Maine
‘Our democracy in action’: High turnout reported as voters across central Maine flock to polls
Like so many other people, it was the presidential race that brought Randy Wyman to the polls Tuesday.
But the 65-year-old Madison man said he was still undecided as he came in to vote around 11:15 a.m. at the former Old Point Avenue school. Wyman said he was “pretty sure” but had not yet made up his mind.
“I’m going to make my decision when I get in the booth,” he said.
As voters across Maine and the nation cast Election Day ballots Tuesday, uncertainty loomed over the outcome of the race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.
Clerks in towns big and small said they were expecting record-high voter turnout. High rates of absentee voting and same-day voter registrations have driven up vote totals throughout Maine.
Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, speaking from a Bangor polling station Tuesday night, said more than 1 in 3 registered Maine voters had already voted prior to Election Day and “today we are seeing strong voter turnout everywhere” and “strong same-day voter registration.”
“One gentleman was registering his daughter for the first time and had tears in his eyes at her opportunity to participate in democracy,” Bellows said.
In fact, the volume of ballots was so great in Belgrade that the ballot counter malfunctioned, Town Clerk Mary Vogel said.
“The ballots are filling up on the inside of the machine and causing problems. The ballots are not dropping when they are inserted into the machine,” Vogel said. “In hindsight, maybe we should have another machine, but who knew it would be like this? We didn’t expect it.”
Officials did get help from some Messalonskee High School students who volunteered at the polls.
Since the students are under 18, they can’t handle the ballots, but they are able to direct voters through the polling center at Belgrade’s Center for All Seasons and help them register to vote, all while earning college credit.
DEMOCRACY IN ACTION
In Waterville, Heidi Mitchell walked out of the polling place at Thomas College just after 7 a.m., having been one of the first people to vote.
“I voted for Kamala because I want somebody to work for us, the people of America, not the corporate America,” said Mitchell, 53.
Longtime election warden Roland Hallee said officials were expecting a voter turnout of about 80% of the approximate 10,000 registered Waterville voters, which is more than the typical 70% for a presidential election. He said 3,700 had voted by absentee ballot.
Moriah Davis, 26, and her 1-year-old daughter, Penelope, exit the Waterville polls at Thomas College just after 7 a.m. Tuesday. Amy Calder/ Morning Sentinel
Moriah Davis, 26, was carrying her 1-year-old daughter, Penelope, as she exited the polls.
“I voted for Harris,” she said. “First of all, I love all of her policies. She’s not racist or xenophobic.”
Already by around 8 a.m. in Oakland, 163 out of 5,053 registered voters had cast ballots at the fire station and about 2,000 had voted absentee, according to Town Clerk Jan Porter.
Richard Principato, 58, leaving the polls, said he voted for Trump.
“The biggest thing is the economy, the immigration and our military,” Principato said.
Principato said he also voted for Austin Theriault, the Republican challenging incumbent Rep. Jared Golden, a Democrat, in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District. “Jared Golden, he always voted Democratically all the way,” he said.
A steady stream of voters trekked in and out of the James H. Bean School in Sidney on Tuesday morning, where 185 people had cast ballots by 9:15 a.m.
Haileigh Miller, 19, voting for the first time, at left, stands with her mother, Melissa Moulton, at the James H. Bean School in Sidney after voting Tuesday. Both said they voted for Donald Trump for president. Amy Calder/Morning Sentinel
First-time voter Haileigh Miller, 19, received applause as she registered. Later, she said she voted for Donald Trump.
“He aligns with my morals,” Miller said. “He’s the best candidate. Going into my 20s, I’m starting to become an adult. Hopefully, I’ll be able to live on my own. Right now, I can’t afford to.”
Sidney Town Clerk Sara Morey said that as of Monday night, 1,604 voters had returned absentee ballots, out of 3,919 registered voters.
“To put it in perspective, we had less than 400 total voters for the (June) primary,” she said.
As polls opened at 7 a.m. in the town of China, a line of about 50 voters formed to get into the municipal portable building. Town Manager Becky Hapgood, wearing a fluorescent vest, helped direct traffic.
“The amount of work the town clerk and deputy clerks put in, in the course of preparing for an election, is phenomenal,” Hapgood said. “We’re focused on voter integrity. We just want people to come vote.”
