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Harpswell’s sizzling housing market sparks buying frenzy Multiple offers delight sellers, frustrate buyers BY ED LEVINE “It’s a crazy market,” said long- !is May, the average listing Lucy and Charlie Cook were time local Realtor Roxanne York price of a home in Harpswell was stunned when their full-price of- of Bailey Island. “It’s kind of like $816,741, a steep increase from fer on a nice Harpswell home was the perfect storm right now. $523,029 a year ago and $440,995 rejected in favor of a competing You’ve got people who want to get in May 2019, according to statis- bid that was 25 percent higher out of urban settings, you’ve got tics from the Maine Multiple List- than the asking price. people with cash on hand with no ing Service. So, when their real estate agent place to go with it, you’ve got low On average, there were 15.5 emailed to say he had found them interest rates, and low inventory. showings for each of those homes another ideal home, they took no It’s making the market insane.” -- up from nine last year and chances, even though they were out Every local real estate agent three in 2019 -- and they were on of town at the time. !ey looked at tells the same story. Homes that the market for an average of four photos, viewed a live video tour and do go on the market are listed at days, far shorter than the 132 even sent a good friend to drive by prices far higher than they were days in the pandemic year and 33 the place before making a successful a year or two ago. Nearly every days in 2019. o"er -- 20% over the asking price. listing leads to dozens of show- !e selling price this year has New construction, like this home in Salt Water Reach, is booming. (JERRY KLEPNER PHOTO) So it goes in Harpswell in 2021, ings and many get multiple o"ers, averaged 107.5% of the listing where a post-pandemic buying o#en for cash payments far above price, up from 100% last year and spree has led to huge increases in the asking price and without any 96.8% the year before. frightening,” said Ron Hutchins, on Orr’s Island. He also attribut- real estate value, quick sales and a contingencies, even omitting the Some of these numbers that owner of Harpswell Realty Group, ed much of the pressure to new- lack of available inventory. standard pre-sale inspections. we’re seeing over list price are a Keller-Williams Realty agency See HOUSING on page 12 J.W. Oliver Here’s the scoop named editor Pammy’s is a Harpswell social club of the Anchor BY CONNIE SAGE CONNER Pammy’s Ice Cream Parlor on a Pammy’s isn’t just about ice shady, town-owned lawn between cream. It’s about memories. Mitchell Field and the Harpswell “When we were kids, we’d ride Neck Fire Department. our bikes to Estes for ice cream. !e $rst thing that hits you I got to thinking there’s nothing is that nearly everything about for kids here now - no memories,” Pammy’s is pink. !e shop itself, said Harpswell native Pammy her very recognizable bright pink Douglas. 1999 BMW convertible with its So four years ago she opened See PAMMY’S on page 13 Among Cundy’s Harbor Wharf owners, from left to right: Lendall Alexander, Terry Alexander, Roger Allard, Troy Bichrest and Andy Pennell. (KELLI PARK PHOTO)

J.W. Oliver has been named the Anchor’s full-time editor. Even with tempting prices, J.W., which he’s been called since a child, joins us from the weekly !shermen don’t plan to sell Lincoln County News where he has BY KELLI PARK been the editor, supervising a sta" How deep do roots run in a $shing community? Deeper than the of nine. In the past 11 years, he has highest cash o"er in a booming real estate market, according to local worked his way up from reporter to $shermen. deputy editor to editor. “We know we live in a beautiful place, and now they found out. If He’s the immediate past presi- someone o"ered to buy my property, I’d tell them I didn’t hear them,” dent of the Maine Press Associa- said Robert Watson, a lobsterman whose ancestors found Cundy’s tion and was named its Journalist Harbor during a storm at sea in 1850, as they made their way from of the Year for 2017-2018. He’s also Gloucester to Boothbay aboard a supply ship. !e Watson family has won several statewide awards for owned and operated Watson’s Store and the surrounding property stories he’s written. over $ve generations, during which time it also has been a $sh pro- A native of Maine, J.W. is a 2010 Owner Pammy Douglas welcomes a new customer. (JERRY KLEPNER PHOTO) cessing plant, a salt $sh business, an ice cream parlor, a lobster pound, See EDITOR on page 13 See FISHERMEN on page 13 [ 2 ] July 2021 · HARPSWELL ANCHOR

Letters to the Editor Anchor’s resurrection o#en people are traveling at ex- speed limit on Route 123 was al- among the various slots and win- been blessed by time at our family is a sign of the season cessive speeds. !e Cumberland ready reduced a number of years dows conveniently located along cottage on Hurricane Ridge for at As a retired United Church of County Sheri"’s O&ce is going ago to 30 mph in some areas and the building to the le# of the least part of each of my 65 sum- Christ pastor, I am one who be- to be monitoring the stretch from we are hoping it will be reduced large refuse and recycling bins, mers! lieves in the power of resurrection. Gurnet Trading in Brunswick to from 35 mph to 30 mph in parts there is one for donating your Harpswell is indeed “a feeling” Seen in the seasonal renewal of my the Harpswell Islands Communi- of Route 24 that have very little return-for-deposit items. In 2020 (as so aptly noted by Kelly Merrill lawn and %owers, or the re-migra- ty School and beyond. shoulder. !ere are runners, pe- the town collected $20,677. It is in your June issue) and a feeling tion of the heron to Basin Cove, or For those driving commercial destrians, bicyclists and people another step in the process of re- that brings much happiness, joy, the rejuvenation of a treasured re- vehicles, a speeding ticket could $shing from the Gurnet Bridge. duce-reuse-recycle that requires caring and connectedness to all. lationship, the phoenix-like power jeopardize your livelihood. !ere We have been living in Harpswell all of us to plan ahead, but worth- We look forward to helping sup- of resurrection proves repeatedly are children and families living since 1995 and we’ve raised two while for the good it does for our port this important and generous that life is stronger than death. along Route 24 and many of us children here. We love our town. environment and our community. e"ort moving forward. My hope, prayer and e"orts align own properties on both sides of No one should feel that their life is Kathy Hirst Christine Donovan with your e"orts to literally weigh the road, or they have to cross at risk! Harpswell South Harpswell Anchor and set a renewed course! Route 24 or walk near the road to Alane M. Downes !is is so very important to the get their mail. My husband Bill William B. Fall Harpswell brings whole community. Well done! was nearly killed by a driver with Harpswell joy and happiness Douglas Nielsen New York license plates. He was What a delight to visit Uncle Basin Point working in front of our house and Donate beverage Pete’s Community Market and to he wasn’t in the road. He’d set up cans and bottles discover the new Harpswell An- Speeders are putting a few orange cones for safety. !e Every time I go to the Recy- chor! Many thanks to Doug War- Harpswell lives at risk driver drove right over the orange cling Center, it amazes me to see ren, Janice !ompson, the Hol- I want to ask a favor of those of cones! that people have been throwing brook Community Foundation you driving on Route 24 - the part Bill called the sheri"’s o&ce money away. I mean, of course, and so many others for making that goes from Gurnet Trading immediately and the sheri" found each of the soda, juice, beer, water, this important community re- Co. in Brunswick to Bailey Island. a good spot to park for a few hours etc. cans and bottles returnable for source possible. Please be mindful of the speed to monitor the tra&c. the 5-cent deposit that are tossed I grew up in Brunswick (and limits and follow them. !e speed Our neighbor has also experi- into the recycling or trash piles. fondly recall the Warrens, a “fel- limit is 35 mph in some places and enced close calls many times. !e I hope everyone knows that, low Bowdoin family”) and have PHOTO COURTESY OF MAINEANENCYCLOPIA.COM Your Coastal Professionals Available! Available! Available! Available! SOLD

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It ANCHOR the COVID-19 crisis, but behind the Harpswell Islands Road, was sold Hutchins le# Home & Harbors Real opened in November 2019 but soon scenes some Harpswell entrepre- to Dallas-based Safe Harbor Mari- Estate in June 2019. His new compa- closed because of COVID-19 re- Contact Information: neurs thought it was the perfect time nas in June 2020. Owners Steve and ny is a&liated with Keller Williams strictions. Harpswell News for a startup. Stephanie Rowe, both engineers, Realty, an international real estate !e restaurant shi#ed to takeout P.O. Box 448 Among other relatively new or bought the yard in 2005 and con- franchise with headquarters in Aus- orders and is gradually reopening Harpswell, ME 04079 changed Harpswell businesses are tinue to manage it. !e marina, now tin, Texas. fully, according to Manager Chris (207) 504-4428 Great Island Boat Yard, Roxanne known as Safe Harbor Great Island, Hutchins said his o&ce didn’t Gardner. [email protected] York Real Estate, Schoolhouse is the largest in Harpswell with 65 close during the pandemic because Helen Norton bought the school Visit our website: 1913 restaurant, Bailey Island Mo- boat slips and 50 moorings on Orr’s it was considered an essential. where her daughter and late hus- harpswellanchor.org tel, Ackme Survey, Art & Oysters, Cove. Art & Oysters is a combination of band had gone to school and spent Harpswell Realty, Engel & Völkers Roxanne York sold her real es- Doug and Susanne Bane’s Gun Point two and a half years renovating the Acting Editor: Casco Bay, and Quahog Bay Con- tate company in January to Laurie Art Gallery on Orr’s Island and their century-old building. Connie Sage Conner servancy and its Snow Island Oys- Haggerty, who had worked for her Orr's Island residents take note ters. for eight years. York, who’s still sell- - a new Internet provider is coming Editor Elect: Estes Lobster House, a presence ing real estate for the company that your way. Zach Stoler and his wife, J.W. Oliver in Harpswell since 1947, closed last bears her name, said she’s slowing Megan Wilson, are in the planning September. Dawn and John Bernier, down a#er 20 years in the business. stages of Cribstone Communica- Director of Development who had managed Estes, now own A#er her friend Julie Holowach tions, a $ber optic internet company. and Operations: a restaurant and lodge in Portage, was killed in a shark attack last sum- “Our expectation is to be up Janice ! ompson Maine. mer, York said it was “time to work and running by September selling Administrative Assistant: less and enjoy life.” internet to anyone who wants it,” Sam Allen !e real estate o&ce in now in Stoler said. !e couple, who live on the former Giant Stairs Seafood Oysters (PHOTO BY BEN STEIN) Orr’s, hope to have $ber optic lines Contributors: Grill. “We have extended the restau- installed on existing poles from the Sam Allen rant side of the building,” Haggerty business selling Devil’s Back oysters Orr’s Island Fire Station, across the Tom Allen said, and she hopes to lease it for an- Look for the giant carousel animals Cribstone bridge to the tip of Bailey Tom Brudzinski other eatery. in front of the Bane’s art gallery Island. Robin Casey Quahog Bay Conservancy and and home at 1241 Harpswell Island Frank Holdgate moved back Connie Sage Conner Snow Island Oysters opened in the Road. “We live right here so come on to Maine from Nantucket, started Jim Henderson fall of 2019. !e nonpro$t conser- in if you want oysters,” Susanne said. Ackme Survey in the summer of Jerry Klepner vancy’s mission is to “support the “We’re open 24-7.” 2019, and like everyone else, shut- Butch Lawson ecosystem and the families that de- In June 2020, Bruce Davis and tered because of COVID-19. Ackme Ed Levine pend on it…through sustainable Homes & Harbors Real Estate part- is a combination of ACK, the abbre- Susan Olcott oyster aquaculture, ecosystem mon- nered with Engel & Völkers and was viation for Nantucket Memorial Air- Kelli Park George Simonson itoring and community education.” renamed Engel & Völkers Casco port and ME for Maine. Find him Je" Stann Estes for sale (PHOTO BY JEREMY JONES) Snow Island Oysters are available for Bay. !e German-based company on Mountain Road. Doug Warren wholesale and retail. All proceeds go operates in more than 30 countries. Bailey Island Motel is reopening Other businesses also shut- to the conservancy to fund marine Davis, who has been in the real under new ownership. Rita and Paul ! e Harpswell Anchor is tered for good. Also going out of conservation, research and educa- estate business for more than two Dube sold the motel at 1951 Harp- published by Harpswell business were Giant Stairs Sea- tion. decades, said Homes & Harbor swell Island Road to Je" Raup and News, a soon-to-be 501(c) food Grill on Bailey Island and Snow Island oysters are available continues to be his LLC and cli- Mindy Schwartz. (3) sponsored by the Common Table bed and break- at the conservancy, 386 Bethel Point ents can $nd his properties under Holbrook Community fast on Harpswell Neck. Carol Road, or from Gurnet Trading in either name. Davis has locations For more information about Foundation. Brush of Carol Brush Massage o" Brunswick. !e nonpro$t also o"ers in Harpswell and Brunswick and how Harpswell dealt with Mountain Road, and Ann Burke, free, on-call pump-out service for planned to open a Portland o&ce COVID-19, see pages 14 and 15. owner of Seaside Hair Design on boats anchored in Quahog Bay. in June. [ 4 ] July 2021 · HARPSWELL ANCHOR Is Harpswell becoming a mini-mecca for movies?

