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On a foggy morning in October, 2012, somewhere between 100 and 200 townspeople gathered in Lincolnville Center. Actual numbers vary, but there were a lot of us. We were there for a purpose. The old Center schoolhouse, which had finished its original...
The first tracks were faint, but suggestive. Surely they were too big for a deer, and not neat. Deer leave sharply-defined V-shaped tracks, crisp and undeniable. These were a wider V, softer, and definitely big. But they barely left an imprint on...
It’s a phrase I first heard in a piece Lincolnville’s Christopher Beach wrote for the Historical Society’s Indigenous Peoples committee. (Yes, there is such a group, busily working to document our town’s earliest people, mostly through artifacts...
It’s an early spring ritual, finally sorting through the box of seeds that arrived a month ago, picking out the packets of onions, the celery, and the leeks, the ones that need an early start. Seed-planting day is a marker of sorts, the beginning of...
From Marine Mammals of Maine: “Each year we typically admit 1-3 pups in April before pup season really kicks off in May. This year, we admitted 4 before May 1 st! While this is not too unusual, it does mean we have already gone through some of our pup supplies and have had to update our wish list with some new urgent needs!” To help, visit Getting Through a Rough Patch Randy Stearns writes on the LBB: As many of you know and many more may not be aware, our friend Peter Thomas has had a rough winter and spring. After many surgeries and setbacks we are hoping he is on the mend.