Library hosting annual lobster roll lunch

WAYNE — Cary Memorial Library’s 11th annual lobster roll lunch packed to go will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 1. The Friends of the Library will offer lobster or chicken salad to be picked up across from the library, 17 Old Winthrop Road. The lunch, costs $10 for the chicken salad, $20 for the lobster roll, must be preordered and prepaid.

The lunch box will include the clear lobster mixed with a hint of mayo in a toasted bun with a bit of lettuce along with homemade blueberry cake, chips and pickles. Chicken salad will also be offered with the same fixings. Rolls, cake and drinks will be available.

Orders will be confirmed and a pick-up time decided. Face coverings will be required. To order and prepay call Holly at 207-685-9005 or email hollystv@hotmain.com no later than Thursday, July 30. Send checks, by Saturday, July 25, made out to Friends of the Library and send to Cary Memorial Library, P.O. Box 127, Wayne ME 04284.

For more information, call Holly at 207-685-9005 or Kim at 207-685-4506.

 

Leeds Historical Society publishes anthology

LEEDS — The first volume of the long awaited anthology of Leeds stories, “Out of Our Past: A Collection of Stories about Leeds, Maine,” compiled by the Leeds Historical Society is off the press and ready for sale. The more than 30 stories range from a poem by Elsie M. Bryant, written in 1901 at the time of the Leeds Centennial, to a Civil War letter from Thomas Lindsay, a history of the Leeds Community Church, and a 1937 report from the county’s school nurse.

Read about Leeds geography, about farms in Leeds spanning the 1900s, the Springbrook Golf Club, the history of Blue Rock Industries and Bancroft & Martin, or what it was like to work in Swain’s Mill or the Leeds Corn Shop. Or learn about hunting bear in the 1850s, ghostly “Peppermint John,” or an account of a possible murder in Leeds. All these and more can be found in “Out of Our Past: a Collection of Stories about Leeds, Maine.”

Anyone reminded of stories to share about Leeds should call Pam Bell at 207-933-4121 or email her at pwbell@fairpoint.net.

The books cost $15 and are available at the Leeds Town Office or by calling Laura Juraska at 207-524-2324.

 

MaineCF’s theater fund seeks grant applications 

ELLSWORTH — The Maine Community Foundation’s Maine Theater Fund is accepting grant applications from local, regional and statewide nonprofit theaters or theater groups in Maine.

Funds will be awarded for programmatic, capacity-building, operating and capital support. Awards typically are between $2,500 and $5,000, although larger awards may be considered.

The deadline for grant applications is Sept. 15. An online application, guidelines and a list of recent grants are available at www.mainecf.org.

Recent grantees include: Mad Horse Theatre Company, to offer 2019 theater season exploring the theme of “what lies beneath the veneer” and the vulnerability of exposing one’s true self, and Rangeley Friends of the Performing Arts, to continue and improve community theater in the western mountains of Maine.

For more information about the fund, contact MaineCF Senior Program Officer Leslie Goode at 207-412-2002 or e-mail lgoode@mainecf.org.

 

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