June 10, 2010 - The site is currently undergoing a compete redesign so that we can begin offering enhanced services to our retail and wholesale customers. When launched (soon, we hope) there will also be an entirely new look and feel to the site. We’re all excited about this; and that even includes our overworked webguy who’s struggling to make it all work seemlessly for you. Thanks - Kim Dailey
Last summer I was asked if I’d be interested in turning some products for the Herbie Project; and I quickly agreed to do just that. “What is the Herbie Project?” you may ask. Well, “Herbie” was, in fact, the largest Elm tree in New England - standing at 110 feet tall and a sprightly 217 years old down in Yarmouth, Maine.
The name Herbie was given to him at some point back in the 1950’s by then caretaker Frank Knight. Recently afflicted with Dutch Elm disease, it was determined that Herbie had to be taken down for health and safety reasons, an event which occurred on January 19th, 2010. I went down to the sawmill where Herbie had been taken and picked out the pieces I needed to make the bowls and platters that I’d been asked to produce.
My friends at MT Pockets in Dixfield, Maine picked up these pieces delivered them to me on their flat bed wrecker just ten days after Herbie came down.
Below is a photographic story of what I am doing with my portion of Herbie. And please click here for a link to the official Herbie page on the Town of Yarmouth’s web site where you can learn much much more.
Please click here to read an article in the Portland Press Herald about the Yarmouth Clam Festival and Herbie.
And here’s yet another article about the clam festival (along with Herbie and me) in The Forecaster.
