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Volume 25 | Issue 6 | 2016

Maine’s History Magazine

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A History Of Motorcycles, Sidecars And More Howland museum displays classic and antique vehicles

Ellsworth High School Basketball It was all the rage in 1933

Gimpel And Colepaugh Two mismatched Nazi spies in Maine

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Inside This Edition

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I t Makes No Never Mind James Nalley

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Picking The Rear Youngsters grew to be men on this log drive Dale Murray

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Brooksville’s Heroes Two men receive the Medal of Honor for their heroism Brian Swartz

12 Ellsworth High School Basketball It was all the rage in 1933

Brian Swartz 16 In Remembrance Of A True Hero American Legion George Edwin Kirk Post 25, Bar Harbor

Penny S. Harmon 19 The Ghost Of Catherine Hill Beware when driving between Franklin and Cherryfield

Brian Swartz 24 The Brown Trout Comes To Maine The beautiful species made its way to our pristine waters in the 1800s

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Layout & Design Liana Merdan

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29 Gimpel And Colepaugh Two mismatched Nazi spies in Maine

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40 The Mattawamkeag’s Cursed Falls History of a beautiful river Charles Francis 44 Bangor’s Fan Jones She provided fun and entertainment during lumbering heyday

Steve Hrehovcik 50 C ivil War Sent Dexter Surgeon To Texas Gulf Coast Adapted from “Maine at War”

Brian Swartz 54 Maine’s Wild Blueberries Go To War After the civil war, Maine blueberries became a national rage

John Murray 59 The Millstone A relic from Cooper’s rural past Karen E. Holmes 64 East Millinocket Hero American Legion Post 13 honors an airman’s bravery at Midway

Jeffrey Bradley 67 A History Of Motorcycles, Sidecars And More Howland museum displays classic and antique vehicles

Brian Swartz 72 Bangor Sisters Served As Nurses In World War I France

MacMullen girls saw firsthand American doughboys’ courage

Brian Swartz 77 When The Fishing Was Good

Passing the tradition from one generation to the next

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It Makes No Never Mind

by James Nalley

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uring the height of World War II, the east coast of the United States had become a frequent hunting ground for German submarines (U-boats) that aimed to cut off the supply of vital cargo to Europe. At that time, cargo and tanker ships often traveled with their lights on, thus advertising themselves to the awaiting U-boats. Meanwhile, the navy had a limited supply of ships available for anti-submarine duty. As the losses mounted, the U.S. government sanctioned the Civil Air Patrol (CAP), which attracted local private pilots to join the war effort. Many of these volunteers were either fathers of young children, deemed too old or young to serve in the armed forces or rejected for health reasons. According to America in WWII, for the initial 90-day trial period, “the oil companies chipped in $25,000 toward the effort, and the CAP established three coastal bases in Atlantic City (New Jersey), Rehoboth Beach (Delaware), and Lantana (Florida), respectively.” After early successes, additional bases were activated up the east coast, including Coastal Patrol Base 19 in Portland and Coastal Patrol Base 20 in Bar Harbor (which patrolled from Rockland to Eastport).

With a fleet of planes primarily consisting of single-engine Fairchild 24s or Stinson 10As, the CAP pilots flew during the day, zigzagging along the coast in search of the U-boats. Each plane included a pilot and an observer, the latter of which relayed “coded” radio communications. According to Capt. D. Godfrey of the Maine Wing Civil Air Patrol (58th Squadron), “eventually, aircraft were armed with small bombs… [but] the small, surface bombs were not very effective – they would have to score a direct hit to do any damage.” However, there were successful cases in which a U-boat spotting the small plane would attempt to flee, thus causing it to run aground and become an easy target.

Despite the basic safety precautions, these coastal patrol missions were still somewhat dangerous, due to various reasons such as summer fog, winter storms, and mechanical failures. The statistics show that, during the CAP’s 18 months of duty, it had lost 90 planes in the sea, with 26 deaths. Despite these losses, CAP patrols spotted a total of 173 enemy submarines and attacked 57 with bombs and depth charges, thus damaging 10, and sinking two

by the time it was established as an auxiliary of the U.S. Army Air Force. Perhaps it was best said by a high German official in 1953, who was asked why the U-boats stopped sinking allied shipping off the eastern U.S. coast, “It was those damn little red and yellow planes!” Well, on that note, I will close this summer edition with the following: There were four passengers on a small plane traveling up the coast of Maine: a pilot, an old man, a boy, and the world’s smartest man. After an engine failure, the plane began to fall toward the earth. Noticing that there were only three parachutes, they began arguing about who would get them. The world’s smartest man grabbed one and said, “I get a parachute because I have many more things to discover,” after which he jumped out of the plane. Then, the pilot grabbed one and said, “I have many more planes to fly,” and jumped out.

With one remaining parachute, the old man looked at the boy and said, “You go. I have had a long and fruitful life.” The boy replied, “That’s OK mister, because the world’s smartest man just took my backpack.”

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Picking The Rear Youngsters grew to be men on this log drive

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e were young men in 1965, fresh out of high school or home from college, when an aging woodsman taught us a lesson in one day that our fathers had failed to impart in twenty years. We had hired out to a paper company to pick the rear.

Our job was to congregate at the rear of the river drive and to wade along the shores or to outcroppings in the river and toss stranded pulpwood into the water so it could continue its journey to the mill. Our first teachers were not good role models. They had picked for many years, and in those years they had come to believe that there was no real reason to work hard. They pointed out to us that we were far back into

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the black fly-infested woods in places where the lords of the wilderness rarely ventured to check on their serfs. Over the first few weeks on the job, we developed abysmal work habits and became comfortable with the routine and the seclusion. Coincidentally, or maybe not, the old man replaced our first boss and took over our crew on the very day that we stumbled onto every picker’s nightmare.

Naively we started the day, little suspecting that the old man was a different breed of man. Nothing in our young lives had prepared us for him. Nothing in our brief tenure on the river prepared us for what lie around the corner, either.

Lethargically, we plodded downstream,

tossing a piece of pulpwood here, another there. We carried only our lunch and the consummate tool of ignorance, a pickaroon, which is basically an axe handle with an iron pick attached to the top. With it we stabbed a piece of pulp and dragged it close to the river. There, we reset our weapons into one end with our stronger arm, hefted it to the free hand. Then we stuck the pick into the other end and hefted it off the ground. Finally, with a sometimes mighty heave, and sometimes not, we hurled it in the general direction of the river. Done properly, the job could tax the stamina of real men. We had not learned from real men. We had learned to save our strength for the more excit-

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DiscoverMaineMagazine.com ing duties of the evenings. We were denizens of the dark, well on our ways to legendary careers that involved long, late nights that left little energy for river work. Had we known what lay around that corner, we might have taken a night off. More likely, we would have called in “sick.”

A dragon slept around that bend, and those who saw it first quit working and fell silent. When the rest of us caught up, we moaned. There, a hundred feet high, lay a gargantuan sluice. Generally, a sluice is a channel that floats pulpwood over a dam. In this case, it was an opening cut down a steep embankment all the way to the river. A fleet of pallet trucks had dumped as much pulp as possible over the edge all winter long. Little of it had reached the water below. We were uneasy, fearing that our new boss would send us to the top. Our old boss would have skirted this monster, and we wished for his predictable sloth. We pretended it

was not there and picked up the pace in order to bypass it as quickly as possible. We hoped that the old man was the reincarnation of his predecessor and would also want to sneak right on by.

Silently, we prayed for the miracle that would blind him to the frightful beast.

In our hearts, though, we knew better.

We had already seen enough of him to know that we were in for it. We knew because, without fanfare, in fact, with barely an audible word from him, we had made more progress on this day than ever.

The old man came abreast of the sleeping giant and stopped. He lifted a practiced eye and took a moment to measure the task. We stopped all activity and raised our own eyes. Mouths agape, we contemplated the monumental chore he was considering. We prayed some more. We encouraged him to take the easier road, to let the beast sleep. The old man looked one more time at the hill and one more time

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at us. Then, again wordless, he stepped onto the tail of the monster and began the ascent to its head.

Silently, we fell in line behind the sixty-three year old man who was not so far from retirement. We climbed all of the hundred feet over and around a pile that was four or five tiers deep.

The old man crested first. He sat down on the beast’s nose and silently waited.

Those who were right behind him got a little breather. Those who dawdled did not. As soon as everybody reached the top, the old man stood. He hefted a stick and tossed it with all his might. It arced gracefully and thudded a third of the way down. Inwardly, we groaned.

He stooped for another, and, one by one, we all bent reluctantly to the task.

The old man methodically peeled the scales from that head and tossed them toward the water. We watched out of the corners of our eyes, not wanting an old man to outwork us. We tried (continued on page 6)

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to keep pace, but all those years in the woods had toughened him. He put us to shame. Time dragged as we adjusted to new ways. He threw steadily even as we tired and counted the minutes until break. We were unaware that he paced himself, and more importantly us, for the long day that lay ahead. Our progress was immeasurable and disheartening. We fell silent as the old man re-educated us.

At break time, we were surprised that we had actually beheaded the monster.

We admired our handiwork as we lolled around devouring our Devil Dogs and Cokes. We didn’t notice at the time, but an element of pride tinged our voices as we braced for the next attack. The old man said nothing during the whole break, but he watched us with an eagle eye. He didn’t say anything when he rose and stooped for another log, either.

We moaned again as we reached for our weapons, but something was differ-

ent in the sound. It lacked the fervor of the early morning groan. We didn’t notice, but the old man did. He noticed everything. His eyes twinkled as we worked our way down the spine of our nemesis. Our stamina grew with each heave, and we glanced back more and more at our handiwork. By lunchtime, pulp bounced half way to the rapids.

We began measuring our progress by the number of rib-like stumps that appeared from under the carcass.

We had never talked about our work at lunchtime before, unless it was to complain. On that day, a cacophony bounced back at us from the embankment on the other side of the river. We bragged of our prowess. We wagered on who would be first to hit the water. When lunch ended, newborn men jockeyed for position to be the first to splash. With purpose, we assailed the dragon’s mid-section, and, foot by foot, its belly disappeared. Foot by foot

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we grew up. Heedless now of time, we tossed and pitched as the shadows shifted for a better view. We continued a breakneck pace with little or no talk, like the old man, until a splash startled us to a standstill. The old man sat down as a cheer echoed down the hollow.

We rested our muscles but not our mouths. Everyone jabbered at once.

The old man never said a word. We could see that our dragon was dead and predicted that the clean up would be finished before the day ended. We looked up at the skeleton and glad-handed each other. Even the old timers amongst us showed pride in our Herculean efforts.

The old man rested a little longer than usual. Adrenaline made us restless to finish the job, so we sneaked peeks at him wondering why he was not anxious, too. Alone and silent, he rested.

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push would make short shrift of the tail.

We could not predict that we would put in some overtime before we hung the beast to dry.

We were already on our feet when the old man stirred. He stretched and bent for another scale. With a mighty heave, he lofted it and smiled when it splattered the rips and sailed downstream. It was not much of a smile, but we all saw it. We saw the old man then, too. For the first time all day, we really saw him for who he was. We saw ourselves differently, too. We saw not what we were in the morning, but what we were going to be when the old man finished with us. * Other businesses in this area are featured in the color section.

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Brooksville’s Heroes Two men receive the Medal of Honor for their heroism

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wo Brooksville men received the Medal of Honor after fighting in wars less than 40 years apart.

Born in Brooksville in 1843, Michael Connelly enlisted in the Navy as seaman “John Mack” during the Civil War. He served aboard a ship that had undergone a similar name change.

In 1859, a shipyard in Greenpoint, New York had launched the Florida, a 171-foot schooner-rigged screw steamer that became a Confederate blockade runner during the Civil War. As the Florida ran past blockaders guarding St. Andrews Bay in Florida on April 6, 1862, the USS Pursuit captured the ship and crew. Condemned by a Navy court in Philadelphia, the Florida became the

USS Hendrick Hudson, mounting six cannons.

The good ship and crew joined the East Gulf Blockading Squadron in January 1863 and remained in Floridian waters until the war’s end.

John Mack, aka Michael Connelly, joined the Hudson’s crew and trained in ship-board gunnery. He got the opportunity to demonstrate his shooting skills when Union troops commanded

by Brig. Gen. John Newton advanced on Tallahassee in early March 1865.

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Confederate troops built breastworks at Natural Bridge, where the St. Marks River disappears underground and re-emerges some 40 feet to the south. Newton’s men attacked on March 6, 1865; the battle ended in a Union withdrawal.

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Writing to Navy Secretary Gideon Welles on March 10, Commander R.E. Shufeldt had “the highest praise for good conduct and gallantry” for USS Magnolia sailors John S. Land, George Pyne, Charles Reed, and Thomas Smith.

On March 14, Rear Admiral C.K. Stribling wrote Welles, “I beg leave to add the names of George Shultz and John Mack, of the Hendrick Hudson, whose names were accidentally omitted” and “who … deserve honorable mention for their coolness and determination under fire and remarkable efforts in rendering assistance in transporting the guns.”

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ors cited in the Official Records also received the medal.

After his death on November 10, 1881, Mack/Connelly was buried in Lynn, Massachusetts.

