Previous Entries
January 1, 2002 - January 31, 2002
Date: January 31, 2002 Name: Morgan Perry Location: Corinna, Me Email: morgie_lou@hotmail.com Comment: Hello my name is Morgan Perry. You may know my grandmother, she is one of the Schillinger twins, Marcia Church. Recently, I have been assigned a project that is called "Project Interview Maine". This is for my American Studies class. My assignment in this class, is to interview people that have lived or are currently living in Corinna. We also have to research a local tradition. I chose "Corinna Days". If anybody has information on the history of this tradition or if you have any information on the town of Corinna that you would like to share with me that would be very helpful. If you would like to tell me how you feel that Corinna has changed it would be greatly appreciated! Thank you very much for your time! Morgan- This is an interesting assignment. I wonder if Corinna Days has it's origin in the V. J. Day celebrations that used to be held in Corinna every summer to celebrate the end of World War II in the Pacific. V. J. stood for Victory in Japan. Does anyone else know more about this? Can we help Morgan find out more about the tradition of Corinna Days? -Ken
Date: January 31, 2002 Name: Howard Small Location: Yarmouth Me Email: Comment: I believe I probably remember the Realty block and Hotel better than anyone with the exception of my sister Lois. We were young but knew it intimately from 1924 until the fire in 1928.
This is as it was. The building was one of the first stucco ones around which made it look modern compared with the traditional wood styles. The flat tarred and gravel roof quite a new method.
Looking at the photo on the left down the post office. Then left to right Spragues men's store, Perkins Rexall Drugs, Churches Shoe Store, The Bank.
Entrance to the Hotel upstairs in center. At the top of stairs was a wide hallway turning to the left was a large sitting room with victrola, piano and radio. Next to that was a large lobby with desk to sign in guests. The top glassed in area over the post office was next. It housed Mikes 2 chair and 2 or three pool tables. It was like a club with many business and professionals getting an afternoon game in.
As you reached top of stairs the dinning room was across the hall. Looking at the photo the window that you see on the back corner 2nd floor is the corner dinning room window. The dinning room would hold up to 100. Next a large serving room with walk in refrigerator and then a big kitchen.
Swinging left at the top of the stairs were the stairs going up to the 3rd floor rooms. Then a hallway on the right offices for Dr. McVety and the Olie Spragues Water Dist office. Across the hall were restrooms.
At the end the hall turned left toward the back of the building. First room housed a beauty parlor. Next on the right were three rooms for the proprietors family. across the hall next to the kitchen was the big laundry and storage room. The upstairs I believe had 28 rooms many had adjoining rooms and baths. Even the inside rooms had windows looking out on the flat roof.
Many salesmen traveled by train so it was a handy place to stop at. A four or five piece orchestra played Music most every Saturday and Sunday night. My dad the fiddle my mother the piano I the drums on occasion. Their was an elevator from kitchen to basement. Coal was delivered through a window under of the drugstore window in front took lots of coal to heat it.Howard- Thanks for sharing this with us. I had no idea the building was so grand in it's early days! I would have loved to see it. Does anyone have any photographs taken inside this building? -Ken
Date: January 30, 2002 Name: Alice Russell Belgard Location: Sandston,VA Email: Comment: In the 40's the first 'store' was the Post Office. Believe it was still there in 50/51. Know the next store was a grocery store run by Bud and Marge Moore. I worked for them did house work at their home in St Albans but also in Corinna. Fred Chadboun worked for them but left and opened up store further down st. Think then Freddy Perkins had the Drug Store. Mable Holbrook was still there etc Not a lot changed then Today it's instant. I"ll take remembering and savoring every moment. Hopefully my memories will bring happy ones.
Date: January 30, 2002 Name: Wayne Brown Location: Email: rubway@earthlink.net Comment: RE. "The Block". The Realty block, later known as the Trickey block, then the Turner block. I am not sure what was in the block in the 50's as I left Corinna in 42. In the late '30s and until "42 from the East end - the first unit which was always one story short - was the Post Office; I believe later a restaurant; when there were two stories in this location on the second floor in this end unit was the barber shop. The second unit was an A&P store; I recall this in the early twenties as a clothing store and/or as Fred Church's shoe store. The third was Perkin's Rexall Drug Store. The fourth was divided; Pecorelli's barber shop and Herb Brooks' jewelry and watch repair (later, I believe a pizza parlor or something where the final fire started). And the 5th unit was, I believe in the '20s Corinna(?) Bank. In the '30s and after it was T&K store.
After the first fire - when Howard Small's family ran the hotel - the third floor was gone and I believe the second floor on the east end may have been gone also. The second floor became apartments an several persons writing here have lived there. And one unit was for a long time a living quarter and office for several doctors (one at a time). I was born in Corinna in 1917 and left town in 1942 so my memory is extensive but not all inclusive.
Date: January 30, 2002 Name: Marilyn Conwa Location: Prague, Oklahoma Email: bmconway@brightok.net Comment: Ken, here is what I remember about Main Street, Corinna which would be the 40's and 50's. I seem to recall the first section was the Post Office which later became a restaurant where us CUA students came for lunch. Next was a grocery store, then the Rexall Drug store where we used to go for lunch also, (have drawn a blank on what was next), then the T&K grocery store, an alley where there was a taxi cab office and at one time a movie theater. No idea what the next 2 were, then of course Mable Holbrook's store, a hardware store which at one time was run by Penny Patch's father, (I remember Penny because we used to ride horses together) and somewhere in there was an insurance office. Well, have I totally embarrassed myself with mistakes? Am looking forward to being corrected.
