Thursday, June 24, 2021 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Midcoast Conservancy and co-sponsor Strong-Hancock Funeral Home will host an online panel discussion of Green Burial and Conservation Cemeteries on Thursday, June 24, from 6 - 8 p.m.
Green burial has sparked an interest among land conservation circles in Maine recently, according to the Conservancy, in a news release. The idea isn’t new interment without concrete vaults, embalming, or unrecyclable components was the way all burials were conducted until a few generations ago. What is new is that land trusts are thinking of green cemeteries as a way of conserving land in perpetuity for gentle multi-use trails, habitat, and green space as well as burials.
Ali Stevenson, Midcoast Conservancy Fri, 05/07/2021 - 7:15am
Midcoast Conservancy and co-sponsor Strong-Hancock Funeral Home will host an online panel discussion of Green Burial and Conservation Cemeteries on Thursday, June 24 from 6 to 8 p.m.
Green burial has sparked an interest among land conservation circles in Maine recently. The idea isn’t new interment without concrete vaults, embalming, or unrecyclable components was the way all burials were conducted until a few generations ago. What is new is that land trusts are thinking of green cemeteries as a way of conserving land in perpetuity for gentle multi-use trails, habitat, and green space as well as burials. The idea is a win/win: people who treasure conservation and the land ethic may choose green burial as a way of affirming their values in death as in life. At the same time, land trusts are looking for imaginative ways to preserve open space with public access and involve the human community in their missi
The top of Baldwin Hill in Fayette looks like hundreds, probably thousands, of similar hills across Maine. Ancient stone walls crisscross through second-growth stands of trees, the thick forest beneath tall pines is littered with blowdowns and a carpet of dead leaves.
A new gravel road that winds for nearly half a mile up the hill from Fayette Corner Road and a parking area and gravel path that winds around a grove of pines at the summit are the only signs anything is going on there. A clearcut at the edge of the summit offers a view of hills and farms to the east.
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Obituary: June C. Gridley
STANDISH - June C. Gridley passed away peacefully from natural causes on Feb. 6, 2021 at The Mooring in Scarborough.
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June C. Gridley
STANDISH – June C. Gridley passed away peacefully from natural causes on Feb. 6, 2021 at The Mooring in Scarborough.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1926, she attended local schools until enrolling in the Andrews School for Girls in Willoughby, Ohio and Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
June was a flight attendant in the earliest days of air travel when she met her future husband, Theodore “Ted” G. Gridley. After a brief stay in Massena, N.Y., they settled in Portland to raise their family of four: Guinevere, Elaine, Norman and Lance “James”.