Have some Corn Chowdah! Available Sunday, April 15, courtesy the Edgecomb Congregational Sunday School Soup Group! Along with herbed knot bread and a generous serving of gingerbread. Orders must be placed by April 10. $6.00 per serving, $20.00 for a family of four and $4.00 for an extra family- member serving. Any questions or to place an order, please contact Deb Boucher at 882/8402, or call the Church at 882-4060, e-mail ecc@gwi.net Soup can be picked up at The Edgcomb church on the corner of Eddy and Cross point Rds at 5:00 p.m. or delivery can be arranged in advance.
I've heard from proud father Troy Hersom, "Thought you'd like to know that Samantha ‘Sam' Hersom has been accepted to study at Chewonki's ‘Maine Coast Semester' in the spring of 2008!" This is an alternative high school semester for interested and proficient students to concentrate on environmental and ecological studies. Several other Edgecomb students have taken this course in the past. All the best for young "Sam!"
The Emerging Young Artists Exhibition, one of the last to be held at the Round Top Center for the Arts, includes many young Edgecomb Eddy School artists. It goes through April 13, so plenty of time to go and admire! I went to admire last Friday. I particularly liked the SpongeBob panel, very Warhol, very mixed media by 6th grader Rebecca Erskine. Colette and Monique Bertin, Gabriella Boord, Connor Cilley, Alexandra Clarke, Hannah Elder, Amelia Genus, Christy Grover, ReAnna Heino, Arden McSwain, Johann Neeson, Erica Nightinglae, Ryland Rich, Avae Traina and Eddy Unda also exhibited works based (depending on class) on Georgia O'Keefe (large florals filling surface), landscape miniatures, pen&ink portraits and much, much more. Fantastic work, art teacher Belinda Fletcher!
Happy Tartan Day tomorrow, all you of Scots descent! This was the day Queen Victoria "forgave" the Scots for the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. Directly Bonnie Prince Charlie had been defeated, the Scots were forbidden to play the bagpipes, speak Gaelic, or wear their national dress. The ban was lifted on April 6, 1845. "Bagpipe music," as everyone knows, "is like a lost soul with its tail caught in a door."
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