BRUNSWICK, Maine — Mildred Woods Moseley, the daughter of E. Leslie Woods and Lena Nolet Woods, passed away Nov. 26, 2011. She lived for 98 years and touched people with her warmth, sincerity and determination. Mildred was born in Hoosick Falls, N.Y., and grew up in Winsted. She graduated from high school in Winsted, before attending Bay Path Institute in Springfield, Mass., for one year. She then transferred to Larson School in Hamden, now Quinnipiac College. She graduated from Larson with honors in 1934 and acquired a teaching certificate from the Gregg Publishing Company of New York City.She was secretary to the headmistress of Wykeham Rise School for Girls and, while working in Hamden, Mildred was secretary to the principal of Hamden High School for several years.Shortly after her marriage to Arthur Easton Moseley in 1940, she returned to New York state and lived in Buskirk for 47 years. She and Arthur then moved to Chester and lived next door to their daughter and son-in-law for 10 years. They then moved and spent the remainder of their lives in Brunswick, Maine, where their daughter and son-in-law also lived.She and Arthur enjoyed spending the winter season in Brooksville, Fla., for 20 years. In Florida they fostered several long-lasting friendships at Cloverleaf. They celebrated their 64th anniversary just two days before his death in 2004.Mildred had one brother, Frank L. Woods, and a sister-in-law, Dorothy Fleeger Woods. She also had a second sister-in-law, Janette Moseley, the wife of Arthur’s brother, Paul Moseley. She commented many times how fortunate she felt to have two wonderful sisters-in-law.She leaves her son, Wayne Woods Moseley, and his wife, Deborah, living in Mississippi, and a daughter, Carol Moseley Davis, and her husband, Bob Davis, in Harpswell, Maine. She has five grandchildren and three step-grandchildren, as well as six great-grandchildren and six step-great-grandchildren. She has nieces and nephews from both sides of the family living in Seattle, Wash., and West Hoosick, N.Y.If a donation in honor of Mildred is desired, her soft spot was The Tedford Shelter at 49 Cumberland St., Brunswick, ME 04011. A memorial service will be held at the West Hoosick Baptist Church in West Hoosick, N.Y., in warmer weather when family can reunite.
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Greg Fricke and James Boehmer, co-owners of Peggy Mercury in Kent, recently launched their first fashion line, “Imaginary Concerts.”
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Fricke and Boehmer are not there to stock their shelves with the same products customers find at standard makeup retailers. They’re there to help customers find what works for them. That usually means asking customers about themselves and learning about their beauty habits, skin, style and the way they like to present themselves. Fricke and Boehmer believe it’s their job to help customers bring out the qualities that suit them and determine what works best for their look.
So much of the Peggy Mercury world is about emboldening people to become more creative, and possibly bolder, versions of themselves. Some of this comes through the store’s creative collaborations with artists, designers and stylists.
It’s part of an ethos that encourages them and their friends to use the shop as a kind of laboratory, trying out new creative experiments without knowing how they might turn out. Whether in fashion, painting, fiber arts or photography, the projects almost always turn out marvelously.
A line of sterling silver charms they sell started as a small project by their friend Nolan Percival. In the beginning, the pieces were for close friends and loved ones. But Boehmer and Fricke encouraged Percival to get a little more serious about the project and create a whole line for the store. Today, it’s one of their top-selling collections.
Classic styles, bold colors, and creative concerts make up the “Imaginary Concerts” line at Peggy Mercury.Provided
“Imaginary Concerts” has the duo taking their own advice.
The project started as a way for Boehmer to connect with his mother, who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Taking old concert shirts from his own collection, Boehmer and his mother began cutting out the graphics with the idea that they would make a quilt together. Unfortunately, she died before they could complete the project in 2025. The pieces, which were ready for production, were put on the back burner as Boehmer and Fricke dealt with their loss and the whirlwind of projects that never seemed to cease at Peggy Mercury.
But the harsh winter of 2026 presented an opportunity to take some time and focus on themselves. Part of that meant revisiting and redefining the concert T-shirt project. This time, instead of looking to the warmth and comfort of a quilt, they turned to another passion — fashion.
Taking a page from their own book, they wanted to create something that felt comfortable to them. They took two disparate loves — one rooted in simple preppy style, with clean lines and classic silhouettes, and the other in the nitty gritty worlds of punk rock and pop — and blended them together to create something entirely new. Pulling from the staples of vintage Brooks Brothers and Charvet collections, they applied the graphic elements with bold stitching reminiscent of punk jackets of the ‘70s and ‘80s, but with a much more sophisticated air.
But the remixing isn’t just the pairing of prep and punk. The pieces are not canon. They take liberties with the realities of concert tours, combining one band’s dates with another band’s logos, mixing them all up until the reality is lost and imagination is the only truth.
Shirts from Peggy Mercury’s first fashion line, “Imaginary Concerts,” hang on display.Provided
Adding to the mix is an element of perpetual creativity. Art can be messy, both figuratively and literally, and many of Fricke and Boehmer’s artist friends carry evidence of their work on them at all times. As a nod to these tireless creatives, the duo added haphazard splashes of bright color, giving the line an even more distinctive feel.
For them, “Imaginary Concerts” passes the “Peggy Test.” The mythical Peggy Mercury is a fictional figurehead for the company, a character who thrives on creativity and change. The name, much like the clothing line, is a mixture of interests: Mercury is a planet, a deity and an elusive, transformative element, while Peggy is the wonderfully stylish and boundary-pushing Peggy Guggenheim.
Everything Fricke and Boehmer put in their store has to pass this test: Would Peggy Mercury approve? For their first collection, the answer is a resounding yes.
Peggy Mercury is at 9 Maple St., Unit 2, Kent.
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