Born to Melvin T. and Clara F. (Redman) Condon in South Brooksville on August 12, 1875, Clarence Melville Condon received the Medal of Honor for heroism displayed during a war of which most Americans have never heard.

By 1880 he was living with his parents and three younger siblings at the Brooksville home of his paternal grandparents, Timothy and Emma Condon. The family later moved to Bucksport, where Clarence attended local schools and the Eastern Maine Conference Seminary. He also studied at the Castine Normal School.

Condon enlisted in the Army as a private on December 8, 1894. Assigned to Battery G, 3rd United States Artillery, he might have had a quiet enlistment

had not Spanish authorities allegedly blown up the USS Maine in Havana harbor on February 18, 1898. Congress promptly declared war on Spain; an American fleet shelled to smithereens the Spanish warships defending Manila in the Philippines.

By now Condon was a sergeant in Battery G. After landing at Manila, Army troops soon discovered that many Filipinos did not want them there. The “Philippine Insurrection” broke out in June 1899, and American soldiers fought Filipino guerrillas for the next three years.

Battery G was in action at Caluliut on Luzon Island on November 5, 1899 when determined enemy resistance forced Condon to take drastic action.

He led four soldiers in a charge that “routed 40 entrenched insurgents, inflicting on them heavy loss,” according to the citation accompanying the Medal (continued on page 10)

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Ellsworth High School Basketball It was all the rage in 1933

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courteous to the referee and show “respect for his decisions.”

Fans packed the EHS gym for the Bar Harbor games. Reporting for a local paper, EHS student Margaret Kemp noted that while Bar Harbor ran up a 9-0 lead in the first period, the EHS Eagles responded with 7 points in the second period.

The second half “was intensely interesting, for each team played with might and main,” Kemp wrote. The squads repeatedly traded the lead until the Ellsworth boys took their fifth victory in a row, 25-24.

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The January 11 games were civilized in terms of the crowd’s behavior. “The whole school played ‘good ball’ in their cheering support and in their hospitable reception of the visitors from Bar Harbor,” according to Kemp.

Early the following week, Sturtevant opened an envelope with a Bar Harbor postmark. Carleton S. Fuller, the principal of Bar Harbor High School, wrote that “I wish to express my appreciation to you and to the students of Ellsworth high school for the courtesies accorded my coaches, basketball teams, students, and myself personally” on January 11.

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The two Winter Harbor teams displayed some fight in the EHS gym on Friday, January 13. “The [Ellsworth] girls played their best game to date to win over the Winter Harbor lassies, 2514,” EHS student Jack Johnston reported.

The Winter Harbor boys “got off to a fast start, namely a 14-5 lead,” Johnston reported. “There ensued a battle royale, with the desperate boys from E.H.S. catching up with the snappy visitors and after many exciting minutes, passing them to go on to a 30-26 victory.”

When “the garnet and grey hoopsters traveled to Winter Harbor” on Thursday, January 26, the Ellsworth boys won, 25-22, but the EHS girls suffered a 35-13 defeat, a local paper reported.

After losing two games at Brewer High School in January, the EHS

squads welcomed the Witches to town on Wednesday, February 1. “The girls were again trampled by the Brewer lassies,” 38-15, according to a local paper. The 750 screaming fans in the EHS gym saw the Ellsworth boys battle hard to win, 29-26.

Both Ellsworth squads won their Saturday, February 3 games with Orono High School. Then came games against Old Town, Bar Harbor, and Northeast Harbor.

On Wednesday, February 15, the fans were polite at Bar Harbor High School. Principal Fuller was as good as his word; tempted to “boo,” the fans did not, and the Bar Harbor girls came away with a victory.

The Ellsworth boys won their game, 36-23, then traveled to Gilman High School in Northeast Harbor on Friday, February 17, and, playing in a gym dubbed the “Fish Net,” won that game, 24-23.

Then the top eight Hancock County boys’ teams clashed at Hancock Hall in

Ellsworth on Wednesday, February 22 for the county championship. The four winners of the morning-and-afternoon quarterfinals would meet in the evening semifinals.

Those same four teams would meet on Saturday, February 25, the semifinal losers in an 8 p.m. consolation game and the semifinal winners in the 9 p.m. championship game. The eight boys’ teams were from Bar Harbor, Blue Hill (George Stevens Academy), Castine, Ellsworth, Franklin, Northeast Harbor (Gilman) , Southwest Harbor (Pemetic), and Winter Harbor.

Ellsworth and Franklin were viewed as the toughest squads to beat. Ellsworth had lost only once in Hancock County League play. With Coach Malcolm Noyes at their helm, the Franklin High School boys had just won the state Small School Tournament crown by defeating Hallowell, 33-30.

People jammed Hancock Hall on February 22 to see Ellsworth, Castine, (continued on page 14)

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Franklin, and Winter Harbor emerge victorious from the quarterfinals. Tipping off at 8 p.m., the EHS Eagles defeated Castine, 30-27, in the first semifinal, and Winter Harbor gradually pulled away during the 9 p.m. semifinal to beat Franklin, 29-22.

Because Franklin and Winter Harbor were playing in the state tournament in Bangor later that week, the Hancock County League championship game was postponed until Tuesday, February 28. Inside the packed-to-therafters Hancock Hall, the Franklin boys defeated Castine, 30-26, in the consolation game.

Then the Ellsworth and Winter Harbor squads went at each other “in a ding-dong battle,” as a local paper described the game. The teams fought to

the last buzzer; the Winter Harbor boys clenched the county championship by the skin of their teeth, 27-26.

Yet the regular high school basketball season was not quite over. Gilman of Northeast Harbor and Ellsworth officially ended their respective seasons in a March 8 clash that “had a garnet and gray hue throughout,” a sportswriter noted. Winning 28-17, the Ellsworth boys finished their season at 15-5.

The 8-5 Ellsworth girls had planned to end their season with a game against Pemetic of Southwest Harbor. Sickness benched several Pemetic players, however, and school officials cancelled the game.

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ar Harbor was bustling with activity in the early 1900s, not much different from today. As steamships began to bring in more people, the area grew with hotels, stores, and liveries. The waterfront was alive with activity as families made ends meet by utilizing what the sea offered, and the people of Bar Harbor were proud of their town.

The Kirk family was not much different from others in the area. Edward Kirk worked hard to keep his wife, Annie, and his five children fed and housed. Edward was from England and

had met his wife on a trip to Ireland.

Soon after, they were married and had a son, Joseph. Within a short time, though, they decided that they wanted to be part of something big and they ended up in Bar Harbor.

The first child born in Maine to the Kirks was George Edwin in 1894.

Three more were born after George.

The family thrived in Bar Harbor, and each child was a blessing to the Kirks.

George, the second-born son, wasn’t the typical child. George loved school and excelled in his classes. After graduating from high school, he moved

on to attend the University of Maine.

From the moment he arrived at school, George was involved in activities and was one of the more popular students on campus. He joined many committees and was class president for a time.

He was also a member of the Sigma Nu Fraternity.

One of the things that George loved about the University was that it allowed him to play football. After three years at the University of Maine, he moved on to attend the University of Susquehanna in Pennsylvania, where he played halfback. This was the year that

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At University, George decided that his future had to include the military.

He attended Officer’s Training at Fort Niagara. From there, he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the 23rd United States infantry. Further training was done in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

George was shipped to France and he, alongside comrades, fought in the battles of Chateau Thierry and St. Mihiel and was part of many other battles during WWI. While many men lost their lives in these battles, George made it through and was awarded with a promotion for the gallantry he displayed.

It wasn’t long before he went from First Lieutenancy to Captain of Company A 4th Machine Gun Battalion. He was just twenty-four years old.

George was the type of Captain that

his men respected. He and his men fought through heavy rain and mud and, on many days, stifling weather with the hot sun on their backs. In September of 1918, his battalion fought in the Battles of Hindenburg Line and the Final Advance in Picardy. During this time, George became sick.

One of the main concerns of the military during this time was how they were going to provide for their men during the war. The weather was unpredictable and the colder months were coming. Many battalions only received food when it was dropped by airplane.

Between the weather and lack of nourishment, many men succumbed to illness.

Hospitalized in one of the military hospitals set up on the edge of the Argonne Forrest, George could do nothing but think of his men out there with-

out him. He wasn’t the type of soldier to just sit back while his men did the fighting. He wanted to be with them.

After a few days, George was determined to get back to his men. Despite the doctors telling him that he needed to stay, he left to rejoin his men.

He and his men marched into Germany together, but it wasn’t long before George was back in the hospital.

On November 11 of 1918, after a long fight to recover, George lost his battle with pneumonia. He was a man of honor and a man with determination. For this, he is remembered.

In 1919, The American Legion was commissioned by Congress as a veteran’s organization. The organization’s goal was to serve veterans, service members, and the people of the community. It started out as an idea from a group of World War I veterans and soon (continued on page 18)

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f you encounter a ghostly hitchhiker while cruising Route 182 through the appropriately named Blacks Woods in eastern Hancock County, you had better offer her a ride — because if you don’t, you could wind up dead, local lore alleges.

Yet a musician who spoke with the Ghost of Catherine Hill circa the 1980s did not drive her to Bar Harbor as she requested, and he lived to tell the tale.

For at least this once, the supposedly dangerous ghost did not wreak havoc on an unwary motorist.

A shortcut between Franklin and Cherryfield, Route 182 twists and turns through the mountain- and lake-studded border country of Hancock and Wash-

ington counties, terrain collectively known as Blacks Woods. Poet Robert Frost would describe the woods as “dark and deep” and perhaps “lovely” in the sunlight, but habitual users know that it gets real dark in these woods at night, especially when the clouds cover the stars or fog rises from Fox Pond, Spring River Lake, and Tunk Lake.

That’s when you had better stop for the ghost if she’s hitching a ride.

The story of Catherine, the ghost for whom the hill was allegedly named, dates from all over the calendar chronologically. The gist is that while traveling with her boyfriend or fiance in a horse-drawn carriage (circa 1860s) or a car (circa 1920s, ’30s, and even a

specific February 17, 1974), the young Catherine was decapitated and killed in an accident near Fox Pond in Township 10.

The guy with her was never found.

Writing in the Bangor Daily News a few years ago, reporter Emily Burnham explained that after the accident, “Catherine’s spirit is doomed to walk the road, looking for help, her lover, and her head. If she’s seen by a motorist on the road, she sometimes has her head, sometimes not.

“He or she must stop to help her, lest they risk her curse,” Burnham noted, adding that Catherine “is wearing either a white or pale blue dress.”

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— or just a good hair-raising story — set in the front half of the 20th century has a traveling salesman driving past Fox Pond one dark night. He spotted Catherine the Ghost standing alongside the road; she was, to quote the British band Vanity Fair, “Hitchin’ a ride.”

Freaked out of his mind by the apparition, the salesman sped away from the scene. Moments later, the salesman looked in his rear-view mirror and saw Catherine sitting in the back seat of his car.

Apparently terrified beyond measure, he lost control of the car and died immediately in the resulting crash.

How a dead man could tell his living rescuers about sharing his car with Catherine the Ghost before he died — well, that does add up.

And neither do two other standard components of the tale. The first is the 942-foot mountain being named for the ghost. The fact is that Catherine Mountain was named just that long before an

affiliated ghost tale circulated in Down East Maine.

Catherine is one of three mountains — double-peaked Black and Caribou are the others — rising between Donnell Pond on the edge of Franklin and much larger Tunk Lake to the east.

Bald-capped Schoodic Mountain abuts the south shore of Donnell Pond, and 1,157-foot Tunk Mountain lurks just above Route 182, almost due north of Catherine Mountain.

Hiking trails connect all the mountains except Tunk, and a relatively new trail to that peak extends from a parking lot the state has installed a short distance east of Catherine’s routine haunts.

The second aspect of Catherine’s tale that does not meet the test of Maine granite is the claim that motorists “crest” Catherine Mountain east of Fox Pond. Multiple Internet accounts of the ghost tale draw primarily from similar source materials, a plagiaristic

pattern that annoys serious researchers using the Web. The stories often leave the impression that Route 182 goes over the summit of Catherine Mountain. That’s not true. The road crests the Donnell PondTunk Lake watershed east of the Tunk Mountain trail head, at an estimated elevation of 250-270 feet.

This miniature Continental Divide is definitive; one moment the car’s climbing uphill, then the road briefly levels off, and the next moment the car’s going downhill — and definitely not at 942 feet above sea level.

The best argument that can be made is that the road crests far down the northern shoulder of Catherine Mountain.

As to recent encounters with the ghost, Meghan Hayward of Bangor-based WABI-TV spoke with a living, breathing eyewitness for an October 29, 2009 broadcast. Dale Whitney

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spoke about the time — “going back more than 20 years ago,” according to Hayward — that he spoke with Catherine.

After playing a musical gig in Bar Harbor, Whitney headed home to Machias via Route 182 rather than the longer (but better-conditioned) Route 1. He had cleared Fox Pond in the fog before reaching “the top of Catherine’s Hill.

“I was kind of straddling the line a little bit because I couldn’t see the road.

And I got up to the top of the hill, and all of a sudden I looked and there was a woman standing on the left side of the line” he recalled.

