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Woodlawn welcomes new executive director
Construction plans changed
ELLSWORTH After a long search, Woodlawn Museum and Gardens found its new executive director in Kathy Young. A Camden native who spent 15 years in New Zealand before returning to Maine, Young has over two decades of development work with nonprofits, from the university system in New Zealand to the Coastal Mountain Land Trust in Camden.
“She has a broad range of institutional experience with nonprofits,” said Todd Little-Siebold, president of the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations, Woodlawn’s governing body. “But also focus and energy.”
Five days in, Young sat at a small table in her upstairs office with plans and a draft sketch of the new barn at Woodlawn. The building committee had recently met and mostly finalized the building plans for the new carriage barn. The vision has shifted from a venue that could hold, say, a very large wedding party or other event, to one primarily aimed at hist
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Woodlawn to push forward with carriage barn, expansion plans
ELLSWORTH Delayed by the pandemic, plans to reconstruct the Woodlawn carriage barn for use as an event and education center are expected to move forward once the Building Committee meets at a date to be determined. That will be followed by the annual meeting of the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations, the governing board of Woodlawn, on Jan. 30.
Outgoing President Jon Marshall said that while the old carriage barn has been removed from the property, plans for its replacement are not complete. The new barn will still use material salvaged from the former barn, although most of it is beyond use, Marshall said. The new structure may be slightly smaller than originally planned, he said. The original plan called for the carriage barn to be built on the same footprint as the old one. Renewable or more efficient energy sources, such solar panels and a heat pump, may be added to the plans, Marshall said.