Local Artist Shares Dream Through Inspired Writing

"On a Strange Blue Light"; copyright 2020

By Tom Barber

Note: Given to him in a dream, this piece was written by local artist, Tom Barber. His hope, in sharing this with you, the reader, is that you will be inspired to just stop and think. Sapphire blue with a core of purist white, a beam of light thousands of miles wide hit the earth […]

Baby Bear Indulges in Pears in East Andover Backyard

Now in good hands at Kilham Bear Sanctuary

By Judy Perreault
Baby Bear Indulges in Pears in East Andover Backyard

Judy Perreault of East Andover shared this story of a cute little bear visitor: A baby bear spent about a week in our yard eating pears. It was evident that he was abandoned for some reason. He was very tiny, about the size of a racoon. We notified the Fish and Game Department, and they […]

Reader Offers Helpful Cemetery Headstone Cleaning Solution

By Donna Baker-Hartwell
Reader Offers Helpful Cemetery Headstone Cleaning Solution

After reading the coverage in the October Beacon of volunteers working to clean the headstones in our town cemeteries, I was inspired to clean some of our family stones. Many thanks to those folks for their hard work. It can be a difficult task when stones have decades/centuries of lichen growing on them. I thought […]

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