BY CONNIE SAGE CONNER Actress Tara Westwood teetered on a rock at the water’s edge, screaming “Help me, help me!” “It’s a good thing we told the neigh- bors,” Westwood shouted to a camera crew who did several more takes for a short film being shot entirely in Harp- swell. An hour later, Westwood made a running jump into the water on a cold, drizzly June day, while a camera rolled inside a small floating fish tank, its oper- ator waist deep in the waters of Lombos Hole off Mountain Road. Director Brody Bernheisel watches filming on a monitor at Lombos Hole. Actor Tara Westwood waits for direction during the filming of “A Mother’s Nature.” Westwood, still screaming at the top of her lungs for help, pulled a dummy “waterman” that had “fallen” off a nearby swell becoming a mini-mecca for heisel and his wife, Carrie Erving, true story of Bernheisel’s mother’s at- They hope for a place in next year’s boat, to a rock and started make-believe movies? temporarily moved from Brooklyn tempt to rescue a boater who had fallen Tribecca Film Festival. Harpswell resi- CPR. “We always joked that when the to Harpswell to live with Carrie’s in a Michigan lake and drowned. dents may be able to view the finished This isn’t the first film made recent- apocalypse came around we’d come mother, artist Nancy Grice. Bernheisel and his producer, Joel product next spring. “We love being ly in Harpswell. “Blow the Man Down” to Harpswell,” said director Brody The working title for this new film Inchaustegui, used video production up here and excited to share with was shot here in 2018. Is bucolic Harp- Bernheisel. When Covid hit, Bern- is “A Mother’s Nature.” It’s based on the service Timber + Frame in Portland. the community,” Bernheisel said.

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July 2021 Community Calendar July 3 swell Heritage Land Trust, 153 lunch at Cundy’s Harbor Commu- inal paintings and matted originals 263 Mountain Road, will be closed Fireworks! Harpswell Neck Road (Route 123.) nity Hall, 837 Cundy’s Harbor Road. will be sold. to hikers through Oct. 1 for con- Cook’s Lobster and Ale House on An accomplished poet and former 1 p.m. Satuday. Blindfold dinghy struction. Park at the town o&ce Bailey Island will have $reworks at Harpswell resident, his work is cen- races at Holbrook’s Wharf, 984 Throughout the summer and walk up the path to the side of 9:30 p.m. Saturday. !e restaurant tered around expressing how to be Cundy’s Harbor Road. Registration Harpswell Bandstand by the Sea the building to access the trail en- will close at 4 p.m. that day. a good citizen and how to live with- 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Each !ursday, July 1-Aug. 26, trance/exit on Community Drive. in a place rather than on top of it. 2 p.m. Saturday. Lobster crate rac- musicians will perform outdoors Motor Booty A!air Concert es, Holbrook’s Wharf. Registration at Mitchell Field, 1410 Harpswell Bowdoin College Museum !e Motor Booty A"air concert at CANCELED 11:30 a.m.- 1:30 p.m. Neck Road (Route 123.) 6-7:30 of Art Cook’s Lobster and Ale House on Bailey Island Fishing Tourna- 8 a.m. Sunday. Blessing of the %eet p.m. Free. Bring a blanket or chair. A#er closing during Covid, the Bailey Island is scheduled for 7 p.m. ment at Watson’s General Store, 10 Wat- museum has reopened Tues- Saturday - just before the $reworks. !e annual Bailey Island Fishing son Road, Cundy’s Harbor. Art Exhibition day-Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. !e funky festival usually sells out Tournament, typically held the last Abstract landscapes painter Joanne !ere are four new exhibitions. 245 quickly, but tickets may still be avail- full week of July, has been canceled Aug. 6-8 Tarlin’s work is on display through Maine St, Brunswick. able at cookslobster.com. Some tick- for this year. Harpswell Community !eater’s Labor Day weekend at !os. Moser ets will be available at the door. play, “Leaving Iowa,” a comedy Furniture, 149 Main St., Freeport; Maine State Music "eatre COMING UP about family vacations, will be and at Roxanne York Realty, at “Welcome Home,” Aug. 8-9; “Pi- July 11 performed at Centennial Hall on 2118 Harpswell Island Road, Bailey ano Man,” Aug. 15-16; “Christine Glimpses of Harpswell July 2-Aug. 9 Route 123, Aug. 6-7 at 7 p.m., Aug. Island. Artist Linda Prybylo’s work & Patsy,” Aug. 22-23. Young adult Book Reception for “Glimpses of “Slack Tide: a moment of calm be- 8 at 2 p.m. Tickets available at the is also on display at York Realty. series: “Beauty and the Beast,” Harpswell Past & Present: Stories tween tides.” A two-person exhibi- door. Aug. 12; “Shrek,” Aug. 19; “Alice Celebrating Maine’s Bicentennial” tion featuring Caroline and John "e Harpswell Historical Soci- in Wonderland,” Oct. 9-10.All at Merriconeag Grange, 529 Harp- Rufo at the Chocolate Church Arts Aug. 13 ety Museum, 929 Harpswell Neck performances at Pickard !eater, swell Neck Road, 2-4 p.m. Meet Center, Bath, curated by Kimberly VentiCordi Chamber Music con- Road (Route 123.) open 2-4 p.m. Bowdoin College campus. For some of the 40 Harpswell writers Becker. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. cludes its summer concerts 7 p.m. every Sunday until Columbus Day. details call 207-725-8769. who contributed essays, stories and Tuesday-Saturday. Free. Aug. 13, at Kellogg Church, 917 View the many artifacts and col- poems about Harpswell; books Opening Reception, July 7, 5-7:30 Harpswell Neck Road (Route 123.) lections of Harpswell history. Free, TOPS (Take O! Pounds Sensibly) available for $18.20 plus tax. in- p.m. Artists’ talk, Saturday July 10. Directors Kathleen McNerney and donations accepted. 833-6322. Mondays, except July 5, Berean fo:glimpseso'[email protected] Slack tide is the moment of pause Dean Stein, on oboe and violin, Baptist Church basement,15 between high and low tide when the featuring Eastman School of Music Mobile Food Station Cumberland Ave., Brunswick. July 14, 28 water is without current or stress. freshman Alex Lehmann on %ute. Every !ursday, 10-11:30 p.m. 6-7:30 p.m. Books on the Lawn For ticket information: www.Venti- Free for anyone who needs food. !e Orr’s Island Library is bringing Aug.6-8 Cordi.com or 207-286-6688. Harpswell Town O&ce, 263 Moun- Look for a complete listing of sum- back “Books on the Lawn.” Books, Cundy’s Harbor Days tain Road. mer arts in the Anchor’s August DVDs and excitement! 1-4 p.m. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. daily. Cra# fair at Aug.14-28 issue. July 14 and July 28. Orr’s Island Cundy’s Harbor Community "e Sebascodegan Artists’ Group John Leo Jr. American Legion Library, 1699 Harpswell Islands Church, 863 Cundy’s Harbor Road. exhibit of paintings and three-di- Post 171 Meets each third Monday Road (Route 24). More informa- For a spot at the fair, contact mensional work will be on display at the Grange, 7 p.m., 529 Harp- Have a calendar item to submit for tion, 833-6050. Meriel Longley at 207-837-1803. at Centennial Hall across from the swell Island Road. 833-5583 future issues of the Anchor? Contact 11 a.m.-3 p.m. daily. Quilt show Harpswell Historical Museum, 929 [email protected] July 22 at Cundy’s Harbor Community Harpswell Neck Road (Route 123), Cli! Trail “Words and Watersheds” with Church. from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. Note !e trail’s $rst half mile, from the Gary Lawless. 6:30-7:30 p.m. Harp- 11 a.m.-2 p.m. daily. Lobster roll cards, matted prints of artists’ orig- back parking lot of the town o&ce,

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doinham donated tomato, green bean, lettuce and herb plants; enthusiastic HHLT volunteers potted them into individual plant- ers and a dozen HAH volunteers drove them to the homes of the participating seniors. Comments ranged from “I can just taste those tomatoes!” to “!is community Alexandra Hamm takes care of its own.”

