Cotton's Store-Hiram, Maine

07/31/2025

10 years ago today I bought the old Cotton’s store.

12/25/2024

Happy Birthday to my grandmother Leah (Cotton) Foley born on her family (Gould) farm in Hiram, Maine on this day December 25th 1906.

12/19/2024

09/27/2024

Beautiful day in Hiram, Maine.

12/16/2023

05/28/2023

UPDATE!!  My neighbor just pulled up and said he grabbed the sign post that night. He figured I was selling it and would catch up with me later. All good.

I had a 7’ white steel commercial sign base taken from my front porch. The base has four bolt holes. It’s wider on the bottom and tapers in on the top. It has a cut out for an electrical box. It’s super heavy. I figured it would be safe overnight. I guess not!

05/07/2023

10:30 PM Saturday. I see this car flipped over on Cumberland St. coming into Cornish. The driver is frantically waving me down. I pull up and he said “oh I thought you were my parents. They were right behind me.” He said he was going to fast and flipped over coming around the corner. Unbelievably he wasn’t hurt and his parents pulled up so I left. Just around the corner was a sheriff sitting on the side of the road waiting for speeders. I let him know there was a car flipped over in the road.

05/06/2023

There is a dam building up at the bridge on Rt. 113 in Hiram.

04/15/2023

My friend Steve Smith in Cornish just gave this 1971 Lemuel Cotton & Son calendar. I haven’t seen one of these in a long time. My grandmother had one from 1964 hanging up in her kitchen. Cool find!