Boyce familyâs rhubarb treats live on
Of all the herbaceous perennials that have accompanied my household every time Iâve moved, the rhubarb plant is the oldest. A member of the buckwheat family, the first rhubarb cultivar traveled to New England via European settlers. The plant was cultivated in Asiatic countries for many centuries before being introduced to Europe in about 1600.
I trace the roots of my rosy-stalked, tart-tasting plant back to the family homestead in Norway, Maine. When the Ephraim Crocket family settled on Lake Pennesseewassee in the early 1800s, they grew many foods, including potatoes, apple trees and rhubarb. The rhubarb enlarged, the plant was divided and moved, and still grows tall today.
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The sign at the entrance to Island Nursing Home in the Hancock County town of Deer Isle. Students from the University of New England’s nursing and osteopathic medicine program have been helping work at the home since a COVID-19 outbreak in November and December led to staff shortages.
Kevin Miller/Staff Writer
DEER ISLE For eight months, staff at Island Nursing Home had managed to keep the virus away from residents of their small facility in this historic fishing community.
But when COVID-19 finally arrived just before Thanksgiving, it swept through the Deer Isle nursing home with “insidious” ferocity. Every one of the home’s 62 residents was sickened – 15 of them fatally – along with 38 staff members, despite efforts to immediately segregate and isolate cases.
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