Jeffrey Mabee, a native of New Jersey, wandered around for some years after his father passed away at an early age… celebrating at Woodstock, studying and rabble-rousing at Syracuse University, greenhouse keeping in Boston, sailing the Pacific, grounds keeping in Mexico, growing coffee in Hawaii, fishing in Oregon and Alaska, until, in 1981, he wandered into Belfast Maine where he purchased his own boat, fished Penobscot Bay, started a perennial nursery and knew he had found his true home.
Judith Grace, meanwhile, grew up on a farm in central Maine and moved away as soon as possible. She thought that Belfast was smelly and boring… the last place she would ever want to live. Luckily, she came back, with 2 young children, in the 70’s, just as Belfast was starting to transform. She quickly added a bit to that transformation by helping to start an alternative elementary school.
Jeffrey and Judith met in Belfast and, except for a year of living in Arizona, they have spent their 20 years together sharing a private psychotherapy practice at their home and office at the mouth of Little River. Although they will miss the ocean, they are very excited about exchanging their big, old drafty house for an energy efficient home and a cooperative community.
Judith & Jeffrey were founding members of Turnabout, an addictions education organization that thrived in the 80’s and 90’s in Belfast. They are founding members of the UU Church of Belfast. Jeffrey is a founding member of Come Boating!, Belfast’s community boating organization. He spends as much time as possible on or in the water.
Judith has served on many committees and been a major fundraiser for the UU Church of Belfast. She is famous for being able to find whatever she (or anyone else) needs or wants at various yard sales and auctions. They enjoy traveling, dancing, spending time with friends and family, gardening, photography, and their work. Their two grown children live in Portland, ME and Seattle, WA. Their greatest joy is being grandparents to 5 1/2-year-old Fox and 16 month-old twins, Nell and Fisher.
