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Sebago Lake\u00a0in Maine<\/h2>\n

I loved going \u201cupta\u201d camp at\u00a0Sebago Lake\u00a0in Maine with my family as a child. We always went for the weekend of Labor Day to celebrate the Hall Family Reunion. We would get to see all of my father\u2019s family and would play, swim, boat, canoe & fish on Sebago during that time.<\/p>\n

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Celebrate Birthdays<\/h3>\n

Sometimes we\u2019d also go up in mid August to celebrate my father\u2019s, Grandpa\u2019s and Grandma\u2019s birthdays.<\/strong> The evening before the birthday celebration,\u00a0she would gather up all her present\u00a0grandchildren and give us each a coffee can, then lead us out around Murch Landing to pick wild Maine blueberries. She would laugh at us, as we all tended to eat more blueberries than we gathered to collect in the coffee cans.<\/p>\n

\"Sunset<\/a><\/p>\n

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The next morning, we would wake to the scent of pine wood smoke from Grandma\u2019s wood burning kitchen stove, along with the\u00a0enticing aroma of her homemade blueberry muffins and a blueberry pie. \u00a0The pie would be her birthday\u00a0dessert contribution for Grandpa because he always liked blueberry pie instead of a birthday cake.<\/p>\n

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The lake was there for us to swim and enjoy. We would be scolded if we stayed in the water too long, until our feet and hands turned blue and shriveled up, and our teeth chattered. \u00a0Grandma would\u00a0have us come out of the water to warm up in the sun, only allowing us to\u00a0wade along the stairway and lake\u2019s edge to pitch 100 stones from the lake. \u00a0This was always the toll for swimming (or for staying in the water for too long). The larger children of course, managed to get a little deeper and pitch the bigger stones.<\/p>\n

\"Stones<\/a>My parents, Aunts and Uncles have \u00a0continued this tradition of pitching 100 stones after my Grandparents passed away. My cousins, siblings and myself still continue the tradition too. \u00a0As a result, we have a nice sandy stretch of beach from which to enjoy Sebago.<\/div>\n
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This blog post was written by our Dune Jewelry May Blog Contest winner, Carol Hall. She won a Dune Jewelry Sandbead<\/a> which she chose to have filled with sand from Sebago Lake.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[342],"tags":[16,5,176,54,8,19,177,21,151,152,178,179,154,46,47,26,27,28,14,180],"yoast_head":"\nsand story -100 Stones to celebrate birthdays - Dune Jewelry - Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dunejewelry.com\/blog\/sand-stories-100-stones\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"sand story -100 Stones to celebrate birthdays - Dune Jewelry - Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dunejewelry.com\/blog\/sand-stories-100-stones\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Dune Jewelry - 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