{"id":22255,"date":"2022-10-26T11:03:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T15:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=22255"},"modified":"2022-11-02T11:37:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T15:37:10","slug":"shake-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/shake-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Shake Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?d=nov22_portland_monthly_magazine&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=26&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Betsy Richards, new executive director and senior partner with Wabanaki Nations at the Abbe Museum: \u201cMy late mother, Betty Walkingstick, would often remind me that everything is a gift.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Interview by Lily Randall<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>When was your first time in Maine?\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019ve been up in Maine a few times as a tourist, but my more interactive time was when I was [working] at the Ford Foundation and the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance was one of my grantees, so I came up to visit them and go to the basket fairs [in Bar Harbor].<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Are you looking forward to reconnecting with the basket-weaving community?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Absolutely. You should see in my office that I\u2019m sitting in right now, I collect baskets by contemporary Native weavers and am really proud of the incredible baskets I have by Wabanaki weavers such as Theresa Secord, Fred Tomah, and Mary and Donald Sanipass. Theresa Secord, Jennifer Neptune, and Jeremy Frey taught me how to make \u201cbasket start\u201d bookmarks which I still have.<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22257\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Richards_.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Richards_.png 500w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Richards_-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Richards_-200x150.png 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Richards_-467x350.png 467w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Betsy Richards is the new executive director and senior partner with Wabanaki Nations at the Abbe Museum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,955],"tags":[1149,1223,1221,1208,1222],"class_list":["post-22255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-most-intriguing-mainers","tag-abbe-museum","tag-basket-weaving","tag-betsy-richards","tag-november-2022","tag-wabanaki-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22404,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22255\/revisions\/22404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}