This has been Lorrie’s first summer of “living her dream” here on Block Island and volunteering with BIMI, though she has been vacationing here since the ‘60’s and currently owns a cottage on Corn Neck Road. She is a recently retired Oceanography Teacher and Director of an Outdoor Education Center with Regional School District #13 in Connecticut, a Board Member at large with the Southeast New England Marine Educators Association, Coach of a National Ocean Sciences Bowl Team, maple syrup producer, organic farmer and kayaker, with a passionate love for sunsets, seahorses and water.