That Never Again Summer Working at Moosehead Lake

by John Redden I t was 1,000 years and 54 summers ago that I left home and experienced 3 special months that could never happen again. During the summer of 1966 I worked as a bucker in the north woods of Maine next to East Outlet in the Moosehead Lake area and took a few steps into adulthood. The story begins at the Swarthmore train station platform in early June. Jim Wire, Hank Simmons and I had just graduated from Nether Providence High School in Wallingford, PA, and along with Sam Caldwell, who had just graduated from Swarthmore High School, were waiting for the local commuter train to take us into Philadelphia. From there we would

Left to right: John Redden, Mike Isgro, Hank Simmons and Jim Wire. Photo taken at Squaw Mountain Camp

board a bus for Waterville, Maine.

At the time, I took it for granted that my dad, Clarence Albert Redden, was a respected mechanical engineer at Scott Paper Company in Chester, Pennsylvania and in the 1940s and 1950s was the chief engineer at the old Hollingsworth &

Whitney paper company in Waterville. So, via his connections, my dad got all four of us jobs as buckers in northern Maine. We would work out of a logging camp that was in the vicinity of Squaw Mountain, Indian Pond and East Outlet of Moosehead Lake. Looking back on it, it’s amazing the arrangements were ever made because my dad was very safety conscious and understood that the job had its inherent dangers with chainsaws in an environment of moving logs and heavy diesel equipment. My dad also understood that his then arrogant son had the maturity level of any invincible 18-year-old. But he must also have calculated that I needed

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to be out of the house that summer and learn some life lessons that can only be acquired through hard physical labor. What mattered to me was that I would be far away from home and making $2.42 an hour, which was big money at the time.

When we arrived in Waterville, we met two other recent high school grads: Mike Isgro and Charley. The six of us piled into Mike’s car and we arrived at the Scott Paper Squaw Mountain logging camp approximately 10 miles northwest of Greenville at around 2 AM on a Monday morning. The enormous bugs buzzing around the outside light bulb were profuse as Pete the camp cook opened the door and told us where our bunks were. Pete stood about 6’ 6”, was skinny as a rail and soft spoken. I’ll never forget his greasy donuts. The next morning, we met the logging men who worked year-round for Scott Paper at the camp. We were issued hard hats, work boots with steel tipped toes and synthetic patches that we sewed into our pants at the knee areas to prevent injuries. Hearing and eye protection were not part of our personal protection equipment. Avon Thompkins of Greenville was the Squaw Mountain camp foreman, and nobody doubted he was in charge. I’ll never forget his piercing blue eyes, bald head and broad shoulders. But it was Jesse Johnson of Greenville who patiently taught us to use and maintain our bow chain saws and sharpen their chain teeth correctly at the proper file angle. Jesse was already in his mid-fifties with plenty of grey hair but worked alongside us each day and was always pleasant. Chet Pinnetti of Jackman also was a good instructor. Everyone helped us manage the black fly problem and “no see ems” that were part of our daily lives. Cursing was a fully integrated staple in their communication, and 39

each had his own colorful phrases that I had not heard before. Herby Clark of Greenville was Pete’s assistant in the kitchen. Herby had just graduated from Greenville High School where he was the quarterback on the football team. He amazed me when he said they played their November games in the snow. Herby always had a laugh and cheerful temperament. Jack was the friendly truck driver from Greenville who hauled the long logs from the woods to the river.

The Squaw Mountain logging camp was located about 4 miles east of Route 6/15 and ½ mile from Indian Pond. It had a dining room, kitchen, bathroom with showers and a bunk house. We buckers even had our own room in the bunk house. The beds had mattresses and we were issued sheets. A diesel generator powered the electricity for the lights and the pump for the water well. Things were very comfortable. (cont. on page 40)

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Our job as buckers was to cut up the felled logs into pulpwood. We arose at 5 AM each day for breakfast and were driven in the back of Jesse’s pick-up truck to the worksite located on the west bank of East Outlet approximately ¼ mile south of Route 6/15. East Outlet was a river that began at the nearby dam on the south end of Moosehead Lake and ended at the north end of Indian Pond. Our work began promptly at 6:30 when the big logging trucks began to haul in de-limbed trunks from the forest to the river worksite. A skidder operator would wrap a large cable around the 40 +/- foot long logs and pull them off the truck into a big noisy, messy pile. The logs were supported off the ground by larger diameter logs that were established perpendicular to the river. We buckers, in teams of two, would then begin to unravel and roll the logs using “cant dogs” so that they abutted each other and were orientated (cont. from page 39)

