Meat-Eaters

Original Song - The River of God

Genealogy

Chick from Lubec, Maine

Ancestors founded Machias

Osprey Lane Books                Maine Baptist History

Searsport, ME

Ayah And Did You Know

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Largest Congregational Church in Maine becomes Baptist overnight

13 Lubec children drowned in boating accident

In 1895 one tenth of all U.S. Master Mariners came from Searsport, ME

My wife Gloria and I have retired here in Searsport Maine.  This historic town is clustered  around the Penobscot Marine Museum, the oldest Marine Museum in Maine.

Nine buildings, several of which are sea captain's homes, filled with artifacts, paintings and lore of the sea, are visited by people from around the world.

As members of The Lighthouse Bible Church, we seek to serve God in whatever time we have left before we end life's voyage and sail to heaven's fair shore.

Searsport's only lighthouse cannot be seen from the sea

Grandmother Jemima Purdy met my grandfather in prison during the Revolutionary War

There have been 13 shipyards in Searsport, ME

West Quoddy Head is most easterly point in the U.S.

It seems that it was one of my ancestors that    inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne to write The Scarlet Letter 

The Libby Genealogy says that Timothy Libby was the one who brought a group of settlers from Scarboro to settle Machias.  The stone marker commerating the founding of Machias placed just outside Burnham Tavern lists the founders and several of them were my great grandfathers. 

My grandfathers stood against the Salem Witch Trial "to the hazard of their lives".

In the Capture of the Margaretta, it was one of my ancestors who is said to have fired the first shot

On this website you will hear some of the old gospel songs

that hark back to the days of sail 

I hope you enjoy them like I do

FOR TO ME TO LIVE IS CHRIST AND TO DIE IS GAIN  Philippians 1:21

JESUS SAID.... THOU SHALT LOVE THE LORD THY GOD WITH ALL THY HEART, AND WITH ALL THY SOUL, AND WITH ALL THY MIND   Mt. 22:37

I doubt that many of you have ever seen this special tiny wildflower so I want to share this picture especially for nature lovers who come to my website. 

This is called Flowering Wintergreen and it is not particularly rare, but after it blooms in May here in Eastern Maine, it doesn't stay around long to be admired.  In about a week or perhaps two it will be gone until another Spring rolls around.I would appreciate it if you would contact me if you have seen this little  beauty in the wild

Notice the acorn for size comparison