By Wayne Smith

The Ark Pope Memorial Animal Shelter was recently built in Cherryfield, and this is the story behind it told to me by Dani Baer. 

According to Bauer, Executive Director of The Ark, the shelter started in 1984 over in Harrington. It had one small building with a couple of dogs and a few cats. Then in the 90s, it moved over to Cherryfield — first in an old farmhouse, then into a former schoolhouse where they stayed for 20 years.