letter to the editor

Our changing landscape

Tue, 08/08/2017 - 12:30pm

Dear Editor:

As I watch the ongoing flow of changes remolding out local scenery, it almost seems as though the Boothbay region has slipped into an alternate reality. Similar to segments of the larger world around us (and while a lot of us weren’t paying attention), changes have begun to ripple along a predetermined path.

As time passes, we stand as helpless onlookers, witnesses to a man-made evolution going so fast that we can’t keep up with it. The “old cow path” is being replaced by a roundabout; the original quaintness of our botanical real estate is being made into Central Park; and the long and winding road leads to a home we can no longer afford.

Mainers come from a long line of northern settlers who were able to adapt to the every-changing New World — but this time around, we are the natives being replaced.

With just a tad of poetic license.

June Webster Campbell Rose

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