Perspectives

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.

We sat in the old Scout, the engine idling smoothly for a change, waiting for a break in the traffic. The old man, tan and lean, one hand on the steering wheel, spat through his open window and slowly said, “I don't think these fools know this road is a dead end.”