A most pleasant surprise Monday morning! A visit from an old friend and former Edgecomb resident Bill Maxheimer! Wonderful to get caught up!
There is still time to rend a table for the Edgecomb Eddy PTC Yard Sale Saturday, May 13th, only $20.00! The sale will go from 8:00 in the morning to noon. Call the School, 882-5515, for contact people and details. Put May 13 on your calendar, nice to buy whimsical or unexpectedly useful items around the big rocks in the school's front yard! If it rains, the sale will move inside.
The second Schmid Preserve work party will be Monday, May 8, starting at 5:00 p.m. to finish up the trail clean up and road drainage projects started last week, expected to take a couple of hours. Meet at the Old County Road entrance. Wear work clothes and stout waterproof footgear. Call Deb Sondergaard, 882.6265 or Bob Leone, 882.9613 to see what to bring.
And again, if you really love the Schmid Preserve, get in touch with Deb or Bob about donating to the matching fund to make up the $4,900 outstanding from the loan the Committee took out to pay for the Hazelton property.
Blueberries and Moose! It's the 4th annual festival of children's literature to be held at the Deering High School (Portland) gym on Saturday, May 13 from 10:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m.. Over 40 children's authors and illustrators from Maine -- among them Edgecomb's Lea Wait! -- will be there, and there will be craft workshops, readings, and lots of opportunities to meet favorite authors and illustrators -- buy their books -- and have them signed! For all ages -- but especially for children aged 2-13.
Speaking of Lea Wait, "Wintering Well," the third title in her Historic Wiscasset juveniles, is now available in paperback -- such a bargain at $6! -- It was on the student choice lists in Maine and New Hampshire for 2005-2006 and will be on similar lists in Missouri and Kansas (that she knows of at time of writing) in 2006-2007. The second title, "Seaward Born," was on the lists in Florida this year and will be on lists in South Carolina next year.
Bruce and I went to the Lincoln Academy production of "Big River," the musical comedy drawn from Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn." A commendable performance, some of the songs nearly operatic. Tyler Richards from the River Road has a featured piece, a duet with guitar by a pair of Arkansas Fools, who are about to be fleeced by the wiley King and Duke. Carl Johanson ably captures Huck's general optimism paired with his serious cultural confusion over what to do about Jim, the runaway slave, most poignantly portrayed by Peter Nakitare, lonely for his missing wife and children, and determined to reach his freedom. A good play for young people, based on one of America's greatest novels. The backdropped hell that black people were going through is very cleverly presented. Well done, L. A.! The musical will continue May 4, 5 and 6, curtain time 7:00 p.m., at the Parker B. Poe Theater aka the Old Gym. Call the ticket reservation line, 563-3596, ext. 29!
Lincoln Academy has a number of scholarships available for L.A. graduates currently attending college. Call Mrs. Blodgett at the Guidance Office, 563-3596, ext. 17, to learn how to apply for the Leon Dodge (for current college freshmen), Robert Clunie, Mary Linn (nursing or medicine) and Thomas D. Reilly (medical) scholarships. Do it soon, since the application deadline is May 19.
In from an energetic day in the garden, watching Bruce rototill! Puff, gasp, puff puff, collapse at 234 River Road, 633-2978, bonesukl@midcoast.com. This column appears in several local papers, and at www.Edgecomb.org.