May 13, 2012

Harrington’s T-Ball Team two, the Pirates

            Just a reminder not to forget  the benefit supper for the Church family on Friday May 18, 2012 at the Columbia Town Hall from 5 pm to 8 pm.

            We have been enjoying some fresh smelts this week. It is always nice to get them in the spring. You can’t beat it for a meal off the land along with the vegetables that we raise in our gardens. No additives are allowed in my canning process unlike what you find at the grocery store. This week has been great, one meal was a moose meat stew , with all vegetable in it from our garden, one was moose meat steak with dandelions and of course several meals with the fresh smelts.  We don’t have to go to the grocery store; we just go to our basement for our food. Bon appétit

            On Saturday May 12, we attended our grandson Kenner’s first T-Ball game at Milbridge. He plays on the Pirates second team in Harrington. The teams were so cute in their t-shirts and hats playing ball and all looked like little munchkins. It was hard to recognize them out on the field unless you saw their names on their shirts as they all looked alike. Doesn’t seem possible that Konner is old enough to play ball and that he will start school in the fall. When we arrived at the field one of the coaches remarked about how many folks had turned out for the game. He did not realize that not only the parents were there but all of the grandparents were too.  As grandparents we also remarked that we had attended the games of our children many years ago and now meeting up with each other watching our grandchildren play. We all thought that once our children were out of school we were done going to and foe to games and planning our schedule around them. Boy was we wrong.

            Saturday afternoon I attended the DAR meeting in Machias at the Burnham Tavern, and afterwards stayed to help with the Mother’s Day Tea that we had there. We had over thirty turn out to this event. One special display for the Tea was the Victorian Wedding dress that my daughter Diadem (Strout) Washburn made for her wedding in 2010.

            This week I have been retyping some history of Pleasant River that I found. Some of the articles were written for the Moses Worcester Historical Society back in the 40’s and 50’s. Then the author really began to do some more research on this area and found a lot more information that I have found to be interesting. So far I have read about the area in the Revolution, how the deeds came about for this wilderness land, some town affairs, and especially about Levi Leighton store at Epping Lower Corner. One paper was about three episodes that happened at Pleasant River: The First Settlers, The Land Lottery and the Bingham Purchase, and Squatters’ Rights. The papers are old and some are hard to read so I am retyping them for others to enjoy this history. If I get lucky I will also add some pictures to this information to share.