An excerpt from this months (Sept 2010) Maine Magazine – featured article about creative culture in Portland.

//Andy Graham, Technicolor dreamer, has new ideas about measuring success.

Picasso famously said, “Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.” When Andy Graham looks at Portland he asks: “Why not?”  Andy Graham wants 10,000 creative people to move to Portland in the next five years. He wants a creative economy to flourish, and for arts and culture to be at the center of the city’s identity. If this happens, Graham says, then Portland—and Maine in general—will be a more joyful place. Why not? //  read more here: themainemag.com or www.themainemag.com