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 parents’ property in Owls Head, Maine, was struck by lightning. It caused a fire that cleared a half acre on a small hilltop, close to where members of her family still live. Wanting to raise their two children there, Betsy, a midwife, and her husband, Andrew, who runs his design-build firm Croft (which makes carbon-sequestering prefab panels), located a site on the

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