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s of this writing, the country is still facing a pandemic that will not only affect people’s lives, but also how they celebrate certain holidays. Being that this issue is released near March, it is natural to consider St. Patrick’s Day. Although many people know that this holiday honors St. Patrick, who is usually credited for introducing Christianity to Ireland in the 5th century A.D., there are many such “facts” that are not simply true.

First, the patron saint of Ireland was born in Scotland. According to the traditional narrative, when he was 16, Palladius (his actual name) was enslaved by Irish raiders and transported to Ireland. Approximately six years later, he escaped and returned to Scotland, where he joined a monastery. He eventually returned to Ireland as a missionary and lived there until his death in 461 A.D. Second, well before St. Patrick began preaching in Ireland, Pope Celestine sent a bishop “to the Irish believing in Christ,” indicating that some Irish residents had already converted. Thus, St. Patrick is falsely credited for introducing Christianity to Ireland.

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Third, St. Patrick was not a canonized saint. In fact, the process of canonizing saints did not become common until long after St. Patrick’s death.

During his lifetime, the title of “saint” was more of a general one that was assigned to those who lived holy lives and spread the word of God through their acts of kindness and, in some cases, martyrdom.

Fourth, although green is most associated with Ireland, it was not the color worn by St. Patrick himself. Members of the Order of St. Patrick wore blue as their symbolic color. Two reasons why green replaced blue is due to Ireland’s nickname of “The Emerald Isle” and the green strip in the Irish flag, which represents the Catholics in the country.

Finally, there is no historical evidence that St. Patrick used the shamrock to demonstrate Christianity by stating that the three leaves represented the Holy Trinity. In fact, during his lifetime, the shamrock already had symbolic importance in pagan traditions.

In this regard, green was a significant color in paganism because it represented rebirth, while the number three symbolized the three primary gods in pagan

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So, before you run out to get that green shamrock shirt, surf the Internet for an easy corned beef recipe, and pick up some whiskey or Guinness to make a toast, let me close with the following jest: An Englishman and an Irishman are driving towards one another on a dark, twisted road. Both men are driving too fast for the conditions and they collide on a sharp turn. To their amazement, they are unscathed, but their cars are both destroyed. In celebration of their luck, both men agree to put aside their dislike for the other from that moment on. At that point, the Irishman goes to the trunk of his car and grabs a 12-year-old bottle of Jameson whiskey.

He hands the bottle to the Englishman, who toasts, “May the English and the Irish live together forever in peace and harmony!” Then, he tips the bottle and drinks more than half of it. Already feeling the alcohol, the Englishman hands the bottle to the Irishman, who says, “Oh! No thanks man! I’ll just wait for the police to get here first!”

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The Escape of Peleg Wadsworth He led an uncommon life

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eleg Wadsworth led an uncommon life. Born on the 6th of May 1748, his work ethic and intellect wereevident from a young age. Every level of schooling brought him further from his parents’ farm in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Peleg earned two degrees at Harvard College. He returned thereafter to his hometown and opened a school with Alexander Schammel, a friend from college. (Schammel would also go on to serve in theContinental Army, becoming Colonel of the 4th New Hampshire.)

Still in his twenties, Peleg organized an early company of minutemen

in Kingston, Massachusetts. He drilled diligently and was promoted to captain.

Men soon came from a great distance to answer the call in Lexington. Rising in rank, Peleg became aide to Major General Artemas Ward, during which time he artfully designed the defenses of Roxbury Heights and led a regiment into the battle of Long Island as Colonel.

Although his troops were held in reserve, Peleg wasted no time in learning battle techniques and strategy. 1777 marked his promotion to General of Massachusetts Militia. He was second in command of land forces in the Penobscot Expedition, a combined Army/

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DiscoverMaineMagazine.com Navy offensive with the aim of capturing Fort George, a heavily armed British redoubt in the district of Maine.

Though the army attack on the fort was well-executed, the promised naval support never arrived, and troops failed to breach the walls.

Due to the leadership skills exhibited during the Penobscot Expedition, the now-General Wadsworth was placed in charge of Maine. His militia forces were repeatedly sent north to contend with the spread of the British New Ireland Movement, anchored, in present-day Castine, by the formidable Fort George.

But General Wadsworth’s latter-day fame stemmed not from these military accomplishments, but a madcap escape from Fort George’s prison. The details of this escape were recounted, with some possible embellishment, in many history books of the era, such as Goodrich’s History of the United States, Dwight’s Travels, and Hunt’s American

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On a cold winter’s day in 1781, the Massachusetts authority again failed to pay its soldiers from Maine. General Wadsworth was forced to disband his army of some 600 men. He kept a small consignment of volunteers as guards, as he planned to return to his family in Boston.