Whitney pulled up beside the woman and rolled down the driver’s window. ”I looked at her, and I could see her complete image, everything she had on, but I could look through her, which was really kind of weird,” he told Hayward.

“She stepped up to the car and in a flirtatious way said, ‘I want to go to Bar Harbor,’ and I said, ‘I just came from there,’” Whitney remembered.

Now frightened, he drove away until he reached the bottom of the hill, some distance east toward the Tunk Lake boat-launch site. “She may be real. She’s probably had an accident,” Whitney thought.

“I turned around and drove back up on the hill, and she was gone,” he said.

As to what the woman — her head obviously attached, since she spoke — wore, Whitney said, “She had on a light blue, what we used to call an evening gown in the old days.

“It hung all the way to her ankles, and you could actually almost see through it,” he recalled.

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The Brown Trout Comes To Maine The beautiful species made its way to our pristine waters in the 1800s

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he brown trout is a species of trout which is native to Europe, nicknamed the German brown trout. Possessing a firm sleek body with a brownish yellow underbelly and a smattering of dark spots along its back, the brown trout is considered a strikingly beautiful, hard-fighting gamefish in Europe, where it was coveted by many anglers. During the late 1800s the brown trout was courted by what is now known as the Maine Department of Fisheries And Wildlife. The courtship was an immediate attraction, as the brown trout is a beautiful species of trout which was considered to be a perfect fit with the pristine waters of Maine.

During that time, the prized landlocked

salmon populations were beginning to decline in some Maine waters, and the brown trout was considered a viable additional to help boost the fishery. In 1885, a shipment of ten thousand brown trout eggs arrived at the federal fish hatchery in Bucksport, where they were successfully hatched into tiny fry, under the careful care of fish culturists.

Upon raising the brown trout fry into a healthy and more substantial size, the time was at hand to introduce these new residents of trout into the inland waters of Maine. After careful consideration, the initial introduction of brown trout took place at Branch Lake, near the town of Ellsworth. With little fanfare, the juvenile brown trout entered into

the clear water of Branch Lake, and into the wish list of anglers longing to feel their tug on the line.

Over the next fifteen years, the fish culturists at Bucksport federal fish hatchery kept busy with the raising of additional juvenile brown trout. By 1900, documents show that twenty different waters were graced with the introduction of brown trout. Success of the survival of the transplanted brown trout was not apparent within all the waters it was introduced to. Many anglers were not having any encounters with the brown trout in the stocked waters. Lingering questions about the validity of the brown trout stocking program led to the conclusion that the

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During the next twelve years, it was obvious that the native populations of landlocked salmon, and now also, the native populations of brook trout, were in an obvious decline. Revaluating the seriousness of the situation, fishery managers in Maine decided to once again start introducing the brown trout to the waters. In 1932, the brown trout egg cultivating program went into full operation, and with additional knowledge of the rearing of brown trout, considerably larger numbers of brown trout were raised. By the 1940s, nearly two million brown trout were being introduced yearly into one hundred different waters of Maine.

By this time period of the 1940s, fishery management was beginning to develop into a science in Maine. Better understanding of the habits of the

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brown trout were being realized by the fishery scientists, and the success of the stocking program was beginning to blossom. Competition for food with the more fragile landlocked salmon was now considered, and it was determined that it was a detriment to place brown trout in the same waters where the landlocked salmon populations was already being stressed. It was also during this time period that the success of the brown trout angler began to increase dramatically, and this success was linked to the intuitive and problem solving nature of the resourceful Maine guides.

Initially, the anglers of Maine considered the newly introduced brown trout to have the same habits as the resident brook trout, so similar fishing strategies were employed to catch the brown trout. For the most part, adhering to the same fishing techniques failed to bring these brown trout to the net. Maine guides soon realized that in

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terms of their habits, brook trout and brown trout were two completely different fish. Anglers in Maine have been successfully catching brook trout for hundreds of years, but this brown trout was going to be more of a challenge.

The Maine guides quickly determined that the brown trout was shyer than the native brook trout, almost like the teenage boy who lingered on the corner of the grade school dance floor.

This obvious shyness of anglers and the traditional fishing techniques that the anglers utilized was combined with brown trout having a dislike for bright daytime conditions. As the brown trout grew in age, and size, the larger species became nearly nocturnal in their feeding patterns. Feeding habits were different than brook trout, and the brown trout is more adaptable by readily feeding on many different types of water organisms that the brook trout will not consume. The considerable difference in size, compared to the native brook

trout, was dramatic. Brown trout lived longer life spans and are capable of living years longer than a native brook trout.

This longer life span, when linked to the continuous growth rates of brown trout as they age, results in an older fish that has attained more inches, and body weight than a typical brook trout. Older brown trout acquired cannibal like tastes, and revolved their diet almost completely on consuming other fish.

Armed with this acquired knowledge of the brown trout, the Maine guides used modified techniques for their clients to catch big brown trout.

The bigger trophy size brown trout were sought after during the early morning before the sun rose, or late in the day when the sun had disappeared below the horizon. Some guides fished well into the evening darkness to attain a trophy brown trout. More casts were required and the casts were planned so as to not spook the shy brown trout.

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DiscoverMaineMagazine.com The persistence of the Maine guide was often rewarded with capturing brown trout that exceeded ten pounds. True trophy-sized trout were now being attained out of many of Maine’s waters.

The presence of large brown trout has attributed to the making of fish legends in many of Maine’s waters. Both guides and local anglers have had encounters with giant brown trout, which were hooked, fought, and then lost in the midst of the battle as they broke off from the line before they reached the net. As the story tells, there was a giant brown trout that was called the colonel. After the Second World War, a retired army colonel hooked a huge brown trout in the deep waters of Sabbathday Lake, near New Gloucester.

With the guide at the oars of the boat, the retired colonel hooked into the giant brown trout before dawn, and lost a

heart-wrenching hour-long fight to the fish when the fish broke the stressed line. That brown trout was said to be as long as a boat oar. The experience so shook the battle-tested demeanor of the retired colonel, whereas the colonel retreated to his cottage with a bottle of scotch, and was not seen for days.

Many anglers would return to this spot for years afterward to try to make contact with the giant brown trout named

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Brown trout have become a permanent resident in the waters of Maine.

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Gimpel And Colepaugh Two mismatched Nazi spies in Maine

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n late November 1944, two men, Erich Gimpel and William Colepaugh, wearing surprisingly light topcoats for the 20-degree weather, arrived on the shore near the town of Bar Harbor. Disembarking from an inflatable raft and carrying heavy suitcases, they had just completed a dangerous 46-day transatlantic voyage aboard a German U-Boat (U-1230) with plans to sabotage the “Manhattan Project,” which was the top-secret program that eventually developed the atomic bomb. With more than $60,000 in their possession, the two men began an ill-fated journey that led Colepaugh (in a drunken

state) to confess their plans to the FBI after which Gimpel was subsequently arrested in New York’s Times Square.

Apparently, due to their differences in personalities, the two cohorts had been doomed from the start.

Erich Gimpel (1910-2010) began his career as a spy in Peru during the mid-1930s. Posing as a radio engineer for several mining companies, he was recruited by the German government to track all ship movements in the region and relay this information to another contact in Chile. However, in his self-written book titled Agent 146: The True Story of a Nazi Spy in America,

he recalled that, despite his duties to the German government, he still “never missed a party” and that he did his part in a dinner jacket with a cocktail glass in his hand.

In 1941, after the United States entered World War II, Gimpel, along with many other Germans, was deported from Peru and sent to an internment camp in Texas. However, after seven weeks in the camp, he returned to Germany, where he received money, an identity card, food, and an order to report to Berlin. According to Gimpel, “this amateur was about to become an (continued on page 30)

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expert.”

Meanwhile, William Colepaugh (1918-2005) was not what one would expect to be a spy. In fact, he was born in Connecticut and went to college at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was also known by his friends for his drinking and his constant female companionships. However, after his uneventful discharge from the U. S. Naval Reserve in 1943, Colepaugh began having pro-German sympathies, which got him blacklisted by the FBI and the Selective Service Board. He eventually found a job as a mess boy on a Swedish ship headed for Europe after which he abandoned his post and turned himself in to the German consul in Lisbon, Portugal. His claim at the time was simply to “help win the war for the Third Reich.”

Colepaugh then traveled to Berlin, where he was interviewed by SS Major Otto Skorzeny and sent to SS training

school in the Netherlands. Meanwhile, Gimpel had accepted a dangerous mission to obtain information about the atomic bomb project. This was when Colepaugh met Gimpel, who later recalled that, in order to pursue his plans of slipping into the U.S., he must bring along a “proper American. He must know the latest dance steps and the latest popular songs. He must know everything about baseball and have all of the Hollywood gossip at his fingertips.”

At that time, Colepaugh seemed to be the right candidate.

In September 1944, Gimpel and Colepaugh boarded the 250-foot U-1230, which set off for the coast of Maine.

The identities of the two men were kept secret, even from the submarine’s captain. Gimpel posed as a chief engineer, while Colepaugh assumed his role as a war correspondent. The major problem with Colepaugh was that he did not speak German fluently, which immedi-

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ately caused suspicion among the crew.

Nevertheless, the two men carried approximately $60,000 in cash and even some diamonds in case of any currency changes due to the war. After more than a month of travel, the submarine reached Newfoundland and quietly made its way down the North American coast to a point near Bar Harbor where it sat offshore with only its conning tower visible above the waterline.

After rowing ashore on an inflatable life raft, Gimpel and Colepaugh reached U.S. Route 1 where they hailed a taxi from the town of Ellsworth. According to Gimpel, Colepaugh did all of the talking and he explained that their car had crashed into a ditch and they were in need of a ride to the Bangor train station (more than 30 miles away). At 7 a.m., the two men boarded a train to Boston. During a layover before heading to New York City, Gimpel recalled that he “went into a store to buy a tie,

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According to Gimpel in his book, he describes babysitting Colepaugh “through long, drunken nights acutely anxious that this weak link with a tremendous thirst would give them away.”

They had spent most of their time in a rented apartment planning their next move. Colepaugh, in the meantime, continued drinking and meeting available women. Then, the morning arrived when Gimpel returned to their Manhattan hotel room to find Colepaugh, the radio transmitter, and all of the diamonds gone. Gimpel luckily managed to locate the suitcases at a Grand Central Station

holding room, which basically left Colepaugh without any money. As Gimpel hid in a vacated apartment on 44th Street with every intention to complete his mission, Colepaugh drunkenly disclosed his situation to an acquaintance, who immediately called the FBI. At that time, the FBI was on high alert regarding the possibility of German spies landing on the Maine coast. This was due to one major mistake: upon leaving the Maine coast, U-1230 had torpedoed a 5,000-ton Canadian freighter, which caused the FBI to begin interviewing local residents, several of whom recalled spotting two men wearing “light trench coats and walking along U.S. Route 1.”

After Colepaugh’s confession to the FBI, a manhunt began in Manhattan, and Gimpel was arrested at a newsstand on December 30. In February 1945, Gimpel and Colepaugh were tried, convicted, and sentenced to death

by a military court on Governor’s Island. However, as they waited for their execution, President Franklin D. Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945 after which all federal executions were to be suspended for four weeks. Then, after the war ended in Europe, President Harry Truman decided to commute Gimpel’s and Colepaugh’s sentences to life in prison since the U.S. was no longer at war with Germany, and Colepaugh had offered the FBI everything they needed to find and arrest Gimpel. As The New York Times stated, “The mission of the spies in this country was a complete failure.”

“Agent 146” served nearly a decade in various U.S. prisons, including the notorious Alcatraz. He was eventually paroled in 1956 after which he quietly returned to Germany.

Although many references state that he died in 1996, it is well known that he celebrated his 94th birthday in 2004 in Brazil, where he eventually died in (continued on page 32)

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A.C. Inc. A real family operation on Beals Island

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eals is a small island community whose primary economic foundation is the fishing and lobstering industry. Many people today visit the island to enjoy the pristine views and the friendliness of the community.

With a strong work ethic prominent in the community, Beals was primarily self-contained, joined to the mainland only by ferry, until the Beals bridge was opened in August, 1958 connecting the island to the mainland in Jonesport.

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An excellent example of that work ethic is what today is known as A. C. Inc., a supplier of quality seafood that includes lobster, scallops, Mahogany clams, soft shell clams, frozen steamer clams, crab, whelks and periwinkles.

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The building that had been vacated on Perio Point was used as a shucking house for buying and selling clams.

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treated his employees fairly and recognized their skills. From those early beginnings it was evident that it was a family business inclusive of the Carver family, and their employees were part of that family.

Richard’s son Albert helped with the business during school vacations and after school. Possessing the same forward-thinking work ethic as his father and grandfather, Albert joined the business full-time in 1978. Over the next six years it became very apparent that continued growth of the business was a very realistic probability. A new 2,400 square foot facility was opened on Black Duck Cove Road. The new expansion was followed by the construction of tidal lobster pounds. In 1996, 6,400 square feet was added to the Black Duck Cove Road processing facility to ensure that a fresh, quality product was provided to their customers.

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was founded in 1997 as a division of Carver Shellfish. Albert became the president and in the years that followed Patrick Robinson became the Vice President. In 2000 an additional 2,000 square feet was added to the Black Duck Cove facility followed by another addition of 3,800 square feet in 2010.

