Matt Brennan’s breath looks like a cloud around his head as he works outside in the cold weather on Friday at the Grand View Timber Frames display site on Western Avenue in Manchester. It was a beautiful sunny afternoon, but very cold, with temperatures not getting out of the low teens. The Winthrop-based company constructs log and timber-frame houses and barns.

Joe Phelan is an award winning journalist who makes photos and videos around the capital area for the the Kennebec Journal, Morning Sentinel and the other Masthead Maine publications. Joe’s first journalism... More by Joe Phelan
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