One Good Thing

McGowan, Patrick: - Patrick K. McGowan was born in Bangor, Maine, and raised in Somerset County. He learned to fly at the age of sixteen and began a lifetime of adventure and backcountry bush flying. Inspired by his home state, a place of magnificent beauty, he began a public service career, which included being a legislator, presidential appointee, and member of a governor's cabinet. He has owned and operated many small businesses over four decades. His drive for continued adventure included ten years as a skydiver, forty years as a floatplane and backcountry airplane pilot and multiple Maine canoe trips. One Good Thing brings his public service, floatplane adventures, and love of storytelling to the public in this first novel. He campaigned for single-payer health coverage in a congressional race in 1990 and has never given up on this bold idea for America. McGowan is an accomplished conservationist. The father of four lives in central Maine with his wife Kirsten and daughter Amelia. His alma mater is the University of Maine at Farmington. He is currently the president of PK Floats, Inc., an aircraft float manufacturing company in Maine.