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The Language Of “Bert And I” Stories of Downeast

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I t Makes No Never Mind James Nalley

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Pines And Pineapples The Castine-Hawaii connection Wilson Museum Staff

10 Bar Harbor’s Summer Of 1922 Tourist season ended on a high note

Brian Swartz 14 The Language Of “Bert And I” Stories from Downeast

Charles Francis 19 Green’s Landing A history of quarried granite in Deer Isle

William A. Haviland 22 A Woman Doing Her Duty Tremont native was a WWII WASP

Sandy Thomas 24 The Time That Maine Burned The Mount Desert Island Fire of 1947

James Nalley 27 Early Days At Alligator Lake Trout fishing and bear hunting

Steve Pinkham 32 Machias Strikes A Blow For Freedom

Armed locals overwhelm the cannons of a British warship

Jeffrey Bradley 38 Maine’s Longest Log Drive Lots of timber but mills shut down Kenneth Smith 42 It’s A Witch-Hunt! A Mystery In Orange And Black The 1931 Brewer High School football season (Part 2)

Daniel Stewart 51 C astine’s Women On the forefront of social change and public service

Press release from the Castine Historical Society 52 To The Last Man The 103rd Infantry of the Maine National Guard

James Nalley 57 Bangor Remembers Its Veterans War memorial honors all veterans of past wars Brian Swartz 60 The Maxim Machine Gun First test took place on Dexter’s Abbott Hill

Charles Francis 62 The Maine Trappers Association Dedicated to its past, present, future, and heritage

David Miller 64 Dover-Foxcroft’s Crystal Ballroom

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n the 1930s, a regulation in Maine stated that lobster pots could only be harvested from rowboats/sailboats, and that outboard motors should only be used to cross rough waters to get to the said pots. In those days, such boats would only reach 20 miles per hour. However, the regulations changed, the engines gained horsepower, and new traditions emerged, one of which is the annual Maine Lobster Boat Race Series. In this series, the lobstermen and women compete on a circuit that includes 11 fishing villages along the coast of Maine. According to Charlotte Wilder from “SBNation,” “A 26foot boat only needs a 250-horsepower (hp) engine, but in order to race, lobstermen and women trick out boats of that size with 350500-hp engines and open up their throttles.

Some of the vessels are over 40-feet long and pack over 1,200 horsepower.” As stated

by Stephen Rappaport in the Mount Desert Islander, most of the “faster boats top 40 miles per hour and a few have been clocked at better than 50 miles per hour.”

Of course, when one hears the term “racing circuit,” it is assumed that the prize money is worth the effort. However, being

that the first-place winner receives a whopping $150, it is obvious that it is only about bragging rights. It is important to note that, although a few boats are built just for racing, the majority are actual working lobster boats.

As for the iconic race in Jonesport, most locals agree that the race began sometime in the 1930s. However, some say that it was simply a competition between the lobstermen as they brought in their daily catch, whereas others believe that it was used to promote the boatbuilders’ designs. Regarding the course, Wilder stated that the original layout was “a two-mile loop that went under the bridge connecting Jonesport to Beals Island, but too many fishermen crashed into each other or the concrete pilings.” Currently, it is a one-mile drag race that thankfully ends well before the bridge.

For those interested in attending these events, the 2018 Maine Lobster Boat Race Schedule consists of the following dates/ locations: June 16, Boothbay; June 17, Rockland; June 24, Bass; June 30, Moosabec Reach; July 8, Stonington; July 22, Friendship; July 29, Harpswell; August 4, Kennebec Reach; August 11, Winter Harbor; August 12, Pemaquid; August 18, Long Island; and August 19, Portland. An

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additional perk of attending these events is that they include some type of procession/ parade, great food, dancing, live entertainment, and, of course, lobster.

Well, on this note, let me close with this lobster-inspired jest: One day, an old man was walking up the wharf carrying a pair of three-pound lobsters. Being that it was three weeks AFTER the season, the Federal Fisheries Officer walked up and said, “Sir, I caught you red-handed!” Then, the old man said, “No, you are wrong. These are two TRAINED lobsters that I caught two weeks before the season ended!” The officer asked, “Trained?” The old man smiled and said, “Well, each day, I take these lobsters down to the water and let them swim. After 15 minutes, I whistle and they return to the surface and I take them home.” “Likely story,” said the officer. “Prove it.” So, they headed down the wharf and the man dropped both lobsters into the water. After 15 minutes, the officer impatiently asked, “Well, what about the whistling?” The old man asked, “What for?” The officer replied, “TO CALL THE LOBSTERS!” Then, the old man smiled and said, “What lobsters?”

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Pines And Pineapples The Castine-Hawaii connection

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I have decided to study law, with reference to practicing at Honolulu.” (Damon, p. 1) So declared Sanford Dole in a letter to his parents in 1867. He later elaborated, “The office of a true lawyer as peacemaker is second only to the office of a minister.”

(Damon, p. 2) As the son of American Protestant Mission workers to Hawaii, he was well familiar with the office of minister; he was also kama aina (child of the land) having been born in 1844 in Punahou near Honolulu village. Little did he know that his choice of profession would ultimately set him center stage in events involving kings and queens, politicians and businessmen, uprisings and intrigue.

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born in 1808 near Skowhegan, graduated 1836 from Bowdoin College, and three years later, from the Theological Seminary in Bangor. He married Emily Ballard of Gardiner in 1840, sailing almost at once for the Sandwich Isles (an early name for the Hawaiian Islands), arriving the following May. They became superintendents of the mission boarding school being built at Punahou. Emily died there in April of 1844 following the birth of their second son, Sanford Ballard Dole. Two years later Daniel Dole married Charlotte Knapp, the widow of a fellow missionary, who was a beloved second mother to young George and Sanford.

When Sanford was twenty he was sent back to Punahou to the advanced

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DiscoverMaineMagazine.com school. Both he and his brother worked, when possible, on neighboring farms and plantations, often owned and managed by Maine families. In 1866 Sanford spent a summer visiting relatives and camping in Maine before entering Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, for his senior year. The following August he started law study in Boston, being admitted to the bar in 1868. On February 9, 1869 Sanford Dole was admitted to the bar in Honolulu.

Among the many Maine families with whom he associated was the family of Edward (Ned) Adams, just around the corner from Sanford’s Honolulu boarding house. Ned, born and brought up in Castine, was the son of Jane Russell and Thomas Adams, and the great-grandson of John and Phebe Perkins, early settlers of Castine. Ned went to California in the Gold Rush, then to Hawaii where he settled and lived for many years.

In 1870 Anna Prentice Cate, the niece of Ned Adams, met Sanford Dole while visiting Ned and his family in Hawaii. Anna, who had taught at Castine High School and Castine Normal School, was young and attractive. Ellen Fisher later wrote, “I remember when I first went to Castine, taking Anna’s place in the Normal School. Anna came in one day and I thought with a sinking heart how can I ever fill the place of that beautiful girl.” (Dole, p. 4-5) Sanford remembered that in Honolulu Anna “entered into the social life with much zest. Modest with unassuming manners, she had a striking personality, and made an immediate impression on all she met. I do not know that Kamehameha V, who was then the reigning king, met her personally, but he must have observed her at some of the royal functions, and was so favorably impressed with her that he sent her…a wreath of beautiful Oo feathers — then, as now, a rare and costly gift.” (Dole,

p. 5) Sanford and Anna were engaged in June 1872, just a few weeks before Anna sailed for home. Early the next year Sanford followed her. He wrote, “I was cordially received by the family and was hospitably entertained at their home during the days preceding our wedding.” (Dole, p. 7) He wrote home saying “Tremendous operations are going on here in cake baking, sewing and packing of boxes.” “Castine is one of the loveliest waterside places I ever saw. Boating is very good both on the bay and up the river, though the tide did once desert our boat and the wedding party walked home…” (Damon, p.

103) They were married May 19, 1873.

Two years after their marriage, as Sanford’s law practice prospered, they were able to build a house on Emma Street in Honolulu. This they gradually added to until “when the demand came for the more extensive duties of hospitality, we had suitable accommoda(cont. on page 6)

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(cont. from page 5) tions.” (Dole, p. 16) Anna grew beautiful roses, oleanders and nasturtiums, and past an avenue of royal palms, were banana, pomegranate, orange, lemon, and guava trees.

Almost from the beginning of their marriage, there was great political unrest, riots and possibilities of civil war in Hawaii following the death of King Kamehameha, ending a family dynasty with no heir. After the short reign of Lunalilo, again the numerous claimants to the throne fragmented society.

The ambition of Kalakaua when elected, to do away with the constitution and restore the absolute power of the king, was prevented by overwhelming opposition, but his reign “teemed with intrigues and conspiracies to restore autocratic rule.” (Alexander, p. 22) A great prophetess foresaw that his family would succeed in the short term, “but through them, Hawaii would be lost to foreigners.” (Allen, p. 244)

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Sanford was known and respected in the islands. His love of Hawaii made him aware of the complex clash between traditional culture and economic realities facing all its citizens. He was active in the struggle to preserve constitutional government. In 1887 he was appointed an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.

King Kalakaua died in 1891, and his sister, Liliuokalani succeeded him. She envisioned a return to the type of matriarchal monarchy once known in the islands. Unfortunately, by the time of her reign, “the pure Hawaiian population was rapidly dying out; the hapa-haole [half foreign] Hawaiian of the next generation was divided in its loyalties; and the haole [foreign] population held the most influence.” (Allen, p. 255) In 1893 her second attempt to force a new constitution provoked a general uprising. A Committee of Safety, appointed at a public meeting, formed a Provi-

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Judge Dole was named President of the Provisional Government, which, it was hoped, would last only long enough to arrange for the annexation of Hawaii by the United States. President Cleveland, however, was opposed to what he considered intervention in the affairs of a sovereign state, so a convention was formed to draft a constitution for the new republic. On July 4, 1894, this was adopted, creating the Republic of Hawaii with Sanford Dole as President.

