All Info Pertaining to The Highlands

All Info Pertaining to The Highlands
Jean and I moved to The Highlands in the Fall of 2007 from our home on Cousins Island in Yarmouth where we had lived for 30 wonderful years. I often think that I'd like to share a thought or an experience about our life here at The Highlands with other folks . . . and by this "blog" I am going to do so. One other thought. The Highlands is not in any way responsible for this website. This is wholly the personal responsibility of Stan Sylvester. Jean Sylvester has her own site at http://www.catcarewithlove.blogspot.com/ mostly devoted to her writings, her poetry and her experience as a professional cat care person in Yarmouth. SPECIAL NOTE TO VISITORS: In addition to scrolling down to view contents of my blog, when you reach the bottom you can click on "older posts" to review all the topics I've posted.

Saturday, August 13, 2011

A Visit to Pineland Farms by Highlands Residents

On August 4, 2011 a group of Highlands residents visited Pineland Farms in the New Gloucester/Pownal area. This is the site of the former Maine School for the Feeble Minded until 40 or 50 years ago when the state moved patients to smaller, scattered settings around the state. The buildings were vacant and deteriorating until Betty Noyce and her Libra Foundation bought the whole campus and has since  redeveloped it into model farms, a business and conference center and a sports venue. It is extremely well done and we enjoyed the visit pictured below.


The Welcome Center is the start for visitors and a place for lunch.



An escorted tour of the Pineland properties, with a well-informed guide, 
is available for $6.

I can see Barbara Thompson, Lois & Bud Simpson, Betty Gibson,
Isabel & Spike Selinger, John Tyler, Marilyn & Don Crandlemire
and Jean Sylvester aboard the tour van.



Jo Atlass couldn't wait to pat one of the cows.



The tour guide is explaining the milking and milk processing procedure. Some of the visitors pictured are Mercie Dunfee, Jeanne Whitten, Louise Cook, Peg Fischer and Peg Fearon.


The cheese making process is being described.


Cheese making has been so successful that it is now a profit making enterprise with cheeses being distributed in many parts of the United States.


This is a panorama of the whole Pineland Farms campus. There are trails which are maintained for hiking and cycling in the summer and groomed for skiing in the winter.