Thanks to Linda Darling for tipping us off on this, and her setup including her real name ahead of her <username>. You may have noted: replies to her message go to Linda, not to this List. Many of us have Hatch ancestry. My wife has ancestors THERE. This message supplements Linda's fine summary (directly below) with the full text of the story. Oldest resident is Obediah Hatch, b. 1730, died 1819. IMPORTANT: Please don't copy without the copyright symbol. (that "©" is a symbol YOU can use in plain text by copy+paste) ALSO, Please don't quote this FULL message back in a reply to List. If you wish to share it privately, copy+paste, unlike "Forward", shelters usernames from being "harvested" and sold to those who make the CDs sold to spammers. Thanks, Ted Chadbourne Chadbourne Family Association http://www.chadbourne.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Darling" <ldarling1@attbi.com> To: <MEYORK-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 6:53 PM Subject: [MEYORK] Mitchell-Hatch Cemetery/Maine Turnpike > Last year or so there was some discussion on the List about a cemetery > to the side of the Maine Turnpike. I'm not sure if this is the cemetery > that was discussed at the time, but the story will still be of interest! > > This article appeared in today's Boston Globe in the City/Region section. > http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/097/metro/Maine_Turnpike_project_spares_cemetery+.shtml > > The 184 year old Mitchell-hatch Cemetery is located in Kennebunk, Exit 3. > The Cemetery has been spared and will not be moved. They are > going to replace the railings and repair the granite posts bordering > the cemetery. The headstones will be "sealed" to protect them from > pollution and road salt. < <snip> [ Linda Darling ] Added by Ted: Note that this article is copyrighted, perhaps by both the Boston Globe and N.Y.Times. This full quote is legal, under copyright law, since I present it "by way of review" (of a good online news source). Below this, text in brackets represents live links available at the website: Those links will be live at websites: http://www.boston.com/globe/ and http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/097/metro/Maine_Turnpike_project_spares_cemetery+.shtml [NOTE by TC: Advertising was edited out below.] [ Send this story to a friend | Easy-print version | Search archives ] MAINE TURNPIKE PROJECT SPARES CEMETERY By David Sharp, Associated Press, 4/7/2003 KENNEBUNK, Maine -- After seeing nothing but miles and miles of pine trees, the sight of a tiny cemetery in a clearing near Exit 3 always seems to grab the attention of weary motorists. The cemetery, dating back 184 years, will become even more prominent as the widening of the Maine Turnpike resumes this spring: The extra lanes will bring the toll road within 5 feet of the cemetery. For some tourists, the cemetery is as much a signal of one's arrival in Maine as the sign that says, ''Maine: The Way Life Should Be.'' ''A lot of people tell us they don't feel they've really arrived in Maine until they see that cemetery,'' said Dan Paradee, spokesman for the Maine Turnpike Authority in Portland. The Turnpike Authority had hoped to avoid disturbing the cemetery as part of the toll road's $135 million expansion from four lanes to six along a 30-mile stretch between York and Portland. John Roberts, right-of-way manager for the authority, said engineers were relieved that the additional 12-foot travel lane and 12-foot breakdown lane would not encroach upon the cemetery. That spared turnpike officials from moving the entire cemetery. The 20-foot-by-60-foot cemetery, which has 20 headstones, is named Mitchell-Hatch Cemetery. The first person to be buried there was Obediah Hatch, who was born in 1730 and died in 1819. Turnpike officials went to great lengths to research the cemetery. There is no way to get there other than walking through the woods; there's no evidence that there was a road leading to it, Roberts said. As part of the widening, the Turnpike Authority will install a guardrail to protect the cemetery. The authority also will replace bent and broken railings and repair the granite posts bordering the cemetery. The headstones will be sealed to protect them from pollution and road salt. The part of the widening that will bring the turnpike near the cemetery covers 2.3 miles between Wells and Kennebunk, Paradee said. Contractors also plan to complete a 1.7-mile stretch of widening between Saco and Biddeford and to finish the last two of 18 bridge projects needed to support the expanded lanes, he said. That'll leave only a widening of 6 miles, mostly in Arundel, to complete the project in summer 2004. In Kennebunk, the goal is to improve the appearance of the cemetery, but not make it so pretty that shutterbugs stop for a picture, Paradee said. This story ran on page B2 of the Boston Globe on 4/7/2003. © Copyright 2003 Globe Newspaper Company. [ Send this story to a friend | Easy-print version | Search archives ] NOTE: Advertising (two boxes at top right] was edited out by TC.] Search the Globe Search for: [ Today | Yesterday | Past month | Past year | Advanced Search ] -------------------------------------------------------------------- © Copyright 2003 New York Times Company | Advertise | Contact us | Privacy policy |