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TOPSHAM, Maine — If Central Maine Power were somehow able to connect Rose Tuttle to its grid, the company would immediately gain access to a source of clean, renewable and seemingly limitless energy. It becomes apparent about ten seconds after being introduced to her that she is a dynamo.

“When I first met Rose, her energy hit me,” says Nat Warren-White, who directed her in 2022 in a stage production in Freeport of “Our Town.” “I said, can this be real? I mean, is this honest? Is she putting this on? Of course she’s not. It’s just who she is.”

This spring Tuttle graduated at the top of her class from Mt. Ararat High School in Topsham. During the last two weeks of school every senior does what is in effect a passion project.

One student’s project involved making a dress. Another did one on archery. Tuttle wrote, produced, directed, …