This Saturday, Aug. 17, is that kayak/canoe trip up the Sheepscot that the Boothbay Region Land Trust is sponsoring. Bring your own boat, lunch and snack, and meet the group at the Knickerkane landing in Boothbay by 9 a.m.. The trip is expected to take approximately 4 hours. BRLT's number is 633-4818, for more details.

Word from the Edgecomb Town Hall: The state tax and rent refund application forms are now available in the Town Offices. This application form is also used for the low-cost drug card. Both these programs are income-related, but more people may be eligible for the tax refund since the income limit on that is higher than for the drug card. It pays to check! The correct phone number for the Town Hall is 882-7018.

A bit beyond this column's scope, but if you want to re-enact other eras than American Colonial or Civil War, try the medieval reenactment group now forming in Bath. Email nobleknights@prexar.com to find out how to don your own shining armor, leap aboard a war steed and go rescue princesses or princes, or whoever needs rescuing. Dragons may be involved!

We Camerons have been having summer fun with our friends Dave and Eda Williams from Princeton NJ, with visits to Georgetown and Islesborough. Last Friday we went to Portland, to the Capitol Steps concert, a group of political satirists you can also hear on NPR. I recommend the Fore Street Restaurant, well regarded in culinary circles, with down-to-earth menus, and dedicated to the freshest of meats and vegetables. I certainly hope everyone else is squiring their friends and relatives around the wonders of Vacationland Maine! Because I haven't heard a shred of news from any of you!

The Williamses expressed curiosity about the islands around about. We consulted Charles B. McLane's Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast (Island Institute, Rockland ME: 1994). It is a four-volume series of which we have only volume 4, Pemaquid Point to the Kennebec River. I must get the other three books! But we discovered some fascinating nuggets, such as the original name for Salt Marsh Cove, which was Two Bacon Gutt, and the bridge over the Sheepscot from Wiscasset to Edgecomb used to be called the Folly Bridge. Maybe we ought to go back to that.

Meanwhile, overlooking Two Bacon Gutt, I remain at 234 River Road, 633-2978, bonesukl@midcoast.com. This column appears in The Boothbay Register, The Lincoln County News, The Wiscasset Newspaper, and at www.Edgecomb.org.