Roger Levesque, of Turner, takes a coffee break in front of political signs endorsing Donald J. Trump at House's Market in North Turner. A market employee said business has been up since the owner put up the placards a few weeks ago.
Ralph "Rass" Caldwell holds a thermometer that he uses to measure the temperature of his compost piles on his farm. Of Donald Trump, he says, “He’s going to shake some trees, there’s no doubt about that, and they damn well need shaking.”
A stack of marked logs is ready to be processed just off Route 4 in Turner. This farming community of 5,800 just north of Auburn is among the most conservative in Maine.
At left, Dale Talbot, of Turner, takes a break while Craig Sears, of Parsonsfield, sizes up the work left to do in hauling old wood out of a 1917 building next to the Turner Grange. Talbot owned the building for many years before selling it, and Sears is using the wood to restore another house in Turner.
Dale Talbot, of Turner, takes a rest on some boards as he unloaded old wood out of a building built by the Turner Grange in 1917. The first settlers started clearing land in Turner in 1772.
Jeff Timberlake, a state lawmaker representing Turner, walks among the apple-slingshot targets he has set up at his business, Ricker Hill Orchards. Timberlake said he made sure to have both a donkey and an elephant to represent both the Democratic and Republican parties.
Jeff Timberlake, a state lawmaker, chats with farmer Ralph "Rass" Caldwell, about federal environmental regulations that Caldwell says have affected his farm along the banks of the Androscoggin River in Turner.
Ralph "Rass" Caldwell drives in his pickup truck out of the main entrance to his farm in Turner as sprawling land for cattle stretches across the street from him.
Birds fly past old farm machinery in the town of Leeds as Ralph "Rass" Caldwell approaches part of his farmland to measure the temperature of compost piles. He says new environmental rules forced him to relocate a planned grain silo, to truck water for irrigation and livestock and to fence his cattle off from a creek that’s mostly dry.
Tire tracks from a burnout are seen on Route 117 in Turner.
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