Date: January 30, 2002 Name: liz richards Location: dexter, me Email: Comment: weather sure is different than when we grew up- but still wait a minute it will change. as to stores on main street in 50's, i remember a grocery in the first front, then rexall drug , mabel holbrook's dry gods, also helen herring's tip -top shop (she helped the first majorettes make their own uniforms) couldn't be too short skirts, defeated the purpose, as we twirled, our batons caught our hems, caused quite a stir back then- how different the outfits today!
Date: January 30, 2002 Name: Keith Seavey Location: Corinna Email: kcseavey@tds.net Comment: Congratulations on your fine web site, Ken. My wife Connie and I have recently gotten hooked on the computer. I enjoy the guest book for I know or can remember a lot of your guests and people mentioned. Although we have lived in Corinna the past 32 years, as a youngster lived in No. Newport and went to Newport schools. Being so near to Corinna I always thought of it as my home town. Some of my memories include the VJ day celebrations from the 40s and 50s and Razor Crossman on the loud speaker. Also Town team baseball games.
Keep up the good work Ken
Date: January 29, 2002 Name: Norm Clarke Location: Pittsfield on the Sebasticook Email: npclarke@gwi.net Comment: Ken, I lived in "the block" for a while, up over the restaurant. I remember many things about it. Mostly that you couldn't regulate the heat. It was always 1000 degrees in there. The other was the constant thud from the bass on the juke box in the restaurant. I spent time watching the cars circumnavigate (cruise?) Main St., up and down, up and down. The smell and sounds from the mill, day and night. All in all, not really a bad experience.
That's where I lived during that bad storm of 68. The one I mentioned a while ago where it took several hours to dig my car out.Norm- Thanks. In the 60's I delivered newspapers to some apartments up in the block. It was always the warmest part of my paper route in the winter. Can anyone list the stores that were in the block in the 1950's? -Ken
Date: January 29, 2002 Name: Susan Location: Ledyard, CT Email: sueshe09@snet.net Comment: Mr. Dow, I grew up in Maine but I am having difficulty understanding "freezing fog". Can you explain? Thanks. :) Susan- I had never heard of freezing fog until a couple of years ago when it caused a 50 car pile-up just south of Bangor on Interstate 95. I wasn't in the pile-up, just a short distance behind it. Sat on the highway for hours waiting to get through. Fog formed in the air when the ground was cold. The fog froze on the ground suddenly forming a layer of ice on the road. -Ken
Date: January 28, 2002 Name: DENNIS CARR Location: Zephyrhills, Fl. Email: dennis.carr@verizon.net Comment: Ken, Was the picture of the snowmobilers taken from in back of your House? Looking towards the end of the runway. Maybe it was Corey and Gavin on the
snowmobiles..........DenDennis- You are right. That is the west end of the runway. Actually took the picture from my bathroom window. I don't know who the smowmobilers are. They are innocent bystanders. -Ken
Date: January 28, 2002 Name: Alice Russell Belgard Location: Sandston Va Email: alicebel@msn.com Comment: Howard Small try my E-Mail address again. My older siblings, Harold, Allen, Ruby, Doris may have gone to school with you. I was just a glimmer in my Daddy's eyes then, Born in 31. Was just thinking last night I might have Aunties year wrong. Bernice Green was teaching then. Wasn't she later our beloved Bernice Pinkham? Has been nice Emailing with Dudley and Lillian Ervin, Alden, Richard Gallison, etc. Still see these friends in my mind as teens or couple years older, Ken. To me Betty and Herbie aren't 21 yet!
Date: January 26, 2002 Name: C.R. "Bing" Grindle Location: Roanoke, VA Email: bingeri@cox.net Comment: I read the Guestbook daily and am curious to know if anyone remembers Corinna's doctor Leslie Redman who was my grandfather? His daughter Elvira was my Mother and a piano teacher there. Her siblings were Charles, Ned, Grace, Ralph, Crosby and Fanny. Also, how many Oddfellows are in Corinna and will their building that was moved at great expense have its appearance improved...or will it stay as is in the interest of history? (Hi, Ken, I remember you said you lived in my Grandfather's home after he left.)
Date: January 26, 2002 Name: Howard Small Location: Yarmouth Me Email: Comment: Alice Belgard Have read your prolific writings. One has reference to your aunt Olive Melvin. You have her graduating in 31 from CUA It was 32. She was my leading lady in the senior class play and I the leading man. We had a kissing scene Mrs Snow who coached made as practice a lot. I recall we didn't mind and got pretty good at. It seems we both went to the same N Newport school. I was there the second half of the 24-25 year I was 9 at the time in 6th grade as I had skipped a couple. I tried to reach you by E and could not get through reason I have used Kens site.
Date: January 25, 2002 Name: Lorraine Hunter Location: Corinna Email: Comment: Hi Folks,
Just wanted to let you know I'm home, on the gain.
Want to thank you for all the prayers, cards and e-mails I have received.
What a wonderful site Ken has created. It just keeps on bringing us closer together. I just love getting lost in the cattails.