In Gardiner, about 80 people were lined up waiting to vote when the polls opened at 8 a.m., including Peggy Williams, who was first in line.
Williams works in Portland and wanted to make sure she voted before heading to work, because she wasn’t sure she’d be back in Gardiner in time. She said voting is an important part of our freedoms. She said she planned to vote for Harris “to protect our country from tyranny.”
Next in line behind her was Kevin May who also came in around 7:30 a.m. to vote before going to work at the shipyard in Kittery. He, too, said he planned to vote for Harris, in part because he has two nieces and he’s concerned about abortion rights if Trump were to win.
Just behind May, third in line, Pete Hersom said he was voting for Trump because, he said, Democrats have damaged the country and the economy.
In Gardiner, several voters brought their children into the polls with them to vote.
Adam Lemire carried 3-month-old Hazel in his arms as he made his way through long lines, while his partner, Rachael Thomas, carried 3-year-old Reid on her shoulders.
“It’s kind of hard to explain to a 3-year-old what voting is, but he asked, so we talked about it,” Lemire said. “He’s getting it. We were driving by the State House and he got excited … That’s where the people go that we vote for.”
The line of voters stretches out of the building just before doors open at 8 a.m. Tuesday at the Boys and Girls Clubs of Kennebec Valley in Gardiner. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal
In Gardiner, 38% of registered voters voted absentee, the most City Clerk Kathy Cutler has seen in the 17 years she’s been working elections in the city.
Turnout was strong Tuesday, as well, with a line of about 80 people queued up to vote by the time the polls opened.
“It’s an honor to do this — this morning swearing people in I had a lump in my throat,” Cutler said. “This is our democracy in action.”
‘UNPRECEDENTED TURNOUT’
Voting was also heavy Tuesday morning in Madison, Town Clerk Cheyenne Stevens said. Her office issued 1,007 absentee ballots, and had received all but 28 back as of Tuesday around noon. Another 500 or so registered voters had cast ballots by that time, including Lori Knowlton.
Knowlton, 61, said she was voting for Trump. She said she did not vote in the 2016 presidential election and voted for President Biden in 2020.
“I don’t love his personality or how he can be condescending and rude sometimes,” Knowlton said of Trump. “But I think about how the country was when he was the president. Our life and our household was all much better. And I also think that, as a country, we are much safer in the world when he’s president.”
At Mill Stream Elementary School in Norridgewock around noon, kids were at recess playing on the playground while voting took place in the auditorium.
Officials had discussed closing the school — the town’s usual polling place — for Election Day but decided against it. Instead, the school resource officer and an additional Somerset County sheriff’s deputy were assigned to the school during the day.
Town Manager Richard LaBelle, who also is the town clerk, said he was aware of reported threats made to other schools in Maine today but was confident in the safety measures in Norridgewock. Turnout has been steady, and most voters have quickly and quietly made their way in and out to vote, LaBelle said.
The biggest challenge of the day so far, LaBelle said, has been confusion around the ranked-choice voting system in the presidential and congressional elections.
“We are spoiling an unusually large number of ballots,” LaBelle said. “I don’t know if people are trying to be strategic, or largely they just don’t understand. But it remains an obstacle.”
Voting was heavy at the Monmouth Recreation Center as well.
“It’s an unprecedented turnout,” said Kent Ackley, an independent running for state representative, as he stood outside the polls.
“I’ve never seen this many people show up to be heard,” he said.
Sarah Jones, Monmouth’s election clerk, holds the registrations of around 70 new voters. Emily Duggan/Kennebec Journal
Sarah Jones, the election clerk for Monmouth, said at least 70 residents registered to vote for the first time by noon.
“This is by far the most (registered voters) that I’ve seen. They all realize it’s important,” Jones said.
Among the newly registered votes was Hannah Demello, 20.
“I wanted to vote for Trump,” she said. “I agree with a lot of the things he wants to change in the government, including lowering taxes.”
Polls were busy first thing in the morning in Augusta, and steady throughout the day, despite the fact that nearly 45% of active registered voters cast their votes absentee.
By midday the number of voters coming in waned, though it was expected to pick back up in the evening, when residents get out of work and go vote.
Bobby-Jo Bechard, a candidate for an at-large Augusta City Council seat, said this election is so important her three adult sons each voted for the first time.
