Maine's First Lady of Gardening
Karen Baldacci has given Augusta another attraction: the Blaine House gardens.
Rebecca Martin Evarts
A few years ago, Maine’s First Lady Karen Baldacci was searching for paper in the photocopying room at the Blaine House when she came upon a rolled-up scroll tucked into the back of a drawer. “You know how it is, in these old houses,” she says. She unwrapped it a little and, even in the dim light, could see it contained a garden plan of some sort. Another person might have shrugged and put the curled papers back where she found them. But more than any other First Lady in recent memory, Mrs. Baldacci’s passions [For ideas on other things to do in the capital, click here. For the rest of this story, see the April 2008 issue of Down East.]
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