Columns

• A Bird’s Tale

  Panting Birds and How to Help Them

  Wed, 06/09/2021 - 10:00am

  

  These early June days of temperatures in the 90s and high humidity are far from comfortable for those of us remembering the “old days.” We much prefer high temps in the 60s and low 70s at this time of year; us northerners need to ease in to summer. Instead, the Wells household members find ourselves trying to stay cool by keeping window blinds closed and staying in the shade of trees when out walking the dog. A constant glass of water is a must. The lawn needs mowing and the gardens need some...
• ’Round Town

  Coming home

  Wed, 06/09/2021 - 7:15am

  

  May's last weekend was a bit dreary, chilly and damp. The end of May can be like that. But, nonetheless, people turned out to pay their respects on Memorial Day. During the gatherings for Newagen and Southport I had a brief visit with Rear Admiral Howard who led veteran marches throughout the region. Admiral Howard flew in from California to participate in the day's events. Come to find out, Admiral Howard is no stranger to the area. He has been coming to Maine since he was 6 months old and...
• Joe’s Journal

  Reflections on a gray day

  Wed, 06/09/2021 - 7:00am

  

  Last week, as Barry Sherman barked out the command, "Veterans Attention,” the 2021 Boothbay Region Memorial Day parade stepped off. As usual for the event, former Sgt. Barry wore a Vietnam era in-country uniform of camo utilities, jungle boots and a floppy hat frequently worn by Marines and soldiers operating in the boondocks. His hat, called a cover by Marines, had several nicknames, which I won't reveal as this is a family newspaper. If you noticed, Barry no longer has a spring in his step...

• Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club

  Tue, 06/08/2021 - 9:30am

  

  Flags are flying, moorings are filling up, and there is much activity to be seen on the waterfront! Commodore Liz Rettenmaier, accompanied by the Flag Officers and Club members, has officially commissioned the Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club for its 126th season! Launch service is now available, and the dining room opened on Friday, June 4. With nearly 100% of members fully vaccinated and staff all vaccinated as well, lunch and dinner are available for eating in or to take out. The Indoor Flower...

• Ocean Point Column: Updates on summer events

  Tue, 06/08/2021 - 8:15am

  Memorial Day weekend, known as the “unofficial” beginning of the summer season, was unfortunately anything but summer like. Despite the cold, often rainy weekend, Ocean Point was bustling with residents here to open their cottages and it was certainly great to reconnect with friends and neighbors after such a long difficult winter. This past winter was a difficult one for so many of us. Too often I seemed to be reporting on the loss of a beloved Ocean Pointer and this column is no exception...

• Southport Column: Busy weeks ahead

  Tue, 06/08/2021 - 7:30am

  Alert! Due to the forecast of thunderstorms Tuesday and Wednesday, both the Southport Central School’s Field Day and graduation parade and ice cream social are moved to Thursday, June 10, with the times remaining the same, morning for the Field Day and the graduation parade leaving the school at 5:30 p.m., driving south to Newagen, then around to the east side, driving north on Cape Newagen Road. Please plan to greet our graduate, Madisyn Blackman, and her friend, Makayla Abbe, a fifth grader,...

• Boothbay Harbor Rotary Club

  Mon, 06/07/2021 - 10:45am

  

  We’ll be meeting at the clubhouse deck and back lawn this Thursday. It sure seems like a long time since we’ve gathered at our Rotary home. I don’t know about you, but I sure am looking forward to seeing you all there. This is an outside meeting, back deck and lawn, so we’ll be starting at 5:30 p.m. The rhododendrons planted by Steve Solario are in full bloom, so it will be lovely, a garden paradise. No masks required if you are fully vaccinated. Amy will be making her wonderful appetizers, so...

• American Legion Post 36

  Mon, 06/07/2021 - 10:30am

  

  Memorial Day 2021 turned out to be a great day! Mother Nature knew we needed this parade in the community and made a break in the rain to ensure we could pay our appropriate respects to our fallen heroes without the need for foul weather gear! I want to thank again Rear Admiral Howard for being our grand marshal. What an honor for us. He and his family flew in from Coronado, California on Friday and had to get back to Coronado on Sunday afternoon. Leading the nations over 10,000 Navy Special...

