SUSAN JOHNS Sat, 01/30/2021 - 7:45am
About five months before the COVID-19 pandemic halted events like these, Morris Farm’s Madelyn Hennessey brings out her apple-cherry pie at the nonprofit’s Nov. 2, 2019 silent auction and bean supper. File photo
Morris Farm is going 21st century on its fundraising, after a pandemic-induced, $30,000 budget shortfall, board chair Madelyn Hennessey said in a phone interview Friday night. A press release hours earlier said the Gardiner Road, Wiscasset nonprofit “is facing an uncertain future.” The release’s headline read: “Your help is needed to keep Morris Farm in the Wiscasset and Midcoast communities.”
Wiscasset Newspaper asked Hennessey a lot of questions to understand where Morris Farm stands. Hennessey answered them all.
PHIL DI VECE News Contributor Mon, 01/11/2021 - 7:45am
Linda and David Pope on the back porch of their Federal Street home. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
One of the two trail entrances into Sortwell Memorial Forest off Willow Lane. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper
David Pope said rediscovering the solitude of the outdoors is one of the best things about hiking a network of trails behind Wiscasset Community Center and Morris Farm. Visitors to the vast land preserve minutes from Route 1 can see majestic white pines, flourishing hemlock groves, cascading streams, unusual glacial erratics, tranquil ponds and more. There are just a few problems. Parts of the trail system have become overgrown, trail markers are missing and a map needs updating.