The winter of 1781 was brutal even by the standards of Maine. Four feet of snow blanketed the ground, the temperatures below freezing and the wind howling. The General, stationed in present-day Thomaston, felt he would be safe from attack for the few days it would take to catch a ship back to the safety of Boston.

But the General’s neighbor had a

different idea. A Methodist minister, Rev. Snow, feigned close friendship with the Wadsworth family -- though he was in fact a dyed-in-the-wool Tory.

Either Rev. Snow or a Tory chum made the trip to Castine and requested an audience with General Campbell, Commander of Fort George.

The Commander immediately seized the opportunity. He assembled a raiding party of 15 and plotted the capture of the rebel General. The attackers’ plan was not to tread through the thighdeep snow, but sail in by day and hide in the Reverend’s barn. Then, when the hour was late, they could storm the Wadsworth family’s rented home.

The General’s guards could do little against such overwhelming odds.

One of them was stationed outside the house. Believing he heard something, he gave the password to have the door unbarred. As it opened, he was shot through the back and the raiders rushed

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(cont. from page 5) the door. A loud melee broke out. The British surrounded the house and skirmished with the guards. Though now all on high alert, several were killed or wounded in an exchange of fire.

The General and his wife Elizabeth were immediately awakened by the shattering of windows. Elizabeth bolted from her room to that of their children, who were being watched by Miss Maria Fenno, a friend.

The General grabbed a cache of arms from under his bed, including a blunderbuss, a fusee, and several pistols. He exchanged fire with the soldiers outside his window and the raiders at his door. After snapping his blunderbuss five times without success, he used a bayonet, killing or mortally wounding several British before a bullet caught an artery in his arm.

The General then called out a surrender. The British Commander answered in the affirmative, as he imagined King

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George happy at seeing the General swing in London rather than fall in the colonies. But at this moment, a wounded soldier screamed, “You have taken my life, now I shall take yours!” As he pulled the trigger of his musket, pushed against the chest of the General, the Commander swatted it away. The General, by now losing copious blood, was allowed to have his wound bound by Miss Fenno. The fight was over, the treachery complete.

An exhausted and battle-worn patriot was dragged before the Commander of Fort George. He was commended for the courageous battle he had fought, then rebuked for failing to respect the power of the Crown. The General’s cell, though not uncomfortable – being deemed an officer worthy of respect — was considered inescapable. It was built solidly, with thick walls and floorboards and a heavily barred door. A small window was cut in the door so he

could be watched at all times.

The General wrote to his wife at this time: “It is with supreme gratitude, my dear Betsey, that I acknowledge the preservation of my sweet family in the late hostile conflict … I am extremely afflicted with the idea of your situation.

The windows dashed, the doors broken, the house torn to pieces and blood and slaughter around you without help, without your bosom companion.”

Several months passed before another American, Major Benjamin Burton, was captured and added to the cell.

Requests for an exchange or release on bond were refused on the grounds that the General was a dangerous adversary and a strategic captive. A visit by his wife and Miss Fenno was allowed, though the jail keepers fortuitously failed to stop their hint that their situation was dire. A ship was due that would send both captives to London,

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The Major and General were by now desperate and hatched an unlikely plan of escape. First item: a large corkscrew obtained by bribe from the barber. Second item: pilfered bread, to fill corkscrew holes in the ceiling. Third item: a loud noise, to hide the sound of a manhole being knocked loose. Fourth item: a change of guard, so no one would be seen pulling himself through a hole and into the eaves of the fort. The duo then planned to creep across roof joists to a rampart with a lone guard, wait for him to be distracted, then clamber down a rope made of tied bed sheets. Should they make it that far, it would be a simple matter of fleeing across the open fields, then the mud of the bay at low tide. There was no shortage of ifs.

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The men awaited a miracle. Their prayers were answered when a oncein-a-decade storm began to lash the fort. The sky went black with thunderclouds. An unending cannonade of thunder sounded. Lightning and heavy hail added to the spectacle. The day was June 15th, 1781.

Their room guards were pulled away for a storm-related emergency.

After many blows, the ceiling hole broke through. Up went Major Burton.

The General, a man of small stature, attempted to use a chair. Even with that, it took many attempts before his shoulder and still-injured arm could pull him up and over.

The Major disappeared into dark-

ness while the General let down the sheets in a secluded spot. As planned, they waited till the guard went undercover from the storm. The Major wasted no time in shimmying down and making his getaway.

For reasons unclear, the General was forced to wait. But slide down he did, rounding the abatis and awaiting the moment when the sentry would turn away. He made a run for it ― no shots rang out. On hands and feet, he crawled through a rock-strewn field, hoping that the sentries would not take notice with his derriere in plain sight.

