UNION – Every Tuesday morning at the Come Spring Café, 1422 Heald Highway (Route 17) in Union, the Knox County Liars Club will meet for breakfast.

Fred Peabody is the club's senior member and he said he had no idea how long the club has existed.

"I've been a member since 1989,” he said. "I don't know how long it's been on before that."

Peabody said he had been laid up from surgery and Ed Barker, who used to run Barker's Garage there in Union, invited him to join and he's been here ever since.

Peabody said the point is not to tell outright lies, but to artfully stretch the truth a little bit.

No one is sure how many members there actually are in the club. It depends on who shows up for the Tuesday meeting that week.

"Two of the guys that are gone now," said Peabody, "had some awful good fishing stories. That was some of the best lies I heard, I guess."

Edger Moody and Alford (Doc) Tolman took an unusual trek to travel all the numbered highways in Maine and another to visit all of Maine's 48 state parks.

Moody said it took about three months to take in all the state parks and they spent six years traversing all the numbered highways.

"We were in Fort Kent last Monday," he said. "And we took in the last one out of Freeport, Eagle Island. They're not all on the mainland."

Moody said Route 11 is about the longest highway and took up most of their attention.

"We were interested in the windmill installations," he said. "We were in Eustis and ended up about eight miles off the beaten path for the windmill and Doc spoke up that he would like to do the numbered highways."

Moody said they were already out there so they might as well keep going.

"I put about 150,000 miles on this vehicle I have now and 30,000 on another vehicle," he said.

Tolman said it was a good time and Moody was a good traveling companion.

"We ate a lot of pie," said Tolman.

David Heckman put a little different slant of the club’s stories.

"One of the wives showed up at a meeting and wanted to know what we talked about," he said. "I just told her we sat around telling everybody how great our wives were."

If you have a yarn or tall tale to tell, stop by the Come Spring Café in Union around 7 a.m. any Tuesday morning. There's no fee to join, just a desire for some lively conversation and a chance to make some good friends.