This Week's Haul, Aug. 14: It's not the heat...

... it's the stupidity. Er, the humidity? Timidity?

Kids enjoying themselves on a hot summer day at Dakin Pool, another Bangor Parks & Recreation facility. Photos from the Bangor Parks & Rec archive at the Bangor Public Library.

Good morning from eastern Maine, where most of my lawn over the past few weeks has burned up into a crispy carpet of dead grass. Even the bits that only get direct sun for a few h…