Elizabeth Tarr:  

Formerly known as "Beth" Osgood, I attended Connecticut College (small liberal arts school) where I studied Botany, Ecology, and Art. After college graduation, I worked for the summer on campus doing botanical genetic research on a group grant with Yale University. When that ended, I found a job at Resource Analysts, Inc. in South Hampton, NH. In June of 1991, I married my high school sweetheart, Scott Tarr. We had a happy but brief time living in Eliot while Scott finished his Masters in Civil Engineering at UNH. I was hard at work in the lab, and then Scott got an offer too good to refuse and we moved to northern Illinois so he could get started in his career at Construction Technologies Laboratories Group (part of the Portland Cement Association) in Skokie, IL. "A few years" to get him established as an engineer turned into 12 years in IL, where we started our family with a wonderful son named Andrew, born in 1994, and a darling daughter named Kaitlin in 1997. Very happy parents! We had our ups and downs and faced life's challenges, but overall life was good. We found a wonderfully supportive and loving church family at Ingleside United Methodist. Eventually, we were able to move back to Maine, arriving in Eliot on August 15, 2003. Andrew started third grade and Kaitlin first grade that fall at Eliot Elementary School, where I had spent K-6, and Scott started in 6th grade way back when. It was a great joy to be back "home" near family, with our kids spending time with their extended family, grandparents, and my paternal grandmother. We moved into the home my grandparents had built and where my Mom and her siblings had grown up. What a blessing! Life has changed much since our return, and Scott and I are no longer together. We each have our own lives and spend as much time as possible with our children, now 16 and 14 years old. Kaitlin will be starting high school at MHS, and is looking forward to field hockey, and Andrew is a junior there, working toward becoming an Eagle Scout. Despite several major curveballs thrown into our lives, we are doing well and yes, LIFE IS GOOD. I always wanted to be a Mom when I grew up. My family and friends thought that was a fine idea. As it turns out, they were absolutely right. Swimming in Highland L...Expand for more