The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set newsroom policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com. Janet Mills is the governor of Maine. A hundred years ago and more, Laurence Smith Coffin tilled the hard soil of Aroostook County, twitching logs out of the woods in winter to support his wife and three children, while Peter Mills and his family plied the furrowed waters off Stonington where men loaded granite blocks on ships to build the great monuments to freedom in our nation’s capital.