Not the comment OP but I actually heard a version of this story (not sure about the drugs or the parents), and one about the little white church on Old Bath Rd about Crooker when he was being honored at an annual Southern MidCoast Maine Chamber event at the Taste of Maine around 2010/2012

Supposedly the church on Old Bath Rd was the church where Crooker met his wife, and when he heard it was being torn down, he bought the building, took it apart and had it rebuilt where it currently stands, so that that memory/place could live on.