Today the facility is 16,500 square feet and contains cold storage for live lobster, loading and receiving bays, and processing areas. A 150 thousand gallon cold water storage tank, a tote room

and rain room were added in 2012, making A.C. Inc one of the largest cold water storage facilities in Maine. The company operates five tidal pounds to house fresh lobsters, and operates four tractor-trailer trucks for transporting the product to the Boston markets.

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The number of employees increases on a seasonal basis. Various committees provide input to the decision-making process and future planned business development. Regular meetings are held to ensure that any problems are addressed. In addition to employees being recognized monetarily with yearly raises, A.C. Inc. holds yearly holiday

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The Mattawamkeag’s Cursed Falls

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he Mattawamkeag is a beautiful river. Man has left virtually no imprint here. It is dam-free.

That’s why it attracts those who love canoes and kayaks.

Mattawamkeag is an old Indian name. That’s the origin of the river’s name, or so tradition has it. Tradition also has it that these early inhabitants of the region so loved the river that they cursed it so it would forever be free of contamination and stay pristine.

Small numbers of canoeists and kayakers have no difficulty running the Mattawamkeag. When there are large numbers, accidents seem to happen.

Most often they occur at heaters. One runner put it this way: “The heaters initially lead into a small gorge where

tricky boil lines can throw you for a loop.”

Heaters are found in stretches of white water. There is Slewgundy heater. There is a heater at Ram’s Head.

There are heaters at upper Gordon Falls. These are the most challenging.

Slewgundy heater has had its tragedies.

Men have died here. Two weren’t even running the Mattawamkeag. One of these was carrying mail. Canoes and kayaks have been lost here and some of their occupants have been seriously injured.

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Slewgundy is a wide channel right of a small island. That’s where the trouble begins. It could have been around here that a mail carrier by the name of Moor drowned.

Moor was the first mail carrier between Bangor and Houlton. This was when it took four weeks to make the trip between Houlton and Bangor. Though records indicate he drowned at Slewgundy, one must wonder at the exact location of his death. The body wasn’t even found on the Mattawamkeag.

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DiscoverMaineMagazine.com Moor wasn’t the only person who drowned at Slewgundy that day — if indeed that was the location of the tragedy. Moor was accompanied by a man named Daggett. The two were headed down the Mattawamkeag when the tragedy occurred.

Moor and Daggett were buried at Gordon Falls. As late as 1890 there were traces of the grave site. Today the burial is but another tradition. A portion of the Mattawamkeag flows through East Winn. Gordon Brook enters the Mattawamkeag in Mattawamkeag.

Little Gordon Brook enters the river in Winn. Today it isn’t clear where Moor and Daggett were buried. For reasons that will become clear shortly, this writer suspects the burial site is in Winn.

I have canoed the Mattawamkeag, though I have not done Slewgundy. I know and have talked extensively with those who have, though. Much of what follows is information garnered from experienced canoeists and kayakers

and from material published for Mattawamkeag river runners.

The Mattawamkeag River is the longest river in Maine with effectively no regulation of its flow by dams.

The river drains something over 1500 square miles, and the large basin size and high percentage of wetlands in the basin provides moderate flows even throughout the summer months. By statute, the Mattawamkeag River from the Kingman-Mattawamkeag boundary to its confluence with the Penobscot River is defined as a Class AA river, the highest water quality classification for a river in Maine. The stretch of the Mattawamkeag River from Kingman to Mattawamkeag is rated as class II-IV for canoeists and kayakers. The most difficult stretch is through Slewgundy heater upstream from Gordon Falls.

One kayaker described Slewgundy as follows: “There are lots of funky currents and diagonal waves that make it much more interesting than it sounds.”

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If Slewgundy is the big challenge on the Mattawamkeag, Upper Gordon isn’t far behind. The huge waves of the falls are classified class III-IV and easily flip kayaks or canoes. It starts with a little curler in the center of the river. Next comes a big exploding wave, followed by a huge trough, followed in turn by “a monster Big Mamaesque wave that immediately is followed by another wave that immediately is followed by another wave with a good foam pile on top.” A clean run is exhilarating! Single canoes or kayaks seem to do all right handling Upper Gordon.

Several together and you get jams and collisions. That’s when tragedies can happen.

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In the early part of the nineteenth century John Gordon built a mill at the lower pitch of Gordon Falls in Winn.

That’s when the falls acquired its name.

In 1812 Indians burned the mill. The story is that Gordon left the mill unattended to take a trip. To quote an anonymous writer of a later time, “The Indians, not liking the destruction of their noble forests, burned down the mil.” It was not rebuilt.

Are the falls of the Mattawamkeag truly cursed? The possibility appeals to a certain mindset. If you are the sort that likes the thrill of watching boaters getting flipped, the Mattawamkeag at Upper Gordon Falls is a wonderful vantage point to watch descending boaters and consider curses. One might also wonder if a mail carrier of long ago and his companion, victims of Slewgundy or another of the Mattawamkeag’s falls, are buried here.

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hile sailing along the North American coastline in 1525 Portuguese explorer Estevan Gomez sailed his ships up a wide river leading inland in hopes of finding the northwest passage to the Orient. Records indicate that before turning back, his ship reached the site of the future location of Bangor on the Penobscot River. Long before Gomez’s visit to the area, Abenaki Indians called this spot their home. They named it Kadesquit which translates as “place of rocks.”

In 1604 the French explorer Samuel de Champlain made a similar excursion up the same river. He had hopes of finding Norumbega, the legendary city of gold described in John Milton’s poem Paradise Lost. His ship’s log described

Fan Jones portrait ca. 1880 (photo courtesy of Richard Shaw)

the surrounding area destined to become present day Bangor, as “most pleasant and agreeable.”

Fishermen and fur traders settled in the area by the late 1760s. In 1791 Bangor became an official town and the city charter was signed in 1834. The city got its name by mistake. According to a local legend a pastor named Seth Noble had gone to Boston to register the name as Sunbury. To pass the time while waiting Noble whistled an Irish hymn with the title “Bangor.” When the clerk asked Noble what name to put on the official document, Noble thought he asked the title of the hymn. So he answered, “Bangor.” This sounded good to him so he let the name Bangor stand.

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The river originates deep inside millions of acres of lush forests of pines, oaks, hemlocks and more than 20 other healthy species. Starting more than 50 miles above Bangor, the river carves a wandering 109-mile path to the Penobscot Bay. Visionary businessmen became wealthy land barons when they leaped at the opportunity to buy unwanted land around the river at the appealing low price of a dime an acre.

Enterprising merchants built saw mills in Bangor and hired teams of lumberjacks who spent months in the Maine hills cutting timber into logs.

They stripped away branches and floated the logs down the Penobscot. River riders guided the logs on their water highway. They straddled hundreds of piled up logs and did the dangerous

work to free up mammoth jams that occurred in the river’s churning current and meandering route. In addition to lumber, Bangor flourished with tanneries, foundries and brick yards. Some of the bricks produced in Bangor helped build Boston’s streets and buildings.

In 1860 Bangor had grown to a population of 16,000. Its mills shipped 250 million board feet of milled timber to southern Maine towns for building ships and to ports around the world.

Ships came from Europe, China, Australia and the West Indies to trade molasses and rum. During this era more than 3,000 ships sailed into the city’s harbor. So many ships docked side by side that at times, a man could walk from Bangor to Brewer, the town across the river, without touching the water. This hectic activity made Bangor the undisputed “Lumber Capital of the World.”

As the city prospered with growing businesses, it also became

a center for local culture, music, the arts and civic organizations. Influential patrons, including personalities like Hannibal Hamlin, the Vice President during the first administration of Abraham Lincoln, worked to establish the town as a progressive place to live.

They built theaters, museums, libraries, schools, and in 1864 established the Bangor Historical Society.

Alongside the high-minded aspirations of the town’s more sophisticated citizens, Bangor also attracted a more volatile and feisty group of inhabitants.

After a hard season harvesting trees deep in the woods, lumberjacks, river riders, as well as hundreds of ship crews on leave, descended into the section of town known as “Devil’s Half Acre.” While its exact location remains something of a mystery today, there is no question of its unsavory reputation for noisy bars, seedy hotels and houses of prostitution.

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zine article by Wayne Reilly and Richard Shaw, published in 1988, the “Sky Blue House of Pleasure” earned the title as the most notorious brothel in the city. It may have received this name from its tall chimney painted blue so patrons could find it. Even more famous than the house was its owner Fan Jones. Born Nancy Jones to Eliza and Benjamin Jones in Brooksville in the 1830s, Jones labored as a seamstress as a young woman. She arrived in Bangor to discover hundreds of men in search of female companionship and pleasures. She satisfied the passions of these eager men by becoming a prostitute in 1850. Eight years later town officials arrested her for operation a “house of ill repute.”

Jones had a reputation as a shrewd businesswoman. She purchased the building at 233 Harlow Street in 1867 for $4,000, and established her infamous bordello. Satisfied patrons helped spread her fame with colorful folk-

songs, such as: Fan Jones, She ran a cathouse Way down on Harlow Street If you’re a woodsman Head straight there And your friends you’ll surely meet.

Most often she employed eight mature ladies rather than the younger girls found in competing brothels. She treated her ladies well, dressed them in elegant outfits and kept the house neat and orderly. Many of her customers returned often and her business thrived.

Generous and kind by nature, she provided support for other girls who needed help. When she learned of the plight of a 16-year old orphan, Caddie Graffam, Jones adopted her.

Although Maine had banned liquor since 1851, Bangor ignored the law. By 1890 it was easy for a man to quench his thirst at one of the 142 saloons around the city, several in Devil’s Half Acre.

Politicians and policemen received bribes under the “Bangor Plan” which

disregarded Prohibition in Maine.

Often at odds with the law, Jones received fines for providing customers with liquor and a place to satisfy their carnal pleasures. In 1861 she had to serve several months in the Bangor House of Corrections. A Grand Jury indicted her in 1870. She attempted to leave town on the Maine Central Railroad, but marshals caught her about 50 miles away in Fairfield and escorted her back. Whig & Courier, the local paper, wrote about her arrest, “[Imagine] Fan’s feelings at such disregard of women’s rights as would not let her choose her own direction to travel in.”

In the parade that started the Bangor State Fair each year, Jones dressed her ladies in elegant Paris gowns and had them ride in an open coach drawn by six horses. She provided a large tent near the fair where the ladies attracted willing customers.

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When the Great Bangor Fire of 1911 destroyed a large part of the city, the Sky Blue House of Pleasure somehow survived. By then Jones was 81 and no doubt retired. She died in 1917 of tuberculosis and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery. Jones’ colorful life inspired Ardeana Hamlin to write the novel Pink Chimneys, and several sequels about this lurid interlude in Bangor’s history.

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So near and yet so far” describes the heartbreak experienced by a Dexter surgeon stationed on a Texas island in winter 1863-1864.

Born in Portland to Rev. Adam and Sally Wilson in February 1834, John Butler Wilson had lived the bachelor’s life while attending Portland Academy and Hebron Academy. After graduating from Waterville (Colby) College in 1854, he served as the principal of a secondary school in East Corinth and of Dexter High School until 1857.

Wilson then studied medicine with Dr. Nathaniel R. Boutelle in Waterville before moving to Philadelphia to complete his medical training at Jef-

ferson Medical School. After receiving his medical diploma in 1859, Wilson moved to Exeter to treat patients living in an arc stretching from East Corinth west through Exeter and Garland to Dexter.

He married Samantha T. Perkins (then 26) in January 1861. Samantha became pregnant within weeks; she was well along in her pregnancy when Maine Governor Israel Washburn Jr. called for the formation of five infantry regiments in late summer 1861.

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sions remain lost to history; his future letters hint at the guilt Wilson felt in leaving behind his wife and their baby son — Charles Branch Wilson, born in Exeter in October — while he went off to war.

Wilson recruited enough men to form Company H, 15th Maine Infantry Regiment. For performing his patriotic duty, he was named the company’s captain. The regiment sailed from Portland in March 1862 and soon arrived at Ship Island off the Mississippi coast.

Writing frequently to Samantha, Wilson ultimately arrived in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. While stationed at Camp Parapet near New Orleans, he

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Issued at Opelousas, Louisiana on May 1, 1863, General Order No. 40 had established the Corps d’Afrique, consisting of more than 20 black regiments commanded by white officers.

The War Department started merging these regiments with the regular Army some months later. The 2nd Regiment Engineers Corps d’Afrique would become the 96th United States Colored Troops — and would need a surgeon, Cobb told Wilson, who quickly transferred from the 15th Maine to the 96th USCT. Meanwhile, he had sent for Samantha and Charlie to join him in Louisiana. Reunited at Brashear City in autumn 1863, the young family enjoyed a few weeks together before Wilson learned that he would accompany an expedition to Matagorda Island on the Gulf Coast in Texas. The 96th went as part of the 2nd Brigade Corps d’Af-

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Learning their families could accompany them, many white officers quickly packed their families and baggage. Samantha wanted to join John, but he felt that she and Charlie “needed the surroundings of home and … made arrangements for her to return to Maine to a ‘proper home’ environment,” notes Bill Winsor, a Texan who owns 25 of Wilson’s letters.