God Bless....................Lorraine
Date: January 25, 2002 Name: Donna Boody Location: Bangor Email: dab58pnb@aol.com Comment: Linda,
Thanks for the story about my father when you were a little girl. I was in the hospital when it was printed, but Marilyn called me from OK and read it to me. It made what was otherwise an unpleasant day quite pleasant! Donna
Date: January 25, 2002 Name: Alice Russell Belgard Location: Sandston,Va. Email: alicebel@msn.com Comment: Was confused about Jan 21 photo because of the Rte 43 Thought I recognize the Corner house but wasn't sure. Thanks to Alsen and Corinne I know where it is. Been out of Me 20 yrs so never sure. They advised me that the house Josh Mullen, Sheriff in the years I lived there's house is now occupied by Bernard and Vivian. I for got to mention Vivian as a very important co worker on hotdog etc. sales. Think Davis & Hartwell still a good alliance!
Was sitting in the dark Musing and thought about how each of us look, act, believe etc from different than we did in school. We all change as we mature and also none of the old teeny boppers should expect or be expected to look the same now. It's rough when you read their comments if you've not seen them in years But basically while we all change physically we are still the same old people inside who love Corinna and have no problem telling people where we lived or where we grew up. Cheer leaders from Corinna give all of us out of shape ,and in shape a big cheer as we tell the world we graduated at fine schools [CUA Nokomis} and grew up in Corinna area.
Date: January 24, 2002 Name: Marilyn Conway Location: Prague, Oklahoma Email: bmconway@brightok.net Comment: WOW! Today's photo of the snowmobilers is just gorgeous! I copied it and forwarded it to all the people here at work who love the outdoors. I'm making it a wallpaper for my office computer. I've already got responses back just amazed at the beauty and how much fun it looked to be.
Thank you to Carl Smith, Jackie Emerson, and Ken for sending me the info I had requested.Marilyn- I will reformat the picture as wallpaper and put a link on the front page. It will be a much nicer looking copy than the posted one from yesterday. -Ken
Date: January 24, 2002 Name: Tebob Buckland Location: St, Petersburg, Fla. Email: tebob@msn.com Comment: Just a note for people who remember Dale Welch. His stepdaughter emailed me that they Have had to put Dale in the Veterans Home in Augusta. He fell last Sunday night and the Dr. said it was for his best to be there. He has Parkinson and is quite unstable. Thought some would like to know as the family was well known in Corinna in yesteryears.
Date: January 23, 2002 Name: Jackie Emerson Location: Corinna Email: jemer@tdstelme.com Comment: To Marilyn Conway - re your Ja. 12 question as to Bill Sawtell's address. Just out in the Rolling Thunder - BILL SAWTELL, P O BOX 272, Brownville, ME 04414 Tel: 1-207-965-3971; E-mail: rtell@kynd.net Hope this is of help to you Marilyn.
Date: January 23, 2002 Name: Valerie Monismith (Metivier) Location: Terre Haute, IN Email: valmonismith@aol.com Comment: I am back in Maine to attend my nanny (Blanche) Metivier's funeral and my brother, Pete, has introduced me to this site for the first time. I have seen notes posted from old friends and distant relatives that I haven't been in contact with in years, what fun!
I too have many wonderful memories of Corinna; lessons at the swimfront when I was little, diving off the damn when I was older, working at Gallison's restaurant through high school, being the cook/waitress/cashier during hunting season when Rick was GONE! The farm pond between my nanny's farm and Carl Smith's farm was a special place for my grandmother and me.
I was sad to see the strip of stores on Main Street missing, however, the mill was an eye-sore. Good riddens!
I left Maine feeling a need to see the country, that need has certainly been met. Since leaving Maine in 83,I have lived in; MA, RI, GA, KY, AL and now IN. I have inlaws in CA and NY that we visit every couple of years. Still, I am always amazed at the beauty of Maine when I come home. We don't always appreciate what we have until we are removed from it. It has been years since I have experienced the splendor of a Maine winter. Winters in IN are very dark and overcast. We just don't have this glorious sunshine amidst the sparkling white.
Blessings and guidance to all of you who are working on making Corinna a "prettier" town. Hopefully your efforts will be rewarded with some nice businesses coming to town with good jobs for local people.
Nokomis class of 81
Date: January 23, 2002 Name: Debi (Dow) Emmons Location: Gray, Maine Email: galadriel_emm@yahoo.com Comment: The pictures of the grange group made me smile, especially the one on January 19 showing both Yvonne and Eugene Cooley. I recognize them both from Exeter, as they lived just a few houses away from us, though I don't recall ever seeing Eugene in an apron like he's pictured here (and I certainly would have teased him about it had I known the picture existed, as he teased ME enough over the years....*giggle) I've made the Cattail Press a "daily visitation site" due to all of Ken's efforts, and certainly hope this site continues on after the EPA cleanup is finished.
Date: January 22, 2002 Name: Alice Russell belgard Location: Sanston,VA Email: alicebel@msn.com Comment: Read Bud's comments and remember Keith and Josehine as well as Bud's Mom. When we lived in N. Newport and went to the Hubbard School on the road nearer Stetson Keith raised Seed Potatoes in field way up behind house. Nobody could raise potatoes in the area near it. Later on we moved to Corinna and lived near the Hilliker Farm and Hart seed Farm. How strange how life goes but the Hillikers and Smith's were and still are top notch people. Hope Bud will say a Hello from all of Harold and Gladys Russell's Kids and pass my address on to them They should get a 10 on a scale of 1-10 on any chart
Date: January 21, 2002 Name: Bud Hilliker Location: Jacksonville FL Email: dhillike@bellsouth.net Comment: Yes Howard, Josephine Hilliker Smith is my aunt.
