View the Past this afternoon! The Edgecomb Historical Society's April meeting at 2:00 p.m. will feature a good fistful of scanned copies of the Ivan Flye Photography Collection pertaining to Edgecomb. Come one, come all, to the conference room at the Edgecomb Eddy School, to play the Identify and Reminisce Game!
Interested Congregationalists should plan to gather after Sunday services May 1 to assemble 100 Kits for Kids. Packaged in plastic shoe boxes, these gifts of useful and fun gadgets, from toothbrushes to teddy bears, will be sent to children in the world's devastated areas, to bring them some cheer.
Welcome, little Russell Webster, Ruth Davison's grandson, who will be baptized Sunday, May 1.
Does anyone have a flatbed trailer and truck to pull it? The Friends of Fort Edgecomb invite everyone to pitch in to design and create a float for the Town of Edgecomb, come Wiscasset's giant Fourth of July parade! Please start saving flat pieces of the hard polystyrene foam that comes in insulated cartons etc. We can use them to build a scale model of the Fort (cheap and easy to move around). Anyone with period clothing styled from the late 18th (Revolution) to the early 19th century (all those Jane Austen-inspired dresses! Give them another run before sending them to the consignment houses!).
Boston Marathon results: Caitlin Andrews finished in 4 hours and 24 minutes, an average time of 10 minutes per mile. Her mother, Lisa McSwain on the River Road, reports Caitlin raised "some pretty bad blisters on one toe, but otherwise fared pretty well." A large contingent of friends and family gathered at Wellesley to cheer her on. When Lisa tells me Caitlin's fund-raising tally for Brookline Mental Health, I'll let you know!
Congratulations to Randy Dowdy who has achieved the rank of Eagle Scout! The son of Steve and Sue Dowdy on Dowdy Lane, and a Senior at Wiscasset High School, Randy was honored at a special ceremony Sunday, April 24, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Damariscotta! ( The church holds the charter for Randy's Boy Scouts of America Troop 222.) Randy's Eagle project was the researching of old unmarked wells on the Charles and Constance Schmid Preserve, and overseeing the installation of protective well covers and posting of marking signs to alert hikers, hunters and other visitors. I admire his imagination as well as the great usefulness of the project for other people! Randy expects to join the Coast Guard after graduation. Let's all wish him well.
Speaking of the Schmid Preserve, on Monday, May 2, 5:00 p.m., a group of volunteers will gather at the Bob Brown parking lot off Middle Road to begin a trail clearing project. Interested people should call Deb Sondergaard, 882-6265, to learn what skills and equipment will be needed.
New bird at the feeder: A White-Throated Sparrow. Or maybe I'm just now noticing! The black and white stripes on its head terminate in a kind of yellow near the beak (male plumage?). Quite a bit larger than our usual run of Chipping Sparrows.
Bird book in hand at 234 River Road, 633-2978, bonesukl@midcoast.com. This column appears in several local papers, and at www.Edgecomb.org.