• Boothbay Region YMCA: Community Catalyst for Good

  Mon, 06/07/2021 - 10:00am

  

  One of the many joys of leading the Boothbay Region YMCA is the interaction with people in the region. Our community is filled with kind, thoughtful and caring people and that was most recently demonstrated with the partnership with LincolnHealth. In early January 2021, Brian Blethen, Stacey Miller, and other leadership team members from LincolnHealth/MaineHealth approached the Y to determine if it would be a good fit as a COVID-19 vaccination site for Lincoln County. We realized that the...

• Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library

  Mon, 06/07/2021 - 7:45am

  

  What type of mystery stories do you like best? Would you select a simple murder investigation, a scary hang-on-to-your-seat thriller, or one with a lot of suspense? Do you prefer one particular author or do you choose to read a variety of them? If you read a lot of mysteries you probably have noticed that most of the crimes, especially burglaries, are committed by the male population. Recently the “I love a mystery book club” finished reading “The Burglar” by Thomas Perry. The author's...
• A Bird’s Tale

  The Puffin Plan

  Wed, 06/02/2021 - 7:45am

  

  Steve Kress came to Maine to teach at the famous Hog Island Audubon Camp in Bremen in 1969, when we were just toddlers. He has been working to restore and manage seabird populations in the state ever since then—for more than 50 years. Ironically, we first met Steve, not here in Maine, but 500 miles away in land-locked Ithaca, New York, when we were students at Cornell University, which is located there. Steve had been working in Maine for almost 30 years by then. We had, of course, heard of him...
• ’Round Town

  Apologies

  Wed, 06/02/2021 - 7:15am

  

  I suspect there are manuals for everything. If I were to resume my interest in the rebuilding of motorcycle engines, it would be pretty easy to find, online or otherwise, lots of guidance for “How to do it.” Almost anything one wants to accomplish is well documented. We are an information-rich world now. No excuse not to know. I am mentioning this because I neglected to consult the “How To” manual, or perhaps better described as the “How to Bible” for writing. E.B.White I am not, although I was...
• Joe’s Journal

  Summertime, Summertime, Sum-Sum Summertime

  Wed, 06/02/2021 - 7:00am

  

  Ready or not, spring has sprung and summer is here. And summertime in the Boothbay region is a perfect getaway from the city, suburbia and the rest of the nation we love so dear. And believe me, after we survived 2020, we all deserve a vacation. All you have to do is get in the family bus, drive a few hundred miles, and turn right off Route 1 to enjoy the crisp air, spectacular geography, savory food, iconic lighthouses, and the rest of the Boothbay-Damariscotta experience. Oh, ya, the local...

• American Legion Post 36

  Tue, 06/01/2021 - 10:45am

  

  As I sit here and write this week's article, I wish I had a crystal ball. Monday is the Memorial Day Parade and the weather doesn't look good. Did it rain on all the parades? If so, did the town come out to remember our fallen? One thing I know for sure, RADM Howard led the veterans, even if it was a downpour. I want to sincerely thank ADM Howard for taking the time to come to Boothbay and be part of this most important and sacred event. Whether we remember our fallen with big parades in cities...

• Boothbay Region Lions Club

  Tue, 06/01/2021 - 10:30am

  

  The Boothbay Region Lions Club met for a regular meeting on May 26. Kudos to the kitchen crew; a delicious dinner prepared by Lion Jay, with a yummy desert made by Lion Duane. We voted to send donations to Life Flight, to the Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library, and to the Boothbay Region Alumni Association to help out with renting tuxedos for the senior boys for the Grand March. We also are donating our “Dimes for Dogs” funds to Canines for Companions, a veterans’ program. Lion Wendy, our...

• Boothbay Harbor Rotary Club

  Tue, 06/01/2021 - 10:15am

  

  Ah! Summer in Maine, don’t we look forward to it all year. So what if it’s only 50 degrees and pouring rain. Soon we’ll all be complaining about the heat. (I can hardly wait.) You can join us this Thursday June 3, at 6 p.m. no matter the weather. We’ll be meeting on Zoom again, but not on the same old link. In-coming President Jeff Long is now the keeper of the Rotary Club Zoom account. Look for the new Zoom Meeting link from his account on your email in the Wednesday and Thursday Club Runner...

