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"Why don't you write something positive about aging? You know, the good things about growing older?" I looked at this woman, whom I genuinely love with all my heart, suddenly thankful that we had kept up the payments on our long-term care policies.

In the fall of 2020, Mount Ararat High School opened a brand-new campus on Eagles Way. In the past year, not only have we gotten a new school, but we have also gotten a new principal, new teachers, new school board members and, for the first time in almost two years, the entire student body has been back together in school five days a week.

This, the plague of the 21st century, seems to me in many ways an endless case of deja vu. Some of the challenges that we faced in the past year and a half I can remember being warned about in my childhood.

During a trip to England in September of this year, my wife and I took a daytrip to Harpswell, Lincolnshire, the original Harpswell after which our Maine town was named. We first learned that Harpswell had been named after the Lincolnshire village from a book of Harpswell history gifted to us when we moved here 10 years ago.

In the summer of 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe and her family relocated from Cincinnati, Ohio to Brunswick, Maine.

George Simonson with his Tesla Model 3 Long Range. Ten years ago, you had to be a hardy…

“Bob?” “Yep,” I said with a genuine smile, “it’s me. And I’d know those blue eyes of yours anywhere.”

While November may not be as eagerly anticipated as October’s foliage season, for many people it is a favorite time of year. As the days get shorter, our white-tailed deer population enters the breeding season known as the “rut.”

While the summer’s warmth is fading, boats have been hauled onto shore, and jackets have been retrieved from closets, there are still grand adventures to be had in beautiful Harpswell and its surrounds.

Excerpts from and commentary on the diary of Joseph D. Alexander, 1859-1864 Sunday, May 15, 1859: Fair. Planted 900 hills of potatoes. Monday, May 16, 1859: Pleasant. Planted 1,400 hills of potatoes.