“I’m sure part of it was I’m running for office, and they see how passionate I am about it, but I also think they realized this is a very important election, and that every vote does matter,” Bechard said.
Kathryn Mastricolo, a volunteer with Marcus Emerson’s campaign for Legislature, said most voters Tuesday seemed friendly and upbeat, in contrast to some national media reports she’s seen about the contentious election.
EVERY VOTE COUNTS
Kristin Parks, town clerk in Readfield, said turnout was good Tuesday, and she also issued some 800 absentee ballots before the election. The town has around 2,440 registered voters.
After an afternoon lull, the line to vote at the Skowhegan municipal building started to grow around 4 p.m. Town Clerk Gail Pelotte said she was expecting an afternoon rush to end around 4:30 p.m. following a busy morning with a steady line.
As of about 3:30 p.m., a total of 3,200 ballots had been cast in Skowhegan, including 1,900 absentee ballots, according to Pelotte. The town had just over 5,000 registered voters as of June.
“For like the first two hours, there was no stop,” Pelotte said. “We had to take one of our books and divide it in two.”
The wait to register was long too.
Megan Ellis, 37, was waiting in the hallway for her daughter’s boyfriend to register to vote. She was not sure why some people wait until Election Day, but took it as a good sign.
“At least that means there’s a lot of people taking interest,” Ellis said.
Pelotte said voters coming in throughout the day have been polite and happy. “It’s pretty heartwarming,” she said. “All of the horror stories we thought we were going to see — it’s been awesome.”
Colby College student Mariella Laria, 19, of Massachusetts was among those who took a minibus to the polls Tuesday to vote. Mairead Levitt/Morning Sentinel
Tuesday afternoon, a white minibus pulled up outside Thomas College, shuttling students from nearby Colby College to cast their votes in Waterville.
Many of the students cited reproductive rights as a deciding factor in the presidential race. Mariella Laria, 19, of Massachusetts said she was voting for Harris because of her policies on abortion rights as well as her general character.
“I think she is a good person,“ Laria said. “Also, the rule of law — I don’t think we should have a felon as a president.”
Colby College student Connor Ransom, 21, of Poolsville, Maryland is shown volunteering Tuesday at the Waterville polls. Mairead Levitt/Morning Sentinel
Another Colby student — Connor Ransom, 21, of Poolsville, Maryland — was volunteering in Waterville to help make sure the polls run smoothly.
“Most people who volunteer are retired,“ Ransom said, “so it’s helpful to have young people who are more energetic and can move heavy things like voting machines around.”
Ransom pointed out that a lot of races, especially the local ones, can be decided by a few votes.
“People forget how important voting in local elections is,“ he said. “They can come down to less than a 100-vote difference.“
Amy Calder, Emily Duggan, Keith Edwards, Jake Freudberg, Hannah Kaufman, Mairead Levitt and Scott Monroe contributed reporting.
To be sure, singing about climate change can be a tough sell.
“It was scary at first,” Zak said. “When you write love songs or other popular music, there are set maps to follow. Trying to incorporate climate change into music isn’t something a lot of people do.”
But it seems to be working. The band, GoldenOak, has around 20,000 monthly listeners on Spotify and counting, and their top song has more than 300,000 listens. A previous project from the band won EP of the year by the Portland Music Awards.
GoldenOak, made up of siblings Zak and Lena Kendall, bassist Mike Knowles, and drummer Jackson Cromwell, formed around 2016. As the band’s main lyricist, Zak draws on his background in ecology and his close attention to how climate change is reshaping daily life in Maine.
At the College of the Atlantic, he studied human ecology, immersing himself in climate science and environmental issues while sneaking in song writing between classes. After graduating, he dove into climate activism as executive director of Maine Youth for Climate Justice.
Then he began to notice something: tropes of displacement, violent storms, and dying forests were bleeding into his lyrics. He saw a way to combine his passions of climate activism and folk music, and that convergence has defined his songwriting ever since.
Bands like AJR and Grammy-winning artist Jon Batiste have also sung about climate change. “As an artist, you have to make a statement,” Batiste said in an interview with Covering Climate Now. “You got to bring people together. People’s power is the way that you can change things in the world.”
