A 74-year-old Ocala man who took summer vacations to a lake in Maine with his family for over four decades drowned last week after attempting to swim into the lake to retrieve a boat that had drifted away.
Richard Eason passed away on May 30, while visiting Damariscotta Lake in Nobleboro, Maine.
According to a statement from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, Eason launched his boat from the Vannah Road Boat launch on the southeast end of the lake at around 1:45 p.m…