We’ve all heard the phrase “it takes a village.” Sometimes I think it’s important to really get some perspective on what that phrase really means.

Our Giving Tuesday food drive at Rising Tide was a great success! A great big thank you to Rising Tide Co-op for inviting us to hold this event with them!

Arthur Cox’s diaries state that in 1908 he helped haul the drilling machine to H.H. Chamberlain’s here in Round Pond. Chamberlain had built four cottages on his property, then known as “The Colony.” The machine was then hauled to the village where the town well was dug. It was situated at the beginning of the Washington Schoolhouse Road where it was used by many.

In this article I will start off with a section of land that has been divided and broken off into different towns from 1754 to 1848.

Our kitchen and dining room once again look their normal state after the overload on Thanksgiving, but as any cook knows – Thanksgiving leftovers linger on.

Last month, I wrote of the beginnings of a fire company in Newcastle and Damariscotta in 1896, and how the towns worked together to get buildings and equipment to defend the area. Today, all the local fire companies work together in mutual aid.

This past week I received a phone call from a young high school girl asking if I would write an article on what Thanksgiving Day was like when I was a real young boy. I answered that I would be pleased to share some of my old time memories here in the Twin Villages back around 1941.

I heard deep sighs as I walked to the barn. There sat all the goofballs with their little goat faces looking glum.