As they say, I’m just a small-town girl. At least a lot of the times. I do however love living in big cities. Since I am going to live to 102 years old- I may just go back to big city living in the future – SF, NYC, Chicago, Lisbon, London, etc.

First though, more new beginnings.  On 12/20/24 I moved into a mixed-use historic mill built in 1841 in Saco, ME – in an old textile mill.

My apartment is on the top floor and filled with sunshine all day. It has 14 ft. wooden slated ceilings with old brick floor to ceiling walls on the front of it. It was placed on the US most endangered Historic Places in 2002. It is only 20 minutes to Portland. A Downeaster Amtrak train station is across from my parking lot that goes to Boston south and north to Brunswick Maine.

  Saco Mill # 4 is part of the Pepperell Mills that produced heavy denim like fabric.

Biddeford and Saco began a long legacy of cotton manufacturing in 1825 when Saco Manufacturing built the largest textile mill in the country. The first textile workers were primarily New England farm girls.  In 2009 WestPoint home, a division of Pepperell shut its doors and ended over 175 years of textile manufacturing in the Biddeford and Saco area.

As You know, I grew up in Taunton, Massachusetts.  A historic textile mill site located on Whittenton Street in Taunton MA, in the Weir,  the section of town I lived in was on the Mill River.  It was built in 1805 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.