John knew he had made a mistake soon after kissing his wife and son farewell and boarding the SS McClellan for Texas. “Our parting[,] darling[,] on the Steamer was short — much I could have said[,] but I felt that silence was far more expressive than speech,” Wilson defended his decision in a December 8, 1863 letter to Samantha.

“You … must have felt lonely going home among strangers after having expected a happy winter,” he attempted to read Samantha’s thoughts. “But we must all make sacrifices and suffer in

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John was worried that Charlie might fall ill in Texas and leave Samantha with no “friends” to help her. The fact that other officers’ wives would be sharing similar living conditions apparently evaded his mind.

John Cobb, the expedition’s engineer, brought his family to Matagorda.

“When I see Col. Cobb’s little boy[,] I long for mine and so much the more that owing to your good training[,] darling[,] he is better behaved than most children,” Wilson wrote on January 28, 1864.

“So my dear wife[,] never forget[,] whatever may happen[,] that I love you wholly and fondly as I never in my wildest dreams expected to love any person,” he fittingly told Samantha on Valentine’s Day 1864. “I have wondered often … how you married a man who has so few claims to regard from you and who had made so little demon-

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strations of love.”

Worried that disease might affect his family in Maine, Wilson detailed “the treatment for diphtheria which I consider the best” in a March 5 letter; “God keep thy safe till again we meet,” he signed it.

“Now gladly would I have had your company now could it be done at no sacrifice or … without too great a sacrifice of your personal comfort and I from this climate,” Wilson let his tough Victorian veneer crack a bit on March 11.

His heart had melted by March 24, when he asked Samantha “to tell Charlie that Papa often sits … on the beach and gazes far over the sea” while “longing to see his little boy once more — Tis strange that he should remember me as he was with me for so short a time.”

In a cruel twist of fate, John Butler Wilson fell ill while stationed on Matagorda Island. Discharged for medical disability in January 1865, he

sailed home to rejoin his family.

Dying in Dexter on March 15, 1866, Wilson was buried in Elmwood Cemetery. Samantha remarried and had four more children; Charlie would grow up knowing his stepfather better than he did his father.

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Maine’s Wild Blueberries Go To War After the Civil War, Maine blueberries became a national rage

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he wild blueberry has grown in dense patches throughout Hancock and Washington counties since the last great ice age ended ten thousand years ago. It is believed that the wild blueberry was probably one of the first plants to begin to grow within the barren soils, which were previously scraped clean of vegetation by the extensive and destructive ice cover. Aptly suited to the unique soils of the area, wild blueberries thrive throughout the region to this day, and the plant is truly indigenous to the state of Maine.

Wild blueberries were initially harvested by the Native Americans, who

would descend on the wild blueberry patches in large groups to harvest as many berries as possible during the brief timespan of the growing season.

Native Americans consumed the fresh berry and also dried it for later consumption. The early arriving European settlers quickly acquired a fondness for the sweet flavor of the wild blueberry and eagerly harvested the bountiful summer crop. Unquestionably, the wild blueberry was an important source of food for both the Native Americans and the European settlers. As the years passed, local marketing began for the sale of the harvested wild blueberry,

but the delicious fruit was not transported far from the borders of Maine.

With the onset of the civil war in the 1860s, the distribution of Maine’s wild blueberries into other parts of the country would be forever changed.

Our nation was soon massing for war, and thousands of men were placed in the ranks of the union army. An army cannot exist on willpower alone, and as the old saying goes – an army marches on its stomach. The commanders of the union army put out the order for food supplies to be shipped in large quantities to feed the hungry men. Compared to the negative potential consequences

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Fruit was also necessary to prevent outbreaks of scurvy amongst the soldiers.

In the 1860s, there was a challenge to transport fruit because of its perishable nature, but the resourceful people of Maine embraced this challenge.

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that the blueberry would not spoil during long-term storage and created a way to safely transport the delicate fruit to distant locations. As a testament to the success of the canning process, samples of canned food were recovered from the steamboat Bertrand, which sank in 1865. The samples of canned food from the sunken steamboat were tested, and the tests concluded that the 109-year-old canned food was still safe to eat.

Local blueberry pickers worked hard to meet the huge demand for blueberries, and large commercial blueberry farming operations began to evolve throughout both counties as the demand for more blueberries increased.

Picking wild blueberries by hand was a long and tedious task, but the ingenious farmers of Maine developed techniques to help ease and speed the harvesting process. The blueberry rake was invented by Maine resident Abijah Tal(continued on page 56)

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bot of Columbia Falls, and it was basically a rake-like tool that was pushed through the branches of the wild blueberry plant. As the metal tines of the rake moved through the berry-laden branches, the wild blueberries would become dislodged from the branches and collect within a depressed holding area of the blueberry rake. This rake helped increase harvest ratios dramatically. Versions of this efficient harvesting rake are still used today in Maine.

The cannery in Milbridge quickly became a successful operation, and after establishing a contract with the Union army, was soon selling canned blueberries in large quantities. Canned blueberries were packed and transported by rail and shipped to the army which at that time was the quickest way to transport large quantities of product.

Because the wild blue berries were previously a food that was found only in the state of Maine, the majority of

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the troops in the Union army had never tasted the flavor of the blueberry before enlisting. The sweet delicious berry quickly became a very popular item in the camps of the Union troops, and provided a wholesome nutritious addition to the often bland diet of the soldiers. Illness was rampant within the ranks, due to living in close quarters and being subjected to harsh weather.

The nutritious antitoxic benefits of the wild Maine blueberry were not known in the 1860s, but there is no doubt that the wild blueberry must have had a positive health effect on the soldiers.

Even though mass distribution of Maine’s wild blueberries began with feeding the troops of the Union army, it started the processing industry for canning and marketing the wild blueberry throughout the country. Soon thereafter, other new canning operations were being constructed in Maine to keep up the rising demand for the new-

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found popularity of the wild blueberry.

Among those canneries in Milbridge was the Wyman Company, founded

by Jasper Wyman. When the Civil War ended, Union soldiers went back home, but many still desired the wild Maine blueberries that they had grown accustomed to eating. Instead of the blueberry canning industry ending after the Civil War, the industry continued to grow and prosper. By 1875, the blueberry was an important part of the Washington County economy. Many more blueberry farms began to appear on the landscape of Maine to produce more berries. As a testament to the success of the blueberry industry, the Wyman Company is still open today with its main office in Milbridge, and a huge manufactuing plant in Cherryfield that produces nearly forty percent of the total wild blueberry crop in Maine.

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proved in the years following the Civil War, it became possible to transport fresh blueberries longer distances.

Harvesting of the blueberry increased substantially in Maine to keep up with the demand. In the decades that followed, blueberry plants were transported and transplanted in other parts of the country with good growing success.

Yet, to this day, the state of Maine has the largest wild blueberry crop within the country, and the wild blueberries of Maine are the preferred berry of choice by most. Blueberries from other parts of the country like Michigan and New Jersey may be bigger, but lack the deliciousness of the Maine variety.

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The Millstone

by Karen E. Holmes

A relic from Cooper’s rural past

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ll granite stone is hard and tough because it was forged by unfathomable heat and pressure over an immensity of time. Since the millstone is granite, it has remained intact for more than 200 years. A grist mill in the town of Cooper, Maine began using it in the year 1816. Now in 2016 all that remains of that structure is this millstone. The artifact lies motionless beside the Mill Stream. Ironically, the water flowing down that stream made it move so many years ago. The millstone is shaped like a wheel, 48 inches in diameter with a center square opening of eight inches. For a while it was enshrouded with dirt in different locations. But now the rain and snow are

cleansing it, revealing its composition of very white granite. Deep grooves are equidistantly arranged on its surface from center to edge. These are not natural patterns. They were carved by a stone artisan for a purpose. The millstone is a silent witness of the passage of time and how things change. Once it was made by a dedicated craftsman and protected for its crucial function in the grist mill. But years later it was abandoned and forgotten as an unnecessary, useless remnant of the past. Over the years different Cooper residents rescued the millstone from this oblivion. They saved it because they considered it an important historical artifact. History in a simple and enjoyable form can be

told as a story. The rescuers realized the millstone was a piece of the story of the past of the town and its people.

There was a rural way of life in Cooper 200 years ago. People raised and hunted their food, built their homes and implements and took pride in their toil and workmanship. General John Cooper built two mills next to the Mill Stream in 1816. He named the grist mill Resolution and the saw mill Successful Enterprise. It is obvious he had resolved they would be successful businesses. The Mill Stream site was chosen for the availability of water power.

He and other men used horses and oxen and constructed dams along the stream.

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and poured down the water that could turn a water wheel. The right amount of water flow was crucial. Too little water provided too little force to turn a water wheel, while too much would stop it from turning. The two mills were located by well-used trails and roads and convenient for customers. The grist mill Resolution was built mostly from wood and stone from the area.

Its foundation was set in stone. Logs were cut and fashioned into the many necessary beams, boards, shingles, etc. for the mill building. Also a structure enclosing the outside water wheel was built to prevent ice damage from the freezing cold of winter. All the wood that was needed explains why the sawmill Successful Enterprise was built in close proximity to the grist mill. The forests of Cooper were harvested for the right kind of wood needed for specific purposes. A blacksmith was hired to forge any necessary metal parts for both mills. A successful mill provided

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many people with a source of income and required many different skills.

The purpose of a grist mill was to produce flour from grain crops. The miller was paid with cash or given a portion of grain as payment for grinding for other people. Every grist mill had at least one pair of millstones located on the first floor of the mill. A person of today would not be able to name correctly the implements of the millstone operation. A wooden case called a vat enclosed both millstones and was called the mill machine. Grain was poured into the hopper, a sort of upside down pyramid on the vat cover. The lower bedstone was stationary.

There was a mechanism called a spindle placed through its center or eye. This spindle turned the upper runnerstone and was supported by a cross-shaped metal piece. The millstones and all connecting mechanisms were carried by a set of beams. This formed a lever system that allowed the lifting or lowering

of the runnerstone. All this activity was enabled by the power generated from the outside water wheel. The surfaces of both millstones had identical equidistant patterns of deep grooves called furrows, stretching from the centers to the edges. Deeper furrows sliced off outer husks of the large and hard kernels of corn, while shallower furrows did so for the smaller and softer kernels of wheat, rye, oats, and barley. The miller adjusted for the type of grain that had been brought to be made into flour.

The grooved side of the runnerstone faced the grooved side of the bedstone.

They never were allowed to touch and were evenly balanced. The miller could adjust the space between them. Raising or lowering changed the cutting and grinding function. Meanwhile, air was circulating between the millstones, and this prevented heat building up from friction. The runnerstone’s motion caused a sort of scissor-cutting action with the stationary bedstone. The mill-

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er’s objective was to produce as much good quality flour in one pass through the millstones as possible. Grind once, then sift once, was the goal. The furrows had to be re-cut or dressed regularly on both millstones in order to keep the edges sharp. The resulting fine flour was sifted and bagged as soon as possible. Otherwise insects and rodents would contaminate and ruin it for sale and usage.

Most millstones were made in Europe. They were brought to America by ships crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

After the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, most Americans did not want to buy anything made in England.

So American millers bought millstones crafted in France. Most were made from white granite that produced higher quality flour. The miller could charge customers a higher price. Since the Cooper millstone is made of white granite, it can be inferred it came from France and was brought to Cooper in

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former existence of the mills on their property. They knew that the bordering Mill Pond and Mill Stream was used for their production in the 1800s. Cooper historian Justin Day was contacted and they all decided the millstone should be protected. It was an unusual and valuable artifact belonging to the Town and people of Cooper. They agreed that the best place for safekeeping was at the Cooper Volunteer Fire Department. So firefighter Ralph Flood brought it there.

The members watched over it as “safe keepers” for many years. For a while it was covered with dirt. The millstone was moved from there to the grounds of the Cooper Town Office and Cooper Community Center/Cathance Grange Hall in December 2015. Mr. David Lee volunteered his big front end loader and moved it there. School Board member Karen Holmes, Dan Ackley and Brenda Gove of the Select Board felt great satisfaction when it arrived undamaged.

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1816. Millstones were purchased in pairs, and where the other one ended up is sadly unknown. Perhaps it was used as part of a nearby bridge abutment or to reinforce one of the dams on Mill Stream.

The surviving millstone was rescued. During the 1940s Cecil and wife Melva Keen noticed a millstone lying in the bed of Mill Stream. Melva insisted that Cecil pull it out with the help of their horse. They placed it under a large oak tree nearby. Years passed and their property was purchased by Leeland and wife Betty Bass. In 1980 they enjoyed an especially prolific and beautiful wild rose bush growing under their old and majestic oak tree. It had emerged from the center of what they thought was a stone plant pot embedded into the ground. After they did a little digging, they were astonished to realize that the bush was emerging from the center or eye of a millstone.

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There are plans to dedicate it and place it in a prominent location there. Also a history trail going up to the Mill Pond is being considered. Perhaps the people of Cooper will enjoy a nostalgic and romantic appreciation of the past there.

Today they would just hear the water flowing down the Mill Stream. But they might imagine the sounds of the 1800s. Everyone would have known when the grist mill was operating. It was a noisy place. The building vibrated into the ground from the millstones grinding and the water wheel revolving.