• Southport Column: Lots of school news

  Tue, 06/01/2021 - 10:00am

  Memorial Day was celebrated on Southport both at the Southport Memorial Library in Newagen and at the monument in front of the Southport General Store. In spite of the spitting rain and temperatures in the low 50s, both locations drew good crowds. Gerry Gamage gave an interesting explanation as to how the first unknown soldier was chosen from American graves in France and then welcomed to Washington D.C. both by President Harding and Woodrow Wilson before being reburied at Arlington National...

• Boothbay Region YMCA: Community Catalyst for Good

  Mon, 05/31/2021 - 8:30am

  

  Have you ever experienced climbing a high ladder and zip-lining back to the ground? How about balancing on a moving log beam while walking across to the other side? Did you know that the Boothbay Region YMCA offers these adventures along with a full high and low ropes course right here in our community as an extension of Camp Knickerbocker? When the Y began its summer camp in 1956, it was located on the Back Narrows Road in Boothbay. While offering a new summer camp experience for youth in the...
• A Bird’s Tale

  A Big Nest Surprise

  Wed, 05/26/2021 - 10:45am

  

  Ospreys are big birds. They make big nests that very often sit out in the open so that the birds on the nest are visible to all. Brother Andrew and his spouse Nina have one of these osprey nests near their house. They have watched a pair of osprey raise young each summer from that nest for many years. So they were perplexed in April when they saw ospreys in the area that had returned from their winter haunts, yet none had settled in to use the nest, which appeared to be in perfect condition...
• ’Round Town

  Molly

  Wed, 05/26/2021 - 7:15am

  

  The yellow-flowered “Magnolia Elizabeth” (pictured above) was planted by Welles and Molly Moore 21 years ago. The tree, the result of a breeding program to create a yellow-flowered variety, at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, began in 1953. The garden center from which they purchased the tree in New Hampshire did not want to sell it to them because it was to be planted in Maine. It was felt that the environment here would not support this hybrid, which apparently is a bit fussy about where it will...
• Joe’s Journal

  Library plant sale: Don’t miss it

  Wed, 05/26/2021 - 7:00am

  

  In a moment of weakness, I promised Gloria Taliana and Bonnie Ginger I would write a plugger column to help draw attention to the plant sale that benefits the Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library. Even though I usually don’t do plugger columns, I said yes because I love the library. I want to support it. It is a good cause, and anyone who pretends to be a writer has got to help out institutions that encourage people to read. Besides, it is impossible to say no to a request from a group of...

• American Legion Post 36

  Tue, 05/25/2021 - 12:00pm

  

  The annual Memorial Day article is located elsewhere in this paper. I did want to take just a little additional space to thank everyone who are so enthusiastically joining our breakfasts! With over 125 joining us last Sunday, with great weather allowing enjoyable outside dining on our picnic tables, and with our no-cost raffles that happen through out the breakfast, it is just a great time. I also want to make sure everyone knows that you and your families are invited to the after-parade...

• Southport Column: Opening up!

  Tue, 05/25/2021 - 11:30am

  Opening up! Driving the island Monday morning, this theme was evident all around. Trees are opening up with new leaves, more flowers are opening up, homes and cottages are opening up. The Southport Bridge is back on the summer schedule of opening up on the hour and half hour between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. Since the governor is lifting the mandates for masking, distancing, and capacity limits on May 24, the library has more fully opened up. Writes Jen Britten, “After the 24th, we will not require...
• Salt 'n Spar

  Long ago when Rosalie reported Edgecomb’s news

  Tue, 05/25/2021 - 7:45am

  

  Her name was Rosalie. Sorry, I don’t have a last name for her and can’t positively say that Rosalie was her real name. It’s possible she was using a pen name, a common practice when she was the newspaper columnist for the town of Edgecomb in the 1880s. Her news reports appeared in The Lincoln County News, a different newspaper from the one that bears the same name today. This newspaper, a weekly, was published in Waldoboro on the corner of Main and Water streets and appeared on Thursday morning...

• News and Notes from The Community Center

  Tue, 05/25/2021 - 7:30am

  Get ready! We will be open beginning on Wednesday, June 2. Come and bring your friends for social interaction and a cup of coffee or tea. Work a puzzle, play a game. Wear a mask if you wish and keep your distance if you must. We request that you be fully vaccinated and we will be requiring you to sign in for the purpose of tracing those who have been in the facility. Our year-long period of isolation has been challenging but we will once again become a special gathering place for the community...

