Friday, Sept. 19, 5-7 p.m., the Stable Gallery's final show of the season, "Art hARvesT 12," will open with a festive reception. Several Edgecomb artists are gallery members, or have shown works there. Support your local artist!

If you are watching the 2014 election campaigns — and you should be, like a hawk — come to the symposium co-sponsored by Coastal Senior College and the League of Women Voters on "Empowered Voters Make Government Effective," Friday, Sept. 26, 2-4 p.m., in the Poe Auditorium of Skidompha Library in Damariscotta. It is open to the public. 

And let me encourage those of you who are over 55 to join Coastal Senior College, and enroll in its fascinating fall courses. Call University College in Rockland, CSC office, 207-596-6906, and ask for a catalog. Classes are due to start Sept. 19, but several still have room for more students. Best part of it: no exams!

Then, on Saturday, Sept. 27, let's all go to the fifth and final summer supper at the Edgecomb Congregational Church. Traditionally, monies raised from this supper benefit the Edgecomb Fire Department.

By now, you all must know the drill: The supper will run from 5 to 6:30 p.m., or until the food runs out. Adults $7, children under 12, $3. "Good Food, Good Fellowship, for a Good Cause."

And a cornucopia of homemade baked beans, casseroles, salads and desserts. If you come around 4:30 p.m., the Thrift Shop is open for every supper. If anyone wishes to help out with preparation or clean-up, call Gail Boudin, 207-882-7972, or the Church office, 207-882-4060.

There looks to be another oyster farm coming to the East Edgecomb portion of the Damariscotta River. The Edgecomb Eddy School new grounds-keeping tractor has been approved.

The board of selectmen is appealing to MDOT for serious repairs to be made on the Eddy Road.

After 12 years of stalling, the town's Lallis property may finally be swapped for the BRLT's Church property.

For those not familiar with this potential land swap (it is still not a done deal), the church land is not a religious property; it belonged to the late Glenys Church. I hope the selectmen will invite us all to join in the clean-up of the Lallis piece of land, which is mainly meadow. All in all, everything seems tranquil at the Town Hall for the moment.

Welcome, Susan Conover, the Edgecomb Eddy School's new counselor, since Madeleine Olney has retired. I hope the Olneys are now happily basking on Florida's beaches. Meanwhile, the Center for Teaching and Learning has a new kindergarten teacher, Caroline Bond. Welcome to you, too, Ms. Bond!

Flowers of the Forest: Let us salute the passing of Joshua Mark Kastelein, and extend our deepest sympathies to his brother and sister-in-law, Michael and Kate Kastelein, and his extended family. Donations may be made in his memory to the Lincoln County Animal Shelter Cat Room, P.O. Box 7, Edgecomb, ME 04556.

Just so it doesn't take you by surprise, Tuesday, Sept. 23, is the autumnal equinox. We must all synchronize our chronometers to see how exactly equal night is to day. It won't be long before we are on daylight saving time again, and all the Druidical lore will be rendered irrelevant.

The latest Cameron news, Kate Klemme, super granddaughter, has been accepted into her school's jazz band. Kate plays the clarinet. Brother Ben plays the flute, and participates in sports events' musical interludes.

Let Mount Hunger Ridge reverberate with the Sounds of Music for the ears at 234 River Road, 207-633-2978, and jocam@tidewater.net.