Following the inauguration of U.S. President McKinley in 1897, negotiations for the annexation of Hawaii were resumed. A treaty providing for this was ratified by the Hawaiian Senate and signed by President Dole. However, the United States Congress delayed ratification, and it was decided

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The government of the Republic of Hawaii, however, continued for another two years until all details of transfer of authority were completed.

In 1900 President McKinley appointed Sanford Dole Governor of the Territory of Hawaii, a position he held until 1903 when he resigned and was appointed Federal District Judge. With less limelight, the Doles enjoyed entertaining more. Their Sunday breakfasts became famous. Frequently, twenty or more guests were seated at the long ta-

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ble with a menu reflecting the tastes of both Maine and Hawaii. Papayas, mangoes, pineapples, and baked breadfruit were served, as were New England baked beans and brown bread, bacon and eggs, or salt salmon.

The Doles returned to Castine for the last time in 1917, staying with Anna’s niece and namesake, Anna Witherle, on Main Street. The following summer Anna Dole died at the Emma Street home in Honolulu. There also Judge Dole died in 1926.

While the Dole name is now nearly inseparable from pineapples, it was James Dole, son of Sanford’s cousin, Rev. Charles Dole (born in Brewer), who was so impressed with the agricultural possibilities of Hawaii that after his graduation from Harvard in 1899, bought sixty acres at Wahiaua. There he grew pineapples and experimented with canning methods with such success that in one generation an investment of $20,000 grew to $30,000,000.

Sanford Dole’s success was of a very different sort. As the only President and the first Governor of Hawaii, he was among those most influential in securing responsible government for the Hawaiian Islands and for their eventual inclusion in the United States.

In hindsight, his words, from the same early letter in which he declared his profession, seem a noble prophesy: “I look upon law as a possible stepping stone to influence and power in the Government, where they need good men and where a good man could, I think, do more for the nation, for morality and justice, than preaching to the natives.” (Damon, p. 2) A contemporary affirmed, “In the political history of Hawaii, there are several strong men of dominating spirit; but above all others, in face, form, reputation, and character, towers Sanford Ballard Dole.”

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Bar Harbor’s Summer Of 1922 Tourist season ended on a high note

by Brian Swartz

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he more things change at Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park, the more they stay the

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Focused on the 2016 centennial of Acadia (which officially opened as Sieur de Monts National Monument), the Mainers who joined the hordes visiting the park and packing the sidewalks of Bar Harbor were excused for not knowing that tourism was already “big” on Mount Desert Island almost 100 years ago.

Many activities we enjoy on MDI today, tourists also enjoyed in late summer 1922 — and the Bar Harbor Publicity Committee certainly got the message out.

The advertisement printed in several Maine dailies on Saturday, September 2, 1922 proclaimed, “Labor Day at Bar Harbor” and promised exciting end-ofsummer times at “Maine’s Great Coast Resort and Lafayette National Park” (later renamed Acadia).

The Bar Harbor and Sanford baseball teams would battle in a 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. double header on Monday, September 4. Later that day, visitors could enjoy an 8 p.m. Bar Harbor Band concert at the Village Green or dance to “excellent music” at the Casino on Bridge Street.

The ad invited visitors to “climb a mountain,” “see Thunder Hole,” “enjoy the Ocean Drive,” and “visit Sieur

de Monts Spring.” Come on down and have a great time!

The Bar Harbor Publicity Committee admittedly (pun intended) sought to lure “many out of town visitors … to spend the holiday Monday.” Families could picnic at “Sand Beach and other beautiful points on the Ocean Drive” or check out “the facilities that Bar Harbor has to offer.”

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On Friday, the Bar Harbor baseball team took 11 innings to defeat the Easterns from Brewer, 4-3, and the Mount Desert Nurseries’ gallery unveiled a George B. Dorr-organized exhibit of Lafayette National Park photographs.

The exhibit included photos taken by Boston landscape photographer Herbert W. Gleason in 1922.

As for art, painter Marion T. MacIntosh of Philadelphia had spent that summer painting around Boothbay Harbor and the Boothbay Peninsula.

Now she exhibited 25 paintings and sketches, “all … unmistakably ‘some place in Maine,’” at the Jordan Pond House. Done at Boothbay Harbor in 1921, her Maine-based painting Grey of Dusk had taken a gold medal in a Philadelphia competition.

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After Labor Day, the rich and not always-so-famous started shuttering their cottages and returning home. Yet “the closing of [the] social season at Bar Harbor has by no means resulted in a ceasing of the activities of the resort,” and a lot was happening, a newspaper claimed.

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Serious golfers descended on Kebo Valley for the September 14-15 Open Championship of Maine. Kebo Valley professional Shirley Liscomb expected “about 45 players, including most of the prominent professionals in the state.”

Offering amusement rides, a busy midway, balloon ascensions, and harness racing, the Eden Fair opened in Salisbury Cove on Wednesday, September 13. Local and summer folk alike patronized the fair during its short run.

Members of the Maine Pharmaceutical Association flooded Bar Harbor for their mid-September convention, and the Maine Automobile Association held its annual convention in Bar Harbor on September 16. (cont. on page 12)

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(cont. from page 11) As for the great outdoors on Mount Desert Island, smart people (including residents) “know there is no better time for enjoying the natural beauties of the island” than “when autumn turns the leaves of the hardwoods to the bright hues,” a newspaper claimed in copy that applies to MDI to this day.

In autumn, “the weather is … at its best and a succession of clear days is a certain prediction,” the newspaper explained. This “is the best time for appreciating the beauties of the Lafayette National Park and the island.”

As September approached its finale, Bar Harbor hotel managers noticed more visitors staying at their facilities “than there have been for a number of years.” Managers of certain Bar Harbor hotels (especially The Malvern Hotel on Kebo Street and the St. Sauveur Hotel on Mount Desert Street) routinely leaked to the press the “who’s who” list of guests coming and going, and

the Maine press eagerly published such information.

As happens every year, the tourism season finally ended at Bar Harbor, and the town resumed its almost somnolent way of life as winter approached.

A century later, the tourist season extends until Columbus Day, but the natural wonders of Acadia National Park — Ocean Drive, Thunder Hole, Sieur de Monts Spring, and the mountains, to mention a few — remain.

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The Language Of “Bert And I”

by Charles Francis

Stories from Downeast

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Bert and I were out in the bay in the Bluebird.” That’s the opening hook of my favorite Bert and I story.

Every Mainer knows “Bert and I.” Well, maybe the very young don’t and one or two others, but there’s an exception to every sweeping statement.

“Bert and I” were the creation of Marshall Dodge and Bob Bryan. The two came up with the iconic Maine fishermen back in the late 1950s when they were students at Yale. Yalies were the first to hear of “Bert and I.” Then Dodge and Bryan made an album, Bert and I ... And Other Stories from Down East. The album of dry Maine humor sold over a million copies and spawned sequels. As one critic says, the album

“set the tone of direction of the genre for decades.” Thanks to “Bert and I” we all know such staples of the Down East vernacular as “You can’t get theyah from he-ah.”

Marshall Dodge has been called “a godfather of Down East humor.” I’m not sure why the same honor has not been accorded to Bob Bryan. Maybe it’s because Dodge stayed with the stage and acting until his untimely death in a hit and run accident, while Bryan became a minister. It doesn’t matter, though, as some five decades since the first “Bert and I” record the genre is still thriving. And it’s a genre that has deep roots, going as it does back to the early 1800s and Seba Smith

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As to my opening reference to “Bert and I” in the Bluebird out in the bay.

Therein lies a bit of typical Dodge and Bryan illusion. The Bluebird was “out of” Kennebunkport. The bay is Penobscot Bay. That’s quite a haul for a couple of fisherman in a lobster boat.

As everyone who loves “Bert and I” knows, there were two boats named Bluebird. There was a Bluebird II. The first was sunk by the Bangor Packet.

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Marshall Dodge and Bob Bryan did as much or more than anyone past or present to put Maine humor on the national stage. Ironically, neither Dodge nor Bryan were Maine-born. Both were from New York. This is not to suggest or imply that the two were using “Bert and I” simply to make money by poking fun at Maine. The two humorists loved the state. Bryan is credited with the authentic Maine elements in the first album. He summered at Tunk Lake in Hancock County. After the initial success of “Bert and I,” Dodge was a staple of the Maine stage. He starred in a revival of the comedy Old Jed Prouty set in Bucksport. A lot of Bucksport area residents saw him in it when it was performed there in the mid 1970s.

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sage [of “Bert and I”] is, ‘Don’t come into this rural state with an attitude, thinking you can push the local people around.’ You have to show a little bit of respect.” This being said, just how do we look at and analyze “Bert and I”?

The language of “Bert and I” is the language of allegory. Specifically, it is the language of caricature. It is language used in a representative manner to convey the presence of the ideal Down Easter, the idea of the Down Easter.

To begin with the narrator of “Bert and I” speaks with an accent, the accent of northern New England. He drops the letter “r,” it’s replaced as though the word was spelled “a-h.”

This happens only at the ends of syllables, not at the beginning. If a word ends in “r,” it is usually preceded by the “e,” “i” or “o,” a “y” sound in the case of “e” and “i” and a “w” sound in the case of “o” before that final “ah.” This is how we get “theyah” not “there,”

“deeyah,” not “deer,” and “doh-wah,” not “door.” Words ending with an “r” sound tend to end with an “a-h.” Words ending with “ing” drop the “g.” Then, of course, there are certain classic identifying words like “ayuh” and “wicked.” Taken as a whole you have the outline of caricature. It’s the same kind of caricature a cartoonist makes with pen and ink, emphasizing certain features and leaving out others.

Of course, it’s not enough to call the accent of the narrator of “Bert and I” that of northern New England.

That’s too general an area. Where do you go to find the real Down East accent? Some would say to Washington County, to where Richard Dorson did his famous Down East folklore studies.

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(cont. from page 15) Wind in “Bert and I.” The story that gives the book its title is an example.

It goes: “Never buy wind when you’re on a boat. You’re daring God Almighty, and he won’t stand for that. You’ll get all the wind you want [and more].”