New rescue captain named at OBIFD Alexandra Hamm has been named rescue captain of the Orr’s Harpswell Heritage Land Trust’s Out- and Bailey Islands Fire Depart- reach Coordinator Julia McLeod, le!, ment. EMT Paul Kittle has also shares plants with Harpswell Aging at been promoted to lieutenant. Home Co-Chair Lili Ott. (JERRY KLEPNER PHOTO) Hamm, who joined the depart- ment in 2019, recently received Harvest partnership her advanced Emergency Medical benefits seniors Technician certi$cation. She re- Paul Kittle HHLT’s e"ort to provide fresh places longtime volunteer and for- vegetables and herbs for seniors mer rescue captain Cathy Pi"ath, bore fruit for 31 happy Harpswell who will continue as an EMT $rst residents. Six River Farm in Bow- responder. Charlotte Bishop has retired as postmaster of the Harpswell, Orr’s and Bailey islands post offices. (JERRY KLEPNER PHOTO)

Harpswell, Orr’s, Bailey Bishop, 66, was with the US postmaster retires Postal Service for 37 years at Charlotte Bishop has retired various Maine locations. a#er serving as postmaster of Della Pesca, who has been the Harpswell, Bailey Island and working at the Brunswick Post Orr’s Island post o&ces for 13 O&ce, has been named Harp- years. swell’s temporary postmaster “I’ve had a great run and the until a permanent replacement customers have been wonder- is found. ful,” Bishop said. “I hope to en- Even though the price of a $rst- joy my summer, not answer the class stamp may soon increase telephone and not solve anyone’s from 55 cents to 58 cents, “It’s still problems. I’ll sit on the deck the cheapest place in the world to with my book and iced tea.” mail a letter,” Bishop said.

Harpswell TV now on media service Roku Harpswell’s nonpro$t local access channel can now be found on Roku by simply searching Harpswell Community TV and adding it to your playlist, according to Station Manager Donna Frisoli. Look for the station on X$nity Channel 14 in Harpswell, Bowdoin, Bowdoinham and Topsham. HARPSWELL ANCHOR · July 2021 [ 7 ] Purple "ag will alert possible shark sightings

BY DOUG WARREN “We want to keep our resi- don’t have the capability to `Nearly a year a#er a highly dents and visitors safe and share validate sightings on a case-by- unusual shark attack took the life all the information we have,” case basis.” of a popular summer resident of Howe explained. “We want a According to Howe, a call to Bailey Island, the town of Harp- comfortable, con$dent and in- the shark hotline will trigger the swell is implementing a %ag sig- formed community, in and out warning system and purple flags naling system to alert swimmers of the water.” on poles embedded in plastic of possible shark sightings in lo- Last year, Julie Dimperio Ho- buckets filled with concrete cal waters. lowach, 63, was attacked and will be displayed as quickly as !e purple %ag with a white killed on July 27 by what was possible at popular swimming shark silhouette in the center is later identi$ed as a great white areas across Harpswell: Mack- an international symbol to warn shark while swimming near her erel Cove and Cedar Beach on of shark sightings and has long home on Mackerel Cove. First Bailey Island and at Mitchell been used at the Cape Cod Na- responders from the Orr’s and Field on Harpswell Neck. The tional Seashore, a hotbed of shark Bailey Island Fire Department flags would remain up until the activity, according to Art Howe, came to Julie’s aid in the wake next day, assuming there aren’t Harpswell’s $re administrator of the attack and did everything any subsequent sightings, Howe and emergency management co- they could to try to save her. !e said. ordinator. Howe said state parks shock of that loss still lingers in This purple flag will warn Harpswell swimmers of a shark sighting in local waters. “Given the tragic events of last and beaches in Maine are also our island community. year, we’d rather be conservative,” adopting the %ag system this Howe said the town has set he added. “Sharks are in Maine summer, but he believes Harp- up a dedicated phone number ers can speak to someone on location of the sighting. Howe waters and always have been. We swell is the $rst town in the state – (207) 536-8461 – where shark the phone or leave a voicemail said the town will consider any want to make people aware and to put it in place. sightings can be reported. Call- with details of the time and report credible because “we keep them safe.”

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Harpswell Butch Lawson | #inking in public Heritage Apples Apple Trees Available to It was a hot summer day in the boat ride, maybe take the .22 and for our purposes and set about island. By the time we got to Plant Now early ‘60s. My buddy was snoring head out to a quiet island and get drilling holes in the corners. We Land’s End, I had established a on the couch in our living room. in a little target practice. In retro- attached a piece of line, making $rm stance and was comfortable Classic Heritage trees and new/old Orrs-Bailey Islands trees: Baldwin, He spent a lot of time sleeping spect, the suggestion was absurd. a dandy triangular tow point, enough to li# a hand in salute Black Oxford, Northern Spy and More on our couch. Although it was Two teenagers in a little punt, and stepped back to admire our to the tourists there. As we went Heritage apples re!ect more than three uncomfortably warm this day, some alcohol, a ri%e with plenty work. We were going water skiing. under the bridge, I was kneeling centuries of Harpswell and Maine his- he had fallen asleep with his arm of ammunition -- what could go First, we had to carefully prepare on the board but still enjoying the tory. Locally adapted trees with !avors that delight taste buds deadened by curled across his eyes to shut out wrong? (In case there is no statute for the adventure, so we climbed ride. He took a short cut around super-market produce. the light. Sweat rolled down his of limitations on bad suggestions, into his Nash Rambler and each Garrison Point and out the bay we face and he stirred when I came I’ll say here that I just made up had a beer, talking about what we went. At about Lowell’s Cove on Robert McIntyre: 833-7870 in and told him that it was too hot that last part.) !e conversation thought the distance record for Bailey, I sat down on the board for Dorothy Rosenberg: 833-7870 Sharon Whitney: 841-8265 to be huddled inside. was enough to get him moving plywood skiing might be. I said I the remainder of the record-set- He and I were close friends. and we headed to Mackerel Cove thought that it was unlikely that ting trip. Pulling into Mackerel Heck, we even have consecutive to begin our a#ernoon, stopping anyone had skied around Bailey Cove was a triumphant relief, and Social Security numbers. But I to pick up a gas can at his house. Island on a piece of plywood be- I was feeling pretty good when, always wondered if, secretly, it On the way we talked about fore and we agreed that was to be halfway up the cove, the line on was my female sibling who was doing a little water skiing, but nei- the goal. With a second round of one of the corners of the plywood the attraction for him, not our ther of us had water skis. I knew beer, we sealed the deal. broke through the wood and the friendship. He made every pos- someone who had a slalom ski I was to be the skier and he remaining line spun me around sible attempt to light that adoles- I could borrow. But there was would be the pilot. Besides know- and threw me o" the board. But cent $re, but she would send him no way I’d ever get up on it and ing the waters better than I, he the record was ours! away each time. !e couch always he thought that one ski was way thought I was less likely to drown So, if you want to go water ski- seemed to be an acceptable sec- more work to have fun on than it in the event of some failure in our ing and only have a punt, plywood ond choice, and there he was, hot, was worth. Plus, that old ski" just design. I think he just wanted to and a little outboard, I think I can sweaty and only half awake. had an 18-horse Johnson on it be within reach of the beer in the talk you through it. First, though, We had spent the morning dig- and there was no way we were go- boat and was still sulking about here’s a waiver from my lawyer. ging clams and there was enough ing to do any skiing behind that. his most recent romantic rebuke And it wasn’t my idea. money between us to buy some But we spied a piece of 3/4-inch at my house. gas for the punt. I suggested we plywood in the yard, about half a We took o" out of the cove Butch Lawson lives on Bailey get a couple of beers and go for a sheet. We $gured that would do to travel up the east side of the Island and is an observer of life. color -20

HARPSWELL ANCHOR · July 2021 [ 9 ] Former Bowdoin coach Shibles will miss life in Harpswell

BY SAM ALLEN Shibles enrolled in a graduate gets ready to graduate Mt. Ar- When asked what she would In the 13 years that Adrienne program in Exercise and Sports arat, I’m also grateful for all the miss most about Harpswell, Shibles has lived in Harpswell, Studies at Smith College, where amazing teachers our girls had Shibles was unable to name she has led Bowdoin College’s she earned a master’s degree in growing up, $rst at West Harp- just one thing: “Oh my heav- women’s basketball team to un- 1996. While at Smith she worked swell School and later at Harp- ens, what am I not going to precedented heights. Shibles, who as assistant and then head bas- swell Community School. Our miss? The beautiful coast- moved to Harpswell with her hus- ketball coach at Elms College in daughters really have a passion line, the amazing people, the band and two daughters when Massachusetts before heading to for learning, and I think that friends that we’ve made, some she started working at Bowdoin, Swarthmore College, where she groundwork was laid really early incredible establishments and has guided the team to 11 NCAA established herself as one of the during their experience in Harp- businesses … It’s just been an tournaments and two New En- top coaches in the nation by win- swell, and we’re so very grateful amazing place to reside for 13 gland Small College Athletic Harpswell resident Adrienne Shibles ning 138 games in nine years pri- for that,” says Shibles. years.” Conference (NESCAC) champi- coaches a game at Bowdoin. or to coming to Bowdoin. onships. In 2019, she was named Shibles’ time on the Bruns- Division III Coach of the Year by wick campus has been $lled with the Women’s Basketball Coaches healthy. Hanover seems like such victory a#er victory, and she says Association and has been named an amazing community with a that she will look back on her time Maine’s Coach of the Year multi- strong connection to nature, like there with nothing but fondness. ple times. Harpswell has, just with moun- “It’s been an amazing 13 years; Under her leadership, the Polar tains instead of the ocean. So, this I’ve enjoyed every minute of it,” Bears have won more than 80 per- will be a good opportunity for us says Shibles. “I loved working cent of their games, an incredible to grow, and to make our way in a with the student athletes there record that has solidi$ed her rep- new community.” more than anything; they’ve been utation as one of the best coaches Despite Shibles’ excitement for a pleasure, and some of my closest in New England, if not the coun- the new possibilities that Dart- lifelong friendships were estab- try. But all streaks come to an end, mouth o"ers, when she was $rst lished through my work at Bow- and now Shibles is leaving her o"ered the position as Big Green doin. job at Bowdoin and her home in head coach, she almost didn’t take “I feel incredibly blessed to have Harpswell to coach the women’s it. been selected for that job and to basketball team at Dartmouth “Dartmouth College reached have had the opportunity to grow College in Hanover, N.H. out to me a few months ago and and develop alongside the student Shibles’ youngest daughter is asked if I was interested,” she ex- athletes that I have coached,” she returning to Mount Ararat High plains. “My initial reaction was adds. “I’ve de$nitely improved a School for her senior year this fall, no, I’m very happy at Bowdoin, lot in my time there. It’s hard for so the family will be split between but through the interview process me now, while I’m about to leave Harpswell and Hanover for at I realized this was an opportunity Bowdoin, to even think of any ob- least a year. But even though the that I should at least explore be- stacles or adversity I experienced move presents some di&culties, fore turning them down. And af- during my time there. To me it’s Shibles feels excited for the new ter more conversations, I realized all joy, and it’s been such a bless- opportunities it will give her and that Dartmouth was a really good ing to have that opportunity.” her family. $t for me.” While re%ecting on her time “We’re sad to leave; this is A 1991 graduate of Bates Col- as a resident of Harpswell, Shibles where we’ve raised our daughters lege, Shibles is a native of Knox, named the local school system as and they’re Harpswell through Maine. At Bates, she was a two- one of the most important aspects and through,” says Shibles. “But, time captain of the women’s bas- of her family’s life here. you know, as we get closer to be- ketball team and a 1,000-point “I’m incredibly grateful for ing empty nesters, I think making scorer. A#er coaching basketball the community of Harpswell and a change and having an opportu- at Babson College and basket- the way it’s embraced our fami- nity to experience a new place is ball and soccer at Colby College, ly, and as my youngest daughter

