The Town of Edgecomb needs people to help clear cemeteries, in preparation for monument repairs this coming spring. The Baptist Church Cemetery on Old County Road is in serious need of restoration, with several veterans' graves from 1812 to 1904. Allen Hersom, who regularly mows the Union Cemetery, says many of the shrubs and small trees planted there in commemoration need pruning and cutting back, lest they overwhelm the graves. Everyone interested in helping out with this project, please call Selectman Frank Perkins, Jr. at 633-2746.
Oh, and if anyone knows who owns the former Baptist Church property and the cemetery property, please let me know, see the end of the column for how to reach me.
Lea Wait's Wiscasset-based historical juveniles are winning honors left and right! Wintering Well is on both Maine and New Hampshire student choice lists; Seaward Born on the Maine list last year, is on student choice lists in Florida and in a Texas-based private school group. December 3 from 11 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Lea will be one of many Maine authors for children and adults who will be selling and signing books at the Portland Public Market as part of the Maine Writers and Publishers Holiday Sale Such an opportunity! (Hint, signed books make great Christmas gifts!)
On Sunday, December 4 from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., the Deck House School off Cross Point Road is presenting an exhibit of virtuoso glass-works by Nick Repenning, their Artist In Residence, and Deck House students Chandler Ellis and Tom Flood. Refreshments will be served!
Mill Road artist Joan Taylor is exhibiting her sinuous Chinese brush works at the Waldo Theatre Gallery in Waldoboro. The show will run through January 31, 2006. Call 832-6060 for more information.
Family Klemme up from Northford CT for Thanksgiving, and I'm so pleased we were able to give them some snow! I was able to liberate my old Flexible Flyer, to show off to the kids. We could haul just-turned-3 Katy around, but when Ben, who will be 8 this Sunday, tried to pick up speed on a downslope, the snow was so wet, and the runners pretty rusty, after nearly 50 years in the barn, so we came back to the house and made sweet potato tarts for dinner. And then, of course, snow turned to rain, and so winter adventures were, how shall I say, interiorized?
Hoping your troves of leftover turkey recipes are infinite (and we had ham!) from 234 River Road, 633-2978, bonesukl@midcoast.com. This column appears in several local papers, and at www.Edgecomb.org.