Great News! The Fort Edgecomb Quilt has been returned! The Friends of Fort
Edgecomb have delivered it to the raffle winner. This case is still under investigation. "Details at 11!"

Don't miss the new Edgecomb Eddy School Public Open House on Tuesday, Dec. 17, from 5:00 to 6:30 pm. Come, everyone, to admire our splendid educational facility! At 6:30 pm, following the Open House, join our students in the new gymnasium for a joyous Christmas Concert. Audience participation encouraged!

During this event, the Edgecomb PTC will provide refreshments, for a donation. Also for sale, T-shirts and other things with the new school logo—perfect for under the tree. Old Edgecomb Schools, Chapter IV: On the east side of the Boothbay Road (Route 27), a school was located approximately 3/8 mile south of the McKay Road intersection, according to Nick Dean's 1887 map. Did it serve the Parsons Point children? Or the former community along McKay Road? There used to be many cellarholes in the woods along McKay. With the "City School" just up the road no great distance, why were these two schools so close together?

We share Gary and Donna Balducci's sorrow and vexation at the loss of their llama Carmine. Apparently there is no "season" on llamas, not legally a domestic animal, but it is considered personal property and there will be a penalty for destroying Carmine on those grounds. For the education of 40-year-experienced hunters and whoever else: Llamas in no way resemble deer. Their legs are thicker, their necks are longer, their backs are shorter, and their faces look like camels (because they belong to the camel family). Besides, firing into an obvious farmyard with a residence nearby is stupid and reckless endangerment. Reminds me of Tom Lehrer's "Hunting Song," "I tied them to my fender and I got them home somehow: 2 game wardens, 7 hunters, and a purebred Guernsey cow."

Have you all been following the story of Jim McQuaide on Shore Road, and his magnificent skiff, built in his basement? I hope to see it in its red and tan splendor, next summer punting on the Sheepscot River.

Here is an item which may have importance for Edgecomb teens: the potential establishment of the Watershed Community School, a private high school serving a projected 100 students from our region, to be located somewhere between Warren and Rockland. On Wednesday, December 18, at 7 pm in the Mobius Center, Business Rte. 1 in Damariscotta, will be a public meeting to review and describe this venture, which expects the new school to open in fall of 2003. What kind of a gap will this new school fill? What quality and direction of education will it provide? What problems might it raise for the existing public and private high schools of the several towns around? Think about it. Attend this meeting.

Kate Rose Klemme, the famous granddaughter, is a doll! Her name should be Katherine. Coming to you from 234 River Road, 633-2978, bonesukl@midcoast.com.by way of snowy Bloomington, Indiana. This column appears in The Boothbay Register, The Lincoln County News, The Wiscasset Newspaper, and at www.Edgecomb.org.