Edgecomb Column: Recommend a Spirit of America Award winner

Thu, 08/27/2015 - 7:00pm

Flowers of the Forest: Let us salute the passing of Carolyn Lane Swett Russell Dolbear, and express our deep condolences to Amanda Russell and her siblings and other family members. Carolyn, ahead of me at Lincoln Academy, was captain of the girls’ basketball team, among much else, and I admired her then, and her Edgecomb daughter now.

A reminder to all Edgecombites: As per vote at town meeting, our property taxes are due one month earlier than for years past, hence Oct. 31, no longer Nov. 31. Selectman Mike Smith will be posting reminder notices in conspicuous locations throughout town as the time approaches.

Recommendations for Edgecomb’s recipient of the Spirit of America Award will be welcomed by the selectmen this month. You can reach them via the Edgecomb town website, but do it soon! Their next meeting is Monday, Aug. 31, at 6 p.m.

Belated but sincere huzzahs to Eleanor Rich, a junior at North Yarmouth Academy, on the second semester high honor roll! 

Another huzzah for the Edgecomb Congo Community Gardeners who are providing fresh vegetables to their neighbor, Edgecomb Eddy Green. Do mark on your calendars, stopping off at Edgecomb Eddy Green from 9 to 11 am on Sept. 4, for their First Friday Coffee.

I remember hot and muggy August days in my youth, particularly the summer we had our artesian well drilled; they had to go down almost 300 feet! We couldn’t take baths, so we’d go down to the Salt Marsh Cove with a cake of soap and get clean but salty, and then dry out on towels in the sun. We were still commuting to Delaware County, New York, for the winter then, where the water is soft. The first time we washed our hair, how the salt and the mica speckles floated out and down the drain! 

The bad news, currently, is that foxes are making chicken raising extremely difficult over here on the east side of town. But the good news is that a hen of Frank Perkins’ who went off to brood in Susie and Tom‘s barn has hatched a dozen eggs, so now Frank and Susie have joint custody of 12 potential egg-layers. Cute little fuzzy cheepers just now, on the border of 234 and 244 River Road, 207-633-2978, and jocam@tidewater.net.