Today Hallowell is once again a destination of choice for businesses and home owners, attracting all age groups. As Baron Wormser observed:
In its modest way (because just about everything in central Maine is modest), Hallowell is a state of mind, an apostrophe not to some rigamarole called “the good life” but to aspects of creativity--be it with music, paint, food or words--that enrich our lives and aren’t a frill…. It is that Hallowell is a place that enjoys its identity. Bohemian is not a Maine word, but if it were, Hallowell would be the place it would naturally fit.
The legacy that has been handed down to Hallowell citizens through each generation is one of values: respect for the worth, talent and potential of every person.
In 2012 Hallowell will observe its 250th anniversary. Perhaps no better tribute to it could be offered than that of Captain John Drew. In 1884, nearing the end of a 40-year career under sail, he wrote to the Hallowell Register in praise of his home town:
They may call Hallowell a slow, pokey old place--or anything they like--it does not matter. She has given to the world the best legacy she could have ever devised, as good men and women as ever lived. To those that remain, the very few of the great number she has sent out, I say you have a dear old town left to you, filled to the brim with memories so varied, so overwhelming, that I consider it a privilege to live in such a place…. Hallowell is still bringing forth children, educating the boys and girls for weal or woe; she will still send them forth to every mountain, plain and sea, perhaps, and may they do as well as those who are now citizens of every land.