There would have been the splashing of water, the roar of the waterfall. Resolution grist mill was a natural gathering place for the community of Cooper.

People probably had to raise their voices during these social gatherings to be heard. Everyone knew smoking was not allowed in or near the mills. The mill workers used tools made of wood and not metal for the same reason. The

highly flammable chaff and flour dust being produced into the air could ignite from a tiny spark. A deadly explosion was not a sound anyone wanted to hear!

Indeed the millstone is part of a story. It is the story of the past history of Cooper. Anyone knowing how and why it existed can appreciate the rural past. Also it should be considered that the name of the grist mill, Resolution, was an appropriate name chosen by General John Cooper. He lived with the people of Cooper and knew they had tenacity, resolve and purpose. They performed honest toil and sweat and took pride in their effort and workmanship.

They were not alienated from the land or water, and used whatever both made available for their way of life. They grew crops, raised animals and harvested. Perhaps the past people of Cooper actually gave more to the land than they took. It is certain they would be glad the millstone was saved.

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East Millinocket Hero American Legion Post 13 honors an airman’s bravery at Midway

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orld War II, the “Good War,” seems a long time ago, especially when today’s bad hats are not being called out for the scoundrels they are. Back then, things were different. We spoke of defeating, not “degrading,” our foes. And heroes were everywhere.

East Millinocket knows. That old blue-collar mill town stands for no nonsense when it comes to celebrating a worthy homegrown legend. Case in point: the Feeney-Groves American Legion Post 13 on Main Street is partially named for Stephen W. Groves, a courageous Navy pilot lost in a distant battle defending his country’s honor. In Maine, they still know how to honor their heroes.

World War II’s early days were uncommonly dark. As Germany was rolling up the rest of Europe — the Fuehrer was even rumored to have a speech ready accepting America’s surrender on the steps of the White House — Japanese bombs were blasting Pearl Harbor.

With that port left a smoking ruin, fears ran rampant that Nipponese troops would soon come storming ashore on West Coast beaches. India, even far-off Australia, came under duress, as the High Command of the United States laid hurried plans for a National Redoubt deep in the Rocky Mountains.

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A way had to be found of landing a haymaker, an opportunity that would come at the Battle of Midway.

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Intercepts of Japanese plans for invading this flyspeck atoll — midway of nowhere — revealed a startling objective: to lure out and destroy America’s few remaining aircraft carriers, literally sinking the country’s last best hopes of turning the tide. The plot also ambitiously schemed seizing Alaska’s outermost Aleutian Islands, and aimed at nothing less than sweeping American power from the Pacific.

In attempting to gain the upper hand, Tokyo assembled an impressive invasion armada: four capital aircraft carriers, hundreds of support and supply ships, uncountable escorts, and a transport flotilla to ferry the troops.

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The swift fall of Midway and the outer islands — the first successful invasion of American soil since 1812 — was the harbinger of a final battle fought at sea. This first-of-its-kind naval action pitted opposing carrier groups hurling airplanes at each other to deliver that all-important knockout blow. Defeat would come on swift wings from beyond the horizon, and no two enemy ships would even sight each other.

These “flat tops” absent their airplanes were particularly vulnerable.

Runways and airplanes littered their decks, leaving little room for armaments. Carriers also presented a tempting target when wallowing awkwardly while launching or retrieving their air-

planes. Mostly, they relied on escorts and rapid-fire “ack-ack” guns to keep them safe.

Despite the setbacks on land, the Navy High Command kept its focus on the object at hand: sinking those enemy carriers, while somehow protecting their own. The primitive state of radar had allowed the enemy to slip detection under the screen, and absent the luxury of awaiting events, orders came down the chain of command to seek out and destroy the enemy. And so the Yorktown’s attack was launched — in the general direction of the last known sighting of the Japanese fleet — on little more than a hunch.

Even as U.S. warplanes went swarming in for the kill, Hornet and Yorktown came under attack of their own. Dive bombers, torpedo launchers and quick, agile Zero fighters hurtled out of the sky in confusing bombing and strafing runs. As Yorktown’s planes had scored a success, the ship came in for a particularly grueling punishment.

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Listing and burning, the carrier radioed for help; unfortunately, the harried Hornet could only release a handful of stubby but rugged Wildcat fighters to help stem the onslaught. One was flown

by Ensign Groves.

The curtain of steel raised from the decks of the Yorktown and her circling escorts formed a hellish tableau against which that melee of dogfights swirled.

Shells burst in deadly, colorful patterns, shrapnel splinters sprayed everywhere, and tracers arced their ghastly staccato across the sky, as planes were wrestled through frenzied maneuvers far beyond any tolerance limits, or wrenched upwards in wild and howling climbs toward the sun, or pitched over headlong in screaming, vertical dives.

Eight times Groves broke off to replenish supplies, and nine times he returned to the fray. That final one proved his last; finally brought down, he vanished forever in the vast expanses of ocean. He did not die in vain. The bat-

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tered Yorktown eventually had to be sunk by friendly fire, but all four enemy carriers were sent to the bottom, and the marooned and abandoned invasion force finally ground to a halt.

Victory at Midway broke the back of the Japanese Navy.

A graduate of the University of Maine, Groves was the first East Millinocket serviceman killed in action during World War II. He was assigned to the Hornet in 1941, the carrier made famous for launching the Doolittle Raid over Tokyo — which helped steel Japan’s resolve to take Midway in a battle that cost scores of American airmen their lives. In defending the Yorktown against vicious attack, Groves and his five intrepid companions destroyed fourteen planes before the enemy fled the fight. He was 25 years old.

Fought in June of 1942, Midway was one of the turning points of the war.

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the Navy Cross citation with the following consecration: He fearlessly plunged into aerial combat against large formations of enemy aircraft threatening the American carriers in the Battle of Midway. Contributing decisively to the disruption of the enemy, he continued determined counterattacks against desperate odds until, finally overcome by sheer aerial superiority, he was shot down from the skies. He gallantly gave his life to the fulfillment of a mission important to the great victory at Midway.

The guided-missile frigate USS Stephen W. Groves was named in his memory. Bearing a rapid-fire 76mm gun, a Gatling gun capable of spewing 4,500 rounds per minute, anti-submarine torpedo tubes, .50 caliber machine guns, and a pair of attack helicopters, the vessel fairly bristled with weaponry. (Eventually it was decommissioned and sent to the breakers; parts are now

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A History Of Motorcycles, Sidecars And More Howland museum displays classic and antique vehicles

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ometimes the best places to visit in Maine lie off the beaten path, as motorcycling and bicycling buffs will discover upon touring Motorcycles, Sidecars and More, a fantastic museum located just a baseball’s throw from the Penobscot River in Howland.

Ed Totz and his father, John, opened the museum several years ago to display classic motorcycles, sidecars, and antique and classic pedal vehicles that they had acquired. “We opened up our private collection so people could see these vehicles,” Ed said.

“This is here for the preservation of history … having people see what is no

longer out there,” he said.

The museum’s front door opens into the Old Spokes Home, which displays “some unique bicycles that people haven’t seen before,” said Ed, who competed in bike races in the past.

Two PPVs — People Powered Vehicles — capture visitors’ attention, as does a Pedlon, of which about 1,000 were manufactured in Canada as a narrower alternative to the wide-bodied PPV. Check out the three-seat bicycle, the recumbent package truck made in Florida, and a pedicab that a college student from Thailand brought with him to the States.

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“I picked that one up in Massachusetts,” Ed said.

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usually ride without sidecars, but there was a time when the motorcycle and sidebar were synonymous — and still are in certain parts of the world.

Popular in the United States during the 1920s, motorcycles provided less expensive transportation than automobiles, not considered cost-effective until Henry Ford started mass-producing the Model T on assembly lines.

Sidecars transformed motorcycles into “package trucks,” according to Ed; the museum displays period photographs of sidecars used in various commercial applications.

“Sidecars are economical,” Ed said.

“If you own a motorcycle and put a sidecar on it, you can do a whole lot more.” He and his father are building a wood sidecar package truck that will replicate the type seen in the 1920s.

The Great Depression, World War II, and the perceived economic status of owning a family car in the 1950s and

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’60s led to sidecars declining in popularity in the United States. “Sidecars came back in the ’70s with the gas crisis,” Ed said.

“In Europe they used sidecars right through” the 20th century due to higher fuel prices and poorer quality roads, he said. The sidecar remains popular in Europe, where passengers can travel in fully enclosed sidecars in inclement

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weather; “the passengers stay dry, and the driver gets wet,” said Ed, who has seen photos of four-passenger sidecars in use on the Continent.

Ed and John have assembled a diverse collection of motorcycles and sidecars from all over the world. From Russia comes a Ural motorcycle and sidecar, based on the 1942 BMW bike used by the Wehrmacht during the invasion of the Soviet Union.

After capturing some German BMW models, Soviet designers “back-engineered” the concept to create for the Red Army mechanically cruder, but physically tough motorcycle-sidecars called Dneprs (“Nepers”). The military model evolved into civilian use as the Ural, still manufactured in Russia today. Besides a Ural displayed in the museum, Ed has a 1998 Ural motorcycle-sidecar that he occasionally runs on the highway.

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From Japan comes the rare Suzuki rotary motorcycle, equipped with a 500-cc rotary engine that put out 60 horsepower. “Suzuki bet the bank on the rotary,” which unfortunately did not catch on, Ed said. Some 6,300 such bikes were built over a two-year period — and Motorcycles, Sidecars And More has one, mated with an extremely rare Bender Florin sidecar, one of only 50 manufactured in a Dutch factory.

Another rare Japanese combination motorcycle-sidecar displayed at the museum is a Marosha Lilac Electra.

About 900 were exported to the United States in 1965-1966, when Marosha “was Honda’s competition in Japan,” Ed said. Approximately 450 Lilac Electras are still on the registries in this country.

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An eye-catching World War IIthemed display wraps around a Royal Enfield 500 Bullet painted in olive drab. A British bike, the one-cylinder Royal Enfield was licensed for manufacture in India. The museum’s model is from the subcontinent; while Royal Enfield closed its plant in Britain, production continues in India to this day.

The Royal Enfield displayed at the museum is a 2001 model.

Of the 301 EquaLean sidecars built, Motorcycles, Sidecars And More has two: a high-body and a low-body. The EquaLean was a variant of the Flexit sidecar concept pioneered by South African engineer Hannes Myburgh, who figured out how to design a sidecar that leans into turns with the motorcycle.

Such sidecars were particularly popular in Europe, where “sidecar racing is big,” Ed said. “They do vintage sidecar racing in Loudon, New Hampshire.”

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Looking around the many motorcycles and sidecars — 15 to 20 are usually on display at any time — Ed said that “the key is to have pieces that people have never seen before.”

He and his dad have certainly accomplished that goal.

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rocket from an amusement-park ride into a Buck Rogers-themed sidecar.

Outside the museum is a circa-1960s’ air sled lacking its rear propeller and three skis.

That’s a future restoration project, according to Ed. Visitors learn a lot while checking out the museum’s displays. Vintage photographs capture past uses of motorcycles and sidecars, and the museum has a selection of sidecar toys and memorabilia (they just aren’t for sale).

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times by appointment,” Ed said, suggesting that people visiting from some distance away call ahead to make sure the museum is open. The phone number is 207-290-2301.

Admission is free; donations are accepted.

Motorcycles, Sidecars And More is located at 6 Terrio Street, Howland.

From Interstate 95, take Exit 210 and head on Route 6/155 to the Howland rotary; take the first right off the rotary and follow the road through its left curve toward the Penobscot River bridge; the museum is the last building on the right just before the bridge.

From Route 2 in Enfield, follow Route 6/155 across the river to Howland; the museum is the first building on the left.

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As bloody warfare consumed Europe after August 1914, the United States assiduously avoided the conflict by professing neutrality. Three years

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nent position was reserved for national and international news — about mobilized Maine National Guard units training for war. By now Alice had returned to Bangor; during family gatherings in their parents’ home at 11 Boynton Street, the sisters evidently discussed the war and what their role should be.

Officially designated as Red Cross nurses, Alice and Sarah decided to join the war effort. They joined the Army at Fort Sam Houston near San Antonio, Texas on Wednesday, August 1, 1917.

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Caught woefully ill-prepared for a European land war, the Army expanded substantially in 1917. Laden with their gear, “doughboys” boarded troopships in New York City and elsewhere to cross an Atlantic Ocean patrolled by German U-boats. Soldiers and Marines converged on France, engaged the Kaiser’s best troops, and started taking casualties by midwinter 1918.

The MacMullens honed their nursing skills for a full year in Texas; not until August 1, 1918 did the sisters head for France. Catching a train to Canada, they boarded a ship at Quebec City in September and soon arrived “over there.”

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tals in Allery,” located about 24 miles from Amiens in northern France. Sent to these hospitals were “the soldiers coming back from the terrible Argonne forest fight.”

Alice MacMullen was appointed the charge nurse in the centralization camp’s surgical ward. The base hospitals fed patients to this ward, where men arrived with one, two, or three wounds.

“We had boys brought in with many, many wounds,” Alice recalled. “So often a soldier would be brought in suffering some terrible wound which had quite evidently been sustained after other and slighter wounds, showing the courage, the desire to stay to the last moment” and fight.”

