Good morning, One of my sisters just came back from a driving trip with a friend ... up the Maine coast! It was a pleasure trip, with a little genealogy thrown in for good measure! When they arrived in Eastport and Lubec, they were shocked. Last night she described Eastport as "a dying town," but still neat and clean. But, she described Lubec as "a ghost town," and, in addition, dirty and unkempt. I remember just a few years ago seeing Internet Advertising stating that Lubec was ... the place to go ... in order to be the first one to see the sunrise on the first day of "the new millenium." What happened? Genealogy? My great-grandmother, Louise Wellington RICE, and her sister, Edith RICE, grew up in Arlington, MA. The maiden name of their mother was Adelaide Crosby HUTCHINSON of both the CROSBY and Hutchinson families of Arlington, MA. Somehow Adelaide had married Charles Wellington RICE of Lubec, ME. His parents were Daniel and Lucy (McDonald) RICE of Lubec. Edith RICE never married, and was a children's Librarian in Arlington, MA. Because of the Internet, I accidentally found out that a large, expensive collection of children's books was recently donated to ... the University of Maine! Louise RICE probably met George "Sanford" KIDDER in either Eastport or Lubec while she was visiting her grandparents. "Sanford" was born in Princeton, ME, in 1870, and came from a large Kidder family in Princeton (and Calais). "Sanford" and Louise married in Princeton, but came back to Arlington, MA, to live. They had three children. (Sanford's great-grandfather lived in St. Stephen, NB, from 1785 to 1799.) Have a good day, Betty (near Lowell, MA)