She and Keith live in Florida in the winter and play 9 holes of golf several time a week. I was living at the Hillacre farm when I went to the Coburn Corner School. You may remember that the Hillacre farm was my grandfather's, Densmore Stewart Hilliker. He provided me with my middle name. After Keith and Josephene were married the Hillacre Farm became the Smith Farm and has gone through several generations of that family.
The best to you and you all.
Date: January 21, 2002 Name: Alice Russell Belgard Location: Sandston VA Email: alicebel@msn.com Comment: Ken, your thought that the 2 photos at Grange was probably right But life was so different then. I belonged to both Jr. And Sr Grange. The aprons were left there unless they needed to be washed then brought back the next week or next event which ever was earlier. But the each belonged to somebody. Remember most of the people and Eugene especially. A very devoted husband, grange member and Christian. Am beginning to think I should stay off this site but it spurs so memories. I love crossword puzzles and my daughter told me any thing that makes you think is good for you mind. So between 3 newspaper crossword puzzles and this site my mind is Very stimulated.
Date: January 19, 2002 Name: Alice Russell Belgard Location: Sandston, Va. Email: alicebel@msn.com Comment: Ken, this site is very addictive. I Know about addiction as I smoked for 56 yrs. Was at 3 pks. a day when i decided I'd smoked the last one and not smoked one since. nobody told me etc to smoke But it was not allowed so I did. I mentioned earlier Dwayne Jones store just off RTE 7.I believe his father had a store {grocery] in the Odd Fellow Bldg. before it was moved across Main St, the opened the other store. Was remembering today that when I was at the Elem. School on Rte.7 that for hot lunch every fall farmers etc brought in All kinds of produce, apples, potatoes, winter squash, turnips, beets, carrots, cabbage etc. Also home preserved vegs. was brought in in canning jars and the Hot lunch crew did a great job of giving us big meal at noon. I f we went to CUA we walked from there to the school or if we lived in town we could go home. I expect if parents worked at mil; they could eat with parents. During 46-50 I believe it was $1.25 a week for lunch. Can't remember all that worked there but remember Gladys Ireland, and especially Vera Hilliker Knowlton. In 70 yrs. the only hot yeast rolls better than hers were my aunt Olive Melvin Perkins CUA 31.After a while the Fed. Gov. decided that while they did Surplus food for Hot Lunches they could not use home canned veg. Remember when i was still at the Elem School on Rte 7 of seeing the boxes of vegetables. Also believe that Chicken were given to the School Lunch Crew to cook. Especially remember Loren Bolstridge you was a great joker talking about how hard it was to keep little fruit flies out of the blueberries. Boy did he ever enjoy some of our blueberry pie!!
Date: January 19, 2002 Name: Jane Quimby Biscoe Location: Waldoboro, ME Email: mb81036@midcoast.com Comment: Reading some of the recent Guest Book entries really brought back some very vivid Main Street memories! I remember what fun it was to "go downtown" and do errands for my mother. I was probably 9 or 10 years old at the time - a while ago! The Post Office would be the first stop at the far end of the Block; Don and/or Erma would always be there with a greeting. Then a stop at Warren Brown's A&P - I can smell the coffee being ground right now.
Next was a stop at Joe Porter's Rexall store and a chat with Ken Dow's lovely grandmother Carmen; Mabel Holbrook's emporium was next and Mr. Brooks' jewelry store. The T&K store with Happy Edgerly behind the counter was a favorite place - if ever a nickname fitted a man, Carl Edgerly had it! Ray Hamm's Corinna Insurance Agency was in the next building - from here on up to the Dow House at the corner my memory doesn't serve me very well. Can anyone help? I certainly remember Al Bird's filling station fondly. Enough nostalgia for now!!!
- definitely a sign of advancing age :-) !!!!!!
Date: January 19, 2002 Name: Alden Schmitz Location: Bellevue, Nebraska Email: aldenschmitz@msn.com Comment: to Mel Russell...The man who died in the tragic fire in the building next to the old Grange Hall was Bob Burlock
Date: January 19, 2002 Name: Gerald Smith Location: Windsor, Ca./Dexter Maine Email: glsmith@jerre.com Comment: Outstanding photo today! Your site is in my top five list. Do you except modest $donations?
GeraldGerald- Thank you. Yes, I am happy to accept modest donations. It helps with the monthly cost of running the web site. The Cattail Press, POB 2, Corinna, ME 04928 -Ken
Date: January 19, 2002 Name: Marie Turner Birckhead Location: Lakeland, Florida Email: cbbmtb@aol.com Comment: I have read all the current messages this morning and find it difficult to stop. So many memories . After our farm burned on the Exeter Road in 1938 or 39 my Dad, Manzer Turner bought the farm on upper Maine St. on corner across from Leather and Till Moses. We so admired that home and the people who lived there. I graduated CUA in 1943 and expect to be at the Reunion on June 8th 2002. Courtney and I live in a cottage on Unity Pond in the summer months so visit Corinna often as my sister, Ruth and Ken Dunham still reside there. Enjoy the fine work you, Ken, have done with the cattailpress. The photos are outstanding.
