It was a fluke, really. My husband and I were taking a walk on Lookout Point Road. I saw a sign that said, “Seams by the Sea.” I thought it a clever sign and made a mental note. When I got a pair of pants a few weeks later that were too long, I returned to pay a visit. Indeed, I had come to the right place. I met Penelope Kenney.
Penny Kenney is a seamstress. Her mother was a seamstress who made drapes for Senter’s Department Store in Brunswick. Her father worked in the Physics Department at Bowdoin College for 40 years before he retired. She grew up in Maine and often played in her grandfather’s apple orchard on Pleasant Street, where McDonald’s sits now…