March 27: To start with, I watched Turning Point with Pastor David Jeremiah, In Touch, with Pastor Charles Stanley, and Lead the Way, with Pastor Michael Youssef. I read my Christian devotionals and watched classic movies on TV. I done some writing. I had my lunch and supper in the dining room with my friends. I was helped to bed early afterwards.

Damariscotta Mills alewives have been a major boon to our towns of Nobleboro and Newcastle. In 1977, the total fishery catch was 10,211 bushels, with an income of $28,284. Each town received a net income, after paying expenses, of $12,000. In the previous year, the catch was even higher at 14,772 bushels. With 1978 high prices for alewives for lobster bait, the potential income could exceed that of a year ago.

Most of us look for love and support. It is so much a part of the human experience. Often people with disabilities do not have the opportunity or support to find and hold on to that love. But sometimes, just sometimes, the tumblers fall perfectly into place and love blossoms.

Large individual schools of alewives are already gathering in the Gulf of Maine to make their yearly journey up the Damariscotta River. Their ultimate goal is to reach their spawning grounds in Damariscotta Lake when conditions are optimal for raising a new generation of alewives.

As this year’s National Poetry Month draws to a close, what better time to revisit the celebrated work and life of a Bristol native, poet Abbie Huston Evans, 1881–1983.

“What’s Happening at Whitefield Library?” you ask.

For the past several years, Healthy Lincoln County staff and volunteers have served thousands of meals to children in Lincoln County. Officially known as the Summer Food Service Program, Summer Meals is a federally-funded, state-administered program that provides meals when school is not in session. In Lincoln and Knox counties, HLC is the program operator. In the summer of 2021 for example, HLC provided over 25,000 meals to children from Boothbay to Camden.

Broken birdsong. Branches, unbudded, striate the sky. The bench swings slowly back and forth at the Whaleback Shell Midden in Damariscotta.

Pasta is one of those kitchen staples that comes to the aid of all cooks looking for a quick and tasty meal from the home pantry. It easily adapts itself to many ingredients in the kitchen and can be as elaborate as the imagination of the cook. Like soup, established favorite pasta dishes can accept ingredients not originally meant for this purpose and thus deliver new and delightful flavor combinations.

I am crying as I write these words to you.  But they are tears of joy for what a joy it has been to write for you and share my life with you every week for 20 years.