Dorson cites a nameless captain tossing a quarter overboard. Immediately a gale rises that tears the sails and mast from the ship and pushes it into shore, where it barely holds together as the crew disembarks. The captain remarks that if he’d known God sold wind so cheaply he’d only have got a nickel’s worth. This is pure allegory. It’s a story with a moral. Personified agents are intended to represent ideas. The agents are symbols. The Bert and I characters of “Bert and I” are the same kind of symbols.

Bert and I as symbols are best understood or clear when presented in isolation. That’s the story of being caught on the Bluebird in the fog. What’s more

isolating than fog off the Maine coast?

This takes us to “I” of “Bert and I.” “I,” the “Bert and I” narrator, like Dorson’s captain, is nameless. He is pure idea like the character Christian in Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress or one of Plato’s ideal forms. He’s as isolated as Robinson Crusoe on his island. He is as quixotic as Don Quixote.

This, of course, makes Bert a Friday or a Sancho Panza, an apt comparison because we are talking the language allegory here.

The next time you settle down to listen to a record of Marshall Dodge and Bob Bryan and hear “Bert and I come down to the dock about six o’clock...” listen to the language and maybe ponder a bit as to why there are just two characters, one known simply as “I” and his alter ego “Bert.”

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Green’s Landing A history of quarried granite in Deer Isle

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n 1860 a stonecutter from Massachusetts, Job Goss, sailed past the southern end of Deer Isle. What caught his eye was the abundance of granite. What’s more, it did not lie deep beneath overburden, so it was easy to get at. Better yet: there was deep water nearby, so quarried stone could easily be loaded aboard vessels for shipment to places where it was in demand.

At the time, Green’s Landing, as this part of Deer Isle was called, was sparsely inhabited. In 1761 Deer Isle was settled by Anglo colonists who were hungry for land. They came here to farm, and places of exposed ledges and thin topsoil were of no interest to them. For this reason, much of what

is now the town of Stonington, south of Webb’s Cove and Crockett’s Cove, was considered worthless. It remained a thinly settled backwater for decades, and in Job Goss’s time, Green’s Landing was a place of but four houses, their occupants eking out a living by fishing.

Although other islanders also fished, for most this was no more than a sideline, to supplement the produce of their farms. An exception was a fishing fleet in Southeast Harbor that sailed annually to the Bay of Chaleur to fish for mackerel. These were brought back to Deer Isle for processing, then shipped south to Savanna, Georgia. Otherwise, islanders were engaged in maritime commerce, sailing the seven seas to

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By 1869 Job Goss had established a small quarry at Green’s Landing, producing paving stones for the streets of eastern cities and cellar stones for building foundations. Before long, however, others began quarrying operations in what today is downtown Stonington, and on Webb’s Cove in the Oceanville section of town. Many of the islands just south of Green’s Landing were quarried as well, the most notable being Crotch Island.

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(cont. from page 19) tions providing stone for bridges and building construction up and down the east coast. Because there was a small pool of unskilled laborers on Deer Isle, experienced quarrymen and stone cutters were brought from Scotland, Finland, Sweden, Norway and Italy. By 1897 the population of Green’s Landing had exploded to over 4000, necessitating the construction of numerous boarding houses and other buildings to service the needs of all these people.

Having grown so large, and with an industrial economy different from the rest of the island, where farming and seafaring held sway, Stonington separated to become its own town in 1897.

Many of the buildings in downtown Stonington today date from the two decades between 1890 and 1910. But the explosive growth of the town was not without its problems. With so many people living in a relatively small area, wells became polluted, and Stonington

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The late nineteenth and twentieth century saw many large projects that utilized Stonington granite. To name just a few, a drydock at Norfolk, Virginia, the Washington Monument and Smithsonian Institution in Washington, buildings at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, several bridges for the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Stonington granite is all over New York City; it can be seen in the New York County courthouse, Rockefeller Center, the Croton Aqueduct, Riverside Park, the Brooklyn, East River and Triboro bridges, and columns of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, among other

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Despite all these achievements, the number of quarries around town decreased in number, in part from consolidation. In time, three large operations dominated until 1923, when the last one on Deer Isle proper ceased operations.

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Today, granite is once again being quarried in Stonington (behind the Galilean Gospel Temple on North Main Street) and Crotch Island. It is, though, a pale reflection of what once was a major industry. It employs but a handful of men and produces mostly items

such as kitchen and bath counters, rather than grandiose edifices. Still, Crotch Island granite was used in the entry to the new Yankee Stadium in New York City. But it is now fishing and tourism that drive the economy, and the old boarding houses for quarry workers are now motels, inns, gift shops, galleries and boutiques catering to people from away.

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A Woman Doing Her Duty Tremont native was a WWII WASP

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The uniforms first issued to the women were leftover men’s coveralls.

They were usually too big, so the pilots would roll up the cuffs and sleeves and clinch them with a belt at the waist.

Later when they were issued their own uniforms, Ms. Paradis referred to them as “beautiful.” She stated that on the base it was all business, and the wom-

en were not allowed to fraternize with the men. Additionally, the training regimen was strenuous, and the officers were much tougher on the women than men. However, the effort proved to be worth it as they all formed a great camaraderie; “we were all in it together,” she said.

Eventually, after completing her training, Ms. Paradis became an engineering test pilot. This involved taking airplanes that were rebuilt and test run them. Many of the airplanes served as trainers for male pilots. She ultimately flew everything from single-engine biplanes, with top speeds of 120 mph, to four engine B-17 Flying Fortress bombers that were able to top 300 mph.

Ms. Paradis later retired decommissioned airplanes, and ultimately trained male pilots using a simulator. Later in her career she was transferred to Greenville, Mississippi, and then Dothan, Alabama. During that period she met and married Richard Strauss, another pilot.

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Although the WASP program was discontinued in 1944, Ms. Paradis worked briefly in an airline program designed to encourage the hiring of black pilots until she left the program in order to raise her young family.

The award clearly commemorates their selfless contributions to the World War II effort. And although it was a long time in the making, the recognition sets an extremely high standard for young ladies today to reach for the skies.

A group known as Wings Across America is dedicated to preserving the history of the WASP program. Although WASPs weren’t allowed to fly in combat they put their lives on the line every day.

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The Time That Maine Burned The Mount Desert Island Fire of 1947

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n October 1947, just two years after the conclusion of World War II, the residents of Maine had finally settled into their daily routines. On Mount Desert Island, the palatial summer homes continued their tradition of hosting the rich and catering to their self-indulgent habits. Meanwhile, the fall rains that usually replenished the lakes and moistened the forests did not appear. According to the Mount Desert Island Historical Society, “the Maine woods became a prime habitat for potential sparks…

The situation became so explosive that the Governor of Maine declared a state of emergency, closing woods to the use of fires, general travel, etc.”

Despite the precautions, on October

17, 1947, the Bar Harbor Fire Department received word of smoke rising from a cranberry bog near Hulls Cove.

Over the next three days, the fire burned approximately 169 acres, but it seemed relatively manageable. However, due to the strong winds, the blaze rapidly expanded to 2,000 acres, after which members of the Army Air Corps, Navy, Coast Guard, the University of Maine Forestry Program, and the Bangor Theological Seminary helped the local fire crews. As stated in The Fire of 1947 by the National Park Service, “The fire crossed Route 233 and continued along the western shore of Eagle Lake. On October 23, the wind shifted, pushing one finger of the fire towards Hulls

Cove. Firefighters shifted their efforts in an attempt to squelch the threat to that community. But in the afternoon, the wind suddenly turned again and increased to gale proportions, sending the inferno directly towards Bar Harbor.”

Over the next three hours, the fire traveled approximately five miles and reached Frenchman Bay, where it destroyed 67 summer homes, including many on “Millionaires’ Row,” as well as 170 homes and five historic hotels near downtown Bar Harbor. According to the National Park Service, “The Bar Harbor residents not actively engaged in firefighting tried to find safety, fleeing first to the athletic field and later to the town pier. At one point, all During the Bar Harbor Inn’s 131 year life from private oasis for the rich and powerful to a U.S. Navy base of operations during WWII to a place of healing and hope for victims of a catastrophic fire to its current incarnation as one of Maine’s finest oceanfront resorts, one thing has remained a constant: A gathering place with unrivaled beauty and historic charms.

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DiscoverMaineMagazine.com roads from the town were blocked by flames, so fishermen from nearby Winter Harbor, Gouldsboro, and Lamoine prepared to help with the mass exodus by boat.” Overall, approximately 400 people were safely evacuated. By that evening, bulldozers had opened a path through the rubble and on Route 3 so that automobiles could drive to safety in nearby Ellsworth, despite being bombarded by burning twigs and sparks from both sides of the road.

Meanwhile, the fire continued on to Otter Point, after which it blew itself out upon reaching the water.

Overall, a total of 17,188 acres were destroyed (10,000 of which were in Acadia National Park), with property damage exceeding $23 million. To put this in better perspective, this figure adjusted for inflation equals $263 million in 2018. Fortunately, the loss of life was minimal, compared to the amount of damage. As stated in the American Red Cross Annual Report of 1947,

Property damage caused by the fire. (photo courtesy of the American Red Cross) “approximately 130 homes were lost in Bar Harbor alone, along with an important cancer laboratory. Year-round residences and local farmers suffered devastating losses of property and live-

stock. Throughout the affected area, at least 15 people died and several more were injured.” The report also mentioned that the Red Cross “appropriated (cont. on page 26)

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(cont. from page 25) $500,000 for immediate relief…With the harsh Maine winter approaching, temporary frame housing units were quickly built, and prefabricated houses were provided by the War Assets Administration.”

It is important to note that, despite the devastation, nature has a way of adjusting and re-establishing its hold on the landscape. According to the National Park Service, “Fire has an important natural role and has long been a factor in Maine forestry. The fire of 1947 increased diversity in the composition and age structure of the park’s forests.

It even enhanced the scenery. Today, instead of one uniform evergreen forest, we are treated to a brilliant mix of red, yellow, and orange supplied by the new diverse deciduous forests.” Meanwhile, the fire also changed Bar Harbor itself.

