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Maine’s History Magazine

Bangor Journalist

Maggie Hamm

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4 The Tithing Man And Other Curious Customs Of Days Gone ByMunicipal positions included fence viewer and hog reeveCharles Francis

7 The Genealogy CornerTracking family connections in BangorCharles Francis

9 The Wonderful Worlds Of Tim CaverlyMaine author’s books teach students about the AllagashCharles Francis

13 Patten Soldier Survived Ship’s SinkingIra Gardner’s perilous tour of dutyIan MacKinnon

18 The Magical World Of Elenore PlaistedLincoln’s famous author/illustratorCharles Francis

23 Edward Hatch’s Buffalo SoldiersBangor man commanded famous cavalry regimentCharles Francis

27 A River Bank’s History LessonBrewer home to sunken vessels from the Penobscot Expedition of 1779Charles Francis

30 Nancy GrossMontville’s battlefield nurseCharles Francis

33 The Lamoine Naval Coaling StationMarlboro Beach once served as a vital asset for the NavyCharles Francis

35 When Buick Was The Choice Of Northern Maine FarmersLuxurious and tough – just right for “The County”Charles Francis

38 Electrotherapy Cure-allsOld Town firm employed up to 60Charles Francis

41 Jack McAuliffeHaymarket Square’s Irish boxer was “quick as greased lightning”Charles Francis

44 Bangor Journalist Maggie HammA lady well ahead of the timesCharles Francis

47 The Bangor Band: Continuing The LegacyEntertaining the public since 1859 and still going strongJames Nalley

49 The Historian John Francis SpragueA life dedicated to Maine’s historyMatthew Jude Barker

51 Maine WeatherThe forecast, simplifiedJohn McDonald

53 Old Hunter EllisExperienced hunter and trapper told many tall tales at KineoSteve Pinkham

57 Lombards In The Piscataquis WoodsWalter Arnold’s memories of his 13th winterIan MacKinnon

60 Just Dropping In, LadiesFormer Maine Game Warden’s first on-duty plane rideJohn Ford Sr.

62 Saturday Night Baths And Other Timely AblutionsBathing was once a luxury for only the well-to-doCharles Francis

65 “Save The Depot” Works To Preserve A Greenville LandmarkGroup’s efforts to keep unused railroad stationIan MacKinnon

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Yesterday my old friend Bob, who lives up here on the ridge,practically ran from his house to mine. He arrived rosy-cheeked and out of breath. “Spring is here!” he roared.

I looked down at his boots and said, “Sureis.” He was standing in front of my base-ment door, and his feet had all but disap-peared. I could barely make out the top ofhis boots because the rest of them weremired in the mud.

Everyone knows the old saying aboutMaine weather: “If you don’t like it, wait five minutes.” Thesame can pretty much be said about the seasons. Two weeks agoBob bought a sled for his grandson, and they slid down the hill for fivedays straight. Now, with Bob standing in my driveway up to his calves in mud,the outdoor thermometer was reading 83 degrees in the sun.

We decided to take Bob’s grandson to the playground to celebrate this sud-den arrival of Spring. There were several other moms and grandparents therewith their children, plus a couple of dogs. Because we live in Maine, we dressin layers, and there was a wide assortment of layers piled on the merry-go-round from where everyone had stripped down in the heat. Most of thewomen were in tank tops by now, a fact which did not go unnoticed by Bob.

Aiden (Bob’s grandson — a cheerful, intelligent, inquisitive two-year-old)was running as fast as his little legs would allow from one place to another. Hetried out the slides (with the help of Bob’s niece, who had come with us for thispurpose — Bob and I had discussed the possibility of going down the slidesand decided that the probability of them being too narrow for either of uswas quite high), flew through the air on the swing, and did some excavatingwith a contraption I’ve never seen before. It’s like a miniature backhoe with

handles that the kids use to operate the shovel. I asked Bob if he hadever seen anything like this, and he hadn’t. Aiden seemed quite fa-

miliar with it, which I guess is due to the fact that he has little ex-cavating toys and he knows how to work them.

Aiden was most excited by a group of eight- or nine-yearolds who were playing basketball. He wanted to join the gameso badly, but he doesn’t understand that he’s two and veryshort compared to the other boys. We let him watch for awhileand promised we’d get him his own ball for next time.

Eventually the boys (and their ball) went home, and we werethe only ones left on the playground. It was really hot by now —

Bob said “Where did July come from, anyway?” — and we’dstripped as many layers as we could in public. Aiden had discovered a

huge puddle at the edge of the playground, where the tar meets the dirt. Sinceit was winter just ten days ago, there were several mounds of dirty snow — left-overs from the plows whose engines were likely still cooling in a garage some-where. It took him about half a second to jump squarely into that puddle,sneakers and all. Since he was already wet, we let him jump around, squealingwith delight. It was a perfect puddle — very wide (much like a small pond), andshallow. Before long Aiden was soaking wet and muddy, and beaming like hedid on Christmas morning when he opened up his Mater dump truck.

At this point we decided to strip him down to his diaper. Ecstatic, he beganrunning in the water. One of the dogs decided to make a game of it, and theyraced back and forth across that huge puddle. I asked Bob what his daughter(Aiden’s mom) would think about the situation, and we decided to swear our-selves to secrecy regarding the near-naked toddler splashing around in a muddypuddle surrounded by dirty snow banks.

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Lucky was the boy of yore whohad none to look after him onthe day set aside for the Lord.

On the Lord’s Day this lad might befound paddling his boat under asunny bank, his feet bare and pantsrolled up above his knees, ready toleap into the water at a moment’s no-tice. When James Whitcomb Rileyprofessed these sentiments or some-thing close to them in the late 1800s,he was referring to a time some fiftyor more years in the past.

On a Sunday of the early 1800sour conformist ancestors all attendedSunday church services. Women andgirls found attending the servicesmore to their taste than men andboys. At least that is the supposition.It is generally presumed that thefairer sex likes “dressing up” morethan males. On the Sabbath men andboys were under a certain subjectionto polish their shoes and brush theirgo-to-meeting clothes. Once prop-erly attired, all marched off to sit,straight-backed in pews.

Sleeping in church was one of themost common of the many viola-

tions of the Sabbath some 200 andmore years ago, and ministers em-ployed many devices to see thatmembers of the congregation re-mained awake during their sermons.

Judge Freeman Dearth once tolda story of a minister, who upon see-ing one of his congregation sleep-ing, suddenly shouted at the top ofhis voice, “Fire! Fire! Fire!” Thesleeping man, instinctively jumpingto his feet, asked “Where?” Theminister replied, “In Hell, for sleep-ing sinners.”

Freeman Dearth was born in andgrew up in Sangerville. He practicedlaw in Dexter and held numerouspositions of importance in thatcommunity, as well as at the countyand state levels. His grandfatherLeonard Dearth was one of theearly settlers of Sangerville. JudgeDearth was named for his father,Freeman Daniel Dearth, a prosper-ous Sangerville farmer.

In 1914 Sangerville celebrated itscentenary. John Francis Spraguegave the historical address to markthe event. In it he described how the

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town once elected a tithing man at annualtown meeting. Sprague said the tithing man —it is also spelled tything — was charged with“keeping the Sabbath Day holy.”

According to John Francis Sprague, theSangerville tithing man “compelled” residentsto attend church. During the service, thetithing man stood at the back carefully watch-ing to see that all of the congregation were at-tentive. He was equipped with a “fox tail wand[to keep members of the congregation] awakeduring the sermon.” Sprague commented thatthe office of tithing man “has during the lasthalf century become entirely obsolete inMaine.”

The position of tithing man in Mainestemmed from early laws enacted by the Mas-sachusetts General Court, when Maine waspart of Massachusetts. Its origins stretch backto early Anglo-Saxon England. In the reign ofAlfred the Great people banded together in a“tything” of which each group consisted often families. These groups would meet regu-larly to discuss common concerns and mutualprotection. More importantly, the groupsserved as a guarantee that criminals would bebrought forth and delivered for disposition.The “tything” set in place neighborhood pa-trols in order to keep an eye on property to

protect against theft or damage. The head ofthis neighborhood group was referred to as a“tythingman.”

There are a number of other municipal po-sitions dating to the period of the early 1800sand later when Maine became a state that wewould view as odd today. The position of hogreeve is one such. Then there are odd posi-tions from the 1800s that still have statutoryapplicability today. That of fence viewer isone.

A hog reeve rounded up stray hogs. “Reeve”derives from the same root as the “riff ” insheriff. People raising pigs for food usuallymarked them, then turned them loose in theearly spring, not driving them home until itwas time to fatten them up in the fall. Eachyear, hog reeves were elected at town meetingto capture and impound any pigs found tres-passing on someone’s crop land. The hogreeve turned the offending animal over to thepound keeper, who fed them until they wereclaimed by the owner, who paid a set fee. Itwas often the custom to elect newly marriedmen as one of the hog reeves at the next townmeeting. The young man or men would serveuntil there was a qualified successor. The im-plication is the position was not popular, butnecessary. Hogs are dirty stubborn creatures

and they are dangerous to deal with. When agriculture was the chief support of

most families it was extremely important thatboundaries and fences be maintained. Farmersclearing their lands were usually confrontedwith boulders and rocks. They used the stoneto build walls along the edges of their fields,frequently at the property boundary. Thefence viewer was needed on those occasionswhen walls were eroded, moved, or modifiedillegally. Changing a boundary line was serious.

The fence viewer was elected at town meet-ing to administer fence laws, to inspect newfences and settle disputes arising from trespassby livestock. Boundaries and fences had to bemaintained. If a farmer neglected his fence,his neighbor could do the repairs and chargehis nonperforming neighbor. An early Mainelaw put the cost at double to the neighbor.Twelve percent interest was added to this.

Maine still has a law relating to fence view-ers on the books. As of 1991 it read: If anyparty neglects or refuses to repair or rebuild any suchfence that that party is legally required to maintain,the aggrieved party may complain to two or more fenceviewers of the town where the land is situated who,after due notice to the delinquent party, shall proceed tosurvey it and, if they determine that it is insufficient,

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Today we think of the State taking respon-sibility for laws regulating conduct and publicwelfare. This wasn’t the way it was back in theearly 1800s. For example, towns were respon-sible for licensing sellers of alcohol. JohnFrancis Sprague tells us that in 1822 the firstmeeting of the Sangerville licensing boardtook place in the home of Isaac Macomber.Macomber was a board member. He also wasgiven the first license to sell alcohol in town.

Towns were also responsible for the care ofthe indigent. The term used back then waspauper. Care of the destitute was the respon-sibility of the community. In Sangerville, carewas provided in the home. The town paid forit. Residents bid on particular individuals attown meeting. Sprague tells us that in 1823Sangerville determined that one Mrs. D. wasproved as being unable to care for her threechildren. Each child was auctioned to a differ-ent home at town meeting.

Some may think the practices of the past as

more than odd, as excessively demeaning orsevere. They were done to maintain commu-nity stability. Today we are more often to findtheir like at the state and federal level. Just con-sider the Arizona immigration law or the fact

that passports are now required to visit ourneighbor to the north, Canada. Who couldhave imagined either legal happenstance just afew short years ago?

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Back in 1817 a young Scots couple named Hugh and Mary McK-innon left their native Highlands for the New World. Theyended up in Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. The stream

where they built their home came to be called McKinnon’s Brook.Their children spread out from the original homestead to settle NovaScotia communities like Inverness and Pictou. John McKinnon settledin Antigonish where he married Catherine Lisholm. In 1860 they hada daughter who they named Mary after her grandmother. In 1884 thatMary married Patrick Gillin in Woodstock, New Brunswick. The McK-innons then lost track of Mary. There was a tradition that she andPatrick settled in Bangor, but no one knew for sure.

How do you check out family traditions such as these? How wouldone go about discovering if Patrick and Mary (McKinnon) Gillin didindeed make their home in Bangor?

There are actually a variety of ways to trace family members whowere born or died or who once lived in Bangor. A good place to beginis the Family History Center on Grandview Street. Before you go here,however, you might want to check out the family search website on theInternet. The information on it comes from the same organization thatoperates the Family History Center in Bangor and other centers acrossthe country, the Church of the Latter Day Saints. The Internet addressof the latter is www.familysearch.org. You can find the phone numberof the Family History Center in the telephone book. A call will provide

you with the hours the center is open.The Family History Center is a good place to begin researching fam-

ily history as it is quite broad-based. There are other immediate re-sources in Bangor, however. One of them is the City of Bangor itself.

Many just starting to look into their family history overlook someof the most obvious local resources, like the offices where municipalrecords are kept.

Town and city clerks are used to fielding queries of a genealogical na-ture. They can usually point out the books which are the most likelyrepositories of birth, death and marriage records of a particular indi-vidual without much difficulty if they have a general date and propername spelling to work from. The office of the Bangor City Clerk willactually look up information for a small fee. It has records dating backto the early part of the nineteenth century. Of course, there is a fee forvarious document copies.

As a general statement, local records in any Maine town or city thatdate from prior to 1900 are accessible to the general public. Recordsafter 1900 are sometimes only available to immediate family membersor others with a legal right to know.

The Bangor Public Library is another source of genealogical data. Ithas such resources as city directories and the Vital Records of Bangor.It also has obituary indexes for the Bangor Daily News and earlier

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Bangor Commercial. The index goes by surname.The office of the Penobscot County Clerk

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Beyond the immediate confines of the Cityof Bangor itself there are the State of Maineoffices that serve as repositories of vitalrecords. These are the Maine State Archivesand the Maine State Office of Vital Statistics.Both are in Augusta.

The Maine State Archives has birth, deathand marriage records for every town in Mainefrom 1892 to 1922. The Office of Vital Sta-tistics has records from 1923 to the present.The Office of Vital Statistics also has divorcerecords. Both offices charge fees for variousservices.

As for Patrick and Mary (McKinnon) Gillin,they indeed settled in Bangor. Patrick Gillinhad been born in Houlton, which is just overthe border from Woodstock, New Brunswick.City of Bangor Directories show that PatrickGillin practiced law in Bangor.

Patrick and Mary Gillin had several children.One of them followed in his father’s footsteps

as an attorney. This was James. City Directo-ries even give the address of James Gillin’s lawoffice. It was at 15 Columbia Street. He servedon the Bangor City Council and was a mem-ber of Governor Baxter’s staff. He also servedin the Army during World War I.

