Waltzing along the latter end of August and earliest September, I’ve missed several columns, but I’ve been enjoying my family, up variously from Connecticut and North Carolina. So here is a frenzied catch-up:
Wedding bells rang out over Salt Marsh Cove a couple of weeks ago! Karen Brown, granddaughter of Bob and Cindy Brown, married Joshua Edgcumbe of England. With permission from Zibette Dean, the present owner, they were able to clear a spot on the shore of the ancestral Brown place, and provided rustic log benches for the guests. The reception was held at the erstwhile Salt Marsh School, now Susie Stephenson’s fiber-art studio. A toast to the happy couple!
Bob Reed has given me a Barbados Weekend Nation news story about his daughter Amy Gittens, now a full-time citizen of Barbados, having moved there with her spouse Wesley and daughter Asha in 2005. The Gittens family runs one of Barbados’ most-talked-about restaurants, called Shakers. Look it up on the website TripAdvisor, if you’re planning to winter in the Caribbean. And if you go to “the rum shop-styled eatery,” tell Amy “Hi!” from Edgecomb!
Zoom, zoom, zoom to young Mike Finnegan, son of Mike and Judy Finnegan of this fair city, and pilot of a super yacht by that name. Now, if one of his trips takes him to Barbados, we’ll see a great reunion! Edgecomb del Sud, no?
Coming up on Saturday, Sept. 17, the final baked bean and casserole supper at the Edgecomb Community Church, Cross Point Road in Edgecomb, from 5-6 p.m. Adults, $8; childen under 12, $3. The proceeds of the supper will benefit the work of the Edgecomb Fire Department. The thrift shop opens at 4:30 p.m. for early arrivals. The church fellowship hall is wheelchair-accessible. For more information, go to edgecombchurch.org. Louise Hardina has retired as thrift store manager, but her co-founder and co-manager Gloria Bailey is staying on, assisted by Joan Spurgat. Louise will help out with the community lunches on Tuesdays. The shop is open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesdays and Saturdays, and from 1-5 p.m. on Thursdays.
Speaking of the Edgecomb Fire Department, they had quite a work-out recently, coping with a spectacular accident across from Barry Hathorne’s house. The car in question was totaled; so was the telephone pole it wrapped around, broken into several pieces. But the two lads in the vehicle left it alive and with minor, if any, injuries. Fire Chief Roy Potter says the EFD was there for several hours, picking up pieces. This explains the power outage along East Edgecomb.
Here at 234, when not cavorting with descendants, we’ve had Barry Hathorne work over the jungle on our north field. Wonderful, what one finds under the mountains of floribunda roses, which both Barry and I hate “with a white-hot passion.” I believe they are descended from the roses that hedged in Sleeping Beauty. Aside from the wee grove of young hackmatacks (tamaracks, larch, whatever), the field looks awful now, but cheer up! Winter will come, snow will fall, seeds will sprout (probably more floribunda), and it will look like a field again in spring 2017. I had left it alone in hopes that monarch butterflies would find the milkweed, copious along the edge of the driveway. Barry showed me that some eggs have been lain! Apparently, growth is very fast, so I must watch the milkweed carefully. Once they’ve emerged from their chrysalises, they’ll sail away to Mexico. I hope they’ll spread the word that the Camerons’ field is a good pit stop on their long northward migration! Whispering to butterflies at 234 River Road, 633-2978, jocam@tidewater.net.
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