For instance, although the residents managed to rebuild their homes, many of the large estates on “Millionaires’

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Early Days At Alligator Lake Trout fishing and bear hunting

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lligator Lake, in Township 34 and 33 South Division in northern Hancock County, is about three and a half miles long, and it has been said that the pond takes its name for being shaped like an alligator. Instead, one man from Springfield, Massachussetts, stated in 1901 that the lake takes its name from a long strip of land jutting out into it from the north shore, which closely resembled an alligator.

In 1847 Gen. Charles W. Roberts, a Bangor lumber dealer, purchased part of Township 34 in Hancock County, and while exploring the land, he discovered this charming lake, “as beautiful as Nature created it, surrounded by an

unbroken fringe of forest.” About five years later Roberts constructed a camp on a four-acre island in the north end of the lake, to which he brought his hunting and fishing comrades each winter.

Proving too small, they constructed a larger camp to fit all the sportsmen, but this later burned down.

In June of 1883, John F. Haynes, who had removed from Trenton, and Henry Mosher were at work logging on Great Pond, and they went ashore to get their lunch. While Mosher was preparing a fire, Haynes went in search of water for tea. Presently, Mosher heard Haynes calling for help and running to his assistance, found that a large bear

had Haynes down and two more bears were in the immediate vicinity. Mosher says he doesn’t know which was more frightened, Haynes or the bear. The bear left as soon as Mosher charged upon him. After the camp burned, Roberts allowed Haynes to build a camp on the island, which opened on January 31, 1885, and was named Camp Union. This was soon replaced by a larger two-story building with a den and fireplace, dining area and a separate kitchen on the first floor and four bedrooms above, surrounded by a piazza. Out back was an ice house, a garden and fields where he raised hay for his horses. From the front porch (cont. on page 28)

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(cont. from page 27) was a beautiful three-mile view down the lake to the outlet dam.

The early approach to the lake was made by train to Bangor, then sportsmen took M. F. Brackett’s four horse stage eleven miles to Eddington, where breakfast was procured at “The Billington,” then a ride over Chick Hill in Amherst, where a view of Katahdin was seen on clear days, and on to Aurora and Great Pond Village. From there it was a four-mile walk on an old tote road to Alligator Lake, where Haynes had boats and canoes ready to take visitors over to the island. Irving, his faithful cook, would have dinner ready for the guests, while their baggage was transported from Great Pond on sleds.

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Hayes told one group of sportsmen a story from the fall of 1894. “One evening after supper I wandered into the woods, not caring or even thinking which way to go. It was on a rough road used for dragging logs. I was passing at the time large rocks and a heavy clump of bushes, when suddenly a large and

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heavy paw struck me a violent blow on the chest, and before I could pick myself up, the same paw held me firmly to the ground. The bear was growling and showing its teeth. There was nothing else for me but holler for help, which was answered at once from our logging camp. The bear seemed to listen to the response of my rescuers, and when she was dealt a stinging blow on the nose, she growled with pain, and lifted the paw that held me, which enabled me to roll over, grabbing an old root at the same time to defend myself with. When an opportunity came, my companion and I made a dash for the clearing.

Bruin followed for a short distance, then soon gave up the chase. Then to vent her rage, she grasped a small tree in her powerful arms, tore the bark off, scattering it and growling at her defeat.

After that no one ventured into the woods without a gun.”

The great “Challenge Act” of Warner R. Holt and W. S. Bellows took place on November 19, 1898. It was a plunge into the ice-cold waters of the lake. About this time a young deer had been captured at the camp and tied to a tree with a rope. Mr. Flagg, a retired Springfield clothier, carelessly untied the rope from the tree, thinking he was a match for the deer in strength.

He was soon proven wrong, and after being yanked over everything on the island, found himself in the lake, still holding the rope behind the swimming deer.

One of the largest bears ever shot in this region was shot by Fred R. Swan of Springfield, Massachussets on November 1, 1900. The bear was discovered as he was making his den, and when he ventured forth to investigate the intruders, a rife ball settled his destiny. Weighing almost 600 pounds, it

took the strength of all eight men in the hunting party to carry him out on poles.

The skin was left with the Crosby Taxidermy shop in Bangor, where it was made into a rug with its ferocious wideopen mouth. The next spring it was shipped to Swan in Springfield, where it adorned the living room of his house.

Frank Holt got another, smaller bear six days later and Charles E. Whipple shot another bear on November 22nd. It was often said that John Haynes kept a supply of bear on hand for his Springfield customers.

John Haynes operated his camp until about 1938, having been proprietor for over 50 years, and lived out his old age on his farm at Great Pond. The camp was later operated for 36 more years by Carl Bamford of Bangor, an electrician and telephone lineman during the year, and his wife Clara, a dietician at McManus Hospital.

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inter, 1774-75. Hard times had befallen the shivering colonists camped along the falls of the Machias River. Settlers had arrived at this easterly point of Maine (then Massachusetts) even while the French and Indian Wars had raged since 1763. Just a 30-mile stone’s throw from the Canadian border, the outpost perched precariously on a rocky coast and had come to depend on shipping lumber to Boston in exchange for provisions enough to last the winter. Then the war came, and with it a dilemma. Blood shed at Concord and Lexington in 1775 meant that trade with British-held Boston was forbidden by edict of the Continental Congress. And the lumber began

to pile up, even as the provisions dwindled. Famine lurked, causing the village to petition the Massachusetts Provincial Congress in May of 1775 for relief in starkest terms: We must add, we have no country behind us to lean upon, nor can we make an escape by flight; the wilderness is impervious, and vessels we have none.

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If not, well, that’s what the Margaretta was along for. Gage and Jones had gambled on the swap being successful and were prepared to crush opposition.

The provision-laden sloops dropped anchor on June 2 under the watchful eye of the Margaretta. Their appearance set off a raging debate. The town was divided on whether to honor the ban against trade with the British, with the “mad discussion” continuing for days. Reverend James Lyons, chairman of the Machias Committee, recorded the dubious outcome: On the 3d instant, a paper was handed for the people to sign, as a prerequisite to their obtaining any provisions, of which we were in great want [and they] seemed so averse to the measures proposed, that Capt. Jones went down to the Tender & caused her to move up so near the Town that her Guns would reach the Houses. People considering

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themselves nearly as prisoners passed a Vote, that Capt Jones might proceed in his Business as usual without molestation, that they would purchase the provisions and pay him according to Contract.

Machias had, in essence, caved to Jones and the threat of the British guns.

Most people voted to uphold the “contract,” pay the money and take possession of the much-needed goods. Until the perfidious Capt. Jones stumbled, that is. At the wharf he insisted that supplies be distributed only to those who had voted in favour of taking the lumber back to Boston! As the Reverend Lyons huffily noted, This gave such offence to the aggrieved party that they determined to take Capt. Jones, if possible, & put a final stop to his supplying the Kings troops with anything.

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A ringleader named Benjamin Foster gathered a mob bent on seizing the British officers of the Margaretta and Jones, too, as they attended church. But the plot was discovered and foiled, with the officers fleeing to safety aboard their ship, while the hapless Jones was dragged from hiding in the woods.

On the deck of his warship, the British commander vowed vengeance, darkly declaring to liberate Jones and protect his vessels, even by burning the town if necessary.

This did not sit well with the rebels.

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(cont. from page 33) Taken aback, the Brits reconsidered their options.

The tender did not fire but weighed her anchors as privately as possible, and in the dusk of the evening came within Musket shott, which obliged our people to slip their Cable, & run the sloop aground.

The warship attempted to bluff the town into surrender, but the rebels were having none of it.

In the meantime, a considerable number of our people went down in boats and canoes, lined the shore directly opposite to the Tender, and having demanded her to surrender to America, received for answer, ‘fire and be damn’d’: they immediately fired in upon her, which she returned, and a smart engagement ensued.

One townsman, Nathaniel Godfrey, had been pressed into service to pilot the Margaretta and recorded the increasingly heated situation:

Mr. Moore [the British captain] was hailed on Shore by the Rebels, to strike to the Sons of Liberty, threatening him with Death if he resisted [and] they fired a Volley of small Arms, which was returned from the Schooner with Swivels and Small Arms. Mr. Moore then cut the Cable, drop’t down Half a Mile lower, & anchored. In the Night they endeavoured to Board with a Number of Boats & Canoes, but a brisk fire from the Swivels obliged [the rebels] to quit their Boats full of holes.

By daybreak of June 12 the Brits had had enough, called it quits, and made for the open sea. Machias was abandoned and the unlucky Capt. Jones was left to his fate. Progress downstream was slow-going, and the warship came under a sustained, rattling musket-fire.

In chasing away the Margaretta, the rebels could already claim a victory.

But their blood was up, and nothing short of outright capture now would

do. And so, under firebrands Benjamin Foster and Jeremiah O’Brien, the patriots put out on a daring chase. The good Reverend Lyons picks up the tale: About forty men, armed with guns, swords, axes & pick forks, went in Capt Jones’s sloop, under the command of Capt Jeremiah O Brien: about Twenty, armed in the same manner, & under the command of Capt Benjamin Foster, went in a small Schooner. The [Margaretta], upon the first appearance of our people, cut her boats from the stern, & made all the sail she could – but being a very dull sailor, they soon came up with her, and a most obstinate engagement ensued. The Margaretta was obliged to yield, her Captain was wounded in the breast with two balls, of which wounds he died next morning….

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Bold action had ended with the rebels bagging not only a Royal Navy warship but a schooner and a sloop as well! For the British, the defeat was humiliating and a major setback. Alone and isolated, this handful of dissident desperadoes had gained a resounding victory in just the second naval battle

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he long log drive began in the year 1900, just above Northeast Carry on the West Branch of the Penobscot River at the head of Moosehead Lake. It took two years to complete. The results were litigated in court for four years, and repercussions are still being realized over a century later.

