...Dick Gardner. Folks from out of state think that the title Bean Master is some sort of joke, but they're wrong. Years ago, Franklinians decided at Town meeting that good baked beans were at least equally important as poetry. If the State can have a Poet Laureate, they reasoned, why can't Franklin have a Bean Master? For proof, you can see the office of Bean Master listed in the Government pages of this web site..

February 2004
Franklin, Maine