James Gillin married Hazel Delano in 1917. Shewas from Bangor. The couple had three children.

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Quite clearly Tim Caverly has somethingthat appeals to young readers, whatever theirgender. Caverly understands that for a bookto be a “good read” for a young person, it hasto have good narrative. Throw in a dollop ofthe supernatural and an appreciation for localcolor and you have an unbeatable combina-tion. That’s why almost every language artsteacher will have copies of Stephen King orR. L. Stine books available for their students.Visit a classroom where there are copies ofthese two writers’ books and you will see well-used, dog-eared paperbacks. Young readerslike clear, fast-paced narratives involving thesupernatural.

An Allagash Haunting, The Story of EmileCamille is more than a tale of the supernatural.It is a tale of the Allagash Wilderness Water-way, something Tim Caverly knows a gooddeal about. Caverly was Ranger Supervisor ofthe Allagash Wilderness Waterway for eight-een years. He also knows something abouthow a young girl would view the Waterway in

particular and the wilderness in general. Heraised his own daughter, Jacquelyn, on the Al-lagash until she was sixteen. She’s now a par-ent in her own right, with a daughter Olivia.And with those facts we have another com-ponent for the story of Emile Camille. Thestory is set up with a future canoe trip downthe Allagash Wilderness Waterway by Jacque-lyn, her husband Kevin, and their daughterOlivia.

Caverly’s long tenure on the Allagash has agood deal to do with his making the regioncome alive in his books — there is more thanone — about the Waterway. He had plenty ofopportunity to pick up stories of strange hap-penings and tales during his eighteen years.Caverly was also friends with one of the greatAllagash story-tellers, Dorothy Boone Kidney.Caverly says “Dot and her husband [Milford]worked for me for several years while theylived at Locke Dam. I always enjoyed her writ-ing and having coffee at their kitchen table.”And if this isn’t enough, consider Caverly’sown background while growing up.

Tim Caverly grew up shadowing his fatherwho was a fire warden with the Maine ForestService, and supervisor — along with his wife— of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway. Hisbrother was a ranger in Baxter State Park. An

uncle had served as Director of Baxter StatePark. With these experiences it was natural forthe Skowhegan-born future ranger to seek acareer in the outdoors.

Caverly earned a Bachelor of Science De-gree from the University of Maine at Machias.While in college, he began working as a sea-sonal ranger at Sebago Lake State Park for theState Parks and Recreation Commission.

After college and working at Sebago,Caverly continued his employment with theDepartment of Conservation with assign-ments as a manager of Aroostook State Parkand Cobscook Bay State Park. He also servedas a regional supervisor of the Allagash Re-gion, which included the Allagash WildernessWaterway and the Penobscot River Corridor.

Caverly retired in 1999, moving toMillinocket. All told, he had a 32-year career inthe Maine outdoors. Following retirement,Tim became director of Maine Public Em-ployees for Environmental Responsibility(PEER).

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Throughout the spring and summer of1861, Ira Gardner of Patten could notimagine the adventures awaiting him as

he chafed at his parents’ refusal to let him en-list in the Army.

Besides participating in battles fought fromLouisiana to Virginia, he would almost “godown with the ship” somewhere on the Mis-sissippi River and suffer a terrible wound dur-ing a battle in Virginia.

Gardner’s military experience began closeto home, “about 1858” when “we organizedat Patten village an Independent Rifle Com-pany,” he later wrote in his Recollections. Gard-ner joined the militia company, and by April1861 “had been orderly sergeant for severalmonths.” According to Gardner, Patten’swould-be soldiers drilled weekly and “studiedinfantry tactics considerably.”

After Confederate troops attacked FortSumter that month, President Abraham Lin-coln asked the loyal states to send 75,000 mento defend the country. The patriotic Pattenmilitiamen responded enthusiastically, but be-

cause Patten lay 100 miles north of Bangorand “at that time it took two days to reach usby letter, we found in a few days” that Lin-coln’s quota “had been filled before we couldreach the rendezvous at Bangor,” Gardnerwrote.

A similar call-up in July saw “a large part ofour militia company” join the Army as Com-pany B, 8th Maine Infantry Regiment,” a dis-appointed Gardner recalled. “Being an onlyson I was not allowed to go with them.”

Then 18, Gardner evidently badgered hisparents to let him enlist. They endured his in-cessant pleading until “my presence at homebecame ... so uncomfortable that ... they con-sented” in early December 1861, he noted.Gardner promptly departed Patten on De-cember 4 “with about forty others from oursection, with our old Captain, James B. Hill, incharge.”

After reaching Augusta, the Patten menjoined Company I, 14th Maine Infantry Regi-ment. They camped in tents “in an open spacein front of the State House” and “kept a good

fire all night to keep warm,” Gardner wrote. Now an orderly sergeant, he departed Au-

gusta with Company I on February 1, 1862 —the Maine soldiers boarded the old sailing ves-sel North America at Boston three days laterand sailed for the Gulf of Mexico.

Gardner would experience a bad gale in thegulf, watch a comrade’s burial at sea, and wit-ness the ship’s captain coolly lead a successfuleffort to extinguish an on-board fire ignitedwhen a rough sea caused a hot cookstove totip over and spill coals across the galley deck.Some time later, Gardner would earn an offi-cer’s commission and would fight with the14th Maine during the May 22-July 9, 1863siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana.

After Confederate troops surrendered, “anorder came ... to detail three officers and sixsergeants to proceed to Portland, Maine, aftertwo hundred men which we very muchneeded to fill up the regiment which wasgreatly depleted on account of losses from ca-sualties and sickness,” Gardner recalled.

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“I was fortunate enough to be one of theofficers detailed,” he wrote. “I started fromPort Hudson about the 20th of August, trav-eling by steamboat up the Mississippi Riverwhile in charge of the six sergeants.” Thesteamboat also carried the 177th New YorkInfantry Regiment, headed home to be demo-bilized.

After docking at Memphis to take on sup-plies, the steamboat sailed after dark in hot,sultry weather. “Being very heated I was in mystate-room with no clothing on except myshirt,” Gardner recalled.

About 1 a.m., “I heard the whistle of asteamer coming down the river. As it was quitea common occurrence, I thought nothing of itfor a few moments, when short, sharp whistlesfrom both steamers indicated trouble. Thesteamboat headed downriver struck us aboutmidway, near where my stateroom room was,”Gardner wrote.

After the collision, which caused a bad rent inthe other steamboat’s bow, Gardner hurriedlydressed as both captains nosed their steamboatsinto the Arkansas shore. Aboard Gardner’s ves-sel, women passengers “came into the cabin intheir night clothes, badly frightened, and manyof them were screaming,” he recalled.

Fleeing his stateroom, Gardner “got as nearthe edge of the steamer as I could in thecrowd and jumped on shore about the timeshe struck. The other steamboat suddenlycommenced a long whistle which ... meant shewas sinking.” His farm experience would paydividends during the next few minutes.

The sinking steamboat carried an Illinois in-fantry regiment and Army mules and wagons.The ship lay almost broadside to the shore —“the inside of the steamer lay on the bank,”Gardner wrote — so he “went up to the sternand found the lower deck covered with muleswith their harnesses on.”

Teamsters frantically cut the harnesses andpushed mules overboard. “Almost every onethat they pushed off ... would flounder andsink,” Gardner recalled. The large harnessesleft the girths hanging “six inches to a footbelow their [mules’] bellies,” trapping the ani-mals’ hind legs and leaving the mules unable toswim.

“I called to the man in charge that when hecut the halters he should also cut the girth,”Gardner wrote. “He followed my advice andafter that almost every mule that they pushedoverboard came ashore all right.”

Then the damaged steamer abruptly shifted— its outboard hull submerged beneath the

water — and “the whole lower deck-load ofmules and army wagons slid to the lower side,”Gardner wrote, describing the disaster’s clos-ing act. The cascading mules and wagonsthundered against the steamboat’s stern —“the concussion sent the steamer out intodeeper water where she immediately sank,leaving only the pilot-house above water,” herecalled.

Many Illinois soldiers drowned — evidentlyfew people aboard Gardner’s steamboat died.The ships had grounded along a MississippiRiver shore patrolled by Confederate cavalry— they did not find the survivors before aNavy gunboat came along at daylight and res-cued them.

Gardner later reached Maine, dealt with acrowd of Copperhead thugs in Old Town, andspent brief hours with his fiancée, Helen Dar-ling. They later married in Patten on March 4,1864.

After he rejoined the 14th Maine in Sep-tember 1863, the regiment transferred to Vir-ginia and, on September 19, 1864, fought inthe Battle of Opequan Creek in the Shenan-doah Valley.

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with a Captain Thompson when an artilleryshell struck and killed Thompson; minuteslater, when “I had crossed the field ... and hadgone perhaps fifty feet into the woods,” Gard-ner was standing about twenty feet in front ofhis advancing company when a bullet struckhis right arm.

A sergeant tied a handkerchief around thewound, and a pain-stricken Gardner hobbledrearward “with the bullets and shells flyingaround me.” He reached a field hospital andbegged a surgeon not to amputate the man-gled arm.

“I think I shall have to in order to save yourlife,” the doctor replied before administeringchloroform. When Gardner awoke and real-ized that his arm was gone, “I burst intotears.”

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The winters are pretty cold in Lincoln, Maine. Just ask anyone who livesthere year-round. But are they anywhere near as cold as in the Black Hillsof the Dakotas?

Elenore Plaisted spent her early years in Lincoln. Then she and her familymoved to the Dakota Territory. That was back in 1889 when Elenore was nine.

Elenore Plaisted’s first Dakota winter was a winter like nothing she had ever ex-perienced. There was more snow, and temperatures dipped 20 and even 30 de-grees below the lows of northern Maine. The biggest difference was the wind,though. The winds came roaring across the prairies and down from the Arcticfor weeks on end. Then came Spring.

Spring in the Dakotas was young Elenore’s time of wonder and magic. It wasthe time when wildflowers bloomed everywhere, forming a waving carpet ofcolor. It was the time when the winds of winter moderated to a prelude of thegentle breezes of summer.

Elenore Plaisted married Yarnall Abbott in 1907. In 1911 the couple settled inRose Valley, California. Except for short periods, Elenore Plaisted Abbott neverventured far from the salubrious southern California climate. Her experience in

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the Dakota Territory probably had a gooddeal to do with this. It may also explain whyshe painted her house Bermuda pink, a coloreven her diehard California neighborsthought outré.

A lot of school children know the storyof Elenore and her experiences in theDakota Territory. This isn’t because Elenorekept a diary of what happened to her backthen — which she did do — but because hergrandson wrote a popular children’s bookbased on Elenore’s experiences and herdiary. There are lesson plans for teachers touse with the book. One exercise calls for amap of the United States. Students are tobegin this exercise by placing a star on thelocation of Lincoln, Maine. Then they areto mark off the rest of Elenore’s journey tothe Dakotas.

Brett Harvey wrote the book about youngElenore. Its title is My Prairie Year, Based on theDiary of Elenore Plaisted. Harvey’s grand-mother’s diary passed down to him by wayof his mother, Marjorie Abbott Harvey.

My Prairie Year is intended for readers inthe nine- to twelve-year-old range. Ele-mentary school teachers are advised that thebook is a good way to introduce the life of thepioneer of the late 1800s to youngsters. It isviewed as an introduction and companionpiece to the Little House books of Laura In-galls Wilder, though the latter are directed atan older age group.

My Prairie Year, though a fascinating chil-dren’s work, is not where Elenore Plaisted Ab-bott’s real claim to fame as an influence in thelives of young people rests. That fame isfound in her work as an illustrator.

Elenore Plaisted Abbott’s name is associ-ated with such classics of young people’s lit-erature as Swiss Family Robinson and LittleWomen. She is often compared with N. C.Wyeth. In fact, she illustrated some of thesame books Wyeth did, like Treasure Island.

There is a good reason why ElenorePlaisted Abbott’s work is often compared withthe legendary N. C. Wyeth. Both studied under

the influential Howard Pyle. In fact, Abbottonce said the only student work she wasglad to have done was under Pyle. This ishigh praise given that Abbott also studied atthe Academie des Beaux Arts in Paris. Butthen Pyle is sometimes identified as thefounding father of the Brandywine School.Today we associate the Brandywine Schoolwith the likes of Andrew and Jamie Wyeth.Pyle himself is famous for his illustrationsof The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood andKing Arthur.

The above examples should give one asense of the nature of the magical world ofElenore Plaisted Abbott. They serve as anintroduction to the work and influence ofone of the most productive illustrators ofyoung people’s classics of the early twenti-eth century.

Elenore Plaisted Abbott’s work is an ex-ample of how the hard life of the northwoods of Maine and the even harder life ofthe Midwest farmer can nurture the imagi-nation and sensitivity of a young girl. Ab-bott’s illustrations, combined with MyPrairie Year, give a picture of a winter-

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and Louisa May Alcott. It is a sentimental and nostalgic image, an imageof simpler times, of times when books rather than television and com-puter games led to worlds of magic and adventure. This is not to sug-gest that Elenore Abbott’s accomplishments were the result of merechildhood fantasy and escapism.

Elenore Plaisted Abbott was a highly trained and skilled artist. Be-sides the Academie des Beaux Arts, she studied at the PhiladelphiaSchool of Design for Women and the Pennsylvania Academy of FineArts. Following her sojourn in Paris she enrolled at Drexel Institute.That was where she encountered the artist and teacher who was thegreatest influence in her life, Howard Pyle.

Elenore Abbott’s most provocative work is usually identified as herillustrations of Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Of them it has been said “...no childwho receives such a book will be disappointed.” The implication hereis that Abbott understood the imaginative world of children. It was theworld of Hansel and Gretel, of Briar Rose and Rapunzel, of dwarfsand witches and rapacious stepmothers. It was the world children onceknew as well as their own back yards.

Elenore Abbott must have had her own daughter and only child,Marjorie, in mind when she worked on her illustrations. If she didn’t,then she probably had her grandchildren as inspiration. She raisedthem after Marjorie died, and often used them as models for her cre-ations.

