It has been a year of celebration at The Opera House at Boothbay Harbor. Twenty years ago on Sept. 29, 2003, the nonprofit of the same name purchased the 1894 building for $1.2 million from John and Sarah Abbe. Almost half of that price was raised.
Frank Bascombe, the protagonist of five of author Richard Ford’s novels and an unadulterated observer of all that is good, bad and insignificant in American life, is taking his last road trip. …