Alas, the escape was discovered moments later. Guards rushed out in hot pursuit. But the details of this pursuit, and the duo’s ensuing flight, must wait for another time.

A month later, there was an exuberant reunion in Boston with the General’s wife and family. Elizabeth (cont. on page 8)

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The General, Elizabeth, and their children returned to Maine after the war. The family settled in Portland, where they built a stately brick home.

They would have ten children in all. It was quite a task, even for the energetic and spirited Elizabeth, as Peleg was soon elected to the new US Congress, where he would serve many terms.

In addition to his Congressional duties, the General worked as a businessman, land surveyor, and land speculator, founding the town of Hiram on his land grant. In retirement, he built Wadsworth Hall, where his descendants live to this day. He is buried in a family plot there where an obelisk marks his life as an American Patriot.

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During its June 1817 term in Castine, the court handled a murder case involving a Penobscot Indian. The case should have been open and shut, but the defense team took its responsibilities seriously and vigorously defended the accused.

On June 28, 1816, a Penobscot Indian named Peol Susup visited a Bangor

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The angry Susup allegedly spun, “pursued him [Knight] to the steps, with a drawn knife,” and stabbed him “just below his shoulder blade.”

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A “solicitor general” named D. Davis represented the Massachusetts state government, and Judge Prentiss Mellen and a lawyer named Williamson represented Susup. People “crowded the meeting-house,” but onlookers clamored for no blood, according to Williamson (possibly the defense attorney or perhaps related to him).

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“This murder was committed under extreme provocation, and much sympathy was felt for Susup,” Castine historian George Augustus Wheeler wrote.

Including “Susup’s wife and four or five children” and Governor John Neptune, many Penobscots attended the trial, as did a few Passamaquoddies.

Either Governor Neptune or Squire Jo Merry Neptune paid Mellen “30 half dollars” toward Susup’s defense, Wheeler noted.

Donning “the full court dress of that period” (possibly including a powdered wig), Mellen “gave “undoubted indications of his intentions to secure” Susup’s acquittal. The trial proceeded, and suddenly Mellen arose in all his sartorial splendor and “informed the Court that Governor Neptune … was present, and desired to be heard,” Wheeler wrote.

People watched as Neptune stepped toward the judges and jury, stopped, “and deliberately addressed them in an impressive speech of several minutes,” Williamson wrote. Neptune spoke “in broken English, yet every word was distinctly heard and easily understood.

“His gestures were frequent and forcible; his manner solemn; and a breathless silence pervaded the whole assembly,” Williamson noted.

“You know, your people do my Indians a great deal of wrong,” Neptune told the judge and the jury. “They abuse them very much. Yes, they murder them. Then they walk right off.

Nobody touches them. This makes my heart burn.

“Well, then my Indians say, ‘We’ll go kill your very bad and wicked men,’” a reference to killing whites who had killed Indians. “No, I tell ’em, never do that thing. We are brothers,” Neptune said.

He cited a case involving “a very

bad man from Boston” named Livermore, who “shot an Indian dead. Your people said, surely, he should die, but it was not so.” Although convicted of murder and sentenced to hang, Livermore saw his sentence commuted to life in prison at hard labor.

The Penobscots had noticed the broken judicial promise. “In the great prison-house he eats and lives to this day, certain he never dies for killing Indian,” Neptune reminded the judges and jury members, who were familiar with the case.

“My brothers say, ‘Let that bloody man go free, Peol Susup, too,” he said.

“Hope fills the hearts of us all. Peace is good,” Neptune said. “These, my Indians, love it well. They smile under its shade. The white man and the red man must be always friends. The Great Spirit is our Father.

“I speak what I feel,” he concluded.

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(cont. from page 11) Knight — there were witnesses — the defense team evidently countered by drawing from those witnesses just how Knight had badgered and hectored Susup that awful afternoon.

Withdrawing into the jury room, the jurors debated the case and then returned to the courtroom. They declared Susup guilty of manslaughter, not murder. The judge sentenced him to one year in prison and required him to post a $500 bond surety that he would “keep the peace for two years” after being released, Wheeler noted.

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n 1910, two new Harvard graduates, Waldo Peirce and John Reed, booked passage on a freighter from Boston, Massachusetts, to England. As the ship was leaving Boston Harbor, Peirce decided that his accommodations were not to his taste. So, without a word to anyone, including Reed, he jumped off the back of the ship and swam several miles back to shore. Reed was subsequently arrested by the ship’s captain for the murder of his missing traveling companion and thrown into the brig for the remainder of the journey. When the freighter arrived in England, Peirce was waiting at the dock to greet Reed.

Apparently, he had taken a faster ship.

