During the last week of August, Kit and Caroline Andrews celebrated their family's 70th summer at their McKown Point cottage. They called the celebration Cove Reunion and invited old childhood friends from the 1950s spread all over the country to spend the week with them. They also invited California brothers, Bob and Mike Hahn, for their first visit to Maine.

The Hahns had found the Andrews online by searching online for their great grandfather, Waldoboro native Capt. E. E. Hahn, who had been superintendent of the new U.S. Lobster Hatchery on McKown Point from 1904 to 1928.

(Twenty years later the Andrews' grandparents had purchased their family cottage from Hahn's widow.)

Meanwhile, unknown to the Andrews, their West Road neighbors up on the hill needed to change the name of their private road because it was confused with West Street in Boothbay Harbor. After much research and discussion, the neighbors chose the name Hahn Cove Road. They had learned that the old-time, local fishermen always referred to our (unnamed on charts) local cove as Hahn Cove.

The rest, as they say, is history.

The Hahn brothers happened to be here when Nick Livingston from the town public works crew installed the new sign honoring their ancestors. And those of us who grew up in this cove are glad that its name is recognized at long last.

During Cove Reunion, thanks to Steve Gaudette, we were able to tour the venerable Welch House in our cove where the Hahns, Gludes and Welches lived while their fathers worked at the U.S. Fish Hatchery. More recently the U.S. Coast Guard inhabited the old home followed by Bigelow Lab.