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Fine art/photography joins with Devil's Back Oysters, farmed here 207-319-5885 1241 Harpswell Islands Road Orr’s Island, ME Open daily or by appointment [ 10 ] July 2021 · HARPSWELL ANCHOR Harpswell moves from ‘dry’ to ‘moderate drought’ BY SUSAN OLCOTT and from approximately 26.8% to wells are on the Maine Geologi- Harpswell has more than 200 40.38% for moderate drought. cal Survey’s Well Water Database miles of coastline wig-gling around (tinyurl.com/4uc4yedd). Not all its long neck and Great, Orrs, and No slowdown in well wells are recorded here, but it gives Bailey Islands. It o#en seems like business you some idea of how many there there is more water in Harpswell Bert Temple, owner of Tem- are. !ere are also some neat dia- than land. In fact, Harpswell neck ple Well Drilling as well as Tem- grams of and information about and the Orrs and Bailey peninsu- ple Service and Fred Perry and where the freshwater is under- las are two of the longest, thinnest Daughters, has been working in ground: tinyurl.com/sda7az9u. peninsulas in the state. !e rocky the well business for over 20 years. Temple also services wells, so ground contains the hardest types Between him, his brother Scott, he knows when there are problems of minerals that weathered glacial and his uncle Bob, they have dug - like when salt water gets into the scouring and erosion to form what and serviced a lot of wells, many of tank. “When a well is overused, it we now know as our town. them in Harpswell. pumps up salty water from down While there is plenty of water in “It used to be that we might be-low,” he explains. “I’ve been see- Harpswell, all of that surrounding worry about competing, but at this ing that happen more. I get a lot of water is salty. Without major fresh- point there’s just so much work we calls about wells being salty,” says water rivers, streams, or springs in just laugh. In the last $ve years, I Temple. town, the bulk of the freshwater is bet we’ve drilled 150-200 wells He says he’s been averaging 10- tucked away underground. Fresh in Harpswell alone,” says Tem- 15 calls a day - “one day there were water is less dense than salt wa- ple. “And that’s just us - there are 26 calls,” about general problems ter, so it %oats on top of the salt Bert Temple prepares to open a well in Harpswell. (PHOTO BY CONNIE SAGE CONNER) a number of other companies as with wells and most of his work is water in what is sometimes called well,” he adds. in Harpswell. a freshwater lens. !is happens You can see where many of the See WELLS on page 22 within the soil and shallow rock layers under-ground. You can see an illustration of how this works here: tinyurl.com/sev8syse. Getting to that freshwater means digging down, so if you Advertise with Us! want to live in Harpswell, you have to put in a well. !e question is how many there can be without This newspaper is delivered to: depleting the town’s fresh water resource. With an increase in con- * 4,300 addresses in Harpswell struction, comes an increase in the * 14 Harpswell Businesses number of wells. In addition, as people have become more interest- * 6 Brunswick, Topsham and ed in gardening and taking care of Bath Grocery Stores their outdoor space, the demand on these wells has increased. In addition to the usual stress- It is also shared on Facebook and es on the fresh water in town, we have now just moved to a “mod- our Website erate drought,” according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. State o&- Make a difference in our community and support local nonprofi t journalism! cials said this we’ve moved from For more information call Janice at (207) 504-4428, or email approximately 38.4% to 59.6% of [email protected]. the state being abnormally dry HARPSWELL ANCHOR · July 2021 [ 11 ] Cundy’s Harbor chosen as Casco Bay monitoring site BY SUSAN OLCOTT vironmental health of Casco Bay. million for the Climate Change and An unusual lobster trap is in the Doan uses this data to track any sig- Casco Bay Fund for Technology, water just o" Holbrook’s Wharf. It’s ni$cant changes that may be occur- Monitoring and Community En- hard to see from shore unless the ring over time. Of particular interest gagement to make a triangle of data tide is extremely low, but you might are changes to ocean acidity levels, collection points with the Cundy’s notice a new sign on the Holbrook’s which can have an impact on ma- Harbor station being the farthest dock asking people not to disturb rine life, including $sheries that are east, the existing Yarmouth station “the station.” valuable to coastal communities like in the middle, and a third Portland “!e Station” is short for Contin- Harpswell. Harbor station to the west. uous Monitoring Station. It is also Friends of Casco Bay partnered “With three stations working at nicknamed the “Cage of Science” be- with the Holbrook Community once, the science only gets better cause it is a lobster trap out$tted with Foundation to coordinate the siting from here,” says Doan. “In eastern several high-tech gadgets designed of the station and place information Casco Bay, water quality may be to collect an array of information about it at the wharf. HCF is a com- in%uenced by the Kennebec Riv- about Cundy’s Harbor water. Inside munity-based nonpro$t that pro- er, and our Harpswell station will this unusual trap is oceanographic vides for the long-term protection track that.” Cundy’s Harbor CMS equipment that collects an impres- of the coastal heritage of Harpswell, Sta" scientist Mike Doan of the Friends of Casco Bay readies the Continu- was the $rst of the new additions sive amount of data every hour of including the preservation and op- ous Monitoring Station – or “Cage of Science” – for placement in Cundy’s to be launched, arriving in the back every day throughout the year - eration of the Holbrook Wharf. !e Harbor. (PHOTO COURTESY OF FRIENDS OF CASCO BAY) of a pickup truck for its ceremonial from the basic temperature, depth current sign on the dock asks people drop into the water o" Holbrook’s and salinity to those that are more not to disturb the station and identi- Wharf in March. HCF board mem- complex like dissolved oxygen, car- $es it as operated by Friends of Cas- of the bay. Unlike the array of o"- Yarmouth CMS was, however, just a ber Nancy West was present for the bon dioxide, chlorophyll, dissolved co Bay. shore data collection buoys that are single station and it became appar- launch of the station, which Doan organic matter and acidity. While the Cundy’s Harbor sta- a part of the federal system operated ent that there was a need for other describes as “in and of itself a small What happens with all this in- tion is new, the monitoring program by the National Oceanic and Atmo- stations in other locations through- celebration.” formation? It gets relayed to sta" is not. Another CMS has been %oat- spheric Administration, the Friends out the bay. Data collected from the stations scientist Mike Doan at the Friends ing in the center of Casco Bay o" of Casco Bay station is near shore !is prompted a fundraising is all publicly accessible on the of Casco Bay, a nonpro$t based in Yarmouth for several years. Put into and helps scientists, managers and campaign by Friends of Casco Bay Friends of Casco Bay website at: South Portland that is dedicated to place in 2016, it has helped provide policymakers better understand to purchase and launch two ad- cascobay.org/continuous-monitor- improving and protecting the en- critical information about the health the impacts of coastal activities. !e ditional stations. !ey raised $1.5 ing-station/.

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Housing who noted that in the past 25 Determined to get the house, From page 1 years, the supply has been below the Cooks made an o"er 20 per- two months for only a short time. cent over the listing price, which “It has continued to go down and was accepted minutes before the comers to the community seeking down and down.” sellers’ deadline. to escape more urban areas. !e lack of available and rela- !en they drove back to Maine “When people are selling their tively a"ordable homes surprised to see what they had agreed to homes along the coast of Cape Lucy and Charlie Cook when buy. Cod or Connecticut or New York, they decided to sell their Wash- “It was the scariest moment they’re selling them for millions ington, D.C., home and look to of our lives,” Lucy Cook said. of dollars,” Hutchins said. “So a upgrade their Harpswell experi- “What have we done? We just million on the water in Maine is ence from a condo they bought spent a bigger pot of money than a bargain and if they have to com- in 2016 to a larger house where we ever thought we would spend pete and bid on it because they they could host more family and on a house and now we have to sold their home for so much, it’s friends. sell the condo, and what if we like Monopoly money – ‘No big “We didn’t think it would be hate it?” deal, let’s throw another $200,000 this hard. We couldn’t $nd any- Fortunately, both Cooks loved at it.’” Under contract signs are popping up throughout Harpswell. (PHILIP CONNER PHOTO) thing,” Lucy Cook said. “We were the new house and are moving Bruce Davis, owner of the frightened that we were never forward with the sale. !ey de- Engel & Völkers agency, former- going to $nd anything we could clined to reveal the purchase ly Homes and Harbors, of Orr’s York, who recently sold her his o&ce is “breaking all kinds a"ord.” price until a#er the sale closes Island, said he has also noticed a namesake agency to long-time of records” but was too busy to Lucy Cook said she and her in mid-July. !ey also have an di"erence in many of the out-of- colleague Laurie Haggerty, said provide any statistics. “!is is the husband, a well-known politi- agreement to sell their Orr’s Is- state buyers coming to Harpswell. one house in a marshy area on tid- busiest Harpswell has ever been,” cal analyst, reluctantly looked at land condo to a friend from Cali- While many in the past had some al waterfront failed to sell when it Wells said. properties outside of Harpswell, fornia. experience with the area, such as was listed for $650,000 about $ve !e real estate boom isn’t but came away disappointed. !e Cooks consider them- family vacations or military stints years ago. Recently, the owners unique to Harpswell. Statewide, “We wanted to live where we selves lucky they found a great in Brunswick, buyers are now tried again, listing the property home sales were up 25% from wanted to be,” she said. “I felt like house and had the ability to pay coming sight unseen, attracted by for $1 million. It sold in 48 hours February through April com- we had begun to build a com- for it as prices soar. the coastal environment, relative- for more than the asking price, pared to a year earlier, with pric- munity here. I didn’t want to go ly a"ordable prices and especially York said. es rising an average of 16.2% in somewhere else and start over.” A seller’s market Harpswell’s low tax rate. Rob Williams, owner of Rob that period. In April alone, sales !e couple began looking at “If you’re a young buyer who “!is group of buyers is di"er- Williams Real Estate on Bailey Is- increased 35% from a year earli- vacant lots, with an eye toward wants to stay in town, you don’t ent -- more a(uent, more urban,” land, said the speed of the sales is er, with a 17% increase in average building their dream home. have a lot of options here,” said Davis said unprecedented in the Harpswell price across the state, according !ey took a break to travel to Davis. He noted that according to market. “Properties aren’t linger- to the Maine Real Estate Informa- Washington for business. !e He and others said they don’t Maine Multiple Listing Service ing on the market for a long peri- tion System. next day, Hutchins called to sug- expect that situation to change statistics, Maine residents ac- od of time. It was kind of unheard gest they look at a newly listed any time soon. counted for less than half the buy- of until this cycle,” he said. Breaking records house o" of Long Point Road on “I think the market has legs,” ers in Harpswell during the past Williams said that while wa- As a result of all the activi- Great Island. Davis said. “We might have al- 12 months, compared with 66.5% terfront properties have long ty, the number of properties During the next week, they ready peaked in terms of the in- statewide. driven the top of the local mar- available for sale has plum- studied the real estate listing and tensity of the marketplace, (but) ket, buyers are showing interest meted, making those that do looked at dozens of photographs. it’s still going to be a sellers’ mar- Bidding wars on interior lots as more look for go on the market even more !ey took a virtual tour with ket through 2021.” Davis said he has never seen such year-round homes rather than valuable. Real estate agents Hutchins supplying video and He noted that the Zillow Inc. a frenzy in his 26 years in the seasonal places. point to a statistic showing the commentary with his cell phone. real estate service estimates Harp- business, with so many show- !e activity is also not con- number of months of available !ey had a good friend do a swell prices will appreciate 24.5% ings and o"ers for each property $ned to existing properties, as de- inventory for sale as especially drive-by just to get his opinion. over a one-year period through listed. His o&ce recently listed velopers are in the midst of build- telling. In mid-June, that num- In the meantime, the house had next May, compared with 14.9% a home for sale at $589,000 on ing subdivisions and new homes ber was 1.4. In May, there was more than 30 showings and re- nationally. a Friday a#ernoon and by Sun- throughout town. 1.6 months of inventory, down ceived multiple o"ers. A $ nal “I’m not sure it’s a temporary day night, the property had been from 3.1 months a year ago and deadline was looming. thing for the town of Harpswell,” shown 54 times and received 12 New housing 5.7 months in 2019. We had to make a decision: added York. “ I don’t know if it’s o"ers. It sold for $670,000. An- Williams Wells, the town “It shows the balance of supply Were we going to make an of- going to drop again.” other recent listing went on the code enforcement o&cer, who is and demand. We have an abun- fer on this house sight unseen or Williams agreed. “I have a market at $750,000 and sold for tasked with approving plans and dance of demand and we have a were we going to let it go? “ Lucy sense that it may linger.” $950,000. inspecting construction, said shortage of supply,” said Davis, Cook said.