Elenore Plaisted Abbott died in 1935. Though the books she oncehelped make popular are no longer staples of the imaginative world ofchildren, her work is enjoying renewed interest. There is a thriving busi-ness being done in Abbott prints. They are sold in galleries and bookstores across the country. Perhaps the prints will lead to a renewed

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How does a Bangor, Maine man come tocommand one of the famous regiments ofBuffalo soldiers? That in itself is a fascinatingstory. The story of Edward Hatch’s entire lifeis almost as fascinating. It begins — of course— in Bangor, and has roots with the captureof a British naval officer during the Revolu-tion, extends on to Norwich Military Academyin Vermont. It continues on to Iowa and ishighlighted by one of the fastest rises throughthe ranks of any Civil War veteran. It includesthe immigration of an entire Maine family tothe West. It concludes with Edward Hatch ageneral of the regular Army and commanderof the Department of Arizona.

Edward Hatch was one of four children ofNathaniel and Mary Elizabeth (Scott) Hatch.Nathaniel Hatch was a scion of an old Mainefamily and a Bangor attorney, at least until he

decided to head west. Mary Elizabeth Scottwas the daughter of Andrew Scott, a Britishnaval officer who was captured during theRevolution. After Scott’s vessel was taken hewas held in Newburyport, Massachusetts.There he decided he liked the country of his

captivity so much that he would become a cit-izen. Scott then settled in Portland where heengaged in the East Indies trade.

Edward Hatch was the oldest of the chil-dren of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Hatch. Allthe Hatch children were born in Bangor. Ofthe four, Edward was the only one to attendcollege.

Edward Hatch’s choice of college was a for-tuitous one. He attended the American Liter-ary, Scientific and Military Academy — laterNorwich University — in Vermont.

The American Literary, Scientific and Mili-tary Academy was founded by Alden Par-tridge, a former West Point superintendent

who believed the country needed a trainedcadre of military officers. Partridge’s programof instruction was unique in that it includedliberal academics along with civil engineeringand military studies. The program would laterserve as a model for the founding of schoolslike The Citadel and Virginia Military Institute.Because of his unique college training, Ed-ward Hatch would go on to a career as a reg-ular Army officer once the War Between theStates concluded.

Following his stint under the tutelage ofAlden Partridge, Hatch moved to Iowa. Whenthe Civil War broke out Hatch enlisted in thevolunteer Army as a private. He then organ-ized the 2nd Iowa Cavalry. From private hejumped to lieutenant colonel and then to reg-imental colonel.

Hatch served under Ulysses S. Grant in theSouth before Lincoln made Grant overallcommander-in-chief. In the southern theaterHatch’s rise was almost phenomenal. In lessthan a year he was made a brigade com-mander. Then he was placed in command ofthe entire cavalry of the Army of Tennessee.In 1864 he was promoted to brigadier generaland then made a divisional major general.This, then, was the man General Phil Sheridanchose to command the 9th Cavalry.

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How does a Bangor man cometo command one of the famousregiments of Buffalo soldiers?

It is a fascinating story.


There are several opinions as to how theBuffalo Soldiers came by their name. One hasit that the name came from a Cheyenne termfor “Wild Buffalo.” Another has it that itcomes from a similar Comanche term. Still yetanother has it that the Indians likened the sol-dier’s hair to a buffalo’s coat. Regardless of theorigin of the name Buffalo Soldier, the namepoints to the respect Native Americans hadfor those who bore it as fighters.

Elements of the 9th took part in the Battleof Beecher Island in 1868. There a combinedforce of Cheyenne, Arapaho and Sioux weredefeated, primarily by a hodgepodge of re-cruits trained by members of the 9th. The en-counter served as a wakeup call to the fact thatthere were new enforcers of the peace on thefrontier.

The rest of the Hatch family did not leaveBangor until 1874. That year Nathaniel andMary, the two younger sons, Robert andFrank, and daughter Mary moved to FortMadison, Iowa. The move had come becauseEdward sent glowing reports of the area backeast. By the time the family made the move,however, Edward was fighting Apaches fur-ther west and serving as departmental com-mander.

The 9th was stationed in Texas from 1867

to 1875. Almost half of this time the regimentwas in the field, patrolling and maintaining thepeace. It was arduous, wearing duty. 1875 to1881 were the years of the Apache wars. Forthe 9th, this meant Victorio.

The Battle of Tularosa took place in Mayof 1880. On May 13 a contingent of twenty-five of the 9th under the command of Ser-geant George Jordan were sent to FortTularosa to protect the neighboring commu-nity from the depredations of Victorio. Vic-torio attacked the fort with 100 warriors onMay 14. Fortunately, there was just enoughwarning so that townspeople were able to takerefuge within the fort before there was anyloss of life.

Victorio has gone down in the history ofwestern warfare as one of the most canny ofIndian strategists. He chose to attack usingsmall, repeated waves. The volley of gunshotsand arrows was almost continuous. SergeantJordan and his men held off the attack, how-ever. In the end no Buffalo soldiers died andVictorio lost an indeterminate number of war-riors. Shortly after, Victorio and his forcewithdrew, and Edward Hatch and a large forceof the 9th arrived on the scene. Hatch chasedVictorio as far as the border with Mexico. In1890 George Jordan was awarded the Con-

gressional Medal of Honor.Edward Hatch was more than a military

man. He was also a diplomat. In 1880 Hatchnegotiated one of the more unique treaties inthe history of negotiations between NativeAmericans and Washington. The treaty estab-lished two separate reserves for the Ute, one atthe mouth of the Gunnison River and one onthe La Plata. When the reserve at the mouthof the Gunnison proved poor agriculturalland, Hatch petitioned Washington for a re-placement settlement. It was found in Utah.

Edward Hatch died while still in service tohis country, in 1889, at Fort Robinson, Ne-braska. He is interred at Fort LeavenworthNational Cemetery. The first notation on hisstone under his name reads “Colonel 9th Cav-alry.” Under that it reads “Brevet Major Gen-eral, USA.” Under that, “Born In Bangor,ME.” This single memorial is hardly enough.Perhaps it is now time for Edward Hatch tobe remembered in other ways — perhaps atthe school he attended or in his home town.

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In 1770 JohnBrewer — he isusually cited as

Colonel Brewer, amilitia rank — madethe first settlement atwhat would be knownfor a long time asBrewer Village. Thesettlement was at themouth of Segeunke-dunk Stream. BecauseColonel Brewer camefrom Worcester, Mas-sachusetts, the com-munity was firstknown as The Planta-tion of New Worces-ter. (The name Brewerwas adopted to honorColonel Brewer at thetime of the town’s in-corporation in 1812.)

The Plantation of New Worcester grew rap-idly. By 1776 it had a population of 160. In1780 Brewer Village got its first post office.This was twenty years before Bangor got one.Colonel Brewer was postmaster. He held theposition for thirty years.

John Brewer was most definitely an impor-tant figure in the early history of Brewer. Thatis apparent from the few facts stated abouthim above. If you want to know more aboutthe founder of the City of Brewer you needbut do a bit of research in the library. Thebook Brewer, Orrington, Holden, Eddington: His-tory and Families is a good place to start. Andthere are any number of other local historiesthat have information on Colonel Brewer. But,you might ask, “Is there any solid concrete ev-idence that Colonel John Brewer once lived inthe city that bears his name?”

The answer to the above question is yes.That evidence can be found on the muddybanks of the Penobscot River at the mouth ofSegeunkedunk Stream.

In the summer of 2007 the Cianbro Cor-poration, in the preliminary stages of dredgingfor a suitable anchorage for barges and the likeassociated with one of its projects, noted the

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It has been deter-mined that the tim-bers noted in theCianbro surveywere constructed by

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The Cianbro survey also noted the timbersof an old vessel that were visible at low tide inSegeunkedunk Stream. Associated with the

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timbers are readily visible hand-forged ironnails. It is believed the vessel is one of thesunken transports of the doomed PenobscotExpedition of 1779.

The Cianbro Corporation was acting thepart of a good citizen in its preliminary survey.From the standpoint of local history teachers,the find is important because it provides themwith an excellent teaching tool in the form ofreal evidence of historical significance on thebanks of the Penobscot in Brewer. NowBrewer school system teachers can point andsay “There is something the founder of ourcity actually laid his hands to.” More than that,however, they now have a teaching tool thatlinks Maine and Brewer to national history.And the memoirs of Colonel John Brewerplay a part in that linkage.

American historians identify the loss of thePenobscot Expedition vessels as the second-greatest naval disaster in American history. Itis surpassed only by the Japanese attack onPearl Harbor.

Ten and possibly more vessels from thePenobscot Expedition were scuttled withinplain sight of the banks of the Penobscotbelow what is now the Bangor Dam. JohnBrewer was at his home the day the doomed

American vessels were chased upriver byBritish commander Sir George Collier. Brewertook part in the salvaging of armaments from

the sunken vessels. Moreover, Colonel Brewerhad personal encounters with several of theprincipal British figures involved in the demiseof the Expedition. He wrote of all these ex-periences. That memoir can be found in theHistory of Castine, Penobscot and Brooksville,Maine.

One of the most notorious figures in Mainehistory is the British Captain Mowatt. Mowattburned Portland — or as it was then known— Falmouth. After the final scuttling of thelast Penobscot Expedition vessels, CaptainMowatt anchored off John Brewer’s home.Brewer visited the craft and actually shared aglass of wine with Mowatt on more than oneinstance. The visits were occasioned byColonel Brewer acting on behalf of area resi-

dents and sick or wounded American solidersand sailors. In the same capacity ColonelBrewer also met with General FrancisMcLean. McLean was the British commanderat Castine. The Penobscot Expedition wassupposed to oust the British forces occupyingthe town.

From John Brewer’s memoir we learn thatthe American forces could easily have overrunthe British had they chosen to do so, and hadthey acted before Sir George Collier arrivedwith his relief fleet from Halifax. Accordingto Brewer, McLean said “I believe the [Amer-ican] commanders were a pack of cowards orthey would have taken me. I was in no situa-tion to defend myself, and would have struckmy colors, as I did not wish to throw away thelives of my men for nothing.”

The banks of the Penobscot in Brewer pro-vide a fascinating window into that city’s past.Colonel John Brewer’s memoir provides anequally fascinating look at history. The twocannot be separated. Both are forever linked inthe story of Brewer, the state of Maine andthe country.

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Following the war Atwood returned toMaine and married a second time, to StuverGross. For a time the couple lived in Bostonwhere Gross worked as a paperhanger. ThenNancy was again widowed. She returned toMaine, eventually settling in Bucksport.

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Mrs. Nancy M. Atwood-Gross went out with theSixth Maine Regiment Volunteers as a nurse, andserved in that capacity in the field and hospital, caringfor our sick and wounded with untiring zeal, and par-ticipating in our long and weary marches by day andnight, through the dark days of the Rebellion, oftenstanding by the side of some dying comrade who gavehis life for the country. . .

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Nancy Atwood-Gross had help in securingher Army pension, help besides that of veter-ans like Louis Abbott. It happens that Nancygrew up with a future Congressman as a nearneighbor. That Congressman was Seth Mil-liken.

Nancy Atwood-Gross was born Nancy Ver-plast in Montville in 1834. Montville was alsothe hometown of Seth Milliken. Milliken wasjust three years older than Nancy. The twowere brought up on nearby farms. Nancy’s fa-ther John Verplast was a farmer. Seth Millikenwas the Congressman who sponsored Nancy’spension request. Nevertheless, it took way toolong for the government to act on the petition.

Nancy’s first husband was Horace Atwood.They married in 1856, making their home inBangor. Nancy, like any well-brought up, self-

reliant Maine farm girl, was a competent seam-stress. That was how she chose to support her-self when Horace died. A seamstress nevermade much though, no matter how dextrous.Yet, it was preferable to going on the dole orworse, ending in the poorhouse. Then the warcame. Nancy saw it as offering, an opportu-nity of sorts. She had other skills besides thosewith needle and thread. Nancy’s exact wordsare “I had had considerable experience innursing, and, with good health and strength, Ifelt it my duty to do what I could to help theUnion cause by ministering to the sick andwounded.”

Nancy enlisted as a field nurse in the 6thMaine. The 6th Maine was the “LumberjackRegiment.” Its commander at the time ofNancy’s enlistment was Colonel AbnerKnowles. It was a “temperance regiment.”Colonel Knowles declared it such before itreached the field. One story has it that as the6th passed through Philadelphia, a halt wasmade near some liquor shops. The proprietorswere requested by Colonel Knowles not to sellliquor to the men, but the sellers ignored therequest. Colonel Knowles then sent a squadof soldiers to shut up the shops, and placed aguard over the persistent rum-sellers. He wasthen visited by representatives of Quaker City

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Atwood-Gross was with the 6th Maine forsome eight to ten months. Then she was trans-ferred to the 2nd Maine. The 2nd was theBangor Regiment because it was a downeastregiment. It had a “Tiger Company,” namedfor the Bangor Tigers of log-driving renown,as well the Ellsworth Zouaves.

The circumstances for Nancy’s transfer arenot clear. However, Nancy’s brother Nicholaswas with the 2nd Maine. At the time of thetransfer Nicholas was recovering fromwounds. In passing, Nancy mentions thetransfer took her to the farm belonging toRobert E. Lee. She stayed there for fivemonths.

Nancy’s last duty post was at Seminary Hos-pital in Georgetown. She was there fromMarch of 1862 to March of 1863, at whichtime she was discharged for health reasons.She describes her condition as deteriorating.

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nurses had three distinct purposes. First, theyregulated, prepared and served patients theirmeals during their hospital stays. Surgeonswould prescribe each patient either a “full,”“half,” or “low diet” depending on his status.The nurses’ duty was to assure that all patientswere fed the correct diet. Second, they alsomanaged the physical needs of patients, in-cluding the distribution of linens and clothingor supplies received from the U.S. SanitaryCommission or other aid societies. Finally, andprobably most importantly, female nursescared for the emotional and spiritual needs ofthe patients. This included a whole range ofactivities, from daily conversation with pa-tients to writing letters for them or reading tothem.

Though there are cases of women servingclose to the front ranks and in very real dan-ger during the War Between the States, NancyAtwood-Gross’s accomplishments, especiallythose with the 6th Maine, would seem aboveand beyond the call of duty for a female nurse.Sadly, however, few know her name today.Perhaps it is time now to change that.



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In August of 1905 the Atlantic Fleet paida visit to Frenchman’s Bay. The vesselsstayed in the area for almost a week, from

August 4 to August 10. The length of the stayallowed sailors shore leave to visit Bar Harborand the adjacent area. Allowing sailors shoreleave wasn’t the reason for the Atlantic Fleet’svisit, however. Back in the first decades of thetwentieth century the Navy maintained a coal-ing facility at Lamoine.

