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The 2016 National Democratic Convention​

This has been a historic political year.  America is again at a crossroads.  These are my experiences as a Maine Delegate in Philadelphia.

1966 to 2016

7/13/2016

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​Progressive politics have always been more or lesson my mind since I attended my first march on Washington when I was 15.  To those who lived through the 60’s, the tranquil world of white suburbia was blown apart by the violence, lies, and repression of the Vietnam War.
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By the late 60's labor, racial, economic, and class issues were emerging as a movement for change.  This is our group sitting in for the grape boycott in support of the United Farm Workers.  The tremendous hope of the 1960's was dashed by the election of the crook Nixon and further buried in the Reagan era.  We did not achieve our goals.
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    Deane Rykerson

    I grew up hiking, sailing, and rocknrolliing in the Hudson River Valley with a mother from Ecuador and a father from Dodge City, Kansas.  A Regents scholarship helped me attend the State University at Stony Brook with a major in history.  During  college, I studied for a semester in Ireland and drove a New York City taxi. 
    After graduation, I spent several years working and traveling the world. I worked on a railroad track crew, then learned house and boat carpentry and was Bosun on the educational sailing vessel Clearwater.  After moving to the Berkshires, I established a woodworking business and received a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for designing and operating a solar wood drying kiln.  
     
    Then off to Boston Architectural College and a Bachelor of Architecture.  After seven years of night classes, I got my architectural license.  I became active in the Boston Society of Architects, serving as Chair of the Committee on the Environment and Architects for Social Responsibility,  After a Masters Degree degree at Harvard University, I started my firm, Rykerson Architecture.  
     
    Moving to Kittery Point, Maine in 2002, I designed a sustainable house and office where I presently work.  My wife, Wendy Pomeroy, is a landscape designer and artist, and I have two grown son, a teenage daughter, and a grandson. 
    I was elected to the Maine State House of Representatives in 2012.

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