Round Pond native Kaitlin Hanna ’08 stands in the yard of her South Bristol home on Friday, Oct. 25. Hanna is a fifth-generation boat captain and carpenter. She is also the former head teacher at the British School in Zanzibar. (Johnathan Riley photo)
Full Article by Johnathan Riley ’13 for The Lincoln County News
Kaitlin lives in South Bristol with her family and is a fifth-generation boat captain and carpenter. After graduating from LA Kaitin worked on farms in Washington and Oregon through Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms, helped rebuild houses in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and spent summers working for the Hardy Boat. In 2011 she moved to Tanzania for a teaching job at the British School of Zanzibar and later became the school’s head teacher. When she returned to Maine she followed in her father Chad Hanna’s footsteps getting her captain’s license and started Captining the Hardy Boat in 2016. In 2020 Kaitlin decided to pursue a career in occupational therapy and is currently working on her master’s at the University of Southern Maine.
Originally published November 4, 2024 in The Lincoln County News. Click on the link above to read the full article.