Today the Lamoine Naval Coaling Stationis but a footnote of history. Where once menin Navy uniforms from vessels like the battle-ships Massachusetts and Constitution walked, onefinds sunbathers, picnickers and campers atLamoine State Park. Once, however, LamoineNaval Coaling Station was an important com-ponent of a plan to make the United StatesNavy an instrument in furthering Americanpolitical ambition. In more than one respectthe Lamoine Naval Coaling Station was asmuch an outcome of the country’s ManifestDestiny as the acquiring of the Pacific step-ping stones to the Far East. All came into ex-istence to fill the gluttonous maws ofcoal-fueled battleships, cruisers, destroyers andthe like.

The U.S. Navy took ownership of the landfor the Lamoine Coaling Station in 1900. Asfar as the Navy was concerned, the site ac-quired for the station was top notch. Therewas plenty of deep water, a solid bottom tohold anchors, a good location for extending apier into the bay, and the price of the land wasa lot less than the asking price of comparableproperty on Mt. Desert Island. Even giventhese facts we have to look to a slightly earliertime period, and in particular, two giants ofAmerican history to understand why a smalldowneast community came to have an impor-tant military installation.

James G. Blaine, Maine’s “Plumed Knight,”had something to do with Lamoine getting theNaval coaling station. This is so even thoughBlaine died in 1893. Theodore Roosevelt hadsomething to do with the establishment of thecoaling station, too. Roosevelt’s interest datesback to the time of the Spanish-AmericanWar, when he was Assistant Secretary of theNavy. It also extends to his Presidency and hispolicies that resulted in the Great White Fleetmaking its world tour. To understand this wemust consider the importance of coal to navalvessels.

Today, if we think of what powers big ships— especially big navy ships — we think of pe-troleum products like diesel fuel and we thinkof nuclear reactors. It wasn’t until the era ofthe Great War that the American Navy begana serious program to have its vessels poweredby oil products, though. Before that, coal wasthe main fuel source.

U.S. Naval vessels of the period between theCivil War and the Great War have been de-scribed as floating coal mines. In 1900 theNavy required one coal carrier or collier forevery four fighting ships. The heating surfacefor the boilers on the cruiser Minneapolis cov-ered approximately one and one-eighth acres.The boilers of the Minneapolis took a lot ofcoal. The U.S.S. Alabaman’s capacity was 1200tons ordinarily, and 1500 tons at a pinch. Shewould usually take on 600 tons, keeping 400in the bunkers as a reserve.

The U.S. Navy of the late nineteenth cen-tury relied on coal piles at its bases to keep itsships going. Deployed units, like Dewey’s Asi-

atic Squadron, got their coal from local ven-dors. With the coming of the Spanish-Amer-ican War in 1898, these fuel sources wouldeither be too far from likely areas of opera-tions or denied to combatant forces by neu-trality laws. Assistant Navy SecretaryRoosevelt telegraphed Commodore GeorgeDewey on February 25, 1898: “Order thesquadron... to Hongkong. Keep full of coal.”The next day Navy Secretary John D. Longtelegraphed Commodore Dewey: “Keep fullof coal — the best that can be had.” An ag-gressive commander, Dewey ignored China’sneutrality and took on coal for his fleet at MirsBay.

When James G. Blaine served in the U.S.Senate he pressured the Navy to establish acoaling station in Maine. A Maine stationwould mean three in New England.Portsmouth had one, as did the CharlestownNaval Base in Massachusetts. The Spanish-American War pointed out the importance of

The Lamoine naval Coaling StationMarlboro Beach once served as a vital asset for the Navy

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the U.S. having its own coaling stations, espe-cially one as close as possible to Europe. Whathappened was the Navy dug out old surveysdone at the instigation of Blaine. The surveysidentified Frenchman’s Bay as a good locationfor a coaling station in the downeast region.

Lamoine was announced as the site for aNavy coaling station in August of 1900. The

announcement was made by a Rear Admiral.The Admiral spoke to the building of a riflerange, athletic field, and a variety of buildings.He spoke of the eventuality of war and ofcoal being brought in on the Maine CentralRailroad to Mt. Desert Ferry. From there itcould be barged to the station. There was alsothe possibility of an electric railroad beingbuilt as a connector between the station and

Mt. Desert Ferry. It must be noted that fromthe onset the Lamoine Naval Coaling Stationwas controversial. Completed and in operationin 1902, it was one of the very few not in closeproximity to a Naval base.

The greatest period of coaling station ac-tivity was during the Great War. FollowingWorld War I the station declined in impor-tance, with the officer in charge being detailedon an on-again off-again basis from the Hing-ham Naval Ammunition Depot in Hingham,Massachusetts. There were periods followingthe war when the only detail there was a main-tenance crew.

In 1920 a late August storm blew down oneof the coaling station’s big towers, shuttingdown the power plant. The station was pri-marily used at this time for occasional seasonalmaneuvers by the Navy. The 1920s saw morevisitors in bathing costumes than in uniform.

What brought the end to the LamoineNaval Coaling Station was the conversion ofwarships to oil fuel.

In the 1930s the University of Maine ac-quired some of the buildings of the formerNavy coaling station for a biological laboratory.The bill to make the coaling station a statepark was introduced by Senator Noyes ofHancock County in 1949.

Today Marlboro Beach at Lamoine StatePark is viewed as one of the state’s most beau-tiful, secret beaches. At least that is how it wasrecently described by a local newspaper fea-ture writer. The same writer described theLamoine Naval Coaling Station as being“foisted” on the Navy by James G. Blaine.Whether the latter statement bears a bit oftruth is a matter of conjecture at this late junc-ture. The former is certainly true.


The main docks and coaling facilities at the Lamoine Coaling Station on Frenchman Bay, built to supply coal to the u.S. Atlantic Fleet. When diesel replaced coal as the fuel for naval vessels, the site was turned over to the State of Maine and is

now Lamoine State Park. Detail of item #25690 - Lamoine Coaling Station, ca. 1910, from the collections of the Maine Bureau of Parks and Land. Courtesy of Maine Memory Network.

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Imagine a trip to your local feed and grainstore not to purchase hay for you horsesand cows or fertilizer for your fields, but

to buy the family car. Some 100 or so yearsago that is exactly what farmers of southernAroostook County and northern PenobscotCounty did when they went to the Fred E.Hall Company of Houlton.

The Fred E. Hall Company was one of thebiggest feed and grain outlets in northernMaine. It was also one of northern Maine’sfirst Buick dealers. Of course, residents ofnorthern Maine besides farmers boughtBuicks from Fred Hall, but Hall was firstknown as a provider of agricultural products.

Fred Hall began selling Buicks in 1910. Thiswas barely two years after Buick began beingmarketed in the United States. The very firstBuicks were sold in Canada, where they weredeveloped.

Fred Hall wasn’t quite the first Buick dealerin Aroostook County, or in Maine. That honorbelongs to Lewis Bean. Bean began selling

Buicks a year before Fred Hall. Bean’s outletswere in Presque Isle and Caribou.

Fred Hall was one of the more successfulof Houlton’s businessmen/farmers. Not onlydid Hall own and operate his feed and grainbusiness and his Buick agency, he also ownedand operated three farms. Hall’s showplacefarm was on the State Road outside of Houl-ton. Then he had another farm in Littleton,and yet another in North Limerick. Fred Hallwas a very busy and successful man. And, hegot around to oversee his various enterprisesdriving a variety of the Buicks he sold. Theseincluded the Model D, the Model 10 Tourerand the Speedster.

The Buick Model D was the choice of theupscale family. A bit on the sedate side, it wasthe type of vehicle one drove to church. TheModel 10 Tourer was a tough, go-anywherekind of vehicle. Noted for its powerful — forthe times — engine and sturdy chassis, somewere even converted to fire engines. A Tourerwas the first car to climb Pike’s Peak. The

Speedster was just that — an off-the-show-room floor, two-seater hot rod. “Speeddemons” of the day removed as many of theaccessories as possible to get that extra milefrom it.

When Fred Hall and Lewis Bean becamedealers for Buick back in 1910 and 1909 re-spectively, it was considered a major coup.General Motors had been marketing Buicksfor barely a year and already the car was a bestseller. (There was one year when Buick

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On the surface Fred Hall would seem tohave been a surprising choice as a car dealer.He was firstly a potato farmer and secondly afeed and grain distributor. Lewis Bean, on theother hand, owned two auto repair shops andservice stations. These auto service centers be-came his Presque Isle and Caribou Buick out-lets. Fred Hall, however, had more torecommend him to General Motors manage-ment than a reputation as a successful farmerand feed store owner. Fred Hall was a self-made man who put himself through college.

Fred Hall came to Houlton via Chester,where he was born, and Portland, where heacquired first-hand, valuable business man-agement skills.

Fred Hall was still a relatively young manwhen he became a Buick dealer. He was bornin 1874 in Chester, where his parents operateda farm. Hall was a bit more than a farm boy,however. He did exceptionally well in localChester schools — so well that he continuedhis education at Maine Central Institute inPittsfield in order to prepare for the University

of Maine. At the University of Maine, wherehe graduated in 1898, Hall studied both agri-culture and business. After graduating college,Hall secured a position with the Schottleback& Foss Company, a Portland drug concern.After some three years with Schottleback &Foss, Hall moved to Houlton. He had saved

enough money to buy his farm on the StateRoad. In 1907 he established the Fred E. HallCompany.

For the first years of the existence of theFred E. Hall Company, the company only han-dled baled hay and fertilizer. Then it expandedin a big way. The expansion culminated withthe addition of the Buick agency in 1910.

Fred Hall was one of those residents of“The County,” with ties to every level of soci-ety. He was a Mason and a member of theShrine. He was a member of the

Meduxnekeag Club and the Rotary. In short,Hall mixed socially with any number of po-tential Buick customers.

The cars that Fred Hall and Lewis Bean soldwere appropriate to Aroostook County of theearly decades of the twentieth century. Theywere luxury cars, though not quite as luxuri-ous as Cadillacs. They were tough. This was acombination that appealed to the prosperousnorthern Maine farmer of the Roaring ‘20s.Though not many Aroostook farmers wouldhave been concerned with speed, Buick hadthe deserved reputation as the fastest cars onthe road. They also had a reputation for inno-vative styling. Buicks were among the firstmass-produced automobiles that deserved tobe called streamlined.

The Depression brought an end to the de-mand for Buicks in northern Maine. AlthoughFred Hall and Lewis Bean are listed as Buickdealers throughout the 1930s, it is doubtfulthat they sold many. Once, however, there wasa time when Buick was the car of choice fornorthern Maine.

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related diseases in well-remembered sex edu-cation classes in secondary school. Well, backaround 1917 Ralph Chapman of Old Towncame up with a way to treat gonorrhoea usingelectricity.

Chapman’s treatment for gonorrhoea in-volved applying electricity to the afflicted area— the closer to the area, the better. WhatRalph Chapman did was to invent somethingcalled the G-X-Galvanic-Faradic Plate. It wasmanufactured by T. M. Chapman and SonsCompany of Old Town. Ralph Chapman wasone of the sons of the company name.

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vention and those of his competitors involvedheat. The theory involved the belief thatgonococcus bacteria has a low resistance toheat, that it sometimes disappears when feverhas raised bodily temperature to 102 or 103degrees. One advertisement for a G-X statedthat gonococcus will be destroyed in eighthours at a temperature of 104 degrees. If thetemperature was raised to 108 it would onlytake thirty to forty minutes before it disap-peared. The temperature was induced by theG-X electrodes. The ad finished up with theimpressive claim that a temperature of 113would instantly destroy gonococcus. Ofcourse no mention was made as to what a joltof electricity delivered to the genital area by aG-X felt like.

Ralph Chapman was the youngest of thesons involved in T. M. Chapman and SonsCompany. He was company secretary and latertreasurer. He was the company’s shining stararound 1920. He invented many of the ma-chines the company manufactured for use in

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Back at the turn of the twentieth centuryelectricity was viewed as a cornucopia of won-ders. Anything, it was thought, could comefrom it. And that was the way it seemed. Therewas the telegraph, the telephone, electric lightsand phonograph. Inventions in communica-tions like these led others of an inventive bentto look to the field of medicine. Many ofthese innovators had little if any medical back-ground. Ralph Chapman was just one of thelatter.

Ralph Chapman’s highest level of educationwas acquired at Old Town High School. Otherthan that, he learned the skills of a machinistand draftsman at the family company. Yet hedesigned a number of devices with specificmedical applications, including the Auditor,which was used by the deaf.

The Chapman Company ventured into thefield of manufacturing electrotherapy equip-ment relatively late. The company had beenfounded by Thomas Chapman, a machinist.Thomas Chapman’s specialty was saw-filingequipment. When sons Fred and Harry joinedthe company it expanded to manufacturingpaper plates. The firm was highly successful atthis as well as foundry work and machine re-pair. Then came the company’s big coup. TheChapmans secured the contract to manufac-ture the Morse Wave Generator. This meantemploying as many as 60 men at times.

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physical therapy accomplished by generatingheat in specific tissues through the use of highfrequency electromagnetic currents.

What made the Morse Wave Generatorcontract such a coup for the Chapmans wasthat Frederick Morse had certifiable medicalcredentials. He was an M.D. Moreover, hewrote a rather lengthy work on the use of hismachine and electrotherapy in general. Thework was Electro-therapuetics by the Morse WaveGenerator. It was published by the Universityof the City of New York.

Dr. Frederick Morse was the giant of hisday in the field of electrotherapy. He lecturedon electro-therapeutics at Tufts UniversityMedical School. He was past president of theAmerican Electro-Therapeutic Associationand past president of the New England Elec-tro-Therapeutic Association. And Morse twiceserved as U. S. Delegate to the InternationalCongress of Physio-Therapy. The congresseswere held in Rome in 1907 and in Paris in1910.

The key to understanding the Morse WaveGenerator involves an understanding of thepromises made for diathermy. What diathermydid was to raise the temperature of internalhuman tissue. One method of doing this wasby insertion. Localized heat was said to raisethe temperature of circulating blood so as toabsorb the products of inflammation, pro-mote tissue oxidation and relieve congestionby increasing tissue drainage.

