This Week in Lincolnville: A Dream Come True
..the day they didn’t need me
Diane O’Brien Mon, 01/25/2021 - 11:30am
The Bean Supper assembly line saw that everyone got what they ordered: vegetarian or not, gluten or not, and plenty of coleslaw and cookies.
Photo by Diane O’Brien
As I drove away from the Historical Society the other day, even as cars were arriving, one after another to drop off food, it felt like a dream come true. The downstairs dining room, home of the Improvement Association for the past 50 or so years, was bustling with activity, as huge pans of beans and mountains of coleslaw were laid out, assembly-line fashion. The biscuits I’d just taken out of the oven, my one contribution to the effort, waited their place in the line, along with those of the other biscuit-makers. Cookies, cookies, cookies – gluten-free and gluten-full – completed the menu.
This Week in Lincolnville: Christmas in the Trenches
..a century ago Mon, 12/21/2020 - 11:15am
A gallery of Shebang photos. What happened to all those wonderful handmade masks? Are they tucked away in barns and attics all over the midcoast?
Photos by Liz Hand
Take a minute and listen to John McCutcheons’s
song “Christmas in the Trenches”. Probably you’ve heard it before, but maybe not. It happened just over 100 years ago, when World War I was devastating France. The story of the Christmas truce held particular meaning for my husband, a connection of sorts for him to the father he never knew.