Lakeport Community Association

     Things are buzzing here and it's not just the bees.  We are in the midst on the annual Laconia Bike Week and bikers are arriving by the thousands. 

It appears that we are to be enamored to the Anns among us.  The Lakeport Community Association  had just received many Boston & Maine items from Ann Oehschlaeger, when at our last meeting, a special guest, Anne Richardson, endowed us with two dozen clothing items mostly c. 1880 for our museum. With each item, lace bibs, infants gowns, mourning clothes, Anne narrated how they related to her mother, Alice and her aunt Grace's Richardson family from the days of running a boarding house in Tamworth to Valley Street in Lakeport where their father was working in the mills when the Great Lakeport Fire of 1903 wiped out most of the buildings on the other side of the Elm Street bridge. Dear Reader, you do remember the Richardson Barbershop on Elm Street and the Richardsons in the Barbershop Quartet, don't you?

     Does that inspire you to donate items that you know we will treasure for our museum? Hope so.

      Visit our ongoing yard sales this summer or visit us in beautiful Lakeport when you vacation  here. We'll leave the light on for you.

DD ~ June 14, 2009