When Melinda Fuller lived at 47 Gardiner Road, her family’s beagle Mindy slept on top of the dog house. Fuller, 36, remembers knowing then that the dog was doing the same thing Snoopy the beagle in “Peanuts” did.

Behind the house was an in-ground pool and an orchard of apple and pear trees.

A garage housed the gold Datsun hatchback that Fuller and her father Bob Nunan would take on dump runs.

“My dad used to say, ‘Where does the Lone Ranger take his trash? To the dump, to the dump, to the dump, dump, dump.’”

The garage was part of what is now the Wiscasset Newspaper office.

“I always thought of that being my childhood home,” Fuller, of Augusta, said about the property her family moved from in the late 1980s.

She lived there from ages 5 through 11, when Bob and Mary Nunan and their three daughters, one older, one younger than Fuller, moved to Augusta. When the family lived in Wiscasset, Fuller attended Wiscasset Primary and Middle schools.

Fuller and her mother, now widowed, got to go home again on June 24. The two were on their way to Boothbay Harbor for Windjammer Days, a trip Fuller took her mother on as a birthday present. Nunan turned 65 the next day.

Fuller called ahead to the newspaper to arrange the visit. While there, mother and daughter pointed out all that was and still is, and is no more.

The back deck was there when they lived there, but the stairs from it to the back yard were new, along with sliding glass doors that Mary Nunan, now of Hallowell, considered a good addition. She had always wanted to put some in there.

They saw the open back yard where the pool, orchard and a boathouse once were; a concrete square now marks the spot where the diving board was.

A shed now sits beside the house, where the doghouse had been.

The fireplace and picture window remain in the former living room. Reporters now write news stories on laptops there and in the former garage space.

Fuller said the cabinets and counter in the kitchen looked the same as in the days when her mother made cheese using recycled cheesecloth, and Fuller’s father made his own yogurt.

The Muddy Rudder that used to be across the Sheepscot River in Edgecomb was a favorite restaurant for the family. “It was kind of our place to go. I remember they had the best burger.”

At last month’s festival in Boothbay Harbor, Nunan and Fuller took a Cap’n Fish’s Whale Watch boat ride among the windjammers. Nunan talked at length with an artist.

Both she and Fuller enjoyed the trip to the festival and their one-time home in Wiscasset. Fuller said later that her mother was glad to hear during the visit that Fuller had so many fond memories of the place.

“It was nice to go home,” Fuller said. “It was a little strange to see your childhood home re-purposed. I’m glad we got to see it.

“To me, I’ll always think of it as where Daddy was in the rocking chair, or barbecuing. That’s where I have the best memories of all of us together.”