Field hospitals forwarded casualties — sick, wounded, and dying men — to the Allery camp, which might house 20,000 American soldiers at a time.

Many men suffered from disease; after the war ended, for example, a Maine

soldier named Captain Howard Kane arrived at Allery after being released from a German prisoner-of-war camp.

He “was with us for a while as it was feared he had diptheria,” Alice said.

Perhaps the most difficult wounds to treat, physically and psychologically, were those caused by poison gases, especially mustard gas. “Oh, the suffering of those gassed men,” Alice quietly said. “Nothing describes it, and the nurses and doctors who got used to it” did so “only through the knowledge that they were privileged to be there to do something for those boys of ours.

“But the cheerfulness and the courage of the blinded boys, blinded with that terrible mustard gas,” she said before recalling “one boy so burned with mustard [gas] that he had pneumonia, and he was blind, too. But he made a courageous fight to get well.”

Sarah MacMullen was assigned to the medical ward, where nurses worked incessantly to care for their patients. (continued on page 74)

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Older than most soldiers, she probably seemed like an aunt or an older sister, maybe even a mother to a frightened doughboy in his late teens.

“There were never soldiers or men half so patient, half so courageous, half so eager to get well, so they could go back to fight again,” Sarah recalled.

Since leaving home months or a year earlier, few American soldiers had encountered an American woman. Now the men heard familiar accents spoken melodiously by nurses who, even when at their dirtiest work, looked like angels.

“I shall never forget the gratitude with which they would greet us,” Alice MacMullen recalled. “You see, it must have meant a great deal to a boy coming out of ether in those barracks hospitals to see an American woman, to hear her speak.

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tient would talk about his family and his home; then he would ask, “‘Do you want to see a picture of my girl?’”

Invariable the patients “always … had pictures,” Alice remembered.

“Maybe some would only have the picture of a little group of children, his sister’s babies, he would tell us, but always they would have a picture in their possession somewhere.”

Patients and hospital staffers celebrated American holidays as best they could. Christmas 1918 saw the Red Cross send socks stuffed with small presents; every patient received such a sock. To observe Washington’s Birthday in February 1919, “every nurse became a Colonial dame, with powdered hair, and there were hatchets and favors for everybody, and we had a regular Washington’s Birthday party,” according to Sarah MacMullen.

The MacMullens came to admire their patients. “There never were such

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boys as those American soldiers, never,” Alice said.

The American boys wanted to go home, but despite their grievous injuries, many wounded soldiers tried to rejoin their comrades on the front line.

Only “when they know they can fight no more, the longing to get home, just to get home seems to make them forget their blindness, their injuries, everything,” Alice said.

In mid-spring 1919, the MacMullens boarded a troopship and sailed home to Bangor via New York City.

When the Statue of Liberty hove into view, “nothing ever looked so great to us as New York,” Alice admitted.

The sisters returned to Bangor on Wednesday, May 14, 1919.

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When The Fishing Was Good Passing the tradition from one generation to the next

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obert Brown, known as Brownie by those in Milo, was a gentleman of 73 and was proud to say he had lived through some hard times.

He’d been married and had a few children, but they had all moved out of the Milo area for what they considered a better opportunity. Brownie always said that opportunity was right in front of you, and didn’t understand why they’d had to leave to go find it.

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This year was going to be different for Brownie, though. This May, Brownie’s son had shown up on the steps of his camp. Brownie was shocked. His son Roger was having a hard time with his own son. Living in the city, his son was more interested in getting into trouble. Roger wanted to know if his fourteen-year-old son, Johnny, could go on Brownie’s annual trip.

Brownie did what any respectable grandfather would do. He agreed to take the boy with the condition that the boy didn’t bring anything but books, clothing, and whatever he wanted to snack on. He wouldn’t need anything else, he told Roger.

Two weeks later, Brownie had packed up his truck and his camper with all his equipment. This year, though, there was an added level of excitement. He hadn’t seen Johnny for almost a year, and he’d been a sullen boy, spoiled, and a little rude for Brownie’s taste. This summer reminded him of the first time he’d set out to Moosehead Lake with his own grandfather.

It was 1951 and Brownie was just eight years old. He’d told his parents he didn’t want to go with his grandfather, but they didn’t listen. They just said it would be good for him and sent him with his packs full of snacks and a few changes of clothes.

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the two of them. His grandfather had told him that they didn’t need to bring anything else with them. They would be catching their food. Brownie was anything but excited.

That level of excitement changed, though. The minute he caught his first trout, he was hooked himself. After fishing all day, he spent his first night cooking his own fish over a campfire in the woods. He didn’t know exactly where he was and he didn’t care. He just wanted to catch more fish.

Brownie’s grandfather wasn’t surprised at how quickly his grandson’s attitude had changed in just a few hours.

Fishing could do that to a man. But he also wanted Brownie to know that things wouldn’t always be this good.

“Let me tell ya a little thing about fishing, Boy. First, it ain’t always gonna be like this. You think fishing is good right now? Well, let me tell you about when the fishing was good.”

Setting down near the fire, Brownie’s grandfather continued.

“It was in 1901 that I first came here to Moosehead with my father. Things were different then. We came to stay for a week at the most. We brought a big old container with us. Back then the limit on trout was fifty pounds a day and that was for each person. We didn’t need to be out here more than a week to get stocked up on fish for the family.

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Brownie couldn’t imagine just how many fish that was. They’d each caught their limit that day of two fish weighing about three pounds apiece. He couldn’t imagine what it would be like.

“Those were the good old days when the fishing was good. Times have changed. Back when my grandfather started fishing at Moosehead, people fished from the shores and the lucky ones jumped in their canoes. Today, you got motorboats. That’s why everything changed.”

“Fishing’s still good, Gramps. Look what we’re eating!”

Of course, now that Brownie was in his seventies and getting ready to take his own grandson with him, Brownie could see the point his grandfather was making to him. When the fishing was good, it wasn’t just because of the large amount of fish you could bring home.

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erywhere you looked there were signs about trespassing and no hunting allowed on the land.

Times had changed everything from how many fish you could catch and where you could fish. The one thing Brownie was certain of, however, is that he would be teaching his grandson, Johnny, about when the fishing was good. Perhaps it would be the one thing that Brownie could teach the boy.

If that was the only thing he learned, it would be the only thing that mattered.

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Family posing near fire ruins in Bangor in 1911. (Photo courtesy of Richard Shaw)

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182 Pizza Subs & Salads .................................................................................................................17 A.C. Inc. .................................................................................................................................................33 A.N. Deringer .......................................................................................................................................60 A.R. Whitten & Sons Inc. .....................................................................................................................5 Abbott Insulation Plus .......................................................................................................................68 ABM Mechanical, Inc. ..........................................................................................................................45 Acadia chamber.com ...........................................................................................................................14 Acadia 1 Watersports .........................................................................................................................16 Access Auto .........................................................................................................................................65 Action Septic Service ........................................................................................................................25 Advanced Hypnosis Center P.A. .......................................................................................................8 Affordable Restaurant Equipment ................................................................................................73 Albert Fitzpatrick ...............................................................................................................................63 Ambit Energy - Evelyn Farrar ............................................................................................................72 Amherst General Store & Restaurant ..........................................................................................74 Andel Construction Services, LLC .................................................................................................38 Anderson Construction & Logging ................................................................................................50 Angelo’s Pizzeria ................................................................................................................................69 Any Degree ..........................................................................................................................................69 Artemis’s Attic ....................................................................................................................................38 Art’s RV Repair & Service, Inc. .....................................................................................................56 Auto Radiator Service ......................................................................................................................45 Bagaduce Music Lending Library ....................................................................................................10 Bagel Central .......................................................................................................................................69 Bangor Frameworks .........................................................................................................................70 Bangor Natural Gas ...........................................................................................................................47 Bangor Tire Company .........................................................................................................................45 Bangor Truck & Trailer Sales, Inc. ...................................................................................................73 Bangor Window Shade & Drapery Co. ............................................................................................46 Bar Harbor Historical Society ..........................................................................................................15 Barren View Golf Course ................................................................................................................55 Bass Harbor Campground ................................................................................................................13 Bayview Takeout - Beals .....................................................................................................................35 Bayview Take-Out - Penobscot .............................................................................................................21 Beach Front Cottages .......................................................................................................................13 Beals-Jonesport Co-op ...................................................................................................................55 Bear Brook Kennels ...........................................................................................................................74 Bear Paw Inn ......................................................................................................................................39 Bemis Construction ...........................................................................................................................75 Berry Construction ...........................................................................................................................36 Best Home Builders ............................................................................................................................61 Birmingham Plumbing & Heating ...................................................................................................46 Blackwell Insurance Agency ...........................................................................................................5 Blaze Restaurants ..............................................................................................................................26 Bluenose Cottages ............................................................................................................................33 Bowden Marine Service ...................................................................................................................16 Boyd Place At Phillips-Strickland House ........................................................................................70 Bradley Redemption Center ............................................................................................................42 Brandon & Laura’s Cafe ...................................................................................................................13 Brewer Veterinary Clinic, PA .........................................................................................................49 Briggs Plumbing & Heating ...........................................................................................................78 Broken Arrow Logging .....................................................................................................................39 Brookings-Smith ....................................................................................................................................3 Brooks Tire & Auto & Usave Auto Rental ........................................................................................51 Brown’s Siding & Roofing ..................................................................................................................66 Bucksport Golf Club ............................................................................................................................6 Bucksport True Value .........................................................................................................................6 Bud’s Shop ‘N Save Supermarkets .................................................................................................50 Bunny’s Downeast Septic Services Inc. ......................................................................................37 Burnham Tavern Museum .................................................................................................................56 C&J Variety ........................................................................................................................................78 C.A. Newcomb & Sons Fence & Guardrail Co. ..........................................................................75 Cafe 2 .....................................................................................................................................................14 Cafe Drydock & Inn ............................................................................................................................15 Call Construction ................................................................................................................................51 Carol’s Neighborhood Gym ................................................................................................................6 Carousel Diversified Services ..........................................................................................................43 Carroll Drug Store ...............................................................................................................................14 Carroll F. Look Construction Co. ..................................................................................................55 Carver Heating ..................................................................................................................................33 Central Maine Maintenance & Builders .......................................................................................77 Century 21 - Queen City Real Estate .........................................................................................69 Clark Insurance Agency ....................................................................................................................61 Clay GMC-Chevrolet of Lincoln .........................................................................................................42 Clouston Trucking ...............................................................................................................................69 Coach House Restaurant ...............................................................................................................72 CMD Powersystems .........................................................................................................................72 Cobscook Bay Cottages ....................................................................................................................58 Cobscook Lumber ..............................................................................................................................37 Cold Stream Storage .......................................................................................................................66 Colin Bartlett & Sons, Inc. .................................................................................................................3 Colonial Inn ...........................................................................................................................................22 Complete Tire Service, Inc. ..............................................................................................................12 County Concrete, Asphalt & Paving ..............................................................................................32 Covered Bridge Motel .......................................................................................................................53 Crandall’s Hardware .......................................................................................................................64 Crossroads Motel & Restaurant ..................................................................................................63 Crow Tracks Wood Carving Gallery ..............................................................................................58 Cummings Health Care Facility, Inc. ............................................................................................42 Cutler Village Redemption ................................................................................................................36 D&D Paving, Inc. ...................................................................................................................................41 David F. Bowden Foundations .........................................................................................................76 Dean’s Automotive & Small Engine ..................................................................................................9 DePaola Landscaping & Property Maintenance ......................................................................67 Dexter Lumber Company .................................................................................................................76 Discovery House ................................................................................................................................45 Dockside Books & Gifts ......................................................................................................................9 Dover Audiology & Hearing Aid Sales ...........................................................................................53 Downeast Drawings & Wildlife Art Gallery & Gifts ....................................................................57 Downeast Self Storage .....................................................................................................................60 Downeast Sharpening Services ....................................................................................................10 Downeast Windjammer Cruises ....................................................................................................28 Drummond Construction ................................................................................................................79 Durkee Lobster Bait ..........................................................................................................................34 Eagle Arboriculture ............................................................................................................................24 East Grand Health Center ................................................................................................................61 Eastbrook Variety ..............................................................................................................................18 Eastland Realty, LLC .......................................................................................................................35 Eastport Area Chamber of Commerce ........................................................................................59 Eastport Chowder House ..............................................................................................................37 Eat-A-Pita ...............................................................................................................................................14 Ellsworth Auto Supply Plus.................................................................................................................11 Ellsworth Area Chamber of Commerce ........................................................................................24 Ellsworth Moose Lodge ........................................................................................................................11 Elwood Downs Incorporated ..........................................................................................................66 Enfield Citgo & Service Center .......................................................................................................66 F.A. Peabody Company ........................................................................................................................5 Fernald Oceanfront Cottages ..........................................................................................................27 Foxcroft Pharmacy ............................................................................................................................53 Francis Cormier Construction .......................................................................................................8 Frank Landry & Sons, Inc. ................................................................................................................62 Frank’s Bake Shop & Custom Catering .......................................................................................47 Freightliner of Maine Inc. .................................................................................................................5 Frost’s Garage Inc. .............................................................................................................................50 G.A. Jackson & Son, LLC ..................................................................................................................80 G.F. Johnston & Associates .............................................................................................................25 General Rental Center ......................................................................................................................67 Gerald L. Wood & Son LLC .............................................................................................................57 Gillmor’s Beef ‘N’ Ale ........................................................................................................................41 Goslin Electric .....................................................................................................................................67 Gouldsboro Self Storage ...................................................................................................................18 Great Cove Excavation .......................................................................................................................55