Date: January 19, 2002 Name: Howard Small Location: Yarmouth Me Email: Comment: I resolved today to give Kens site a rest then I read Bud Hillikers entry. Yes Bud I remember. Fact is I attended school at Coburn corner when we first moved to Me. Coburn farm was across the road. I was transferred to the North Newport school closer to Stetson. Were you related to Josephine? I recall the Hillikers lived at top of the hill the Titcombs and daughter Rowena next farm. I was a guest many times at both. As kids we all used to slide down the hill in winter. They went to Newport High I to CUA. When I played basketball against Newport they used to send out cheers for me. they were good friends
Date: January 19, 2002 Name: Tebob Buckland Location: St. Petersburg, Fla Email: tebob@msn.com Comment: Just one more memory about the Grange Hall. The Corinna American Legion With the leadersahip of Jerry Emerson and his brother in law Andy Magnus Started their Bingo in that hall due to the size of our hall Later we built a addition to the Hall on School Street. and maybe would not have the hall we have today if not for that. Wonder how many remember that.
Date: January 18, 2002 Name: Lorraine Metivier Moyer Location: Chesapeake, Virginia Email: JSTDCKY01@MSN.COM Comment: My father, Lawrence Metivier, a life long resident of Corinna, recently passed away. I want to say thank you to all his friends and our family up there, most especially to Lorraine Hunter and her daughter Diana for all that they did for him - Lorraine also delivered to my father, e-mails, as he does not have a computer and kept our family informed on an almost daily basis as to his health concerns. My father loved "his" town, leaving only to serve his country in the U.S. Navy, returning upon his retirement. Although I left many years ago as a child, I have so many fond memories of childhood in Corinna and think of and pray for everyone who calls Corinna home. Bless you all....Sincerely
Date: January 18, 2002 Name: Alice Russell Belgard Location: Sandston Va. Email: alicebel@msn.com Comment: Belonged to Juvenile Grange in the 40's. Remember there used to be Tom Thumb Weddings and my younger brother Irving was in one. All kinds of Org.s used to do the Tom Thumb weddings. The Grange hall was the scene of many Public money raising Dinners every year. Actually probably was only place in 'down town Corinna" where a public for money dinner could be held. CUA had several fund raising Dinners there when I attended CUA. E-Mail from Dudley Ervin today said Warren Brown ran A&p by PO near railroad track end of Turner block. His son Victor was in our class when we were in school on Newport Rd I believe. Enjoying remembering "Corinna Past"!!!.Thanks Ken for this site. Alice
Date: January 18, 2002 Name: Alden Schmitz Location: Bellevue, Nebraska Email: aldenschmitz@msn.com Comment: Looking at the Grange picture brings back some fond memories..Corinne and I and many other children belonged to the Juvenile Grange and spent a lot of interesting evenings at the hall with Mrs. Wentworth, (Sandra and "Dukies" Mom). We all had to "ride the goat' as part of our initiation. There was not much to do in Corinna aside from school and church activities in the early 50s for young people. The Grange was a great place to gather with others of our own age.
Date: January 18, 2002 Name: Linda Smith Location: Corinna Email: Comment: The stories of Al Bird's Gulf station by Winchester park brought back memories of going there with my parents. I don't remember saying it but my parents told me one day he came out to pump them gas and I said "gee he's cute", they told him what I said and he gave me a dime! Thought you might enjoy that story Donna.
Date: January 18, 2002 Name: Howard Small Location: Yarmouth Me Email: Comment: Wayne and Alice Belgard thanks for verifying. Wayne your family and your memory of them an interesting part of Corinna history. I only lived in Corinna from 1925 to 33. First in the Realty Hotel that my parents ran until the fire and then Kenwood Inn which my mother named. Many of the people I see mentioned were either residents or regular guests. Dr McVety and his wife had a suite for the winter and a room for his office. I remember he removed my tonsils. Til Moses a resident, Don Maxim a regular guest until he married. Many of the town basket ball and baseball team were regular residents. They played in a field out by Morses corner not on Clarks field on the Stetson road. I went to all the fact is the team used to take me to all of them as I was the only one that could keep a box score to send in to the paper. I recall Bill Buckland at the end of his career pitching as well as slim McGauflin 6ft4 a lefty. I shall never forget the umpire, Chet Buck calling those off the plate "too fer aout" Guess You Wayne are the only one that recalls when I won the Maine speaking contest at U of M and the next week the New England at Colby. You were a freshman and quite good at it yourself. The historical society in Corinna has copies of my book for sale. It tells of when I replaced Western movie star, Ken Maynard as Monty with my horse Pal, you asked where to get one. It is also at Amazon. I moved from Corinna the night I graduated from CUA in 33.
Date: January 18, 2002 Name: Yvonne Young Location: Millersville, MD. Email: yvonney@cablespeed.com Comment: On Jan. 16th a picture was displayed and said that Henry Sevey lived there at some point in time. My Great Grandmother, Mildred married a Colon Sevey. I was wondering if the two were related. If anyone knows please send me a letter. Thanks for your help.
