20 Years and Growing
The story of a cottage garden in Cushing has taken two decades to tell.
By Virginia Wright
Helen Wisdom's love affair with Maine began more than two decades ago, when she and some friends fled steamy New Orleans for a week at Mosquito Head near Port Clyde. Wooed and won, Wisdom immediately began looking for her own piece of the Maine coast. She ended up one peninsula west, at the tip of Pleasant Point in Cushing, where she found a site wrapped in the glinting watery hug of Davis Cove. But there was the rub: The glorious setting seemed to magnify the colorlessness of the suburban-style lawn and boxy house.
