Come on along and listen to The Lullaby of Broadway! The Hip Hoorah and Ballyhoo, Salute to Broadway! Monday, June 7 at 6:30 p.m., the Edgecomb Eddy School will be belting out our favorite show tunes in their Spring Concert! How can anyone resist?
Up the airy mountain, down the rushing glen, join the the Schmid Preserve Committee for a guided tour of our fantastic conservation resource! Saturday, June 5, is National Trails Day. Bring your own lunches, and good walking shoes are a must, but the trails are not difficult. You can go around the Haggett Loop, and/or the colorful Red, Blue, and Purple Trails, newly re-blazed.
Graduations all over the place! Congratulations to the Edgecomb reps among Wiscasset HS Top Ten Seniors: Bradley Lemont on the Cross Point Road, Lindsay Leone on the Boothbay Road, and Marquela Stevenson on Spring Hill Farm Road!
Ramone Hanley-Warren of Edgecomb's Damselfly Gallery will be contributing a special canoe paddle, decorated with a graceful great grey heron, to the Abbe Museum's Summer Gala and Auction in Bar Harbor in August. She joins such notable artists as Jamie Wyeth, Eric Hopkins, and California Native American James A. Luna. "Artists will decorate 42 paddles with oils, acrylics, carving, sculpting, wood-burning, stained glass, ceramics and collage," Ramone tells me, "creating a remarkable variety of themes and styles." They will be on display at the Abbe Museum and at sponsor locations in Hancock County during late June and July, before the Gala's auction event. A map of these locations is available at www.abbemuseum.org. For more information, Ramone's website is www.damselflygallery.com
The Edgecomb Historical Society has adjourned for the summer. Our 2004-2005 focus will be on the Rosicrucian Springs! We spent our May meeting scrutinizing a stereopticon card, the jpeg image of which was sent to me by both Fred Evans and Philip Wentzel (thank you, both!), and some Ivan Flye Collection photographs of the spa, complete with racetrack. A pretty casual set up, hardly as glamorous as "taking the waters" at Kanawa Spa in West Virginia, say, or the Continent. Not a bikini in sight! A couple of horses exercising, no doubt for a gentlemanly wager. Gertrude Allen of Dodge Road suggests the spa was located along Lewis Hill Road, just inside the Newcastle boundary, a continuation of Lynch Road which joins Dodge Road at the Middle Road. The upshot of all this will be a splendid annual meeting in September, probably not on Thursday the 23rd, but on the weekend, pending permissions by property owners et al., The Hunt for the Rosicrucian Springs Spa! Anyone with ideas, opinions, artifacts, articles, or best yet, actual knowledge on this subject, please get in touch with Sue Carlson, Sophie Quinn, Ros Strong, Ruth Bryant and/or me!
A serious illness in the family has prevented our Florida friends from joining us this week. Our sympathies, and we will look forward to next year.
Waiting for the sun to shine on 234 River Road, 633-2978, bonesukl@midcoast.com. This column appears in several local papers, and at www.Edgecomb.org.