Brower is flanked by sons Lucas (left) and Isaac at this year’s Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain.Photo by sonJesse M.Brower. N o v e m b e r 2 0 1 8 3 7 Personalities Jesse M. Brower Fever Pitch 2 Biddeford Journal Tribune, The Times Record, Portland Phoenix, The Forecaster newspapers, Rockland’s The Free Press, Belfast’s The Re- publican Journal, and The Camden Herald. Those he doesn’t have ownership interest in he probably prints, from the Bangor Daily News to The Bollard. Not for the first time, print readers wondered, who is this guy? We caught up with him just before he left for Spain. His choice of venue? “Lunch at Moody’s Diner in Waldoboro.” PortlandMonthly:What’sonyourmindthissecond? Reade Brower: Right now it’s clear the desk so I can pack [to go to the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona]. Sometimes I’m asked for my long-range plan. I barely have a five-minute plan. SoundsQuixotic.Butrunningwiththebullsseems tofitinwithhowquicklyyoucanjumptomakeadeal. A Moody’s waitress approaches. “What would you like?” I’llhavewhathe’shaving. No, you probably won’t. I’ll have scrambled eggs with cheese and sausage and some hot tea. Iorderahamburger.SmokefromBrow- er’shotbeveragecurlsupfromthecoun- teratMoody’s. Tea.UnusualforaU.S.journalist.Youthinkof ClarkGablecharactersinthemovies,down- ingcupsofjava.Don’tyoulikecoffee? I love coffee. I love coffee so much I used to bring coffee to bed with me. But I made some rules for my- self when I got Crohn’s Disease. So I have a coffee allotment. I have rules. I only have coffee on Father’s Day, Christmas, a floating holiday, and two personal days. ArethoseyourrulesoryourwifeMartha’srules? My rules. I lost 40 pounds in my Reading a newspaper in Maine? Reade Brower likely owns or prints it. Interview by Colin W. Sargent A fter running with the bulls in Spain with his sons this past sum- mer, Reade Brower, 62, shook Maine by the horns when he snapped up The Ellsworth American and The Mount Desert Islander. He’d already collected virtually every other newspaper in Maine, from the Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram to Waterville’s Morning Sentinel, the Kennebec Journal, the Lewiston Sun Journal,