missing a court appearance for petty theft and shoplifting charges. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Sarah's-Saga/11/pf-media/SarahsSaga_10.JPGSarahsSaga_10.JPGSarah Wallingford, still clad in her Maine General Medical Center issued clothes from her previous dayâs overdose, starts to scream after using heroin and fentanyl at the encampment on Friday, September 9, 2022. Wallingford nearly died at the encampment the day prior when she overdosed on the same mixture of drugs. She just injected the wrong ârigâ and is beginning to overdose. She just consumed enough drugs for a 240 pound man. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Sarah's-Saga/12/pf-media/SarahsSaga_11.JPGSarahsSaga_11.JPGSarah Wallingford, 31, lies face down in the dirt after overdosing on a combination of heroin and fentanyl at the encampment just a day after overdosing and requiring Narcan and EMS intervention on Friday, September 9, 2022. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Sarah's-Saga/13/pf-media/SarahsSaga_12.JPGSarahsSaga_12.JPGAmanda Frasier, 35, grabs Sarah Wallingford, 31, by the face as she tries to keep Wallingford awake after using heroin and fentanyl at the encampment just a day after overdosing and requiring Narcan and EMS intervention on Friday, September 9, 2022. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Sarah's-Saga/14/pf-media/SarahsSaga_13.JPGSarahsSaga_13.JPGSarah Wallingford is held by campmate, Amanda Frasier, while she begins to lose consciousness after shooting heroin mixed with fentanyl at the encampment just a day after overdosing and requiring Narcan and EMS intervention on Friday, September 9, 2022. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Sarah's-Saga/15/pf-media/SarahsSaga_14.JPGSarahsSaga_14.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE-SEPTEMBER 8, 2022 Sarah Wallingford, 31, overdoses on heroin at a campsite shared by several homeless addicts as officers from the Waterville police and fire departments treat her on Thursday, September 8, 2022. Wallingfordâs life was saved by tent mate, Amanda Frasier. Frasier, also a homeless addict, performed CPR and administered 3 doses of Narcan moments before rescue services arrived. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Sarah's-Saga/16/pf-media/SarahsSaga_15.JPGSarahsSaga_15.JPGSarah Wallingford cries as she looks to her frozen fingers during the first snowfall of the winter season at the homeless encampment on the island in Waterville on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. Warming centers are filled to capacity. The overnight shelters are also packed to capacity. And for people like Wallingford, her drug addiction prevents her from joining the confines of the shelter if it interferes with her drug use. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Sarah's-Saga/17/pf-media/SarahsSaga_16.JPGSarahsSaga_16.JPGSarah Wallingford, 31, in a hypothermic condition, cries in pain from both the cold and a burn on her hand from trying to build fire to survive the night in the unattended tent on the Kennebec Trail below the Hathaway Center in the south end of Waterville on Thursday, December 1, 2022. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Sarah's-Saga/18/pf-media/SarahsSaga_17.JPGSarahsSaga_17.JPGSara Wallingford, 31, walks through the falling snow wrapped in a blanket to her friendâs tent that is equipped with a propane heater at the homeless encampment on the Kennebec River Trail in Waterville on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Homeless-to-Hope/thumbs https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Homeless-to-Hope/1 https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Homeless-to-Hope/2/pf-media/HomelessToHope_02.JPGHomelessToHope_02.JPGâFrom Homeless to Hopeâ Evicted from their apartment after a disagreement with their landlord following burst pipes, Shawn Stanford and Amanda Frasier joined a small encampment in the summer of 2022, on an island in the Kennebec River in Waterville, Maine. It was close to the restaurant where Stanford worked washing dishes, and to the social services offices. Their situation is representative of the working homeless â people earning a paycheck, but not enough to cover housing. It also coincided with an unprecedented housing crunch, and a spike in homelessness and drug use in Maine following the COVID-19 pandemic. As of Jan. 2022, more than 4,400 people in the state were homeless on a nightly basis, a sharp increase from 2021. Shawn often earned as little as $300 per week. That quickly went for food, propane for heat, and gas for a friend who helped with rides. Amanda stayed at the encampment to guard their belongings while Shawn was at work, and she helped care for another homeless woman who frequently overdosed. Occasionally, she went through area dumpsters looking for anything useful - clothing, food, etc., to contribute what she could. As winter set in, the challenges added up, staying warm chief among them. During one particularly harsh winter storm, the city paid for Shawn and Amanda to stay a few days at a local motel over Christmas. They found a temporary solution to homelessness at his motherâs house and finally have hope for the future. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Homeless-to-Hope/3/pf-media/HomelessToHope_03.JPGHomelessToHope_03.JPGShawn Stanford and his girlfriend, Amanda Frasier, lie in bed in their tent as they recover from cotton fever at the homeless encampment in Waterville, Maine on September 16, 2022. Cotton fever is an illness that is prevalent among IV drug users. It happens when fiber from cotton ball used to purify the drug that is being prepared for injection, makes into the needle and enters the bloodstream when injecting the drug. âIt feels like your bones are ice.â Said Frasier as she described the feeling. âItâs so painful. I canât drink water. Itâs too cold. It hurts.â https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Homeless-to-Hope/4/pf-media/HomelessToHope_04.JPGHomelessToHope_04.JPGShawn Stanford works to fix a used generator at the encampment on the island in the south end of Waterville, Maine on Sunday, September 11, 2022. The camp is filling out as Frasier and Stanford also offer tent space to new arrivals to the island. They never turn away from helping another person suffering their same fate. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Homeless-to-Hope/5/pf-media/HomelessToHope_05.JPGHomelessToHope_05.JPGShawn Stanford holds his head as he battles a viral infection while living at the homeless encampment on the island on the Kennebec River in Waterville, Maine on Wednesday, September 7, 2022. Poor nutrition and the lack of sanitary living conditions pre-disposes the homeless to more issues than just being homeless. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Homeless-to-Hope/6/pf-media/HomelessToHope_06.JPGHomelessToHope_06.JPGShawn Stanford kisses his girlfriend Amanda Frasier upon his return from to work to the homeless encampment on the island along the banks of the Kennebec River near downtown Waterville, Maine on September 7, 2022. With Stanford home from work, Frasier can now leave camp and hit the local dumpsters in search of food and clothes. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Homeless-to-Hope/7/pf-media/HomelessToHope_07.JPGHomelessToHope_07.JPGAmanda Frasier, right, sifts through the dumpster behind T.J Max in Waterville on Wednesday, September 7, 2022. Frasier watches the camp during the afternoon and evening hours while her boyfriend Shawn is at work she utilizes the quiet of night to look for usable items for everyday life. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Homeless-to-Hope/8/pf-media/HomelessToHope_08.JPGHomelessToHope_08.JPGAmanda Frasier, 38, walks behind Hannafordâs grocery store with wagon in search of food for her and her boyfriend in Waterville, Maine on Wednesday, September 7, 2022. Any way to offset the cost of living for items like unspoiled food and clothing can help Stanfordâs small check from washing dishes go even further for the couple. Even though they donât have rent to pay at the moment, their living needs have changed that requires money. tImes like sleeping bags and tents to a propane heater and the fuel needed daily to run it. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Homeless-to-Hope/9/pf-media/HomelessToHope_09.JPGHomelessToHope_09.JPGAmanda Frasier, 38, smokes meth as she prepares to evacuate her campsite as flood waters begin to rise on October 17, 2022. Heavy rains have flooded the small island in recent days forcing the homeless encampment to seek higher ground. Only a single footbridge connects the island that is tucked along the Kennebec River often floods. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Homeless-to-Hope/10/pf-media/HomelessToHope_10.JPGHomelessToHope_10.JPGAmanda Frasier, 38, becomes emotional as she grapples with life in a tent on at the homeless encampment on the island in the south end of Waterville on Thursday, September 22, 2022. After nearly two months living in a tent with rain every other day, sheâs reached her breaking point. But no end is in sight. Apartments are not available and the couple can barely save enough money to eat each week right now. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Homeless-to-Hope/11/pf-media/HomelessToHope_11.JPGHomelessToHope_11.JPGShawn Stanford wipes sweat from his brow as he works at 18-Below Raw Bar in Waterville on November 14, 2022. A 2021 study by the University of Chicago found that 53% of people under the age of 65 who were living in homeless shelters in 2010 were employed either full- or part-time. The percentage dropped in earlier years but still showed that from 2011 to 2018 an average of 39% of sheltered homeless had worked during the previous year. Meanwhile, 40% of unsheltered people were employed in 2010, the study found. It is difficult to track the number of working homeless in Maine and nationally â the University of Chicago constructed its own dataset of the entire U.S. homeless population while incorporating individual-level government benefits and tax records. But the study still provides an understanding of the headwinds facing the homeless who are collecting a wage. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Homeless-to-Hope/12/pf-media/HomelessToHope_12.JPGHomelessToHope_12.JPGShawn Stanford cleans the coolers as he works his shift at 18-Below Raw Bar in Waterville on November 14, 2022. Chris Kilmurry, executive director of the Lewiston Housing Authority, noted that life can be hard even when one has resources. So imagine how difficult it can be if basic needs like a roof over your head and food were suddenly out of reach, he said. âI think the perception that someone experiencing homelessness doesnât work or try to help themselves is extremely off base,â Kilmurry said. âFrom what we see, no one wants to be homeless. The people who come to us at Lewiston Housing are trying to find a way out of homelessness. One of the biggest issues is there is not enough housing in Maine, and without an adequate housing supply, we will never be able to solve this problem.â https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Homeless-to-Hope/13/pf-media/HomelessToHope_13.JPGHomelessToHope_13.JPGShawn Stanford smokes crystal meth in his tent after a day of work at the encampment on the island on Tuesday, September 6, 2022. Stanford had been living clean for nearly five years until the pandemic hit. âI hadnât used in a long time. I was proud of myself. Then I lost my job during the pandemic and started using again.â He said. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Homeless-to-Hope/14/pf-media/HomelessToHope_14.JPGHomelessToHope_14.JPGShawn Stanford, 38, changes his clothes in his tent at the new homeless encampment on the island below the Hathaway Creative Center in the south end of Waterville on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022. Although they are homeless they try to keep their tent and living space as home0like as possible. âItâs important to me that we have some sort of normalcy while living here.â Said Stanford. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Homeless-to-Hope/15/pf-media/HomelessToHope_15.JPGHomelessToHope_15.JPGShawn Stanford washes his hands in the Kennebec River after finishing a load of dishes at the homeless encampment in the south end of Waterville, Maine on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Homeless-to-Hope/16/pf-media/HomelessToHope_16.JPGHomelessToHope_16.JPGShawn Stanford hauls a shopping cart full of dishes to the bank of the Kennebec River where he, his girlfriend Amanda Frasier, and encampment mates Ryan Sirois and Sara Juliano on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022. He and other residents of the homeless encampment often use the river to do laundry, dishes and bath. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Homeless-to-Hope/17/pf-media/HomelessToHope_17.JPGHomelessToHope_17.JPGAmanda Frasier holds her foot up to stop her boyfriend, Shawn Stanford, from crossing the bridge to the island on the Kennebec River that has become a homeless encampment for several folks in the south end of Waterville, Maine on Monday, September 12, 2022. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Homeless-to-Hope/18/pf-media/HomelessToHope_18.JPGHomelessToHope_18.JPGShawn Stanford walks across the intersection of Spring Street and Main Street with the brand new Lockwood Hotel in the background as he makes his way a mile to the park to fill his water jugs with potable water in Waterville on Monday, September 12, 2022. Waterville has undergone a major downtown revitalization effort that has brought several millions of dollars in development to Main Street. Among those projects includes rehabilitating an old textile mill to be affordable housing. It is the only project that has been put on hold since the pandemic began nearly two years ago. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Homeless-to-Hope/19/pf-media/HomelessToHope_19.JPGHomelessToHope_19.JPGShawn Stanford sips water from the hand pump water fountains at Head of Falls in Waterville on Monday, September 12, 2022. Stanford and Frasier routinely fetch water in five-gallon jugs at the local water source to use for drinking water and cooking. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Homeless-to-Hope/20/pf-media/HomelessToHope_20.JPGHomelessToHope_20.JPGAmanda Frasier smokes crystal meth at the encampment on the island in the south end of Waterville on Monday, September 12, 2022. The former nursing assistant had been sober for nearly five years until she was evicted from her apartment in June. She lost three months of paid rent. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Homeless-to-Hope/21/pf-media/HomelessToHope_21.JPGHomelessToHope_21.JPGA frying pan from the campsite of Frasier and Stanford floats in the flood water that displaced the couple the night before on the island on October 14, 2022. The threat of removal from their encampment comes in many forms. It could be the police. It could be the property owner. Or, in this case, it could be a weather event. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Homeless-to-Hope/22/pf-media/HomelessToHope_22.JPGHomelessToHope_22.JPGShawn Stanford lets his left foot breathe after spending the night battling flood waters in the camp at the island to the south end in Waterville just below the Hathaway Creative Center on October 14, 2022. âIt hurts like hell, man.â Said Stanford referring to his trench foot. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Homeless-to-Hope/23/pf-media/HomelessToHope_23.JPGHomelessToHope_23.JPGShawn Stanford walks through the rain towards a waiting ride to get fuel for his propane heater at the tent encampment in Waterville on Wednesday, November 1, 2022. His paycheck is now providing less for the couple than in the summer months. The price of fuel sucks nearly $50 out of his pocket every other day making his $300 paycheck disappear quickly. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Homeless-to-Hope/24/pf-media/HomelessToHope_24.JPGHomelessToHope_24.JPGShawn Stanford wipes down the bar as he works during his shift at 18-Below in Waterville, Maine on Saturday, September 9, 2022. Stanford makes $12.75 an hour and works between 30 and 35 hours a week. After taxes he brings home around $300 a week to keep him and his girlfriend warm, dry and fed. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Homeless-to-Hope/25/pf-media/HomelessToHope_25.JPGHomelessToHope_25.JPGShawn Stanford builds a fire near the door to the tent he and his girlfriend, Amanda Frasier, sets up a needle of heroin and fentanyl on the island on the Kennebec River in Waterville on Monday, October 10, 2022. The harsher living gets the more the couple turns to drugs. The sober couple only 8 months ago have descended back to their old ways. âDrugs make it easier right now.â Said Frasier. âIâm not proud of it. But Iâm going to kill myself if I have to live like this much longer.â She confessed. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Homeless-to-Hope/26/pf-media/HomelessToHope_26.JPGHomelessToHope_26.JPGA Waterville police officer arrests Shawn Stanford for an outstanding warrant for failure to appear in court while at the coupleâs tent at the homeless encampment below the Hathaway Creative Center in Waterville on December 23, 2022. The missed court appearance was for a shoplifting arrest at Walmart earlier in the summer. The police have promised to keep Stanford in Waterville for a couple of hours allowing Frasier time to try and scrape up $60 for bail. If she canât get the money in time, Stanford will be transported to the county jail in Augusta and the bond will jump to $360. A price well out of their price range. In fact, itâs more than he makes in a week washing dishes. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Homeless-to-Hope/27/pf-media/HomelessToHope_27.JPGHomelessToHope_27.JPGShawn Stanford takes refuge under a plastic tarp as he tries to rouse his friend Shane Moody in a neighboring tent in the encampment as snow falls in Waterville on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. The seasons have changed and so has the difficulty of trying to safely exist as a homeless person in Maine. Drugs, unsanitary living conditions and now the elements have become a formidable force to contend with while trying to get back on their feet. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Homeless-to-Hope/28/pf-media/HomelessToHope_28.JPGHomelessToHope_28.JPGAmanda Fraser quickly tries to grab his most sacred belongings from his tent as he and his boyfriend, Amanda Fraser, are offered three nights in a local hotel by Chief Bill Bonney of the Waterville police department on December 23, 2022. Itâs a Christmas miracle for the couple. A major winter storm was approaching and threatened their safety. The river was expected to flood once again and the couple was in the danger zone. A flood in the summer is one thing. A flood in the winter is deadly. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Homeless-to-Hope/29/pf-media/HomelessToHope_29.JPGHomelessToHope_29.JPGAmanda Frasier and her boyfriend, Shawn Stanford, talk about their next move once their time is up at the hotel on December 23, 2022. The two have been in a tent for nearly six months and are finding living in the cold temperatures to be too dangerous and depressing. They hope to travel to Stanfordâs motherâs home in Brunswick. âIâm not going back to that tent.â Frasier stated emphatically. âI will kill myself.â I canât take it anymore.â https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Homeless-to-Hope/30/pf-media/21346Shanw_Amanda_WorkingHomeless_27.JPG21346Shanw_Amanda_WorkingHomeless_27.JPGBRUNSWICK, MAINE-JANUARY 4, 2023 Amanda Fraser smiles a she walks outside to smoke a cigarette at Stanfordâs motherâs home in Brunswick on Wednesday, January 4, 2023. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Homeless-to-Hope/31/pf-media/21346Shanw_Amanda_WorkingHomeless_26.JPG21346Shanw_Amanda_WorkingHomeless_26.JPGBRUNSWICK, MAINE-JANUARY 4, 2023 Amanda Fraser walks through the living room at Stanfordâs motherâs home in Brunswick on Wednesday, January 4, 2023. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Homeless-to-Hope/32/pf-media/21346Shanw_Amanda_WorkingHomeless_28.JPG21346Shanw_Amanda_WorkingHomeless_28.JPGBRUNSWICK, MAINE-JANUARY 4, 2023 Shawn Stanford and his girlfriend Amanda Fraser relax at Stanfordâs motherâs home in Brunswick on Wednesday, January 4, 2023. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Working-Homeless/thumbs https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Working-Homeless/1 https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Working-Homeless/2/pf-media/WorkingPoor_26.JPGWorkingPoor_26.JPGOCTOBER 15, 2022 - WATERVILLE, MAINE Shane Moody, 41, looks down the Kennebec Trail to his flooded tent after the Kennebec River broke its banks the night before sending him and several other homeless people living on the island in Watervilleâs south end on October 15, 2022. (Michael G. Seamans/for the Morning Sentinel) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Working-Homeless/3/pf-media/WorkingPoor_25.JPGWorkingPoor_25.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE - OCTOBER 13, 2022 Shane Moody checks on two other homeless people as they fight in their tent while rain falls at the homeless encampment in the south end in Waterville on Wednesday, October 13, 2022. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Working-Homeless/4/pf-media/WorkingPoor_24.JPGWorkingPoor_24.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE -SEPTEMBER 6, 2022 Shane Moody, 41, washes dishes during his shift at a local high-end restaurant in Waterville on Tuesday, September 6, 2022. Moody is also homeless and lives in a tent. He works about 40 hours a week and makes about $280 per week. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Working-Homeless/5/pf-media/WorkingPoor_23.JPGWorkingPoor_23.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE-DECEMBER 31, 2022 Shane Moody loads dishes into the Hobart dishwasher during his shifty at a local high-end restaurant in Waterville on Tuesday, December 27, 2022. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Working-Homeless/6/pf-media/WorkingPoor_21.JPGWorkingPoor_21.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE-SEPTEMBER 7, 2022 Shane Moody tries to find an injection spot on his right leg after a failed attempt on left leg while in his tent in the homeless vortex on the island below the Hathaway Creative Center in the south end of Waterville on Wednesday, September 7, 2022. âI didnât pick up the needle until I moved down here.â He said. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Working-Homeless/7/pf-media/WorkingPoor_19.JPGWorkingPoor_19.JPGShane Moddy, 41, sorts through the remnants of his destroyed belongings in his tent after a surprise flood displaced the members of the South End homeless encampment on October 18, 2022. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Working-Homeless/8/pf-media/WorkingPoor_05.JPGWorkingPoor_05.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE - OCTOBER 15, 2022 Shane Moody hauls the belongings he was able to salvage from his campsite to the Hathaway parking lot after flood waters overtook the encampment the night before in the south end in Waterville on Saturday, October 15, 2022. The island is prone to flooding when heavy rains fall on central Maine. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Working-Homeless/9/pf-media/WorkingPoor_18.JPGWorkingPoor_18.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE-SEPTEMBER 14, 2022 Shane Moody sits in a chair in his tent with his homeless camp mates after using heroin at the homeless encampment in the south end in Waterville on Wednesday, September 14, 2022. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Working-Homeless/10/pf-media/WorkingPoor_20.JPGWorkingPoor_20.