• News and Notes from The Community Center

  Sat, 05/22/2021 - 1:15pm

  Wicked good news from The Community Center--the doors will open again on June 2 at 10 a.m.! The plan is to be open for several hours for much-needed social gatherings following the COVID-19 guidelines. As time goes on, the hours will change but at the moment, they will be Monday through Friday beginning at 10 a.m. Masks will be required, hand sanitizer will be used upon entering, and we will ask you to sign in with contact information. We would prefer that you be fully vaccinated. At this time...

• Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club

  Wed, 05/19/2021 - 1:15pm

  

  What a happy sight to see the sun shining brightly on sparkling water and the 420s lined up on their floats! Spring sailing has begun, and there are nearly 20 youngsters signed up to brave the chilly winds that mark Spring in Maine. Ah, youth! Moorings are in, waiting for the full fleet to join those that have already taken their places in anticipation of a full season of sailing and racing. The Junior Sailing Program is filling up fast. Do get a spot reserved now for any youngsters you expect...
• Joe’s Journal

  What is going on with the Gulf of Maine

  Wed, 05/19/2021 - 7:15am

  

  It is no secret that something is happening out in the Gulf of Maine. No, I will not dive into the pending political food fight over floating windmills v. fighting fishermen. That is another topic for another time. We all have seen news reports of how the Gulf is warming and how it might affect the fishing industry and our local lobstermen. We have seen news reports of rising sea levels, usually accompanied by videos of icebergs breaking off arctic glaciers and crashing into the sea. And we all...

• Supporting Maine workers and businesses

  Tue, 05/18/2021 - 12:15pm

  Every year, the state of Maine spends millions of dollars building or improving public buildings and on public works projects. Each of these projects requires the state to buy materials and hire labor to do the work, using our tax dollars. But right now, many of these dollars go out of state, or out of the country, as the state awards projects and buys materials from the lowest bidder, with little consideration about what is best for our communities in the long term. To help make sure Maine...
• Boothbay Region Historical Society

  Boothbay in the War of 1812

  Tue, 05/18/2021 - 11:30am

  

  Elizabeth Reed, born 1874, was a local historian of the 1940s and 1950s. She was a native, though she was gone for decades teaching in New York City before retiring to Boothbay Harbor. All the parenthetical remarks are mine. - Barbara Rumsey Our War of 1812 was a part of the Napoleonic Wars and our trouble with England ended when Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo in 1815. Boothbay seamen and ship owners suffered severely because of the British Acts in Council and Napoleon’s decrees...

• Restoring Maine’s River Connections for Fish, Birds, and People

  Tue, 05/18/2021 - 11:15am

  

  If you live near a river, you may be able to tell when an amazing biological miracle is underway each spring, by the sights and sounds of birds. In spring, as the days grow warmer, fish that have been far out to sea are, seemingly miraculously drawn back to the river where their parents and countless ancestors before them had come to reproduce. The instinctual pull brings them away from the salty open depths to the strong freshwater flows of Maine’s rivers and lakes that are filled by streams...

• Southport

  Tue, 05/18/2021 - 10:00am

  Community is so important, and especially when someone dies. The empty spot in the hearts of those remaining can be at least somewhat filled by the gathered community. Southport experienced two occasions of such gatherings this past week, one to lay to rest Bob Marshall at St. Columba’s Church and the other to celebrate the life of Donald Brewer Sr. at Robinson’s Wharf. The occasions were different, one in a church, with folks distanced and masked, and the traditional words read with the...

• Harbor evening

  Tue, 05/18/2021 - 8:45am

  

  This time of year daylight creeps into places around the region which stay shadowed for a large part of the year, especially in the evening. Parts of the Harbor become visible, so to speak, as we head toward our longer days. On my way back home from the Hannaford the other evening I noticed a lighting situation that I particularly like. The sun was sliding through slits in a dark, almost storm-like sky. Sarah Sherman McGrail used to call this a “Bob Mitchell sky.” Sarah worked with us at Main...

• American Legion

  Mon, 05/17/2021 - 11:30am

  

  Memorial Day is just a few days away! This Saturday, May 22, the flags will be placed at all the veteran grave sites in the Boothbay peninsula. Chris Armstead, our Americanism Officer for the Post, is coordinating this effort and has contracted the person responsible for each of the cemeteries. The Hall will be open at 7:30 a.m. on the 22nd for the flags to be picked up. Flags will be placed at Evergreen Cemetery starting at 9 a.m. As a reminder, if you know of a veteran grave that doesn't have...