Batiste called “Petrichor,” his recent song, “a warning set to a dance beat.” GoldenOak’s discography has taken it a step further, featuring multiple conceptual albums bringing climate urgency into the folk tradition.
The band’s first climate-focused album, Room to Grow, is a ten-song invitation to climate action, laying out what’s at stake and why the natural world is worth protecting.
In “Ash,” for instance, Kendall frames the loss of ash trees as a kind of breakup song — a farewell to a species that once filled the forests where he grew up. This was the wood he carved into canoe paddles, and that Wabanaki basket makers relied on for generations, a tree species now disappearing under the spread of the emerald ash borer.
Most of the album leans somber, with nine tracks moving between poetic depictions of ecological loss, frontline activist anthems, and moments of climate hopelessness. But its most popular song, “little light,” reaches in the opposite direction: a hopeful ode to renewable energy and indigenous knowledge.
“Music can be a powerful form of activism,” Zak said. “Over time I found a way to incorporate my lived experience, academic research and frontline stories to tell these stories.”
It’s a hard balance, Zak explains. Push the climate narrative too far and suddenly you’re just singing statistics; lean too much on personal experience and it becomes just another introspective track.
With All the Light in Autumn, released December 5, Zak keeps testing that balance. Ten birds on the album cover represent its ten songs. Some, like “The Flood” and “All the Birds,” return to themes of ecological loss, while others pull back to connect climate change to the political forces shaping it.
Written in the weeks after the presidential election, the song “Always Coming, Always Going” confronts the environmental protections dismantled under the Trump administration. Other tracks take aim at resource extraction under capitalism, environmental inequity, and the hollow myth of the American dream.
“Before this album came out people kept asking me if this one would be about climate change too,” Zak said. “And I think the answer is always going to be yes because climate change touches every aspect of our lives.”
Folk music grappled with environmental themes long before the genre’s famed artists recognized them — ballads about coal country, songs about scarred landscapes. Now, the relentless cycle of climate impacts may push more artists to write about it, extending even into mainstream pop.
“Music can help people process their emotions about climate change,” said Fabian Holt, a former music sociologist at Roskilde University in Denmark who now studies climate and culture. “But it can also serve as a medium for mobilization.”
“Just writing these songs about climate change doesn’t always feel like enough,” Zak said. “We try to lean into our role as activists, creating spaces for people to gather and share their own stories.” GoldenOak uses its platform to promote voting initiatives, amplify protests, and sometimes even perform at them.
Back onstage, Zak and Lena lean into the microphone to dedicate their most beloved song to climate activists and people living on the frontlines. Its lyrics insist on hope, even when climate progress falters. As the crowd joins in, humming, singing or whispering the words to themselves, it becomes clear how music can turn shared climate grief into collective resolve.
This story is published in partnership with Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment.
All four of Maine’s Division III men’s hockey teams will play for a championship in the first Lobster Pot Tournament after their holiday break.
“Anytime there’s a trophy at play, it makes things a lot more interesting,” Bowdoin coach Ben Guite said.
The tournament will take place Jan. 2-3 at Falmouth Ice Center in Falmouth. The first day, Colby and the University of New England will match up in the first game at 3:30 p.m., followed by a game between the University of Southern Maine and Bowdoin at 7 p.m. The winners will face off in the title game at 5:30 p.m. the following day.
UNE (8-2) is ranked seventh in the latest USCHO.com top-15 poll, while Bowdoin (6-2-1) is 13th, and Colby (5-2-1) received 12 votes. Southern Maine, meanwhile, is 5-4-1.
“I think all four teams are going to have a crack at it,” Guite said. “There’s no doubt in my mind.
We’ve played Colby already this year (a 3-2 Bowdoin win on Nov. 22). They’re obviously a handful and a very hard team to play. UNE has been a perennial power here for a while now, since (coach) Kevin (Swallow) has been there. (USM coach) Matt (Pinchevsky) has been doing a tremendous job. His team just plays with a lot of energy. They’re very hard to beat.”
There also will be a youth clinic at the neighboring Casco Bay Arena from 2-3 p.m. on Jan. 2. Ice skating will be available on the pond near Family Ice Center.
Guite said the tournament is an opportunity to showcase Division III hockey in the state. He also noted a trickle down of talent in Division III with former Canadian Hockey players now allowed to play in Division I.
