Antigenic entrepreneur & bibliophile Eliot Stanley shares his time on a kibbutz in the 1970s.

Interview By William Barry

Eliot Stanley is a gregarious gentleman who has enlivened the Maine scene in many ways since he arrived in 1978. He is a graduate of Harvard College (1965) with a law degree from Washington University (1972) and the founder of both New England Antigenics (which he started in 1987 and sold in 2003 to several companies, including Merck and Idexx) and the Baxter (bibliographic) Society of Maine (1984). With his gifted wife, Julia Adams, herself a founder of the celebrated Portland String Quartet, Eliot has been one of the mainstays of local culture and business during the past four decades. He has won many awards, including the Distinguished Service Award of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and served on the advisory group to Governor John Baldacci from 2009 to 2011. In 1975, he wrote the well-received River Coffee and Five Others: A Collection of Short Stories.

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