Harpswell Community !eater is Back!! LOG CABIN A!er a year closed due to Covid, Harpswell Community "eater is in rehearsals for An Island Inn their annual summer show. "e play is “Leaving Iowa” a comedy about family vaca- tions written by Tim Clue and Spike Manton and produced by special arrangements Open for the season, through October 31 with "e Dramatic Publishing Company, Inc. of Woodstock, Illinois.

!e show will be held at Centennial Hall on Route 123 in Harpswell on August 6 and 7 at 7:00pm P.O. Box 410 and August 8 at 2:00pm. Tickets are $10.00 single, and $15.00 per couple and will be available at the Bailey Island, Maine 04003 door. For the safety of all, attendees who have NOT been vaccinated, and any children under age 12, 207-833-5546 Fax 207-833-7858 are asked to wear masks during the performances. www.logcabin-maine.com HARPSWELL ANCHOR · July 2021 [ 13 ]

Pammy’s “We all live for Pammy,” said other, making it one of Harpswell’s From page 1 Harold Weeks, who had stopped several summer social hubs. Each by to socialize. “Pammy knows Monday from 4-6 p.m. is “old car almost everybody. She’s quite the night” when motorists show o" “icecrem” license plates, the pink people person.” their antique vehicles. On week- wrought iron chairs and tables “I wanted a place for people to ends musicians play for tips. For topped with fresh %owers, and go,” Pammy said as cars drove by kids, there are swings and a corn- even her nail polish and shirt. “I and honked and drivers waved to hole game, and plenty of room to love pink,” she said with a hearty her, her husband, Greg, and sister, spread out on the grass or under laugh. Denise. “!ey can come and just large trees. If you don’t know Pammy, you sit.” !e ice cream parlor, at 1410 will by the time you order your ice And they do. Harpswell Neck Road, Route 123, cream cone, milkshake made with Locals and tourists stop by for is open until Columbus Day from real berries, sundae, chicken sand- Damariscotta’s Round Top ice noon to 9 p.m. wich or hotdog. cream or just to visit with each Bob Hunt shows off his 1954 Chevy on Old Car Night on Mondays. (JERRY KLEPNER PHOTO)

Fishermen as a marina, the wharf eventually the pike, my other investments From page 1 found its way into the hands of 10 - my permits, my boat - may not local $shermen and lobstermen, be very lucrative. When you in- who have owned and operated it vest money in $shing, there are no and now a wharf for 15 lobster together for the past three decades. guarantees.” boats. “We all bought it for the exact same While the future of the industry “I feel like the steward of this reason: to have access to the water,” is in question due to the changing property, like I don’t really own it. said Terry Alexander, a fourth-gen- dynamics within waterfront com- I feel like I’m responsible for it, but eration $sherman who has dragged munities and the ongoing struggle I don’t feel like I’m authorized to for $sh, shrimp and squid for the to $nd a balance between human sell it,” Watson said. past thirty years and is a co-owner impact and the natural world, “!e pull is strong! People are of the wharf. there is one certainty: those who getting top dollar, but once you “We set it up so our families and are connected to the sea will $ght sell, (waterfront property) isn’t neighbors could use it as their own the good $ght to stay that way, for coming back to commercial use,” and continue to have access to the as long as possible. said Amy Watson-Saxton, real water. It’s $shermen helping $sher- “I hope to never have to make estate advisor at Engel & Volkers Robert Watson at Watson’s Wharf in Cundy’s Harbor. (KELLI PARK PHOTO) men,” said Alexander. “When we’re that decision (to sell). I wouldn’t Casco Bay, and daughter of Rob- gone, the next generation will want sell it for any amount of money,” ert Watson. to keep it going, hopefully.” said Watson. “I hate getting the call from a While increased development can build a house close to where “Owning property in Harp- “I’ve lived my whole life right local looking to sell. While I feel in traditional working waterfront he works. swell is an asset, but being able here. !ere’s only one way I’m humbled to be asked, I know what communities in Maine is not a “I wasn’t planning on buying it to $nancially sustain it is a whole leaving this place, and you know a tough decision it had to be.” new phenomenon, the global this soon, but, because of how ex- ‘nother subject,” said Cory. “!e what that is.” “Once you sell, you’re not get- pandemic has led to more people pensive things are, I feel like it’s an future of the $shing industry is ting back into town,” said Cory working from home. !is has con- opportunity I need to jump on.” clearly on the chopping block Hawkes, a local lobsterman who tributed to an increase in demand “If you go up and down the these days. !at future is looking is also involved in ground$shing, for more rural properties in recent coast, lobstermen make up entire pretty grim, quite honestly.” pogying, and elvering, and whose months. “I don’t blame people for towns,” said Kaileb. “Lobstermen’s “Our $shing area could shrink ancestors have been $shing or wanting to move here, but if we livelihoods revolve around the signi$cantly in the immediate fu- working on schooners based in can’t keep the locals here, the cul- ocean and access to the water.” ture because we’re facing a lot of Editor Cundy’s Harbor since the 1700’s. ture is going to change drastically,” Since 1991, the Cundy’s Harbor closed areas with the wind tur- From page 1 “We’re holding onto every little said Kaileb Hawkes, 20, who is in Wharf has demonstrated the pow- bines, and trap reductions because piece [of property] we can, until we the process of purchasing prop- er of a cooperative business struc- of the right whales, on top of all of can’t,” Hawkes said. “We’re trying to erty in Cundy’s Harbor from his ture united by a common cause. the state regulations,” said Cory. graduate of the Uniiversity of keep it in the family and keep it local.” uncle (Cory) so that eventually he A#er a brief, unsuccessful stint “With everything coming down Maine at Farmington with a de- gree in creative writing. 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9 Vicarage Lane, Harpswell, ME | (207) 833-5480 | www.TheVicarageByTheSea.com [ 14 ] July 2021 · HARPSWELL ANCHOR Most Harpswell residents now vaccinated for COVID BY ED LEVINE vices, book deliveries, outdoor many were actually positive. With the vast majority of hikes and, of course, lots of Zoom As of mid-May of this year, 79 Harpswell residents now vacci- meetings were some of the ways COVID cases had been reported nated against COVID-19, many Harpswell dealt with restrictions in the 04079 Zip code, which in- of the changes adopted to keep brought on by the pandemic of cludes Harpswell Neck and Great the community safe throughout 2020. Island, while six to 19 cases were the pandemic are starting to relax. When COVID-19 began reported on each of Orr’s and Bai- According to the Maine Cen- spreading in March, the town ley islands. Only a range of cases is ter for Disease Control & Preven- shut down, like everywhere else. provided out of privacy concerns tion, 96 percent of residents in the Many residents sheltered in their in places with small populations, 04079 ZIP Code – which includes homes, schools and businesses according to the Maine Center for all of West Harpswell and Great closed, life everywhere was dis- Disease Control and Prevention. Island – have received at least one rupted. By mid-May, state $gures show dose of a COVID vaccine as of the But essential services needed 85 percent of Harpswell residents middle of June. On both Orr’s and to continue, and town o&cials had been fully vaccinated while Bailey Islands, the vaccination scrambled to $nd ways to serve the $gures were 95 percent and rate was 99 percent. the public Extra protective gear, Librarian Joanne Rogers and assistant Maura Donovan at Orr’s Island 99 percent or Orr’s and Bailey is- Before the arrival of the vac- activity kits, drive-in church ser- Library, now open Monday-Wednesday, 1-4 p.m. and Saturday 9-3 p.m. lands, respectively. cines, extra protective gear, ac- vices, book deliveries, outdoor (PHOTO BY ED LEVINE) Meanwhile, the Board of Se- tivity kits, drive-in church ser- hikes and, of course, lots of Zoom lectmen and other town com- meetings were some of the ways mittees moved from in-person to Harpswell dealt with restrictions cycling and transfer center, con- to-toe protective gear. Ambu- video meetings on Zoom, some- brought on by the pandemic of tinued largely uninterrupted. lances were extensively de-con- thing few o&cials had experience 2020. !e town’s $re and rescue ser- taminated a#er each call, Wallace with prior to the shutdown, Eiane “Our primary focus during vices also continued to respond to said. said. Key meetings were also this pandemic has been to protect emergencies while directly facing For several months, the biggest broadcast on cable television and public health, sta" health, com- the threat of the pandemic. problem was acquiring protective livestreamed on Facebook. munity health,” said Town Ad- “COVID precautions had gear, Wallace said. Gloves, gowns “We were essentially open for ministrator Kristi K. Eiane. an impact on every single call,” and especially face masks were business,” Eiane said. “I’m really Town o&ces closed to the pub- said Benjamin Wallace Jr., chief hard to come by. Wallace said $rst proud of the steps we were able lic and a small crew worked to of both the Cundy’s Harbor and responders were heartened when to take and how quickly we were keep essential services running. Orr’s and Bailey Islands $re de- several people in the communi- able to pivot.” Recreation programs came to a partments. ty donated N95 masks they had Others also turned to technol- standstill. Others, such as the re- To protect $rst responders and at home, helping to alleviate the ogy to deal with the crisis. people they came in contact with, shortage a bit. !e Elijah Kellogg Congrega- access to the $re stations was lim- While overall ambulance calls tional Church canceled in-person ited and all personnel wore masks. were down, there were “quite a services at the start of the pan- In cases where people may have few” involving suspected COVID demic, but in May began holding been showing COVID symptoms, symptoms, Wallace said, but he rescue personnel donned head- did not have an estimate of how See VACCINATIONS on page 22 DID YOU KNOW?