The bowsaw, a chainsaw used in the 1960s and designed for cutting pulpwood.

parallel to the river. After this large raft of logs was assembled, we would cut the wood into 4-foot lengths with our gasoline powered bowsaws that had a plastic rod attached to help us quickly gauge the correct pulpwood length. A Scott official from Waterville showed up one day and barked out, “Send them home if they cut pulp more than four feet.”

The loggers used chainsaws, like you see today with the straight bar, to fell trees in the woods. But we buckers next to the river were issued bow chain saws to cut the logs into pulpwood. The looped bar was somewhat like an oval with a maximum radius of approximately 6 inches. They are made for a plunge type cut and their compact design made it easy on your back. They had a guard on the top portion of the bar for safety and a spur on the bottom of the bar to prevent kickbacks. You simply start your cut with the spur engaged against the bottom of the log and push through. From a maintenance standpoint, the clutch and sprocket on a bowsaw seldom got clogged with sawdust, since all the chips exit down by the spur. Cleaning the bowsaw was easy and quick. However, accidents can happen, and Mike gashed his hand and was placed on light duty until it healed. After we had reduced the logs into pulpwood the skidder operator with his

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big blade would push the pulpwood into East Outlet. The current would then carry the pulpwood on their 3-mile journey down East Outlet into Indian Pond. In Indian Pond the floating pulpwood was corralled within a large boom that was hauled by a small tugboat to the south end of Indian Pond. A sluice allowed the pulpwood to pass around the dam and enter the north end of the Kennebec River for its slow free ride to the Scott Paper mill in Winslow. Once I was given a ride in Indian Pond in a small boat with an outboard engine. When the operator wanted to get inside the boom with the pulpwood, we would shift to the back of the boat to lift the bow out of the water and he would speed up. At the instant the boat passed over the log boom he would pivot the propeller out of the water! His timing was always perfect, and we never experienced having the engine ripped off the stern.

Back at East Outlet the logging trucks arrived incessantly all day and we buckers had to keep up with the pace. Day after day it was constant unraveling and rolling the pile of logs and then cutting them into pulpwood. Any available time was spent filing your chainsaw teeth to keep them sharp. Once Hank bent over and gasped in pain, saying “I think I have cancer.” Jesse knew what was going on. Hank only had heat exhaustion due to dehydration, and a little time in the shade and water brought him back. After this we were careful to drink plenty of water and take the salt tablets they gave us. Sometimes Jesse would let us

take his truck to Wilson’s Cabins next to the dam where there was a Coke machine. We worked shirtless and, after our sunburns healed, were well tanned. We traveled back to camp, approximately 15 minutes each way, for lunch and then returned to East Outlet

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for the hot afternoon work session. Our breakfast consisted of pancakes, eggs and toast; lunch was a good variety of sandwiches with soup, and dinner fare was steak, potatoes and pies for dessert. Always, there were Pete’s donuts and lots of other carbs at every meal, but we burned up the calories next to the river and never gained a pound. There was also a big diesel electric saw at the East Outlet work site that mechanically fed the long logs into its cutting zone to cut pulpwood. It was operated by only one man and so there was an under-current of competition between this job-eliminating machine of the future and us sweat-drenched, hardworking buckers. So, one day while maintaining the 3-foot diameter blade, the holding nut rolled down the wooden sluice and into the water. The big saw production stopped and we buckers basked in momentary victory. I mentioned to Avon (cont. on page 42)

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that I had brought a snorkel mask from home, so Jesse drove me back to camp to get it while they shut the gates at the East Outlet Dam. At first, I fished out a long-lost picaroon. But after a few tries, I managed to come up with the missing nut from the bottom of the river and was a hero for about one minute. Then it was back to the routine of bucking pulpwood and the endless competition of man vs. machine.

