Jason

Number one, I love Lewiston Auburn. I feel like the community here. I want peace for our community. I feel like I feel like we took pieces doing nothing for a very long time, and being out and existing with everybody without, without it being something that directly benefits you and running into people like I see this guy over here. I met this guy in Portland, but I ran into him again in the artshop (yeah, he’s so awesome) but it's like I never would have expected to see him you know. Like this is what it’s all about, and I feel like little things like this are the beginnings of showing people what this area is about. Because I feel like this is, this is my favorite area, and I've been up here for almost 20 years. I've been in Lewiston, Auburn but when I'm I came up here during the pandemic, and it's been the best decision that we’ve made as a unit. And it’s such a bad rep. And I feel like people took two seconds and just hung out. People just see it's the most real. It gets a bad rep, but it’s the most accurate reflection of Maine. Not all white folks, not all Black folks, it takes everybody. That’s just what I want. I just want to be out and I want to be a part of it because I see it happening. And it's like you can sit on the bench until it happens. Well, I'll live here be in the middle of it before people know. You can make it. You can make it be a part of what it becomes.