This site, and this organization, are both a work in progress.
Our Mission Statement is simple, and is clear.
We are a group of concerned citizens whose goal is to maintain the long established history of public access and use of Goose Rocks Beach for recreation and enjoyment.
Here is a link to the suit against the Town, and against the things the Mission Statement supports:
http://www.preservegooserocksbeach.org/uploads/Complaint.PDF
Our goals are to connect the community, not divide. Our goals are to preserve, not tear apart. We will invite comments, contributions, pictures, anecdotes, and even the occasional dissenting voice, but only when those things are done in the same spirit.
Our tent will be a large, inclusive tent, but we will ask for respect and common courtesy for those that have differing opinions. Flamethrowers, please go elsewhere. Goose Rocks Beach has its own kind of voice, where the power and beauty of the ocean make no distinction between race, class, religious beliefs, or other differentiators, and to that end, we ask that you share our fight to keep that voice available to us all.
Please add your comments below–comments are reviewed for our audience, but keep it civil and be patient, we’ll get you in!
Hope we can all work to fight this thing!
There is no reason to change how the beach is set up now.
I am so disheartened by this case. How can people be so selfish and take soemthing so beautiful away from others? I pray that they will find it in their hearts to stop this and fight for something worth fighting for. I am happy to help out in any way and will support the efforts to save our beloved GRB!
It is shameful that this has come to this.
I used to think the last thing I wanted in the world was an article on the front page of the Boston Globe about Goose Rocks Beach – that was before I heard about this lawsuit.
Why don’t our neighbors just talk to us about how to best protect our beach? it’s an issue that we really like talking about and there are definitely ways that we can as a community that doesn’t include the courts or the media.
You haven’t paid taxes on this land and you shouldn’t, there are ways to ensure you don’t have to pay taxes and protect the beach.
Goose Rocks Beach Maine, the way life should be.
Save our childhood beach mom!!
Keep up the good work!
xoxo
Hi There-
A few comments about this site, if I may. Before I do that, I want to thank you for all the hard work you’re putting in on this issue and I am 1000% behind the cause.
My Grandfather, Charles L. Cronin purchased a property that was re-built right after the fire of 1947. In fact, the house he bought was built around the chimney and fireplace that was left standing after the fire burned down the house.
He didn’t live to see it, but his children, grandchildren and now those who would be his great-grandchildren have enjoyed that beach for more than 60 years. We’ve walked up the same old path without objection through a private lot for all those years to access the beach.
I have moved around a lot in my life, but the one constant has been Kennebunkport and Goose Rocks Beach. I love that beach and consider myself a custodian of it, because I treasure it so much.
I’ll be “you know what” if I let a group of selfish people take this away from all of us without standing up and giving it all I can.
So, I’m in.