I am writing this on the cusp of the Edgecomb Town Meeting, which will have met on Saturday, May 11. Our North Carolina daughter is with us, savoring such New England exotica as oatmeal for breakfast, garnished with blueberries and extra-dark amber maple syrup.

We have just had a visit from Bruce's sister, June Ricker of Bristol Mills and her daughter Jennifer Milliken, who lives in Jefferson. The sun is shining, the air is warm.

I hope that older neighbors and their summering friends will join Coastal Senior College, to take Bob Brown's course on “The Lobstering Industry, By One Who Grew Up In It.”

The class will start Thursday, May 23, from 3 to 5 p.m., and will run for three more sessions, May 30, June 6 and June 13, at St. Andrews Village, Boothbay Harbor.

Bob is a past president of the Maine Import/Export Lobster Dealers Association, and truly knows the surf, from lowering a trap in the Damariscotta River to retailing our beloved crustacean to high-end restaurants.

Membership in CSC is required to take classes, so call the CSC office at University College at Rockland (U. Rock to its friends), 207-596-6906, or visit www.coastalseniorcollege.org for details.

Add to Huzzah Alley: Mitch Boucher, son of David and Deb on the Mill Road, and a senior at Lincoln Academy, who was one of two students winning first prize in L. A.'s Mary Rutland Achorn prize speaking competition with a talk about “Bach to the Future,” and then, true to his musical enthusiasms, contributed to L. A.'s Spring Band Concert by conducting his colleagues in his “Original Fugue.”

And I guess it is no secret that I will be receiving L.A.'s Alumni Service Award at the coming Alumni Banquet on June 1. This fills my heart with fondness for Lincoln's strong influence on my learning and my character.

Frantically combing my closet for ye olde school tie at 234 River Road, 207-633-2978, and jocam@tidewater.net/.