After everything was sorted out, Reed went on to become a journalist, prominent communist activist, and one of only three Americans buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis. Meanwhile, Peirce went on to become a prominent painter who never lost his eccentric personality and wit.

Born in Bangor on December 17, 1884, Peirce attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and graduated in 1903. In 1906, Peirce was accepted to Harvard University.

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As stated by Gallagher, Peirce sent “scores of letters to his mother, describing the often-riotous times of an art student in prewar Paris.” By 1915, he launched his career as an Impressionist and managed to have his works exhibited in New York City along with those of American realists George Bellows and Edward Hopper.

However, in the same year, Peirce volunteered for the American Field Service Ambulance Corps. According to Gallagher, “he escaped the front for weekends in his Paris apartment, but most of the time, he was surrounded by battlefield horrors.” Despite his portrayal as a somewhat rebellious character lacking sensitivity, his care and empathy for his fallen soldiers can be

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As for their friendship, Gallagher stated the following: “Their letters to each other were filled with news, gossip, and witty passages, often interlaced with Spanish and French asides.

Both men were voracious readers.

Both were remarkable presences in a room, regaling others with ribald tales, great stories, and vivid word pictures.”

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— Sloppy Joe’s (1936) with Hemingway at the Bar and Peirce Standing —

married four times), and possessed an unending, consuming curiosity about the world around them.”

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As stated earlier, Peirce was married four times. However, each of his wives were interesting in their own way. First, there was Dorothy Rice, who was an artist, aviatrix, and the first woman to receive a U.S. motorcycle license. According to Rice, “they were married in Madrid, Spain, in a German Methodist Church, with an American vice-consul, who was a Filipino, to make it legal.”

While Peirce was away serving in the ambulance corps, Rice earned her pilot’s license, becoming only the tenth woman in the United States to be licensed to fly. However, after she became involved with her flight instructor, Rice and Peirce divorced in 1917.

When word came out of their divorce, the San Francisco Chronicle published

a full-page article titled, The Sad and Very Imperfect Romance of a Perfect Man and Perfect Woman. Rice went on to become a mystery novel writer and world-class bridge player.

Second, there was Ivy Troutman, who was a “dark and lovely” actress that appeared in 21 Broadway productions between 1902 and 1945. They married in Paris in 1920. As stated by sculptor Thomas Frelinghuysen, two of Hemingway’s characters in The Sun Also Rises were based on Peirce and Troutman. They divorced in Paris in 1930.

Third, there was Alzira Boehm, the granddaughter of August Boehm, the developer who built one of the first skyscrapers in Manhattan. After meeting Peirce at a Matisse exhibit in New York, the couple were married and had three children. During World War II, Alzira was an Army captain in the American Red Cross Motor Corps.

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Finally, there was Ellen Larsen, who was married to Peirce for 24 years until his death. She was an artist who worked on the side as a waitress in a well-known café in New York. After they married, she modeled for Peirce, along with his children. As stated by Ellen’s close friend and art writer, Sarah Sargent, “They seemed genuinely devoted to one another. She was the yin to his yang. With her, Peirce had finally met his match, and their marriage endured until his death.”

Interestingly, Alzira’s and Ellen’s talent, drive, and the children they had with Peirce deeply affected his art.

Peirce was devoted to his children and painted them hundreds of times. According to a letter by Hemingway in the mid-1930s, “Waldo lives only for the children and with the time he puts on them, they should have good manners and be well-trained, but instead, they (cont. on page 18)

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Overall, Peirce spent many hours a day painting pictures of his beloved family, still lifes, landscapes, and various scenes from his past. For the remainder of his life, he received various commissions, including two murals (i.e., Legends of the Hudson and Rip van Winkle for the U.S. Post Office in Troy, New York. Currently, his paintings can be found at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney, the Museum of American Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Brooklyn Museum.

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or some two decades during the 1970s and 1980s I was a dedicated runner. I trained on a regular basis, putting in several thousand miles a year. Then my knees went and with them a lifestyle that influences me to this day.

I was a mediocre runner. When I competed in a road race, I felt successful when I finished in the top third. I was also a coach. I coached cross country, my favorite sport, at Searsport District High School. I also introduced track and field there.

I like to think I was a better coach than a runner. That, of course, is for those who competed on my teams and

knew me as both a runner and coach to say.

My goal as a coach was to interest young people in a pastime that they would continue to enjoy as adults. I know I was successful in this with some. Some of the athletes who competed on my teams went on to compete at the college level. Some still run today.

As a coach I tried to show there was more to running than simply competing in high school. To this end I encouraged my athletes to compete in road races and AAU track and field meets.

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Some runners — or, as in my case, ex-runners — think of the ‘70s and ‘80s as the golden age of running in Maine.

The tricks memory plays on us aside, there may be some justification for this belief.