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N E W S Harpswell resident worries about his family in Brazil BRIEF

BY CONNIE CONNER and the numbers are rising. By Wellington Araujo’s boyhood mid-June, 604,000 people in the friend in Brazil refused to wear a U.S. had died a#er contracting mask, even as COVID-19 cases be- COVID-19. More than 513,000 gan spiking over the winter. He said had died in Brazil. he was healthy and had no reason Brazilian President Bolsonaro to worry about getting very sick be- “thinks hydroxychloroquine is the cause it was “just the %u.” best medicine to use for Covid, When Araujo, who lives in Cun- which he says is no worse than the dy’s Harbor, %ew home to visit his %u,” Araujo said. “It’s scienti$cally family in Rio de Janeiro in Febru- proven not to be true.” ary, he said he was the only one in Araujo knows $rst hand what his old neighborhood wearing a the coronavirus is like. In January, mask. he said he had a mild case of the vi- “You look like an alien,” his rus with chills, headaches and body 35-year-old boyhood friend told aches. He tested negative in Febru- Hoisting Old Glory Araujo. ary and traveled to Rio de Janeiro, Roger Allard and Dean Gosnier On May 4, his friend was dead, a worried about his family. attach American flags to tele- victim of the pandemic. !e friend’s Araujo and his husband, Rick phone poles along Cundy’s mother-in-law died the same day; Wohlfarth, have sent masks and Harbor Road. As they have his father-in-law was hospitalized hand sanitizers to Araujo’s family. for the last five years, the 160 on a respirator but is now recover- Araujo’s mother now has been ful- flags will wave until Columbus ing. ly vaccinated and his two brothers Day. Donations to help replace Araujo’s mother, 70, is now “re- and sister are waiting for shots. faded and torn flags can be ally scared,” he said. “When you !ey’re staying indoors and wear- mailed to Paige Mangum, start to put names on the dead peo- ing masks if they have to venture treasurer of the Cundy’s Fire ple, when they’re your friends and out. Department Auxiliary, at 136 neighbors and they start dying, it’s Araujo, 38, said he’s staying safe Bethel Point Road, Harpswell, scary.” in Harpswell, remotely working for 04079. Please write “Flag” on Brazil has had more Wellington Araujo, his sister Raquel and mother Maria da Conceicao Araujo. Bloomberg in New York City. the check’s memo line. (Con- COVID-19 deaths than any other When is he returning to Brazil? nie Sage Conner photo) county except the United States “Not anytime soon,” he said.

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BY JEFF STANN Instead of Barberry, try Black look for Blue Flag Iris, which has It’s July and you look around Chokeberry or Ninebark. Nine- a beautiful %ower in late spring your yard. !e fresh new growth bark has a similar shape to bar- and won’t take over everything. of spring has $lled in, and it’s full berry and is available in purple If you want shade, look for a summer. You notice that some of foliage, too. Black chokeberry, Red Maple, a Hornbeam, or an your plants are dead, look weak, one of my favorite shrubs, will Oak for your garden rather than or seem out of place, so it’s time give you some interesting red- a Norway maple. !e red maple for some new plants to spruce to-purple fall color and fruit for gives the intense autumn colors things up. You’d like to bring the birds. Neither of them at- we are all familiar with. Ameri- more butter%ies and birds into tracts ticks like barberry does. can Hornbeam would be just the your yard, too. What should you Instead of Autumn Olive thing if you don’t want too large plant? or Russian Olive, try Winter- a tree and will surprise you with You think $rst of some of berry, Summersweet, or one of its yellow and orange fall display. the old Maine standbys – Burn- the many viburnums native to Oaks have the greatest amount ing Bush, Japanese Barberry, or Maine, such as Highbush Cran- of food for birds of any tree. Autumn Olive for shrubs, some berry. All do well in moist ar- Another good thing about Dame’s Rocket or Yellow Iris for eas and can handle some shade, these native plants is that they color, and maybe even a Norway too. Winterberry gives a much attract far more butter%ies and Maple for shade. Well, times better show of red fruit than au- other good insects, and provide have changed. None of these tumn olive, while summersweet much better food for birds, so plants can be bought in Maine %owers have a spicy fragrance in your garden will be richer, more now, because they are consid- summertime, so are nice planted colorful, and fun. ered invasive -- causing damage near an entrance to your house. !e complete list of 33 in- to the environment, to farms, Highbush cranberry is not a true vasive plants prohibited for and to people. So, what should cranberry, but does have edible sale or purchase in Maine since you plant? Here are some sug- red fruit, as well as attractive 2018 can be found at tinyurl. gestions for native alternatives. white %owers and fall color that com/6mhrsxwa. More informa- Instead of Burning Bush, ranges from yellow to purplish tion about which plants are best try one of the Serviceberries, a red. I just planted one in my gar- for butter%ies and birds can be Highbush Blueberry, or a Red den and plan to let the birds have found at the National Wildlife Chokeberry. Any of them will all the fruit. Federation website www.nwf. give you better fall color than Instead of Dame’s Rocket, Serviceberry and Highbush Cranberry brings color and birds to your org/Garden-for-Wildlife/about/ burning bush, plus some edible try some Garden Phlox or Wild garden (PHOTOS BY MARY ELLEN HARTE/BUGWOOD.ORG AND BECCA MACDONALD/SAULT COLLEGE/ native-plants. fruit from the blueberry and ser- Geranium for purple (or white) BUGWOOD.ORG) viceberry. color. Instead of Yellow Iris,

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BY ROBIN CASEY A special day trip both chil- Every summer two of our dren and adults enjoy is visiting grandchildren, Josie, 9, and Char- the Coastal Maine Botanical Gar- lie, 6, visit us at “Camp Maine.” My dens in Boothbay Harbor. www. husband and I make a calendar of mainegardens.org. Don’t miss things we’ll do and places we’ll go. the children’s garden and the It’s a very special time for all of us. newest exhibit, the Guardians of It’s always a challenge, though, to the Seeds. www.mainegardens. $gure out how to $ll their days, in org/events-exhibits/giant-trolls/ ways that we enjoy as well. Friends It’s a good idea to get tickets to have shared things they’ve done the gardens in advance. in and near Harpswell with their See Harpswell from the water: grandchildren, which has been !ere are various ways you can enormously helpful. In this col- explore Harpswell by water, even umn, I hope to share recommen- if you don’t own a boat. Harpswell dations for fun things to do when o"ers many options boat tours, the youngest generation visits charter boats, for $shing, visit- Harpswell. ing Eagle Island or simply enjoy- Please send me your ideas and ing being on the water. !ere are suggestions so I can use them in Boardwalk at Long Reach Preserve, also businesses where you can future columns. You can email me a Harpswell Heritage Land Trust rent kayaks and standup paddle at harpswellanchor.info@gmail. property (PHOTO BY STEVE MOORE) boards. com. A family walking along the Giant’s Stairs on Bailey Island (PHOTO COURTESY OF Ideas for summertime fun HARPSWELL.MAINE.GOV) branches and build a home for a Trails fairy. !ere are lots of books and Kids love to hike Harpswell’s online resources for how to build a wonderful hiking and walking tanks. Lobstermen have some- Wolfe’s Neck Farm in Freeport fairy house if you need inspiration: trails. Don’t forget snacks, water times let out grandkids hold a live has trails, gardens and farm ani- tinyurl.com/52fntvkd. and mosquito repellant! Most of lobster. mals that all ages enjoy. these trails are rated easy: www. www.wolfesneck.org/visit/explore/ Visit the library alltrails.com/us/maine/harpswell. Pick up one or more Explo- Children love the variety of Two of our favorite (and very ration Kits from the Harpswell Fruit picking spaces and activities at the Curtis easy) trails are to Potts Point, at Heritage Land Trust, with tools Young children and even teens Library in Brunswick. Check out the end of Route 123, and Giant and lots of outdoor activities enjoy picking fruit. A#er mid-Ju- the schedule for special activi- Stairs on Bailey Island. Parking designed for pre-school and el- ly, you can pick raspberries and ties here. curtislibrary.com/kids/ for both can be tricky so be sure to ementary school aged children. blueberries. You can $nd U-pick Cundy’s Harbor and Orr’s Island ((PHOTO COURTESY OF MICK HAUPT) not park in prohibited areas or on hhltmaine.org/exploration-kits/ farms here: www.pickyourown. libraries are worth checking out private property. org/ME.htm as well, though their hours are Visit a #re station near you. Call more limited, especially Cun- Treasure hunts ahead to make sure it’s a good Build fairy houses in your yard, dy’s as they are undergoing ren- Whether they are in your yard time to do so. Younger kids love on a beach or in the woods. Collect ovations. www.cundysharbor.me (whatever you want to hide) or to see the $re trucks and some- stones, shells, %owers, tree bark, and https://oilblogcom.com. on a beach (di"erent colors of sea times even get to sit in one. glass, shells, rocks), kids of all ages love treasure hunts. Reward them See a baseball game. Our grands with treats or coins if you want. love going to Seadogs games. It’s a Prime beef Visit a lobster pound highlight of their visit. www.milb. OPEN Fresh seafood Kids are fascinated by lobster com/portland/tickets/ticketinfo Tuesday - Saturday Native strawberries boats and lobsters in their holding 9:00 am - 3:00 pm Fresh baked bread daily Variety of deli salads Black Sheep Wine and Beer Shop 513 Harpswell Neck Homemade pies, cookies, Road whoopie pies & more!

