The Maine (Home+Design) Questionnaire with Robert Shetterly

September 2009

by Rebecca Falzano
Photography Irvin Serrano

In our September profile “Virtue and the Ventriloquist,” we profile Robert Shetterly, a Brooksville-based artist and author of Americans Who Tell the Truth. Here, Shetterly shares the truth on our MH+D Questionnaire.

Favorite Maine destination.
My home in Brooksville

Mainer I most admire.
I can't answer that. Too many!!

Favorite Maine artist.
That’s hard, too. Maybe I would say Marsden Hartley.

Favorite Maine gallery or museum.
Maine Center for Contemporary Art, Rockport

Favorite Maine craftsperson
Mark Bell

Favorite Maine restaurant.
Buck’s in Brooksville

Favorite Maine holiday.
October. I can't say I have a favorite holiday, but the light and weather in October is my favorite time of year.

Happiest Maine memory.
Raising my children in Maine

Worst Maine memory.
Getting sick from blackfly bites when planting my first garden in Maine

Native or from away?
Away.  But I've been in Maine 39 years.

Ocean or lake?
Any water.

Sugarloaf or Sunday River?
Neither. I don't ski.

George Mitchell or George Bush?
Mitchell, but politically speaking I'd choose one of Maine's great activists like
Bruce Gagnon.

Sail boat or power boat?
Kayak.

Bib or no bib?
Bib.

Moxie?
Ice water.

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