Most Mainers have heard of the Samoset Resort in Rockport and many have been there for events or to enjoy the resort’s golf, indoor and outdoor pools, health club, luxurious rooms, exceptionally fine restaurant and the pampering that comes with most resort experiences. But if you haven’t been there lately, you are in for a surprise. A $4-million upgrade included room improvements and an impressive new spa, lounge and restaurant.

Tom Lyford has done the Baby Boomer generation a great service. He has put into words all those childhood thoughts, questions and wacky antics the rest of us have always been too scared, or too embarrassed, to admit.

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Photographer Ann Flewelling of Sedgwick has just released “A Moment of Water: Journey by Maine Watershed” (2012, Threehalf Press). She will launch the book in a program at the Blue Hill Public Library on April 19 at 7 p.m.