There’s a new women’s movement in Harpswell that is raising a new kind of consciousness. If the 1970s movement was about breaking boundaries, Harpswell’s 2020s version is about binding the community together. GALA — Girls, Active, Laughing, Altogether — is Harpswell Aging at Home’s newest program. It’s gathering a growing number of enthusiastic followers to events that stimulate the mind, build camaraderie and make neighborly connections.
The mission of the first gathering, at the Town Office in November, was to solicit ideas, “just to see if it would be viable — something Harpswell could support,” said GALA organizer Christine Roy. “The 35 or so women who attended offered enough ideas for two years — preventing loneliness, reading, knitting, speakers, walks, lunches, to name a few.”
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