In Electro-therapeutics by the Morse Wave Gener-ator, Dr. Morse described a treatment for hem-orrhoids. It involved inserting a “CopperElectrode” into the rectum. At the same timean abdominal electrode “of the largest size”was also employed. Current was to be “turnedon and off slowly, and the electrode removedwith care....” Other Morse treatments in-cluded electro-therapeutics for gynaecologicalproblems such as irregular menstruation anduterine or ovarian misplacement. There were

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Around 1921 the Chapman company beganproducing the Morse Moist Surface Electrode.It was described as the latest advance in con-ductivity and as extremely safe. There was nochance of an inadvertent burn to exposedskin. Superior conduction was achievedthrough the use of an asbestos compound.The electrode came with a locking device so

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Jack McAuliffe is one of only a handful ofundefeated fighters. Some lists name onlythree boxers to be so magically blessed. Oth-ers, more. Regardless, Jack McAuliffe standsas one of the great fighters of all time.

Jack McAuliffe was one tough cookie. Hewas a tough Irish boxer. Before that he was atough Irish kid. The place he grew up had alot to do with that. He grew up with Bangor’sHaymarket Square as his schoolyard.

Some say Haymarket Square was the Devil’sown playground. It was a hellhole wherebooze and vice abounded. The chalk-bootedloggers that came down the Penobscot saw tothat. The divines from Bangor TheologicalSeminary knew it, too. They used it to prac-tice calling down God’s curses. It neverseemed to work, though. When much of Ban-gor burned in 1911, the Haymarket emergedwith nary a paint blister. It was the Haymar-ket where Jack McAuliffe learned to scrap.

Jack McAuliffe doesn’t particularly look likea fighter in his trunks or tights. Pictures fromhis fighting days show a slightly overweight,almost pudgy young man with cherubic fea-tures. He almost looks like a nerd. You wouldhalf expect him to be the guy at the beach thatgets sand kicked in his face in the old Charles

Atlas advertisements. Yet, Jack had a “rep.”Jack McAuliffe had a couple of ring

monikers. One was “Napoleon of the PrizeRing.” After all, he did keep on winning. Oth-ers included “the Dapper Dan of the ring”and “the Beau Brummel of the sports world.”The latter two related to Jack’s liking for thegood life — fine food, expensive clothes andeven more expensive women.

Jack hung out at race tracks. They weremore fun than training. But then Jack didn’tneed to train all that much — he had talent,natural physical resources that he could affordto squander in the ring. The fact that Jack hadthe resources to squander may just explainwhy he fought.

Jack McAuliffe was as Irish as they come.He was born in County Cork in 1866. WhenJack was five his parents, Cornelius and Jane,joined the wave of Irish immigrants that madeBangor, Portland and a few other Mainetowns their home. Cornelius McAuliffe was acooper, he made barrels. When Jack was six-teen or so, the family moved again, toWilliamsburg, in Brooklyn, New York. Jackfought out of Williamsburg and Brooklyn.

Jack was one of those fighters that bridgedthe worlds of bare knuckle fighting and theseeming more benign and sophisticated one

of the boxing glove. It was the era wherechampionship claims were vague, less thanclear. In 1885 Jack claimed the ProfessionalLightweight Championship basically on hisown merits. There was no uniformly recog-nized boxing governing body at the time. Inthis case it doesn’t matter, though. Jack wasone of the greats. That’s why Ring Magazine in-ducted him into its Hall of Fame in 1954. Heis also an inductee of the International BoxingHall of Fame. That induction came in 1995.

Jack followed in his father’s footsteps as abarrel maker. It was a fortuitous choice. Hisfirst job was in a barrel factory where Jack“Nonpariel” Dempsey worked. Jack Dempseywas recognized as American lightweightchampion. The Nonpariel took McAuliffeunder his wing and trained him. Then whenDempsey vacated his title to move up a weightclass, he named his protégé as legitimateclaimant to the title. The recommendationmeant that Jack could fight wherever hewanted — that he was a boxer to be reckonedwith.

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claimed the title. He then went on to defeat thethree most likely claimants to the title. Then he ac-cepted the challenge of any legitimate contender.

Jack McAuliffe was one of the first technicalfighters. He was a thinking man’s boxer. He also pos-sessed natural speed. That was one of his greatestassets, and why sports reporters described him asbeing as “quick as greased lightning.” Quickness al-lowed McAuliffe to play with some of his less-tal-ented opponents, to show off in the ring. Sometimeshe would keep a fight going just so that he could showoff. It’s a character flaw sometimes referred to as the“handicap principle.”

The “handicap principle” as applied to boxingmeans that a boxer squanders physical resources that aless-fit opponent cannot afford to waste. In a sense, theboxer who so handicaps himself is saying “I can take onthe world with one hand tied behind my back.” It’s performing in amanner that is conspicuously wasteful of talent.

The handicap principle may explain why Jack McAuliffe was so will-ing to forgo a rigorous training regimen. Living the good life was an os-tentatious way for Jack to show off his natural gifts. We see this whenthe financially well-to-do build impractical mansions and drive point-lessly expensive cars. While expensive and useful is all very well, ex-pensive and useless is much better.

In 1887 Jack fought Jem Carney, the former world bare-knuckleschamp, for four hours and 58 minutes. The fight went 74 rounds. Itwas a draw. The crowd broke into the ring in round 74, effectively end-ing the fight. Jem Carney was a Brit. The fight took place in Revere,

Massachusetts, where McAuliffe was something of ahometown favorite. Jack had problems when he woredown so that he lost his speed. The same thing happenedwhen he fought Mike Daly.

Fighting Mike Daly must have been a bit of déjà vufor McAuliffe. Daly was from Bangor. He was Irish andfamous for being able to take a punch. The two foughtin December of 1889. Jack was the better technicalboxer but he couldn’t put Daly away. The record booksshow Jack had 93 clean hits to Daly’s 33. As with Car-ney, the fight was a draw. It went a full 15 rounds.

Jack McAuliffe’s ring career doesn’t quite end withhis retirement. He loved the ring and showcasing histalents. As late as 1920 Jack was doing exhibitions. Thefact that he was undefeated was a big draw. He eventravelled to England, where he put on an exhibition

with Jem Carney.Jack McAuliffe died in 1937. He may have succumbed to throat can-

cer. He was a heavy smoker.The fighter who first began honing his skills along the banks of the

Penobscot River left a mark in the boxing record books that has seldombeen equalled. His was a remarkable career. When the term premiereis used to describe a fighter, one need only look to Jack McAuliffe tounderstand what is meant. As the 72-round fight with Jem Carney in-dicates, there was more than natural talent to the Haymarket Squarefighter.

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Maggie Hamm wrote about every-thing and anything. She once beganan article for Good Housekeeping: “It

was a Mongolian philosopher who said thatcivilization was born in a frying pan.” Themagazine published the article in May of1898. Its title was “Some Chinese Dishes,” thesubtitle “Celestial Bills of Fare for AmericanCooks.” In it Hamm wrote about preparingChow-Gan or Chinese Omelet, Rice Eggs andChop Suey. She stuck to basics, things Amer-icans could and would try. She compared theChinese chef to the Parisian chef, to the ben-efit of both. The comparison may have beenwhat sold the article. French cuisine was all therage in the Gay ‘90s.

Maggie Hamm has been described as a dil-ettante and a dabbler. She tried her hand at anynumber of professions, from journalist to so-cial worker, from actress to photographer tomagazine editor. She wrote books about thegreat, the celebrated and the socially promi-

nent. She wrote about the downtrodden. TheBoston Globe once singled her out as a potentialcandidate for Congress. This was in 1895, be-fore women had the vote. The Globe also men-tioned Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth CadyStanton in the same paragraph. Maggie was asuffragette like them. It would be easy to callMaggie Hamm an early feminist, too. Just be-cause something was deemed a male provincedidn’t keep Maggie from trying it. She was thefirst woman to be recognized as a serious warcorrespondent.

The last name Maggie was born with wouldseem to have had only one “m.” In fact, shemay have been born simply “Maggie.” Shewrote under the name Margherita ArlinaHamm, though.

Maggie was born in Bangor in 1867 or ‘68.Or maybe she wasn’t. Maybe she just spent asignificant portion of her childhood in Ban-gor. We do know for sure that she lived there.But she could have been born in New

Brunswick. That was where her father, a lum-ber dealer, hailed from. The record is con-flicted. Much about Maggie is, like the causesshe espoused.

On the one hand Maggie Hamm did every-thing in her power to point up the horribleconditions of the poor who lived in urbanblight. On the other hand, Maggie was a vocalproponent of American imperialism. Shewrote favorably of the Spanish-American Warand saw America as taking up the “whiteman’s burden” in such far-flung places as theCaribbean and the Philippines. Maggie sawAdmiral George Dewey as the great Americanhero of the age, and she wrote, almost lov-ingly, of Jewish ghetto dwellers in New York.

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Maggie Hamm had a knack for being in theright place at the right time and for getting herfoot in the door of many of the right people.Maggie covered the war between Japan andChina when Japan invaded Korea in 1894. Shejust happened to be in Korea when Japan,with its westernized and modernized military,decided it was time to wrest the peninsulafrom a China stuck not in the eighteenth butmore likely the seventeenth or an even earliercentury. If the Russians had read Maggie’s re-ports of how the Japanese rolled up the Chi-nese Army, that country might have beenbetter prepared for the Russo-Japanese Warof 1904-05.

In 1902 Maggie had one of her greatestpublishing successes, Eminent Actors in TheirHomes. As the title suggests, Maggie did her in-terviews in the celebrities’ homes. She gave abird’s-eye view of just how the celebrity lived,how their home was decorated, and how they

dressed at their leisure. Broadway actressAnnie Russell was one of the greats of the daywhom Maggie visited. She got Russell to talkabout her rise to fame, and give opinions thatprobably the actress later wished she hadnever voiced. For Maggie, Russell was the epit-ome of feminine “pulchritude.”

Maggie Hamm spent much of her adult lifein New York City. If she had a calling otherthan writing, it was as a social worker. This ex-perience led to her collaboration with reputed“Ghetto Expert” and “professional” HebrewDavid Warfield. What made Warfield a pro-fessional Hebrew was that he played that roleon stage. Warfield was one of David Belasco’sstable of stars.

Maggie’s collaboration with Warfield pro-duced Ghetto Silhouettes. Ghetto Silhouettes is acollection of sketches of the daily life of NewYork’s East Side residents. The East Side waswhere Warfield did his field research for theHebrew characters he portrayed on stage. Thebook resembles a collection of Hebrew folktales transposed to the East Side. It has beenboth praised and belittled. Today Ghetto Sil-houettes is most noted for its photographs ofNew York street scenes. Maggie took the pho-tographs herself. They have a certain pathosand elegance that foreshadows the work of

Bernice Abbott.In 1898 Maggie came out strong for the

Spanish-American War. She served as chair ofNew York City’s pro-war Women’s Congressof Patriotism and Independence. She went tothe Caribbean and covered the fighting therefor New York, Washington and Los Angelespapers. She wrote books on America’s destiny,including Manila and the Philippines and Amer-ica’s New Possessions and Spheres of Influence. Andshe made Admiral Dewey a national hero. Shewrote a hymn to him and a piece titled Deweythe Defender : A Life Sketch of America’s GreatHero. Maggie even went to the Philippines ona photo-shoot.

The turn of the new century saw a wave ofpatriotic fervor engulf America, and MaggieHamm did her part in making that wave grow.Builders of the Republic portrayed great Ameri-cans like Jefferson and Lincoln who helpedmake the America that Maggie saw. In her ar-ticle on Lincoln, Maggie spent time describ-ing Hannibal Hamlin, the GreatEmancipator’s first vice president. She in-cluded facts that could only have been gleanedby someone familiar with Hamlin as a Ban-gorite — facts that she must have learnedgrowing up in Bangor.

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Probably the most prosaic of MaggieHamm’s professional hats was that of one ofthe editors of Peterson’s Magazine. Peterson’s wassort of an early Redbook. It styled itself as the“BEST among America’s magazines forladies.” It published fiction by less-than-no-table women writers. The fact that well-knownwomen writers of the day are absent from itspages may just be the most notable feature ofthe magazine. Nonfiction articles tended todeal with tatting and the like.

Maggie Hamm was a ground-breaking turn-of-the-twentieth-century woman. She was oneof the first truly famous female journalists, awoman who served as a role model for manyof her sex in showing that fields hitherto re-served for men could be conquered by strong-minded women with a bent for using theEnglish language. Today Mainers might regardher as a Downeaster who looked beyond herhome state to a wider world of challenge andaccomplishment.

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Within two years the Bangor Cornet Bandexpanded, and performed in a wide variety ofevents that ranged from small private gather-ings and holiday parades to their regular band-stand at Davenport Park. As support grew forthe enthusiastic band, the former overused in-struments were replaced with shiny new ones

due to the kind support of the local women’sclub. But unlike many other musical groups inthe country, the onset of the Civil War wouldnot tear apart the band into individual combatservice. Instead, the group served as a regi-mental band attached to the 2nd Maine In-fantry. By February 1865 the band served aspart of the 14th Maine Regiment, which hadthe distinction of being one of the Unionforces that recaptured Fort Sumter. Accord-ing to the band’s history, “The band wouldmaintain military connections, both with ac-tive duty engagements and later with theMaine National Guard until the end of WorldWar I.” Their schedule included performancesfor an impressive list of dignitaries such asPresidents Teddy Roosevelt and Howard Taft,as well as General George McClellan and Ad-miral Robert Peary, a Maine resident knownfor his Arctic expeditions.

By the turn of the 20th century enthusiasmtoward community bands had declined, andthe Bangor Band began to feel the effects.

Since membership was entirely contingentupon the recruitment of the best local musi-cians, Harvey J. Woods (the tenth conductorof the band) initiated a plan to invite talentedhigh school and college students into theband. As stated in the History of the Bangor Bandby Adelbert Sprague, “The young membersdevelop musically through working contactwith experienced players, while those seasonedmembers are inspired to the maintenance ofhis standards.” Sprague further states, “The fu-ture of the Bangor Band must rely on andgrow from the objectives of civic pride, musicfor music’s sake, and good fellowship.” Thistype of thinking is what has made the band sosuccessful throughout its long history. It sim-ply adapted to the changes of the community,even in the face of the Great Depression, thewars of the 20th century, and the economy.

