Dear Editor:

This week a dear friend commented at Baccalaureate that when someone graduated from Boothbay Region High School, they really knew they had graduated. Later a fellow Mason reflected on how nice it was that the region supports our graduating seniors in such a big way. Both are right, the events surrounding the graduation of BRHS seniors each year make it truly a community event.

This kind of thing is what makes our community, not a golf course or a botanical garden, an oceanographic lab or a traffic pattern. It is the community support for graduations, fundraisers, public suppers and town meetings. Those things and others have always been what make this such a unique place. No one can take that away from us or change it unless we allow it.

Those that claim the “elite” will soon squeeze local flavor out of the region miss all of this apparently. They don’t see that we are what make this region what it is not whether the road into it goes straight or in a circle. Our region has seen big changes before and we have managed thus far to preserve what is important, our sense of community, our sense of self. I doubt very much that any of above named changes will have any more effect on it then the ones before.

Linc Sample

Boothbay Harbor