In September 1980, Dian Post and her husband Bob came to Boothbay to escape the “beastly” heat in Washington, D.C., where they both worked, Dian as an editor and graphic designer and Bob as a curator at the Smithsonian Institution. Never could they have imagined how a brief visit would turn out. Driving through East Boothbay one day they spotted an empty house with a majestic cupola that captured their fancy. An ad in the Register called it a “Victorian residence on a large village lot that furnishes fashionable living in a convenient location.” Not “convenient” for Bob and Dian, not at first, but soon they owned the old house and they had commissioned an Earle Barlow painting showing its location next to the Methodist Church. And soon after that they had moved to East Boothbay.

While they undertook a total restoration working together, Dian impelled her fledgling publishing firm into the big time with contracts including the Maine Maritime Museum and the Smithsonian. Old-timers will recall Post Scripts, which Dian headquartered in East Boothbay for most of the 1980s.

She loved her years here, and now she has written an affectionate book, “A Maine Memoir,” published by her very own Post Scripts. The official publication date was Sept. 1, and the book is available in Boothbay Harbor at the Boothbay Region Historical Society (72 Oak Street) and at Sherman’s (5 Commercial Street. It retails for $19.99 plus tax.