By 1900 the great islands of primeval pine had been cut. These monarchs felled by loggers on snowshoes, swinging razor-edged axes and pulling cross-cut saws, were driven down the Penobscot each spring by Bangor “Tigers” who risked their lives for a dollar a day. The pine was used to build

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Unusually high water that spring slowed the hauling and water landings of timber. This drive, when it was finally in place, included not only Great Northern logs, but those of all other area timbermen, and totaled eighty million feet.

This massive 1901 drive was further complicated by quick spring run-off and a powder-dry late spring and summer. Bangor-based Fred Gilbert, Great Northern Paper’s spruce wood superintendent, asked permission from the Penobscot Log Drive Company to hold the drive at Quakish Lake, Millinocket.

It was denied. The Bangor area mills needed saw logs, and the Penobscot Log Drive Company wanted the logboom tolls which up-country loggers paid.

July 1901 – Most of the logs were

still in Chesuncook, stranded by low water. Old Town, Orono, Bangor and Brewer saw mills were shut down or operating part-time, using only logs from the East Branch of the Penobscot and its lower tributaries.

August 1901 – The drive had now reached the lower lakes where Great Northern Paper pulled out wood for its Millinocket mill. The rear of the drive still extended back to Seboomook.

October 1901 – The great drive was now strung out from Mattawamkeag to Lincoln. Three hundred men were trying to push the spruce downriver when it began to snow. Most of the crews headed back up north for the 1901-02 winter harvest.

November 1901 – A few West Branch logs had reached the booms above Bangor. The Penobscot was so shallow that it could be waded in many places. Wood was strung from Argyle to Bangor, and by mid-November the river froze. Logs, slabs, ice, dirt, and

sawdust had turned the lower reaches into devil’s soup. Men with horses tried desperately to “shingle out” logs to pile for next spring’s drive.

December 4, 1901 – Two feet of snow fell, the temperature dropped to twenty-five degrees below zero. Then on the 10th, torrential rains and mild weather broke up the ice.

December 15, 1901 – More heavy rain and gale-force winds. The huge mass of ice and timber now below the Bangor dam charged downriver, briefly jamming in Bucksport Narrows before surging into Penobscot Bay. It had happened before and was written off as the cost of doing business, but this was not the end of it.

March 1902 – Spring came early. A continuous deluge of rain drove the Penobscot over its banks. The ice broke and ran. Millions of feet of spruce smashed into the Orono booms, which broke. Another giant jam formed at (cont. on page 40)

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(cont. from page 39) Bucksport. In Bangor and Brewer, a second jam developed around the wharves lining both sides of the river, damming it. Bridges spanning the river and the wharves were all swept away, carrying the remains of the 1900 and 1901 harvests out to sea (the 1902 drive had not yet begun). Coastal towns received a spruce bonanza.

A lengthy court battle now ensued.

The northwoods timbermen refused to pay Bangor boom tolls for 1901 or 1902, even though the later 1902 spring drive went smoothly. Technically, the Penobscot Log Drive Company was responsible for all Penobscot drives. The Penobscot Log Drive Company withdrew its suit in July of 1903, placing the blame squarely on Great Northern Paper, and paving the way for other lumbermen to sue Great Northern.

Nine actions were filed, claiming that Great Northern Paper had mishandled water with their many dams, and for

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overage of the Brewer football program for 1931 began with the September 9 article Scanning the Sports Horizon, which stated “Dana Dogherty’s orange and black club will need to bear (sic) watching….” Interestingly, the term jinx comes up frequently in the high school football stories from 1931. Jinx is defined by Merriam Webster’s as “one that brings bad luck; also: the state or spell of bad luck brought on by a jinx.” The first use of jinx about Brewer was in the article “Brewer Playing Sangerville in the Season’s Opener” (09/16/1931) which discussed hurt

players as “the injuries jinx.” Apparently, the jinx did not hold, as according to the 1932 Trident yearbook, the score was Brewer 41, Sangerville 6. In addition to the season opener, Brewer was scheduled to play Bangor, Old Town, Houlton, Millinocket, John Bapst, Belfast, and again Bangor.

Brewer’s next game was its first match against Bangor, covered in the September 28, 1931 article Mulvaney Team Functions Well to Spill Rivals.

Brewer lost, but as it turned out, it was the beginning of Brewer’s luck and

Bangor’s decline that season. Despite beating Brewer 19 – 0, Bangor later forfeited the game when it was discovered one of their players was ineligible. Thus, this game wasn’t a win for Bangor or loss for Brewer. This article listed the scores and starting line-ups under the subheading Breaking Jinx.

Though referring to Bangor as breaking one, in retrospect it now seems it was Brewer that cast one. According to the 1932 Trident, Brewer then tied a game with Old Town (6 – 6), defeated Houlton (25 – 6), beat Millinocket (19 – 0), tied John Bapst (7 – 7), shut-out Bel(cont. on page 44)

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(cont. from page 42) fast (21 – 0), and finally beat Bangor 18 – 0. During this same season, except for its forfeited game with Brewer and a game with Belfast, Bangor lost all its games. Clearly, Bangor had not broken the jinx.

The buildup to the final game of the season was covered in the November 10, 1931 article Twin City Rivals Finish Work for Holiday Classic. Both teams’ luck had changed since the early season, it asserted, describing Bangor’s string of bad luck as “heart-breaking.”

Their one bright spot was a victory over Belfast and even this was marred by allegations that one of their players was over-age.

The notion of a jinx on the Bangor squad seems validated by the November 12, 1931 sports page headline, Brewer High Beats Bangor 18-0 Before Capacity Crowd and the article Alert Grid Crew Grabs Breaks to Win on Holiday. The bad luck dogging Bangor

all season did not let up as the Crimson lost this final game on their home field.

The article gives a good overview of the game, highlighting key players on both teams, but no mention was made of a mascot for either. What happened to the Brewer pony, and was there any of the previous season’s revelry? The article does not say, nor did any in the coming days, in stark contrast to 1930.

The only clue as to the reaction of Brewer fans is found in the 1932 Trident yearbook, which states “The only dark spot, because of the game, came when the high school received a bill for the lumber for a new set of goal posts. They were, however, well worth the price.” Clearly, like the year before, parties unnamed dismantled the Bangor goal posts. According to the 1932 Trident, “Outplaying Bangor in every department of the game and breaking the jinx that before had defeated them on Mary Snow School field, Brewer

won a decisive victory over its long and bitter rival.” Yes, Bangor felt jinxed, but Brewer had a long history of losing to Bangor, and this was their first win over Bangor on Bangor’s home field.

Clearly Brewer could speak of jinxes too, and who better to break a jinx than a witch?

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papers of 1931 and, finding nothing, began analyzing stories of early 1932.

Eighteen stories concerning Brewer athletic teams between January and early February used Orange and Black or Brewer in their text. I had come full circle and was back at the article from February 19, 1932, “Two Tilts at Brewer High Gym: Bangor-Brewer Girls Clash at 7:30 Tonight.” As mentioned, this article refers to Brewer as the Witches four times, very matter-of-factly, with no explanation. However, after my journey through two previous football seasons, it made sense. From that time forward, while Orange and Black continued in use, increasingly Brewer Witches, or simply the Witches was also used. High school team mascots were coming into vogue at this time.

For example, during the 1931 season the sportswriters began to refer to John Bapst’s team as the Eaglets or Purple Eaglets (they have since adopted the

Crusader). The first use of Eaglets was in the October 26, 1931 article Superb Brewer Defense Forces Bapst into Tie. John Bapst was favored to win, but Brewer held them to a tie in “one of the greatest exhibitions of grid play that an Orange and Black eleven has ever put up.” Could it have been at this game that someone realized Brewer needed a mascot other than the pony?

If John Bapst had such a mascot, why not Brewer? And what about Brewer’s colors, orange and black? They are just as representative of Halloween as is a witch, adding to the logic of the Witch.

There is a hint of this connection in a November 3, 1931 article discussing Brewer’s October 31st victory: “The Orange and Black celebrated the Halloween date by upholding the colors of the event and winning over Belfast.”

The local press certainly made a connection between Brewer’s colors and Halloween.

It seems clear that during the first two seasons under Coach Dogherty, Brewer became not just the Orange and Black, but also the Brewer Witches, and there was some magic at work. Brewer lifted a 27-year-old curse and possibly inflicted one of their own. Other teams were adopting formal mascots, so why not Brewer, and why not a witch? It made a strange kind of sense. Moreover, they were already using the right colors to hint at witchcraft and Halloween, that night when witches are most powerful.

Adding to the logic of the witch as a mascot is the fact that the term mascot is derived from an old French term for witch. The use of Witches continued in articles of the 1932 basketball and football seasons. The September 26, 1932 article Brewer High Opens Grid Year with Impressive Win demonstrates this transformation; “The fighting Orange and Black Witches of Brewer high school embarked on what they hope to (cont. on page 46)

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(cont. from page 45) round out as another successful football season Saturday when they achieved a 13-0 win over a somewhat heavier Washington State Normal School team

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Castine’s Women On the forefront of social change and public service Press Release from the Castine Historical Society

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astine, Maine: The Castine Historical Society’s 2017 exhibit was such a success that the Historical Society has brought it back, but with a new focus. This season’s exhibit, Castine’s Devoted Women: Social Change and Public Service, will again focus on Mary W. (Molly) Dewson and Mary G. (Polly) Porter, their life together in New York and Castine, and the significant role Molly played in 1930s American politics.

The storyline is based on 28 scrapbooks made by the Porter-Dewsons (as they called themselves), using their own photos and words that explored topics important to them. While the exhibit focuses on Molly and Polly, they were not the only women in Castine who made a difference on the local, regional, and national levels as the exhibit portrays.

Castine’s Devoted Women: Social Change and Public Service is open from June 11 - Columbus Day at the Castine Historical Society, 17 School Street, Castine. All exhibits and education programs of the Castine Historical Society are free. Open hours from June 11 - Labor Day are Monday-Saturday 10-4 and Sundays 1-4. Hours from Labor

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Many of these themes are in today’s news.

