BANGOR DAILY NEWS • October 11, 2023
Gene Lenentine has worked 82 potato harvests, and at age 92, he’s still climbing on tractors at 6 a.m. to help bring in the crop. Born Whitney Eugene Lenentine on Jan. 27, 1931, in Bridgewater, Gene, as everyone calls him, was on one end of a two-man crosscut saw when he was 8 years old and picking barrels of potatoes at 10. The Hodgdon resident has been working mostly seven days a week since; the key to his longevity and active life, he said.