This in from Ruth Bryant: "Peg (Inez) Jacobs will be celebrating her 100th Birthday on June 22. Peg used to play an active part in Edgecomb activities and was usually the first one at your door when trouble struck. She was a wonderful cook and would hand you soup or a casserole before the rest of us had collected the necessary ingredients! She was active in church, Community Club, Extension and the Cemetery Association. Her present address is: Robinson Health Care Facility, 284 Brunswick Ave., Gardiner ME 04345. She'd appreciate your cards!"
Hurrah for young Tyler Richards on the River Road, who saved his mother Tammy from drowning recently.
Stan Coffin is doing well with cancer therapies. We all wish him a steady full recovery!
Heads Up! Here they come again! Those persistent Redcoats are determined to take and hold Fort Edgecomb next weekend. But my money's on the Yankees. The Friends of Fort Edgecomb will be staging their 1812 Event over June 12-13, both days starting at 9:00 a.m.. The activities will include a Flag Day observance.
Schools are winding down with all sorts of end-of-year festivities: The Edgecomb Eddy School will picnic Friday, June 11, all day, at the Damariscotta Lake State Park in Jefferson. Their Graduation will be Tuesday, June 15, starting at 9:00 a.m., in the school's auditorium.
Last Saturday, Bruce and I attended the Lincoln Academy Alumni Banquet, truly a feast! In the elegant ambience of the new Dining Hall! Many old friends, and an energetic, resourceful cross-section of the Class of 2004! Congratulations, all graduating students among the several schools and colleges, whether you come from Edgecomb or not. The world needs your spirit and your new ideas!
I meant to include in my Edgecomb Historical write-up last week, greetings to Betty Peterson, Sue Carlson's sister, who has been visiting. She enjoyed the Society's speculations about the Rosicrucian Springs Spa. Nailing its location will be the EHS major activity for our coming Fall meetings.
Caitlin Andrews, eldest daughter of Lisa McSwain on the River Road, and a senior at Wellesley College, will be spending her summer in Oklahoma on a grant from the National Science Foundation to create a psychological study of single mothers in the town of Tahlequah, home of the Cherokee Nation. Her sister, Lee Andrews, will summer as a Park Avenue nanny in NYC, before entering her junior year at Marymount Manhattan College. She is also studying psychology. Son Evan McSwain has just graduated from Boothbay Harbor High!
On Saturday I encountered four quilters engaged in basting down a number of their creations, preparing for the actual quilting process, all to be hand-done in the traditional manner. Joanne Minot on Creek Lane off Parsons Point Road was guiding Jane McKinney, Janice Serencko, and Catherine Keenan in this procedure. These ladies are members of The Stitchin' Babes, devoted to all kinds of needlework. They are also all associated with the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens: Minot, the Plant Records Coordinator, McKinney the Education Director, Serencko, Administrative Assistant and Volunteer Coordinator, and Keenan, Assistant Director of Development. Cool!
And this lets me segue into an upcoming event: On Saturday, June 12, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., the CMBG is sponsoring a Lady's Slipper Celebration in order to count the number of this beautiful North American ground orchid growing in the Gardens' grounds on Barter's Island Road in Boothbay. A plant sale, refreshments, prizes are also involved. Sounds like fun? Tap into www.mainegardens.org or call 633-4333 for more info.
Some time ago I donated a lot of my mother's youthful finery to Indiana University's Elizabeth Sage Historic Costume Collection. I have just received a promotion about a big Jazz Age exhibit at Indiana State University (not the same place) presenting the styles, vehicles and other props from the late ‘20s, early ‘30s. The Sage Collection has loaned them one of Ma's glamorous evening gowns to be featured close to or in connection with what sounds like a Reo lounge car. The title of this exhibit is "Objects of Desire." Kitzi Colby would have loved it!
Saluting my Ma, whose birthday is today! From the heart at 234 River Road, 633-2978, bonesukl@midcoast.com. This column appears in several local papers, and at www.Edgecomb.org.