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Trail walk at Pineland Farms Wednesday July 24
Nine of us walked the Shaker Bog trail. We found the heat bearable under the tree canopy and with the slight breeze from the bog. The trail has multiple trees across the path but it was maneuverable for all of us. It’s a quiet location where we saw two loons.
Katelyn’s Angel takes Camp Kippewa Pace at Cumberland
CUMBERLAND, ME – Maine-bred Katelyn’s Angel put on quite a show for the 20-plus Camp Kippewa equine enthusiasts on hand for their eponymous event on Friday (July 19) at Cumberland. Not only did the 4-year-old daughter of Western Maverick take a new 1:55.4 lifetime mark with Bruce Ranger in the bike, but her clocking just a tick off the track record.
An Artist’s Standish Home Is Her Canvas
When Mercedes Foss told her now-husband, Jacob Akers, she wanted to cover their bathroom walls in copper sheeting, he was skeptical. “That doesn’t seem normal,” he said. To which Foss responded, “Who said I wanted to be normal?” She’d fallen for their 1904 home on Standish’s Watchic Lake precisely because it was quirky, with deep-purple shingles, stained-glass windows, and an antique copper soaking tub added by the previous owner. For the last five years, Foss, a painter, has been riffing on those flourishes, setting off the front gable’s stained glass with an eggplant-colored interior wall and reiterating its scrollwork on floor and ceiling paintings. The bathroom walls, which Akers now loves, is Foss’s homage to the tub, which didn’t fit in the reimagined space and instead serves as a planter on the front porch. Future plans include adding embellishments in Foss’s favorite Gothic style to the home’s exterior. “The lake side is the most boring,” she says. “It just looks like a normal house.” And normal cannot stand.
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