Photo gallery: Horse-drawn wagon rides delight children in Cundy’s Harbor

On April 16, 1993, 19-year-old volunteer firefighter Mike Drake had just arrived at a burning building in Bath when someone said a baby was inside. Drake grabbed a ladder and raced to an upstairs window. Once inside, he plucked the 18-month-old girl out of her crib before hustling back down.

When the Ku Klux Klan gathered in Harpswell on the Fourth of July in 1925, it wasn't behind closed doors or in the dark of night. Their picnic and parade attracted hundreds of klansmen with their families. A photograph from that day shows Harpswellians in klan regalia, hoods back and faces showing. One wears a scarf reading, "100% American." Women and children pose with them.

Linda Furbish remembers how her only grandson, Mason Warren, loved gazing out over the water at sunset. Warren was a 21-year-old Harpswell lobsterman when he died in a vehicle crash in 2022.

There is camaraderie in the air early one May morning in a field off Knight Way in West Harpswell as Mark Cota, Larry and Avery Anderson, and Alan Auclair patiently crisscross a purse seine, a type of fishing net, looking for holes to mend. Between the four, they have more than 100 years of experience in commercial fishing.