A few notes, pre-Easter holiday:
Let me welcome and introduce Rosemarie Ballard Boak to the Town of Edgecomb! Already well known to some of us for doing the historic architecture survey for the Edgecomb Historical Society, she is now a resident!
The Edgecomb Eddy School is out for the week. Principal Joanne Krawic tells me that from Monday, April 24 to the end of school, they will be hosting a visiting Chinese teacher, more details post- holiday.
It is registration time for Edgecomb Eddy Kindergarten. Again, come Monday, April 24 from 8:00 a.m., call the school at 882.5515 to find out what's need for your pre-schooler to be enrolled.
Friends of Vito Stanley and the Reed family are invited to a Celebration of his Life at 385 River Road on Saturday, April 29 from noon to 3:00 p.m. Donations in his memory may be made to the Lincoln County Animal Shelter, POB 7, in Edgecomb.
Lot Owners at the North Edgecomb Cemetery! Your presence is urged at the Cemetery Association Annual Meeting which will be Saturday, April 22, at 10:00 a.m. at the Town Hall. "We need to discuss certain gravestones that need repair," says Ruth Bryant, "and also to approve this year's mowing contract with Allen Hersom." Come on over! The coffee's hot, whether you own a lot or not!
And speaking of cemeteries, anyone, far and wide, who has family members buried in the Baptist Cemetery on Old County Road, please contact me, Jo Cameron, at the contact information listed below. And thank you, Deck House School, for the grounds clearing you have done for it! Now to see about removing the pile, but perhaps that has been done already. Reverend Gary Harvey of Chelsea, Edgecomb's titular pastor, congregation member Tom Peaslee of Boothbay, Ruth Bryant and I have been discussing the responsibility for this historic and beautiful little graveyard. Its receiving vault, although damaged, is a breath-taking example of vaulting brickwork and funeral architecture, well worth preserving, even though probably never again to be used. But issues of liability, safety to persons and safety to the structure itself as well as to the cemetery's monuments, are to be seriously discussed, and anyone with a stake in this site is welcome to alert me.
In the meantime, eggs are starting to roll, I infer, from the glow starting on the wings of the resident goldfinches, the general twitterpating going on in the upper branches of the ash tree and the tom turkeys floating about the orchard like Roman war biremes under full sail.
Rejoicing at 234 River Road, 633-2978, bonesukl@midcoast.com. This column appears in several local papers, and at www.Edgecomb.org.