little green

 

Not quite the bounty of community grown veggies I had hoped to have been growing on Olive Street this season... but still a wonderful thing to see! Tomatoes, some beefstake and some cherry, peppers, broccoli that may or may not produce... blueberries are coming in plentiful as always... it's something, it's a start!

More volunteers are requested for next year to make our gardens grow.

Tucker Atwood presents his own play, "Waiting in the Wings" at Lakewood Theater for three days at the end of the season! Performing Friday, September 29th  & Saturday, September 30th at 8pm, and  Sunday, October 1st at 4pm

The description is as follows: While the ghosts of a recently deceased actor and a long-forgotten usher roam through the cluttered backstage of the theater they each called home, a group of living thespians make an unexpected connection between their worlds. As the season progresses, all souls become deeply intertwined in the complicated web of life, death, and summer theater.

paint a meadow

Something fun and new happening on Olive Street... an artist led paint night! The first of what we hope will be an ongoing program, will take place Friday June 23rd.

Lauri Burgess will be present for the re-creating of her own Meadow Painting. More information, and registration can be found here.

The Outsider at Lakewood Theater

Opening this Thursday night at Lakewood Theater, "The Outsider"!!!

Ned Newley doesn’t even want to be governor. He’s terrified of public speaking; his poll numbers are impressively bad. To his ever-supportive Chief of Staff, Ned seems destined to fail. But political consultant Arthur Vance sees things differently: Ned might be the worst candidate to ever run for office. Unless the public is looking for … the worst candidate to ever run for office.

Starring: Henry Quintal - Autumn Stupca - Tucker Atwood - Wendi Richards - Randy Jones - Heather Bisson - Jakob Sutton

Performed: June 8th - 10th at 8pm, June 11th at 4pm, June 14th at 2pm & 7pm, and June 15h - 17th at 8pm again

Order your tickets by calling the box office 207-474-7176 or online through https://lakewoodtheatremaine.csstix.com/

cabinets

Often I seem obsessed with cups and bowls and plates and dishes of all kinds. How lucky that there are a handful of kitchens here to stock and then re-stock with these lovelies. There is a shifting and sharing this time of year, and such fun in creating new groupings.

So if you arrive at a community kitchen or are staying at one of the cabins and you seem to be missing your favorite tea cup, don't worry, it is still somewhere here On Olive Street. It's just having a visit and being a part of a new adventure in another residence's cabinet.

This very often happens with furniture too, as you might notice.

Simply without the cabinets, of course

self-serve tea

The studio space at the Sugar Tree Cottage will be unavailable until sometime in mid-June, so the tea spot has been moved to the porch at the Perkins House.

It is currently BYOWater - as I can not be relied upon to bring freshies every day at this point, and you should maybe BYOCup too....   so really all I'm providing is some tea and a way to heat water, along with a place to sit; but the flowers should be blooming soon, and the sound of the brook is always amazing, so a sit down will do your soul good. 

Feel free to take your cup of tea across the street and enjoy it on the porch of the Gardener's Cottage instead if you wish.

Just remember, the grounds are under construction still...  be careful where you walk, and be aware that progress related eyesores are present. Just overlook them and find beauty where you may.

little details

Loving the new beautiful trim on the Cabbage's loft windows.  

Simple, but these are the things that often set me down to sit and stare, and ponder. Things like the art of shapes, wood grain, the sound of the brook rushing past, trees in bud, the pattern in the fur of the cat outside stalking a bird on the pine-needle covered ground. 

When the world can seem so very big and overwhelming sometimes, it's the little details that can matter so much.

space available

Cast notices for the 2023 Lakewood Theater Season went out today! There will soon be a bustle of folks picking up thier scripts and getting ready for rehearsals! 

Just like you, I'll be waiting to hear who is in what, but know I am excited to be welcoming back MJ Clifford, Tucker & Autumn Atwood, and Colton Bagley here on Olive Street [Jakob Sutton, of course, is already here... and it is confirmed that he will be appearing on the Lakewood stage as well]

We still have space available for theater & restaurant folk (read more about that on the LCH page) and artists in residence (please see the Art Residencies page for that)  

duck & cat

Each springtime, my favorite resident pair of mallards returns. They will spend the summer visting the brook often [I think they nest in a bend a little further up] and become a daily routine to see floating by. First sightings in the spring have varied from in the brook, swimming in large puddles beside the cottage or across the street, to just merrily walking down a muddy Olive Street. Today they decided to traverse a snow bank to check out some birdseed that had swollen as it soaked in the melting snow, and in doing so, provided much entertainment for Peach.

sneak peak

While the remodel on the Brook House is still undergoing, a sneak peek at the kitchen's double ovens. And the awesome country boards. Such cool custom work.