Many years ago when we often used to drive between Orono and Bethel, we would always comment that Wayne was the prettiest town along the way. Little did we know that we would end up living here. Now celebrating our 30th year in Wayne, we love it here and are fortunate to have found such a wonderful place to raise our children and make and sell pottery.

It's quiet here, not much to do, but we do have the Wayne General Store, Tubby's, for wonderful handmade ice cream, and Gingerbread Farm, where it's fun to walk in the beautiful display gardens and buy unusual and hardy perennials.

Our pottery shop and studio is in our big old barn, attached to the red brick house built by the Swift family in 1812, on Main Street in the Wayne village. In the winter we enjoy the snow and frozen lakes, and in the summer the population swells from around 1000 to over 3000 people as the beloved "summer people" return as we all enjoy the friendly people, and the lovely lakes, fields, and forests of Wayne's natural world.

Named the "prettiest friendly town" in Northern New England in a recent Boston Globe article, Wayne is a wonderful place for us to live and work.