Ever since Peter Baldwin came to the Midcoast in 1972, he’s built a livelihood from wood.
He crafted porch posts, windmill blades, oars for Outward Bound and took on various woodworking jobs in construction. In 1984, wanting to build something new, he recalled his 1950s boyhood in New York’s Hudson Valley.
“My uncle had an apple orchard, and my folks had...