Bread and Circuses! No, no, Bread and Puppets Theatre! Coming to the Edgecomb Eddy School for the week of March 21 to 25 to give our students hands-on involvement with drama, art, performance! Then, on Friday, March 25, after a Big Spaghetti Dinner at 5:00 p.m., our kids and these highly regarded puppeteers will perform for our delight, starting at 6:30 p.m. Brought to you by our neighborhood impresarios (turn up the baby pink spot, please!), the Edgecomb Eddy Parents and Teachers Club!
By now you have read about Caitlin Andrews aiming for the Boston Marathon in April. She is the eldest daughter of Lisa McSwain on the River Road. Anyone wishing to contribute to her entry fee of $3000, please contact the McSwain family.
And don't forget that young Joseph Hoyt on the River Road is still collecting to fund his People to People Student Ambassador trip to Europe. He has $1000 to go. The group will leave in July.
Pru Cundy on the Cross Point Road has a glamorous visitor: a beautiful big dark long-haired male Maine coon cat! She thinks it may be somebody's lost pet. Anyone missing it, please get in touch with this column and I will put you in touch with Ms. Cundy.
Neighbors, your Town needs you! Please consider running for the Edgecomb offices which are open or 2005-6. Nomination papers are available at the Edgecomb Town Office during office hours, Mondays 7:00 - 9:00 p.m., Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.. Nomination petitions with at least 25 signatures can be turned in through Tuesday, April 5. Offices open are: one Selectman, one School Board member and one Planning Board member (all three year terms); Town Clerk, Town Treasurer, Tax Collector, and particularly, Road Commissioner (all one year terms). Call 882-7018 during the above hours for details.
Finally celebrated my birthday a week late, although we might have been well advised to stay home Tuesday the 8th as we did Tuesday the 1st. Still, once at the Harraseeket Inn in Freeport, we had a splendid meal! Well recommended, but definitely priced for special occasions! And yes, we spent the night, avoiding the high-swirling snowy winds on the way home.
Meanwhile, in the Back 40 last Sunday, karoom of muzzle-loaders, whine of slashing sabres, pitched (mock) battle on Mt. Hunger Ridge, the 2d New Hampshires going at it for a pre-seasonal foray and get-together at ye olde Blackford/Stephenson country inn. Truly a time warp, 18th and 21st centuries co-mingling. "Come, landlord, fill the flowing bowl, until it doth run over...and tonight we'll merry, merry be, tomorrow we'll be sober!"
Gazing out at the turkey flock, all white-backed with snow! A solitary jay on the feeder. Have Punxatawny Phil's six weeks passed yet? High time! As I watch the flakes come down, Bruce cheerfully tells me that March 11 in 1888 was the greatest blizzard ever recorded in New England. Five feet of snow in Connecticut; does anyone have the details for Maine?
Slogging through the snowdrifts at 234 River Road, 633-2978, bonesukl@midcoast.com. This column appears in several local papers, and at www.Edgecomb.org.