By: Kathryn Skelton, Staff Writer
This week, the Buzz is in full denial about how close the ski season is.
Let’s talk grits instead.
Mike and Heather Greenlaw opened Mike’s Runway Diner on Aug. 1 at the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport, revamping the menu from barbecue-centric to diner comfort food.
Mike, a garage door technician for 20 years, said he was between jobs when Tom Cerulli asked if he’d work part time to give him a hand at Backwoods BBQ & Grill at the airport. Part time became full time, and when Cerulli stepped away, it was a natural for the Litchfield couple to take it on.
“I’ve always liked cooking,” he said.
Heather has been a waitress for 30 years. What she’s liking most so far: “It’s ours, and the customers — we have a lot of support,” she said.
The new menu, updated with specials on their Facebook page, includes omelettes, grits, breakfast burritos, pork rolls and more than 15 sandwiches with fries. Food is available to eat there or customers can call in for takeout.
On Monday, a pilot walked by, food and coffee in hand, and not knowing Mike was the titular Mike told him: “Tell Mike he’s doing a good job.”
MAP MAKER’S WINDOW WATCHING
Back in 1999, registered Maine Guide Jim Witherell of Lewiston developed his first map and guide of Acadia National Park and Bar Harbor, eventually selling thousands through Acadia’s visitor center.
On that success, he developed a map of Mt. Katahdin and Baxter State Park the next year.
“They were made on a kitchen table in my cellar,” Witherell said. “It’s literally cut and paste, we’re talking scissors and a glue stick and tweezers, the hard way every time.”
Witherell, who has also authored four books, including one on Leon Leonwood Bean, has cut and tweezed his way to several map updates since; the latest Acadia edition came out in June.
Both are for sale at L.L.Bean and his maps may be making more of a splash at the iconic Maine retailer: Witherell filed a distrbutor’s rush order in late July for 76 Baxter maps needed “as soon as possible because Bean is going to use them for a window display.”
He checked within the last two weeks — no display yet.
“I definitely want to keep going down and get a picture of it,” Witherell said.
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