What was termed a “Boston marriage” of two independent women like the Porter-Dewsons in 1912 is now a federally sanctioned same-sex marriage. The womens’ right to vote, which did not win support among Castine men in 1919, changed the lives of Castine women in 1920 as they began to vote and entered political office. Molly Dewson’s ground-breaking research for wage and hour legislation begun before 1920 gained momentum and passage across the country. That

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The exhibit also explores Molly Dewson’s favorite project to promote with her friends, Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, which was the advancement of qualified women in government jobs. The exhibit documents how womens’ roles in Washington have changed since Molly pushed President Roosevelt to appoint Frances Perkins as his Secretary of Labor – America’s first woman cabinet member. The exhibit also features other Castine women in public service or politics, many of whom will be recognizable to visitors.

The Castine Historical Society serves as a window into Castine’s extraordinary past.

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To The Last Man The 103rd Infantry of the Maine National Guard

by James Nalley

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espite the mixed opinions of the American public and the ongoing efforts of President Woodrow Wilson to pursue a policy of non-intervention, the sinking of the RMS Lusitania and seven U.S. merchant vessels by German submarines forced the United States to declare war on Germany in April 1917. To increase the number of enlistees, the U.S. War Department published various posters and promoted campaigns that painted the Germans as the aggressors and the Americans as able-bodied men willing to sacrifice themselves for God and country. Meanwhile, pre-established groups, such as the Maine National

Guard, were placed on alert. According to Our Proud History by the Maine Army National Guard, the U.S. War Department wanted an infantry regiment that was “fully equipped by the national government and under its control, but not to be in federal service unless called, the policy being to hold the newly organized National Guard units for service in the state.” However, by the summer of 1917, the 103rd Infantry had been assigned as part of the 26th Infantry (or “Yankee Division”), with orders to head for Europe.

After several months of intensive training in Massachusetts, the 103rd Infantry arrived in France in October

1917 for additional combat training under the 162nd French Infantry. As stated in the History of the 103rd Infantry by Colonel Frank Hume, “Shortly after the regiment arrived in the area, the officers and men were taught the operation of automatic rifles, rifle grenades, bombs, and maneuvers, all based on French tactics. At Noncourt, just southeast of Neufchateau, a system of trenches was completed, all under the supervision of the French.” Although the training was difficult, and the maneuvers were held both day and night, the troops became accustomed to the “bad weather, intense darkness, and the necessity for silence.

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By January 1918, the entire regiment had been sufficiently trained in the fundamentals of combat (at least in the eyes of the government). After receiving the order to head to the Soissons front in the first week of February, the entire regiment (in full parade dress) was reviewed by the brigade commander, who deemed them as “fully prepared.” However, in the upcoming months, these troops would experience fighting on a scale never seen in the history of modern warfare.

As they arrived in Soissons, the city itself was in ruins, due to the heavy fighting over the previous four years.

Even after their arrival in February, the city was still subject to long-range artillery fire. Just outside of Soissons, the 2nd Battalion arrived at St. Blaise Quarry, where they discovered a large underground cave system, complete

with chambers and corridors (as well as rats and bad air). They were temporarily held there to minimize troop movements and prevent the enemy from determining their numbers and weaponry.

In April 1918, the 103rd Infantry was sent to the Toul front, where they would experience a gas attack for the first time. On the morning of May 10, the Germans fired projectors filled with phosgene and mustard gas with such high concentrations that they not only killed the troops, but everything else in their path, including the grass, trees, horses, and rats. By the end of the day, 200 soldiers were either killed, gassed or critically wounded. In mid-June, a detachment of 600 hand-picked Germans launched an offensive between Xivray and Seichprey, after which the 103rd Infantry staged a successful counterattack. According to the Maine Army National Guard, “a German flamethrower team of three men got close to the lines and Captain Williams shot the

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man with the flamethrower, detonating the tank and killing all three.” Upon hearing that the Germans took one prisoner (a soldier from Eastport), Lt. Irvin Doane (from Houlton) led a rescue party and re-captured the soldier, in addition to several Germans.

On July 18, 1918 at 4:45 a.m., the French and American forces, including the 103rd Infantry, had successfully managed to keep their attack a secret and the Germans were surprised when the allies suddenly advanced without the typical preparatory artillery bombardment. Ultimately, the two sides penetrated one another’s lines, which not only resulted in significant casualties, but examples of bravery. In one instance, there was 22-year old Pfc. George Dilboy of the 103rd Infantry, who died from his actions. According to his Medal of Honor citation: After his platoon had gained its objective along a railroad embankment, (cont. on page 54)

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(cont. from page 53) Pfc. Dilboy was suddenly fired upon by an enemy machine gun from 100 yards.

From a standing position on the railroad track, fully exposed to view, he opened fire at once, but failing to silence the gun, rushed forward with his bayonet fixed, through a wheat field toward the gun emplacement, falling within 25 yards of the gun with his right leg nearly severed above the knee and with several bullet holes in his body. With undaunted courage, he continued to fire into the emplacement from a prone position, killing two of the enemy and dispersing the rest of the crew.

Subsequently, the 103rd Infantry was involved in the St. Mihiel front in August and the Meuse-Argonne offensive from November 8-10. On the morning of November 11, 1918, the troops were poised for battle following a round of artillery bombardment. However, at 11 a.m., they were ordered to halt, and the guns went silent. The armistice with

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By the spring of 1919, members of the 103rd Infantry returned home to Maine, where they were commended and mustered out of service. The war had been brutal on this group of men and some of those who survived were still in shellshock and disillusioned by their experiences. However, as stated

by Colonel Hume, “It is hoped that some of the suffering that they have endured and the sacrifices that they have made will be an incentive for the men of the 103rd Infantry to become a body of better American citizens.”

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Bangor Remembers Its Veterans War memorial honors all veterans of past wars

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s Bangoreans gathered to dedicate a memorial to an 1898 war, a Navy veteran reminded them that Washington had, as after past wars, broken its promises to the country’s most recent veterans.

His words hit home with people whose fathers, sons, and brothers had just helped save the United States once again.

After the battleship USS Maine blew up in Havana Harbor in February 1898, salvagers recovered the ship’s intricately styled bow shield and scrollwork.

Initially destined for a monument at Arlington National Cemetery, the shield and scrollwork were diverted to the Bangor-based McKinley Camp of

Spanish War Veterans by Maine Congressman Frank E. Guernsey.

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In Magee, they had found a true “blue water” sailor to spearhead the USS Maine memorial. Born in Bangor on August 15, 1895, he completed a bachelor’s degree in psychology in three years at the University of Maine.

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Seriously injured in autumn 1918, Lieutenant Magee retired from the Navy after being hospitalized for more than a year. He was a graduate student and a Bangor alderman when named to the memorial committee.

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(cont. from page 57) tect Edwin S. Kent and approved by committee members. The shield was secured to the triangular granite base, which resembled a ship’s bow. Atop the base stood a 14-foot metal pole supporting a spread-winged eagle and two electric-light globes. Workers from the lowest-bidding contractor, Bangor-based McPherson & Barrows, assembled the monument.

Committee members scheduled the dedication for October 17, 1922. Davenport Park lay wide open to the central Maine sky, and gray clouds hung ominously over Bangor as the sky brightened early on October 17.

With rain threatening, organizers planned to shift the ceremony to Bangor City Hall. The weather equivocated, and around 12:30 p.m., organizers proclaimed the Davenport Park site a “go.” Parade units started forming at the Grand Army of the Republic hall on Columbia Street, only 1½ blocks from

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With the Bangor High School band in the van, the parade units jammed Columbia Street, a one-way, threeblock connector between Hammond and Union streets. Participants ranged from the BHS cadet corps and Bangor schoolchildren to the local Civil War and Spanish-American War veterans marching with their posts and lodges.

Great War veterans joined the parade, which proceeded from Columbia Street to Main Street, went past the historic Bangor House, and stopped at Davenport Park.

Invited dignitaries climbed onto a wooden, flag-draped platform constructed next to the monument. John Magee stood and delivered the opening remarks.

Eloquently recounting the USS Maine’s destruction, he noted, “Today we are met to dedicate a memorial to those who died, and to those who

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donned the uniform to go out and fight the nation’s battles.

“At last Bangor, so signally honored by the nation at being entrusted with the safe keeping of this beautiful relic, has placed it in a position of honor where all may see,” Magee said.

After referring to the past as represented in the USS Maine’s shield, he pivoted to a controversial topic, “the recent agitation over the Soldiers’ Adjusted Compensation Bill.” Congress was tackling a proposal to pay bonuses to Great War veterans based on their longevity of wartime service. Strongly supported by the American Legion, the bill (also called the Bonus Act) attracted solid backing in the House of Representatives and equally passionate opposition in the Senate and from President Warren G. Harding.

Citing the prayer “Lord God of hosts be with us yet, lest we forget, lest we forget,” Magee stunned Bangoreans

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“Are we not forgetting fast?” he asked, referring to the sacrifices of the Great War veterans. “Has this fact not been made manifest throughout the country, and even here in Bangor” by the politicians in Washington?

Those same politicians had, “when the dark clouds of war were banked on the nation’s horizons,” considered “no promise too generous, nor honor too great, for those whom they sent to fight for their country and their flag,” Magee said. After the November 1918 armistice, those “promises … faded away like the baseless fabric of a dream.”

He reminded his listeners that Americans had gone to France not for the pay, but for their country. The bonus cash that Harding and senators denied the veterans could never “pay for the suffering and agonies of the wounded, or the condition of the maimed and

crippled who are left.”

Then Magee refocused on today’s purpose. “Now, my friends, let us make this monument … first a memorial, then let it serve as an inspiration … and let it finally remind us that duties and obligations have no financial measures.”

The Reverend John P. Chadwick, a Catholic priest from New York City, officially dedicated the USS Maine memorial. Today was personal for him; the chaplain was aboard the battleship when it blew up and he told Bangoreans about “the many acts of bravery which he witnessed and of the terrible suffering of the men.”

Today the shield of the USS Maine’s shield still glistens golden in the Bangor sunlight. Ceremonies are held at the memorial each mid-February to recall the battleship and its destruction.

