MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • August 21, 2022
Eight thousand people a year visit the little Scarborough Marsh Audubon Center on the edge of Maine’s largest saltwater estuary. It’s hard to imagine Scarborough without that busy little hut. And yet few people know about the man who, 50 years ago, had the idea for Maine Audubon to partner with the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, which had bought the land for fishing and hunting, and turn a vacant clam shack into a visitors’ center. “The only credit I’m taking tonight is that I had the idea,” said Dick Anderson, who led Maine Audubon in the 1960s and ’70s. “And he’s a force of nature,” said Andy Beahm, the current executive director. “When Dick has an idea, he knows how to actualize it.”