Wassail, wassail, all over the town: Edgecomb Eddy grades 4-6 students went caroling and delivered pet foods, toys, other things they have been collecting to the Lincoln County Animal Shelter, and foods to our local food pantry. Bravo! And the school thanks you, Michael and Cara Gaffney, for your donation of five pairs of new gloves for students.

Meanwhile, another bravo to Edgecomb Congregational youth who went caroling through Edgecomb Eddy Green last week. Fa la la la la, la la la la!

Bravo to the Center for Teaching and Learning, who have been studying about the dread Ebola virus, and fundraising on behalf of the health workers who have to deal with it.

Nice party at Stephenson's Fibre Arts Center, aka the Salt Marsh Schoolhouse, introducing the public to examples not only of Susie's own rug-hooking artistry, but various other local craftspeople's products. I was able to pick up some last minute Christmas presents. Tom and Susie's young’uns are all over the world, or soon will be, Nat to Tanzania, Maggie on a whirlwind tour of London, Dublin, Copenhagen, starting in Paris. Que joyeux Noel!

’Tis the season for poets! CTL has put together an anthology of their students' poetic output. Amanda Boucher, now at Randolph College in Lynchburg, Virginia, has had three poems accepted by Sigma Tau Delta, the national English Honor Society, and will be reading them at a conference this coming March in Albuquerque, New Mexico. And I can't leave the Old Year without my own little brag: I have a poem published in The Maine Review! Volume 1, Issue 2, Fall 2014, page 6. It won an honorable mention in the publication's recent contest. To find out more about the magazine, go to www.themainereview.com.

So this has been the last column of 2014 emanating from 234 River Road, 207-633-2978, and jocam@tidewater.net.