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hattah
Farmgirl in Training
48 Posts
Margaret
Maine
USA
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 Posted - Mar 31 2009 : 12:52:23 PM
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heh I knew the Clorox buy-out. I have met Burt a couple of times...nice/odd. He has a small shop (antique one-room schoolhouse) in Abbot and sells Oriental carpets in the warm months. Though I haven't seen it open often. My daughter was his nearest neighbor in Parkman for awhile and had issues with his rampant doggie.She liked Burt though. I worked in a tourist trap shop in the area for a time and Roxanne used to come through with her friends from time to time and Burt was always trailing along. I felt they were marketing his scruffy old bearded self. lol
She has bought a lot of land here in Maine. Isn't terribly well liked by sportsman or anyone else she has trampled on. BUT she had a parting of the ways with RESTORE according to the Bangor paper a couple of years ago and quite truthfully.......she may well be the only person who owns a tree someday. She has no problem (supposedly) with use of her land as long as it is within her parameters.
I work for a company that maintains a gate system on a few million acres of land here. Owned by logging, private people and Quimby. I believe she is on our board of directors or can be if she chooses because she owns X amount of land. Because of where I work I see from day to day just how much of the land is being cut/savaged. Not a heck of a lot left .
I figure we ought to call Maine in Swamp Alder state,,,,think the Pines are gone now. 
In any case Quimby had a business brain I guess and poor old Burt didn't. I think she always meant to sell bigger and better and buy more and more land. But there are people who work for BB and I am watching to see if they change the product.
I remember when they had a tiny triny storefront in Guilford. And a lot of people complained (after the fact of course) that she took the business out of state. Maine is not noted for its business-friendly I'm afraid. 
"Never spend time with people who do not respect you."
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Interesting Info About Burt's Bees
