Another summer has come and gone, and what a season it was for the summer meals program. From open sites at public libraries to mobile route stops, this program helped make sure kids across Lincoln and Knox counties had access to healthy, free meals all summer long.

You have to see this historic picture to believe it! In the 1880s these two buildings were located at Damariscotta Mills between the bridge and the Rice house, more recently the home of Nelson A. “Buddy” Hancock, and now of Terrence and Jo Coyne. At the rear and to the west were Little Pond (or Mill Pond). It doesn’t seem possible that these two buildings were crowded into such a small space, but they were!

Everyone was crying. Even old Poetry, the most stoic member of the goat herd, had misty eyes.

The ice business was developed by Alice and George Harry Melville in 1927 to supplement their coal sales. They purchased the old David Gorham lot in February 1926 (Deed 375-229), and erected ice house walls for the first year’s harvest, using sawdust only for a covering.

Round Pond is sporting new asphalt on Back Shore Road and Moxie Cove Road. As you can see from the picture, the new parking at the shore landing is completed and already in use.

This is the time that young animals (birds are animals, too) are coming out of nest and burrow in all their baby charm and innocence. Two people I know were studied by curious fox kits. When they were bored with the big, two-legged human animals, they scampered back into the woods. Aside from a brief fear of rabies, the humans were amazed and charmed.