• Wiscasset Speedway official results – May 15

  Sun, 05/16/2021 - 5:30pm

  

  Group 2 plus Roadrunners 88.5FM Modifieds (40 laps - spotlight) * Chadbourne 2-time reigning Modified Champ - first win of 2021 (career win #53) Pos No. Name Hometown State Laps Diff Gap Best Tm In Lap 1 1 Adam Chadbourne Woolwich Me 40 15.937 11 2 09 Ryan Ripley Thomaston Me 40 0.478 0.478 15.894 11 3 5 Mark Lucas Harpswell Me 40 0.667 0.189 16.108 33 4 24 Jeff Prindall Lisbon Falls Me 40 7.550 6...

• Rotary Star

  Sun, 05/16/2021 - 5:15pm

  

  Come join us on the Boothbay Railway Village lawn this Thursday, May 20 at 5:30 p.m. It will be so good to see you all. And amazingly no masks as long as you are fully vaccinated. We’ve been Zooming all winter, but it sure will be good to actually see you in person. Bring your chairs, drinks, dinner, friends, etc. We’ll catch up, have a short program, but mostly time to visit. These last spring evenings have been so long and so beautiful. The beautiful Village lawn is just the place to enjoy...

• Lions Club

  Sat, 05/15/2021 - 5:00pm

  

  The Boothbay Region Lions Club met for a regular meeting on May 12. Our guest speaker was 2nd Vice District Governor Sally Iverson. She and her husband Neil drove down from Eustis. They are members of the Stratton/Eustis Lions Club. We all enjoyed shepherd’s pie provided by Lion Jay and a strawberry dessert provided by Lion Karen. DELICIOUS! Second VDG Sally’s talk was informative and encouraging as our club has been struggling as so many have in the past year. She brought this year’s state pin...
• A Bird’s Tale

  Song Sparrow Attacks Its Reflection

  Wed, 05/12/2021 - 10:15am

  

  For years we have read about and had acquaintances tell us stories about birds that would attack their reflections in windows, shiny hubcaps, and car mirrors. We had never experienced it ourselves. Until now. It started when the next-door neighbor came over to show us a video of a bird acting strangely. The video showed a song sparrow flying repeatedly at and pecking at its reflection in the side mirror of their car. The next morning, as we looked out the kitchen window, we noticed the bird...
• ’Round Town

  Pat

  Wed, 05/12/2021 - 7:15am

  

  For anyone who visits the YMCA regularly, Pat Fraker is no stranger. During my visit with her at the Y, people of all ages checked in for various uses of the facilities – the pool, track, exercise rooms, etc. This was in addition to answering frequent phone calls: “Good morning, YMCA, Pat speaking. May I help you?” And during these most recent and trying times, “Which pool please?” It's been so long since I visited the Y, I didn't realize that folks sign up for a specific time, day and lane to...
• Joe’s Journal

  Our immigrants

  Wed, 05/12/2021 - 7:00am

  

  Stories about immigrants seem to fill our newspapers and TV screens. They tell of refugees trying to enter the USA after walking thousands of miles to escape violence, poverty, oppression and famine. Some of our friends oppose their efforts because they violate our immigration laws. Others say they are criminals, dopers, or carriers of dread diseases. They speak foreign tongues, too. Keep them out, they demand. Here in our corner of the world, we recently lost a pair of neighbors, both...

• News and Notes from The Community Center

  Tue, 05/11/2021 - 8:15am

  Wicked good news from The Community Center--the doors will open again on Wednesday, June 2 at 10 a.m. The plan is to be open for several hours for much needed social gathering following the COVID guidelines. As time goes on, the hours will change but at the moment, they will be Monday through Friday beginning at 10 a.m. Masks will be required, hand sanitizer will be used upon entering, and we will ask you to sign in with contact information. We would prefer that you be fully vaccinated. At this...

• Southport Column: The vote, good thoughts for Climos and more

  Tue, 05/11/2021 - 8:00am

  Look for a more news elsewhere in this paper about the outcome of Friday’s vote on Southport Community Broadband installation. You will see the the vote carried with 112 persons voting at the polls and 69 persons voting absentee. Now the work begins to find a service provider. Many thanks to our Broadband committee who worked very hard with knowledgeable people to educate all of us on Southport as to the advantages, vocabulary, and procedures involved in this project, and whose work continues...

