“Just superb,” Wiscasset’s Julie Olsen said. “A perfect day for planting,” Bath’s Margaret Leitch Copeland said. “Could not be better,” with the breeze and without bugs, Wiscasset’s Jan Whitfield said. Everyone Wiscasset Newspaper asked at Garden.
Last summer’s exhibition at The Old Jail Museum in Wiscasset featuring Madam Sally Wood, Maine’s first woman novelist and an early-19th century resident of Wiscasset, along with over 30 other Lincoln County women writers was so warmly received.
Alna selectmen Feb. 22 set public hearings to be held at the fire station at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 9 for a building ordinance update and two proposed moratoriums. Voters face the proposals at town meeting March 25. Each moratorium would be for 180.
Madam Sally Wood (1759-1855), considered Maine's first woman novelist, was actually writing novels even before Maine became a state.Wood published her first novel in 1800 under the pseudonym "A Lady of Massachusetts.” After Maine became a state in.