Scott Libby is a flower unforgotten.
Construction fencing was recently removed from Portland’s Back Cove Trail as a five-year long, $59 million construction/renovation project ends. While the needed sewer transformation created an improved public park, one important loss in the modernization was a garden planted on the Back Cove trail in 2008 by Raymond-born landscaper Scott Libby.
Libby was killed with a cast iron frying pan and left to die on the railroad tracks in Bethel in 2009. Despite a preponderance of evidence against the accused killer, the charges did not stick.
Today at sunrise, I ran the Back Cove Trail past where Scott’s garden once proudly bloomed. I could not shake the feeling that he was there, at the edge of the new sod, planting more flowers between the weeping pines.
Gary Wagner
Portland
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