Date: January 18, 2002 Name: Jacksonville Location: Bud Hilliker Email: dhillike@bellsouth.net Comment: I'm going way back 73 years. Does anyone remember when my Dad, Errold W. had a hardware store where the Pearson's Enterprises ended up?
One of my first remembrances was when we lived over that store in 1928 and I was sitting in a bed looking out at a big fire on Main Street.
My education started with Miss Reed in Corinna. The next two years took place in the Coburn Corner School in North Newport. Mildred Thayer was the regular teacher and Miss Thorne came once a week and hit you on the big toe with her wooden leg, if you weren't singing loud enough. The next year we moved back to Corinna and I had the pleasure of having Mrs. Steward, who I credit with filling in all the gaps I had in North Newport.
Date: January 18, 2002 Name: Mel Russell Location: Orlando, FL Email: melrussell@earthlink.net Comment: Seeing the picture of the building to the left of the old Grange Hall, along with your comment about the tragic fire there, brought back a painful memory. I think I was in first grade when that fire occurred, and a young boy (whose name I cannot now remember, unfortunately) who was in my class was killed in that fire. If I remember correctly, his father perished as well trying to get him out. I remember his picture on the front page of the Bangor Daily News the day after the fire. It was very hard for all of us young children in his class to cope with a tragedy like that.
Mel Russell
Date: January 18, 2002 Name: Norm Clarke Location: Not on my town's planning board Email: npclarke@gwi.net Comment: The CUA Alumni Association held a meeting last night to plan this year's alumni banquet. It will be held Saturday, June 8th at the Corinna School.
More great food and a chance to visit old classmates and friends. Col. Leslie Bolstridge informed me that caps and coffee mugs, featuring the CUA building logo, are available from the museum or by contacting Lloyd and Audrey Bolstridge. The caps and mugs are white and look great.
Enjoy those photos of older Corinna. Especially the late fifties and the sixties.
Date: January 17, 2002 Name: Alice Russell Belgard Location: Sandston Va. Email: alicebel@msn.com Comment: Ken I know I signed guest book earlier But had been thinking about Main St. Can't remember east/west But In 40's end of Turner block towards railroad tracks started as Post Office. It moved in late 40's early 50's to building by I believe the Grange Hall on Dexter Rd. Know I could vote in 52 and P.O. was there and Don Maxim Recommended I vote Dem. Anyway next to the P.O. on Main street was a grocery store. In late 50 or 51 Marge and Bud Moore ran it. Further down at some time in 40's I believe Georgia Morang had a store or worked in Mable Holbrook's store which sold 'notions, womens clothes etc.' It seems like on the other side of the store front there was a Jewelry/watch repair store run by a man named Brooks. Don't think he was related to Herbie Brooks. Also in that block was the T&k. I believe for a little while during WWII after my brother-in-law Vaughn Pipes Had been sent back home because of war relayed injuries he had the T&K. Also on Main St was the Cab Stand that Bill and/or Higg Neadeau of Dexter had before Gerald Cloutier aka. Bill Clukey had it. Not sure if Georgie Morang had a store or worked for Mable Hobrook. Seems Like the Tedesco Brothers from Newport may have bought her out as they had a store of some kind. Archie Sawtelle Had A restaurant on Main St by Bridge. Also around 50, 51 Dwayne Jones had a grocery store on the first lot left as you turned of the road to Newport onto Railroad Ave. In the 40's there was a tenement bldg there that burned. We were in school across the street so saw it. In the last coming into Corinna from Newport in the late 40's a Dr. named McVety lived there and also had an office I believe. There were 2 sons and a daughter I went to school with. There was A Dr. Bealear {sp?] just up hill on what is now Nokomis Rd on left And also on Pleasant St in the early 50's a Very handsome young Dr. Damazo who's office and home was a few doors before CUA. At some time in the late 40's a man name Bob Sytes ran the garage on corner of Pleasant/Main. He lived on Dexter Rd not far from the Pea Vinery. Wow. Strange how one little thing brings back a flood of memories. Ken. Sorry to run on like this but just memories. The Turner 'Girls' should remember the block better than I.
Date: January 17, 2002 Name: Peter Smith Location: Augusta, Maine Email: Comment: Ken, I just moved to Augusta and have been off line for awhile. I am very impressed with the photos you have had over the past week or so. I admit to enjoying the old photos, but I like to keep up with the what's happening in the village as well. It's great reading what everyone remembers about Corinna, even if I don't know all the people mentioned. Is there anyone at the Historical Society who printing off what people are writing in so that all these stories and memories won't be lost? Peter- Thank you. I am keeping a good backup of everything in the Guest Book and will make it all available to the Historical Society. -Ken
Date: January 17, 2002 Name: Deanna Location: stetson Email: Comment: I know a lot of people know and stay in contact with
Lorraine Hunter (Brann) I just wanted to let her
friends know that she is now in the hospital at the
EMMC in room 607, 973-5607 if you would like to contact her, we're (family) very worried about her, any cards or email to the hospital would be greatly appreciated you can send them as email at the EMMC web sight, and she may be home by the weekend, she loves coming on here and reading about everything, and i'm sure she misses doing so. All prayers are welcome.
