A holiday goose
Years ago, our Bethel Point neighborhood received a Thanksgiving visitor. A stunning white domestic turkey came to our backyard bird feeder, then sat with us on the patio that balmy November day.
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Harpswell Naturalist: Wild Harpswell
When we landed in Harpswell, local friends told me about the fisher population. Surely they were pulling my leg; fishers would not be found here! In fact, fishers are quite common in our area, along with coyotes and the occasional bobcat.
Thinking in Public: Well-known secrets of growing old
"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.
Neighbors helping neighbors
I recently broke my arm when I slipped while putting my ducks in their pen at night. The pain was excruciating, and as soon as I was able to walk into the house, I knew I needed an ambulance.
Student Voices: A little compassion goes a long way
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.
Thinking in Public: 21st-century plague
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.
A visit to Harpswell: Couple from Harpswell, Maine explores Harpswell, England
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.
Whatever happened to ‘The Pearl of Orr’s Island?’
In the summer of 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe and her family relocated from Cincinnati, Ohio to Brunswick, Maine.
Live Well, Harpswell: Renewable Energy and You
George Simonson with his Tesla Model 3 Long Range. Ten years ago, you had to be a hardy…
Thinking in Public: The little things
“Bob?”
“Yep,” I said with a genuine smile, “it’s me. And I’d know those blue eyes of yours anywhere.”
