To the Editor:

Kennebunk, Cundy’s Harbor and other places are not alone with trying to deal with a different selfish class of people, unwilling to share a beach.

My husband is a lifelong resident of Bailey Island; our six children and I moved here in 1967 into the oldest house on the island, a family home. He introduced us to Cedar Beach which he remembers going to since the ’40s. We enjoyed the beach immensely in summers and walked the surrounding entire area in offseasons, leaving notes on summer cottage doors along with the Boy Scouts that their property was in good condition.

Then in moved a new class of people with the attitude that Cedar Beach was exclusively “Theirs! Theirs! No one else is allowed near!” What a loss for our family personally and all the families of Harpswell to be denied the pleasure of such a God-given gift.

We elected our present Board of Selectmen with the impression they had the citizens of Harpswell’s interests at heart and would support the above. So far they have felt disinclined to become involved.

We urge them to come forward and fulfill their slectmen duty.

Robert F. Leeman
Elizabeth L. Leeman
Bailey Island