Who we are
The Bucksport Mill Museum Working Group is a diverse group of people interested in preserving the history of the Bucksport paper mill. The group is made up of former mill workers and people whose friends and family members once worked at the mill. Group members contribute in a variety of ways helping with tasks such as fundraising, public relations, securing the deed for the building, curating the collection, renovation consulting, restoration volunteers, museum consulting, and envisioning exhibits and education.
Bucksport Paper Mill Museum Working Group:
Gary Bagley Co-Chair Mill Museum, V.P. Bucksport Historical Society
Pat Ranzoni Co-Chair Mill Museum, Chair STILL MILL Book Project
Wesley “Chip” Stubbs Renovation Crew, Foreman, Facility Manager
Larry Wahl Restoration Consultant, Renovation Crew, Museum Artist & Art Advisor, Fund Raising/Financial Agent, Historical Society Liaison
Steve Bishop Renovation Crew, Refurbished Horn and Metal Door Frame
Herb Gilley Renovation Crew, Historian
Rick Gilley Renovation Crew, Historian
Leo Grunwald Renovation Crew, Historian
Arline Lamarche Curator, Renovation Crew, Historian
Ed Ranzoni Renovation Crew, Administrative Helpmate
Marie Stubbs Renovation Crew, Historian
Paul Tibbetts Renovation Crew, Refurbished Gate Pier
Bucksport Paper Mill Museum Working Group (continued):
Scott Alley Resource Person
Jane Donnell Audio-visual Curator, Media Consultant, Historian
Rick Doyle Editor, Gatehouse Writings, Historian
Julia Gray Museum Consultant, Signage Creator, Historian
Hazel Hutchinson Resource Person
Meg Keay Retired Business Consultant, Resource Person
Jean Lamontanaro Communications Specialist, Web Site Manager
Amos Orcutt Fund Raising Consultant
Ryan Pickoski Retired Curator, Historian
Marie Roy Retired Collections Clerk, Historian
Ron Russell Fund-raising Chair, Resource Person
Gene & Joanne Sanborn Historians, Volunteers
Ray Seamans Founder, Historian, Resource Person
Ernie Smith Museum Bagpiper & Sign Maker
Bill Tymoczko Attorney, Resource Person, Historian
Bobby Wardwell Delivery and Positioning of Pulp Grinder Stone
Johnny Wardwell Interim Donation of WeStore Unit
Other volunteers and supporters: Lynn & Tom Moriarity, Bobby Wardwell & crew, WeStore staff, Ben Lincoln, Bill Stubbs, Maine AFL - CIO
Meet some of the team
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Gary Bagley
CO-CHAIR MILL MUSEUM, V.P. BUCKSPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Gary is the Vice President of the Bucksport Historical Society. He was instrumental in helping to secure the deed to the gatehouse building for the museum.
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Patricia Ranzoni
CO-CHAIR MILL MUSEUM, CHAIR STILL MILL BOOK PROJECT
Pat was named the Poet Laureate of Bucksport in 2014. She is the editor of Still Mill: Poems, Stories & Songs of Making Paper in Bucksport Maine, 1930-2014
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Wesley "Chip" Stubbs
RESTORATION CREW, FOREMAN, FACILITY MANAGER
Chip was the Machine Tender who shut down Paper Machine #5 for the final time when the mill closed permanently in 2014.
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Larry Wahl
RESTORATION CONSULTANT, RENOVATION CREW, MUSEUM ARTIST & ART ADVISOR, FUND RAISING/FINANCIAL AGENT, HISTORICAL SOCIETY LIAISON
Larry’s restoration experience includes renovating historic Wilson Hall, a former seminary building in Bucksport, which now houses apartments.
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Leo Grunwald
RENOVATION CREW, HISTORIAN
Leo Grunwald is a mill historian and volunteer on the Gatehouse renovation work under Chip Stubbs, Foreman.
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Arline Lamarche
CURATOR, RENOVATION CREW, HISTORIAN
Former mill worker, mill photographer and historian. Volunteer with Chip Stubbs' Gatehouse Renovation crew.
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Ed Ranzoni
RENOVATION CREW, ADMINISTRATIVE HELPMATE
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Jane Donnell
AUDIO-VISUAL CURATOR, MEDIA CONSULTANT, HISTORIAN
Jane is Theatre and Marketing Manager in Donor Services for Northeast Historic Film/Alamo Theatre in Bucksport.
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Rick Doyle
EDITOR, GATEHOUSE WRITINGS, HISTORIAN
Rick is the managing attorney at a small nonprofit. He is also a playwright and award-winning poet. Rick worked two summers at the paper mill.
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Julia Gray
MUSEUM CONSULTANT, SIGNAGE CREATOR, HISTORIAN
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Jean Lamontanaro
COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST, WEB SITE MANAGER
Jean worked at the mill for four summers as a student employee. She is currently the Marketing Manager for S. W. Cole Engineering in Hermon, Maine.
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Amos Orcutt
FUND RAISING CONSULTANT
In February 2024, Amos E. Orcutt, professional fundraiser and Bucksport native, presented "Best Practices & Principles of Fundraising" to a joint meeting of the Bucksport Historical Society and Paper Mill Museum, becoming a member of the Working Group.
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Marie Roy
RETIRED COLLECTIONS CLERK, HISTORIAN
Marie started out at the mill worksite as a secretary for Wade and Searway during the #4 paper machine rebuild. She was also an on-call employee through Page Employment, working primarily in Finishing & Shipping. Then in May of 1988, she was hired as a spare in the secretarial union, OPEIU.
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Eugene Sanborn & Joanne Sanborn
HISTORIANS, VOLUNTEERS
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Ray Seamans
FOUNDER, HISTORIAN, RESOURCE PERSON
Ray is a former mill electrician and the founder of the mill museum collection.
Founding Donors
We express our wholehearted gratitude to donors who helped save the future museum building, the old mill guardhouse, for protecting the evidence of world-class papermaking on the site from 1930 to 2014. By their early and generous contributions the individuals and groups remembered and honored here have demonstrated their belief with us in the importance and possibilities of a paper mill museum where generations of our people devoted their labor and earned their families’ livelihoods for close to a century. With everlasting respect we dedicate this Founding Union to those echoes and images which you have helped rescue.
Gatehouse Donors
The Gatehouse Fund will finance the facility's renovation and outfitting in preparation for exhibits under the expertise of foreman Chip Stubbs, builder and longtime Tender of Paper Machine #5, in consultation with local businessman and artist Larry Wahl, restorer and steward of historical buildings. Thank you to those who have contributed so far. There is still time to donate to this ongoing campaign. Find out how to make a contribution.