Thank you for reading this, and all that know her or have talked with her, please get in touch with her
i know she would really like to hear from her cattail
friends
thank you very much
~Deanna~
Date: January 17, 2002 Name: Wayne Brown Location: Fort Myers, Fl Email: rubway@earthlink.net Comment: To reply to a few questions and comments of today:
(1) Howard - I remember the bandstand; in both locations. The first time I remember seeing Lois was, I think, when she danced the Charleston. WOW!. I believe when it was moved to the Stetson road it was about across the road from where the freezing plant was later located.
(2) My dad's name was John Cecil Brown. No one outside the family knew that (or very few). He was named for his grandfather John Henry Brown who served in Civil War and died on his way home up the Mississippi; died in Mound City, IL. His burial place is unknown.
(3) The furniture store and undertaking "parlor" next to the Grange Hall was purchased by Roy J. Buxton in the 1910s from my grandfather, Frank E. Day; previously operated as Burrill and Day for a short time. Sam Burril was Frank's stepfather. [Portraits of Sam, and his wife Clara (Day) both are on display in the corridor of Stewart Library] Any questions about the 20's and 30's I can (try to) answer.
Date: January 17, 2002 Name: Alice Russell Belgard Location: Sandston,Va Email: alicebel@ms.com Comment: Howard Small mentioned the bandstand and I seem to recall it being where Eastland School is now. There were bleachers there also for fans of the town baseball team games, CUA played football there at least in the 40's,carnivals set up there when they came to town and as I recall they also had Horse pulling there. The latest wallpaper is on my screen. Will look good when I wake up in the morning.
Date: January 16, 2002 Name: Perry Brown Location: New Brunswick, Canada Email: Comment: Just wondering if anyone recalls the service station Al Bird operated on the Exeter Road (now East Main Street). It was located in what is now the Fire Station Annex and was also used by "Bill" Cloutier as a body shop prior to being acquired by the fire department. I remember going to Al's gas station with my father in the early 50's when I was a kid. Gulf was the brand of gasoline sold at that location. I also remember a honkin' big old Coke machine inside the station that dispensed bottles for the princely sum of five cents (and NO deposit).
Another gas station of that period was Watson Henderson's American (Amoco) station on the Newport Road across from Harvey Stewards's. Even as a kid I realized that these gentlemen were true automobile mechanics capable of rebuilding or repairing just about any vehicle of the time. Having worked for Chrysler Canada as a field service manager I realize that today, unfortunately, the majority of our service techs are for the most part just parts replacers. I just wish that I had a tenth of the knowledge possessed by guys like Alt and Wats in Corinna.
Date: January 16, 2002 Name: Howard Small Location: Yarmouth Me Email: Comment: Reading the message by Donna Boody Jan 15 brought back memories. In 1925 there was a bandstand in the area where a filling station was built. Weekly concerts during the summer were a great event for the folks of Corinna. If I remember correctly the stand was moved to a spot on the Stetson road. I recall that my sister Lois had taken dancing lessons in Boston and was the first one in Corinna that knew the Charleston. It wasn't long before the older girls from CUA were coming around for lessons. Lois was asked by the band to do the dance on the bandstand while they played which she did. She was 8 at the time. Anybody remember?
Date: January 16, 2002 Name: Brian Knowles Location: Penfield NY Email: bpknowles@aol.com Comment: For Wayne Brown or others, what did the J in J.Cecil Brown's name stand for? I always knew him as J.C. or J. Cecil Brown (Mr. Brown), but just recently realized I never heard what it stood for. Thanks for the site Ken, I especially enjoy the old photos of Corinna.
Brian
Date: January 15, 2002 Name: Donna Boody Location: Bangor Email: dab58pnb@aol.com Comment: Alice - Yes, my dad had the garage on the corner as you came in to town. Ken had a picture, a while back, of the old traffic "dummy" that was in the center of that turn and you could see the garage across the street. It really brought back a flood of memories.
Date: January 15, 2002 Name: Howard Small Location: Yarmouth Me Email: Comment: I remember the Brown filling station by the RR tracks. The radio on the inside was always on. I recall Ben Bernie and all the lads usually playing for a beer commercial the night I used to drop by. Darrell Sprague ran a very good small town mens store. Darrell had a radio. Many didn't at that time 1925. I recall during the World series he would put the score by innings on his store windows for all to see. Those in the mill on the other side of the street as well. His store was damaged badly during the Realty fire. Thanks Ken for bringing back memories long forgotten.
Date: January 15, 2002 Name: Sandy McIntire Location: Michigan Email: justplainsassy@hotmail.com Comment: Hello! It's been awhile since I've written anything in the guestbook, and I just wanted to let you know how pretty the picture for today is. When I look at it, I can almost lose myself in the serenity it portrays. I try to never miss a day of looking to see what's new in Corinna.
Also, congratulations on all the awards your endeavors have earned. You are a remarkable person. Aunt Myra and Uncle Walt (Kerr) would be very proud!Thank you , Sandy -Ken
Date: January 15, 2002 Name: Alice Russell Belgard Location: Sandston VA Email: alicebel@msn.com Comment: 1/14/02 Photo would be great Wallpaper for those who love snow but seldom see it. At present have the winter tree. Alice- Tomorrow I'll reformat the picture and post it in the wallpaper collection. -Ken
Date: January 14, 2002 Name: Beth Belgard-Crader Location: Worcester, MA Email: mishanti@webtv.net Comment: I was about 20, visiting my relatives (Irish's) and was asking directions to Dexter and was so confused because was told the Dexter Road and I was from the city and we put the names of the streets on signs---too a while to figure out how and where to go. I remember winters at relatives and getting in trouble with my Uncle John King who had a farm in Newport or Plymouth..my cousin Sherry and I would slide down the snow that had built up over the chicken coop---little did we know the chickens didn't like it! In reading the Guest Book am amazed at the number of people who lived in Corinna. As a kid I thought only my Grandmother, Aunt Goldie and a few other old women like Reba Tuttle lived there. As a kid I didn't think I could ever live in a place that small..now at almost 50 I would kill to move back to Maine and a small town like Corinna. By the way, the snow just stopped here so you should be getting it soon.
