Meet Penitence B. Biddiford Some stories just take some telling. Penitence Biddiford's is one of those. But hers is an important story to tell, for the concepts underlying all these various misadventures are integral for understanding the dynamic success of the Owl's Hill Arts Center, and rather serve as some good rules to abide by in general. Sometimes a person and a project, or a place, become inextricably linked, through circumstance or story. More often than not, it's a local phenomenon, like the case of the Biddifords of Crumbleville, and the Owl's Creek Mill. Generations of Crumblevillians have ground their meal at the Mill, founded in 1867 by Cerberus Baal Biddiford, a stern man returned from Gettysburg without his left leg. Biddiford progeny were plentiful throughout the ensuing years, and the 'Owl's Hill Brand' was renowned for its purity, and the lightness of products baked with it. But the lights went out on the milling operation in the late