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE-SEPTEMBER 7, 2022 Shane Moody cuddles with a stray cat he named Big Boy after returning to his tent after working a full shift of washing dishes at 18-Below in Waterville on Wednesday, September 7, 2022. (Michael G. Seamans/for the Morning Sentinel) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Working-Homeless/11/pf-media/WorkingPoor_17.JPGWorkingPoor_17.JPGOCTOBER 17, 2022 - WATERVILLE, MAINE Shane Moody, 41, takes refuge from fresh rain in his friend Mary Nadeauâs car after setting up a new camp on higher ground above the flooded island along the Kennebec River in the south end of Waterville on Monday, October 17, 2022. (Michael G. Seamans/for the Morning Sentinel) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Working-Homeless/12/pf-media/WorkingPoor_16.JPGWorkingPoor_16.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE - DECEMBER 22, 2022 Mary Nadeua tries to sleep in her car while she suffers from a sinus infection at the homeless encampment in the south end of Waterville on December 22, 2022. Nadeua is not homeless. She is the lifeline of the encampment with a car. Naduea gives the residents rides to work, methadone clinic and court appearances as well as rides from jail. (Michael G. Seamans/for the Morning Sentinel) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Working-Homeless/13/pf-media/WorkingPoor_15.JPGWorkingPoor_15.JPGOCTOBER 15, 2022 - WATERVILLE, MAINE Shane Moody, 41, smokes a cigarette among the remnants of his destroyed belongings with the help from his friend, Mary, after a surprise flood displaced the members of the South End homeless encampment on October 18, 2022. (Michael G. Seamans/for the Morning Sentinel) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Working-Homeless/14/pf-media/WorkingPoor_06.JPGWorkingPoor_06.JPGOCTOBER 15, 2022 - WATERVILLE, MAINE Shane Moody, right, eats a donated sandwich from the American Red Cross with his friend, Mary, in the parking lot above the island that was Moodyâs home until it flooded on October 18, 2022. (Michael G. Seamans/for the Morning Sentinel) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Working-Homeless/15/pf-media/WorkingPoor_14.JPGWorkingPoor_14.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE-NOVEMBER 26, 2022 Shane Moody smokes meth in his tent after working a full shift as a dishwasher on November 26, 2022. Although he still uses meth, Moody has been clean from heroin and fentanyl for nearly a month up to this date. He makes daily trips to the methadone clinic with the help of his friend Mary Nadeau. (Michael G. Seamans/for the Morning Sentinel) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Working-Homeless/16/pf-media/WorkingPoor_13.JPGWorkingPoor_13.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE-NOVEMBER 16, 2022 Shane Moody, 41, sits quietly in his tent next to a propane heater as the temperatures drop into the 20âs in Waterville on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. Moody is now a month clean from heroin. Struggling through moments like this is hard enough. Getting high would be a relief from the situation. But he refuses to cave into his addiction tonight. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Working-Homeless/17/pf-media/WorkingPoor_12.JPGWorkingPoor_12.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE-DECEMBER 31, 2022 Shane Moody mops the floor as he finishes his shift on New Yearâs Eve at a local high-end restaurant in Waterville on Tuesday, December 27, 2022. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Working-Homeless/18/pf-media/WorkingPoor_11.JPGWorkingPoor_11.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE-DECEMBER 27, 2022 Shane Moody wipes sweat from his face as he and Shawn Stanford clean dishes at a local high-end restaurant in Waterville on Tuesday, December 27, 2022. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Working-Homeless/19/pf-media/WorkingPoor_10.JPGWorkingPoor_10.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE-DECEMBER 16, 2022 Shane Moody arrives back at his tent as now falls after an 8 hour shift washing dishes at a local restaurant in Waterville on Tuesday, December 16, 2022. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Working-Homeless/20/pf-media/WorkingPoor_22.JPGWorkingPoor_22.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE -SEPTEMBER 6, 2022 Shane Moody prepares a mixture ârigâ of heroin and fentanyl as his stray cat, Big Boy, sits on his lap in his tent on the island in Watervilleâs south end late at night on September 6, 2022. Moody works full time and is living in a tent as homeless man for the first time in his life. Although he grew up poor, Moody has always had a roof over his. New to intravenous drug use, Moody only began shooting up when he moved into his tent following a divorce. (Michael G. Seamans/for the Morning Sentinel) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Working-Homeless/21/pf-media/WorkingPoor_02.JPGWorkingPoor_02.JPGOCTOBER 17, 2022 - WATERVILLE, MAINE Shane Moody, 41, lies flat on his back on his new air mattress after setting up a new camp on higher ground above the flooded island along the Kennebec River in the south end of Waterville on Monday, October 17, 2022. (Michael G. Seamans/for the Morning Sentinel) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Working-Homeless/22/pf-media/WorkingPoor_08.JPGWorkingPoor_08.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE-DECEMBER 29, 2022 Shane Moody hugs his friend Mary Nadeau as he thanks her for her generosity and kindness she has exercised over the past 5 months as they prepare to leave the tent for the winter on Wednesday, December 29, 2022. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Working-Homeless/23/pf-media/WorkingPoor_07.JPGWorkingPoor_07.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE-DECEMBER 29, 2022 Shane Moody and Shawn Stanford share a tent in the early morning hours on Wednesday, December 29, 2022. The two went back to work after the holiday break and are now living back in the tent due to itâs proximity to work. With no car or public transportation, living within walking distance is necessary. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Working-Homeless/24/pf-media/WorkingPoor_04.JPGWorkingPoor_04.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE-DECEMBER 29, 2022 Shane Moody and Shawn Stanford share a tent in the early morning hours on Wednesday, December 29, 2022. The two went back to work after the holiday break and are now living back in the tent due to itâs proximity to work. With no car or public transportation, living within walking distance is necessary. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Working-Homeless/25/pf-media/WorkingPoor_03.JPGWorkingPoor_03.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE-NOVEMBER 16, 2022 Shane Moody, 41, sits quietly in his tent next to a propane heater as the temperatures drop into the 20âs in Waterville on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. Moody is now a month clean from heroin. Struggling through moments like this is hard enough. Getting high would be a relief from the situation. But he refuses to cave into his addiction tonight. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Working-Homeless/26/pf-media/WorkingPoor_09.JPGWorkingPoor_09.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE-DECEMBER 29, 2022 Shane Moody stands on the trail above the island after it flooded for a third time in as many months on Wednesday, December 29, 2022. Today Moody is collecting his most valuable possessions fro m his tent and moving into a small room at his friend Maryâs home in Fairfield.. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Working-Homeless/27/pf-media/WorkingPoor_01.JPGWorkingPoor_01.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE-DECEMBER 31, 2022 Shane Moody rests on the couch with his friend Mary Nadeau, and her cat on Saturday, December 31, 2022. Moody has been invited to stay with Nadeau as the winter elements are making dangerous to live outside. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Displaced/thumbs https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Displaced/1/pf-media/PSES_9703189977_DisplacedHomeless_01.JPGPSES_9703189977_DisplacedHomeless_01.JPGAndrea Wood, 19, floats through the homeless encampment on a borrowed kayak with a metal pole as her paddle as she searches for anything salvageable after a flash flood displaced her, her boyfriend Joshua Thompson, 18, and several other homeless people on the island on the Kennebec River in Waterville on October 14, 2022. The American Red Cross gave Wood a $500 Visa card which she used $160 on laundry and the rest on waterproof suitcases and a couple of nights at the local motel. Wood also works a full-time job at the River Jack in Fairfield. She and her boyfriend are homeless after their roommates moved out leaving them with $1,800/month rent which they could not afford. Theyâve been in a tent since May looking for an affordable apartment, but waiting lists are long and rent is high. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Displaced/2/pf-media/PSES_9703189977_DisplacedHomeless_02.JPGPSES_9703189977_DisplacedHomeless_02.JPGA frying pan floats like a life raft for a spatula after a flash flood wiped out a homeless encampment on the island along the Kennebec River in Waterville on October 14, 2022. The American Red Cross gave Wood a $500 Visa card which she used $160 on laundry and the rest on waterproof suitcases and a couple of nights at the local motel. Wood also works a full-time job at the River Jack in Fairfield. She and her boyfriend are homeless after their roommates moved out leaving them with $1,800/month rent which they could not afford. Theyâve been in a tent since May looking for an affordable apartment, but waiting lists are long and rent is high. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Displaced/3/pf-media/PSES_9703189977_DisplacedHomeless_04.JPGPSES_9703189977_DisplacedHomeless_04.JPGAndrea Wood, 19, searches for anything salvageable from her campsite after a flash flood displaced her, her boyfriend Joshua Thompson, 18, and several other homeless people on the island on the Kennebec River in Waterville on October 14, 2022. The American Red Cross gave Wood a $500 Visa card which she used $160 on laundry and the rest on waterproof suitcases and a couple of nights at the local motel. Wood also works a full-time job at the River Jack in Fairfield. She and her boyfriend are homeless after their roommates moved out leaving them with $1,800/month rent which they could not afford. Theyâve been in a tent since May looking for an affordable apartment, but waiting lists are long and rent is high. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Displaced/4/pf-media/PSES_9703189977_DisplacedHomeless_05.JPGPSES_9703189977_DisplacedHomeless_05.JPGAndrea Wood, 19, washes her salvaged clothing and bedding from her flooded campsite at the local laundromat in Winslow on October 14, 2022. The American Red Cross gave Wood a $500 Visa card which she used $160 on laundry and the rest on waterproof suitcases and a couple of nights at the local motel. Wood also works a full-time job at the River Jack in Fairfield. She and her boyfriend are homeless after their roommates moved out leaving them with $1,800/month rent which they could not afford. Theyâve been in a tent since May looking for an affordable apartment, but waiting lists are long and rent is high. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Displaced/5/pf-media/PSES_9703189977_DisplacedHomeless_06.JPGPSES_9703189977_DisplacedHomeless_06.JPGJoshua Thompson, 18, cleans the tent he was able to salvage from the receded flood waters at the island homeless encampment in the south end of Waterville on October 16, 2022. The American Red Cross gave Wood a $500 Visa card which she used $160 on laundry and the rest on waterproof suitcases and a couple of nights at the local motel. Wood also works a full-time job at the River Jack in Fairfield. She and her boyfriend are homeless after their roommates moved out leaving them with $1,800/month rent which they could not afford. Theyâve been in a tent since May looking for an affordable apartment, but waiting lists are long and rent is high. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Displaced/6/pf-media/PSES_9703189977_DisplacedHomeless_07.JPGPSES_9703189977_DisplacedHomeless_07.JPGJoshua Thompson, 18, hugs his girlfriend, Andrea Wood, 19, as Woodâs mother Jamie Blakeny, back right, sits on her stoop as Joshua and Andrea recover from a flash flood that wiped out their homeless encampment on October 16, 2022. A major factor that is driving homelessness is lack of support from family. Blakeney would like to help her daughter with a place to live, but because she is over 18, Blakeney would exceed the tenant limit on the lease and be evicted. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Displaced/7/pf-media/PSES_9703189977_DisplacedHomeless_08.JPGPSES_9703189977_DisplacedHomeless_08.JPGJoshua Thompson, right, Jamie Blakeny, center, and Andrea Wood, left, emerge from the Comfort Inn after securing a room for the night on a Red Cross credit card in Augusta on October 16, 2022. A major factor that is driving homelessness is lack of support from family. Blakeney would like to help her daughter with a place to live, but because she is over 18, Blakeney would exceed the tenant limit on the lease and be evicted. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Displaced/8/pf-media/PSES_9703189977_DisplacedHomeless_09.JPGPSES_9703189977_DisplacedHomeless_09.JPGJamie Blakeny, center, and Andrea Wood, left, embrace before Blakeney leaves her daughter and her boyfriend for the night at the Comfort Inn in Augusta on October 16, 2022. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Displaced/9/pf-media/PSES_9703189977_DisplacedHomeless_11.JPGPSES_9703189977_DisplacedHomeless_11.JPGAndrea Wood hugs her boyfriend Joshua Thompson as they settle into their hotel room for the night on October 16, 2022. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Displaced/10/pf-media/PSES_9703189977_DisplacedHomeless_10.JPGPSES_9703189977_DisplacedHomeless_10.JPGJoshua Thompson cares for Larry, the couples emotional support pet while settling into their hotel room for the night on October 16, 2022. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/thumbs https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/1 https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/2/pf-media/Ukraine_001.JPGUkraine_001.JPGCHERNIHIV, UKRAINE APRIL 7, 2022 People and soldiers are seen through a bullet hole in the glass to the entrance of the Chernihiv Regional Clinical Hospital Chernihiv, Ukraine after Russian forces retreated on April 7, 2022. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center/USA Today) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/3/pf-media/Ukraine_003.1.jpgUkraine_003.1CHERNIHIV, UKRAINE APRIL 6, 2022 Yannia, 15, sits up in her bed while healing from her injuries in the basement of the regional hospital in Chernihiv, Ukraine after Russian forces retreated on April 6, 2022. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center/Contact Press Images) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/4/pf-media/Ukraine_002a.JPGUkraine_002a.JPGCHERNIHIV, UKRAINE APRIL 7, 2022 Bagdan, 13, lies in a bed in the basement of the Chernihiv Regional Clinical Hospital in Chernihiv, Ukraine on April 7, 2022. The explosion that severely wounded the young child also killed his father but was not aware of the news at the time. "I want him to heal." she said. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center/USA Today) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/5/pf-media/Ukraine_004.JPGUkraine_004.JPGCHERNIHIV, UKRAINE APRIL 6, 2022 A teenage boy cleans his room in the basement of the regional hospital in Chernihiv, Ukraine after Russian forces retreated on April 6, 2022. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center/Contact Press Images) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/6/pf-media/Ukraine_006.1.JPGUkraine_006.1.JPGCHERNIHIV, UKRAINE APRIL 7, 2022 A man sifts through the wreckage of his home in the city of Chernihiv, Ukraine after Russian forces retreated on April 7, 2022. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center/USA Today) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/7/pf-media/Ukraine_035.JPGUkraine_035.JPGCHERNIHIV, UKRAINE APRIL 7, 2022 A man walks through the wreckage of his home in the city of Chernihiv, Ukraine after Russian forces retreated on April 7, 2022. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center/USA Today) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/8/pf-media/Ukraine_005.1.JPGUkraine_005.1.JPGCHERNIHIV, UKRAINE APRIL 7, 2022 A man walks his bike through the remnants of the 285,000 population city of Chernihiv, Ukraine after Russian forces retreated on April 7, 2022. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center/USA Today) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/9/pf-media/Ukraine_007.JPGUkraine_007.JPGCHERNIHIV, UKRAINE APRIL 7, 2022 A Ukrainian soldier stands near a bombed building near Chernihiv, Ukraine after Russian forces retreated on April 7, 2022. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center/USA Today) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/10/pf-media/Ukraine_008.JPGUkraine_008.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/11/pf-media/Ukraine_010.JPGUkraine_010.JPGCHIRNIHIV OBLAST, UKRAINE APRIL 7, 2022 A soldiers stands guard along a road in the Chirnihiv Oblast region on April 7, 2022. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center/USA Today) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/12/pf-media/Ukraine_011.JPGUkraine_011.JPGCHIRNIHIV OBLAST, UKRAINE APRIL 7, 2022 Soldiers negotiate a make-shift bridge crossing in the Chirnihiv Oblast region on April 7, 2022. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center/USA Today) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/13/pf-media/Ukraine_012.JPGUkraine_012.JPGCHERNIHIV, UKRAINE APRIL 7, 2022 A small group of evacuees listen to instruction of the evacuation from Salam Alzeen, right, founder of Team Humanity in Chernihiv, Ukraine after Russian forces retreated on April 7, 2022. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center/USA Today) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/14/pf-media/Ukraine_009.JPGUkraine_009.JPGCHERNIHIV, UKRAINE APRIL 7, 2022 Salam Alzeen, founder of Team Humanity is seen behind a safety line warning people of Russian landmines in Chernihiv, Ukraine on April 7, 2022. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center/USA Today) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/15/pf-media/Ukraine_014.JPGUkraine_014.JPGCHERNIHIV, UKRAINE APRIL 7, 2022 A Ukrainian soldier guides a Team Humanity Sprinter van across a bombed bridge in the Chernihiv Oblast region in Ukraine after Russian forces retreated on April 7, 2022. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center/USA Today) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/16/pf-media/PSES_9703189977_RefugeeRoadUkraine_009.JPGPSES_9703189977_RefugeeRoadUkraine_009.JPGUkrainian military forces are seen going in the opposite direction through the bus windows of Team Humanity as they evacuate soon-to-be war refugees to Moldova as they leave the war sieged city of Mykolaiv, Ukraine as on Sunday, March 27, 2022. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/17/pf-media/Ukraine_015.JPGUkraine_015.JPGCHERNIHIV, UKRAINE APRIL 7, 2022 Salam Alzeen sits among aid supplies on a bus as he leaves Chernihiv, Ukraine with only six evacuees after Russian forces retreated on April 7, 2022. The two buses and three Sprinter vans he organized were to be filled with people, but many decided to stay feeling the war was over or evacuated earlier in the day. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center/USA Today) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/18/pf-media/Ukraine_016.JPGUkraine_016.JPGCHIRNIHIV OBLAST, UKRAINE APRIL 7, 2022 A Ukrainian soldier welcomes member of Team Humanity and a small group of evacuees from Chernihiv at a safe place on April 7, 2022. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center/USA Today) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/19/pf-media/Ukraine_036.JPGUkraine_036.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/20/pf-media/Ukraine_017.JPGUkraine_017.JPGCHIRNIHIV OBLAST, UKRAINE APRIL 7, 2022 Salam Alzeen, founder of Team Humanity, walks the dark halls of a safe building for evacuees in the Chirnihiv Oblast region on April 7, 2022. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center/USA Today) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/21/pf-media/Ukraine_018.JPGUkraine_018.JPGBALTI, MOLDOVA APRIL 1, 2022 Team Humanity volunteers load some basic medical supplies into a Sprinter van in Balti, Moldova on April 1, 2022. The rudimentary supplies intended for people with serious injuries is destined for the frontlines in Mykolaiv, Ukraine. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center/USA Today) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/22/pf-media/Ukraine_037.JPGUkraine_037.JPGBALTI, MOLDOVA APRIL 1, 2022 Team Humanity volunteers load as much supplies as can fit into the three Sprinter vans in Balti, Moldova on April 1, 2022. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center/USA Today) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/23/pf-media/Ukraine_019.JPGUkraine_019.JPGMYKOLAIV, UKRAINE MARCH 27, 2022 Team Humanity founder Salam Aldeen unloads supplies for people who canât evacuate the city at an undisclosed location in Mykolaiv on Sunday, March 27, 2022. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center/USA Today) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/24/pf-media/Ukraine_021.JPGUkraine_021.JPGODESSA, UKRAINE MARCH 27, 2022 A man walks along the breaker on the Black Sea in Odessa, Ukraine on Sunday, March 27, 2022. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center/USA Today) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/25/pf-media/Ukraine_022.JPGUkraine_022.JPGMYKOLAIV, UKRAINE MARCH 27, 2022 Andre Maygyr tries to comfort his 16-year old daughter, Masha, as they say goodbye to each of other, possibly for the last time, as Masha and her mother Luda wait to load a Team Humanity van to be evacuated from the war sieged city of Mykolaiv, Ukraine as on Sunday, March 27, 2022. Maygyrâs family made it to Chisinau and boarded another bus that night en route to Germany. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center/USA Today) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/26/pf-media/Ukraine_026AcopyWEB.jpgUkraine_026AcopyWEBPALANCA, MOLDOVA - MARCH 22, 2022 Ukrainian-Moldovan border crossing in Palanca, Moldova on Tuesday, March 22, 2022. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center/USA Today) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/27/pf-media/Ukraine_020.JPGUkraine_020.JPGPALANCA, MOLDOVA - MARCH 22, 2022 Ukrainian families wave goodbye to each other as the are split up due to lack of seats not eh UNHCR bus at the Ukrainian-Moldovan border crossing in Palanca, Moldova on Tuesday, March 22, 2022. The family made it to the safety of of the boarder together and will reunite at the next stop on the journey. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center/USA Today) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/28/pf-media/Ukraine_023.JPGUkraine_023.JPGMYKOLAIV, UKRAINE APRIL 7, 2022 A Ukrainian soldier feels the emotion as he places his family on a Team Humanity evacuation bus in Mykolaiv, Ukraine bound for Chisinau, Moldova on April 7, 2022. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center/USA Today) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/29/pf-media/Ukraine_024.JPGUkraine_024.JPGMYKOLAIV, UKRAINE MARCH 27, 2022 Luda Maygyr comforts her 16-year old daughter, Masha, as they say goodbye to her father and husband through the window of a Team Humanity van, possibly for the last time, as the family and 70 plus others are evacuated from the war sieged city of Mykolaiv, Ukraine as on Sunday, March 27, 2022. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center/USA Today) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/30/pf-media/Ukraine_025.JPGUkraine_025.JPGMYKOLAIV, UKRAINE MARCH 27, 2022 Ukrainian military forces are seen going in the opposite direction through the bus windows of Team Humanity as they evacuate soon-to-be war refugees to Moldova as they leave the war sieged city of Mykolaiv, Ukraine as on Sunday, March 27, 2022. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center/USA Today) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/31/pf-media/Ukraine_045.JPGUkraine_045.JPGCHISINAU, MOLDOVA MARCH 27, 2022 Team Humanity volunteers welcome 80 refugees to Chisinau after being evacuated from the war sieged city of Mykolaiv, Ukraine as on Sunday, March 27, 2022. The refugees were quickly ushered to a waiting bus bound for Germany that night. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center/USA Today) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/32/pf-media/Ukraine_031.JPGUkraine_031.JPGCHISINAU, MOLDOVA - MARCH 18, 2022 Kristina Paleshev, 38, from Mykolaiv, Ukraine, comforts her youngest child of five, Maria, 1.7 months, as the work through the are processed at a Ukrainian refugee processing center in Chisinau, Moldova on March 18, 2022. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Contact Press Images/Pulitzer Center) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/33/pf-media/Ukraine_029.JPGUkraine_029.JPGCHISINAU, MOLDOVA MARCH 24, 2022 Tatiana Latina, 73, of Mykolaiv, Ukraine, becomes emotional as she describes packing her Soviet era suitcase by candlelight as bombs were falling around her in Mykolaiv as she sits on her cot at the Bukoria Pension in the Vodola-Veda Holiday suburb near Chisinau, Moldova on Thursday, March 24, 2022. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center/USA Today) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/34/pf-media/Ukraine_030.JPGUkraine_030.JPGCHISINAU, MOLDOVA - MARCH 18, 2022 Oleksandr Paleshev, 44, a former bank worker and a father of five, sits with his daughter Irina, 5, as they are processed at a Ukrainian refugee processing center in Chisinau, Moldova on March 18, 2022. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center/USA Today) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/35/pf-media/Ukraine_027.JPGUkraine_027.JPGCHISINAU, MOLDOVA - MARCH 19, 2022 Kristina Paleshev, 38, kisses her youngest daughter Maria, 1.7 months as her son Nicolay, 7, roams the room allotted for the family of seven from Mykolaiv, Ukraine at a refugee housing center Moldexpo International Exhibition Center in Chisinau, Moldova on March 19, 2022. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center/USA Today) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/War-in-Ukraine/36/pf-media/Ukraine_032.JPGUkraine_032.JPGCHISINAU, MOLDOVA - MARCH 20, 2022 A boy named Sashi, rests on several cots gathered for his large Romani family from Ukraine as they seek refuge from the war in their home town of Mykolyaiv, Ukraine at the Manej Sports Stadium in Chisinau, Moldova on Sunday, March 20, 2022. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center/Contact Press Images) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/thumbs https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/1 https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/2/pf-media/Delta016.JPGDelta016.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE - APRIL 17, 2020 in Waterville on Friday, April 17, 2020. (Morning Sentinel photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/3/pf-media/Delta017.JPGDelta017.JPGFirst responders from Delta Ambulance and Waterville police and fire remove a man from his home in full PPE in Waterville on Friday, April 17, 2020. Any cardiac event triggers a full PPE response by all responders. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/4/pf-media/Delta018.JPGDelta018.JPGCorie McCarthy, a paramedic with Delta Ambulance, treats Larry Gagnon during a transfer from Inland Hospital to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor on November 17, 2020. Gagnon tested positive for Covid-19. The lack of staff has a ripple effect throughout the healthcare continuum, according to Petrie. âEven without COVID, EMS in Maine, we need help. Weâre struggling for personnel ⦠and coupled with that our hospitals are in trouble in the state and are struggling to figure out how they are going to operate. And EMS is part of that equation. We move their patients. We assist in their communities, and so we need to look for other alternatives as well.â https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/5/pf-media/Delta001.JPGDelta001.JPGNathaniel Lombardi, an advanced EMT, left, and Damian Brockway, center, a paramedic, both with Delta Ambulance, don their PPE as they prepare to enter a home on an emergency call in Waterville on Sunday, April 19, 2020. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/6/pf-media/Delta002.JPGDelta002.JPGNathaniel Lombardi, an AEMT with Delta Ambulance and his partner Rebecca Quinn, a paramedic with Delta Ambulance, remove a patient from an assisted living facility as family reflected in the ambulance window watch from a distance on May 21, 2020. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/7/pf-media/Delta004.JPGDelta004.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/8/pf-media/RuralCovid-19031.JPGRuralCovid-19031.JPGSMITHFIELD, MAINE - NOVEMBER 17, 2020 Rebecca Quinn, Delta paramedic, inspects a vacant home with her partner Nathaniel Lombardi, for a patient that activated the life alert call on November 17, 2020. No one was found at the residence likely due to an address change. (Morning Sentinel photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/9/pf-media/PORT_9703189977_COVIDSoldiers036.JPGPORT_9703189977_COVIDSoldiers036.JPGScott Burens, a paramedic with Winslow Fire Department, assists Marjorie Veilleux from her chair in Waterville on Sunday, May 10, 2020. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/10/pf-media/Delta024.JPGDelta024.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE - MAY 10, 2020 in Waterville on Sunday, May 10, 2020. (Morning Sentinel photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/11/pf-media/Delta025.JPGDelta025.JPGAn elderly woman is lifted in to a waiting stretcher by paramedics from Winslow fire department in Waterville on Sunday, May 10, 2020. Maine is one of the oldest states in the country creating a very vulnerable population highly susceptible to the coronavirus. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/12/pf-media/RuralCovid-19034.JPGRuralCovid-19034.JPGNathaniel Lombardi, an advanced EMT with Delta Ambulance, center second from left, negotiates a patient through the switchbacks of a handicap accessible ramp with partner, Rebecca Quinn, a paramedic with Delta Ambulance, far left, and with volunteers from Smithfield Volunteer fire department on May 28, 2020. Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in March, Delta Ambulance trucks have been navigating central Maine, the virus a constant concern on every call that has dictated the way paramedics and emergency medical technicians approach their work and their patients. Wearing a mask and developing the ability to assess a patientâs symptoms from 6 feet away have become part of the mosaic of ritual routines such as washing hands. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/13/pf-media/Delta005.JPGDelta005.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/14/pf-media/Delta007.JPGDelta007.JPGWINSLOW, MAINE - APRIL 29, 2020 in Winslow on Wednesday, April 29, 2020. (Morning Sentinel photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/15/pf-media/Delta006.JPGDelta006.JPGDamian Brockway, paramedic, checks the breathing of a possible Covid-19 patient with the help of partner Nathaniel Lombardi, AEMT, on May 3, 2020. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/16/pf-media/Delta032.JPGDelta032.JPGA patient struggles to breath with the assistance of oxygen in the back truck 3 of Delta Ambulance on May 3, 2020. The paramedics have seen a rise in calls of difficulty breathing the past week. While Maine enjoyed low case numbers and few deaths during the dry, warm summer where space facilitated distancing, the colder, wetter fall has driven people inside. Schools have started up again and the case numbers and deaths have risen. A major source of stress now confronts emergency medical services providers: staffing. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/17/pf-media/RuralCovid-19004.JPGRuralCovid-19004.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE - APRIL 19, 2020 Paramedic Damian Brockway treats a patient through the dripping sweat from being in full PPE as he treats a patient en route to Maine General Thayer Campus in Waterville on Sunday, April 19, 2020. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/18/pf-media/MaineMedics009.JPGMaineMedics009.JPGDamian Brockway, grabs the heart monitor as he and his partner Nathaniel Lombardi prepare to deliver a patient to the Alfond Center for Health in Augusta on Sunday, April 19, 2020. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/19/pf-media/Delta009.JPGDelta009.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE - APRIL 19, 2020 Delta Ambulance first responders, Damian Brockway, paramedic, left center, and his partner Nathaniel Lombardi, right center, an advanced EMT, arrive at Maine General Thayer Campus in Waterville on Sunday, April 19, 2020 with a patient who has triggered the U-21 positive response protocol. (Morning Sentinel photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/20/pf-media/RuralCovid-19029.JPGRuralCovid-19029.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE - MAY 3, 2020 Damian Brockway, paramedic, and partner, Nathaniel Lombardi, donned in their PPE, return to Delta base in Waterville to decontaminate the ambulance after a suspected Covid-19 call on May 3, 2020. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/21/pf-media/Delta010.JPGDelta010.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/22/pf-media/Delta011.JPGDelta011.JPGNathaniel Lombardi, AEMT, disinfects the cab of the ambulance after a call in Waterville on Sunday, April 19, 2020. This procedure is completed after every call. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/23/pf-media/Delta012.JPGDelta012.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/24/pf-media/Delta022.JPGDelta022.JPGRebecca Quinn, paramedic, right, fills out her charts as her partner Nathaniel Lombardi, an AEMT, right, trains new hire, basic EMT Chris Wildes at Delta Ambulance in Waterville on Sunday, August 23, 2020. Lombardi, the Field Training Officer (FTO) instructs Wildes on how to use the child restraint system. In much the same way there was a scramble for PPE, there is an ongoing scramble for licensed field providers to fill the ambulances. Retention rates are low because of several factors, including low wages for intense work. There have been delays in licensing new EMS staff because the pandemic forced closures of schools and hospitals delayed clinical hands-on training. âItâs constant recruitment looking for individuals to come and work for you,â said Tim Beals, executive director of Delta Ambulance. âI donât want to call it a revolving door. Youâre recruiting in the state and out of the state. And oftentimes, all EMS services and all fire departments, weâre all in this ⦠Itâs like weâre recruiting from each other.â https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/25/pf-media/Delta029.JPGDelta029.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE - MAY 25, 2020 Corie McCarthy releases some stress as she plays her ukulele in the garage as Mike Monck, a paramedic, heads to clean his ambulance on May 25, 2020. Finding moments in between the madness of calls is incredibly important. It provides a time to clear one's head and stay prepared for the next call. (Morning Sentinel photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/26/pf-media/Delta027.JPGDelta027.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/27/pf-media/RuralCovid-19040.JPGRuralCovid-19040.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE-NOVEMBER 28, 2020 A wmoan is assisted in to the back of a waiting ambulance after concerned employees at Walmart called 9-1-1 due to erratic behavior on Nov. 28, 2020. (Staff Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/28/pf-media/Delta026.JPGDelta026.JPGVASSALBORO, MAINE-DECEMBER 21, 2020 Nathaniel Lombardi, an advanced EMT, left, lifts a patient to a chair with the assistance of Dan Mayotte, right, in Vassalboro on Dec.21, 2020. Mayotte is a supervisor at Delta Ambulance as well as a volunteer firefighter for the Vassalboro fire department. He responded to the call on his day off as a volunteer. "It's a full time job." he said. "It's like farming. No vacation." (Staff Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/29/pf-media/Delta033.JPGDelta033.JPGWATERVILE, MAINE-DECEMBER 30, 2020 in Waterville on Dec. 30, 2020. (Staff Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/30/pf-media/RuralCovid-19024.JPGRuralCovid-19024.JPGNathaniel Lombardi, an AEMT, tends to a patient in the back of the ambulance during a home transport from the hospital on July 29, 2020. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/31/pf-media/RuralCovid-19023.JPGRuralCovid-19023.JPGGARDINER, MAINE - JULY 29, 2020 Nathaniel Lombardi, an AEMT, tends to a patient in the back of the ambulance during a home transport from the hospital on July 29, 2020. (Morning Sentinel photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/32/pf-media/Delta015.JPGDelta015.JPGSIDNEY, MAINE-DECEMBER 3, 2020 Volunteer firefighters and basic EMTs wait for Delta Ambulance paramedics to arrive at the scene of a single vehicle accident on a rural dirt road in Sidney late on Dec. 3, 2020. (Staff Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/33/pf-media/RuralCovid-19018.JPGRuralCovid-19018.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE - MAY 7, 2020 Aaron Gordon prepares to get some sleep in the quiet crew room at the Delta Ambulance base in Waterville on May 7, 2020. Gordon has since left Delta for another job at South Portland fire department. (Morning Sentinel photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/34/pf-media/RuralCovid-19016.JPGRuralCovid-19016.JPGRebecca Quinn, Delta paramedic, watches a news conference on the status of the Covid-19 pandemic in Maine from Dr. Nirav Shah, the Maine CDC director, at Delta base in Waterville on Dec.21, 2020. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/35/pf-media/Delta030.JPGDelta030.JPGFAIRFIELD, MAINE-DECEMBER 21, 2020 in Fairfield on Dec.21, 2020. (Staff Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/36/pf-media/Delta031.JPGDelta031.JPGDelta paramedics carry a patient to the waiting ambulance during a Nor'Easter in Vassalboro on Dec.17, 2020. All calls are considered U-21 positive, even ankle injuries like this one from falling down the stairs. Her cough triggered the Covid positive call but turned out to be a chronic condition. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/37/pf-media/Delta034.JPGDelta034.JPGVASSALBORO, MAINE-DECEMBER 17, 2020 Jay Pfingst, Delta paramedic, left, and Lindsay Seamans, center, lift a patient to a waiting stretcher in a rural area in Vassalboro on Dec.17, 2020. (Staff Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/38 https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Covid-19/39 https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/thumbs https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/1 https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/2/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen001.JPGADeadlyShadeofGreen001.JPGRIGOLET, NEWFOUNDLAND/LABRADOR, CANADA - NOVEMBER 13, 2019 Karl Michelin poses for a portrait at the water's edge of Lake Melville in Rigolet wearing a dickie made of seal skin from a seal he hunted from the bay on Wednesday, November, 13, 2019. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/3/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen002.JPGADeadlyShadeofGreen002.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/4/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen003.JPGADeadlyShadeofGreen003.JPGRIGOLET, NEFOUNDLAND/LABRADOR, CANADA - NOVEMBER 10, 2019 on Sunday, November, 10, 2019. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/5/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen005.JPGADeadlyShadeofGreen005.JPGRIGOLET, NEFOUNDLAND/LABRADOR, CANADA - NOVEMBER 10, 2019 on Sunday, November, 10, 2019. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/6/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen006.JPGA Deadly Shade of GreenRIGOLET, LABRADOR-NOVEMBER 10, 2019 Karl Michelin, of Rigolet, takes a break from dressing a jar seal he hunted in Lake Melville near Big Island where he has a hunting camp on Sunday, November, 10, 2019. Michelin supplements much of his food source with seal meat. The meat is used to feed him and his family along with Inuit elders in the community who can no longer hunt as easily as when they were younger. Seal is a staple in the Inuit diet, a food source that is being threatened by effects of the Churchill Falls Dam that empties in to Lake Melville, one of North America's largest estuaries. PUBLISHED JANUARY 10, 2020 https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/7/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen008.JPGADeadlyShadeofGreen008.JPGRIGOLET, NEFOUNDLAND/LABRADOR, CANADA - NOVEMBER 10, 2019 Karl Michelin arrives back in Rigolet after seal hunting in in Lake Melville on Sunday, November, 10, 2019. Lake Melville is technically not a lake, but a large tidal extension Hamilton Inlet which is an extension of Groswater Bay. The body of water spans 1,200 square and is the largest estuary in the Newfoundland and Labrador acting as the largest drainage for the Churchill and Naskkaupi River watershed. The mega-dams that consist of the Churchill Dam project are sending methyl mercury in to the water and hunting grounds of the Innuit and Unnu who have call this land home for generations. On top of poisoned water, the village still lives on diesel power. The tanker in the background is delivering one of two yearly loads of fuel to run the village power plant. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/8/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen009.JPGADeadlyShadeofGreen009.JPGRIGOLET, NEWFOUNDLAND/LABRADOR, CANADA - NOVEMBER 12, 2019 Karl Michelin eats seal liver and onions at home in Rigolet with his two-year old daughter Josephine on Tuesday, November 12, 2019. Michelin harvests about 12 seals a year that feeds his family and Inuit elders in the community. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/9/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen010.JPGADeadlyShadeofGreen010.JPGRIGOLET, NEWFOUNDLAND/LABRADOR, CANADA - NOVEMBER 13, 2019 Karl Michelin cleans his 25 plus year old .223 rifle at his kitchen table after a seal hunt on Wednesday, November, 13, 2019. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/10/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen011.JPGA Deadly Shade of GreenRIGOLET, NEFOUNDLAND/LABRADOR, CANADA - NOVEMBER 13, 2019 Karl Michelin heads to town on his Ski-Doo with his daughter Josephine, 2, in Rigolet, Labrador on Wednesday, November, 13, 2019. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/11/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen012.JPGADeadlyShadeofGreen012.JPGMUD LAKE https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/12/pf-media/DeadlyShade034.JPGDeadlyShade034.JPGHAPPY VALLEY-GOOSE BAY, LABRADOR, CANADA - NOVEMBER 17, 2019 Muskrat Falls Gereating Facility on the Churchill River near Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador on November 17, 2019. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/13/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen013.JPGADeadlyShadeofGreen013.JPGMUD LAKE, LABRADOR, CANADA - NOVEMBER 8, 2019 Watson Rumbolt, 60, is the main provider and protector for his Inuit wife and children, his extended family, and the 48 members of Mud Lake, a tiny Labradorian community that can only be accessed by taking a speedboat across the magnificent Churchill River. He puts caribou, trout and other wild-caught food on the table, uses his carpentry skills to build homes and dogsleds, and shoots the bears that become too threatening to humans. But over the last several years, just as Watson’s once-unflaggable energy began to yield to back and knee pain, a new threat has arisen, one that promises to outlive Watson and, quite possibly, the way of life enjoyed by Mud Lake residents. Just a short way upriver, the state-owned energy company Nalcor is nearing completion on a multibillion dollar hydroelectricity project that dammed the river. Nalcor has assured the Nunatsiavut Government that the dam, which makes use of an existing outcropping of land known as the North Spur, is safe, but Randy MacMillan, the engineer who performed soil core tests on the Spur, is worried. MacMillan, who is speaking out now in part because he suffers from terminal illness, says that the weak consistency of the clay, and the lack of a bedrock, create a chance of catastrophic collapse, a view that is shared by some outside experts. Mud Lake residents would like people in New England to consider the environmental and social impacts of Canadian hydropower on local communities. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/PULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/14/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen021.JPGADeadlyShadeofGreen021.JPGMUD LAKE, LABRADOR, CANADA - NOVEMBER 8, 2019 in Labrador, Canada on November 8, 2019. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/PULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/15/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen015.JPGADeadlyShadeofGreen015.JPGMUD LAKE, LABRADOR, CANADA - NOVEMBER 8, 2019 Watson Rumbolt, 60, tends to his dog sled team at his home in Mud Lake, Labrador on Nov. 8, 2019. Rumbolt uses the dog team for transportation. Mud Lake is a small community on the Churchill River that is only accessible by boat, sea plane or snowmobile. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/16/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen014.JPGADeadlyShadeofGreen014.JPGMUD LAKE, LABRADOR, CANADA - NOVEMBER 8, 2019 in Labrador, Canada on November 8, 2019. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/PULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/17/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen017.JPGADeadlyShadeofGreen017.JPGHAPPY VALLEY - GOOSE BAY, NEWFOUNDLAND/LABRADOR, CANADA - NOVEMBER 6, 2019 Eldred Davis stokes his wood fire at home in Happy Valley - Goose Bay, Labrador on Wednesday, November 6, 2019. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/18/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen016.JPGADeadlyShadeofGreen016.JPGHAPPY VALLEY-GOOSE BAY, NEWFOUNDLAND/LABRADOR, CANADA - NOVEMBER 8, 2019 Erin Saunders, 35, shows a tattoo of an ulu, Innuit cutting tool, on her right hand with traditional Innuit tattoos on both wrists illuminated by a whale oil lamp at her apartment in the military base town of Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador. Saunders, daughter of Alex Saunders, feels a deep connection to her First Nations heritage, and gets most of her food through traditional hunting, fishing and gathering practices. Saunders was arrested protesting the construction of a local Canadian hydropower dam, which she says threatens her way of life. She asks New England energy policymakers to consider the upstream effects of Canadian hydro before they buy it. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/19/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen022.JPGADeadlyShadeofGreen022.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/20/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen019.JPGADeadlyShadeofGreen019.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/21/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen018.JPGADeadlyShadeofGreen018.JPGRIGOLET, NEWFOUNDLAND/LABRADOR, CANADA - NOVEMBER 11, 2019 Charlotte Wolfrey reveals three fresh loaves of bread she baked at home in Rigolet, Labrador on Monday, November, 11, 2019.Wolfrey, an elder and elected leader of the small Inuit community of Rigolet, worries that methylmercury poisoning from a recently completed hydropower project will destroy the community's deep cultural connection to seals, and other wild-caught food. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/22/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen020.JPGADeadlyShadeofGreen020.JPGMUD LAKE, LABRADOR, CANADA - NOVEMBER 8, 2019 in Labrador, Canada on November 8, 2019. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/PULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/23/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen023.JPGADeadlyShadeofGreen023.JPGLEPREAU, NB - SEPTEMBER 8, 2019 at New River Beach Provincial Park in Lepreau, N.B., Canada on Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019. (Morning Sentinel photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/24/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen024.JPGADeadlyShadeofGreen024.JPGFARMINGTON, MAINE - NOVEMBER 25, 2019 Loretta Miswaggon, left, and Carlton Richards, both of Pimicikamak Territory in Manitoba, Canada, prepare to talk about the impacts mega-dam hydropower has had on indigenous tribes in Manitoba during a speaking tour at Preble Hall at the University of Maine in Farmington on Monday, November 25, 2019. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/25/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen026.JPGADeadlyShadeofGreen026.JPGT5 R7, MAINE - MAY 27, 2019 Duane Hanson hops in to his truck on Spencer Road in the Unorganized Territories in the north woods of Maine near T5 R7 on May 27, 2019. The NECEC power corridor will pass across the road at this location. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/26/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen027.JPGADeadlyShadeofGreen027.JPGT5 R7, ME - APRIL 23, 2019 Sally Kwan and Duane Hanson pose for a portrait at their summer kitchen outside their cabin on Whipple Pond on Tuesday, April 23, 2019. The couple who power their cabin from a wood stove and two solar panels worry they'll be able to see the 100 foot-tall transmission line above the white pine trees that surround their property. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/27/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen029.JPGADeadlyShadeofGreen029.JPGT5 R7, MAINE - MAY 26, 2019 Duane Hanson prepares to launch one of his many canoes on to Whipple Pond at his homestead in the Unorganized Territories in the north woods of Maine near T5 R7 on May 26, 2019. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/28/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen028.JPGADeadlyShadeofGreen028.JPGT5 R7, MAINE - MAY 26, 2019 Duane Hanson and Sally Kwan are reflected in the water of Whipple Pond during a sunset paddle in the Unorganized Territories in the north woods of Maine near T5 R7 on May 27, 2019. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/29/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen031.JPGADeadlyShadeofGreen031.JPGT5 R7, MAINE - MAY 26, 2019 Duane Hanson checks the soil of his garden as prepares for the new growing season at his homestead in the Unorganized Territories in the north woods of Maine near T5 R7 on May 27, 2019. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/30/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen032.JPGADeadlyShadeofGreen032.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/31/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen033.JPGADeadlyShadeofGreen033.JPGT5 R7, MAINE - MAY 6, 2019 Duane Hanson walks in to the sunset near his homestead in the Unorganized Territories in the north woods of Maine near T5 R7 on May 6, 2019. Central Maine Power officials claim this area to be scarred by logging. Hanson points out that he is walking on an old logging road that has grown in. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/32/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen040.JPGADeadlyShadeofGreen040.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/33/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen038.JPGADeadlyShadeofGreen038.JPGT5 R7, MAINE - MAY 26, 2019 Duane Hanson prepares dinner over his wood-fired stove at his homestead in the Unorganized Territories in the north woods of Maine near T5 R7 on May 26, 2019. Hanson has two solar panels and one light. Cooking over the stove by headlamp is not uncommon. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/34/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen041.JPGADeadlyShadeofGreen041.JPGT3 R5, MAINE - AUGUST 3, 2019 at Spencer Lake in T3 R5, unorganized territories, Maine on Saturday, August 3, 2019. (Morning Sentinel photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/35/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen042.JPGPower StruggleT3 R5, MAINE - AUGUST 3, 2019 Duane Hanson talks with his oldest son, Yule, during a family camping trip at Spencer Lake in T3 R5, Unorganized Territories, Maine on Saturday, August 3, 2019. The camping trip is an annual family retreat close to the Hanson homestead. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/36/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen035.JPGADeadlyShadeofGreen035.JPGT5 R7, MAINE - JANUARY 4, 2020 Duane Hanson hauls 16 inch square blocks of ice from his pond in T5 R7 in the IUnorganized Territories on Saturday, January 4, 2020. The ice will be stores in an ice house with saw dust to be used to refrigerate food throughout the year. In the 1970s, Hanson graduated out of vocational school and into the forest; working chainsaws and cable skidders in logging camps allowed him to earn a paycheck, while indulging his lifelong love of the outdoors. His search for a homestead site began and ended in the 12-million-acre North Woods, where a century of sustainable logging practices has done little to diminish the appeal of life in the largest wild tract of land east of the Rocky Mountains. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/37/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen036.JPGPower StruggleT5 R7, MAINE - JANUARY 4, 2020 Duane Hanson hauls 16 inch square blocks of ice from his pond in T5 R7 in the IUnorganized Territories on Saturday, January 4, 2020. The ice will be stores in an ice house with saw dust to be used to refrigerate food throughout the year. In the 1970s, Hanson graduated out of vocational school and into the forest; working chainsaws and cable skidders in logging camps allowed him to earn a paycheck, while indulging his lifelong love of the outdoors. His search for a homestead site began and ended in the 12-million-acre North Woods, where a century of sustainable logging practices has done little to diminish the appeal of life in the largest wild tract of land east of the Rocky Mountains. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/38/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen034.JPGADeadlyShadeofGreen034.JPGT5 R7, ME - APRIL 23, 2019 Duane Hanson enters his workshop where he crafts knives and other tools for living off the grid at his homestead in the remote T5 R7 unorganized territory on Tuesday, April 23, 2019. (Morning Sentinel photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/39/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen037.JPGPower StruggleT5 R7, MAINE - MAY 26, 2019 Duane Hanson and Sally Kwan prepare dinner at their home on Whipple Pond in T5 R7 in the Unorganized Territories on May 26, 2019. Using an antique wood stove they cook dinner and heat the cabin. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/40/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen039.JPGADeadlyShadeofGreen039.JPGT5 R7, MAINE - MAY 26, 2019 Duane Hanson prepares dinner over his wood-fired stove at his homestead in the Unorganized Territories in the north woods of Maine near T5 R7 on May 26, 2019. Hanson has two solar panels and one light. Cooking over the stove by headlamp is not uncommon. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Deadly-Shade-of-Green/41/pf-media/ADeadlyShadeofGreen043.JPGADeadlyShadeofGreen043.JPGA camper takes in the night air and sky from the end of the lone dock on the remote Rock Pond in the Unorganized Territories of the northwest mountains in Maine on August 15, 2020. Rock Pond is home to some of the most remote area in the United States and is currently being threatened by the New England Clean Energy Connect project that will construct a high-tension power line across the pond and pristine landscape. The Maine Supreme Court just ruled the citizen initiative to put a referendum to have another vote on the corridor unconstitutional and can not be on the ballot in November. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Alaska-Amputee/thumbs https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Alaska-Amputee/1/pf-media/MoosesTooth001.JPGMoosesTooth001.JPGRUTH GORGE, ALASKA - MAY 5, 2010 Chad Jukes waits with open arms for his climbing partner Chad Butrick to arrive at base camp after a day of exploring the Root Canal as the one-legged climbing duo waits for a window of good weather and stable snow conditions to climb the Mooses Tooth via the route Ham and Eggs on May 5, 2010. The pair of teamed up to be the first all-disabled climbing team to scale, unassisted the 3,200 vertical feet to the summit. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Alaska-Amputee/2/pf-media/MoosesTooth002.JPGMoosesTooth002.JPGRUTH GORGE, ALASKA - MAY 4, 2010 Chad Butrick's leg and prosthesis are visible through the door of the tent as he and fellow right-leg amputee and Army veteran set camp as they attempt to be the first all-disabled climbing team to climb the Mooses Tooth in the Ruth Gorge in Alaska on May 4, 2010. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Alaska-Amputee/3/pf-media/MoosesTooth003.JPGMoosesTooth003.JPGRUTH GORGE, ALASKA - MAY 6, 2010 Chad Butrick attaches his ice climbing boot to his prosthetic leg in the door of the tent as he and fellow right-leg amputee and Army veteran set camp as they attempt to be the first all-disabled climbing team to climb the Mooses Tooth in the Ruth Gorge in Alaska on May 4, 2010. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Alaska-Amputee/4/pf-media/MoosesTooth004.JPGMoosesTooth004.JPGRUTH GORGE, ALASKA - MAY 9, 2010 Base cap is visible from the 5th pitch of Ham and Eggs on the Mooses Tooth in the Root Canal of the Ruth Gorge in Alaska on May 9, 2010. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Alaska-Amputee/5/pf-media/MoosesTooth005.JPGMoosesTooth005.JPGRUTH GORGE, ALASKA - MAY 7, 2010 Chad Butrick hangs from a rope as he and climbing partner Chad Jukes, practice rescue techniques in a crevasse next to base camp in the Root Canal in the Ruth Gorge in the Alaska Range on May 7, 2010. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Alaska-Amputee/6/pf-media/MoosesTooth006.JPGMoosesTooth006.JPGRUTH GORGE, ALASKA - MAY 9, 2010 Chad Jukes rappels from Ham and Eggs on the Mooses Tooth after he and climbing partner Chad Butrick turned around after climbing nearly 800 feet of the 3000 feet to the summit on May 9, 2010. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Alaska-Amputee/7/pf-media/MoosesTooth007.JPGMoosesTooth007.JPGOURAY, COLORADO - FEBRUARY 18, 2010 Chad Jukes leads the crux pitch of Horsetail Falls in the San Juan Mountains south of Ouray , Colorado on Feb. 18, 2010. Jukes and climbing partner Chad Butrick are training to be the first all-disabled climbing team to attempt the Mooses Tooth. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Alaska-Amputee/8/pf-media/MoosesTooth008.JPGMoosesTooth008.JPGRUTH GORGE, ALASKA - MAY 9, 2010 Chad Butrick rappels from the Mooses Tooth after turning back on May 9, 2010. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Alaska-Amputee/9/pf-media/MoosesTooth009.JPGMoosesTooth009.JPGRUTH GORGE, ALASKA - MAY 8, 2010 Chad Jukes digs a cave to escape the bright and nearly constant light at base camp on the Root Canal in the Ruth Gorge in the Alaska Range on May 8, 2010. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Alaska-Amputee/10/pf-media/MoosesTooth010.JPGMoosesTooth010.JPGRUTH GORGE, ALASKA - MAY 5, 2010 Chad Jukes looks at the route on the Mooses Tooth after setting camp in the Root Canal in the Alaska Range at the base of the Mooses Tooth on May 5, 2010. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Alaska-Amputee/11/pf-media/MoosesTooth011.JPGMoosesTooth011.JPGRUTH GORGE, ALASKA - MAY 6, 2010 Chad jukes takes a peek outside his tent to see over a foot of fresh snow as he and climbing partner, Chad Butrick, wait for a window to climb Ham and Eggs on the Mooses Tooth in the Alaska Range on May 6, 2010. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Alaska-Amputee/12/pf-media/MoosesTooth012.JPGMoosesTooth012.JPGRUTH GORGE, ALASKA - MAY 9, 2010 Chad Jukes does his best rodeo rider as Chad Butrick starts packing gear after making an unsuccessful attempt to climb the Mooses Tooth in the Alaska Range on May 9, 2010. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Alaska-Amputee/13/pf-media/MoosesTooth013.JPGMoosesTooth013.JPGRUTH GORGE, ALASKA - MAY 10, 2010 Chad Jukes climbs Ham and Eggs on the Mooses Tooth in the Alaska Range on May 10, 2010. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Alaska-Amputee/14/pf-media/MoosesTooth014.JPGMoosesTooth014.JPGRUTH GORGE, ALASKA -MAY 9, 2010 Chad Jukes bites down on a number 2 Camelot as he looks for a place to put it for protection on the crux pitch of Ham and Eggs on the Mooses Tooth in the Alaska Range on May 9, 2010. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Alaska-Amputee/15/pf-media/MoosesTooth015.JPGMoosesTooth015.JPGRUTH GORGE, ALASKA - MAY 9, 2010 A climber follows the first crux pitch of Ham and Eggs on the Mooses Tooth in the Alaska Range on May 9, 2010. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Alaska-Amputee/16/pf-media/MoosesTooth016.JPGMoosesTooth016.JPGOURAY, COLORADO - FEBRUARY 10, 2010 Chad Jukes chomps down on an ice screw as he leads out of the Ouray Ice Park while training for an attempt to climb the Mooses Tooth in the Alaska Range on Feb. 10, 2010. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Alaska-Amputee/17/pf-media/MoosesTooth017.JPGMoosesTooth017.JPGMOOSES TOOTH-ALASKA MAY 10, 2010 Chad Jukes climbs Ham and Eggs on the Mooses Tooth in the Alaska Range on May 10, 2010. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Alaska-Amputee/18/pf-media/MoosesTooth018.JPGMoosesTooth018.JPGRUTH GORGE, ALASKA - MAY 9, 2010 Chad Butrick, far right, rappels off the Mooses Tooth at a rappel station with other climbers in the Alaska Range on May 9, 2010. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Alaska-Amputee/19/pf-media/MoosesTooth021.JPGMoosesTooth021.JPGRUTH GORGE, ALASKA - MAY 10, 2010 Chad Butrick tries to stay warm at the door of his tent as the climbing dog try to quickly pack and catch the last flight off the glacier before another major snow storm blasts the Ruth Gorge on May 10, 2010. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Alaska-Amputee/20/pf-media/MoosesTooth024.JPGMoosesTooth024.JPGRUTH GORGE, ALASKA - MAY 9, 2010 Chad Jukes stares at the partially obscured Mooses Tooth after a failed attempt to scale the 3000 foot peak in the heart of the Ruth Gorge in the Alaska Range on May 9, 2010. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Alaska-Amputee/21/pf-media/MoosesTooth025.JPGMoosesTooth025.JPGRUTH GORGE, ALASKA - MAY 7, 2010 A Talkeetna Beaver leaves the glacier after ferrying climbers to the base of the Mooses Tooth in the Alaska Range on May 7, 2010. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/MAX/thumbs https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/MAX/1/pf-media/WebMax020.JPGMAX LAUTZENHEISERFORT COLLINS, COLORADO - DECEMBER 11, 2008 Max's friends Chandler McPheters and Jack Kenny say "hi" through his bedroom window Dec. 11 as his mother Marci tries to hook up his gastronomy tube for feeding. Max's friends were frequent visitors at Max's house once they heard he was sick. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Fort Collins Coloradoan) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/MAX/2/pf-media/WebMax019.JPGMAX LAUTZENHEISERFORT COLLINS, COLORADO - SEPTEMBER 20, 2008 Max's sister Greta Lautzeneiser and aunt Wendy Morris help Max into an electric wheel chair Sept. 20 ahead of playing outside with his friends and sisters. Max spent most of his six years insulated from the ooutdoors and other kids to keep him from getting sick. After Max was given a terminal diagnosis, his parents to let him die living rather than live dying. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Fort Collins Coloradoan) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/MAX/3/pf-media/WebMax018.JPGMAX LAUTZENHEISERFORT COLLINS, COLORADO - SEPTEMBER 10, 2008 Marci Lautzenheiser lets out a cheer as they leave Max's doctor's office after a check up Sept. 10, 2008. Max gets lunch from his aunt Wendy in his gastronomy tube as Marci lets out a cheer after the family doctor confirmed her diagnosis Max had the Chickenpox the week before. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Fort Collins Coloradoan) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/MAX/4/pf-media/WebMax017.JPGMAX LAUTZENHEISERMax Lautzenheiser enjoys an afternoon of fun sliding down a metal railing at Centerra in Loveland with the help of his aunt Wendy, left, and mother Marci on Nov. 2, 2008. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/MAX/5/pf-media/WebMax016.JPGMAX LAUTZENHEISERMax Lautzenheiser enjoys a walk outside his home in the warm sunshine with help from his home nurses Aug. 30, 2008. Lautzenheiser was diagnosed with a rare terminal syndrome called Toriello-Carey. The first five years if his life were spent indoors, isolated to preserve his compromised immune system until he was diagnosed with the terminal illness. His parents decided to let Max die living and made every day a new experience for their son. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/MAX/6/pf-media/WebMax015.JPGMAX LAUTZENHEISERFORT COLLINS, COLORADO - SEPTEMBER 20, 2018 Max Luatzenheiser, 6, rides along with neighborhood friend Whitney McPheter to the playground at Zach Elementary School in Fort Collins on Saturday, Sept. 20, 2008. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Fort Collins Coloradoan) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/MAX/7/pf-media/WebMax014.JPGMAX LAUTZENHEISERFORT COLLINS, COLORADO - DECEMBER 3, 2008 Marci Luatzenheiser comforts her son Max Lautzeneiser, 6, as nurses draw blood during a late-night stay in the pediatrics intensive care unit at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins on Dec. 3, 2008. Max has been battling what doctors believed to be pneumonia and had not been responding to antibiotics.(Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Fort Collins Coloradoan) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/MAX/8/pf-media/WebMax013.JPGMAX LAUTZENHEISERFORT COLLINS, COLORADO - AUGUST 29, 2008 Marci Lautzeneiser takes a moment to wipe away tears as she prepares to make funeral arrangements the following day for her six-year old son Max on August 29, 2008. Max suffers from a rare terminal syndrome called Toriello-Carey. The Lautzenheisers received the diagnosis in May 2008 with information that Max may be the oldest boy to have ever lived with the syndrome. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Fort Collins Coloradoan) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/MAX/9/pf-media/WebMax012.JPGMAX LAUTZENHEISERFORT COLLINS, COLORADO - SEPTEMBER 18, 2008 Max's mother Marci Lautzeneiser, looks at a coffin Sept. 18 in the showroom at Resthaven Funeral Home in Fort Collins as her sister Wendy Morris speaks with Jennifer Lake, a funeral director. After Max was diagnosed with a terminal illness in May and not given much time to live, Marci started making the funeral arrangements with the help of her sister so she wouldn't have to deal with it after Max's death. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Fort Collins Coloradoan) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/MAX/10/pf-media/WebMax011.JPGMAX LAUTZENHEISERMarci smile as she and Max play with Frosty the Snowman on Dec. 11. Lorena Contreras, left, along with Greta Lautzenheiser, left center, Contreras's daughter, Maya, right center, and Hanna Lautzenheiser stay in the room with Max. Max died the next day. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/MAX/11/pf-media/WebMax010.JPGMAX LAUTZENHEISERFORT COLLINS, COLORADO - SEPTEMBER 5, 2008 Max Lautzeneiser lays in bed with his sister Gretta Lautzeneiser as they both stay home sick from school Sept. 5, 2008. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Fort Collins Coloradoan) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/MAX/12/pf-media/WebMax009.JPGMAX LAUTZENHEISERFORT COLLINS, COLORADO - SEPTEMBER 11, 2008 Max Lautzeneiser enjoys a shower at home after a haircut at George Carl Salon in Windsor on Sept. 11, 2008. The new school year has started and the school district says they can no longer care for Max's intensive needs so are not admitting him for his first grade year. Max Lautzeneiser was diagnosed at birth with Toriello-Carey syndrome. A fatal disease with a life span of about 8 years-old. Although Max was not allowed in back to school, the Lautzeneiser family committed their time to making Max's last months the most enjoyable as possible. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Fort Collins Coloradoan) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/MAX/13/pf-media/WebMax008.JPGMAX LAUTZENHEISERFORT COLLINS, COLORADO - AUGUST 30, 2008 Max Lautzeneiser flips through one of his favorite books as his nurse, Aecian Pendleton, coonects his gastronomy tube to a bag lunch Aug. 30, 2008. Max was diagnosed in May 2008 with a rare syndrome called Toriello-Carey. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Fort Collins Coloradoan) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/MAX/14/pf-media/WebMax007.JPGMAX LAUTZENHEISERMax Lautzenheiser walks out of his bedroom at his family's Fort Collins residence with from his home nurse, Aecian Pendleton on Aug. 30, 2008. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/MAX/15/pf-media/WebMax006.JPGMAX LAUTZENHEISERMarci cuttles with Max in bed for his last night alive, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2009. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/MAX/16/pf-media/WebMax005.JPGMAX LAUTZENHEISERRon Lautzenheiser carries his six-year old grandson Max to the living room with sister Greta, center, mother Marci, center right, and grandmother Marcia Wright shortly after Max died at home Dec. 12, 2008. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/MAX/17/pf-media/WebMax004.JPGMAX LAUTZENHEISERFORT COLLINS, COLORADO - DECEMBER 3, 2008 Max Lautzeneiser, 6, looks to the light over his hospital bed during an emergency visit to the pediatrics intensive care unit at Poudre Valley Hospital on Dec. 3, 2008. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Fort Collins Coloradoan) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/MAX/18/pf-media/WebMax003.JPGMAX LAUTZENHEISERFORT COLLINS, COLORADO - DECEMBER 12, 2008 Katie Lautzenheiser, left, and Marcia Wright, right, comfort Marci Lautzenheiser as she cradles her son Max, moments after he passed from Toriello-Carey syndrome at the family's Fort Collins residence on Friday, Dec. 12, 2008. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Fort Collins Coloradoan) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/MAX/19/pf-media/WebMax001.JPGMAX LAUTZENHEISERFORT COLLINS, COLORADO - DECEMBER 21, 2008 Marci Lautzeneiser collapses over the casket of her son as her sister Misty, left, funeral director, Jennifer Lake, center, and husband Jim following the casket sealing ceremony prior to the funeral service at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Trilby Building in Fort Collins on Dec. 21, 2008. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Fort Collins Coloradoan) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/MAX/20/pf-media/WebMax002.JPGMAX LAUTZENHEISERFORT COLLINS, COLORADO - DECEMBER 21, 2008 Marci Lautzeneiser's father-in-law, Ron Lautzenheiser, back left center, and husband Jim Lautzeneiser, right center, comfort Marci as she holds the body of her six-year old son, Max, before the casket sealing ceremony at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Trilby Building in Fort Collins on Dec. 21, 2008. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Fort Collins Coloradoan) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/thumbs https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/1/pf-media/PSES_9703189977_AlewivesSeason002.JPGPSES_9703189977_AlewivesSeason002.JPGBENTON, ME - MAY 15, 2019 Jimmy Wotton, of Friendship, sets up for a day of alewife fishing at the Benton Falls Dam in Benton on Thursday, May 15, 2019. Wotton has diversified his fishing to include many different types of fish according to the season to avoid relying on lobster alone. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/2/pf-media/BOPPortfolio028.JPGBOPPortfolio028.JPGAlewives run up the Sebasticook Stream in Benton as Brandon Bezio, center, and Tommy Keister, right, hauls a net of the silver fish in Benton on Friday, May 22, 2020. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/3/pf-media/PSES_9703189977_AlewivesSeason007.JPGPSES_9703189977_AlewivesSeason007.JPGBENTON, ME - MAY 16, 2019 Fishermen fill crates with alewives caught at the base of Benton Falls Dam on the Sebasticook River in Benton on May 15, 2019. The full-time lobstermen utilize this season when the alewives run for catching bait. Lobster apparently love the smell of alewife. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/4/pf-media/PSES_9703189977_AlewivesSeason008.JPGPSES_9703189977_AlewivesSeason008.JPGBENTON, ME - MAY 15, 2019 Ernie Wallace, of Friendship, makes his way to the base of the Benton Falls Dam for a day of alewife fishing on May 15, 2019. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/5/pf-media/MaineFisheries026.JPGMaineFisheries026.JPGErnie Wallace, of Friendship, throws his net in to the Sabasticook River just below the Benton Falls Hydro-Electric Dam as he fishes for alewives fish on Thursday, May 17, 2012. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/6/pf-media/PSES_9703189977_AlewivesSeason001.JPGPSES_9703189977_AlewivesSeason001.JPGBENTON, ME - MAY 16, 2019 Tommy Keister hauls a load of alewives in a skif to the rocks for crating with the use of a guideline at the base of Benton Falls Dam in Benton on Thursday, May 16, 2019. The dam hauls alewives over the dam with the use of a fish elevator while lobstermen catch the not-so-lucky fish to be used as local bait for lobster fishing. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/7/pf-media/MaineFisheries025.JPGMaineFisheries025.JPGTommy Keister, a fisherman from Friendship, stands up to his knees in live alewives while fishing in a sciff at the Benton Falls Hydro-Electric Dam on the Sebasticook River on May 9, 2013. The fish can be sold at a reasonable bait price to local lobsterman. The alewife is especially good for trapping hard shell lobsters in deeper water because it is a stiffer bait that keeps longer. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/8/pf-media/BOPPortfolio029.JPGBOPPortfolio029.JPGErnie Wallace and Tommy Kiester haul a net of alewives in to a waiting crate at the Benton Falls Dam on the Sebasticook Stream in Benton on Tuesday, May 19, 2020. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/9/pf-media/PSES_9703189977_AlewivesSeason005.JPGPSES_9703189977_AlewivesSeason005.JPGBENTON, ME - MAY 16, 2019 Harlan Simmons, right, helps to haul Tommy Keister and his stiff full of alewives back to the rocks for unloading at the base of the Benton Falls Dam on the Sebasticook River in Benton on May 16, 2019. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/10/pf-media/MaineFisheries020.JPGMaineFisheries020.JPGRon Weeks relaxes on the banks of the Sabasticook Stream in Benton as he waits for the afternoon run of alewives on May 9, 2013. The run tends to be more active in the afternoon on sunny days. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/11/pf-media/PSES_9703189977_AlewivesSeason006.JPGPSES_9703189977_AlewivesSeason006.JPGBENTON, ME - MAY 16, 2019 Fishermen fill crates with alewives caught at the base of Benton Falls Dam on the Sebasticook River in Benton on May 15, 2019. The full-time lobstermen utilize this season when the alewives run for catching bait. Lobster apparently love the smell of alewife. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/12/pf-media/MaineFisheries023.JPGMaineFisheries023.JPGJimmy Wotton, 44, claws his way along a portion of the Benton Falls Dam on the Sebasticook River, a tributary of the Kennebec River, to get to a section that alewives tend to collect in large numbers while fishing for the silver fish to be used as lobster bait on May 16, 2013. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/13/pf-media/Alewives04.JPGAlewives04.JPGErnie Wallace, left, and Jimmy Wotton, fish for alewives at the base of the hydro-electric dam on the Sebasticook Stream in Benton on May 23, 2014. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/14/pf-media/PSES_9703189977_AlewivesSeason009.JPGPSES_9703189977_AlewivesSeason009.JPGBENTON, ME - MAY 18, 2019 Brandon Bezio, of Monhegan Island, hauls crates of alewives up a ramp to the ice-packing station on the Sebasticook River in Benton on Saturday, May 18, 2019. Each crate weighs about 60 pounds containing approximately 500 alewives. The new regulation on herring fishing has made the alewife a hot commodity on the mid-coast. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/15/pf-media/MaineFisheries013.JPGMaineFisheries013.JPGJimmy Wotton, 44, captain of the Overkill lobster boat, crates his catch for shipment in Friendship Harbor on Monday, July 29, 2013. Wotton is at least the 7th generation fisherman in his family that he can count. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/16/pf-media/MaineFisheries012.JPGMaineFisheries012.JPGHeidi Simmons, center, stands inside the transport truck as Craig Mott, 36, right, dock manager at the Friendship Lobster Co-Op in Friendship Harbor, helps load crated lobsters on to the Simmons transport truck bound for a sorting facility in the town of Bremen on Monday, July 29, 2013. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/17/pf-media/Alewives07.JPGAlewives07.JPGAn osprey flies to his nest with a fresh alewife from the Sebasticook Stream in Benton on May 15, 2014. Since the fish elevator and quota for lifting alewives over the falls to spawn has brought back many birds of prey to the area. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/18/pf-media/PSES_9703189977_AlewivesSeason003.JPGPSES_9703189977_AlewivesSeason003.JPGVASSALBORO, ME - MAY 8, 2019 Alewives run for Weber Pond as spring time takes hold in Vassalboro on Wednesday, May 8, 2019. The removal of dams along the Kennebec River has brought record numbers of the fish to parts as far inland as Waterville. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/19/pf-media/Alewives09.JPGAlewives09.JPGAlewives pour out of the fish elevator at the top of the Benton Falls Dam on the Sabasticook Stream on May 9, 2013. Alewive fishing can't begin until the 250,000 fish quota has made it over the dam for spawning. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/20/pf-media/MaineFisheries029.JPGMaineFisheries029.JPGAlewives swim through the chute at the top of the Benton Falls Hydro dam fish elevator on the Sebasticook Stream in Benton on May, 17, 2013. The dam has become a blue print for hydro dams and their environmentally sound practices to support the natural ecosystem. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/21/pf-media/BOPPortfolio030.JPGBOPPortfolio030.JPGJacob Howard, a senior at Unity College studying fisheries and wildlife management, monitors the flow of alewives over the dam at the Benton Falls Dam on the Sebasticook Stream in Benton on Friday, May 23, 2020. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/22/pf-media/MaineFisheries010.JPGMaineFisheries010.JPGBOOTH BAY, MAINE - MARCH 3, 2017 Dr. Richard Whale, research professor at the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences, poses for a portrait at the Darling Marine Center in Walpole, Maine on March 3, 2017. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/23/pf-media/MaineFisheries018.JPGMaineFisheries018.JPGCarl Hayse, 18, baits a lobster trap with alewives while fishing for lobster on Wednesday near Friendship Harbor. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/24/pf-media/MaineFisheries019.JPGMaineFisheries019.JPGCarl Hayse, 18, texts on his cell phone as he sails to the fishing grounds on The Overkill captained by his uncle Jimmy Wotton early on Wednesday morning. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/25/pf-media/MaineFisheries008.JPGMaineFisheries008.JPGFRIENDSHIP - MAINE- FEBRUARY 26, 2017 Jimmy Wotton helps his son Myron, 11, on to the sciff to get to the lobster boat docked in Friendship Bay to prepare for the next day of fishing on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017. Wotton, an eighth generation fisherman in Friendship, plans to drudge for scollops the next day. Scolloping is a goody to help diversify his catch so that he does not have to rely solely on Lobstering to make money. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/26/pf-media/MaineFisheries017.JPGMaineFisheries017.JPGJimmy Wotton, 44, center, hauls in a lobster trap with his nephew and deckhand Carl Hayse, 18, left, stands by while fishing between Allen's Island and Mosquito Rock on Wednesday, July 24, 2013. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/27/pf-media/MaineFisheries016.JPGMaineFisheries016.JPGCarl Hayes, 18, robber bands live lobsters after separating the keeper lobsters from the throw-back lobsters while fishing in between Allen's Island and Mosquito Rock on Wednesday, July 24, 2013. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/28/pf-media/MaineFisheries007.JPGMaineFisheries007.JPGFRIENDSHIP - MAINE- FEBRUARY 26, 2017 Jimmy Wotton pilots his lobster boat as his son Myron, 11, hangs out with him in Friendship Bay on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017. Wotton, an eighth generation fisherman in Friendship, plans to drudge for scollops the next day. Scolloping is a goody to help diversify his catch so that he does not have to rely solely on Lobstering to make money. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/29/pf-media/MaineFisheries014.JPGMaineFisheries014.JPGCarl Hayes, 18, stacks lobster traps on the back of his uncles lobster boat, the Overkill, on Wednesday July 24, 2013. Wotton, the captain and owner of the Overkill picked up 50 traps to set further out in the ocean. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/30/pf-media/MaineFisheries006.JPGMaineFisheries006.JPGFRIENDSHIP - MAINE- FEBRUARY 26, 2017 Myron Wotton, 11, holds on to the pier at the end of th wharf as his father Jimmy Wotton ties the boat down in Friendship Bay on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017. Jimmy Wotton, an eighth generation fisherman in Friendship, plans to drudge for scollops the next day. Scolloping is a goody to help diversify his catch so that he does not have to rely solely on Lobstering to make money. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/31/pf-media/MaineFisheries005.JPGMaineFisheries005.JPGFRIENDSHIP - MAINE- FEBRUARY 26, 2017 Jimmy Wotton catches a recovered buoy from a fellow lobsterman at the wharf in Friendship, Maine on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/32/pf-media/MaineFisheries015.JPGMaineFisheries015.JPGA crate full of lobster worth $4.25 per pound are weighed in a crate on the Friendship Lobster Co-Op in Friendship Harbor on Wednesday, May 16, 2013. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/33/pf-media/MaineFisheries009.JPGMaineFisheries009.JPGFRIENDSHIP, MAINE- APRIL 3, 2017 A blue lobster, a one-in-a-million find, occupies his own crate at the Friendship Lobster Co-Op in Friendship, Maine on Monday, April 3, 2017. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/34/pf-media/MaineFisheries004.JPGMaineFisheries004.JPGFRIENDSHIP - MAINE- FEBRUARY 27, 2017 James "Jimmy" Wotton, an eighth generation lobsterman in Friendship Harbor, Maine, stands among his uniquely painted buoys that mark his lobster pots at his work space on the wharf at Friendship Harbor, Maine on Monday, Feb. 27, 2017. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/35/pf-media/MaineFisheries003.JPGMaineFisheries003.JPGFRIENDSHIP - MAINE- FEBRUARY 27, 2017 Myron Wotton, 11, Works on his arithmetic in a combined 5th and 6th grade class at the Friendship Village School on Monday, Feb,. 27, 2017. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/36/pf-media/MaineFisheries002.JPGMaineFisheries002.JPGFRIENDSHIP, MAINE- APRIL 3, 2017 James Wotton watches as wharf manager Duane Johnson, left, weighs the lobster catch for the day at the Friendship Lobster Co-Op in Friendship, Maine on Monday, April 3, 2017. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/maine-fisheries/37/pf-media/MaineFisheries001.JPGMaineFisheries001.JPGFRIENDSHIP - MAINE- FEBRUARY 26, 2017 Myron Wotton, 11, pilots the stiff as his father Jimmy Wotton stands at the fore, en route to the Wotton's lobster boat docked in Friendship Bay on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017. Wotton, an eighth generation fisherman in Friendship, plans to drudge for scollops the next day. Scolloping is a goody to help diversify his catch so that he does not have to rely solely on Lobstering to make money. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Comet-NEOWISE/thumbs https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Comet-NEOWISE/1 https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Comet-NEOWISE/2/pf-media/20200725COMETNEOWISEVISIT003.JPG20200725COMETNEOWISEVISIT003.JPGSMITHFIELD, MAINE - JULY 17, 2020 Comet NEOWISE reflects in Bog Stream at the northwest part of North Pond as the sun sets over North Pond in Smithfield on Friday, July 17, 2020. The celestial visitor is visible after sunset in the northwest night sky just below the Big Dipper or Ursa Major. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Comet-NEOWISE/3/pf-media/20200725COMETNEOWISEVISIT004.JPG20200725COMETNEOWISEVISIT004.JPGSOLON, MAINE - JULY 15, 2020 Comet NEOWISE hangs like an ornament in the northwest sky at Robbins Hill Scenic Overlook on Old Canada Road in Solon on Wednesday, July 15, 2020. Comet NEOWISE was detected on March 27th of this year by NASA'a Near Earth Orbit Wide-Infrared Exploerer, a space craft launched in December 2009, hence it's name. The visitor from the outer reaches of the solar system was visible after sunset in the northwest night sky just below the Big Dipper or Ursa Major but is now waning as it travels towards the outer reaches once again. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Comet-NEOWISE/4/pf-media/20200725COMETNEOWISEVISIT006.JPG20200725COMETNEOWISEVISIT006.JPGCLINTON, MAINE - JULY 21, 2020 Light flickers from a tv in the second floor of a farm in Clinton as comet NEOWISE officially named C/2020 F3 appears to hover in the sky while traveling at 144,000 mph 64 million miles away on it's 6,800 year trip past earth on July 21, 2020. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Comet-NEOWISE/5/pf-media/NEOWISEouttakes014.JPGNEOWISEouttakes014.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Comet-NEOWISE/6/pf-media/20200725COMETNEOWISEVISIT002.JPG20200725COMETNEOWISEVISIT002.JPGMERCER, MAINE - JULY 18, 2020 NEOWISE comet dives out of the sky over a farm in Mercer, Maine on Friday, July 17, 2020. The celestial visitor is visible after sunset in the northwest night sky just below the Big Dipper or Ursa Major. NEOWISE is an acronym for Near Earth Orbit WideWide-Field Survey Exploere. (Morning Sentinel photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Comet-NEOWISE/7/pf-media/20200725COMETNEOWISEVISIT013.JPG20200725COMETNEOWISEVISIT013.JPGSMITHFIELD, MAINE - JULY 23, 2020 The thunderstorms yielded an ethereal scene in Smithfield, Maine. The comet NEOWISE is waning as it leaves our sky and away from the sun. Each night, the hunk of space matter gets smaller and smaller in the sky. Soon it won't be visible to the naked eye. If you look closely, you can see NEOWISE mid frame on the right above the dash from an orbiting satellite. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Comet-NEOWISE/8/pf-media/20200725COMETNEOWISEVISIT011.JPG20200725COMETNEOWISEVISIT011.JPGSMITHFIELD, MAINE - JULY 21, 2020 Kyle Grantham, a professional photographer from Delaware, makes a picture of the Milky Way after making pictures of his true objective, comet NEOWISE, at the water's edge of the Narrows on North Pond in Smithfield, Maine on July 21, 2020. The celestial event happens once every 6,800 years making it a unique experience justifying the 1,200 mile round trip for only 4 hours of shooting. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Comet-NEOWISE/9/pf-media/20200725COMETNEOWISEVISIT007.JPG20200725COMETNEOWISEVISIT007.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE - JULY 20, 2020 Traffic heads south on Interstate-95 as seen from Quarry Road in Waterville on Monday, July 20, 2020 as NEOWISE shines in the night sky. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Comet-NEOWISE/10/pf-media/NEOWISEouttakes012.JPGNEOWISEouttakes012.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Comet-NEOWISE/11/pf-media/20200725COMETNEOWISEVISIT012.JPG20200725COMETNEOWISEVISIT012.JPGSMITHFIELD, MAINE - JULY 23, 2020 Break lights from a car traveling on Bog Road in Smithfield illuminates the low lying fog hover over Bog Stream at North Pond as comet NEOWISE is seen through a window of clouds in the northwest sky on July 23, 2020. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Comet-NEOWISE/12/pf-media/NEOWISEouttakes002.JPGNEOWISEouttakes002.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Different-Future/thumbs https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Different-Future/1/pf-media/ADifferentFuture01.JPGADifferentFuture01.JPGWILTON, MAINE - MAY 9, 2018 Siiri Stinson comforts her daughter Leah, 20, at home after school at their Wilton home on Wednesday, May, 9, 2018. Leah suffers from a rare disease named Angelman Syndrome, that affects her cognitive and physical development. She has the cognitive function of an 8 month to 18-month old. Her mother, Siiri has been battling with the Regional School District 9 over budget cuts that would eliminate services available to Leah. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Different-Future/2/pf-media/ADifferentFuture02.JPGADifferentFuture02.JPGWILTON, MAINE - SEPTEMBER 12, 2017 Siiri Stinson talks on the phone at her Wilton home with another friend about the RSU 9 school budget that was rejected keeping the hopes alive that a budget will be passed that will not cut special education services to students in the RSU 9 school district. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Different-Future/3/pf-media/ADifferentFuture03.JPGADifferentFuture03.JPGWILTON, MAINE - DECEMBER 4, 2017 Siiri Stinson sits on the couch reading a children's book to her oldest daughter, Leah, as the youngest child, Owen, 2, plays on the laptop computer on the floor before bed time in Wilton on Monday, Dec. 4, 2017. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Different-Future/4/pf-media/ADifferentFuture04.JPGADifferentFuture04.JPGWILTON, MAINE - SEPTEMBER 6, 2017 Leah Stinson sits in her chair at home after a day of school as she plays with legos after school in Wilton on Wednesday, September 6, 2017. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Different-Future/5/pf-media/ADifferentFuture05.JPGADifferentFuture05.JPGWILTON, MAINE - SEPTEMBER 12, 2017 Siiri Stinson guides her daughter, Leah, 20, to the bathroom before going to bed at their Wilton home on Sept. 12, 2017. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Different-Future/6/pf-media/ADifferentFuture06.JPGADifferentFuture06.JPGWILTON, MAINE - SEPTEMBER 12, 2017 Siiri Stinson, right, holds out her hands to pick up her youngest child Owen, 2, as Simon, 7, finishes his dinner at the family's Wilton home on Sept. 12, 2017. Leah is in the background entertaining herself. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Different-Future/7/pf-media/SirriLEah014.JPGSirriLEah014.JPGWILTON, ME - DECEMBER 4, 2017 in Wilton on Monday, Dec. 4, 2017. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Different-Future/8/pf-media/ADifferentFuture07.JPGADifferentFuture07.JPGWILTON, MAINE - JUNE 7, 2018 Siiri Stinson kisses her daughter Leah, 20, as she is tucked in to bed for the night in Wilton on Thursday, June 7, 2018. There is no light in the room or furniture, for Leah's safety. She tends to get up in the middle of the night and break anything she can grab or smear fecal matter all over the bed room. Siiri has designed and patented a special pajama design to help prevent the smearing. The other way to contain the mess and protect Leah is to lock her in her room for the night. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Different-Future/9/pf-media/ADifferentFuture08.JPGADifferentFuture08.JPGWILTON, MAINE - JUNE 6, 2018 Leah Stinson, 20, sneaks out of her room to play with her youngest brother Owen, 2, at bed time at home in Wilton on Thursday, June 6, 2018. Leah broke out of bed as her mother, Siiri retrieved the key to the lock on her door so she doesn't roam at night while the family sleeps. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Different-Future/10/pf-media/ADifferentFuture09.JPGADifferentFuture09.JPGWILTON, MAINE - SEPTEMBER 6, 2017 Siiri Stinson puts her daughter Leah, 20, to bed for the night in Wilton on Wednesday, September 6, 2017. There is no light in the room or furniture, for Leah's safety. She tends to get up in the middle of the night and break anything she can grab or smear fecal matter all over the bed room. Siiri has designed and patented a special pajama design to help prevent the smearing. The other way to contain the mess and protect Leah is to lock her in her room for the night. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Different-Future/11/pf-media/ADifferentFuture10.JPGADifferentFuture10.JPGWILTON, MAINE - SEPTEMBER 6, 2017 Jared Stinson reads to all of children from the hallway at the doorways to all of the bedrooms with his daughter Eliza, 10, by his side in Wilton on Wednesday, September 6, 2017. Once the children are asleep, Jared remains in the hallway and works on his school work in his pre-med concentration at the University of Maine at Farmington. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Different-Future/12/pf-media/ADifferentFuture11.JPGADifferentFuture11.JPGFARMINGTON, MAINE - MAY 9, 2018 Leah Stinson, 20, gets a high-five from her personal ed tech 2, Alison Woodcock, during class at Mt. Blue High School on Wednesday, May, 9, 2018. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Different-Future/13/pf-media/ADifferentFuture12.JPGADifferentFuture12.JPGFARMINGTON, MAINE - SEPTEMBER 15, 2017 Leah Stinson cozies up to one of her favorite teachers, Bob Bourassa, an ed tech at Mt. Blue High School at the end of a day of school in Farmington on Sept. 15, 2017. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Different-Future/14/pf-media/ADifferentFuture13.JPGADifferentFuture13.JPGFARMINGTON, MAINE - MAY 9, 2018 Leah Stinson receives some help from her personal ed tech 2, Alison Woodcock, during school at Mt. Blue High School on Wednesday, May, 9, 2018. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Different-Future/15/pf-media/ADifferentFuture14.JPGADifferentFuture14.JPGFARMINGTON, MAINE - MAY 9, 2018 Leah Stinson, right, walks with a classmate to their respective buses as ed tech 2, Alison Woodcock follows closely behind at Mt. Blue High School on Wednesday, May, 9, 2018. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Different-Future/16/pf-media/ADifferentFuture15.JPGADifferentFuture15.JPGFARMINGTON, MAINE - MAY 9, 2018 Leah Stinson, 20, is guided to her bus, #19, by her personal ed tech 2, Alison Woodcock, at the end of a school day at Mt. Blue High School on Wednesday, May, 9, 2018. Leah needs constant supervision and his handed off to from one professional to another until she reaches home where her mother is waiting. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Different-Future/17/pf-media/ADifferentFuture16.JPGADifferentFuture16.JPGFARMINGTON, MAINE - MAY 31, 2018 Alison Woodcock waves goodbye to Leah Stinson as she heads home on bus 19 after a day of school at Mt. Blue High School in Farmington on May 31, 2018. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Different-Future/18/pf-media/ADifferentFuture17.JPGADifferentFuture17.JPGFARMINGTON, MAINE - JUNE 10, 2018 Alison Woodcock, an ed tech 2, helps to occupy Leah Stinson's attention as they wait with class of 2018 in the hallway before commencement ceremonies at Mt. Blue High School in Farmington on Sunday, June 10, 2018. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Different-Future/19/pf-media/ADifferentFuture18.JPGADifferentFuture18.JPGFARMINGTON, MAINE - JUNE 10, 2018 Leah Stinson looks around at her fellow classmates during commencement ceremonies at Mt. Blue High School in Farmington on Sunday, June 10, 2018. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/A-Different-Future/20/pf-media/ADifferentFuture19.JPGADifferentFuture19.JPGFARMINGTON, MAINE - JUNE 10, 2018 Siiri Stinson shares a moment with her daughter Leah while trying on her graduation gown at home in Wilton on Sunday, June 10, 2018. (Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/The-Long-Goodbye/thumbs https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/The-Long-Goodbye/1/pf-media/TheLongGoodbye018.JPGTheLongGoodbye018.JPGFORT COLLINS, COLORADO - SEPTEMBER 29, 2006. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a debilitating disease that robs a person the ability to initiate and control voluntary muscle movement. Steve now relies on his hospice home care nurse, Barbie Webber, five mornings a week to get Steve out of bed, showered and dressed. The two remaining mornings are covered by part-time nurses. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/The-Long-Goodbye/2/pf-media/TheLongGoodbye017.JPGTheLongGoodbye017.JPGFORT COLLINS, COLORADO - SEPTEMBER 29, 2007 Barbie Webber, Steve's hospice nurse, pushes him from his 1st floor bedroom in his families home to his electric wheel chair via the Hoyer lift on September 29, 2007. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/The-Long-Goodbye/3/pf-media/TheLongGoodbye016.JPGTheLongGoodbye016.JPGFORTT COLLINS, COLORADO - OCTOBER 11, 2006 Steve navigates the wheelchair ramp in his garage with a newly installed head array steering mechanism as his wife Kathi watches intently from the door on Oct. 11, 2006. The disease has progressed to the point where Steve can no longer initiate actions with his hands or fingers forcing him to rely on movements his body is still capable of initiating. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/The-Long-Goodbye/4/pf-media/TheLongGoodbye015.JPGTheLongGoodbye015.JPGFORT COLLINS, COLORADO - NOVEMBER 14, 2006 Steve navigates the access ramp to the mini van in his electric wheel chair with his wife Kathi standing by on November 14, 2006. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/The-Long-Goodbye/5/pf-media/TheLongGoodbye014.JPGTheLongGoodbye014.JPGFORT COLLINS, COLORADO - NOVEMBER 16, 2006 Grace, 8 and Conor, 10, ride their scooters as Steve drives his chair in high gear down their suburban street in Fort Collins on Nov. 19, 2007. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/The-Long-Goodbye/6/pf-media/TheLongGoodbye013.JPGTheLongGoodbye013.JPGFORT COLLINS, COLORADO - NOVEMBER 19, 2006. Steve sits in his wheelchair in the afternoon sun outside his home while his long time friend Joe Warson hangs Christmas decorations from the front porch eve and Kathi rakes the autumn leaves from the yard on November 19, 2006. Joe made the trip in from Los Angeles to Fort Collins for a few days to visit with Steve and the family. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/The-Long-Goodbye/7/pf-media/TheLongGoodbye012.JPGTheLongGoodbye012.JPGFORT COLLINS, COLORADO - OCTOBER 11, 2006. Conor laughs as he adapts a straw to reach his dad's mouth on Oct. 11, 2007. Steve's disease has progressed to the point where he has a hard time leaning forward. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/The-Long-Goodbye/8/pf-media/TheLongGoodbye011.JPGTheLongGoodbye011.JPGFORT COLLINS, COLORADO - SEPTEMBER 22, 2007 Grace prepares the last bite of the homemade macaroni and cheese for her father at dinner on September 22, 2006. Since Steve has lost the ability to feed himself his children take turns each meal feeding him. This is a duty Grace takes very serious. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/The-Long-Goodbye/9/pf-media/TheLongGoodbye010.JPGTheLongGoodbye010.JPGFORT COLLINS, COLORADO - OCTOBER 11, 2006 Steve spends time with his daughter Grace, 6, and Conor, 10, in the kitchen after a day of school. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/The-Long-Goodbye/10/pf-media/TheLongGoodbye009.JPGTheLongGoodbye009.JPGFORT COLLINS, COLORADO - DECEMBER 10, 2006. Alex performs a "quad-caugh" on his father as his mother, Kathi and brother, Conor order pizza for dinner on Dec. 10, 2006. The need for assisted coughing is a sign that Steve's diaphragm strength had diminished to a dangerous level. At first the quad-coaugh was a hard consequence of the disease for the family and Steve to get used to, but Alex adapted and was an intrigual part of his father care at home. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/The-Long-Goodbye/11/pf-media/TheLongGoodbye008.JPGTheLongGoodbye008.JPGFORT COLLINS, COLORADO - OCTOBER 19, 2006 Joe Warson, left, and Franco Santini, center, help Steve remove his pants before going to bed. Steve, Joe and Franco have been friends since elementary school in Fort Collins. Joe, who now lives in Los Angeles and Franco in Denver still find the time to get together and visit. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/The-Long-Goodbye/12/pf-media/TheLongGoodbye007.JPGTheLongGoodbye007.JPGFORT COLLINS, COLORADO - DECEMBER 12, 2006 Steve and his son Alex watch "The Daily Show" and share some laughs after the nightly routine of going to bed on Dec. 12, 2006. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/The-Long-Goodbye/13/pf-media/TheLongGoodbye006.JPGTheLongGoodbye006.JPGFORT COLLINS, COLORADO - NOVEMBER 14, 2006 Steve is administered a flu shot from the physician's assistant at the pulmonologist's office, Dr. Walic in Fort Collins on Nov. 14, 2006. Steve's expected lung capacity had dropped from 39% expected to 20% expected in only three months, a real set-up for complications from the flu or pneumonia. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/The-Long-Goodbye/14/pf-media/TheLongGoodbye005.JPGTheLongGoodbye005.JPGLOVELAND, COLORADO - MARCH 29, 2007 Hospice nurses help adjust Steve in his bed after changing his clothes as his wife Kathi waits at the door on March 29, 2007. Steve has been in a coma for almost three days. His respiratory system is failing and he has refused a respirator. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/The-Long-Goodbye/15/pf-media/TheLongGoodbye004.JPGTheLongGoodbye004.JPGLOVELAND, COLORADO - MARCH 30, 2007 Kathi adults Steve's pillow to make him more comfortable as she strokes his hair on March 30, 2007. Steve is mostly in a coma at this point. His lungs are failing and breathing is becoming too difficult to do on his own. Steve didn't want to be put on life-support. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/The-Long-Goodbye/16/pf-media/TheLongGoodbye003.JPGTheLongGoodbye003.JPGLOVELAND, COLORADO - MARCH 28, 2007 Grace, 8, the youngest of Steve's three children reads to him in his hospice bed at McKee Medical Center in Loveland, Colo. on March 28, 2007. Hospice of Larimer County occupies a wing at McKee for terminally ill patients nearing the end of their battles. Hospice understands the need for not only patient care, but also family care. Hospice offers cots for family and friends to use to spend the nights with their loved ones with no visiting times. Visitors are welcome any hour of any day with the families consent. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/The-Long-Goodbye/17/pf-media/TheLongGoodbye002.JPGTheLongGoodbye002.JPGLOVELAND, COLORADO - MARCH 28, 2006 Father Don Williette, a Catholic Priest from John the XXIII University Catholic Church in Fort Collins lays his hand on Steve while performing the "Annointing of the Sick" with Alex, 13, left, wife Kathi, middle, friend Franco Santini, back right, son, Conor, 10, middle right, daughter Grace, 8, hidden, mother Margret, right and hospice chaplain Maria Cox McLain, foreground. This was the last day Steve was in his wheelchair. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/The-Long-Goodbye/18/pf-media/TheLongGoodbye001.JPGTheLongGoodbye001.JPGLOVELAND, COLORADO - APRIL 1, 2007 Kathi and Alex say one last goodbye to their husband and father moments after his battle with the merciless disease ended on Palm Sunday, April 1, 2007. Steve's battle with ALS or commonly known as Lou Gerhig's Disease came to an end with Steve surrounded by friends and family as he took his last breath. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/thumbs https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/1 https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/2/pf-media/MaternalandInfantCare11.JPGMaternalandInfantCare11.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/3/pf-media/WebPortrait013.JPGWebPortrait013.JPGPhoto by Michael G. Seamans A child peers through the barred windows at the Wellbody Alliance Clinic in Gbense Chiefdom, Sierra Leone on Dec. 9, 2014. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/4/pf-media/MaternalandInfantCare12.JPGMaternalandInfantCare12.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/5/pf-media/MaternalandInfantCare04.JPGMaternalandInfantCare04.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/6/pf-media/WebEbola027.JPGWebEbola027.JPGKONO DISTRICT - SIERRA LEONE 03-30-2015 Women and children wait outside the WellBody Alliance office to go through Ebola virus protocol before seeing a doctor for their pregnancy on March 30, 2015. WellBody Alliance has started a new program that integrates traditional faith healers with modern medicine to curb the high infant and maternal mortality rates, which are the highest anywhere in the world. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/7/pf-media/WebEbola017.JPGWebEbola017.JPGKONO DISTRICT - SIERRA LEONE 03-26-2015 Two pregnant women wait outside the traditional healers office at the WellBody Alliance for an evaluation in Gbense Chiefdom, Koivu City, Sierra Leone on March 26, 2015. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/8/pf-media/WebEbola018.JPGWebEbola018.JPGKONO DISTRICT - SIERRA LEONE 03-29-2015 Women and children share a bowl of rice and cassava as they wait to be screened for the Ebola virus prior to visiting with medical staff at the Wellbody Alliance clinic in Gbense Chiefdom in Sierra Leone's rural Kono District on March 29, 2015. All visitors go through a triage process to identify any possible Ebola cases. This includes a questionnaire, temperature check and hand washing with a 0.05 percent chlorine solution. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/9/pf-media/MaternalandInfantCare27.JPGMaternalandInfantCare27.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/10/pf-media/MaternalandInfantCare32.JPGMaternalandInfantCare32.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/11/pf-media/WebEbola014.JPGWebEbola014.JPGGBENSE CHIEFDOM - SIERRA LEONE 12-11-2014 A woman prays before a healthy living discussion operated by staff at the Wellbody Alliance Clinic in Gbense, Kono District, Sierra Leone, on Dec. 11, 2014. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/12/pf-media/MaternalandInfantCare29.JPGMaternalandInfantCare29.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/13/pf-media/MaternalandInfantCare24.JPGMaternalandInfantCare24.JPGPhoto by Michael G. Seamans A child sleeps at the children's ward at the Government Hospital in Koidu City, Sierra Leone. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/14/pf-media/MaternalandInfantCare31.JPGMaternalandInfantCare31.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/15/pf-media/MaternalandInfantCare48.JPGMaternalandInfantCare48.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/16/pf-media/MaternalandInfantCare22.JPGMaternalandInfantCare22.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/17/pf-media/WebEbola023.JPGWebEbola023.JPGKONO DISTRICT - SIERRA LEONE A woman stands outside the delivery room as her daughter receives critical care at Kono Government Hospital after a miscarriage in Sierra Leone's rural Kono District on March 31, 2015. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/18/pf-media/BeyondEbola022.JPGBeyondEbola022.JPGKAMADU VILLAGE - SIERRA LEONE 04-01-2015 Mr. Fengai, a blind traditional healer, smiles as he sits on his front porch greeting villagers as they walk by in the morning commute in Kamadu Village, Sierra Leone on April 1, 2015. Fengai is somewhat of a local celebrity. A cross between a man with cosmic powers and a mayor. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/19/pf-media/BeyondEbola020.JPGBeyondEbola020.JPGKAMADU VILLAGE - SIERRA LEONE 04-01-2015 Mr. Fengai, a blind witch doctor, looks in to a special mirror that acts as a window in to the mystical world as he diagnosis a customer in his bedroom on April 1, 2015. Fengai diagnosed Bintu's dreams of infidelity and prescribed a cassava brew and ritual to rid the woman of her impure dreams. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/20/pf-media/BeyondEbola018.JPGBeyondEbola018.JPGKAMADU VILLAGE - SIERRA LEONE 04-03-2015 Mr. Fengai, a blind traditional healer, holds a tiny shell in in the palm of his hand as he prepares a witch's brew to be used to rid a local woman of nightmares of a miscarriage in Kamadu, Sierra Leone on April 3, 2015. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/21/pf-media/BeyondEbola016.JPGBeyondEbola016.JPGKAMADU VILLAGE - SIERRA LEONE 04-03-2015 Mr. Fengai, a blind traditional healer, prepares a witch's brew to be used to rid a local woman of nightmares of a miscarriage in Kamadu, Sierra Leone on April 3, 2015. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/22/pf-media/BeyondEbola014.JPGBeyondEbola014.JPGKAMADU VILLAGE - SIERRA LEONE 04-03-2015 Mr. Fengai, a blind traditional healer, offers a witch brew made of a green leaf called baa to eleveate Bintu Willam's nightmares of a miscarriage as her husband Komba Bockerie, right, watches during a ritual healing ceremony at Fengai's home in Kamadu Village in Sierra Leone's rural Kono District on April 3, 2015. Bintu has had three previous miscarriages that Mr. Fengai attributes to the devil. The brew and ceremony is used to ward off the evil spirits. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/23/pf-media/BeyondEbola010.JPGBeyondEbola010.JPGDORMA VILLAGE - SIERRA LEONE 03-27-2015 Sembu, a local witch gun maker, sits in his home in the village on Dorma in Kono District, Sierra Leone, on Friday, March 27, 2015. With guns are used for a variety of purposes, some good, some bad. This with gun was made to cast a curse on a person. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/24/pf-media/BeyondEbola013.JPGBeyondEbola013.JPGKAMADU VILLAGE - SIERRA LEONE 04-01-2015 Komba Bockerie stands on dried grass during a ceremony conducted by local traditional healer, Mr. Fengai, at Fengai's home in Kamadu, Sierra Leone on April 1, 2015. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/25/pf-media/BeyondEbola011.JPGBeyondEbola011.JPGKAMADU VILLAGE - SIERRA LEONE 03-27-2015 Mr. Fengai, a local witch doctor, sits on his bed in his home as he waits for next patient on March 27, 2015. Mr. Fengai was visited by a female devil as child while sitting on the banks of a local river. The devil took pity on Mr. Fengai's blindness and gave him special powers to help others. He was strictly informed that he was not to use his powers for bad. Fengai is just one of the many traditional healers that treat people for various ailments in Kono. The threat of the Ebola virus has forced many traditional healers to turn people away. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/26/pf-media/BeyondEbola009.JPGBeyondEbola009.JPGDORMA VILLAGE - SIERRA LEONE 04-03-2015 Sembu, a local witch doctor who specializes in dark magic, sits on his bed in his mud hut as nefarious shadow hovers above him in the shine of the flashlight as he prepares open the spirit portal to fire a witch bullet at an unsuspecting victim in Dorma Village, Sierra Leone on April 3, 2015. Many in Sierra Leone see their local witch doctor as an aid to other parts of their life aside from physical health. If a neighbor has done you wrong, you can have a spell fired at them in the form of a witch bullet. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/27/pf-media/BeyondEbola007.JPGBeyondEbola007.JPGDORMA VILLAGE - SIERRA LEONE 03-27-2015 Sembu, a local witch gun maker, sits in his home in the village on Dorma in Kono District, Sierra Leone, on Friday, March 27, 2015. With guns are used for a variety of purposes, some good, some bad. This with gun was made to cast a curse on a person. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/28/pf-media/BeyondEbola006.JPGBeyondEbola006.JPGDORMA VILLAGE - SIERRA LEONE 03-27-2015 Sembu, a local witch gun maker, sits in his home in the village on Dorma in Kono District, Sierra Leone, on Friday, March 27, 2015. With guns are used for a variety of purposes, some good, some bad. This with gun was made to cast a curse on a person. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/29/pf-media/BeyondEbola003.JPGBeyondEbola003.JPGKONO DISTRICT - SIERRA LEONE 04-03-2015 A local witch doctor prepares to fire a witch gun with four feathers from his home in Dorma Village, in Sierra Leone's rural Kono District on April 3, 2015. The witch gun represents a different side of the traditional healthcare still used in parts of west Africa. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/30/pf-media/BeyondEbola002.JPGBeyondEbola002.JPGDORMA VILLAGE - SIERRA LEONE 03-27-2015 Sembu, a local witch gun maker, sits in his home in the village on Dorma in Kono District, Sierra Leone, on Friday, March 27, 2015. With guns are used for a variety of purposes, some good, some bad. This with gun was made to cast a curse on a person. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/31/pf-media/MaternalandInfantCare05.JPGMaternalandInfantCare05.JPGGBENSE CHIEFDOM - SIERRA LEONE at the Wellbody Alliance birthing center in Gbense Chiefdom, Kono District in eastern Sierra Leone on Wednesday, April 1, 2015. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/32/pf-media/WebEbola021.JPGWebEbola021.JPGKONO DISTRICT - SIERRA LEONE 04-01-2015 A team of traditional birth attendants and nurses rejoice after delivering the first baby in the newly opened Wellbody Alliance birthing center in Gbense Chiefdom in Sierra Leone's rural Kono District on April 1, 2015. The mother, Salome Kamara gave birth to twins. The first birth was at home; the second twin was born in the clinic after complications arose. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/33/pf-media/WebEbola015.JPGWebEbola015.JPGKONO DISTRICT - SIERRA LEONE 03-30-2015 A new mother feeds her child two days after giving birth at the Government Hospital in oxide City, Sierra Leone on March 30, 2015. Part of the reconciliation to end the bloody civil war in 2001 was a promise to provide free healthcare to pregnant or lactating women and children three and younger. The promise is hardly being honored. Women and children are still being charged money for a prompt visit and medication if needed. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/34/pf-media/MaternalandInfantCare03.JPGMaternalandInfantCare03.JPGGBENSE CHIEFDOM - SIERRA LEONE at the Wellbody Alliance birthing center in Gbense Chiefdom, Kono District in eastern Sierra Leone on Wednesday, April 1, 2015. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/35/pf-media/MaternalandInfantCare15.JPGMaternalandInfantCare15.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/36/pf-media/MaternalandInfantCare13.JPGMaternalandInfantCare13.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/37/pf-media/MaternalandInfantCare17.JPGMaternalandInfantCare17.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/38/pf-media/MaternalandInfantCare16A.JPGMaternalandInfantCare16A.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/39/pf-media/MaternalandInfantCare18.JPGMaternalandInfantCare18.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/40/pf-media/MaternalandInfantCare20.JPGMaternalandInfantCare20.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/41/pf-media/MaternalandInfantCare21.JPGMaternalandInfantCare21.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/New-Future-Sierra-Leone/42/pf-media/MaternalandInfantCare14.JPGMaternalandInfantCare14.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Ebola-Sierra-Leone/thumbs https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Ebola-Sierra-Leone/1 https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Ebola-Sierra-Leone/2/pf-media/EbolaDiamondCountry01.JPGEbolaDiamondCountry01.JPGPhoto by Michael G. Seamans Sierra Leone military personnel assemble at Kono Government hospital in Koidu City as the prepare for a sweep in two villages in the Nimiyama Chiefdom on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2014. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Ebola-Sierra-Leone/3/pf-media/EbolaDiamondCountry02.JPGEbolaDiamondCountry02.JPGA Sierra Leone governrnent health care worker and Ebola hunter inspects homes in Gbense Chiefdom of rural eastern Kono District in Sierra Leone on Dec. 14, 2014. The Ebola task force is conducting surprise searches for hidden Ebola infected people to treat and isolate in the hopes of stopping the ranging epidemic currently ravaging West Africa. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Ebola-Sierra-Leone/4/pf-media/EbolaDiamondCountry03.JPGEbolaDiamondCountry03.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Ebola-Sierra-Leone/5/pf-media/EbolaDiamondCountry26.JPGEbolaDiamondCountry26.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Ebola-Sierra-Leone/6/pf-media/EbolaDiamondCountry04.JPGEbolaDiamondCountry04.JPGPhoto by Michael G. Seamans Sierra Leone healthcare workers confront a suspected Ebola case during a military sweep in the village of Ndogboie in the Nimiyama Chiefdom, Kono District on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2014. The man was identified as having the deadly virus and brought by ambulance to Kono Government Hospital and later transfered to the Ebola Treament Center in Kenema. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Ebola-Sierra-Leone/7/pf-media/EbolaDiamondCountry05.JPGEbolaDiamondCountry05.JPGNIMIYAMA, SIERRA LEONE - DECEMBER 14, 2014 Sierra Leone military personnel assemble at Kono Government hospital in Koidu City as the prepare for a sweep in two villages in the Nimiyama Chiefdom on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2014. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Ebola-Sierra-Leone/8/pf-media/EbolaDiamondCountry06.JPGEbolaDiamondCountry06.JPGPhoto by Michael G. Seamans Sierra Leone military personnel assemble at Kono Government hospital in Koidu City as the prepare for a sweep in two villages in the Nimiyama Chiefdom on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2014. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Ebola-Sierra-Leone/9/pf-media/EbolaDiamondCountry07.JPGEbolaDiamondCountry07.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Ebola-Sierra-Leone/10/pf-media/EbolaDiamondCountry08.JPGEbolaDiamondCountry08.JPGPhoto by Michael G. Seamans Sierra Leone government healthcare workers check a baby and mother during sweep in Ndogboie Village in Miniyama Chiefdom in eastern Kono District, Sierra Leone on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2014. The surprise searches consisted of nearly 100 government healthcare workers and about a dozen Sierra Leone soldiers. Ebola has made a recent surge in the district forcing officials to quarantine the district for 21 days. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Ebola-Sierra-Leone/11/pf-media/EbolaDiamondCountry09.JPGEbolaDiamondCountry09.JPGPhoto by Michael G. Seamans A young boy cries as Sierra Leone government healthcare workers check on his fever during a military search of Ebola virus infected people in the village of Ndogboie, in the Nimiyama Chiefdom, Kono District, Sierra Leone on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2014. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Ebola-Sierra-Leone/12/pf-media/EbolaDiamondCountry10.JPGEbolaDiamondCountry10.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Ebola-Sierra-Leone/13/pf-media/EbolaDiamondCountry11.JPGEbolaDiamondCountry11.JPGPhoto by Michael G. Seamans Sierra Leone military personnel begin a sweep in the village of Ndogboie in the Nimiyama Chiefdom in eastern Kono District on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2014. Nearly 100 government healthcare workers and a dozen military personnel took part in the search. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Ebola-Sierra-Leone/14/pf-media/EbolaDiamondCountry12.JPGEbolaDiamondCountry12.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Ebola-Sierra-Leone/15/pf-media/EbolaDiamondCountry13.JPGEbolaDiamondCountry13.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Ebola-Sierra-Leone/16/pf-media/EbolaDiamondCountry14.JPGEbolaDiamondCountry14.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Ebola-Sierra-Leone/17/pf-media/EbolaDiamondCountry15.JPGEbolaDiamondCountry15.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Ebola-Sierra-Leone/18/pf-media/EbolaDiamondCountry16.JPGEbolaDiamondCountry16.JPGPhoto by Michael G. Seamans A man has his temperature checked with a infrared thermometer by a community outreach healthcare official with Wellbody Alliance in Koidu City, Kono District, Sierra Leone on Dec. 10, 2014. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Ebola-Sierra-Leone/19/pf-media/EbolaDiamondCountry17.JPGEbolaDiamondCountry17.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Ebola-Sierra-Leone/20/pf-media/EbolaDiamondCountry18.JPGEbolaDiamondCountry18.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Ebola-Sierra-Leone/21/pf-media/EbolaDiamondCountry20.JPGEbolaDiamondCountry20.JPGKONO DISTRICT-SIERRA LEONE - 12-09-2014 The newest Ebola Treatment Unit waits for patients as heavy machinery works away at one of the largest diamond mines in the world in Kono, Sierra Leone on Dec. 9, 2014. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Ebola-Sierra-Leone/22/pf-media/EbolaDiamondCountry19.JPGEbolaDiamondCountry19.JPGKONO DISTRICT-SIERRA LEONE - 12-09-2014 A Sierra Leonean health care worker points to the newest Ebola Treatment Unit next to one of the largest diamond mines in the world in Kono, Sierra Leone on Dec. 9, 2014. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Ebola-Sierra-Leone/23/pf-media/EbolaDiamondCountry23.JPGEbolaDiamondCountry23.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Ebola-Sierra-Leone/24/pf-media/Ebola003.JPGEbola003.JPGKONO DISTRICT- SIERRA LEONE 03-31-2015 Dr. Andy Hall with Partners in Health instructs Esther Nguajah, a traditional birthing attendant on how to shed her personal protective equipment at the Wellbody Alliance delivery center in Gbense Chiefdom in Kono District, Sierra Leone on Tuesday, March 31, 2015. The PPE training is part of the delivery center training protocol now required due to the presence of the Ebola virus in the region. The healthcare organization hopes to not need the added protective gear in the near future to make the birthing process more accommodating to people who seek a more traditional style birth. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Ebola-Sierra-Leone/25/pf-media/EbolaDiamondCountry21.JPGEbolaDiamondCountry21.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Ebola-Sierra-Leone/26/pf-media/EbolaDiamondCountry24.JPGEbolaDiamondCountry24.JPGKONO DISTRICT - SIERRA LEONE 03-30-2015 Aminata Kamara, 25, is prepped for a blood transfusion during treatment for uncontrolled bleeding at Kono Government Hospital in Sierra Leone's rural Kono District on March 30, 2015. Two days earlier Kamara underwent surgery to have her dead fetus removed. (Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Ebola-Sierra-Leone/27/pf-media/EbolaDiamondCountry25.JPGEbolaDiamondCountry25.JPGPhoto by Michael G. Seamans Sierra Leone healthcare workers at Kono Government Hospital tend to a suspected Ebola victim on the walkway that connects two hospital buildings as people around in Koidu City, Kono District, Sierra Leone on Dec. 10, 2014. The sudden influx of Ebola cases climbed in Kono District forcing officials to lock down the entire District for 21 beginning in Dec. 1, 2014 and ending on the 23rd. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Ebola-Sierra-Leone/28/pf-media/EbolaDiamondCountry27.JPGEbolaDiamondCountry27.JPGPhoto by Michael G. Seamans A hospital worker dressed in full protective gear returns from a room with cleaning equipment where an Ebola victim died earlier at the Government Hospital in Kono District on Dec. 10, 2014. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Maine-Frontier-Medicine/thumbs https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Maine-Frontier-Medicine/1 https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Maine-Frontier-Medicine/2/pf-media/RuralHealthcareCrisis_001.JPGRuralHealthcareCrisis_001.JPGDelta paramedic, Damian Brockway, right, prepares a dose of pain medication to prepare Dora Pendleton, back center, for the 37 minute transport to the hospital from her residence in Benton on Saturday, May 1, 2020. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Maine-Frontier-Medicine/3/pf-media/RuralHealthcareCrisis_002.JPGRuralHealthcareCrisis_002.JPGDamian Brockway, paramedic with Delta Ambulance, radioes ahead to Thayer Hospital emergency department to prepare for a critically ill Covid-19 positive patientâs arrival on May 3, 2020. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Maine-Frontier-Medicine/4/pf-media/RuralHealthcareCrisis_004.JPGRuralHealthcareCrisis_004.JPGDamian Brockway prints out his last cardiac monitor data from the back of truck 3, his office for the last 4 years of a 20 year career at Delta Ambulance in Waterville, Maine on May 3, 2020. Brockway is leaving his paramedic job to become a new type of EMS practitioner. The position is so new it doesnât even have a name yet. The position is designed to extend the extensive training of an experienced paramedic to fill the unique healthcare practitioner niche in rural communities where hospitals donât exist. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Maine-Frontier-Medicine/5/pf-media/RuralHealthcareCrisis_003.JPGRuralHealthcareCrisis_003.JPGDamian Brockway, a paramedic with Delta Ambulance, treats Dora Pendleton for a broken arm in her doorway in Benton on Saturday, May 1, 2020. One in two Mainers lives in a rural area and of that percentage, 15 percent are elderly living alone. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Maine-Frontier-Medicine/6/pf-media/RuralHealthcareCrisis_005.JPGRuralHealthcareCrisis_005.JPGJACKMAN, MAINE - MAY 8, 2021 Damian Brockway, a paramedic with Northeast Ambulance, practices placing a breathing tube as he works his paramedic shift at Penobscot County Health Center in Jackman on May 8, 2021. (Staff Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Maine-Frontier-Medicine/7/pf-media/RuralHealthcareCrisis_006.JPGRuralHealthcareCrisis_006.JPGDamian Brockway, a paramedic with North East Mobile Health, learns how to set a catheter on a mannequin with other program candidates in training for a new, higher level class of paramedic provider during class at United Technologies Center in Bangor on Thursday, July 1, 2021. The goal of this new approach to medicine is to create a new healthcare provider that can address the gaps in delivery in hard-to-reach places. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Maine-Frontier-Medicine/8/pf-media/RuralHealthcareCrisis_007.JPGRuralHealthcareCrisis_007.JPGBANGOR, MAINE- JULY 1, 2021 Rick Petrie, special project director for Northeast Ambulance, applies fake finger nails to red hot dogs as the class learns how to suture digits at United Technologies Center in Bangor on Thursday, July 1, 2021. (Staff Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Maine-Frontier-Medicine/9/pf-media/RuralHealthcareCrisis_008.JPGRuralHealthcareCrisis_008.JPGJACKMAN, MAINE- JULY 3, 2021 Damian Brockway, a paramedic and community health practitioner with Northeast Ambulance, sutures the finger of Rick Bridges as Andrea Groft, left, the per diem physician assistant, watches at the Penobscot County Health Clinic in Jackman on Saturday, July 3, 2021. In the current model, the clinic is staffed with per diem physician assistants which expands the scope of practice available at the clinic. This model is expensive and difficult to staff. In order to address the staffing difficulties, Dr. Busko created a training tract that would take the paramedic out of the ambulance setting and bring them into the clinic setting. Today, the P.A. is on staff and can extend the scope of practice of Brockway. But when the program goes live the P.A. will be replaced with a doctor at a regional hospital using telemedicine. The scope of practice will be extended via telemedicine visit with a doctor and the paramedic will perform whatever medical procedure is required. (Staff Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Maine-Frontier-Medicine/10/pf-media/RuralHealthcareCrisis_009.JPGRuralHealthcareCrisis_009.JPGJACKMAN, MAINE- JULY 20, 2021 Dr. Patricia Doyle performs an examination at the Penobscot County Health Center clinic in Jackman on Monday, July 20, 2021. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Maine-Frontier-Medicine/11/pf-media/RuralHealthcareCrisis_010.JPGRuralHealthcareCrisis_010.JPGJACKMAN, MAINE- AUGUST 19, 2021 Patricia Doyle, M.D. examines Marcelle Lumbertâs eye with Rena Lumbert standing close by during an office visit to the Jackman clinic in Jackman on Thursday, August 19, 2021. (Staff Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Maine-Frontier-Medicine/12/pf-media/RuralHealthcareCrisis_011.JPGRuralHealthcareCrisis_011.JPGJACKMAN, MAINE- JULY 26, 2021 Patricia Doyle, M.D. examine Dennis Palmer during an acute care visit at PCHC in Jackman on July 26, 2021. (Staff Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Maine-Frontier-Medicine/13/pf-media/RuralHealthcareCrisis_012.JPGRuralHealthcareCrisis_012.JPGJACKMAN, MAINE - DECEMBER 12, 2021 Skyler Carpenter, a paramedic/community health practitioner with Northeast Ambulance, cleans the urgent care room at PCHC in Jackman on December 12, 2021. (Staff Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Maine-Frontier-Medicine/14/pf-media/RuralHealthcareCrisis_013.JPGRuralHealthcareCrisis_013.JPGJACKMAN, MAINE- JULY 3, 2021 Damian Brockway, a paramedic and community health practitioner with Northeast Ambulance, treats Boyd Fortier for dehydration at the clinic in Jackman on Saturday, July 3, 2021. (Staff Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Maine-Frontier-Medicine/15/pf-media/Delta013.JPGDelta013.JPGRebecca Quinn hops out of truck #3 to fill the tank as she and her partner Nathaniel Lombardi work a 24 hour shift in Waterville on July 29, 2020. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Maine-Frontier-Medicine/16/pf-media/RuralHealthcareCrisis_014.JPGRuralHealthcareCrisis_014.JPGDENNISTOWN, MAINE- FEBRUARY 8, 2022 Sklyer Carpenter sits in his EMS rig as he closes US Route 201 to traffic in Dennistown on Tuesday, February 8, 2022 due to a stranded 18-wheeler in the road during a blizzard. (Staff Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Maine-Frontier-Medicine/17/pf-media/RuralHealthcareCrisis_015.JPGRuralHealthcareCrisis_015.JPGWEST FORKS, MAINE - DECEMBER 20, 2021 A moose stands on the northbound shoulder of US Route 201 north of West Forks as a truck cautiously passes on Monday, Dec. 20, 2021. (Staff Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Maine-Frontier-Medicine/18/pf-media/RuralHealthcareCrisis_016.JPGRuralHealthcareCrisis_016.JPGMOOSE RIVER, MAINE - DECEMBER 12, 2021 Marcelle Lumbert is helped to her feet by paramedic and community health practitioner Skyler Carpenter in her bathroom after she fainted in the late evening hours in Moose River on Sunday, Dec. 12, 2021. (Staff Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Maine-Frontier-Medicine/19/pf-media/RuralHealthcareCrisis_017.JPGRuralHealthcareCrisis_017.JPGMOOSE RIVER, MAINE - DECEMBER 12, 2021 Skyler Carpenter, a paramedic/community health provider, confers on the cell phone from the residence of Marcelle Lumbert with the on-call per diem physicianâs assistant Andrea Groft at the clinic on how to proceed during a call on Sunday, December 12, 2021. The telemedicine portion of this call is the key component to the Jackman model. By removing the physician assistants from the staff and replacing them with doctors and specialists from regional hospitals via telemedicine, a community can greatly reduce their costs while expanding care. (Staff Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Maine-Frontier-Medicine/20/pf-media/RuralHealthcareCrisis_018.JPGRuralHealthcareCrisis_018.JPGDamian Brockway, a paramedic with North East Mobile Health, performs a blood draw from Mary Rita Griffin, 97, at her residence in Jackman on July 26, 2021. The biggest change in duties from an advanced EMS provider to the new community care practitioner is the extended care of regular patients versus the several emergency calls per shift in a normal paramedic environment. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Maine-Frontier-Medicine/21/pf-media/RuralHealthcareCrisis_019.JPGRuralHealthcareCrisis_019.JPGJACKMAN, MAINE- JUNE 16, 2021 Damian Brockway, a paramedic with North East Mobile Health helps Kristy Griffin, a medical assistant with Penobscot County Health Center, change a dressing on the leg of Donald Thibeau at Thibeauâs residence in Jackman on Wednesday, June 16, 2021. (Staff Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Maine-Frontier-Medicine/22/pf-media/RuralHealthcareCrisis_020.JPGRuralHealthcareCrisis_020.JPGJACKMAN, MAINE- JULY 26, 2021 Donald Thibeau receives treatment on his amputated leg from Keely Taylor, a medical assistant at the Jackman Health Clinic, at his home in Jackman on July 26, 2021. Reduced home health care services in rural areas has lead to an increase in home visits, especially in communities like Jackman. (Staff Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Staff Photographer) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Rising-Up/thumbs https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Rising-Up/1/pf-media/Sarah_Hallee_Story_022.JPGSarah_Hallee_Story_022.JPGSarah Juliano, 38, facing, argues with Sarah Wallingford, 31, during a dispute about missing drugs at the homeless encampment they share in the South End of Waterville on Aug. 26, 2022. The two women met at the encampment. Juliano has been living in a homeless community in south Florida for the past 5 years to return to her hometown to be near her daughter and granddaughter. Wallingford is originally from the area and has been homeless since March. Sara Juliano made her way back to Maine after living in a large tent city in Florida. The nearly 1,500 miles of hitchhiking brought her to Waterville to be closer to her daughters. The life is the same though. Juliano, 41, arrived alone with nothing. She found an empty spot in a tent in a homeless encampment on an island courtesy of Shawn Stanford and Amanda Frasier. The couple had just been evicted from their apartment but had extra space in a tent that was being used to store their belongings that they were able to keep after moving into the tent. Juliano, at barely 5 feet tall and weighing maybe 100 pounds, was no stranger to homelessness. Itâs been a part of her life for as long as she can remember. Independent and wise to the streets, sheâs very capable of taking care of herself. She needs assistance, however, to inject herself with drugs. A friend has to perform that task. And it probably saved her. Soon after the colder temperatures arrived in October, Juliano was the first person to leave the encampment for a spot in the Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Rising-Up/2/pf-media/Sarah_Hallee_Story_021.JPGSarah_Hallee_Story_021.JPGSarah Wallingford, 31, injects a speedball containing heroin and Fentanyl into the neck of Sara Juliano, 41, at lunch time in the homeless encampment on the island along the banks of the Kennebec River in the South End of Waterville, Maine on September 15, 2022. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Rising-Up/3/pf-media/Sarah_Hallee_Story_020.JPGSarah_Hallee_Story_020.JPGSarah Juliano takes drink from the whiskey bottle as she washes dishes in the river on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Rising-Up/4/pf-media/Sarah_Hallee_Story_019.JPGSarah_Hallee_Story_019.JPGSara Juliano, 38, washes dishes with Amanda Frasier in the Kennebec River near downtown Waterville in the famously poor South End on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022. Juliano is new to the encampment. She arrived after hitchhiking from Florida back to Maine to see her daughter who lives in the area. Her daughter is unaware of her living situation. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Rising-Up/5/pf-media/Sarah_Hallee_Story_018.JPGSarah_Hallee_Story_018.JPGSara Juliano, 38, sleeps off her high after shooting up a mixture of heroin and fentanyl at the homeless encampment on the Kennebec trail on the island located in a wetland along the Kennebec River in the South End of Waterville on Sunday, September 11, 2022. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Rising-Up/6/pf-media/Sarah_Hallee_Story_017.JPGSarah_Hallee_Story_017.JPGSara Juliano, 38, holds her ârigâ, also know as a syringe loaded with heroin and fentanyl, as the camp fire illuminates the campsite she calls home on the island in the wetlands of the Kennebec River in the South End of Waterville on Monday, September 12, 2022. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Rising-Up/7/pf-media/Sarah_Hallee_Story_016.JPGSarah_Hallee_Story_016.JPGAmanda Frasier assists Sarah Juliano with an injection of heroin and fentanyl while living at the homeless encampment on the island in the South End of Waterville on Monday, September 12, 2022. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Rising-Up/8/pf-media/Sarah_Hallee_Story_015.JPGSarah_Hallee_Story_015.JPGSarah Juliano, 41, rides her bike down Elm Street as she visits her favorite dumpsters for treasures in the south end in Waterville on Wednesday, September 14, 2022. Juliano is no stranger to rummaging through trash for food and clothes. âI raised three daughters doing this. â she said about her dumpster diving techniques. âItâs amazing what people throw away.â https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Rising-Up/9/pf-media/Sarah_Hallee_Story_014.JPGSarah_Hallee_Story_014.JPGSarah Juliano, 41, rummages through in Waterville on Wednesday, September 14, 2022. Juliano is no stranger to rummaging through trash for food and clothes. âI raised three daughters doing this. â she said about her dumpster diving techniques. âItâs amazing what people throw away.â https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Rising-Up/10/pf-media/RisingUp_06.JPGRisingUp_06.JPGSara Juliano, 41, holds her right arm out as her friend, Amanda Frasier injects her with a syringe of heroin and fentanyl while living in the homeless encampment on the island in Waterville on Wednesday, September 21, 2022. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Rising-Up/11/pf-media/RisingUp_07.JPGRisingUp_07.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE-SEPTEMBER 21, 2022 Sarah Juliano hold her head after taking a dose of heroin as she sits with her encampment neighbors on Wednesday, September 21, 2022. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Rising-Up/12/pf-media/Sarah_Hallee_Story_013.JPGSarah_Hallee_Story_013.JPGWATERVILLE, MAINE-SEPTEMBER 12, 2022 Sarah Juliano sorts through her possessions inside her tent as she prepares to leave the homeless encampment for the shelter in Waterville on Monday, September 12, 2022. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Rising-Up/13/pf-media/Sarah_Hallee_Story_012.JPGSarah_Hallee_Story_012.JPGTents create a small compound the homeless encampment in the south end in Waterville on Wednesday, September 14, 2022. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Rising-Up/14/pf-media/Sarah_Hallee_Story_011.JPGSarah_Hallee_Story_011.JPGSarah Juliano, 41, stands under the protection of her umbrella as she waits for another member of the homeless encampment on the island in the South End of Waterville on Tuesday, September 6, 2022. Juliano and her new friend, Amanda Frasier, back right, are going to visit an assortment of dumpsters and donation bins as it rains. The two women met through common interests and lifestyles. They are both homeless and addicted to heroin and fentanyl. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Rising-Up/15/pf-media/Sarah_Hallee_Story_010.JPGSarah_Hallee_Story_010.JPGSara Juliano sits at her bed at the Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter in Waterville on Tuesday, October 4, 2022. Juliano has been at the shelter for nearly two weeks since overdosing on the island. Since moving into the shelter, she not only beat the cold nights but also entered a drug detox program and has been 7 days sober. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Rising-Up/16/pf-media/Sarah_Hallee_Story_009.JPGSarah_Hallee_Story_009.JPGSarah Juliano leads two women back to the farmhouse that serves as the sober living home, Coryâs House, a recovery home for addicts on Turkey Lane in Winthrop on Tuesday, April 11, 2023. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Rising-Up/17/pf-media/Sarah_Hallee_Story_008.JPGSarah_Hallee_Story_008.JPGSarah Juliano cleans the yoga room at Coryâs House, a sober living facility for recovering addicts in Winthrop on Saturday, April 1, 2023. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Rising-Up/18/pf-media/Sarah_Hallee_Story_007.JPGSarah_Hallee_Story_007.JPGKatie Cushing, house manager at Cory’s House, a sober living facility for recovering addicts, checks in with Sarah Juliano as she prepares a room for a new guest to arrive on April 1, 2023. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Rising-Up/19/pf-media/Sarah_Hallee_Story_006.JPGSarah_Hallee_Story_006.JPGKatie Cushing, house manager at Coryâs House, a sober living facility for recovering addicts, hangs a heart sticker on the mirror with the help of Sarah Juliano, left, on April 11, 2023. Juliano was the first resident to move in to the newly opened sober living home in Winthrop. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Rising-Up/20/pf-media/Sarah_Hallee_Story_005.JPGSarah_Hallee_Story_005.JPGSarah Juliano, left and Katie Cushing, house manager at Coryâs House, a sober living facility for recovering addicts in Winthrop, clean the house for a new arrival on Saturday, April 1, 2023. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Rising-Up/21/pf-media/Sarah_Hallee_Story_004.JPGSarah_Hallee_Story_004.JPGSarah Juliano cleans her room on the third floor of Coryâs House, a sober living home for recovering addicts in Winthrop on Sunday, April 16, 2023. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Rising-Up/22/pf-media/Sarah_Hallee_Story_003.JPGSarah_Hallee_Story_003.JPGSarah Juliano puts on some jewelry as she looks in the mirror in her room on the third floor of Coryâs House, a sober living home for recovering addicts in Winthrop on Sunday, April 16, 2023. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Rising-Up/23/pf-media/Sarah_Hallee_Story_002.JPGSarah_Hallee_Story_002.JPGSarah Juliano and Cassie Quinn hug in the kitchen of Coryâs House, a sober living home for women recovering from addiction and homelessness on Sunday, April 16, 2023. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Rising-Up/24/pf-media/Sarah_Hallee_Story_001.JPGSarah_Hallee_Story_001.JPGSarah Juliano celebrates during the 11am Central Church service in Augusta on Sunday, April 16, 2023. âIt makes me feel good to come here. It makes me feel strong. It makes me want to stay clean.â She said after a service at Central Church. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Special-Needs/thumbs https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Special-Needs/1/pf-media/SpecialNeeds019.JPGSpecialNeeds019.JPGKevin Horton is comforted by one of his long time support team members, Kimberly Whittemore, as he says goodbye to his apartment of 25 years in Waterville for the final time on Tuesday, September 12, 2023. Stressful situations like this can be detrimental to Hortonâs psychological and physical well being. Horton suffered a major head injury at the age of 15 when his mother hit him in the head with a cast iron frying pan. Since his head injury, Horton experiences grand mal seizures during times of extreme stress. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Special-Needs/2/pf-media/SpecialNeeds018.JPGSpecialNeeds018.JPGKevin Horton, 64, packs his belongings as he moves from his apartment after 25 years of paying rent on time in Waterville on Tuesday, September 12, 2023. Horton, like many, was thrust into homelessness for no fault of his own. The landlord who had a special relationship with Horton, died in August. The landlordâs son inherited the building, put up for sale and all tenants were given a month the vacate. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Special-Needs/3/pf-media/SpecialNeeds017.JPGSpecialNeeds017.JPGKevin Horton, 64, center, talks on the phone with his caseworker as he tries to find a new apartment with his supporter, Evan, left, listening to make sure Horton understands the information being delivered to him in Waterville on Tuesday, September 12, 2023. Horton is one of the lucky ones. He has several people working diligently on his behalf to make sure he does not end up in a tent. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Special-Needs/4/pf-media/SpecialNeeds016.JPGSpecialNeeds016.JPGKevin Horton, 64, removes they to his apartment in Waterville that he called homer the past 25 years as he leaves for the last time on Tuesday, September 12, 2023. Hortonâs next stop, the Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter. Horton will be homeless for the first time in his life. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Special-Needs/5/pf-media/SpecialNeeds015.JPGSpecialNeeds015.JPGKevin Horton turns off the lights for the last time as he leaves his apartment that he called home for the past 25 years for a bed at the Mid Maine Homeless Shelter in Waterville on Wednesday, September 8, 2023. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Special-Needs/6/pf-media/SpecialNeeds014.JPGSpecialNeeds014.JPGKevin Fortin walks from his Main Street apartment to Head of Falls for a little exercise and a visit with his homeless friends in Waterville on Thursday, August 31, 2023. Horton was hanging out with his homeless friends long before he faced homelessness. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Special-Needs/7/pf-media/SpecialNeeds013.JPGSpecialNeeds013.JPGSamantha Clark shares a moment with Cletus Jennings, left, and Kevin Fortin, center, at Head of Falls in Waterville on Thursday, August 31, 2023. Horton is the only one of the four who has an apartment. In jus two week, Horton will also be homeless. The homeless community has come to know Horton and has vowed to take care of him, should he end up in a tent on hobo trial where many people live in tents. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Special-Needs/8/pf-media/SpecialNeeds012.JPGSpecialNeeds012.JPGKevin Horton enters the Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter for his first night of homelessness in Waterville on Thursday, September 7, 2023. Horton had been living in an apartment for the past 25 years until the pending sale of his apartment building forced the occupants to move hastily. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Special-Needs/9/pf-media/SpecialNeeds011.JPGSpecialNeeds011.JPGKevin Horton prepares to go to bed at the Mid Maine Homeless Shelter in Waterville on Wednesday, September 7, 2023 for his his first night of homelessness. This will be his first night in 30 years with out his Teddy bear, Buddy, to cuddle with as he sleeps. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Special-Needs/10/pf-media/SpecialNeeds010.JPGSpecialNeeds010.JPGKevin Horton lays down on his cot at the Mid Maine Homeless Shelter in Waterville on Wednesday, September 7, 2023. Itâs his first night as a homeless man. During times of extreme stress, Horton is sucesptable to grand mal seizures. Horton received his disability when he was only 15 years old. His mother hit him in the head with a cast iron frying pan. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Special-Needs/11/pf-media/SpecialNeeds009.JPGSpecialNeeds009.JPGKevin Horton make his daily pilgrimage to the Waterville area soup kitchen in Waterville on Thursday, September 27, 2023. Horton lives on disability from the state of Maine. He supplements his meal budget with breakfast and lunch Monday through Friday with the free meals provided by the soup kitchen. Itâs also where he finds his social interactions with friends heâs made there. Most, if not all of the guests that utilize the soup kitchen are homeless, living either in tents or the lucky ones, the shelter. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Special-Needs/12/pf-media/SpecialNeeds008.JPGSpecialNeeds008.JPGKevin Horton sips his coffee over a jelly filled powder donut with his aid worker, Evan, at the Waterville area soup kitchen in Waterville on Wednesday, September 8, 2023. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Special-Needs/13/pf-media/SpecialNeeds007.JPGSpecialNeeds007.JPGKevin Horton racks a game of pool with the Kevin Joseph, owner of You Know Whose Pub in Waterville on Friday, September 28, 2023. Horton loves to play pool and drink beer. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Special-Needs/14/pf-media/SpecialNeeds006.JPGSpecialNeeds006.JPGKevin Horton does his laundry with the help of his supporter, Evan, at the laundromat in Waterville on September 13, 2023.Basic tasks can frustrate Horton like clothes not drying fast enough. Evan is there to help come him and make sure the task is completed. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Special-Needs/15/pf-media/SpecialNeeds005.JPGSpecialNeeds005.JPGKevin Horton celebrates the news of his apartment passing inspection with one of his support team members, Kimberly Whittemore, at Hortonâs former residence in Waterville on Tuesday, September 12, 2023. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Special-Needs/16/pf-media/SpecialNeeds004.JPGSpecialNeeds004.JPGKevin Horton carries his walker up two sets of stairs as he enters his new apartment on the corner of gold and Summer Streets in Waterville on Saturday, September 29, 2023. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Special-Needs/17/pf-media/SpecialNeeds003.JPGSpecialNeeds003.JPGKevin Horton tours his new apartment in Waterville on Tuesday, September 12, 2023. Itâs been 25 years since heâs moved. But, this apartment is bigger with better access to his services. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Special-Needs/18/pf-media/SpecialNeeds002.JPGSpecialNeeds002.JPGKevin Horton sets up an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger while sitting in a camp chair with his Teddy bear, Buddy, on his first night in his new apartment in Waterville on September 13, 2023. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/POVERTY-PROJECTS/Special-Needs/19/pf-media/SpecialNeeds001.JPGSpecialNeeds001.JPGKevin Horton cuddles with his stuffed teddy bear named, Buddy, on his bed at his new apartment in Waterville on September 13, 2023. Moving into a new apartment after living in the same place for 25 years is scary and jarring process for Horton. Buddy helps him to calm down much like a pet would. Heâs had Buddy for 35 years. The only nights during that time that didnât have Buddy were the 5 nights he spent at the shelter on a cot. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Lewiston-Mass-Shooting/thumbs https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Lewiston-Mass-Shooting/1/pf-media/LewistonShooting_001.JPGLewistonShooting_001.JPGFamily members reunite at the Auburn Middle School in Auburn, Maine following a mass shooting in several locations throughout neighboring Lewiston on Wednesday, October 25, 2023. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Lewiston-Mass-Shooting/2/pf-media/LewistonShooting_002.JPGLewistonShooting_002.JPGMaria Wilson speaks about the unknown status of her loved one, Arthur Strout, at the reunification center at the Auburn Middle School in Auburn, Maine following a mass shooting in several locations throughout neighboring Lewiston on Wednesday, October 25, 2023. The shooting left 18 people dead, including Strout. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Lewiston-Mass-Shooting/3/pf-media/20231025LewistonMassShooting07.jpgLewsitonShooting_003.JPGLISBON, MAINE OCTOBER 25, 2023 Multiple law enforcement agencies respond to a mass shooting at Schemengees Bar and Grill on Lincoln Street in Lewiston, Maine as the shooter remains at large on Wednesday, October 25, 2023. (Michael G. Seamans/for the Boston Globe) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Lewiston-Mass-Shooting/4/pf-media/LewistonShooting_003.JPGLewistonShooting_004.JPGPolice officers from multiple agencies patrol the Ambulance terminal at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, Maine following a mass shooting in several locations throughout neighboring Lewiston on Wednesday, October 25, 2023. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Lewiston-Mass-Shooting/5/pf-media/LewistonShooting_004.JPGLewistonShooting_005.JPGMultiple law enforcement agencies block the intersection at Ridge Road and Lisbon Street in Lisbon, Maine as a shooter is still at large on Wednesday, October 25, 2023. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Lewiston-Mass-Shooting/6/pf-media/LewistonShooting_005.JPGLewistonShooting_006.JPGAn agent with Alcohol, tobacco and Firearms, searches an empty residence on Amalfi Street in Lisbon, Maine for the suspect of a mass shooting on Friday, October 27, 2023. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Lewiston-Mass-Shooting/7/pf-media/LewistonShooting_006.JPGLewistonShooting_007.JPGTactical teams return from searching a house on Meadow Road in Bowdoin, Maine which may be the last known residence of the suspect in a mass shooting during an ongoing manhunt on Thursday, October 26, 2023. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Lewiston-Mass-Shooting/8/pf-media/LewistonShooting_007.JPGLewistonShooting_008.JPGJosh Smith, warden with the Maineâs Warden Service, searches the Brown Bear II Worumbo Station Hydroelectric Plant on the Androscoggin River in Lisbon Falls, Maine for the suspect of a mass shooting on Friday, October 27, 2023. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Lewiston-Mass-Shooting/9/pf-media/LewistonShooting_008.JPGLewistonShooting_009.JPGA search team consisting of the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Maine Wardenâs Service speak to Joseph Crowley at his residence as they search the banks of the Androscoggin River in Durham for the suspect of a mass shooting on Friday, October 27, 2023. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Lewiston-Mass-Shooting/10/pf-media/LewistonShooting_009.JPGLewistonShooting_0010.JPGDan Beazley, of Northville, Michigan, carries a crucifix he made back to his truck after standing at a make-shift memorial memorializing eight victims of a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine on Sunday, October 29, 2023. Beazley made the drive from Michigan to honor the victims with his 10 foot crucifix. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Lewiston-Mass-Shooting/11/pf-media/LewistonShooting_010.JPGLewistonShooting_012.JPGDonna Poirier kisses a memorial of a victim outside Schemengees Bar and Grill on Lincoln Street in Lewiston, Maine on Sunday, October 29, 2023. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Lewiston-Mass-Shooting/12/pf-media/LewistonShooting_011.JPGLewistonShooting_013.JPGHeather Bailey and her daughter, Ollie Bailey, 13, share a moment during a candle light vigil honoring the 128 people at Worumbo Park in Lisbon Falls on Saturday, October 28, 2023. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Lewiston-Mass-Shooting/13/pf-media/LewistonShooting_013.JPGLewistonShooting_011.JPGMANCHESTER, MAINE NOVEMBER 10, 2023 Mourners gather at Hope Baptist Church to remember William and Aaron Young in Manchester, Maine on Friday, November 10, 2023.. (Michael G. Seamans/for the Boston Globe) https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Lewiston-Mass-Shooting/14/pf-media/LewistonShooting_012.JPGLewistonShooting_014.JPGHundreds of mourners gather outside the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul during a vigil memorializing the 18 people killed in the most recent mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine on Sunday, October 29, 2023. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Lewiston-Mass-Shooting/15/pf-media/LewistonShooting_014.JPGLewistonShooting_015.JPGElizabeth Seal holds her daughter, Sephine Seal, 9, as they cry in front of a memorial honoring her husband and the father of Sephine, before a vigil at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Lewiston, Maine on Sunday, October 28, 2023, for the 18 people killed in a mass shooting on Wednesday, October 25, 2023. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Toll-of-Desperation/thumbs https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Toll-of-Desperation/1/pf-media/TollOfDesperation_001.JPGTollOfDesperation_001.JPGShannon Cimaronn, 68, of Silver City, with Battalion Search and Rescue, stands near a skull on the desert floor in an area Santa Teresa, N.M. on Saturday, December 28, 2024. The skull was originally discovered during a search in November. The authorities were notified and still, the skull rests on the desert floor. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Toll-of-Desperation/2/pf-media/TollOfDesperation_002.JPGTollOfDesperation_002.JPGJames Holeman, co-director of Battalion Search and Rescue, looks at personal belongings left in the northern Chihauhaun desert in southern New Mexico along the border with Mexico on Saturday, January 25, 2025. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Toll-of-Desperation/3/pf-media/TollOfDesperation_003.JPGTollOfDesperation_003.JPGAbbey Carpenter stands in the knee high desert shrubs under the high noon sun as she searches for human remains in an area along the Mexico border in Santa Teresa, N.M. on Saturday, December 28, 2024. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Toll-of-Desperation/4/pf-media/TollOfDesperation_004.JPGTollOfDesperation_004.JPGAbbey Carpenter searches for human remains in an area along the Mexico border in Santa Teresa, N.M. on Saturday, December 28, 2024. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Toll-of-Desperation/5/pf-media/TollOfDesperation_005.JPGTollOfDesperation_005.JPGHuman remains in the Chihuahua desert in Santa Teresa, N.M. on Saturday 22, 2025. Battalion Search and Rescue has discovered over 200 sits with human remains in New Mexico and Arizona in the six years they have been searching. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Toll-of-Desperation/6/pf-media/TollOfDesperation_006.JPGTollOfDesperation_006.JPGAbbey Carpenter finds a piece of identification on the desert floor as she searches for human remains in an area along the Mexico border in Santa Teresa, N.M. on Saturday, December 28, 2024. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Toll-of-Desperation/7/pf-media/TollOfDesperation_007.JPGTollOfDesperation_007.JPGA teddy bear lies on the desert floor under a shrub where volunteers with Battalion Search and Rescue search for human remains in the Chihuahua desert in Santa Teresa, N.M. on Saturday 22, 2025. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Toll-of-Desperation/8/pf-media/TollOfDesperation_008.JPGTollOfDesperation_008.JPGAbbey Carpenter becomes a bit emotional as she revisits a location where human remains were found and reported to authorities but still have yet to be retrieved in an area of Santa Teresa, N.M. along the Mexico border on Saturday, December 28, 2024. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Toll-of-Desperation/9/pf-media/TollOfDesperation_009.JPGTollOfDesperation_009.JPGJames Holeman holds his chest as he recalls the remains his volunteer group has found near this portion of the wall in Santa Teresa, N.M., along the Mexico border on Saturday, December 7, 2024. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Toll-of-Desperation/10/pf-media/TollOfDesperation_010.JPGTollOfDesperation_010.JPGU.S. Custom and Border Protection Agents guard the border on Mt. Cristo Rey along the border between Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, left side of picture, and Sunland Park, N.M., right side of picture, on Tuesday, February 25, 2025. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Toll-of-Desperation/11/pf-media/TollOfDesperation_011.JPGTollOfDesperation_011.JPGU.S. Custom and Border Protection Agents, Orlando Marrero-Rubio and Nicole Galvan along the border wall in Sunland Park, N.M. on Tuesday 25, 2025. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Toll-of-Desperation/12/pf-media/TollOfDesperation_012.JPGTollOfDesperation_012.JPGU.S. Custom and Border Protection Agents, Orlando Marrero-Rubio and Nicole Galvan along the border wall in Sunland Park, N.M. on Tuesday 25, 2025. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Toll-of-Desperation/13/pf-media/TollOfDesperation_013.JPGTollOfDesperation_013.JPGU.S. Custom and Border Protection Agents, Orlando Marrero-Rubio and Nicole Galvan search an area along the border wall in Sunland Park, N.M. on Tuesday 25, 2025. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Toll-of-Desperation/14/pf-media/TollOfDesperation_014.JPGTollOfDesperation_014.JPGBorder Patrol agents detain a group of undocumented migrants in Sunland Park, N.M., before loading them onto a Department of Human Services bus bound for a processing center in on January 18, 2025. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Toll-of-Desperation/15/pf-media/TollOfDesperation_015.JPGTollOfDesperation_015.JPG https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Toll-of-Desperation/16/pf-media/TollOfDesperation_016.JPGTollOfDesperation_016.JPGA Border Patrol agent searches an undocumented migrant before loading him onto a bus bound for a processing center in Sunland Park, N.M. on January 18, 2025. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Toll-of-Desperation/17/pf-media/TollOfDesperation_017.JPGTollOfDesperation_017.JPGBorder Patrol officers search an undocumented migrant before loading him onto a bus bound for a processing center in Sunland Park, N.M. on January 18, 2025. Border crossings have been down in the El Paso and Las Cruces area over the last two weeks. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Toll-of-Desperation/18/pf-media/TollOfDesperation_018.JPGTollOfDesperation_018.JPGChihuahuan desert along the border in of Mexico in Santa Teresa, N.M. OR Stryker vehicle on the mesa overlooking Sunland Park border sector in Sunland Park, N.M. on Saturday, March 30, 2025. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Toll-of-Desperation/19/pf-media/TollOfDesperation_019.JPGTollOfDesperation_019.JPGU.S. Customs and Border Protection agents stand guard along an open portion of the border with no wall in Sunland Park OR volunteers with Battalion Search and Rescue search for human remains in the Chihuahua desert in Santa Teresa, N.M. on Saturday 22, 2025. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Toll-of-Desperation/20/pf-media/TollOfDesperation_020.JPGTollOfDesperation_020.JPGU.S. Customs and Border Protection agents sit in their vehicle along an open portion of the border where no wall exists on Mt. Cristo Rey in Sunland Park, as a coyote scout observes activity from along the ridge line in Mexico on Saturday, February 22, 2025. The triangular obelisk is the border marker delineating the United States from Mexico. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Toll-of-Desperation/21/pf-media/TollOfDesperation_021.JPGTollOfDesperation_021.JPGChihuahuan desert along the border in of Mexico in Santa Teresa, N.M. OR Stryker vehicle on the mesa overlooking Sunland Park border sector in Sunland Park, N.M. on Saturday, March 30, 2025. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Toll-of-Desperation/22/pf-media/TollOfDesperation_022.JPGTollOfDesperation_022.JPGA soldier watches the border from on of the first two of an undisclosed amount of Stryker vehicles deployed to the Sunland Park/El Paso border sector on the mesa overlooking Sunland Park border sector in Sunland Park, N.M. on Saturday, March 30, 2025. More Stryker vehicles from the 2nd Stryker Brigade of the 1st Battalion, 41st Infantry Regiment of the 4th Infantry Division based in Fort Carson, Colorado are expected to arrive soon. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Toll-of-Desperation/23/pf-media/TollOfDesperation_023.JPGTollOfDesperation_023.JPGA Mexican National Guard soldier patrols the border between Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and Sunland Park, N.M. on January 18, 2025. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Toll-of-Desperation/24/pf-media/TollOfDesperation_024.JPGTollOfDesperation_024.JPGSoldiers with the Mexican national guard patrol the border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico where a tunnel was recently discovered on January 18, 2025. https://www.michaelgseamans.com/Projects/Toll-of-Desperation/25/pf-media/TollOfDesperation_025.JPGTollOfDesperation_025.JPGA Mexican police helicopter patrols the border wall along the border with Ciudad Juárez, Mexico and Sunland Park, N.M. on Saturday, January 25, 2025.