During weekends Mike and Charley would always drive back to Waterville. Someone would always give Jim, Hank, Sam and me a ride into Greenville after work on Fridays to deposit our paychecks and do laundry. While there we would explore the pretty little village of Greenville. There was the Indian Store with a wide variety of things to check out. And we went to the movie theatre and saw “The Hallelujah Trail” starring Burt Lancaster and “Sands of the Kalahari” starring Stuart Whitman. (cont. from page 41)

Somehow, we met a local elderly gentleman that invited us to stay in his barn during our weekends in Greenville. We made the best of it although there was no water or toilets, which made necessities challenging in the morning. We had noble intentions to paint his barn to reciprocate his kindness but never did. I regret we never adequately thanked that man for his hospitality.

Toward the end of the summer Scott Paper moved us over to the Lily Bay logging camp for one week to cut pulpwood. Scott Paper boomed the acres of pulpwood from Lily Bay across Moosehead Lake to East Outlet with their boat called the Katahdin. During one weekend we were required to pick stranded pulpwood from the banks of East Outlet down to Indian Pond and were paid overtime for it. Scott Paper had also rounded up some local guys to help pick the river and one would be going to St. Louis University that fall on a soccer scholarship. The gates at the East Outlet dam were opened to raise the water level and we waded along the riverbanks to drag the stranded pulpwood back into the moving current using picaroons. Some skilled boatmen were in a bateau that contained our lunch and snacks. This small boat followed us down river. We waded in the water all day and were dog tired when it ended.

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pay. We could go into the refrigerated food locker and cut off huge hunks of meat from the hanging carcasses. We also went swimming in Indian Pond, which was warmer than Moosehead. I learned quickly that there is nothing in the world that imparts such true satisfaction as swimming over your head in a clear Maine Lake. It is one thing that lures me back each summer and I must obey. We would also try standing up on a big old boom log to see how long we could keep our balance before falling into the water. However, our biggest kick, which was not allowed, was to hop on the big diesel skidders and race them around the endless logging roads that encircled Squaw Mountain. It was a unique amusement park ride and fortunately we never overturned or crashed. My father’s prayers for our safety were evidently being answered. Though I didn’t realize it at the time, God was watching over me in those days when my judgement was less than fully mature. Avon would have fired us on the spot if he ever knew we were being paid overtime to hijack skidders for our Squaw Mountain joy rides. All I can say now is at 18 you do crazy things.

At the end of the summer Avon’s parting words were, “You stayed with it right well.” I learned more useful skills during those 3 summer months at East Outlet than I did during my next 4 ½ years at college.

Many of the institutions, characters, names of places and work practices in this personal recollection have long ceased to exist. The use of water for the transportation of pulpwood and the buckers associated with that work practice are now part of Maine history as sunken logs were determined by environmentalists in the ‘70s to be harmful to Maine’s lakes and rivers. The last pulpwood boom across Moosehead 43

Lake and down Indian Pond occurred in 1975. It’s also interesting that Scott Paper ceased to exist in 1995 when it was acquired by Kimberly Clark. It won’t be easy to find Squaw Mountain on a map today because it was renamed Big Moose Mountain in the mid-70s. So, before I too am noted as passing, something now compels me to document those long ago summer days when times were different in the Maine woods.”

In the summer of 2016, fifty years later, I returned to Maine to show my wife Claudia the locations of the long-vacated Squaw Mountain logging camp and our East Outlet work site. We visited Indian Pond, explored the village of Greenville and took a boat ride up Moosehead on the restored Katahdin. We rented a cottage at Wilson’s near East Outlet and hiked up Mt. Kineo for (cont. on page 44)

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a spectacular view of Moosehead Lake. During an evening walk near the East Outlet dam, the breeze across Moosehead Lake was full of the shadows of Avon, Jesse, Jim, Hank and others alive and dead with my own among them. Their silent whispers confirmed what I could not know at 18 — that life is a (cont. from page 43)

wonderful gift even while sweating under the summer sun cutting pulpwood at East Outlet. There I experienced that never again summer and took a few steps into adulthood.

John Redden is a retired civil engineer and lives near Leavenworth, Kansas with his wife Claudia. They return to Maine each summer.