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Maine native John Francis Spraguewas one of those rare breeds whowere well-known in this country in

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John Francis Sprague was born at Brock-way’s Mills in Sangerville, Maine, in July 1848,the son of Elbridge Gerrish Sprague andSarah Parsons. He attended the little redschoolhouse so prevalent in the countrysideof New England in the 19th century, but therehis formal education ended. Sprague waslargely self-taught from that point on. He ap-pears to have studied law under an attorney,and was himself admitted to the Maine Bar

for Piscataquis County in 1874.Sprague first practiced law in Abbot Village,

then Monson, and finally in Dover, where hesettled in 1910. He was a member of theBoard of Trustees for Monson Academy formany years. Sprague was a “Republican-Pro-gressive” from 1912 until 1924, and served inthe Maine State Senate in 1921. Previously he

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In 1913 while residing in Dover-Foxcroft,Sprague began his Journal of Maine History, atri-monthly journal devoted to the history, genealogy, and culture of the Pine Tree State.He continued this amazing magazine for thenext thirteen years — for the rest of his life asit were. His helper for most of these years washis secretary and stenographer, Miss Mar-guerite Devereux. The journal included schol-arly and popular articles, local history, poems,obituaries, book reviews, genealogical ac-counts, and even a history feature for schoolchildren. Sprague was interested in the lives ofeveryday Mainers — as many of his articlesshow — as well as the lives of Native Ameri-cans, Catholics, and women. He was far aheadof his time, as he wrote these articles at a timewhen it was anything but fashionable to writeabout anything other than Yankee generalsand politicians and the like.

John Francis Sprague was able to accom-plish this and so much more while being a

cripple from birth. He had been born with de-formed feet, and spent most of his adult life ina wheelchair. In his elderly years, Spragueoften commented to friends that he, above all,did not want to become a cripple who had torely on others. Thus it was not a complete sur-prise to those who knew and loved him whenhe put a revolver to his temple and pulled thetrigger on May 7, 1926. Sprague left a suicidenote in which he stated, “I am tired of life, Iam alone, awfully alone. God knows, he willforgive me. Sorry to leave so many old friendsin Maine. I must pass out. Remember themarks on my grave stone.” The historian hadnever married and had no close relatives whenhe died that day a few months shy of his 78thbirthday. News of his demise shocked thepeople of Union Square, Dover-Foxcroft,where Sprague kept his office. The news rip-pled out from there and reached all of Mainein a short time.

Letters of tribute to the late historian camein from all over to many Maine newspaper of-fices. Cornelia T. Crosby, better known by heragnomen “Fly Rod,” was a famous Maine fish-erman and writer who wrote a tribute to himfrom her bed at St. Mary’s Hospital in Lewis-ton. She herself was recuperating from a nerv-ous breakdown. Crosby wrote, “Uncle John”

was an inspiration and a help to me to keepup the fight and “keep smiling” when I had togive up casting my fly on the account of theloss of the sight of one eye and to keep mypencil sharpened.” The Portland Evening Ex-press summed up the loss of John FrancisSprague in a memorial to him in their May10th edition that closed with:

“In writing this brief and inadequate appreciationof John Sprague, the thought has come to us severaltimes—what is the use? No words of appreciation,of admiration or love can reach his ears or the ears ofthe family circle, for he had none. The only satisfactionthat can come from any such tribute as this is theknowledge that we are echoing what thousands ofMaine people are thinking today, even though suchechoes are faint and inadequate.”

John Francis Sprague is now largely un-known to the general public of Maine, but heshould be remembered more often. His jour-nal and the countless other works he producedare his legacy — a legacy that all Mainersshould be aware of.

Note: For more on the life and times ofSprague, see Marius B. Peladeau’s monograph,John Francis Sprague: Chronicler of Maine History,published by the L. C. Bates Museum in1998.

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the year 1816 is known as the “theyear without Summah” in Maine.now, an extra-sharp person might

ask: “what in blue blazes is so odd aboutthat?” and they would not be half wrong.But even by Maine standards, 1816 was abad one. that year measurable amounts ofsnow fell in every summer month, causingwidespread crop failure, loss of livestock, anoticeable increase in tourist complaints, andoff-the-chart whining by tourist-related busi-nesses. the local chamber of commerce ineach town and the state’s tourist bigwigs dis-missed the snow in July as an illusion andblamed the media.anyway, i mention this as part of full dis-

closure so that when you plunk down your$350 a night for a beachfront room in ogun-quit in July and head out to catch some raysin your Speedo, you won’t be completelyshocked if it is snowing.on the other hand, the skiing crowd, not

to be confused with the skidder crowd, is al-ways praying for a repeat of 1816, and thatwe’ll get twelve straight months of snow topump up their business.

the rest of us, however, like a break fromsnow. and fortunately for us, it’s rare whenwe don’t get at least thirty snow-free days ina row during a twelve-month period.

Weather in briefJanuary: cold, snow, freezing rain, sleet.

average temperature: really coldFebruary: Same as January, only a tad

colder and more unpleasant. average tem-perature: wicked cold

March: cold, but a dite less snow thanFebruary, which is offset by more sleet and

freezing rain. average temperature: reallywicked coldapril: cold and damp with the added

bonus of a bitter wind. average temperature:why is it still so damned cold?

May: Should be decent, but ain’t. oftendownright terrible. average temperature: ican’t believe it’s still so damned cold.

June: runs the gamut from cold and dampto nearly decent. average temperature: canyou believe it’s June and it’s still thisdamned cold?

July: Hot and muggy in the morning, thenfoggy, cold and damp by sundown. averagetemperature: well, at least it’s better thanJune, but this is still the worst July i can everremember. it is so bad that there’s no touristsand my sales are down at least 746 percent.i really don’t know how i can stay in busi-ness any longer. i can barely pay my lightbill.august 11: Gorgeous! the reason we live in

Maine. average temperature: pass the sunblock!

September: See august 11. almost thatgood. average temperature: you know, i feltquite a nip in the air this morning.october: Still nice, but fading rapidly. av-

erage temperature: i know it’s Halloween,but you’re just gonna have to wear yourparka over your costume. what do you thinkthis is, august 11?november: Good weather for hunting, but

little else. descent to hellish weather beginsin earnest. average temperature: i just sawskim ice on the pond.december: Snow is back in force and

brings with it sleet, freezing rain, wind, andcold. average temperature: well, look on thebright side—only nine more months untilaugust 11.

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Prior to 1840 only a few sportsmenmade the arduous trek to the RangeleyLakes and Moosehead Lake region, as

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hostelry grew into a 100-room hotel, moreand more hunters and fishermen began takingthe stagecoach from Bangor to Greenville anda steamboat up the lake.

Upon reaching Kineo, they would often se-cure a guide, who was hopefully very knowl-edgeable about the region. Among the guides,who were a mixture of hunters, trappers andfishermen, was an old, small, wiry man with a

“nervous eye and a countenance beaming withhumor.” This was Hunter Ellis, who was al-ways in demand because he could tell the beststories. Born in Waterville in 1784, John Ellisbegan hunting at a young age, removed toMercer, and later resided in Guilford. He wasjust out of his teen years when he first visitedMoosehead Lake about 1805, and becomingenchanted with the lake and region, soonmade this his major hunting ground. Afterbuilding a cabin at Spencer Bay, his early careerwas filled with lonely days of trapping, spend-ing countless months alone and often comingout of the woods in the spring with wolf skinsand hundreds of muskrat, otter and beaverpelts. As a hunter he would often supply theKineo House and local lumber camps withfresh meat, and he was a very generous man— his cabin door was always open to anyoneventuring along.

In 1824 Ellis was trapping in the MooseRiver region when he encountered a large bullmoose. Many years later Dr. S. A. Patten ofSkowhegan was staying at the Kineo Hoteland saw Old Ellis approaching in a canoe.Quickly word went out and a large group ofguests rushed to the wharf to greet the oldfriendly hunter. Patten heard the old man tell

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his moose tale to a large group of people whohad gathered in the parlor of the Kineo Hotel.

Near the center of the room stood the oldhunter with an unshaven face and long, dan-gling, unkempt hair, his arms pushing them-selves in a long way out through hiscoat-sleeves, and his pantaloon legs making ashort stop about halfway between his kneesand ankles. His face was all aglow with pleas-ant emotions, and the twinkle in his eyeshowed that he was having as much fun outof it as anyone.

“Well,” said Ellis, starting in at once, “I wasreturning from visiting my traps one morning,when on making a little change in my course,I saw before me, about 10 rods away, a mon-strous bull moose. As quick as I could, Ibrought my rifle to my shoulder and taking de-liberate aim, fired. The Moose fell. Supposinghim to be dead, or the same as dead, I leanedmy rifle against a tree and walked quickly to-ward him. When within two rods of him herose to his feet, jumped toward me, forced meupon his neck and horns and ran, Jehu-like,through the woods. I held on for dear life. Ithought the end of my earthly pilgrimage hadsurely come and that I had fired my last shot.Every moment I was being battered and

bruised and I found myself growing weakerand bleeding from almost every pore.

“My clothes were stripped from me, and thespeed of the infuriated beast, like a railroad trainon a down grade, seemed constantly increasing.What to do, was the question. Just then Ibethought me that I had a large knife in my pan-taloons pocket. I quickly seized and opened it,

and with one slash, cut the moose’s throat fromear to ear; and so I was relieved from my periloussituation. I made out to get to my camp, but itwas a long time before I could resume work.”

“But Mr. Ellis,” said one of the guests, “if yourclothes were off how could you find your pocketand knife?”

“Well,” said the old hunter, “that’s justwhere the joke comes in.” At this, all burst intoa furious laugh, Ellis laughing too, jumpingabout the floor and gesticulating violently.

As a guide, Old Ellis was very popular, and

when Frank Ellison of Waltham, Massachu-setts arrived at Greenville in August of 1858,he wrote in his journal, “The first thing we didon our arrival was to enquire for Mr. Ellis,more familiarly known by the epithet of UncleJohnny. Jim and Charlie had met with him be-fore, and being acquainted with him they weredesirous to get him to go into the woods withus in preference to anyone else. On enquiringfor him we found that he was at supper; sothey posted themselves near the dining roomprepared to hail him the moment he appeared.He soon did so and they engaged him. Wewere lucky in getting him, as there were otherson the lookout for him.

“I must say a few words about Old Johnny.He is the oldest hunter and guide in Maine; hebeing now 68 years of age. He has been ahunter and guide, and made a living by this vo-cation for 45 years, and still continues to doso.”

Most everyone showed him great respect,but one time a group of hunters from NewYork failed to give him the courtesy he so de-served, so he bided his time. One day, one ofthe hunters had a watch that had stoppedworking. Old Ellis said he was familiar withwatches and could take it apart and see whatailed it. After it was taken apart, he noted that

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earthly pilgrimage had surely comeand that I had fired my last shot.”

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a small bit of dirt had gotten into the watchand he removed it. Then the sportsman de-manded Ellis put the watch back together, towhich Ellis replied, “Oh, I can’t put watchestogether, I can only take them apart.” Afterthis he was treated with much courtesy and re-spect by the entire group of hunters.

In 1860 another writer recalled a largegroup of sportsmen were sitting around thefireside at the Kineo House recounting theamazing fish they had caught in the lake overthe years. Hunter Ellis listened in silence forawhile. At length, with a contemptuous whifffrom his pipe which he was smoking, he brokein.

“Call that fishing, do you boys? Let me tellyou; I get trout out of this lake anywhere, dayor night, any time or any season of the year.Let me tell you, I was crossing the North Bendlast winter, ice three feet thick. I happened tohave with me a one-inch auger, which I wasgoing to use for some purpose or other. Thethought struck me — wonder if trout couldbe found here this time of the year? Nosooner said than done. I had a bit of twine,and a pointed nail in my pocket. I just took theauger, bored a hole in the ice, and, in less thanfive minutes, had a sixteen-pound laker on theice before me. What do you think of that?”

The crowd was dumb with astonishment,while the hunter smoked his pipe in triumph.Presently, however, one of the fishermen,turning suddenly, darted a sharp glance at thenarrator.

“Uncle John, how came that sixteen-poundtrout through the one-inch auger hole?”“Goodness, gracious,” exclaimed the old man,“I never thought of that.” A guffaw of laugh-ter went around at once, in which no onejoined more heartily than hunter John himself.

Old Ellis also had a reputation as a greatbear hunter, and one story relates that in theearly nineteenth century bear robes were veryfashionable for sleigh rides, and that sports-men would engage Ellis to obtain a bear hidefor them. Being a poor man, they would payhim in advance, so one year, when the firstsnow came, he started off with his gun, andsoon came upon Bruin’s track. He ran all daywithout overtaking the bear, and camped onhis track that night, and early the next morn-ing took up the trail and followed him all thatday, with no better success than upon the pre-vious day. The third day found his aged limbsquite stiff and sore. However, he made an-other start and ran till well-nigh exhausted,when he came in sight of Bruin, who hadstopped for a few moments’ rest, but upon

seeing his pursuer started off again at fullspeed. The old man took aim and fired, butthe bear didn’t stop. Feeling too far gone torun another step, he shouted with all the en-ergy of despair, “You may run, and run, butthere ain’t a hair on ye that belongs to ye, forI’ve sold your hide and got my pay for it.”

The old hunter’s last adventure occurred inNovember of 1866, while he was staying at hiscabin near Spencer Bay. The old guide becamevery sick and crawled across the lake ten mileson his hands and knees to the home ofSamuel Harford at Sand Bar, his nearest neigh-bor. Word was sent to his family in Guilford,and Jacob Leeman of Abbot, an old friend,headed around the lake with a logging sled andbrought the old man home, whereupon Ellis’son–in-law, Joseph Cousins, took him to hisfamily in Guilford. The old trapper never re-covered from the illness and passed away thefollowing February after a long life filled withmany adventures.

As late as 1959 Harry Sanders, Jr., who op-erated Sanders Store in Greenville for manyyears, could recall his grandfather telling himstories about Hunter Ellis, and that he had“quite a reputation as a guide, hunter andtrapper.”

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The Lombard loghauler was in its hey-day when a 13-year-

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Resembling a locomotivethat traded its massive wheelsfor front skis and metal-lagged rear treads, the Lom-bard log hauler owed its name to Alvin Lombard. Hailing fromSpringfield in Penobscot County, he was a naturally creative genius whotinkered with machinery and parts to invent a pulpwood debarker andother equipment that made work a bit easier at Maine sawmills.