• Boothbay Region YMCA: Community Catalyst for Good

  Tue, 05/11/2021 - 7:15am

  

  The American Red Cross depends on blood drive sponsors and volunteer donors and to assure that there is always blood available when it is needed. The Red Cross counts on these generous volunteers to fulfill their lifesaving mission. When the COVID-19 pandemic first hit, thousands of blood drives were canceled across the country, as were hundreds here in Maine. But the need for blood doesn’t stop, not even for a pandemic. The Boothbay Region YMCA was forced to close its doors at the beginning of...

• Boothbay Harbor Rotary Club

  Mon, 05/10/2021 - 7:00am

  

  No Rotary Club Zoom meetings for the next two weeks. It’s been fun to see you online, but maybe we’ll meet in person again. Spring has sprung and it’s time to meet outside. Join Us Thursday May 13 at 5:30 p.m. at the Rotary Clubhouse for a spring clean-up evening. Bring your rakes, shovels, clippers and other outside implements of destruction. The Clubhouse grounds are looking winter worn. It’s time to clean it up and visit with fellow Rotarians at the same time. No rain date, so it just can’t...
• Out of Our Past

  The Fullerton Homestead and Colonial Fort

  Wed, 05/05/2021 - 8:15am

  

  Elizabeth Reed, born in the 1870s, lived in the museum building until her death in the 1950s, except when teaching in Boston and New York. Fullertons (and Reeds and Beaths) were her forebears. She wrote the following in 1944 . –Barbara Rumsey After living in Woolwich, Georgetown, and perhaps Pemaquid for a decade, William Fullerton, Sr. and family decided to purchase land in 1729 in the newly-organized Townsend (Boothbay) as laid out by Col. David Dunbar. The land purchased by...
• ’Round Town

  Digger

  Wed, 05/05/2021 - 8:15am

  

  I've dug for a clam. I was a curious soul upon my second arrival in Maine. It was me and Betty Ford, my 1967 Twin I-beam Ford pick up. We were ready and I was determined to blend in. After all, Maine wasn't so different. Just more water. One of the first observations I made after landing here happened without notice. As I would soon find out, notice was often not given for events in my new home. Pretty much figure things out on the fly. I was good with that and proceeded to shoot myself in the...
• A Bird’s Tale

  A Spring Walk for Nature on Public Lands

  Wed, 05/05/2021 - 8:15am

  

  After a week of seemingly nonstop Zoom meetings, the weekend arrived, and spring beckoned us outside. We love our home and neighborhood, and we see some amazing birds right here. That includes a very rare white-winged dove just about a week ago, as we wrote in last week’s column . But still, like most people, we like to see new sights and explore other places to see birds and other wild things. Here in Maine, we are incredibly fortunate that there are public lands that we can explore. One of...
• Joe’s Journal

  Ode to joy

  Wed, 05/05/2021 - 7:15am

  

  In other years, it wouldn't merit a notice. After all, it was just a Sunday afternoon brunch with two other couples at a camp by a lake. We enjoyed hot dogs over an open fire, chips and dip, and especially good conversation as we caught up on family stuff. You know, talking about grandkids and their accomplishments, the usual give and take between friends, and a lament that the Red Sox lost another. But, it was more than that, a lot more. You see, it was the first time in a year that any of us...

• Southport Column: Broadband vote, island clean up and more

  Tue, 05/04/2021 - 10:00am

  With the President of the United States and the Governor of Maine both urging communities to install broadband access, as well as our Southport selectmen and budget committee, Kit and I decided to vote for such installation on Southport, owned by the town and managed by an independent contractor. If you still have questions before you vote, the Southport Broadband Committee has posted the dates, times, and locations of their informational meetings on their website.: https:...

• Boothbay Region YMCA: Community Catalyst for Good

  Tue, 05/04/2021 - 8:00am

  

  Have you seen the troll feet? A few weeks ago, while passing by 284 Knickerbocker Road, you might have spied two 7-foot wooden troll feet sticking out of a blue barn door attached to an 1820 Georgian style farmhouse known as the Jackson House. This house is owned by the Boothbay Region YMCA and is the temporary home for the Danish artists who have been commissioned by the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens to install whimsical and enormous troll sculptures this spring. The Y has collaborated with...

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