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by Jane Oliver Thompson C arl Ellwood Troutt was born in a home delivery at his parents’ residence in La Plata, Missouri on July 7, 1905. His parents, Martha Estelle Gilbreath and Charles Martin Troutt were born and grew up near La Plata and were married in 1900. She was 20 and the oldest of a family of five while he was 19 and the youngest of a family of 13. The Gilbreaths were of Scots-English ancestry and the Troutt family was of English and Irish ancestry.

Carl was the oldest of four children. The youngest three children were daughters, Ada Ruth, Ruby Louise, and Laura Avanel. Ada Ruth died at the age of four of undetermined liver disease. Avanel died at the age of six from severe scarlet fever and pneumonia. Ruby Louise Troutt Middleton lived a full life in St. Louis, Missouri.

Soon after Carl was born, his father went west in search of a better living than appeared to be attainable as a Missouri farmer. He obtained employment in one of the largest of many lead mines in Idaho, this one in the town of Wallace. His wife and nine-month-old son joined him there and they lived in Wallace for two years until the prospects appeared brighter at Grants Pass, Oregon. Ada Ruth was born to the family at Wallace. The family lived in Grants

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Pass for nearly two years and were joined by the birth of second sister Ruby Louise.

Soon after the Oklahoma Territory opened up and Oklahoma became a state, the Troutt family migrated by train to Mounds, Oklahoma, where the father owned and operated a blacksmith and wagon repair business for about two years. The lure of the open country was answered by the Troutt family taking out an eight-year lease on 80 acres. Most of it was woods which C.M. Troutt cleared. Then he built a house and barn, and entered the questionable vocation of farming.

Carl started his education at a one- (cont. on page 50)

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room country school shortly after he was seven. His first teacher was an intelligent half English, half Creek Indian girl named Mary Wilson. She was an inspirational teacher. Carl made three grades the first year of school. He and his sister Ruby walked about four miles to school across the Oklahoma countryside each day. Crop failures and the hot winds of central Oklahoma were too much for the Troutt family, though. When Carl was ten, they moved to Huntsville, Missouri, and soon after to a farm about midway between Huntsville and Clifton Hill. At the one-room country school which the Troutt children attended, the rotating grade system was utilized to spare the teachers having classes in all eight grades. The odd-numbered grades were taught one year and the even-numbered grades were taught the next two years, thus from the sixth grade, Carl went into the eighth grade. Midway through that (cont. from page 49)

year, the family moved to Huntsville, where he finished the eighth grade with the highest grade in a class of seventy. He was promoted to high school in 1919. No one had noticed that his seventh grade year was overlooked.

Carl enjoyed high school and was very active for four years at Huntsville, graduating in early June of 1923. There were forty-nine members of the class to graduate.

Carl enrolled as a Freshman in September of the same year at the University of Missouri as a pre-medical student. The University study continued for seven years. Carl received an A.B. Degree from the University of Missouri at Columbia in June of 1929. Then came a year at postgraduate study before entering medical school. There were only the first two years offered at that time. The Troutt family were never in possession of any superfluous funds, so Carl earned his school expenses by working for his father, who at this time was a building contractor. Proficiency was learned at common labor, carpentry and later some architectural experience was attained. It became obvious that a medical education was going to cost more than available funds would permit. About this stage, Carl became interested in Osteopathy. After investigation, he learned that he could transfer to the university’s main campus at Kirksville, Missouri at much less overall expense than continuing in the medical school. In spite of finding part-time employment, it was necessary to take about two years off to work for enough money to finish the four-year professional college training. He received his Doctor of Osteopathy and Surgery in the class of 1936. After graduation, he rejoined his father in the construction business at Columbia.

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establish a professional business as a physician someplace. A love affair had been brewing between Carl and Miss Frances Opal McCowan, a red-haired young woman generally highly capable but sometimes lacking in judgement. She was born and grew up near Mexico, Missouri and was working in a beauty shop in St. Louis at the time. To make a long story short, Carl and Opal were married on October 28, 1936, and nine days later were en route to Northern Maine in a second-hand 1929 Pontiac Coupe. Neither of the newlyweds had ever been east of the Mississippi River before, but one of Carl’s school chums, Albert J. Gulesian, had moved to Lincoln, Maine to establish his first practice, and was doing well. Dr. Troutt and his bride were anxious to find a place nearby so that the two chums could work together.

