It took me a while to figure out where I lived back in the fall of 1967. I’d moved to Maine from Chicago on a whim, or rather, by acting spontaneously on a lifelong dream. I’d grown up on my dad’s stories of his boyhood summers on the shores of West.
On June 14, voters in Lincolnville will elect one of two candidates competing for one three-year term on the Lincolnville Select Board. Stephen Hand is running against incumbent Jordan Barnett-Parker for the seat. Penobscot.
It was bound to happen. In fact, it has happened. Our beautiful 39 square miles of hills and forests, of ponds and streams, of rocky shore, even including a tiny stretch of sand beach, is being discovered. But we’re not just a pretty face. We’ve got.
A simple email to the Lincolnville Historical Society a few months ago woke us up. “Why doesn’t the LHS focus on the Indigenous people?” it said, or something to that effect. Why not indeed? Local history (and Lincolnville is not alone in this.