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BY TOM ALLEN al expenses, protection and install emergency communica- about a decade. administrators, savings in elec- A historically low number of safety, and other items. tions equipment on the tower at OBIFD Fire Chief Benjamin tricity costs will offset the pur- voters turned out to cast ballots Other major appropriations no cost, allowing for improved Wallace said he’s grateful to the chase in as little as three years. on the 2021 Harpswell town included $310,000 for short- communications among the town for approving the appro- After two years of the war- warrant on June 8. Only 263 and-long-term principal and emergency service providers. priation. rant being decided by munici- ballots were cast out of a total interest payments, $260,000 for Thanks to Harpswell Vot- “The funds should enable pal referendum, town leaders of 4,482 registered voters. In purchase of an emergency ser- ers, Orr’s and Bailey Island Fire the department to acquire the plan to revive the tradition of the 2018 non-presidential elec- vices vehicle, and $345,000 for Department will improve their truck it needs to serve the com- legislation by acclamation: the tion year voters cast 430 bal- capital reserve accounts. ability to respond to emer- munity. I expect the department raising of orange squares of pa- lots. The next lowest turnout An Appropriation of gencies. The town will use the and town will finalize the new per as voters sit in metal fold- was in 2015 when there were $50,000 completes payments $260,000 appropriation to pur- fire engine specifications and ing chairs or in the bleachers of only 269 ballots. into a capital reserve account chase a new fire truck, which be ready to order the truck later the elementary school gym. According to town Clerk for the construction of a boat OBIFD will then lease. The this year with delivery in 2022.” “The Board hopes to hold Rosalind Knight, last year, launch at Mitchell Field. new vehicle will replace a near- Harpswell drivers may soon the annual town meeting in when the Town Meeting was A total of almost $310,000 ly 30-year-old pumper, which notice a change at night. Vot- March 2022 assuming it will be also held by municipal referen- has been appropriated. This had required major repairs in- ers approved $100,000 to re- safe to do so,” Town Adminis- dum 1,721 (41 percent) voted. amount will be matched by a termittently for several years, fit the town’s streetlights with trator Eiane said. One reason turnout was low SHIP (Small Harbor Improve- outliving its typical lifespan by LED bulbs. According to town “could be that people did not ment Program) Grant provid- view the warrant as having ed by Maine Department of anything highly controversial Transportation, which “pro- on it,” Town Administrator motes economic development, Kristi Eiane says. public access, improved com- Indeed, there were no sur- mercial fishing opportunities The Cribstone Bridge prises in the outcome of the 19 and works to preserve, and ballot items. Voters gave ap- create, infrastructure at facil- Collection proval to the town warrant by ities in tidewater and coast- a wide margin, 85 percent or al municipalities.” The town Our Cribstone Collection includes intricate line details reminiscent more voting in favor in most plans to move forward with of the unique bridge designed by Llewellyn N. Edwards. cases. the design and permitting We think you will agree both the iconic bridge and our The approved budget in- before soliciting bids in the collection are treasures to be truly appreciated. creases by 6.4 percent over last spring of 2022. year. However, the tax rate will Another project will move Explore our full collection online and in person in Brunswick, ME. rise by only .9 percent. Under forward at Mitchell Field now this budget property tax will that voters have given their ap- increase by $15 per $250,000 of proval to lease property for the assessed value. construction of a communica- The town operating budget tions tower. Blue Sky Towers of $4,723,103 amounted to the will raise and then lease space largest portion of the money on the tower to wireless pro- approved. Included in the “om- viders, such as AT&T, which nibus” ballot item were town the town anticipates will be the Cribstone Bar employees’ salaries, public first occupant. The lease agree- Silver works, cultural and recreation- ment also permits the town to from $155

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BY CONNIE SAGE CONNER Routes 24 and 123, the two main Cribstone Bridge Mainers, it’s said, are either born state highways in Harpswell. Since Made from stacked granite slabs to here and never leave - or leave and we’re between the two routes, we’re allow the tide to %ow, the bridge re- eventually move back. Some claim told we live in “Switzerland,” because portedly is the only one in the world a “real Mainer” has to have a family we’re “neutral” with no allegiance to like it. Built in 1926-27, it links Orr’s tree with roots going back genera- any of the Harpswell communities. and Bailey islands. tions. While Harpswell Neck includes !en there are those of us “from North Harpswell, Harpswell Center, Harpswell Historical away” who chose to settle in Maine West Harpswell and South Harp- Society Museum because we love it here. Our refrain: swell, year-rounders today simply Displays of each of Harpswell’s com- “Why didn’t we come here sooner?” say they live “on the Neck,” or Orr’s, munities, a 20th Century kitchen, For some 5,000 of us year-round- Bailey, Cundy’s Harbor or Great Is- antique farming equipment, and old A view of the Cribstone Bridge (PHOTO COURTESY OF MAINEANENCYCLOPEDIA.COM) ers, Harpswell is a quintessential land. military uniforms. 929 Harpswell paradise with narrow stretches of Native American Abenaki called Neck Road. Open Sundays 2-4 p.m. Bowdoin College swell’s Eagle Island. !e home is coastline surrounded by four times West Harpswell “Merriconeag” or Museum of Art now a state park and National His- more salt water than land, one “quick carrying place” for the nar- Lobsterman Statue One of the earliest collegiate art toric Landmark. To visit, see Friends (%ashing) tra&c light, nary a big box row peninsula’s easy portage. !e Erected in 1976, the statue bears collections in the nation, it features of Peary’s Eagle Island, pearyeagle- store and no downtown. named Great Island, Erascohegan or the likeness of H. Elroy “Snoody” paintings, sculpture, works on pa- sisland.org Sure it snows a lot (or used to be- Sebascodigin and by the late 1800s it Johnson, who is seen “pegging” or per, decorative arts, and artifacts fore climate change), the seasons are evolved to Sebascodegan Island. banding a lobster claw. !e original from prehistory to the present. Joshua Chamberlain short, and we joke that friends come Europeans settled Harpswell statue, which had not been bronzed, Housed in a separate building on A#er the Civil War, Chamberlain, here for the “lobstahs,” not to visit us. - named for its counterpart in Lin- was displayed at the 1939-40 World’s the Brunswick campus, the muse- the hero of Little Round Top at the But there’s nothing more entic- colnshire, England - in 1758. Maine Fair. At the end of Bailey Island, this um is now open Tuesday-Sunday, Battle of Gettysburg, was governor ing than the so# swoosh of waves at was part of Massachusetts until is one of three castings. !e others 11 a.m.-5 p.m. of Maine and president of Bowdo- daybreak, watching gulls angle for 1820. !e Missouri Compromise are in Washington, D.C., and Port- in College, his alma mater. Visit the a snack as the day’s catch is pulled allowed Missouri to enter the Union land. Mitchell Field Pejepscot History Center in Brun- in, or the spectacular sunrises and as a slave-holding state and Maine as Mitchell Field is a 119.3 acre wick, which operates the museum. sunsets artists here have captured on a free state. Halfway Rock Lighthouse Town-owned property located pejepscothistorical.org canvas for centuries. Folks here for generations have Visible from the end of Bailey Island, on Harpswell Neck. !e prop- It’s taken my husband and me, made a living from $shing, lobster- the 66-foot tower began active ser- erty has 2,630 feet of shoreline. It Harriet Beecher Stowe Southern transplants, years to dis- ing, farming and boatbuilding. Not vice in 1871. Automated in 1975, it hosts weekly summer concerts in !e author wrote most of Uncle cover all of the area’s treasures. much has changed, except there’s a %ashes red 77 feet above the ocean. the bandstand. Picnicking, swim- Tom’s Cabin when her husband was Friends asked, “Did you know lot more tourism and a lot more of ming and dog walking. Beautiful a professor at Bowdoin College. She there’s an amazing rock formation us “from away” who’ve discovered Bowdoin College sunsets! also wrote “!e Pearl of Orr’s Island” that looks like a storybook giant paradise. !e Brunswick private college was set in Harpswell. Her 63 Federal St. used to march down to sea? Did you A few of the “must see” places in charted in 1794 and named for home in Brunswick is a National know Arctic explorer Adm. Peary Harpswell: former Massachusetts Gov. James Historic Landmark and a National had a house on a Harpswell island Bowdoin. Among its many notable Underground Railroad Network to where he summered, sometimes Giant’s Stairs graduates are President Franklin Freedom site. To see Harriet’s Writ- with his sled dogs? Or poet Edna St. Named a#er rock formations mil- Pierce, writers Nathaniel Hawthorne ing Room, visit bowdoin.edu/stowe- Vincent Millay owned an island in lions of years old, the stairs look like and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, house Casco Bay? something a giant would walk down Gen. Joshua Chamberlain and Sen. Did you know, they asked, Harp- to the ocean. Owned by the Town George Mitchell. In one recent rank- Henry Wadsworth swell has 200 (yes, 200!) islands and of Harpswell on Bailey Island, o" ing, Bowdoin was tied for sixth best Longfellow 216 miles of coastline, more than Route 123. overall liberal arts colleges. Its stu- !e famous poet was born in Port- any other in the state? !at the town dent body is about 1,800. land and joined the faculty of Bow- is made up of a “neck” - a peninsu- doin College in Brunswick in 1829. la bordering Brunswick - and three Bowdoin College’s Schiller Mitchell Field (PHOTO COURTESY OF HARP- !e family home and gardens can be large islands: Sebascodegan, or Coastal Studies Center SWELL: SEA AND SAND THROUGH THE LENS) toured in Portland. mainehistory.org Great Island; Orr’s Island and Bailey !e center’s 118 acres, at the end for information. Island. (Never call it Bailey’s.) of Bayview Road on Orr’s Island, Before bridges linking the islands Harpswell, is for marine estuarine Some famous people from these Frances Perkins were built, each part of Harpswell and terrestrial research. Its 3.6 miles parts: !e $rst woman to hold a U.S. cab- was a knot of villages with individ- of trails are free and open to the pub- inet position, Perkins was Secre- ual identities and rivalries. We live Giant’s Stairs (PHOTO BY JANICE THOMPSON) lic. See Harpswell Guide to Outdoor Edna St. Vincent Millay tary of Labor under Franklin Del- o" Mountain Road, which intersects Recreation for details. A Maine native, she and her hus- ano Roosevelt. !e Perkins family band bought Ragged Island in Harp- home, a National Historic Land- swell as a summer home in 1933 and mark, is in nearby Damariscotta. Remodeling & Additions owned it until her death in 1950. It is [email protected] Kitchens & Baths now a private residence. At least one 1790 maritime chart labels the island Sources: Discover Harpswell, !e Small Space Storage Solutions “Cold Arse.” Harpswell Guide to Outdoor Rec- Built-ins & Bookcases reation, Wikipedia, How Maine Adm. 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Vaccinations ning for people to use from their From page 14 cars parked outside the building. When it did reopen, access was drive-in services in its parking limited to the lobby area on Sat- lot on Harpswell Neck Road. !e urdays only, but all of the library’s services were broadcast on the lo- materials were available on re- cal radio station, WHPW-FM, for quest. Librarians even delivered those in their cars or listening at books and other items to people home. !e $rst gathering attract- who could not make it out, Li- ed 48 vehicles, along with people brarian Joanne Rogers said. sitting on nearby porches, accord- As the weather improved last ing to the church’s Facebook page. spring, more people headed out- Services also were broadcast on doors, and the town’s numerous Cindy Mudford preparing Meals in a hiking trails were a popular anti- Pinch (PHOTO COURTESY OF HAH) dote to indoor isolation. that tra&c to the HHLT outdoor “Clearly there was more demand activities web page nearly dou- for outdoor recreation during the bled from 2019 to 2020. pandemic. Our trails de$nitely had While the outdoor spaces pro- more people on them,” said Julia vided a respite, the land trust was McLeod, outreach director for the forced to cancel its 2020 summer Harpswell Heritage Land Trust, activities, including its popular which oversees a variety of hiking nature day camp. In its place, the trails and nature preserves. group’s educators posted an out- “We heard from a number of door activity every day for people Orr’s Island Library closed during people how grateful they were to to explore nature like they would COVID-19 (PHOTO COURTESY OF ORR’S ISLAND have those trails and those places in the typical programs. !ey also Tom Brudzinski lives on Orr’s Island and has been drawing lobsters and “other LIBRARY) to go,” McLeod said. “It felt like a handed out kits with maps and Maine things” for 50 years. Find his work on Instagram, @lobstartstudios. the town cable TV channel. safe place to go when people were other materials for more exten- !e Orr’s Island library was stuck at home a lot.” sive outdoor activities. which had to cancel its popular counted heavily on the food we closed from mid-March to Oc- McLeod said there was no re- Distributing pre-assembled Lunch With Friends series held provided each week,” said Sur- tober butkept its public wireless liable estimate of numbers of peo- packages was also a solution used several times a month. rey Hardcastle, chair of the HAH internet connection up and run- ple using the trails, but she noted by Harpswell Aging at Home, “!ere were some people who Food Committee.