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The Maxim Machine Gun First test took place on Dexter’s Abbott Hill

by Charles Francis

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n 1890 Hiram Maxim conducted one of the first tests of what would go down in the history books as the first automatic machine gun. The test was run on Abbott Hill in Dexter. Much later, Abbott Hill would be developed as a ski slope.

Hiram Maxim along with his brother Hudson have gone down in history as Maine’s makers of munitions. They would forever link the Maxim name to such agents of destruction as the Maxim Light Machine Gun and Maximite, an explosive fifty more times powerful than dynamite.

Hudson Maxim operated a munitions plant in New Jersey where he developed Maximite, among other explosives. Hiram Maxim moved to Great Britain where he developed a close working relationship with the Vickers Arms Company. In fact, Vickers would produce a Vickers-Maxim Machine Gun. Hiram Maxim would go on to develop factories in Sweden, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland. The torpedo boat would be another of his innovations. It was the automatic machine gun that was the real impetus for the careers

of both Maxim brothers, however.

The automatic machine gun that Hiram Maxim tested in Dexter in 1890 has become the stuff of myth and legend. According to some Maine sources the Dexter test represented the first firing of an automatic machine gun. Other authorities indicate that Maxim may have had a working prototype perhaps as early as 1881. Then there are those that state Maxim got the idea for his machine gun in Paris. Others indicate he got the idea while he was in Vienna.

Then, of course, there is the question as to why Maxim chose Dexter as a test site at all.

Today the United States Marine Corps claims possession of Hiram Maxim’s prototype machine gun. The Marine Corps calls the gun an automatic rifle. It bears little resemblance to the deer rifle most Mainers are familiar with, however. Simply put, it looks like a machine gun. It is bulky and sits on a tripod. The Marine Corps gives 1884 as the date for the prototype.

Regardless as to when Hiram Maxim first tested his automatic machine gun there is no question that he con-

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ducted a demonstration of the weapon in Dexter in 1890. There are a few newspaper accounts attesting to the fact. And there were a good many witnesses. One of them was Dexter’s famous pioneer photographer Bert Call.

Others were old friends and relatives.

A Maxim cousin named Mrs. True was one of those awarded the honor of firing the gun. As to why Maxim would have chosen Dexter as the site for a demonstration, the answer to that question is simple enough. Maxim had ties to the town.

Both Maxim brothers were born not too far from Dexter, Hudson in Orneville and Hiram in Sangerville.

Hiram left Sangerville at the age of fourteen to strike out on his own. His first stop was Dexter, where he secured a job in a lathe shop. From there he went on to Boston. Hiram Maxim was always proud of his Maine roots. When his hometown celebrated its centennial in 1914, he sent his son Hiram there as his special representative. Dexter represented Maxim’s first step on his journey to fame and fortune.

Hiram Maxim has gone down in the

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historical record as a man who successfully produced weapons of destruction.

It was not a position he sought. Maxim always thought of himself as a chemist and an inventor of useful machines.

His development of a gas generator, locomotive headlights and a variety of steam-driven pumps fall into the latter category. As far as the machine gun and Maxim’s other military innovations were concerned, they were a means “to arm the world against war.” How then, did a peaceful chemist and developer of generator’s headlights and pumps come to develop a machine gun?

One of the most cited stories — one that ignores Hiram Maxim’s own words — says that the inventor got the idea for the machine gun at the Paris Electrical Exhibition of 1881. (It can be found in The First World War by Martin Gilbert.) According to this version of the development of the machine gun someone at the Exhibition told Maxim “If you wanted to make a lot of money, invent something that will enable these Europeans to cut each other’s throats with greater facility.” This version of the development of the Maxim gun goes on to say that Maxim demonstrated the first automatic machine gun to the British army in 1885. The date for the prototype the Marine Corps has is, of course, a year earlier.

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Hiram Maxim, the inventor of the Maxim Machine Gun. 1915. They contain a different version as to the source for his inspiration for the development of the machine gun.

Unfortunately, they do not give an exact date. Regardless, Maxim states that he was in Vienna when an American Jew said “Hang your chemistry and electricity! If you wish to make a lot of money, invent something that will enable these Europeans to cut each other’s throats with greater facility.”

The prototype Maxim gun the Marine Corps has is in the USMC Ground Air Museum at Quantico. It was purchased from the Hudson Maxim estate in 1956 for $76.00. Could it have been the same gun which was fired in Dexter in 1890? There are no records to that effect. However, the Marine Corps refers to it as “old #1.”

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The Maine Trappers Association Dedicated to its past, present, future, and heritage

by David Miller

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he Maine Trappers Association is 76 years old this year, just having celebrated its 75th year. Back in the late 1940s some visionary trappers were unhappy with Maine legislators who had no real knowledge of furbearers setting the seasons for them. These trappers thought that by unifying they could better influence the lawmakers into sensible trapping laws and regulations. Two key people in this movement were Clyde Wells of Saco and H.E. Ford of Berwick. On September 1, 1947 the Maine Trappers Association (MTA) was formed. Its first President was Luther DeVoe. Elwyn Smith was Vice President and J. Cliff Frances was

Secretary and Treasurer. If I have the count correct twenty-two have served as president over the years. This included several nationally and internationally known individuals such as Walter Arnold and Oscar Cronk. These men are also well known outside of the trapping communities here in Maine.

In its early years there were issues about the spring trapping of muskrat, which caused a small group to break with the MTA and form another organization named Trappers Inc. of Maine.

This organization only lasted about three years and dissolved due to lack of funding and members.

The first MTA summer convention

was held in August 1948 at the Monticello Fish and Game Club. Another MTA convention was held October 1949 in East Millinocket. The annual get together of Maine trappers continues to this day. It is now known as the Maine Trappers Associations Rendezvous. This event takes place in September. In the past, it was rotated around the state to different locations to reach as many trappers across Maine as possible. Several years ago, the MTA settled into the Windsor Fairgrounds as a permanent home for its Rendezvous.

The fairgrounds have allowed the MTA to construct a museum and trappers line cabin on site. These are open to the

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The MTA is organized with chapters spread across the state. There are currently eleven chapters. Each chapter has a board of officers and sends a representative to the quarterly MTA meetings, which are held in Bangor because of its more central location in the state.

The MTA Executive Council is made up of a President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer and Editor. There are also directors for membership, southern Maine, northern Maine and education. The only MTA paid position is for an individual that serves as the MTA Legislative Liaison Today the MTA is actively involved with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (IF&W). Periodic meetings are held during the year with IF&W wildlife and law enforcement personnel to discuss any issues involving furbearers and law enforcement issues that pertain to trappers.

The MTA has been involved as a major participant over the years with trapper education curriculum development and instruction. This has resulted in the management of furbearers by the state and trappers based on sound scientific methods. The MTA participates in the testing of trapping equipment to ensure compliance with international standards and Best Management Prac-

tices. The art of trapping has evolved to a point where it has become a highly regarded wildlife management tool for international, national and state agencies. It is far more humane than as portrayed by animal rights organizations. Modern trapping equipment and capture methods are taught in the required state trapper education classes.

These classes are required by the state for anyone who wants to get involved in trapping that have not been previously licensed. The MTA has been a major participant in the development and teaching of these classes.

The MTA published its first Newsletter in December 1949. Today it is published quarterly and has a current distribution of 872.

The MTA is affiliated with the National Trappers Association (NTA), Fur Takers of America (FTA) and Furbearers Unlimited (FBU). A MTA member now sits on each of their boards and one is on the NTA Executive Council.

The book Goodbye Mountain Man

by Donald Jack Anderson is about the lives of three of the most well-known trappers of the twentieth Century. Walter Arnold and V.E. Lynch, both of whom trapped in the wilds of Maine, and E. J. Daily, who trapped the Adirondacks of New York. Walter Arnold was born in a Maine logging camp. He deeply loved the back woods of Maine and his camp on Indian Pond. V. E. Lynch was born in Missouri and lived

and trapped in Maine for many years.

In his later years he returned home to the Ozarks. E. J. Daily was from New York and loved trapping the famous Adirondacks. All three were well known and prolific writers of the day on trapping related issues and stories.

All three wrote books and magazine articles on trapping. All three made trapping lure and became the early pioneers in commercially available lures and related products. Walter Arnold was one of the earliest members of the MTA and held several early offices in the organization. The early years of trapping in Maine led to the early fur trading posts that later became some of our towns. Trapping and fishing started the two earliest of commercial ventures in the New World. Much has been written about those early years and of the trappers of the northeastern portion of this continent. The exploits and stories of the voyageurs from the St. Lawrence River Valley area who explored and led the way west and south are well known.

Today the heritage of trappers in Maine goes back to the earliest days of the expansion of Europeans in the New World. Members of the MTA and those that are not members continue to build on that proud heritage.

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Dover-Foxcroft’s Crystal Ballroom Husband and wife team brought the dance floor to town

by Brian Swartz

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hen local church-goers no longer flocked to a Methodist church on outer Summer Street in Dover-Foxcroft, a business entrepreneur envisioned a new use for the building — a dance hall called the Crystal Ballroom, a hit from the moment its doors opened.

Located on property owned by the Piscataquis Valley Campground Association, for many years the church had served Dover-Foxcroft residents and people “from away” renting the nearby cottages also owned by the PVCA. The cottages attracted visitors seeking to find some peace and quiet amidst the lakes and woods of Piscataquis County.

Caused by the popularity of private automobiles and the desire of Americans to explore new places, campground-association business seriously declined by 1929. Cottage rentals had fallen off, a lack of worshipers and financial support had shuttered the church, and the Piscataquis Valley Campground Association directors voted to sell everything to local businessman Fred Farris.

Realizing that the automobile gave Mainers greater freedom of movement, Farris saw potential for a new business at the church. He also figured that with a bit of hard work, the cottages could become year-round homes attractive to local buyers.

The former campground-association facilities represented a gold mine to the farsighted Farris.

But first the former Methodist church needed some remodeling. Farris and his son, Forrest, converted the church sanctuary into a dance hall. Out went the old pews; in went a new dance floor, and only the best materials would suffice.