The Mules, for example, have three former Division-I players, including leading scorer Colby Browne (Northern Michigan), defenseman Riley Rosenthal (Stonehill), and Auburn’s Reese Farrell (Army). Nor’easters goalie Harrison Chesney played at Northeastern.
Tickets are $8 per game and can be purchased starting Monday by visiting UNE’s website.
Contributing at the D-I level
Former Maine high school girls basketball standouts are off to strong starts to the season for their NCAA Division I programs.
Oxford Hills graduate Ella Pelletier Pelletier is averaging 9.3 points and 4.1 rebounds per game over 10 games in her first season at Stonehill College.
In her second season at Boston University after transferring from Providence College, Hampden Academy alum Bella McLaughlin is averaging 7.0 points and 3.0 rebounds per game. She also has a team-high 34 assists in 10 games.
Another Mainer contributing at the D-I level is Pelletier’s former Oxford Hills teammate Sierra Carson, who is averaging 3.0 points per game for Dartmouth.
NFHCA All-Americans
Two Mainers were named Division II All-American by the National Field Hockey Coaches Association recently.
Gracie Moore, a senior forward at Bentley who is from Pittsfield, was named first-team All-American. She finished the season with 15 goals and 12 assists in 22 games.
Meanwhile, Biddeford’s Jillian McSoreley, a senior defender at Assumption College, is a second-team All-American. McSoreley earned the honor by helping the Greyhounds hold opponents to 0.72 goals per game.
Bates College defender Haley Dwight was named to the Division III first team, while forward Brooke Moloney-Kolenberg earned third-team honors, along with Bowdoin’s Emily Ferguson.
Dressed in a fuzzy chicken costume, a then-2-year-old girl — accompanied by her parents dressed as farmers — walked around their new neighborhood ringing doorbells and asking for candy. It was July.
That is how the Westbrook community first met and fell in love with Lucy Hanson five years ago.
Everyone in Lucy’s neighborhood is close, Sue Salisbury, her neighbor, said, but it’s particularly hard not to love Lucy. She trick-or-treats year round. She jumps into her neighbors’ piles of leaves as they’re raking. She rides around the neighborhood on a seat on her dad’s bike with a speaker playing music attached in the back.
“She’s got the whole neighborhood wrapped around her finger,” Joe Salisbury, Sue’s husband, said.
So when Lucy was diagnosed with cancer at the end of October, the neighborhood decided to flood her with love as she spends the next nine months, holidays included, in the hospital for chemotherapy treatment.
Friends, neighbors, strangers and even people from other countries have sent Lucy a deluge of holiday cards, donations, gifts and meals.
Lucy’s aunt, Juna Ferguson, shared Lucy’s story on social media and asked for donations and meals to help. She also submitted Lucy’s name to The Angel Card Project, an online charity that requests greeting cards for people in need, so Lucy would feel as much love as possible during the holiday season.
In just a few weeks, Lucy has received hundreds and hundreds of cards, letters and packages, including some from as far as Germany and Australia. On Meal Train — a website that facilitates meal giving to families in hard times — people have donated almost $22,000 for the Hanson family and sent dozens of meals. Lucy’s wish list sold out within five minutes — three separate times.
The Hanson family
In many ways, Lucy is just like any other 7-year-old girl from Westbrook.
She loves Harry Potter (she’s in Gryffindor, of course). She’s reading “Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix,” but it’s a little scary for her. She just became a Brownie in the Girl Scouts. She wants to be a music teacher when she grows up. She loves to draw and sing and dance and do gymnastics and musical theatre. She has a best friend named Mallory who she has known since she was 6 months old. She’ll cry if there’s a snow day and she can’t go to school and see Mallory.
She’s witty and kind and bubbly and fun.
But in other ways, Lucy’s life doesn’t resemble that of other kids.
Last month, she spent more time in the hospital than at home. If she’s in the hospital, she has a robot she can drive around school to participate in her classes. (She dressed up the robot with a jacket, a hat and a sparkly backpack to make it look more like her).
Lucy is much smaller than most girls her age, as a genetic condition slows her growth. And she knows a lot more about cancer than most children.
She’s used to doctors and nurses and hospitals.
