Patty Veilleux of the recently renamed GunnMoor Farm on Dodge Road wants to help another Edgecomb horse owner who is having surgery for cancer shortly. He will be bedridden for at least a month, and then must be very careful for a while longer that he doesn't overdo. Meanwhile his daily tasks must go on, shoveling, training, exercising, combing and currying and all, as fellow horse lovers well know. Patty is asking for your participation in a tag team community effort, to stop by his farm and help with a few of the lesser chores. Call her for more details, 882-7599.

Lea Wait will be reading and signing her new mystery novel, "Shadows at the Fair, " at Sherman's in Boothbay Harbor at 6 p.m. today (7/25); she will also be reading at the Boothbay Harbor Antiques Show, Friday, July 27 at 10 a.m., Saturday the 28th at 11 a.m.

I went up last Friday to the Maine Coast Book Shop and Caf‚ in Damariscotta, got several books signed by Van Reid: the complete Moosepath League series as well as "Peter Loon," the latest. If you want to know more about this Edgecomb writer, try his website: www.moosepath.com.

Friends of Fort Edgecomb will be on encampment at Vienna, Maine to help celebrate Vienna's Bicentennial this weekend, July 27-28. If you plan to go, please call Fred (829-5753) or Laurel (377-5335) so they can plan food for a communal Saturday meal. And be sure to buy a raffle ticket for the Fort Edgecomb quilt!

I have received a letter from Marion Pinkham Chebba of Hampden, Maine, who is trying to find relatives in the Parsons family who once lived in Edgecomb. Ms. Chebba used to live in Sheepscot and graduated from Lincoln Academy in 1948. A quick flip through the current phonebook finds 22 Parsons, none living in Edgecomb. If anyone reading this can help her, please get in touch with me, contact information given below, and I will provide you with her address and phone number.

The Edgecomb Baptist Church said goodbye on July 7 to Pastor Rimi and family. He has moved to Hannibal MO to become pastor of their Victory Baptist Church. Edgecomb services have been taken over by Pastor Harvey from Grace Baptist Church in Chelsea, every Sunday morning at 9 a.m. Everyone is welcome to join us for worship at that time!

The River Road is getting colorful! The McSwains are re-painting the Merry Barn its original (at least when I was young) bright yellow. The Blackfords' house is now barn-red.

Information came too late about three workshops (Ha! They're back to using the word "workshop"!) about Route 27. Edgecomb's meeting was Tuesday the 23rd, and Boothbay's on Wednesday. The Boothbay Harbor meeting will be tonight, Thursday, July 25, 7 to 9 p.m. at the B.H. Town Office.

Congratulations to Ruth Langton of Cross Point Road, Ruth Jones of Cochran Road, both freshmen, sophomore David Nickerson of the River Road, and junior Krystin Benton of Rte. 27, all honor students at Lincoln Academy during the third trimester. Miss Langton received High Honors.

Last Tuesday night, we heard a motorcycle hum up the driveway and lo! It was my brother-in-law, Anni's spouse, Henry Black! He had traveled from California to Rockland for a Black family celebration, and seemed no worse for wear from the enormous journey!

Panting heavily as I press my car's gas pedal at 234 River Road, 633-2978, and bonesukl@midcoast.com. This column appears in The Boothbay Register, The Lincoln County News, The Wiscasset Newspaper, and at www.Edgecomb.org.