Fallout from Books in Boothbay: Mystery writers Lea Wait of Edgecomb and Kate Floraof Harpswell shared readings and discussion Thursday evening, July 18, at the Wiscasset Public Library. The series will continue with Janet Morgan of Wiscasset, who writes the Killdeer Farm series of mysteries, Thursday, July 25.

Phil Di Vece, author of the local history, “Wiscasset and Its Times,” will be featured Thursday, August 1. All programs start at 7 p.m.

Bravo Corner: Eric Kelley for high honors, spring 2013 semester, at Central Maine. Community College, and Danielle Race, honors graduate from the University of Delaware! Hunter Reid has earned second honors on the Clark University dean's list. Well done, all!

Flowers of the Forest: Let us salute the passing of Bob Jeremiah, and send our deepest condolences to Pat and their extended family. A celebration of Bob's Life will be held in August. Again, we grieve over the passing of Alan Thomas, and send our great sympathies to hisfamily and fiancee.

The Lincoln County Animal Shelter has been deluged with parrots! A blue-fronted Amazon, a golden-collared macaw, a black-capped conure, a sun conure, a white-eyed conure, ablue-crowned conure and an Indian ringneck parrot, in the Edgecomb jungle. The Shelter staff warn that people who wish to adopt any of these birds should be familiar with raising parrots, which can be very demanding. Does anyone recall the year there were green parakeets living in the trees along McKay Road?

I know it mystified my mother, who thought they were nasty birds, very aggressive. But obviously one touch of winter and they must have headed back to Mexico, whence, I daresay, they had come.

Hey, does anyone know how I can get some fresh mackerel? It has totally disappeared from the marketplace. For 13 years now, I have hungered for the nice little tinker mackerel ouritinerant fish dealer, Mr. Giles, used to bring around in his truck every week. But I've asked andasked, and no one seems to know, nor particularly care, why mackerel is off the menu.

Testing the ancient handlines at 234 River Road, 207-633-2978, and jocam@tidewater.net.