Hannah Elder, an active member of Interact, the Rotary Club's youth group at Boothbay Region High School, is getting out the word about an event they are planning for raising money for this winter's fuel fund.　 It will be a spaghetti supper served at the Rotary Club House on 29 Oak Street, Boothbay Harbor, on Sunday, October 25, from 5:30 to 8:00 pm.　 The cost is $5 per person or $15 per family.

Come admire Edgecomb artist Maria Boord's works on display at the Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library　 during the month of October.

The final Maine mystery writer to be featured at the Wiscasset Public Library will be Susan Connelly, October 3, starting at 1:00 p.m.　 Free, open to the public, and refreshments will be served.　 Call the WPL at 882-7161.

Last Thursday, the Edgecomb Historical Society discussed with Jay Robbins of the Lincoln County Historical Association a new project, a survey of the town's industrial history and archaeology.　 The EHS will welcome any information about lost industries in Edgecomb, and if anyone has pictures of these sites, please consider lending them to us for scanning and adding to the EHS side of www.edgecombhistorical.org!　 (The Friends of Fort Edgecomb have the other side.)　 You can get to us by e-mailing edgehs@edgecombhistorical .org, or President Sue Carlson, krosspt@lincoln.midcoast.com, 882-8155, or me, contact info. below.

The Society also held its annual election:　 Sue Carlson is President, Ros Strong, Vice President, Ruth Bryant, Treasurer and Jo Cameron is Secretary. Zibette Dean, Rebecca Townsend and ? are on the Board of Trustees. Jo proposed a "sister town" project with Mt. Edgcumbe in Devon, England, and possibly also with Mt.　 Edgcumbe, New Zealand, in conjunction with the coming 250th Anniversary of Lincoln County.　 All three places were named for the Earl of Edgcumbe, an 18th century British admiral, said to have been a sympathizer of the American Revolution.

On the subject of local history, Christine Patterson of Tewksbury, Mass. is trying to research her family's connection to North Edgcomb. Her father's name was George Carlton Patterson, born July 26, 1910.　 He died when Christine was very young,　so she knows very little about his family. However, her grandfather's name was Guy, at one time a train conductor either in Maine or in Pennsylvania, and she has been told that he came from North Edgecomb; also that her great grandfather was a Sea Captain. Her father and his brothers William and Freeman spent their summers on his farm. Her father also had an uncle or great uncle named Carlton. "A number of years ago," Ms. Patterson says,　 "I went to Boothbay and on the way I stopped at North Edgecomb's cemetery and found a number of grave stones that were Patterson. I also found one that was a sea captain named William buried with his wife. I never　knew what my great grandmother's name was so I'm not sure if that was their grave."　I assume Ms. Patterson means the cemetery at the Town Hall.　 Can anyone help out?　 Let me have any information at the contact information below and I will get it back to the inquirer.

If you are trying to farm in Edgecomb, get some help from www. mainefarmsforthefuture.com, or visit Farms for the Future at the Coastal Enterprise offices on Water Street in Wiscasset. Sunday, October 4 at 3:00 p.m., the Boothbay Playhouse is holding auditions for "Alice in Wonderland, to be produced in November.　Adults and children are welcome to try out for the Cheshire Cat, the White Rabbit, the whole Pack of Cards!　 Call 633-6300 or e-mail boothayplayhouse@yahoo.com for more
information.　 And if you get a part, please let your friendly neighborhood columnist know about it!

Here　 is a link to a New York Times article, hot off the press, about
Barbara Scully's Glidden Point Oysters operation! www.travel.nytimes .com/2009/09/27/travel/27explorer.html?ref=dining. The Midcoast Unitarian/Universalist Fellowship invites you to a concert by baritone Jim Scott on Saturday evening, October 3, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Edgecomb Town Hall.　 Mr. Scott will present a program of jazz and world folk music inspired songs and other musical entertainments.　 For more, call Mary Ann Moore, 882-6299.　 (Please doublecheck with her on the location. Usually, MUUF events are at the Town Hall, sometimes elsewhere.)

At the United Way's recent Heating Assistance Meeting it was learned there is a state fund for furnace replacement involving an energy audit by the state; however, it is difficult to get accepted into this program.　 It appears the state is not doing any education about how to conserve energy.