Get a load of the Spotlight Beams! Samantha will be playing Ado Annie in the Lincoln County Community Theatre's production of "Oklahoma!" (You remember Annie, the gal who cain't say ‘No!'), and Samantha's ma, Debbie, will play the doughty Aunt Eller. Performances will be July 28, 29 and 30, August 4, 5 and 6 at 7:30 p.m.. Call Lincoln Theater 563.3424 for information and tickets.
Thank you to the kind lady who alerted us Monday morning that a calf was wandering on the River Road. Al Cooper and Bruce rounded it up successfully. No harm done.
Word from our U.K. traveler! Amanda Boucher is having a terrific time rappelling 70 feet down the side of Penrhyn Castle in Wales, and learning River Dance steps at a musical Irish farm. She tells everyone hello and thanks to all who helped with her trip.
Classic Yankee Cuisine can be savored at this Saturday's Edgecomb Congo Church Supper! Baked Beans and casseroles, rolls, salads and pies, low-cal desserts, etc. will be served from 5:00 to 6:30 pm. (or until the food runs out!), adults $6.00, children under 12, $3.00. "Good Food, Good Fellowship, for a Good Cause." All funds raised are donated to local helping agencies. For anyone who wishes to help out with preparation or clean-up, call Gail Boudin, 882-7972, or the Church office, 882-4060.
And speaking of Gail Boudin, she would like to round up some Edgecomb ladies for a Women's Holistic Retreat, the weekend of Sept. 15-17, at The Candle Shop Inn in York Beach! Here is a chance to try various relaxation techniques like Aromatherapy, Reiki, Meditation, Hypnotherapy, etc., guided by certified nurse instructors in a comfortable, supportive environment. Call Gail at 882-7972 to register and reserve accommodations. Deadline is Sept. 1, but this retreat is limited to only 15 participants, so register early!
Edgecomb history buffs! Music teacher Barbara Prose is planning a grand spectacular for the Edgecomb Eddy School, to celebrate the kids' school-wide studies of American pre-European and colonial history! Castlebay (Julia Lane and Fred Gosbee) will be the linchpin of the production, to be staged just before the Thanksgiving vacation. Barbara is starting now to collect stories and songs of early Maine, even better, early Lincoln County, best of all, early Edgecomb! If you have any of this kind of lore, please get in touch with her at bprose@verizon.net, or call me and I'll relay your contributions to her. Incidently, this lore is also of interest to the Fort Edgecomb Bicentennial Committee! Share the wealth!
Good news on the Fort Edgecomb front! The Bicentennial Committee's in-town mailing has moved us up to nearly one quarter of our minimum shingling funding goal of $10,000. Thank you, thank you, thank you! If any of you want to be kept informed on the Fort's progress, send me your e-mail addresses, I'll add you to the list.
I've just received the Coastal Senior College course brochure for this Fall, lots of yummy offerings! Here are the local classes: "War Crimes, the Laws of War and the ‘Global War on Terror,'" taught by John Grossbaum, and "More Maine Birds" by Joseph Gray, both at Schooner Cove; "What Now? Our Sustainable Energy Options," by local columnist Paul Kando, at the CLC Ambulance Center; "From Jesus to Christianity" by Rev. Edward J. Wynne, Jr. at the Lincoln Home; "Renaissance Cities: Art, Architecture and the Power of Patronage" by Charmarie Blaisdell and Lucie Bauer, and "International Cinema" by Bill Newman, both at Skidompha Library. Farther afield, Leon Sherman will be teaching "Silk and Spice: Asia in the Age of Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, Zheng He" at the VFW Hall in Waldoboro. Other classes will be at the CSC headquarters in Thomaston or at the Camden Public Library. Call 1-800-286-1594 to learn how to enroll, or go to www.coastalseniorcollege.org
Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts is holding a special Summer Symposium Series at the Skidompha Library's Talbot Porter Meeting Hall. The Symposium on Tuesday, July 25, at 7:30 p.m., will feature Artist-in-Residence potter Michael Connelly. He will show the context of contemporary concerns and traditions within which he designs his functional pottery. These programs are free and open to the public. If you wish, you may come to dinner with the artist at 6:30 p.m., before the presentation, at a charge of $10.00.
Every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at the Watershed Center itself, on Brick Hill Road just over the border from Edgecomb, come to their Slide Nights, which give the resident artists an opportunity to explain their work for your understanding of contemporary trends in the ceramic arts. Also free, also at 7:30 p.m. For any of these programs, call Watershed, 882-6075, or go to www.watershedceramics.org for more information.
Busy, busy Edgecomb! The Edgecomb Potters are celebrating their 30th anniversary. Aaron Hackel, Bob and Ann Zak's grandson, won first prize in the Wiscasset Fourth of July parade's bicycle category with his bike done up like Gilbert & Sullivan's good ship H.M.S. Pinafore. Merry Island Roader Mimi Steadman's jewelry is being featured in the Salute to Summer show at the Michael Good Gallery in Rockport, started July 13. Michael Finnegan (the younger) and James Kendall are on the dean's list at Maine Maritime Academy; Hope Cruser and Nicholas Repenning are dean's listers at U. Southern Maine. Writers Lea Wait and Hannah Holmes (Zibette Dean's niece) will be among 40 Maine authors feted at the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden's "Books in Bloom" event this Saturday!
Are you aware there have been 12 Edgecomb students at Lincoln Academy this past year? More than one of them have made Honors or High Honors in that school. Parents of Lincoln-bound students, keep your eye on the new Howie Ryder Science Wing, nearing completion, a greatly expanded facility for science classes.
The cloudbursts that came last Tuesday made me think linguistically. Around here, the expression, as I recall, is "a haddock rain," suggesting that the water is coming down so heavily you can reasonably expect to see a haddock staring in at the window. In Texas, the same phenomenon is called "a frog- strangler," which conjures up a different but just as vivid picture. Dripping perspiration into my keyboard as I type away at 234 River Road, 633-2978, bonesukl@midcoast.com. This column appears in several local papers, and at www.Edgecomb.org.