The 1970s saw the rise of girls’ high school cross country and track and field teams. This was followed in turn by the development of junior high or middle-school teams. Then there was the explosion of road racing in the state.

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There are a variety of reasons to consider the ‘70s and ‘80s as the golden age of running in Maine. A cursory inventory of the Maine Running Hall of Fame reveals that a fair number of that elite body made their reputation in that time period or at least started running then.

In the immediate area where I coached there are Leona Clapper, Gerry Clapper, and Harold Hatch. Moving a bit further afield the Hall of Fame includes runners like marathoners Joan Benoit Samuelson, Ralph Thomas, middle distance runner Ken Flanders, and steeplechase and 5000 and 10,000-meter specialist Bruce Bickford. I saw Ken Flanders, Bruce Bickford and Gerry Clapper run when they were in high school or prep school. I ran in road races where the others were the winners of their respective divisions.

Searsport District High School competed in the Hancock County League.

That meant we competed with schools like Bucksport, Ellsworth, and Mt. Desert Island. Those three schools all had coaches who ran — Anne Norton, Steve Coffin, and Howard Richard, respectively. Several members of the Clapper family besides Gerry ran for Bucksport. Ellsworth had runners like Sheldon Booze and Dick Dunn. Mt. Desert Island had the Westphal family. Darrell Seekins was captain of the Searsport team that won a state championship. He followed in the running footsteps of his brother Bill who ran for Bowdoin. Darrell went on to become captain of the University of Maine cross country team. Anne Norton and Steve Coffin were involved in starting summer road races; Anne, the Tour du Lac, and Steve, the Hancock Lobster Classic. Searsport had summer races, too — for a time a true cross country

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The golden age of running in Maine saw marathon addiction hit the state. I did my share of marathons. Maybe for that reason some of my runners were bitten by the bug too. I didn’t really want my runners to do marathons, but once they graduated that was another matter. My first marathon was the first Paul Bunyan. I did it with Paul Kimball.

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(cont. from page 21) later I did the Maine Coast with Mike Curtis and Dale Curtis. Mike was still in high school and Dale had two years of Georgia Tech cross country under his belt. The next year Mike and I were back at Maine Coast again. Skip Howard was with us that time. He stayed in our room, sleeping on the floor. (You have to know Skip to appreciate that.)

Searsport was too small a school to be able to field a complete track team.

It did, however, have a few outstanding track and field athletes like shot put specialist Pete Sarnaki.

I knew nothing about the shot put.

Pete trained himself. His role model was George Woods. He studied Woods’ form. The only meet Pete didn’t place first in was the state meet. He went on to Maine Maritime to compete. The summer after he graduated high school he competed in an AAU track meet at Mt. Desert Island making the transition to the sixteen-pound shot with ease. In

fact, he beat Mt. Desert Island coach and former University of Maine Orono shot put standout Ivan Braun. Ivan organized the AAU meet.

If I was asked to give one reason why the ‘70s and ‘80s were the golden age of road racing in Maine, I would say it was because of the relationship between high school coaches and the pastime of road racing. It was during that period that many coaches made it a practice to introduce their runners to the greater world of running — running as a lifetime pursuit. And it was easy. I never met an adult runner who didn’t have a word of encouragement for a young runner.

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He was born to hardworking Russian Jewish immigrant parents in 1914 and quickly scaled his way up the ladder to success.

Shortlyafter graduatingfrom high school, Alfondaccepted a job at Kesslen Shoe Company in Kennebunk where his father worked. Alfond was a hard worker and did whatever odd jobs were assigned to him. He was promoted from a shoe boy making 25 cents an hour to factory superintendent in a very short time.

In 1939 Alfond stopped to pick up a hitchhiker while en route to the Skowhegan Fair. That individual shared information which changed both Alfond’s immediate and long-term trajectory. He told Alfond about a shoe factory for sale in Norridgewock. Alfond never made it to the fair but instead ended up touring the abandoned factory.

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Alfond’s nephew PeterLunder joined him at Dexter in 1959. Together withAlfond’s three sons, they built a business that, at its peak, manufactured over 36,000 pairs of shoes daily and over 7.5 million annually.

In 1971 Alfond opened a factory outlet shoe store at the Dexter Shoes Skowhegan plant. They sold “seconds” or “factory damaged” products at a reduced price. He also included shoes that did not sell in the wholesale market which increased the inventory of shoes at the outlet stores. Soon, Dexter’s log cabin outlet stores were found throughout New England. They eventually stopped building stores and leased stores in outlet malls.

As Dexter Shoes continued to grow, corporate buyers approached Alfond hoping to purchase the family-run business. Many of those were retail chains which emphasized foreign production.