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Greater Northern Paving ..................................................................................................................43 Greenhead Lobster, LLC ..................................................................................................................22 Guagus Enterprises .........................................................................................................................30 Guptill’s Lawn & Garden ...................................................................................................................56 Gutter Guys ..........................................................................................................................................31 H&R Block - Calais & Machias .........................................................................................................59 H.C. Haynes, Inc. ................................................................................................................................66 Haley Power Services ......................................................................................................................50 Hammond & Sons Oil Company .......................................................................................................19 Hammond Lumber Company ............................................................................................................46 Hampden Antique Mall .......................................................................................................................75 Hanington Bros., Inc. .........................................................................................................................64 Hannaford Bar Harbor .....................................................................................................................27 Hannaford Bucksport ...........................................................................................................................6 Hannaford Ellsworth ..........................................................................................................................11 Hannaford Lincoln .............................................................................................................................66 Harmon’s Heating Systems .............................................................................................................53 Harrington Trading Post ....................................................................................................................19 Harris Point Cabins and Motel ......................................................................................................37 Heanssler Oil Co. ..................................................................................................................................8 Herrick Excavation ............................................................................................................................52 High Street Market ............................................................................................................................65 Highland Builders ................................................................................................................................19 Hillside Heating ...................................................................................................................................21 Hilltop Auto Body ................................................................................................................................56 Hilton Garden Inn Bangor .................................................................................................................44 Hogan Tire ............................................................................................................................................63 Home Care for Maine ........................................................................................................................48 Houston-Brooks Auctioneers ............................................................................................................4 Howard Johnson Inn & Restaurant - Bangor ...........................................................................70 HW Dunn & Son Inc. ...........................................................................................................................12 Improv Acadia ......................................................................................................................................17 International Motel ...........................................................................................................................60 Ireland’s Rubbish Service, Inc. .....................................................................................................65 Island Approaches ..............................................................................................................................22 Island Auto Repair ..............................................................................................................................27 Island Nursing Home .........................................................................................................................21 Isle Au Haut Boat Services ..............................................................................................................8 J&N Automotive Repair ....................................................................................................................78 J. McLaughlin Construction, LLC .....................................................................................................40 J. Wilbur Construction .......................................................................................................................77 J.M. Brown General Contractor, Inc. .............................................................................................47 Jack’s Air Service ..............................................................................................................................52 JCB Horse Sales LLC .......................................................................................................................68 Jeannie’s Great Maine Breakfast ...................................................................................................27 Jerry’s Shurfine .................................................................................................................................62 Jimar Construction Products LLC ................................................................................................46 JKA Motor Sports, Cars & Trucks ....................................................................................................11 Joey’s Place & Village Wash Tub ....................................................................................................26 John R. Crooker Insurance .............................................................................................................7 John Reed - Firewood .....................................................................................................................12 John Williams Construction ..........................................................................................................49 Johnson Foundations ......................................................................................................................53 Johnson’s True Value .....................................................................................................................38 Jon D. Woodward & Son, Inc. ..........................................................................................................9 Jonesport Pizza .................................................................................................................................33 Jonesport Realty ...............................................................................................................................55 Jordan’s Snack Bar ...........................................................................................................................25 Katahdin Area Chamber of Commerce .......................................................................................65 Katahdin Health Care ........................................................................................................................64 Katahdin Shadows Campground & Cabins ...................................................................................64 Katahdin Valley Real Estate ............................................................................................................38 K-B Corp. ...........................................................................................................................................69 Keenes Lake Family Campground .................................................................................................59 Kimball Insurance, LLC ....................................................................................................................79 King’s Appliances & Floor Coverings ............................................................................................50 Knight’s Grocer ...................................................................................................................................61 L&W Builders .....................................................................................................................................76 Law Office of Charles W. Hodson II ...................................................................................................71 Lejack Construction ...........................................................................................................................41 Levesque Business Solutions ..........................................................................................................47 Libby’s Mill Pond Dairy Bar ..............................................................................................................40 Lighthouse Inn & Restaurant ..........................................................................................................27 Lighthouse Digest ..........................................................................................................................35 Lincoln Powersports ........................................................................................................................65 Llangolan Inn and Cottages ...............................................................................................................29 Lone Wolf Auto Body ..........................................................................................................................62 Lougee & Frederick’s Florist ..........................................................................................................71 Lovell’s Guilford Hardware .............................................................................................................52 Machias Bay Area Chamber of Commerce .................................................................................56 Machias Wild Blueberry Festival ....................................................................................................34 Magoon’s Transportation & Energy, Inc. ......................................................................................13 Main Street Discount ........................................................................................................................56 Maine Camp Outfitters ......................................................................................................................22 Maine Cedar Specialty Products ......................................................................................................62 Maine Collision Center ......................................................................................................................45 Maine Equipment Company ................................................................................................................4 Maine Forest Service .......................................................................................................................22 Maine Gallery and Gifts ....................................................................................................................64 Maine Historical Society .....................................................................................................................4 Maine Veterans’ Homes .....................................................................................................................35 Mainescape Garden Shop ....................................................................................................................9 Manaford’s Market .............................................................................................................................34 Maritime International ......................................................................................................................45 Mattawamkeag Wilderness Park Campground ............................................................................40 Maynard’s In Maine ...........................................................................................................................52 McClure Family Funeral Services ................................................................................................55 McFadden’s Variety ............................................................................................................................57 McKusick Petroleum Co. ............................................................................................................53 Merle B. Grindle Agency ...................................................................................................................22 Midas Auto - Bangor & Ellsworth .....................................................................................................71 Mike Nelligan Construction ................................................................................................................6 Mike Osborne - General Contractor ................................................................................................7 Mike Stevens Plumbing .....................................................................................................................50 Millmark Products, Inc. .......................................................................................................................12 MMI Marine Fabrication ...................................................................................................................58 MMP Services .......................................................................................................................................12 Moorings Inn Waterfront ...................................................................................................................26 Moosabec Video & Variety .................................................................................................................54 Moosehead Historical Society & Museums ...............................................................................51 Moosehead Motorsports .................................................................................................................52 Moosehead Trail Home & Hearth, Inc. ...........................................................................................79 Morrell’s Hardware & Home Center ..........................................................................................77 Morrison Manufacturing, Inc. .........................................................................................................58 Mountain View Variety & Redemption Center ............................................................................21 Murray LaPlant Inc. ..........................................................................................................................61 My Recycled Closet ............................................................................................................................8 Nelson Decoys ....................................................................................................................................54 Newcomb Construction ....................................................................................................................58 North Street Cafe ...............................................................................................................................19 North Woods Real Estate .................................................................................................................41 Northeast Applicators LLC ...............................................................................................................6 Northeast Building Services ............................................................................................................42 O’Brien & Sons Trucking & Contracting .......................................................................................77 Ohio Brook Disposal ..........................................................................................................................59 Old Creamery Art & Antique Mall .................................................................................................24 Oliver’s Heating & Plumbing LLC ................................................................................................47 Oli’s Trolley ..........................................................................................................................................29 Osborne’s Plumbing & Heating, Inc. .............................................................................................21 P&T Floor Maintenance ....................................................................................................................36 Palmyra Variety ..................................................................................................................................76 Paradise Cabins ................................................................................................................................39

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Paredes Painting & Pressure Washing ......................................................................................30 Parker Ridge Retirement Community ............................................................................................23 Pat’s Pizza - Orono, Holden, Hampden .......................................................................................43 Paul Craig’s Quality Caring House Painting ...................................................................................77 Paul’s Garage .....................................................................................................................................54 Penobscot Marine Museum .............................................................................................................20 Penobscot Painting ...............................................................................................................................7 Perry O’Brian Attorney At Law .....................................................................................................72 Peter Qualey, Broker ........................................................................................................................38 Pine Grove Crematorium .................................................................................................................3 Pleasant Bay Bed & Breakfast ........................................................................................................54 Pleasant Hill Campground ..............................................................................................................48 Plymouth Village Store & Cafe ..........................................................................................................77 Quiet Side Cafe & Ice Cream Shop ..............................................................................................25 Quoddy Bay Lobster ..........................................................................................................................38 Quoddy Properties ..............................................................................................................................37 R.J. Morin, Inc. Mechanical Contractor .........................................................................................68 Rae Ann Rice - Mortgage Planner ...................................................................................................71 Raymond James Financial Services, Inc. ............................................................................41 & 48 Reclaimed Maine ................................................................................................................................49 Regency Mortgage Corporation .......................................................................................................71 Registered Maine Guide School ....................................................................................................66 Richard Parks Furniture .....................................................................................................bk cover River Cafe ............................................................................................................................................62 River’s Edge Motel ............................................................................................................................40 Robbins Motel ......................................................................................................................................28 Robichaud Auto Body .......................................................................................................................74 Robinson’s Cottages .......................................................................................................................38 Rocky Shore Realty ....................................................................................................................17 Roger’s Market Inc. ..........................................................................................................................68 Ronnie’s Truck Service ......................................................................................................................24 Roosevelt Campobello International Park ..................................................................................36 Rooster Brother ......................................................................................................................bk cover Rowell’s Garage Sales & Service and Car Wash .....................................................................80 Royal Flush Septic ............................................................................................................................26 Rumery’s Marine ................................................................................................................................31 Ruth & Wimpy’s Restaurant ..............................................................................................................31 S.O.B. Oil & Earthworks Co., LLC ..................................................................................................67 Salsbury’s Organic Garden Supplies ..............................................................................................17 Salt Box ..................................................................................................................................................30 Sara Sara’s ..........................................................................................................................................23 Sawmill Woods Golf Course .............................................................................................................74 Schooner Gallery .................................................................................................................................18 Scootic In Restaurant ......................................................................................................................65 Sea Breeze Motel ................................................................................................................................17 Seawall Motel .......................................................................................................................................25 Shannon Drilling, Inc. ........................................................................................................................36 Southwest Harbor & Tremont Chamber of Commerce ..............................................................14 Spruce Mill Farm & Kitchen ..............................................................................................................81 St. Croix Country Club ....................................................................................................................60 St. Croix Valley Chamber of Commerce ...................................................................................59 STEaD Timberlands, LLC .................................................................................................................64 Steinke & Caruso Dental Care .......................................................................................................4 Stephen Oliver Custom Builder .....................................................................................................32 Stewart’s Grocery & Diner / Take-Out .....................................................................................32 Stewart’s Wrecker Service ...............................................................................................................21 Sticks, Picks & Strings / SPS Music .............................................................................................19 Stone Sparrow Cafe ..........................................................................................................................73 Stonington Lobster Co-op .................................................................................................................9 Storage Plus ........................................................................................................................................24 Stucco Lodge .....................................................................................................................................48 Sullivan’s Wrecker Service .............................................................................................................43 Sunrise Realty .....................................................................................................................................57 Sunset Park Marine & Auto ...........................................................................................................62 T&W Garage ...........................................................................................................................................51 T.A. King & Son Building Supplies ..............................................................................................34 Tax Resolution Doctor, Inc. ........................................................................................................68 The Bayview Bar Harbor ...................................................................................................................15 The Blacksheep Trading Co. ...........................................................................................................12 The Brooklin Inn ...................................................................................................................................9 The Burning Tree ..............................................................................................................................16 The Colony Cottages & Motel ...........................................................................................................29 The Crocker House Country Inn .................................................................................................30 The Dream Catcher Antiques & Collectibles ............................................................................11 The Fish Net ..........................................................................................................................................22 The Granite Shop ..............................................................................................................................23 The Mail Boat .........................................................................................................................................8 The Maine Granite Industry Historical Society Museum ..........................................................14 The Maine Store ..................................................................................................................................75 The Milbridge House Restaurant .................................................................................................31 The New Friendly Restaurant, Inc. ..................................................................................................58 The Pioneer Place USA ....................................................................................................................63 The Puffin Pines Country Gift Store ................................................................................................57 The Quoddy Tides ..............................................................................................................................59 The Red Barn Motel ..........................................................................................................................31 The Ruggles House ..............................................................................................................................54 The Young House Bed and Breakfast .............................................................................................41 T-Fencing Plus .....................................................................................................................................51 Thomas Logging & Forestry, Inc. .................................................................................................53 Thomas W. Duff Financial Advisor - Millinocket ..........................................................................41 Thomas W. Duff Financial Advisor - Brewer.............................................................................48 Thompson Funeral Home & Cremation Service ..........................................................................43 Thompson’s Hardware Inc. ..............................................................................................................67 Tideway Market .....................................................................................................................................17 Timkin Pike Tires ..................................................................................................................................19 T-Lib Construction & Cad Design Service ...............................................................................39 Town Hill Market ...............................................................................................................................28 Town of Lincoln ................................................................................................................... w M w

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~ Bar Harbor and Bar Island, ca. 1930 ~ Item #18328 from the collections of the Maine Historical Society and www.VintageMaineImages.com