“Fred and Forrest put in the dance floor and got the best wood for it,” Forrest’s wife, Gladys Farris, recalled in March 1989.

She remembered that “there was not much changing over” of the church building to accommodate the dance hall, which Fred Farris named the Crystal Ballroom. “Later we added some awnings” to the front of the building “and a refreshment booth for hot dogs, sandwiches, and pop.”

The new dance hall took its name from the sparkling crystal ball hung above the dance floor before the business opened to the public. Fred and Forrest “got it Lawrence, Massachusetts,” Gladys said. “Someone told them about it, or maybe they read an ad, so they went out to buy one as they wanted to open it (the dance hall) as a crystal ballroom.

“There were only a couple, as I recall, in the whole state,” she said.

Its namesake centerpiece all aglow and revolving, the Crystal Ballroom opened in 1930. Reflecting the elegant décor and fashions of similar dance halls as portrayed by Hollywood movies, “when we first opened, the women wore evening gowns. They sure did!”

Gladys recalled.

“Certain women planned far ahead on what to wear and would try to outdo each other,” she said. “And the men had ties and coats. Quite formal in those days, really.”

Charging $1 per person for admission and usually open 8 p.m. to midnight, the Crystal Ballroom held danc-

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es on Wednesdays and Saturdays; the Wednesday dances were later dropped.

The Farrises hired the best available bands, although the musicians were not always from Maine.

“Corby O’Brien from Bangor opened it up, and we got most of our bands from out of state,” with some bands sporting 14 musicians, Gladys said.

“We’d have a battle of music when two bands would play, and we had the high school band [from Foxcroft Academy] play several times,” she recalled.

“The Academy had some of its proms there, too.”

The Crystal Ballroom was popular through the 1940s and well into the 1950s. Herman Nutter, a local drummer, set the beat while playing for various bands and orchestras appearing at the dance hall, in his opinion the perfect place to relax for an evening.

The Crystal Ballroom “was run

properly, no boozing inside,” Nutter explained. “You had to dress up to go.”

He played his drums from “way up high” on “the elevated stage,” a vantage point from which he could watch couples moving on the dance floor. The crystal ball, “when it turned, it made a shower of stars over the interior,” Nutter said.

Forrest and Gladys Farris opened the Crystal Ballroom during the summer, although “we usually opened it quite early” in the season, Gladys said.

For many years the dance hall attracted hundreds of people on a dance night; she remembered that “100-150 couples” would make for a good night’s business.

The Farrises focused on running a quality establishment. “It was run well,” Gladys explained. “We had a doorman, and we kept it quite free from drinking.”

The dance hall “was decorated well

inside. I’m not going to boast, but we had the crystal ball, which was an asset.

People were always very enthused with the ball. It was a big asset,” Gladys Ferris said. “Forrest kept the grounds well taken care of, and nice people came.”

The affordability of private automobiles meant that people could travel farther to find entertainment at dance halls like the Crystal Ballroom. “It was a good crowd that came from everywhere,” Gladys recalled. Provided by “good bands, some from New York, the music had a lot to do with it.”

Technology, so much as time, slowly doomed the Crystal Ballroom, other dance halls, and similar forms of entertainment, including the small movie theaters ubiquitous across Maine. As TVs became popular, Mainers started staying home and watching TV shows, some broadcast live in the 1940s and ’50s. Fewer people turned out for Saturday night dances, and business gradually declined.

The Farrises ran the Crystal Ballroom for more than a quarter century.

“It was getting to the point where it was a little too much for us,” Gladys Ferris recalled. She and Forrest sold the dance hall, which was briefly utilized as a roller-skating rink.

“I appreciate the support of all the people who danced” at the Crystal Ballroom, Gladys said.

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......................................................................................43 Bangor Window Shade & Drapery Co. .............................................................42 Bar Harbor Campground .................................................................................25 Bar Harbor Ferry ..............................................................................................25 Bar Harbor Historical Society .........................................................................10 Bar Harbor Grand Hotel ..................................................................................24 Bar Harbor Inn ................................................................................................24 Bates Fuel, Inc. ...............................................................................................53 Bayview Takeout - Beals .................................................................................31 Beach Front Cottages ........................................................................................9 Beals-Jonesport Co-Op ...................................................................................32 Bear Brook Kennels ........................................................................................58 Bears N’ Me Maine Made Gifts .........................................................................20 Black Bear Media Blasting & Construction ......................................................19 Blaze Restaurants ...........................................................................................26 Blue Hill Peninsula Chamber of Commerce ....................................................20 Bluenose Cottage ...........................................................................................30 Bold Coast Properties .....................................................................................29 Bowden Marine Service .................................................................................12 Bowers Funeral Home ....................................................................................52 Brandon & Laura’s Cafe ......................................................................................9 Brewer Historical Society ...............................................................................57 Brewer Veterinary Clinic, PA ...........................................................................44 Briarwood Motor Inn ......................................................................................40 Brookings-Smith ...............................................................................................5 Brooks Tire & Auto ..........................................................................................48 Bud’s Shop ‘N Save Supermarket .....................................................................47 Bunker’s Wharf Restaurant 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Quoddy Properties ..........................................................................................34 R.J. Morin, Inc. - Mechanical Contractor .............................................................56 Ray Builders Inc. ...............................................................................................8 Raymond James Financial Services, Inc .........................................................37 Raymond James Financial Services, Inc. ........................................................44 Red’s Automotive .............................................................................................46 Registered Maine Guide .................................................................................65 Restaurant Seeking New Ownership! ..............................................................47 Richard Parks Furniture ......................................................................back cover Rideout’s Seasonal Services ............................................................................49 River’s Edge Motel .........................................................................................39 Robinson’s Cottages ........................................................................................33 Rocky Shore Realty ..........................................................................................12 Ronnie’s Truck Service ....................................................................................22 Roosevelt Campobello International Park ......................................................33 Rooster Brother ..................................................................................back cover Rowell’s Garage Car Wash ................................................................................65 Rowell’s Garage Sales & Service ......................................................................65 Rt. 9 Towing & Recovery ................................................................................58 Ruth & Wimpy’s Restaurant .............................................................................27 S.O.B. Oil & Earthworks Co., LLC ....................................................................56 Salsbury’s Organic Garden Supplies ................................................................11 Savage Paint & Body ........................................................................................36 Sawmill Woods Golf Course .............................................................................58 Schooner Gallery .............................................................................................13 Scootic In Restaurant ......................................................................................54 Seal Cove Auto Museum .................................................................................22 Seawall Motel .................................................................................................22 Sebasticook Valley Federal Credit Union ........................................................47 Shannon Drilling Water Wells ..........................................................................32 Sign Services Incorporated of Maine ...............................................................48 Southwest Harbor & Tremont Chamber ........................................................10 STEaD Timberlands, LLC ..................................................................................53 St. Croix Country Club ......................................................................................17 Stardust Motel ................................................................................................37 Steinke & Caruso Dental Care ............................................................................4 Stewart’s Wrecker Service ..............................................................................19 Stone Masters LLC ...........................................................................................57 Stonington Lobster Co-op ...............................................................................20 Sturdi-Bilt Storage Buildings LLC .....................................................................36 Sullivan’s Wrecker Service ...............................................................................40 Sunrise Realty ..................................................................................................15 Sunset Park Marina .........................................................................................51 Superior Service Heating & Cooling ..................................................................63 T.A. King & Son Building Supplies ...................................................................29 T.G. Dunn Plumbing, Inc. ..............................................................................11 The Blacksheep .................................................................................................9 The Burning Tree ...............................................................................................11 The Charles Inn ..............................................................................................45 The Colony Cottages & Motel ..........................................................................26 The Dream Catcher Antiques & Collectibles ....................................................8 The Milbridge House Restaurant .....................................................................28 The New Friendly Restaurant, Inc. ....................................................................16 The Pioneer Place, USA ...................................................................................52 The Quoddy Tides .............................................................................................16 The Red Barn Motel .........................................................................................28 Thibodeau’s Lawn Care ....................................................................................42 Thomas Logging & Forestry, Inc. .....................................................................49 Thomas W. Duff - Financial Advisor - Brewer ................................................44 Thomas W. Duff - Financial Advisor - Millinocket ..........................................37 Thompson’s Hardware Inc. ..............................................................................56 Tim Merrill & Co., Inc. .....................................................................................50 Timkin Pike Tires ..............................................................................................13 Town of Lincoln ..............................................................................................38 Town of Mars Hill ..............................................................................................3 Tri City Pizza ...................................................................................................56 Tucker Auto Repair ..........................................................................................59 U-Save Car & Truck Rental ...............................................................................48 Vacationland Inns ...........................................................................................45 Varney’s Newport Ford ....................................................................................60 Vazquez Mexican Food ...................................................................................12 VintageMaineImages.com..........................................................4 Wagner Forest Management, Ltd ...................................................................57 Waite General Store Inc. ..................................................................................35 Walls TV, Appliances & Home Furniture .........................................................15 Wardwell Oil ....................................................................................................19 Ware’s Power Equipment ................................................................................55 Washington County Community College .........................................................34 WCL Carpentry ................................................................................................64 West End Drug Co. ..........................................................................................24 West’s Coastal Connection .................................................................................5 Wheaton’s Lodge ............................................................................................35 Whited Peterbilt Trucks ...................................................................................42 Whitney’s Outfitters ........................................................................................55 Whitten’s 2-Way Service, Inc. .........................................................................46 Wikhegan Old Books .......................................................................................11 Willey’s Sport Center .......................................................................................20 William Coffin & Sons ....................................................................................13 Williams & Taplin Well Drilling Services ...........................................................7 Wing Wah Restaurant .....................................................................................55 Winter Harbor Food Service .............................................................................12 Winter Harbor Lobster Coop ..........................................................................27 WK Construction & Sons ..................................................................................28 Wreaths Across America ..................................................................................29 Yanni’s Pizza .....................................................................................................6 York’s of Houlton ............................................................................................52

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