Conversations With Maine host Frank Ferrel visits with the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick, the Honorable Graydon Nicholas. A member of the Maliseet nation, Nicholas named the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick in September.

Conversations With Maine host Frank Ferrel sits down with oyster farmer, Jeff McKeen. He is a member of Old Grey Goose, which has served as a musical ambassador for the U.S. State Department.

Dahlov Ipcar's art hangs in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is well known in Maine for her posters created for MPBN auctions and the Common Ground Fair.

Conversations with Maine features a dancer with international credits, Molly Gawler. She began her dance training as a child in the Belgrade Grange Hall.

One of the great intellects to ever to come out of Maine is Nobel laureate Dr. Bernard Lown.

Tom Chappell founded "Tom's of Maine" in Kennebunk back in 1970 and since he has become synonymous with environmentally-friendly healthcare products.

Ecotourism activist Costas Christ sees Maine as a state with huge but unrealized potential as one of the world’s premier ecotourism destinations. Christ says Rhode Island, Vermont and New Hampshire have made gains in attracting more ecologically friendly tourist dollars. He says that with a little effort, Maine could and should be the crown jewel of ecotourism in the Northeast.

The Premier of New Brunswick, Shawn Graham, is a surprisingly young politician who nonetheless at the age of 39 is the oldest of Maritime Canada’s Premiers.

Ted Ames is a Stonington fisherman and lobsterman who, in 2005, became the only resident Mainer in history and was one of only 25 people overall that year to be awarded a “genius grant” from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, in his case for his pioneering work studying groundfish populations along the coast.

A talk with Kent Wommack, former executive director of the Nature Conservancy in Maine.

Ron Phillips sees his work as director of Coastal Enterprises, Inc., as his mission.

Once homeless and destitute, Lucinda Yates took her future in her hands and created what was to become a multi-million dollar business dedicated to providing financial help and awareness to non-profit organizations.

Newly appointed as director of the Small Business Administration by President-elect Barack Obama, Venture Capitalist Karen Gordon Mills has long been a visionary when it comes to ideas for economic progress. Mills shared some of those ideas with Conversations host Frank Ferrel before she was tapped by Obama. Ferrel and Mills met at the historic Parker Cleaveland House at Bowdoin College, where her husband, Barry Mills is president.

Frank sat down with the executive director and guiding force of the Chewonki Foundation, Don Hudson, talks about the program that encourages youth to connect to the natural world.

Conversations With Maine host Frank Ferrel sits down with Kate Braestrup, one of the first chaplains appointed to the Maine Warden Service. She is the best-selling author of Here If You Need Me.

Conversations With Maine host Frank Ferrel sits down with former Washington Bureau Chief for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Richard Dudman. He was in the motorcade when President Kennedy was shot, and later accompanied President Nixon to China.

Conversations With Maine host Frank Ferrel sits down with Stuart McLean, host of the Canadian radio series the Vinyl Café. McLean’s program can be heard on MPBN radio Sunday afternoons, he talks about his life and career.

Stone Mountain Arts Center in Brownfield, Maine is not your typical music venue, but then proprietor Carol Noonan is not your typical entrepreneur.

Garrison Keillor’s weekly radio show, A Prairie Home Companion, is heard by millions of public radio listeners each Saturday evening.