This was not in line with Dexter’s phi-

losophy of a family-run business. However, at age 79 Alfond decide to sell the business to Warren Buffet in exchange for Berkshire Hathaway stock. Buffet agreed to allow the Alfond family to continue managing the business.

According to Alfond’s biography on the www.maine.gov website, that transaction made the Alfond family the second largest shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway. Buffet asked Alfond, Alfond’s nephew, and Alfond’s three sons to continue working at Dexter. Alfond continued working there until age 87 when the company merged into HH Brown Shoe Company. One of his favorite sayings was, “I won’t retire until at least 10 years after I’m dead.”

Alfond attributedmuch of his success in life to lessons he learned while participating in sports as a youth. He was considered an outstanding basketball player during high school. His biography on the maine.gov website states that, “Sports nurtured Alfond’s

competitive spirit and taught him how to get along with people, traits that defined his success in business and philanthropy.”

Alfond’s love for sports was later demonstrated by the generous contributions that he made for the construction of sports facilities. Some of those that bear the Alfond name include the Colby College ice arena and newathletic complex,the University of Maine sports stadium, hockey arena, and arena clubhouse; the Husson College baseball diamond; the Thomas College athletic center; the artificial athletic turf at Maine Maritime Academy; Kents Hill School athletic center; University of New England Athletic Center; the Eaglebrook School ice arena (in Massachusetts); as well as the sports center, swimming pool, baseball stadium, and boathouse at Rollins College in Florida.

Interesting to note is the fact that Alfond exhibited a spirit of giving even (cont. on page 26)

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(cont. from page 25) as a child. The author of http://lib.rollins.edu/olin/oldsite/archives/golden/ alfond.htm,wrote that Alfond’s mother sent him to school dressed in a nice sweater and good shoes but he often came home without those if he met another child in need.

Both Harold and his wife Bibby were concerned about the health of Mainers.

A two-decade cancer survivor himself, Alfond contributed millions of dollars towards the construction of the Alfond Cancer Center in Augusta shortly before his death in 2007. (Bibby predeceased him in 2005.)

According to a November 16, 2007 Boston.com article, Senator Susan Collins said that while Alfond battled cancer himself for 17 years, “he was still thinking of others as he led the effort to build a place where Mainers struggling with the disease could go to receive the best possible care close to home.”

Also dear to the Alfonds’ hearts were Maine children as reflected in their generous giving to youth-related causes. The maine.gov website says that one of Harold Alfond’s favorite pastimes, when he retired, was visiting the Alfond Youth Center in Waterville, unannounced, where he would sit watching the children eating their afterschool snacks and participating in afternoon activities. The 72,000 square foot facility servesthousands of Maine children and their families each year.

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Paddling The Penobscot’s West Branch

by Steve Pinkham

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teeped in Wabenaki lore, lumbering history and sporting adventures, the West Branch of the Penobscot River is one of Maine’s most scenic and beautiful rivers. This was the hunting and fishing grounds of the Penobscot Nation prior to the lumbermen, who arrived in the 1830s. Here the families would spend the winter, hunting the elusive moose, deer and caribou, curing meat and making necessary tools and clothing from the hides and bones, before returning to their village on the Penobscot once the tight grip of winter was gone.

A step back in time On a recent Thoreau-Wabenaki canoe trip down the West Branch with Master Guide Polly Mahoney of Mahoosuc Guide Service, and Jason Pardilla, a direct descendant of Joe Polis, who guided Thoreau through these waters in 1857, we were able to share the camp experience the way it was offered in the 19th century. Delicious breakfasts and dinners were cooked over an open fire, with a surprise dessert each evening baked in a Dutch oven.

This reminded me of how much the lay of the land has changed since the days when Henry David Thoreau and

other sportsmen paddled this river.

Caribou Lake and South Twin Lake, which were separated from the river, were seldom ever seen by the early adventurers.

Most early sportsmen and mountain climbers would make it to Northeast Carry on the northern shore of Moosehead Lake, where several hotels offered to carry your canoe and gear over the two mile road to the Penobscot River for a small fee. Here, sportsmen could stay at Morris’s Penobscot Farm before embarking on their journey. Joe Morris, who hailed from Canada, first ran

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He soon sold this farm and moved up to the West Branch, offering bed and board to sportsmen, lumbermen, surveyors, timber cruisers and anyone who ventured into this remote region. In March of each year he opened up a makeshift tavern in the woods just north of Ragged Lake, where two major tote roads crossed. When the lumbermen were paid and left the woods, he was ideally located to offer them a libation and take their hard-earned money.

Our trip started at Lobster Lake, one of Maine’s most beautiful lakes. Louis Neptune, who guided Joseph Treat up Katahdin in 1820, called it Peskabejick, meaning “branch of a dead water.” John G. Dean’s 1841 Map of State of Maine, labelled it Lake Matahumkeag, and this name, or variations of the spelling, were applied by other mapmakers for

another forty years, then changed back to Lobster Lake.

