Barbara Betts sells smoked alewives at Mulligan’s Smokehouse during the fourth annual Alewife Festival in Nobleboro and Newcastle on Saturday.

A law dating to the 1800s entitles widows in the towns to two bushels of free alewives during the spring harvesting season.

 


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