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M AY 2016 83 House of tHe MontH Colin W. Sargent CourteSyBerkShirehathaWayhomeServiCeSN.ePrimeProPertieS Beach Babythis victorian wraparound cottage is the heart and soul of the kennebunk Beach summer community. S ome houses have eyes. The best of these retain the imprint of what theyve seen. Everyone on Kennebunk Beach re- members the night Mrs. Libbys farmhouse burned down on Strawberry Island says David Smith. My parents watched from right here in this house. It was a scene in a horror movie flames flying up to the stars. Red sparks scattered everywhere in the wind. The house was a torch lighting up the whole cove. It was high tide so water cov- ered the causeway. No one could do a thing. For many Wonder Bread kids in the ear- ly 1970s it was their childhood going up in smoke too. Where once a two-storey house reigned in wrack and ruina windswept Andrew Wyeth backdroptoday warm wa- ter ebbs over seaweed and stone. This year David Smith is 73. His fam- ily has summered here for three genera- tions. His father Gordon Smith was the founder of the Kennebunk Beach Im- provement Association. With its wrap- around porch and eyes across time this summer cottage is Ground Zero for the tiny beach community that once includ- ed novelist Kenneth Roberts in its ranks. He kept a place here until the success of his novel Arundel allowed him to build Rocky Pasture in Kennebunkport. Square and sweet with russet beadboard inside 274 Beach Avenue has welcomed more than 115 summers. The photos show