We paddled down the West Branch, having lunch at a site where Thoreau had once camped, then moved on to set up our camp at Big Island, where the river splits. Here Jason taught some of our group the art of poling a canoe.

The next day we passed the site where Joseph Smith had a Halfway House, stopped for snacks, and then paddled into Chesuncook Lake. It was a short paddle to our lunch site at Graveyard Point at Chesuncook Village. We visited the old cemetery, which has been moved up the hill to a beautiful grove in the woods to avoid any flooding. Here many of the early lumbermen and guides are buried. The grave of Ansel Smith stood out for me.

Smith, who opened the first Chesuncook House, also serviced those who were headed down the Allagash River. At the notorious Mud Pond Carry, he kept a horse and wagon to carry the

paddlers over the muddy carry, though many could not decide which was worse, dredging a canoe through the mud or riding on a buckboard.

The other large carry on the West Branch was around Ripogenus Carry. This portage, over three miles in length, could take almost a whole day to accomplish. Often when adventurers got to Abol Slide, they would quickly climb Katadin, and hurry down the river, often having run out of dried pork and hard bread, their staple food.

Many of the early guides were from the Penobscot Nation at Old Town.

Accustomed to the woods and adept at both building, steering and poling birch canoes, it made them invaluable.

Willing guides could be hired from their island home, but soon a large portion of them would relocate to Greenville and Rockwood at the beginning of each fishing season, and could be hired at the Everleth House and Kineo House for trips down the West Branch. (cont. on page 30)

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(cont. from page 29) Later, when the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad reached the Twin Lakes from Brownville Junction, many of the guides worked out of the camps located at Norcross Station and Chesuncook Village.

The earliest Wabenaki guides, Francis and Louis Neptune, guided Joseph Treat up Katahdin in 1820 and helped him locate and produce a list of over 31 lakes and ponds that could be seen from the summit, including their Wabenaki names. Other early guides from Old Town were Joe Polis and Joe Attean, both who guided Thoreau, and Simon Capino, Peter Ronco, and Louis Ketchum, who had a camp on Nahamakanta Lake, and Joe Francis, who had a camp on the West Branch at Debsconeag Deadwater for use by sportsmen. Louis Annance, another popular guide at Moosehead Lake, had come down from the Wabenaki village of St.

Francis, in Quebec.

By 1900 there were over 200 guides working out of Moosehead and another 100 guiding at Norcross Station on South Twin Lake. In the 1890s the law required sportsmen from other states to hire a guide if they were going into the Maine woods, and often each member of a party would have their own guides, affording plenty of work for everyone.

Originally anyone could guide, but new policies were soon adopted, and then guides had to have the recommendation of a Fish and Game Warden in order to guide.

There were few inns, camps or places to get food or services on the West Branch when Thoreau and others paddled down the river. However, by the turn of the century there over sixty sporting camps and inns that provided room and board and guides for hunting and fishing. There were twenty camps

in the lower lakes from Norcross to Millinocket Lake, and another twenty on the side lakes from the Jo Mary Lakes to Rainbow Lake. And above Ambijejis Lake there were another twenty establishments on or near the West Branch open for business each season. Today, the Chesuncook House, which is still open for reservations, is the oldest continually operating sporting lodge in Maine. Opened in 1856, it has been offering food and accommodations for over 160 years. The next oldest lodge that has continuously been open are Middle Dam Camps, on Lower Richardson Lake in the Rangeley Region, which opened as Angler’s Retreat in 1860.

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more detailed map in 1879. This was decades before Ripogenus Dam was completed, merging Caribou, Ripogenus and Chesuncook Lakes into one big lake, now Maine’s third largest lake. Further down the river a dam had been constructed at the outlet of North Twin Lake in 1846, raising the water level about sixteen feet, but not enough to merge it with South Twin Lake, its neighbor. A new dam, completed in 1904, merged the Twin Lakes with Pemadumcook and Ambijejis Lakes.

On our third night out, while camping at Cunningham Brook, we experienced a once-in-a-lifetime scene. At sunset, as we watched Katahdin across the lake, suddenly one of the campers noted a halo around the top of the mountain. This was a full moon rising directly behind the mountain, bathing it in golden light. As the moon rose, the orb hovered over the summit momen-

tarily, then rose straight up, creating a magical and breath-taking effect.

We canoed down Chesuncook, getting occasional views of Soubunge Mountain and Katahdin, then camped at Mosher Island, a beautiful setting at the southern end of the lake. After an afternoon rest and a hearty dinner, we sat on the rocks and watched the sun set over Chesuncook Lake.

