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Patricia Rosi’s simplicity, Our goal is to always put a smile on our residents faces, and 12 SPEAKING UP 34 KITTERY: FIRST PLACE elegance, and personality ensure they live well, and love life - each and every day. FOR HER PEOPLE The Oldest Incorporated 66 QUESTIONABLE ADVICE Tribal Ambassador Maulian Dana Town in Maine says social justice is a Find a Northbridge community near you: Now announcing! marathon, not a sprint. 36 A WOMAN AHEAD OF HER TIME 22 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MAINE! Brunswick Wells Westbrook Granite Hill Cornelia “Fly Rod” Crosby, Our state is throwing a the first Registered Maine Guide Avita of Brunswick Avita of Wells Avita of Stroudwater Estates months-long party this year to celebrate its bicentennial. Sunnybrook Stroudwater Lodge Hallowell, ME 60 MOTHERS, DAUGHTERS, 28 CAUSING A STIR & WHEELS Independent Living Assisted Living Avita Memory Care Living Well Adult Day The Girls Rock! Award Winners Roller derby is all in the family. To learn more, visit: nextgenerationseniors.com MAINEWOMENMAGAZINE.COM 9 PUBLISHER’S NOTE EDITOR/PUBLISHER Mary Frances Barstow [email protected] ASSOCIATE EDITORS Jacqueline Harjula [email protected] Will Stinson [email protected] Martha Bustin [email protected] ART DIRECTOR Christine Dunkle [email protected] CLIENT SERVICES EXECUTIVE Amy Foss [email protected] MARKETING/ADVERTISING Bob Bird [email protected] Bill Burrows [email protected] Robert Cook [email protected] Ann Duddy [email protected] Adam McCready [email protected] Jody McKee As we move forward into another month, I want you all [email protected] Elizabeth Murphy to know how grateful we at Maine Women Magazine are for [email protected] all the beautiful letters and comments you send us about this Randy Nichols fabulous publication. Please keep your ideas and comments [email protected] coming. ADMINISTRATIVE LeeAnn Gauthier, Tricia Johnson, We have amazing stories this month as we continue to Marion Burns, Linda Hall-Stone celebrate women—and to celebrate you, our reader, as a DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL MARKETING person. Take a look at upcoming events in March to mark Jacob S. Smith Maine’s 200th birthday, and learn about Abbie Burgess [email protected] and “Fly Rod” Crosby, two wonderful, strong women of SOCIAL MEDIA the past. Support Maulian Dana, a Native American leader Tyler Southard working for causes dear to her heart. And walk with Martha [email protected] McSweeney Brower as she travels down a path to healing. CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Amanda Whitegiver, Kendra Caruso, I want every woman to know that when you wake up in Sheila D. Grant, Martha McSweeney Brower, the morning and go to your mirror to brush your teeth or Abigail Stinson, Deirdre Fleming, Shelagh Talbot, comb your hair, YOU are lovable. Look in that mirror and Amy Paradysz, Dean Lunt, Candace Karu, L.C. 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THROAT CANCER LEUKEMIA, WITH HER FAMILY KENNEBUNK • SCARBOROUGH • TOPSHAM MAINEWOMENMAGAZINE.COM 11 Speaking up Tribal Ambassador Maulian Dana advocates for her people BY AMY PARADYSZ “There’s a spirit in our communities where we value what women say.” 12 MARCH 2020 Maulian Dana smiles as she prepares to speak on behalf of the Penobscot at the inauguration of Gov. Janet Mills in January 2019. Photo courtesy Jeff Kirlin MAINEWOMENMAGAZINE.COM 13 Former Penobscot Chief Barry Dana shares a look with his daughter, the first Penobscot Tribal Ambassador Maulian Dana, at a school board meeting in Skowhegan in 2019 when the mascot battle was heating up. Photo courtesy Jeff Kirlin hen Maulian Dana spoke at the inauguration of “We have a lot of complicated feelings about the Governor Janet Mills on behalf of the Penobscot statehood of Maine and the anniversaries that are Nation, she tried not to let it get to her that back coming up,” she says, noting a preference for the word Whome in Indian Island, some in her community were on “commemorate” over “celebrate.” social media calling her a “token” and a “lapdog.” European settlement brought the Wabanaki people The criticism stung, but it didn’t stop Maulian, who disease, famine, and, beginning in 1688, six wars over has been advocating for a ban on Native American sports a century. The native population was nearly wiped out.