showers, nothing to drink. It’s real- well technical assistance coordina- learned a good trick from a sweet ACKME SURVEY Wells ly one of the worst things that can tor, says “there’s a limitation to the older lady to put a bucket in your LAND SURVEYING From page 10 happen to you as a homeowner,” amount of water to support the shower to collect the water while he says. !is is the second time he’s homes being built. Usually this is it warms up.” had to %ush out his well in the last $gured out when it’s too late.” As with all coastal resources, it Using too much water couple of years. !e good news is while Maine is important to realize that what “!ere’s a lot of people using While you might not have salt- is in the $rst stage of a drought, we do a"ects the entire system and too much water in Harpswell,” water in your well, your use can Brochu says, “it’s not as bad as we that we all need to do our part to he says, and “this is the worst I’ve still be causing a problem for your were a year ago.” make sure we maintain healthy seen.” Not all wells may turn salty neighbor. One resident of Cundy’s ecosystems if we expect to be able but many on the coast can. Harbor said he has had several Tips to save water to live along the coast. One resident of Orr’s Island, neighbors who have run out of Bert Temple shared a few tips. And, perhaps a little rain would RTK GPS DRONE who has been busy %ushing out water, but he has been lucky. “I’ve “Use a timer when using a gar- help us as well, as Temple says his well because he was getting been taking laundry into town den hose,” he says. “And put rain when I talked to him one chilly, [email protected] orange water, spoke about how because I’m afraid we are going to barrels under your gutters. You rainy a#ernoon. “At this point I critical fresh water is. “You can run out of water. And, I’m not the can even get them with a spig- pray for rain no matter what - we CALL 207-504-0280 be without electricity, but with no only one,” he says. ot so you can gravity feed your need it so badly, so bring it on.” water, there’s no doing dishes, no Haig Brochu, the state’s private %ower beds. And, I also recently HARPSWELL ANCHOR · July 2021 [ 23 ] Obituaries Mark Stebbins that he made it his job and did it working alongside his children, Anne Frances Allen Anderson 2/19/54 - 6/17/21 for fun too. At age 19, he and his John and Jennifer, as they joined 4/29/34 - 4/4/20 brother put an o"er in on a house the business in the last decade. Mark Stebbins passed away un- in Bailey Island, Maine. Over the He made his mark on the built Anne Frances Allen Anderson expectedly and peacefully at his years, he envisioned and creat- environment and in business, but passed away on April 4, 2020 at favorite place in the world, Bailey ed an extended compound for also felt a deep need to give back Gosnell Hospice House in Scar- Island, Maine, on June 17, 2021 friends and family to gather there to the community. He was gen- borough, Maine with family a#er enjoying a beautiful sunset together. erous both $nancially and with members by her side. She was the with his wife, Sally. He found a spiritual calm when his time and expertise, pushing daughter of Henry Irvin Allen, Mark grew up as a contractor’s on the island. His happiest days non-pro$ts to think strategical- Harpswell, and Elizabeth Bowker son in the North End of Manches- started with his grandchildren, ly, to collaborate, and to develop Patten,Topsham. ter, NH, where his entrepreneurial who lovingly called him “Bubba”, sustainable models. Together with Anne was born in the Allen Four Generations: Anne, daughter and competitive spirit developed gathering from their houses to his Sally, he joyfully supported orga- Homestead at the corner of Look- Lynn Anne, granddaughter Kristen early. Mark had a paper route table for breakfast club, driving nizations helping children and out Point Road and Route 123, the Anne and great granddaughter from a young age and worked in them around on the gator, coming families throughout New Hamp- last baby to be delivered there. She Mia Anne the summers for his father’s con- together for a boat picnic at lunch, shire and the arts in Portsmouth. attended school in Harpswell and struction company. His athletic and going for an a#ernoon sail. Mark was larger than life. His o#en said she couldn’t get away tenacity in the pool earned him Mark’s heaven was sitting with legacy will endure through the with anything because her moth- designed herself. She was active scholarships $rst to !e Law- family and friends on the Bailey love of his life, Sally, his three er was the teacher! She graduated in the local grange and Kellogg renceville School and then to Island decks to watch the sun slip children: John and Bridget Steb- from Brunswick High School and Church, where she held seven- Dartmouth College, where he slowly into the slot of tomorrow. bins and their children Charlotte, rarely missed a class reunion, plan- ty-year memberships and served majored in Economics, held long- Mark was a constant optimist. Juliet, Wyatt and Abigail; Jenni- ning and working on them with all on several committees. standing records in the 50 and 100 If you ever asked how he was, he fer and Dylan !omas and their the classmates she so loved. She was a famous cook, with freestyle, and was honored as an loved responding: “Outstanding!” children Eliza and Claire; and Lisa Anne lived in Cundy’s Harbor recipes in several cookbooks and All American. or “If I got any better, it would be and Joe Geoghegan. He is loved for several years with her hus- interviews in newspapers. In 2020 In order to gain experience in illegal!” He took a sincere interest and missed by his mother, Kather- band Gareth Anderson and their she was made an Honorary Game real estate and $nance, Mark took in everyone he met and was gen- ine R. Stebbins, his brother Henry two children, Robert A. Ander- Warden because of her support for a job at Chase Manhattan Bank in erous with his spirit. He always B. Stebbins and sister-in-law Ali- son (Founder and Editor of the Maine Association for Search and New York City, where he met and called himself “the luckiest man son, and his sister Sarah Zepeda original Harpswell Anchor for Rescue. She took part in the care fell in love with Sally. In 1979, he in the world.” and brother-in-law Jose. We are 22 years), and daughter Dr. Lynn and feeding of game wardens on returned home to New Hamp- Professionally, Mark was a certain that Mark had a joyful Anne Anderson of Sarasota, Flor- SAR missions. On one memora- shire to work alongside his fa- visionary and consummate en- reunion with his beloved father, ida, all of whom survive her. ble occasion she fed thirty-four ther at PROCON and begin what trepreneur. He was con$dent, Herbert B. Stebbins. She was active in the Fire De- cold, wet and hungry searchers in would become a long career and decisive, and ready to outwork partment Auxiliary, Sebascodegan her cellar eating seafood chowder, lifelong passion for developing anyone. He grew PROCON to the Garden Club, the Cranberryhorn their $rst hot food in three days. real estate. largest design-build construction Cemetery Association and a Girl She is survived by four grand- Although Mark was passion- company in New Hampshire. His Scout Leader. She also ran unsuc- children -- Derek Gareth Burow ate about business, his $rst love hotel company owns the largest cessfully for selectman, the $rst and wife Lelia; Kristen Anne and and priority was always his family. number of hotel rooms in Greater lady to do so. She was, however, husband Bradley Brownstein; Sar- Mark and Sally recently celebrat- Boston. He owns a fabric compa- elected Town Treasurer for twenty ah Jane Fowler and her husband, ed their 42nd wedding anniversa- ny, a biotech company, a senior straight years and always closed the Steve; and Nell Elizabeth and her ry and have three children: John, living development company, a books perfectly balanced. During husband Nick Evans – and six Jennifer, and Lisa. Later, three in- commercial real estate broker- that same period, she worked in great-grandchildren. laws and six grandchildren joined age, and innumerable commercial the school system as a secretary A memorial service is planned the family. He has always been real estate developments. He truly for twenty years. A#er retirement for July 10 at 11AM at the Kel- close with his parents, brother and loved his work and the people he she worked in the kitchen at the logg Church (917 Harpswell Neck his family, and sister and her fami- worked with. Many of his business West Harpswell School. She loved Road). A catered lunch will be held ly. partners became close friends, Mark Stebbins all children and looked forward to directly a#erward in Fellowship Mark loved real estate so much and one of his greatest joys was seeing them every day. Hall. A scholarship has been estab- In 1984 she and her husband lished in Anne’s name at the Harp- moved to Harpswell Neck, settling swell Coastal Academy and in lieu on the shores of Widgeon Cove of %owers her family is requesting in a new home she planned and donations to that fund. Send us your obituaries, To make a donation to Anne’s scholarship, Letters to the editor, please write your check to Calendar listings, “!e Anne Allen Anderson Student Aid Fund” and mail to: Story ideas Northeast Bank 186 Maine Street, Brunswick, ME 04011 ! e deadline for submission is the 15th of each month Donations will also be accepted at the memorial service

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