While many of us are aware of and utilize nutrition supports like Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, there are some benefits that accompany these that are overlooked. These are programs that incentivize shopping with local farms, support the purchase of fruits and vegetables, and provide extra dollars during the growing season to increase spending directly with the farmer.
THE HARD PLACE
Wiser people than us have said knowledge is power, but recently we’ve been feeling that the power that comes with knowledge really means freedom.
Characters of the County: Patsy Dufresne’s Roaming Rainbows
Through her vibrant, hand-knit sweaters, Patsy Dufresne has seen the products of her creativity travel far and wide on the shoulders of those she loves most.
Marilyn Beane’s World
Greetings dear readers! I am your “Marilyn Beane’s World” correspondent back for another week’s journey. If you care to join me, we will start from my home at Windward Gardens in Camden. As we travel, I will give you the news.
The Round Pond Chronicles of Adelaide Butman
While rummaging in an old box of papers, I rediscovered a half-finished manuscript that the late Carol Brightman and I had intended – but failed – to publish some four decades past. It contained excerpts from the diary of Adelaide Butman, who had spent her early years in Round Pond between 1888-1902. Adelaide’s memoir, in addition to its literary merits, intimately captures with the eye of a close and affectionate observer the vitality of village life and the surprising diversity of its inhabitants.
Skidompha Skoop
It’s Molly, one of your adult services librarians! Today, I have the bittersweet honor of writing my very first and last newsletter message to you. Over the past two and a half (incredible!) years working here at Skidompha Library, I realized that I need to be closer to my family; I will be leaving Skidompha to move to Chicago on March 22.
TIME FOR CHANGE
Time change is an awful joke we play on ourselves. As much fun as staying up an extra hour is in the fall or how restful that one extra hour is to spend wrapped in slumber, we certainly pay for it in the spring.
Characters of the County: Wil Dow Continues the Legacy
Lincoln County is full of families that have been here for generations and Wil Dow, of Waldoboro, is part of one of those long heritages. If his name sounds familiar, it’s because it is; most Lincoln County residents have passed his family’s namesake furniture store, Dow’s Furniture, at 280 Atlantic Highway, at some point.
Bringing Food Home Grow a Row for Community
We are starting to gear up for spring and summer here at Healthy Lincoln County. We are updating our volunteer training forms, reaching out to farms, networking our summer meals program for children 18 and under, and thinking about all the ways we can support food security in our community.
Round Pond
The Round Pond dock is pretty much completed and will be open this spring not only for skiffs but for jumping. The picture was taken by Red Boutilier back in 1970. From left: Debbie Poland (sitting), and jumpers Patty Ball, Susan Poland, Terry Leeman, the high-flying daredevil of the group, and Jill Russell. Marshall Hanna is observing from the ramp.
CAUCUS CONCERNS
Stories come to us in a variety of ways, often as a variant of “This is the most amazing/terrible thing. You should do something/why haven’t you done anything?”
Characters of the County: Pat Johnston Puts the Pieces Together
Nobleboro resident Pat Johnston gets up in the morning with her day planned out and always has – when she was a mother and home caterer, during her time as an insurance biller for a local eye doctor, and in her current occupation making quilts for local veterans.
Damariscotta History A Brief History Of Ward Hitchcock and His Family
Once again this past week I went through another old box containing a large amount of notes and handwritten notes written down by Kathleen Cooper. Many of these letters or notes were just held together by a paperclip or in an old envelope with a note written on the outside with questions she wanted to ask her neighbors about the history of the area when Winfield and Kathleen Cooper bought their new home, then called Knowlton Farms, in 1943.
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
For those not in the know, it takes a little more than 365 days to complete an orbit around the sun. To be precise, it takes about 365.24.
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