You are cordially invited to join the Schmid Preserve Stewards for their next work party on Saturday, Nov. 9. Meet the gang at the Old County Road entrance at 9 a.m.; they plan to wind up at noon.

The goal is two fold: cut back the sumacs on the Haggett Field to keep the foundations available for viewing, and finish up the work maintaining the roads for fire access. The last leg remaining on this project is from the Moose Trail down to Mt. Hunger Road North.

They are hoping for a good charge of volunteers, so please feel free to invite your neighbors and friends to come join them! Loppers and a few chain saws will be needed for the day. It would be helpful if Deb Sondergaard had an idea of who might be able to come (and chain saw counts). Don't forget, protective gear is required for chain saw use. Call Deb at 207-882-6265.

Early warnings: On Sunday, Nov. 3, Daylight saving time ends. On Tuesday, Nov. 5, we should all go to the Town Hall to vote on the various bond-raising referenda. Voting hours will be from 1 to 8 p.m.

Here's a nice adventurous puzzle: Although we now have MDOT signs marking town lines, how did they mark them when our towns were first established? Ryan Leighton writes in the Boothbay Register (October 24) “There are actually two stones that mark the borders of the east and west side of the towns [of Boothbay and Edgecomb. One of the stones can be found by the banks of the Damariscotta River. Etched on the top of the stone is ‘E/B.' No one knows who put it there.”

He didn't mention the western stone. It would make a nice Edgecomb Historical Society field trip to get a glimpse of these historic markers, depending, of course, on the willingness of the property owners.

Bravo Alley: Johanna Neeson will appear in the coming Heartwood Regional Theatre/Lincoln Academy production of "Fiddler on the Roof." Visit www.heartwoodtheater.org for more information.

Arden, Piper and Charley Carleton brought Pumpkinfest to Edgecomb: three smallish pumpkins sporting cat faces have adorned the three-mailbox post beside Johnston Road off Cross Point Road. Barry Johnston himself got into the act with a row of gravestones bearing various ghoulish sentiments.

The Salt Marsh School Reunion is increased by one more: I got a call from Flossie McLain (I hope that's the right spelling!) now Dowling, living in Whitefield. She, like Frank Richards, came to school for fall and spring terms, but their families went south to Massachusetts in the winter. Flossie remembers walking cross-country through the woods to meet up with the Reeds, setting forth from their home. I anticipate some great yarns come May 2014!

It being Halloween, let me share with you a personal ghost story. It has nothing to do with Edgecomb, as it concerns my birthplace in Delhi, N.Y. The house was built in the 18th century, (and probably after the Revolution, but never mind that), the story goes that a British officer, badly wounded, staggered into the house out of desperation and may have expired on the parlor floor.

Ever after, and I can attest to it, on cold nights, we might hear the sound of someone jumping down from a window ledge and taking four steps across the floor.

Chills running up and down the spines at 234 River Road, 207-633-2978, and jocam@tidewater.net.