Wally Jones, Albany

Nancy Frueh, East Berne

Bonnie O’Shea, Church Elder, New Scotland  Presbyterian Church

My first whale watch did not go well.

At the time I was a student in meteorology at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine on Mount Desert Island. It was the Fourth of July — a holiday for students — and a day on which it seemed half the population of the Northeast had poured into Bar Harbor.