Each holiday season, as we reach out to family, friends, and even acquaintances, many of us want to share that joy of the season. For those of us that cook, it easily translates in sharing baked goods.
Characters of the County: Bill Clark is a Man with Too Many Hobbies
While the Damariscotta community knows Bristol’s Bill Clark as the co-founder of Pumpkinfest, among family and friends he is a notoriously zealous hobbyist.
Backyard Wildlife High Points in Lincoln County
Do you know what the highest point in Lincoln County is? Have you ever stayed awake wondering? I suspect the answer to both questions is no. However, I have on occasion wondered which part of Lincoln County is the farthest from sea level. Despite our relative lack of elevation, the county does have a number of smaller mountains and rolling hills. Unfortunately, finding the definitive highest point takes some digging.
Damariscotta History Steam Locomotive on the Brunswick to Rockland Branch, 1949
The time period of this article takes place in the fall of late October 1949. I was still going to Franklin Grammar School and my teacher was Mrs. Thelma Clark and she had grades 5 through 8 at that time.
Characters of the County: ‘Keep It Up, Lin’: Linwood E. Palmer III Continues a Christmas Tree Tradition
Linwood Palmer has been growing and selling Christmas trees since he was 13 years old. He’s 78 now and still going strong. While the days when his family grew tens of thousands of trees on vast acres of land in Nobleboro and Dover-Foxcroft have passed, he still has a loyal following at his two-acre property on Borland Hill Road.
Backyard Wildlife ‘Give Wildlife a Brake’
If you enjoy this column and the photographs that accompany it, I have started an Instagram account to feature my photography.
History Mysteries & Recollections Daniel Day House Restoration and Recollection
I stopped by the old Daniel Day house about a month ago to check out the work being done on the south side of the house.
Characters of the County: LA Grad Learning Outside of the Classroom
During her four years at Lincoln Academy in Newcastle, Riley Stevenson earned an impressive amount of accolades and accomplishments, including earning back-to-back debate state titles, serving as president of the school’s Climate Action Club, and becoming co-valedictorian for the class of 2021, to name a few.
The Hose Line
Cold, autumn air and the start of winter bring unique challenges to firefighting. In particular, it is often the start of chimney fire season. A chimney fire is a fire that occurs in the chimney, or vent, of a heating appliance. Frequently, it is caused when creosote ignites. Creosote is a highly combustible by-product of wood fires, which is deposited on the lining of chimney walls.
Whitefield
With the area’s first snowfall, cows, sheep, and goats have been taken off pasture and brought into barns and a noticeable layer of ice is forming atop small farm ponds.
Backyard Wildlife A Tribute to Rivers
Lincoln County is blessed with an abundance of rivers. Some are well-known and regularly visited; others are smaller and less familiar. Regardless of their size and location, all are beautiful and help define the geography of the county.
Characters of the County: How a Nobleboro Resident Became a Popular Poet in Italy
Since the 1970s, Nobleboro resident and Maine native Gary Lawless has written poetry that explores the natural world and ideas in environmentalism. One of his poems on endangered animals, and treating every creature like it is the last of its kind to exist, was translated and published in Italy by a group of environmentalists.
The Way Back Lighting Up in Lincoln County
It’s dark in the morning now when I leave Bath for Lincoln County. I follow a fast moving stream of headlights up Route 1. That’s how I know day is coming. If it was the middle of the night, I’d be chasing my own high beams, the road to myself.
Energy Matters Bad Habits to Break
I share the frustration of the young activists as I listen to news from the Glasgow climate conference where wealthy countries want the summit to appear a success without putting up the cash and commitments to make it so. Meanwhile developing countries that feel the existential threat of climate change most keenly are unwilling to have their concerns smoothed over to make COP 26 look successful.
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