Ethel Hurst is seen riding on the back of a convertible on July 15, 2017, as grand marshal of Lovell, Maine's Old Home Days Parade. (MARGARET McKENZIE PHOTO)
Ethel Hurst is seen riding on the back of a convertible on July 15, 2017, as grand marshal of Lovell, Maine's Old Home Days Parade. (MARGARET McKENZIE PHOTO)
CONWAY — When I first started at the paper in 2015, Lovell town columnist Ethel Hurst and I did not get off on the right foot. She wasn't happy with the way her column was being edited, and she made no bones about it.
If you knew Ethel — and most everyone in Lovell, Maine, did, since she chronicled their doings in her weekly column from 2000 to 2018, when she reluctantly “retired” well into her 80s — you know her voice was quite memorable. High-pitched and frequently quavering with ire over something or other. In this case, it was her column being corrected, unnecessarily.
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