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Interview Guide
Change in Coastal Communities: Perspectives from Down East


Q.1. Connection to Down East


• How long have you or your family been living Down East? [# of years and/orgenerations]
• Multigenerational resident:
• Do you currently live on inherited family land?
• What is it about this place/Down East that keeps you living here, or led you to returnhere?
• First-generation resident:
• What attracted you to live here or return here?
• Are there things about Down East that make it unique, different from other places?
• Howwould you describe your lifestyle here?
• What are some things you particularly enjoy doing or experiencing here?
• Are there particular places Down East that are important to you? What arethey?


Q.2. Connection to Down East natural environment

If, in the previous questions of this section, they have not mentioned the natural environment:
• What do you think about the naturalenvironment/landscape Down East?
• Are there things you particularly like/value about the environment here?
• Are there things you particularly like doing outdoors here?


Q.3.Professional perspective on Down East

• Where do/did you work?
• How did you end up doing that job? Have you had the same job for your whole working life, or have you changed?
• If changed,why?
• If work/worked Down East: What have you learned/observed about Down East while on the job?
• If work outdoors: What have you observed about the environment Down East while on the job?Q.4. Community and environmental change

• During the time that you have lived Down East, have you seen the area change? If so, what are the main changes that you have seen?
• Do you seethese changes as positive, negative, or both?
• If, in the previous questions of this section, they have not mentioned community: How has your community changed?
• Have all communities...