"Bette Hoxie was just a child when she read 'Little Men' and 'Jo's Boys' by Louisa May Alcott. The books, companions to Alcott's more widely read classic 'Little Women,' chronicle the lives of headstrong Jo March and her German-born husband, professor Friedrich Bhaer, at Plumfield, the country estate Jo inherits from her cantankerous but beloved Aunt March and turns into a loving home and school for orphaned boys.
"The Plumfield stories stirred in Hoxie's young heart the desire to touch the lives of children in a warm, lasting and therapeutic way, the Old Town resident said in a recent interview. And i'’s no accident that, at 70, she's still caring - personally and professionally - for Maine youngsters whose own parents are unable, unwilling or simply unavailable.
"Hoxie has long personal experience in caring for other people's children in her own home. Over the years, along with her late husband, Joe, she has fostered about 150 children and ended up permanently adopting and raising eight of them. That's in addition to the three biological children they raised together and a grandson who came to live with her as an infant. He's now 17 and is about to graduate from Old Town High School."
A recent Bangor Daily News article profiled Ms. Hoxie and her ministry to these children in Maine.
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Bangor Daily News: A children’s classic inspired her to care for displaced children (8 APR 17)
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