Mattawamkeag appeared to be the best choice of the small towns in that vicinity. After passing state board examinations and being licensed to practice as an Osteopathic physician, the newlyweds rented the north half of the Chisholm house, owned by Sam Lovett of Lee, with rooms on the first floor and two rooms on the second floor. That was the start of an interesting residence in Mattawamkeag. The front room served as a combination waiting room for the patients and sitting room for the family and friends. A small middle room was used as the office and the back room as a combination kitchen and dining room. A bathroom at this stage of the game was an outdoor special — with no bath. Pleasures and successes came mixed in sandwich manner with some tribulations. This was a busy time for the doctor but a lonely existence for Opal.

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about three miles north of Mattawamkeag off the Houlton Road. The case was relatively uncomplicated. The baby was a fine eight-pound boy named Eugene Springer.

There was never any monotony in his practice. With the variety of work and many, many babies later, time seemed to pass as if on wings — as time does when one is relatively young and busy.

People were rather kind and tolerant of the new young couple who had come to live among them. Both were interested in young people and children, which attracted Opal into church work and the Doctor into community and school health work. Immunization clinics for protection of children against diphtheria, whooping cough, smallpox, typhoid, tuberculosis, and later both kinds of measles, were coming into use. For many years the doctor helped the state district health nurse conduct these clin- (cont. on page 52)

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In 1940 Dr. Troutt was a candidate for school committee and was elected. That year a long and interesting period of service for over twenty-four years ended when Mattawamkeag joined School Administrative District No. 67. The Troutts lived at the Chisholm house for four years. Paying rent was like pouring water into sand. In 1940 they bought the Chadbourne home, the next place south of Virgil Wyman’s residence and store. They moved to their new-old home on May 2, 1940. Several additions and many alterations were made to the home over the years, including a beauty shop for Opal on the back porch in 1942, a four-room office addition on the north side of the house in 1953 and 1954, conversion of the upper part of the barn into a five-room apartment in 1957 and 1958, addition of a solarium-type room on the northeast part of the office addition, and re- (cont. from page 51)

modeling of the sheds. This place gave ample opportunity for the doctor to enjoy his avocation of gardening. There were also chickens and pigs for the first few years. No cows, however, as Opal vowed to leave if a cow was brought on the place to live. Sadly, the seven beautiful elm trees that for years had graced the yard had to be destroyed due to disease.

With the assistance of George Tewey, Sr., a Boy Scout troop was established in Mattawamkeag in the early 1940s. Neither Mr. Tewey nor Dr. Troutt had been boy scouts as boys. They learned along with the twenty boys about scouting, nature, and life in general. Everyone had a good time for the next four years. Abandonment of the project was necessary for there was not enough time to cover all fronts. The project has been carried on by others since.

About this same period, little league baseball became popular. This project took up the slack time and some in addition. Later this work, too, was taken on by other interested citizens as well as Babe Ruth and town teams among older boys.

In 1938 the Doctor and his good wife joined Floral Grange. The Doctor joined Pine Tree Lodge #172 of A.F.A.M., and later both joined the Eastern Star Lodge. The opportunity was presented for advancement in Masonry, so membership followed in Mt. Horeb Chapter, St. Aldemars, and Anah Temple Shrine. The doctor was a good joiner but was unable to attend regularly because of professional duties.

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It was with a deep sense of appreciation that the doctor regarded the many friends and patients of Mattawamkeag and surrounding areas. There had been many fond memories and some regrets. The main regret was that no one is al53

lowed but one life to live.

One of the outstanding pleasures of the doctor and his wife was the opportunity to bring up three adopted children — Carolyn Ruth, James Edward, and Brenda Elaine. They were all married, have children of their own, and live in nearby communities. Thus the process goes on, generation follows generation in a different manner, yet all in the same way seeking a way of life for themselves and some degree of

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This doctor was always grateful for the various opportunities to serve the nearby communities and Mattawamkeag, but like everyone, Dr. Troutt died. Old doctors just get tired and more tired until late night calls and ringing of the doorbell will, someday, go unanswered. He always said he was not ready to quit or be pastured out but that inevitable situation probably was waiting just around the corner or over the hill.

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