Tom Opper did not set out to run a T-shirt company. As a Connecticut transplant who came to Maine in the early 1970s, he made a living however the season allowed: “I dug graves, did a little carpentry, hayed in the summer. I was a longshoreman,” he recounted to the Bangor Daily News. When neighbors asked him to run a craft fair in the town of Liberty, he went looking for someone to print shirts for it, found no one, and “decided to do it myself.…
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