Among the Mainers attempting to invent steam-powered log-haulingmachines were Lombard and Johnson Woodbury, who conceptualizeda basic tread. The men met while working for the Great NorthernPaper Company. Liking Woodbury’s concept, Lombard developed aflexible metal-lagged tread turned by gears driven by a steam engine.

According to Lombards in the Maine Woods, which was published by the

Maine Forest & LoggingMuseum, a Lombard’s en-gine could produce “175pounds [per square inch] ofsteam pressure and 90horsepower” so the ma-chine could tow severalsleds (usually eight, but Wal-ter Arnold saw 12 sledstowed by a Lombard attimes).

In fact, “depending onconditions, a log haulercould pull as many as 22sleds, some 600 tons ofwood!” the MFLM publica-tion reports.

A Lombard log haulerusually carried four men —

a conductor, engineer, and fireman tucked inside the cab next to thewarm steam engine; and a steersman (or “pilot”) who stood beneaththe nose’s overhang and steered the front skis with a rudimentary steer-ing wheel. A Lombard lacked brakes, as Arnold later attested, andsometimes a log hauler would not slow down on an icy slope.

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Lombards In The Piscataquis WoodsWalter Arnold’s memories of his 13th winter

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Lombard’s machines ventured far afield,definitely reaching Montana and Wisconsinbefore production ceased. Bulldozers, skiddersand trucks gradually supplanted Lombard loghaulers — today the metal-lagged tread ap-pears only on bulldozers used for buildingwoods roads in Maine’s commercial forests.

Walter Arnold spent his 13th winter work-ing around Lombard log haulers. The ma-chines left him a bit awestruck, yet aware thatmen assigned to Lombards faced hazardousduty. “Tell you frankly, I never did ask for thejob of steering a log hauler,” he wrote.

Throughout his adult years Arnold spentmost winters working at logging operationsthat, until Lombard’s log haulers appeareddeep in the Maine forest, had relied exclusivelyon human and horse labor. Writing his enter-taining I Worked Around Log Haulers years later,Arnold remembered that “I had some first-hand experience with log haulers the winter Iwas 13. “Back in those days many a boy at thatage went to work in the woods or on logdrives,” he recalled.

That particular winter, the young Arnoldwas assigned to a crew working at “the Land-ing Camp near the shore of Sebec Lake.”Three Lombards each made three trips daily

to the camp while towing “as many as twelvesets of sleds in a load, each load consisting ofhuge pine logs and some smaller ones, rangingin length from 16 to 24 feet,” he wrote. An-other log hauler towed loads from the loggingoperations deeper in the forest to the mainhauling road, to be removed by the three othermachines.

Foremen wanted the Lombards operated ona tight schedule, arriving “a quarter or halfhour apart so we could unload the three and ...hustle back to camp,” Arnold wrote. “Our jobwas to unload these sleds” in weather thatwould shut down many major American citiestoday.

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The men driving the four Lombard loghaulers faced their own challenges. “A manwith a telephone was stationed ... day andnight at a descent nicknamed ‘Hey Hill,’” ac-cording to Arnold. This logger kept “fresh hey(sic) or dirt on the road to help brake the

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“Casualties ran high that winter. One man workingwith me got his leg broken,

and rolling logs almost crushedto death another logger. Hewas carried out but lived.”


[Lombard] loads. After all, there were nobrakes on the sleds,” he remembered. “Thepoor fellow up front steering did not want thewhole long train of sleds to run away and intothe woods [and leave him] buried under ma-chine, sleds and logs.”

Years later, Arnold would reminisce aboutthat nasty winter spent working around thePiscataquis County Lombards. “I can close myeyes now and hear the hiss of the steam fromthe old haulers, hear the shouts of the men inthe dim lantern light, hear the rattle of thecantdogs and the booming of the logs therein the flying snow,” he wrote.

“The Log Hauler business lasted over sometwenty years,” Arnold noted. “By that timethey had developed trucks that could haul bigloads, summer or winter, and go much faster.After all, log haulers would not make muchover 3 to 5 miles an hour.

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As a new warden, Iwas desperatelytrying to learn the

geography and the layoutof my unfamiliar district.So when Warden PilotRichard Varney offered totake me along in his planefor an aerial view, I saidsure.

Dick was a veteran pilotfrom Readfield and hispersonality was second tonone. The float plane cir-cled low over the treetopsand dropped down ontoUnity Pond where it grace-fully floated toward me. With a mighty roar of the engine, Dick ma-neuvered the aircraft to the boat ramp and I climbed aboard.

Once inside, Dick and I exchanged cordial greetings. I tightened theseatbelt around my scrawny body. The engine roared again as the planetook off across the lake, picking up speed as we moved along. In notime we abruptly lifted off, rising up into the heavens, leaving the waterand land far below us.

I marveled at the great career I had chosen. After all, in what otherprofession could a rookie summon an airplane at his whim, cruise overthe countryside below, and get paid for doing it? At an altitude of acouple thousand feet, Dick leveled the plane and we began chartingthe land below us using the topographical maps spread out betweenthe seats. We struggled to find out exactly where we were, as Dick had

very little experience fly-ing over this area, and Ihad none.

We circled and banked,swooped down for acloser view, and thenclimbed back up into theair for a different outlook,searching for landmarks Icould recognize. Thesteady drone of the en-gine, along with the con-stant dipping up anddown, banking sharplyaround one area and thenmoving to another, wasbeginning to take its toll.

Suddenly, I wasn’t feeling all that well.Dick noticed my flushed face and how I wasn’t looking down but

kept staring straight ahead. The fact that I was no longer communi-cating with him sealed the prognosis that his passenger wasn’t quite ashealthy as he had been.

We were approaching the northern end of Unity Pond when he said,“Hey, John, there’s a couple of people fishing out of a canoe down onthe pond. Do you want to drop down and check their licenses and per-haps get a little fresh air?”

I felt as though I was about ready to vomit and I just wanted to land,period. I nodded my approval for him to set the flying beast down.The sooner the better, I thought.

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pontoons striking the water’s surface andslowing us to a mere crawl. He opened thewindows of the aircraft, allowing a gush offresh air into the cockpit. Believe me, by nowI fully understood what that old saying “abreath of fresh air” really meant. I welcomedthe cool wind as we taxied across the water,heading for two women fishing from theircanoe. They were in a secluded cove, out ofsight from the main lake.

Looking forward to an opportunity to moveabout, I opened the door of the aircraft andunhooked the safety belts holding me firmlyin place. At the same time, I repositioned theseat to make it easier to get out of the plane.Screwing my warden’s hat securely on myhead, I suavely jumped down for the pontoon.The problem was, I didn’t come close to land-ing on it. Instead, I shot straight down into thewater and completely out of sight.

There was no way in the hinges of hell thatI wanted to resurface from the bottom of thepond. I could only imagine the fiasco this in-cident was about to become.

It was a matter of sheer survival that forcedme to finally bob back up to the top, wheremy warden’s hat floated directly above me. Iscrambled onto the pontoon, grabbing my hatalong the way. There I stood, with water pour-ing out of my holster and dripping off my

head, exposed for the whole world around meto admire. I must have looked like a drownedduck in a swamp.

All I could hear was Dick’s hysterical laugh-ter coming from inside the plane. Glancingover at the two ladies in the canoe, one ofthem was pinching her lips, desperately tryingto maintain some form of composure. Theother lady had already lost hers. She was howl-ing in a fit of laughter. How would I explainthis embarrassing feat in front of two mem-bers of the public I’d never met before?

I knew I had to say something to break theice, so I made it sound like I’d planned such agrand entrance. I glanced towards Dick andsputtered, “I guess they’re legal, Dick, I didn’tsee any hidden stringer of fish beneath theircanoe!”

My stupid statement enhanced their humorall the more. By now, all three of them werehaving a great belly laugh. And they were hav-ing it at my sorry expense. I could only laughalong with them.

After a quick check of their licenses and anapology for ruining their fishing excursion,Dick and I floated away from the scene of thiscatastrophe. Rather humbly, I told my still-hys-terical comrade, “I think I’ve had quite enoughflying for today, Dick. You’d better take meback to my cruiser.”

Between chuckles, he said, “I’d say you have,John! I promise no one will ever hear aboutthis . . . ha-ha-ha.”

I knew damn well it would only be a matterof hours before the story of our day togetherwould be told around the state. I wasn’t dis-appointed.

As a sad footnote to this now-humorousmemory, two years later in 1972, Warden Var-ney lost his life on Maranacook Lake in thetown of Winthrop when the helicopter he waspiloting malfunctioned and plunged into thewater. Tragically, Dick, who was unable toswim, drowned in the incident.

I still think of that day out on Unity Pond,when at least I saw my friend share a momentof sheer joy, even if it was at my expense. I’msure it was one of the more humorous mem-ories he ever experienced during his long ca-reer with the agency.

This is an excerpt from the upcoming book, Sud-denly The Cider Didn’t Taste So Good, by for-mer Maine Game Warden John Ford Sr., who alsoserved as Waldo County Sheriff in the 90s. Ford’sbook, a recollection of his experiences as a warden;humorous, serious and heartwarming, will be publishedby and available from islandportpress.com in April ofthis year.

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washing dishes. According to her, “Dish wash-ing is especially beneficial, as the hot watercalls the blood to the hands and so helps torelieve the headache or backache.”

The above piece of advice can be found inWhat A Young Girl Ought To Know, a Woman’sChristian Temperance Union (WCTU) publi-cation. It was first published in 1897. Therewere numerous follow-ups. The work was partof a WCTU series on the “Self and Sex.” Theoverall theme of “Self and Sex” was personalhygiene, mental and physical. The WCTU was-n’t just anti-alcohol, it was decidedly pro-clean-liness and hygiene, in particular and in general.The president of the WCTU, Lillian M. N.Stevens, saw to that. Hygiene was one ofStevens’ pet projects. To that end she pushedthe appointment of Mary Wood-Allen, M.D.

as World Superintendent of the Purity De-partment of the WCTU. The particular typeof headache and backache Wood-Allen wasdiscussing in her treatise for young girls wasthat associated with menstrual cramps.

There is a tale of a farmer, who, after a hardday of hoeing under the hot sun, thought hemight go down to the pond with a bar of soapand give himself a good scrub. Somethingcame up, though, and he didn’t. As the talegoes, he thought to put off scrubbing untilafter the next hoeing, even until the harvestwas done.

Most of us think of bathing as one of thenecessities of life. Back in the nineteenth cen-tury and well into the twentieth, a good many,like the farmer of the above story, were largelyindifferent to cleanliness. While truant boysmight slip away for a dip in stream or pond,those who most needed to — like farmers —rarely made use of soap and water.

From its very beginning in the 1870s, theWCTU made bathing a part of its platformand message. The organization’s original mes-sage was “All should bathe at least twice aweek.” The message was refined with the de-velopment of the organization’s Purity De-partment. The importance of bathing inparticular and hygiene in general for theWCTU may have had something to do withwhere Lillian Stevens hailed from. She wasfrom farming country — in PiscataquisCounty.

Dr. Mary Wood-Allen linked cleanliness andChristianity. She connected dish washing andreligion. Hot water represented “truth, heatedby love.” The dirty dishes were the self. Wash-ing dishes was akin to the cleansing of “worn-out thoughts and desires.” They were cleansedin “loving truth.”

Bathing in the nineteenth century was verydifferent from today. For one thing, few had

Saturday night Baths And Other Timely AblutionsBathing was once a luxury for only the well-to-do

by Charles Francis


running water in their homes. Water was coldunless you had the time and ability to heat itbeforehand. Back then people didn’t takebaths as often as we do today. Bathing was aluxury. The poor and middle class would go atleast a week without a bath... maybe longer.The wealthy would bathe more often.

William Alcott’s Young Man’s Guide made thefollowing observation in 1836: “Cleanliness ofthe body has... such a connection with men-tal and moral purity... that I am unwilling toomit the present opportunity of urging its im-portance. There are those who are so attentiveto this subject as to wash their whole bodies...every day, and never to wear the same clothes,during the day, that they have slept in the pre-vious night. Now this habit by some might becalled whimsical; but I think it deserves a bet-ter name. I consider this extreme, if it ought tobe called an extreme, as vastly more safe thanthe common extreme of neglect.” Alcott was,of course, describing a relatively new habit —a habit of the well-to-do. For the vast major-ity of the early nineteenth century, the hy-gienic norm was one of filth and stench.

The WCTU rose to prominence in the postCivil War years. Its two great leaders wereFrances Willard and Lillian Stevens. They saw

need for change, and on the massive scale ofa progressive social movement centered onhygiene and moral cleanliness.

Lillian Stevens was born Lillian Ames inDover [Foxcroft] on the banks of the Pis-cataquis River in 1844. As would be expected,the future president of the WCTU grew up ina home which emphasized Christian virtues.Growing up, Lillian regularly and repeatedlyheard the message delivered from the localchurch pulpit that cleanliness and purity wereone and the same, and that cleanliness wasnext to Godliness. This message manifesteditself on a grand scale with the WCTU aroundthe time Lillian Stevens became the organiza-tion’s national president in 1898.

In the mid- to late-1890s the WCTU ac-tively endorsed a particular brand of soap —Happy Thought Soap. Happy Thought Soap,Christianity and the WCTU were directly con-nected. There were Happy Thought Soap ad-vertisements in The Woman’s Journal. Theadvertisements carried the endorsement ofthe WCTU. The manufacturer of HappyThought Soap even went so far as to donate apenny from the sale of each bar to the WCTU.The message is clear — there was a connec-tion between physical and moral cleanliness

and soap. This brings us to the honored tradi-tion of the Saturday night bath.

Those who lived in rural areas would bathein natural water, especially in the summerwhen it was hot. They would find a secludedspot in a river or lake for their ablutions. Assome know, bathing in the outdoors, feelingthe wind blowing on your body, the waterflowing on you and laving you is an indescrib-able luxury.

In more populated hamlets and towns, andduring cold weather, water was boiled in potsover a fire and poured into a bathtub. Thebathtub was metal and portable. It was hauledout every Saturday night. The head of house-hold would be first and he would get the freshwarm water, and then the next person ac-cording to station. Infants and small childrenwere given baths separately from adults. Somefamilies had special tubs for the little ones.They were smaller than the adult-size tub.Some were set on a large, lipped base so thatthe rambunctious young bather would notsplash water on the floor.

