NORWAY — The Western Foothills Land Trust has set the second annual Enid Dullea Length of the Lake Swim in Pennesseewassee for 8 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 20.

Although the swim is just for fun, it is not a casual swim. The full length is approximately 3.5 miles. To encourage more swimmers to participate this year, the swim can also be done by two-person relay teams.

Enid Dullea of Norway Lake, the village west of Norway near the Lake Store, graduated from Norway High School in 1930 and was known as “The Swimmer” by her classmates, although she also participated in track, basketball and winter sports.

She was also active in several school clubs: drama, musical comedy, debate and glee club, and clubs like shorthand and typewriter.

Dullea’s daughter, Linda McSherry, herself an athlete, said that her mom was a serious swimmer, swimming seven miles at a stretch (down and back in Pennesseewassee). Heading toward the 1936 Olympics, Dullea went to Boston and trained indoors with the Boston Swimming Association.

Also a strong diver, Dullea ruptured an eardrum while diving and developed a serious infection which prompted her return to Maine.

Sunday’s swim will be weather dependent. All swimmers must be accompanied by a kayak or canoe and should wear a swim buoy for visibility. Swim buoys will be available on site for anyone who needs one.

Anyone interested in swimming should come with their kayaker to the parking lot at Pennesseewassee Park at 8 a.m. Kayaks and competitors will be ferried up to the starting place at the northern end of the lake. Relay team members will be ferried to/from an island dock approximately midway down the lake.

The first swim in 2016 was organized by a group of dedicated Hobbs Pond swimmers. As they intended, the second annual swim will be a fundraiser for the Lake Association of Norway (LAON) in recognition of all it does to protect the health and beauty of the lake.

While there is no entrance fee to participate, the suggested donation is $20. The lakes association is pleased that the land trust has chosen to recognize its work in this way. The swim is just for fun, but, as Dullea was quoted saying, “What is the use of living if you cannot have your fun?”

FMI, sign up: 207-833-0646.