Many people who drive up and down Beach Road every day don’t know it’s there. The Beach Schoolhouse aka/LIA (Lincolnville Improvement Association) or LHS (Lincolnville Historical Society) is a somewhat non-descript, shabby-looking building at the.
I wept through most of a recent celebration of life for a woman I didn’t really know. Betty Beach’s family are members of United Christian Church, and as church congregations do, we helped organize the service honoring and remembering this woman.
The Ames family came by their farm, which sits on the Northport/Lincolnville town line, in 1837 through the negligence of one of Benjamin Carver’s sons. It seems this son had let the farm deteriorate so badly that his own father put it.
I was well along in my adult life, and thought I knew everything I needed to know, when Tom Flagg introduced me to the bent nail can. “You’re not throwing those out?” he exclaimed one day as I was doing exactly that – throwing away a handful of bent.
It happens every August: Our chickens come home to roost. Make that children. Our children come home to sleep in their childhood beds. August is the month they descend on us, unless they came in July. What is it about Maine that draws them back? It’.