The WCTU did much to make bathing apart of our daily lives. It was a matter of rid-ding society of dirt, moral as well as material.

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Abandoned when the CPR ceased its pas-senger operations years ago, the station hassince fallen upon hard times.

In the late-19th and early-20th centuries,two railroads connected Greenville andMoosehead Lake with Maine, Canada, andpoints beyond. Crossing Maine from east to

west, the CPR linked Greenville withBrownville Junction. From there, passengerscould entrain for Bangor or Millinocket.

A late-comer to Greenville, the Bangor &Aroostook Railroad extended a line west fromits Derby yard. The B&A ran through Dover-Foxcroft and Guilford before gradually curv-ing north and west through Blanchard andShirley to Greenville Junction, where carefulnegotiations led to the CPR granting the B&Astation access. The train station lies essentiallynorth-south: CPR trains would stop on theeast side of the station, B&A trains on thewest side. Freight and passengers could inter-change.

The arrangement worked well during thosedecades when wealthy folks fleeing summerheat and humidity (and cholera and typhoidand similar diseases) in large American citiesrode the rails north to Greenville Junction.With children, servants, and baggage in tow,these well-to-do tourists would board lakesteamers — such as the surviving Katahdin,

which still plies the lake — to cruise north toresorts at Kineo and elsewhere.

Unfortunately, passenger traffic faded withthe popularity of the automobile and im-proved roads. The B&A abandoned its pas-senger runs to Greenville Junction, then itsfreight runs, and finally pulled up its tracks andties. The old B&A corridor lingers on in a six-mile, multi-use recreational trail running fromThe Junction to Shirley; ATVs and snowmo-biles seasonally buzz where trains once rolled.

The CPR maintained passenger service untilthe late 20th century — many Mainers can re-call waiting at the Greenville Junction at oddhours to catch a Montreal-bound train. Eventhat train steamed into history as the CPRabandoned all passenger service and the re-maining train stations.

The Depot underwent several architecturalchanges during its early decades. Most strikingwas the addition to the building’s north endof a women’s waiting room (complete with

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Group’s efforts to keep unused railroad stationby Ian MacKinnon


ornate interior curved benches) and a conicalroof subsequently dubbed the Witch’s Cap.The Moosehead Historical Society’s extensivephotographic archives — arguably among thebest in Maine — contain dated photos show-ing the Greenville Junction station sansWitch’s Cap circa 1901, and with it about adecade later.

By the early 21st century The Depot be-came an eyesore and a potential liability for theMontreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway, whichhad purchased the B&A lines and equipmentfrom Iron Road Railway in 2003. To its credit,the MM&A did not immediately raze the

Greenville Junction station.Enter the Greenville Junction Depot

Friends, a non-profit group recently estab-lished to preserve the station. Launching afund-raising campaign called Save The Depot,the Greenville Junction Depot Friends needsto raise $100,000 to relocate and renovate thevenerable train station.

According to Chairperson Jane Hall, theMM&A will donate The Depot to the Friendsgroup. Plans call for moving the buildingacross nearby Route 15 to a site on the LittleMoose Unit of the Maine Public ReserveLands, administered by the Maine Departmentof Conservation. Once placed on a secure

foundation, The Depot will be thoroughlyrenovated. Hall said that sections will be “fullywinterized” for use by such events as concerts,weddings and receptions, and senior citizengroups.

On September 25-26, 2010, representativesfrom Camden-based Gartley & Dorsky Engi-neering Surveying and Rockport-based 2A Ar-chitects physically inspected The Depot toassess its structural integrity. Both companiesprovided their services “in kind,” Hall noted,and issued a comprehensive report on No-vember 18, 2010.

“Currently the Depot is in a state of severedisrepair,” the report concluded in its intro-duction. For page after page, the report as-sesses the train station’s existing condition andadvises what steps must be taken — immedi-ately or later — to rebuild each section. To-ward its end, the report details the requisitemeasures to move and fully restore the station.

Concerning the station’s roof, the investiga-tive team reported that “the roof is not wa-tertight and should be patched immediately toprevent further damage to the [building‘s] in-terior” caused by leaks. According to Hall, vol-unteers from the Friends group soon patchedthe roof, cleaned up The Depot and itsgrounds, and secured the building against ille-gal access.

On August 20, 2011 the Friends groupsponsored “Celebrate the Depot” at theGreenville train station. Some retired CPRemployees long-affiliated with the stationspoke with visitors, and musicians entertainedthe crowd. Visitors toured The Depot, de-scribed by Hall as “a totally unique building.”

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A & A Towing and Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . .16A Straight Stitch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44A.E. Robinson Oil Company . . . . . . . . . . . .50ABM Mechanical, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41Albert Fitzpatrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13Allstate Insurance/Stephen Wilde . . . . . . . .42Al’s Diner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15Ames Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59Andy’s Auto Repair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29Aroostook Milling Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36Auto Radiator Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43B & L Auto Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29Bangor Area Visiting Nurses . . . . . . . . . . . . .6Bangor Frameworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26Bangor Letter Shop & Color Copy Center .42Bangor Mall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42Bangor Motor Inn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25Bangor Pipe & Supply, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26Bangor Region Chamber of Commerce . . .27Bangor Tire Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25Bangor Truck & Trailer Sales, Inc. . . . . . . . .56Bangor Window Shade & Drapery Co. . . . .42Bartlett Chapel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9Bear Brook Kennels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28Belfast Metals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61Ben’s Detailing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21Big House Sound LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46Big Jay Tree Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30Blue Loon Café . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65Bonsey Brothers, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63Bowman Constructors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61Bowman Mini Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61Bradley Redemption Center . . . . . . . . . . . . .24Bragdon’s Woodworking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58Brookings-Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26Brooks Tire & Auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62Brown Family Electric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7Brownlee Builders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11Bucksport Monuments & Sandblasting . . . .30Bud’s Shop N’ Save . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49Campbell’s Service Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8Candyland Boarding Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59Care & Comfort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43Care Ridge Estates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20Carousel Diversified Services . . . . . . . . . . . .47Central Maine Maintenance & Builders . . . .60Children’s Village Child Care Center . . . . . .57City of Old Town . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68Claudia’s Seafood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24Clay Funeral Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9Cleonice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46Coach House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27Coffee Pot Café . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41Cold Stream Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21Cole Land Transportation Museum . . . . . . . .4Colonial Health Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Colonial Inn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45Complete Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13Complete Tire Service, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53Cote Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36Country Junction Greenhouse & Garden . .47Cox Law Offices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60Craig Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49Crandall’s Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8Crawford’s Precision Wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . .24Crosstrax Neighborhood Deli . . . . . . . . . . .48Cummings Health Care Facility . . . . . . . . . .20D & D Paving, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18D.C. Welding & Fabrication . . . . . . . . . . . . .53

D.H. Pinnette & Sons, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3D.L.C. Cedar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Dan’s Handyman Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18Dave Eaton Water Treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . .3DeLaite’s Trucking, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18Designed Living . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31Dexter Lumber Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62Dorsey Furniture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Dover True Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63Draper’s Garage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66Drinkwater’s Cash Fuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18Drummond Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65Duff & Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7Dunnett Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41E.H. Downs Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17Eagle Arboriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54Earth’s Bounty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17Eastern Maine Homecare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6Ellis’ Greenhouse and Nursery . . . . . . . . . . .58Ellsworth Chain Saw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53Ellsworth Chamber of Commerce . . . . . . . .52Enfield Citgo & Service Center . . . . . . . . . .21F.A. Peabody Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13Family Forestry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44Fort View Variety / Carter’s Citgo . . . . . . . .30Four Seasons Small Engine Repair . . . . . . . .51Frank’s Bake Shop & Custom Catering . . . .45Freightliner of Maine Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26Frost Septic & Sons, LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57G. Drake Masonry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48Galeyrie Maps & Custom Frames . . . . . . . . .5Gateway Inn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11Gazebo Sports & Gifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24General Rental Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23Gillmor’s Beef N’ Ale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37Global Self Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38Gordon Masonry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54Greenland Cove Campground . . . . . . . . . . .36Grill Master General’s Catering & Party Service . . .34H.C. Haynes, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17H20 Well Drilling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60Hammond Lumber Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35Happy Tails Boarding Kennel . . . . . . . . . . . .59Harold’s Transmission Repairs, Inc. . . . . . . .23Harris Drug Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32Hartt Transportation Systems, Inc. . . . . . . . .39Hermon Meadow Golf Club . . . . . . . . . . . .56Highlands Tavern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10Hobnobbers Pub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58Houlton Higher Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14Houston-Brooks Auctioneers . . . . . . . . . . . . .7J.D. Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59J.M. Brown Construction General Contractor . . . .43Jackman Hardware & Sporting Goods . . . . . .8Jack’s Air Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32Jay’s Towing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65JDL Towing & Salvage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60Jerry’s Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29Jerry’s Shurfine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12Jimmy’s Market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65John R. Crooker Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51Johnson Foundations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63Jones Custom Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44JSL Metal Recycling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13K & K Enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45K.C. Custom Lumber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47Katahdin Area Chamber of Commerce . . . . .9Katahdin Cruises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32Katahdin Shadows Campground & Cabins . . .35

Kevin Carmichael Masonry . . . . . . . . . . . . .13Kimball Insurance, LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65King Bros. General Contractors . . . . . . . . . .21King’s Appliances & Floor Coverings . . . . .61Kinney Auto Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16L & J Trucking & Recycling . . . . . . . . . . . . .12Lakeview Terrace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20Lander & Sons, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49Lane Conveyors & Drives, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . .44LaPierre’s Cleaning Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9Leclair Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Lee Historical Society & Museum . . . . . . . .16Lee J. Bell Site Work & Landscaping . . . . . .48Leighton’s Stove Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18Lennie’s Superette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11Lincoln Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce . . .20Lincoln Maine Federal Credit Union . . . . . .37Lindsey Foundations Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39Lougee & Frederick’s Florist . . . . . . . . . . . . .25M.J. Construction, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Magoon Realty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51Magoon’s Transportation & Energy, Inc. . . .51Maine Collision Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41Maine Energy, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43Maine Highlands Federal Credit Union . . . . .7Maine Historical Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35Maine House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33Maine’s Own Treats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54Maynard’s In Maine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50Mayo Regional Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62Michael’s Plumbing, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58Milford Motel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22Millinocket Fabrication & Machine, Inc. . . . .9Millmark Products Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52Mitchell - Tweedie Funeral Home . . . . . . . .29Moose Point Camps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14Moosehead Building, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31Moosehead Lake Region Chamber of Commerce .65Moosehead Marine Museum . . . . . . . . . . . . .32Moosehead Rubbish & Recycling . . . . . . . . .66Moosehead Trail Home & Hearth . . . . . . . .31Morall Brake & More . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27Morrell’s Hardware & Home Center . . . . . .66Napa Auto & Truck Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52Nature’s Creations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34Newport Big Stop Family Restaurant . . . . . .49Newport Metals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61Nicatous Lodge & Camps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6Nice Twice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45Nickerson’s Septic Tank Pumping Service . .60Nicky’s Cruisin’ Diner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25Norm Cookson Realty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62North Brewer Shopping Center . . . . . . . . . .28North Woods Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35Northeast Applicators LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Northeast Concrete Specialists Corp. . . . . . .46Northern Blasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47Old Town Archery Center & Pro Shop . . . .22Owen Gray & Son, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44Pamola Motor Lodge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10Pangburn’s Family IGA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10Pat’s Pizza of Orono . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39Patten Drug Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12Pearson Auto Recycling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57Penobscot Bay Yacht Exchange . . . . . . . . . .30Penobscot Developers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20Penobscot Marine Museum . . . . . . . . . . . . .55Penobscot Valley Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16Perry O’Brian Attorney at Law . . . . . . . . . . .24

Piscataquis Chamber of Commerce . . . . . . .63Pleasant River Lumber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63Plumbline Carpentry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47Poirier’s Garage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28Polar Air Inc. Refrigeration & Air Conditioning . . .60Possibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37Pri Steen Builders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53R.A. Thomas Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64Raymond James Financial Services, Inc. . . . .7Raymond’s Variety & Diner . . . . . . . . . . . . .16Rick’s Market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9Rideout’s Seasonal Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63R N ’K Garage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64Robbins Auto & Truck Repair . . . . . . . . . . .57Robin A. Crawford & Son . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18Rockwell Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36Roger’s Plumbing & Heating . . . . . . . . . . . .57Rustic Rail Fence Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36Sandman Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28Seamans Electrical Services . . . . . . . . . . . . .62Sebasticook Valley Chamber of Commerce 61Shorey Oil Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48Smart’s True Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17Smith’s Grocery & Lunch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58Smitty’s Welding, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23Sockalexis Bingo Palace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23Solartechnic Contractors, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . .57South Branch Lake Camps . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38Stairs Welding R.L., Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15Stardust Motel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15Steinke & Caruso Dental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62Stewart’s Wrecker Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6Stone’s Earthwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29Sullivan’s Wrecker Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22Swett’s Tire & Auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24Swift Carpentry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61T & S Market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14T&W Garage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48Tate Brook Timber Co., Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . .37The Appalachian Trail Lodge & Café . . . . . .10The Covered Bridge Motel/Riverside Restaurant . .32The Holmes Agency Insurance . . . . . . . . . .30The Lincoln House Motel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20The Pampered Chef/Lois Bloomer . . . . . . .56The Pioneer Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12The Plymouth Village Store . . . . . . . . . . . . .59The Salvation Army Thrift Store . . . . . . . . .36The Tax Clinic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22Thistle’s Restaurant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46Thomas W. Duff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7Thompson’s Hardware, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . .21Timbers Restaurant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30Town of Lincoln . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37Tucker Auto Repair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25Tuffy Bear Discount Furniture . . . . . . . . . . .68Two Falls Camps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64Two Rivers Canoe & Tackle . . . . . . . . . . . . .12Vacationland Estates Resorts . . . . . . . . . . . . .8Visions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14Whitten’s 2-Way Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45Willard S. Hanington & Son, Inc. . . . . . . . . . .5Wing Wah Restaurant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7Winn Service Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17Witham’s Garage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58WKIT/The Pulse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41Yates Lumber & Trucking, Inc. . . . . . . . . . .16York’s of Houlton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13Young’s Funeral Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

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