If you love the outdoors and are looking for a memorable vacation, taking a guided trip down the West Branch and Allagash Rivers is the most comfortable and enjoyable way to experience the Maine Woods, just as Thoreau and many others did in the nineteenth century.

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Basket Maker Sylvia Stanislaus

by Brian Swartz

A Mattanawcook native

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attanawcook Island, a large Penobscot Nation-owned island lying in the Penobscot River between Lincoln and Chester, once was home to an Indian settlement sufficiently large for a school. Wellknown in the tribe and in Maine, Sylvia Stanislaus lived on the island during the time when steamboats still traveled the river.

The daughter of Joseph and Mary Orcutt Solmore, Sylvia Stanislaus was born at Pleasant Point near Perry on March 28, 1836. Mary, who was born in Argyle on the Penobscot River to an Indian mother and a white father, was considered an Indian — and her ethnicity was important.

According to the Lincoln Historical Society, Mary “was a small baby” when her father died [,] and his people planned to take her from her Indian mother to be brought up as a white girl.” Her mother would have none of that and “with the assistance of some of her relatives, escaped in the night with her baby.”

Following “streams and lakes across the state,” mother and baby reached Pleasant Point, and Mary grew “up in the Passamaquoddy Tribe … and married Joseph Solmore,” the LHS indicates.

Unfortunately, the Solmores died not long after Sylvia was born, so she was taken to Old Town and was ulti-

mately adopted by Mary Mohawk Ranco, a Penobscot living in Greenbush. Ranco “was very kind to her little girl and therefore Sylvia was a happy child,” reported a late March 1936 article in the Bangor Daily News.

Sylvia married Stephen Stanislaus of Lincoln in St. John’s Catholic Church in Bangor in September 1859; Father John Bapst presided over the wedding. The couple caught a Bangor & Veazie Railroad train to Old Town and from there paddled a canoe up the Penobscot to settle on Mattanawcook Island.

Stephen was born at Mattawamkeag in 1831 to Penobscot tribal members Stanislaus (known only by the single

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Stephen, son of Stanislaus Nicholas, became known as Stephen Stanislaus.”

He “was well known as a guide” and became the Penobscot governor “for eight years,” beginning on October 5, 1880, the LHS notes.

A skilled basket-maker, Sylvia went to Rye Beach, New Hampshire in summer 1855 to sell the baskets she had made the previous winter. She took home “many more orders to be filled before the holiday season,” according to the BDN. That first summer stretched into another 49 summers spent selling her baskets at Rye Beach. After the 50th summer, Sylvia decided not to return, but “the guests at the hotels and cottages gave her beautiful gifts and begged her to come again the next summer.”

“I go just one more time to please my very dear friends,” Sylvia responded. She returned for summer 1916, then went home for good that September 5.

Sylvia and Stephen lived on Mattanawcook Island for 42 years. Other Penobscots lived there, too, and there was a school staffed by teachers sent from Lincoln. “The summer[s] of 1879, 1880, 1881, I was [the] teacher at Indian [Mattanawcook] Island School,” and “Mr. A.W. Weatherbee was superintendent at the time. The Indian children called him the committee man,” former teacher Laura Plumly recalled in November 1936.

“School was in the summer as long as money lasted,” Plumly recalled.

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Plumly remembered a particular day when “there came up a thunderstorm and very high wind. The waves on the [Penobscot] river were so high [I] thought I might have to stay” on Mattanawcook Island overnight.

But “Sylvia said there was one man on the island she would risk herself and me with,” Plumly wrote. The man, Joe, placed Sylvia in a canoe’s bow and “me on the bottom in the middle, with orders from Sylvia not to move or speak.”

Joe paddled at the stern and Sylvia at the bow as “we went high and low on the waves,” Plumly recalled. “Every stroke Sylvia would say, ‘For God’s sake, don’t move.’ We made it all right, pretty wet,” and after dropping Plumly on the mainland, Joe and Sylvia “had to go to the head of the island to get back.”

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(cont. from page 39) that derailed on the “Tin Bridge” in lower Bangor, near the Hampden town line. She suffered an injury that later caused her to go blind, but she kept weaving her baskets and traveling to New Hampshire each summer.

Stephen and Sylvia had eight children, but seven died over the years, leaving Francis the only surviving sibling by 1938. His parents moved to Lincoln Village after building a large house there in 1901 and eight years later Francis organized their 50th wedding anniversary celebration, a big event in Lincoln that year.

“The guests were entertained by … the Lincoln Band and, after enjoying refreshments, were invited to the Auditorium Hall for dancing,” according to the Lincoln Historical Society.

Francis Stanislaus later owned Casino Motors in Lincoln.

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