Milk man: From behind the wheel of a giant silver milk truck, Jesse Haskell gives a look inside Maine’s dairy industry. He drives an 18-wheeler for his father, hauling raw milk from farms around the southern part of the state to Oakhurst Dairy in Portland and Stonyfield Farm in Londonderry, New Hampshire.
In an increasingly specialized industry, Haskell is a jack-of-all-trades: a dairy farmer and a milk hauler. En route to dairies, he samples milk and truck stop fodder, shoots the breeze with farmers and inspection agents, and searches for that elusive Mrs. Right. The family’s dairying business is a serious commitment, 60 hours a week, but don’t get Haskell wrong, he knows how to have fun on five hours sleep.
A show of black and white photographs with a short reading April 25, 7 p.m. at Rabelais Books, 86 Middle Street, Portland. Milk and cookies will be served and copies of the published article in the winter issue of Gastronomica will be available for purchase.