A few months after she was born in July 2018, she developed a rash on her face, which eventually spread to other parts of her body. After visiting three dermatologists and ruling out eczema, Lucy ultimately was diagnosed with Rothmund-Thomson syndrome type 2, a rare genetic condition that primarily affects her skin and bones and increases her chances of developing several types of cancer. Lucy is one of about 500 documented cases of RTS in the world.
For six years, Lucy was healthy. But in October, while she was attending a conference for families affected by RTS in Salt Lake City, she started to limp. She seemed to get better after a while, but a week and a half later, she couldn’t put any weight on her foot.
That’s when she was diagnosed with osteosarcoma in her right tibia. The doctors said Lucy will need nine months of chemotherapy and a below-the-knee amputation in February of 2026.
“How will we navigate the rest of Lucy’s life?” Staci Hanson, Lucy’s mom, thought.
Even though their lives had flipped upside down, Staci and her husband Jason decided to live as normally as possible.
They make sure Lucy does school work and takes walks. A school teacher checks in with her at the hospital and a child life specialist comes to play with her. Last week, they made slime together.
The nurses and doctors at MaineHealth Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital, where Lucy is receiving her chemotherapy treatments, have made magic in a very nonmagical situation, Staci said. In the hospital, Lucy got to pick out her own Christmas tree and ornaments for her room and even made a gingerbread house.
In the past month, the Hansons have spent just five days at home. Staci and Jason take shifts at the hospital. One night, mom stays with Lucy, the next it’s dad. They only live 15 minutes from the hospital, so it’s not a long drive to come home to get new things or do laundry, Jason said.
“It feels like a long time,” Lucy protested.
Her parents are honest with her about RTS, osteosarcoma and her approaching amputation in February.
“We try to lift her up and tell her, ‘Yeah, your world is going to look a little bit different, but you can still live a super normal life even with a prosthetic,’” Staci said. “So we’ve shown her lots of videos of people doing gymnastics and dance and just living fulfilling lives even though they have a prosthetic.”
Rallying around
Since Lucy met Joe and Sue Salisbury while trick-or-treating in the summer years ago, she has become part of their family.
“It’s like having a grandchild,” Joe said.
Lucy will often randomly call the Salisburys to invite them over for a movie night. No matter what they’re doing, even if they’re in the middle of dinner, they always accept.
“You don’t say no to her,” Sue said.
So they will stop what they’re doing, walk across the road in their slippers, and cuddle up with Lucy on the couch to watch whatever movie she wants.
Now, Sue and Joe hold on to those memories of her until they can resume that tradition.
In the meantime, the community is doing everything it can to help the family. The less the Hansons have to worry about, the more they can focus on Lucy and themselves.
Joe and Sue volunteered to receive the letters for Lucy, since the Hansons are rarely home to check their mail.
“This is Lucy’s fan following,” Joe said, pointing to two packages and a bag stuffed with letters.
The Salisburys collected at least 400 cards for her in three weeks. They go to the hospital about once a week to visit Lucy and give her the letters. They would like to see her more, but the visits are limited due to Lucy’s compromised immune system.
The Salisburys own the Daily Grind, a coffee shop in Westbrook. Customers come through all the time to drop off packages and cards for Lucy and ask about her.
Neighbors pick up the Hansons’ mail and plow their driveway.
Joe isn’t surprised by the response from the community. In Westbrook, people have always helped each other out.
“I think it’s just another example of how great the Westbrook community is that everybody is pulling together for Lucy,” Sue said.
The Hanson family has received so many letters and donations, it’s impossible to write enough thank you cards, Staci said. They are saving most of the cards to give to Lucy later, because she still has many more months in the hospital.
“I don’t know how we’ll ever repay our community for the love that we’ve received,” Staci said.
Lucy’s favorite card so far has a drawing of two ducks sitting in a yellow bowl of tomato soup with some crackers on the side.
“Thought some soup and quackers might make you feel better,” Lucy read from the card.
In another package, Lucy received fake snowballs. So Lucy did what any other kid would do —started a snowball fight in her hospital room with her doctors and nurses.
Those interested in sending gifts and cards or signing up to give a meal can visit mealtrain.com/trains/w4lwd0. The RTS Foundation accepts donations at rtsplace.org/. People can also join “The Lucy League” by buying merchandise at bonfire.com/store/bravelikelucy/. All profits go to the Hanson family.
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