by Lillian Lake | | Building Community, Farms, Food
First printed in Franklin Journal Across America, country fairs and festivals are the happening thing and will lead us from summer, right through fall. It’s rather hard to believe it’s that time all ready. I’m sure for farmers, the time moves even more quickly....
by Lillian Lake | | Building Community, Food, Spiritual
First appeared in The Franklin Journal The Red Barn” is a small restaurant at 455 Riverside Drive, Augusta, Maine. Making your way out of Augusta via ME-3 E, you may think you’ve gone too far just about the time you find the left turn onto Riverside. Drive down...
by Lillian Lake | | Building Community, Food
One of the best things about writing about food is visiting places where I get to eat and drink coffee. Recently, I visited Dovey’s Kitchen in Industry, Maine at the head of Clearwater Lake. It’s a version of a country mom and pop store. The owners, Phil and Dovey...
by Lillian Lake | | Building Community, Spiritual
My facebook and twitter feed has been seeded with reflections on the Orlando shooting. There have been expressions of anger and hatred; excuses for each side’s justification and judgement; as well as calls for openness and shining love and light on that which...
by Lillian Lake | | Building Community, Food
First published in Franklin Journal “Let’s meet at Carsley’s in 25 years” Barb, my longtime, school friend, penned in my yearbook. Our still enduring friendship started when her family moved to New Vineyard, Maine. We both came from family’s who were “from away”, a...
by Lillian Lake | | Building Community, Food
First published in Franklin Journal My afternoon break today included some time outdoors. I had every good intention to get in a good spring run, but you know what they say about good intentions. I started out running, but a neighbor stopped me. As much as “ego” was...
