Bring yourselves to the Great Spring Fling! At the Yard Sale you'll find ‘most anything! Old records by Bing, rare vases by Ming, Gypsy Rose Lee's second best G-string! Mother's Day houseplants will make Ma sing! Baked goods and barbequed burgers with zing! Make the EEPTC's cash registers go ker-ching! This event, sponsored by the Edgecomb Eddy School Parent Teacher Club, will take place on Saturday, May 8, from10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., rain or shine! Weather permitting, all activities will take place around the school's front circle lawn area. But if it rains, come anyway! We'll be in the gym! Call Judy Reid at the school (882-5515) for more details.
Friday, May 14, 1:00 p.m., at the Town Hall, the North Edgecomb Cemetery Society is holding its annual meeting. Newcomers are welcome! The group needs more people to take over some of the long-standing responsibilities, such as seeing to monument repair. This society is one of the longest such serving in Maine.
That female harp seal rescued from Route 1 March 25 was released April 27 in Kettle Cove, Cape Elizabeth, with four other, younger seals. Jim Buckingham, seal rescuer from the Northeast Marine Animal Lifeline, theorizes that she traveled roughly 1 1/2 miles from Marsh River to the road. Please, anyone spotting a seal in a similar fix, don't try to help it yourself! Call the Lifeline, 773-7377.
Samantha Beam, Jim and Debby's youngest, will be performing in the upcoming 7 high school production of Les Miserables, opening Thursday, May 6 for a 2-week Thurs, Fri., Sat. run at Wiscasset High School. Samantha, a WHS freshman, has acted in several local theater productions in recent years. After Les Miz, the Heartwood Regional Theater Company will start rehearsing for Annie, and Samantha expects to be playing in that production as well. Adults and kids, if you are looking for an out of the ordinary summer activity, e-mail heartwoodrtc@gwi.net or call 563-1373 about their summer classes and performance schedule.
Every so often my sister Anni in California bundles up the Food and Travel sections of the San Francisco Chronicle and sends me the wad. The Travel section for Dec. 21, 2003 had a feature called "Follow the Reader," in which readers recommend lodgings from various regions of the U.S. And lo! Leading the pack for Eastern & Central U.S., a note from Caryl Hughan of Millbrae CA, "Farm respite in Maine harbor," praises the Cod Cove Farm B&B of Edgecomb, Maine, run by Don and Charlene Schuman, mentioning in particular their Scottish scones and Adirondack flapjacks.
Deb Boucher reports that the beavers are back on the Mill Road - both sides of it!
Drivers, watch out for MDOT work crews northbound on Route 1, paving a 12 mile stretch from the Wiscasset/Edgecomb line through to Nobleboro, starting May 10, winding up approximately June 25.
"It's so nice to be able to share a hobby with your mother!" Susie Stephenson told me, on the point of departure for Nova Scotia for a week of advanced rug hooking classes taken along with her Ma.
Last Thursday, we went to the Wynton Marsalis concert in Brunswick. How that man can make a twisted tube of brass make such sounds! High, piercing birdcalls, soul-wrenching moans, fantastic variations with and without mutes, and crescendoing, ultra-long held notes. Jazz, finest kind!
Swinging to that rhythm at 234 River Road, 633-2978, bonesukl@midcoast.com. This column appears in several local papers, and at www.Edgecomb.org.