Centenaries galore! Happy Birthdays to local historian George Dow of Nobleboro, and to Ruth Lepper Gardner of Southport, artist and grandest dame on the Coast!
Ruth Bronwyn Langton on Cross Point Road is among Lincoln Academy's Top 21 Seniors. She will enter Colby College this fall, majoring in biology. Caitlin Andrews, Lisa McSwain's eldest, last seen running the Boston Marathon, graduates from Wellesley June 3.
In Edgecomb governmental news, Rodd Hopper is now First Selectman. Frank Perkins, Jr., Second Selectman, has a new phone number: 633.2746; his cell phone is 380.6191. I remain the same, see below. Scott Griffin is the new Road Commissioner, already confronted by rain damage to our roads. David Boucher is the new 3-year member of the Planning Board; alternates are needed! Follow through from my column last week, the new collected Land Use ordinances are now on the Edgecomb website, www.Edgecomb.org!
The Edgecomb Historical Society held its last meeting of the Spring last Thursday. We will gather again September 22 this coming Fall. In the interim, we need to set up an accessions inventory system. For instance, we have received from David and Iska Cole of the Eddy Road a map of Edgecomb hand-drawn by William Hunter Perry, and a circa-1907 navigational chart of the Maine coast which the Coles found in the shop when they first moved in. Kindness of the Boothbay Region Historical Society, we have a photograph album from circa 1929 belonging to Laurence Clinton Washington, who apparently grew up in Edgecomb; there are also four aerial photographs of East Edgecomb done by a Donald M. Felt of Winchester MA.
Bruce Cameron reported progress on designing a website for the Edgecomb Historical Society, to be eventually linked to the Edgecomb website. However, EHS' big news is the Maro Hammond Memorial Trust grant we have received for Rose Marie Ballard Boak's historic architectural survey of Edgecomb, to be done this summer! If you see a lady with a camera in your front yard, don't call Homeland Security! It's just Ms. Ballard Boak, cataloguing your house, if it was constructed pre-1945!
Edgecomb Eddy Kindergarten through Fourth Grades invite you to la Nuit Francaise numero 2, on Thursday (jeudi), June (juin) 2, from 5:45 to 7:30 p.m., in the school's cafeteria. Come and enjoy French songs, dancing and authentic French desserts! Families and friends, bienvenue! If anyone can help set up or clean up, please call Madame Margot Stiassi-Sieracki at 882-7593 or Judy at the school, 882-5515. A bientot!
Meanwhile Bruce and I will have spent Memorial Day weekend hauling some furniture down to our daughter and family, newly situated in Northford, Connecticut . We'll see if CT is any dryer than Edgecomb, Maine. Shaking off the drops like a wet setter at 234 River Road, 633-2978, bonesukl@midcoast.com. This column appears in several local papers, and at www.Edgecomb.org.