Date: January 14, 2002 Name: mary gould Location: kittery maine Email: mary959@hotmail.com Comment: i really enjoyed your site.. i love looking at old photos of the towns. it shows us what we have missed and how far we have come.
Date: January 14, 2002 Name: Donna Boody Location: Bangor Email: dab58pnb@aol.com Comment: Alden, You're right. My dad did run the garage when I was very young. I don't remember the years, but I do remember being very fascinated with the winged horse (Pegasus) on the front of the building.
Marilyn, In regards to the book of Corinna history - I think William Sawtell is/was from the Guilford area. Like Ken, I remember reading an article about him a while back, probably in the Dexter Gazette. They might be able to help you.
Date: January 14, 2002 Name: Sue Emerson Location: Corinna Email: acrylicsbysue@yahoo.com Comment: Bill Sawtell lives in Milo I believe. He had a booth next to mine at a Greenville show in November. Asked what I thought about writing another book on Corinna from time last one ended to present. I felt it would be a great idea after the downtown project is complete. Sure he would love hearing from Corinna residents. Always asks about folks he met doing last book. He heard many folks asking about T.J. and his deployment to Arabian Sea, and at end of day gave me a book to send to the ship as a thank you to them for the work they are doing.
Date: January 14, 2002 Name: Wayne Brown Location: Fort Myers, FL Email: rubway@earthlink.net Comment: First: I want to show my appreciation for the Cattail Press publishing the tributes to my family by the photo of my dad's (Cecil's) first gas station near the RR track which was taken in the 1920's I believe. I know I was quite small when I first hand pumped the gas into those old glass top service units.
Second: Erma Maxim was the Post Master for several years. My aunt Doris Day held that position for a few years in early 20s. Then, I believe Darrel Sprague (an uncle of Jane Biscoe) probably in late '20s.
Third: The gas pumps in front of Roy Pearson's gas station/bowling alley are, I think, just visible off the left corner of "Brown's Store" in yesterday's photo. Thanks again for that one. Alton Bird had the gas station in the location near the RR tracks where dad started. Dad, at different times sold gas from all three locations.
Fourth: I believe Don Maxim was Manager of the T&K store when they first opened in Corinna in the late '20s - in the WEST end of the Reality block. I believe Millard Quimby became Manager for a while after that, then Clarence C. Haines for a few years; and I held the position from 1937 until early "442 when I went in the Navy.
Date: January 14, 2002 Name: Alice Russell Belgard Location: Sandston,VA Email: aliceeber@msn.com Comment: I remember this other gas station. At one time Al bird owned it. Al was a very good mechanic and as i remember there was always lot of vehicles waiting for him to repair. I also believe he owned a garage on the corner of Pleasant St and Main. Believe he owned it when a fire destroyed it. Donna was young but probably remembers.
Date: January 12, 2002 Name: Howard Small Location: Yarmouth Email: Comment: Hi Just recalled when the lower part of the REALTY block was opened Don Maxim ran a grocery store in the south end of it. Fact is I sometimes clerked there while attending CUA. Will get to harness horse races on alder stream where you say they now have snowmobile races later.
Date: January 12, 2002 Name: Mary Bowden Location: Corinna Email: Comment: Roy Pearson had a small store, gas station with a bowling alley in the back. Elmer [Pat] worked setting up pins, 5 cents a string after school till 11 pm then he would walk home 5 miles. Can you see our young folks walking that far, hardly across the street! Lol
Like the older pictures!Mary- Follow this link to a picture taken inside Roy's skating rink. -Ken
Date: January 12, 2002 Name: Alden Schmitz Location: Bellevue, Nebraska Email: aldenschmitz@msn.com Comment: The other gas station in today's picture by the Methodist church was run by Al Bird for a few years in the 40s and early 50s...Maybe Donna can confirm this.
Date: January 12, 2002 Name: Tebob Buckland Location: St. Pete , Fla Email: tebob @msn.com Comment: Howard Small: just read you note about Corinna and the post office. I think Erma was the postmaster and Don the Asst. I was very friendly with them as I was one of the very few registered Democrats in Corinna at the time. No big deal Howard but did bring back many memories to me.
Date: January 12, 2002 Name: Marilyn Conway Location: Prague, Oklahoma Email: bmconway@brightok.net Comment: Would it be possible to get a copy of 20th Century Corinna? How many pages is it? Thanks for any ideas you may have. Marilyn- 20th Century Corinna is a comb-bound book written and published by William Sawtell. The book is not dated but I think it was printed in 1984 or '85. He included some pictures and pulled together information from many local sources including interviews with residents. I believe Mr. Sawtell is still in the Central Maine area and still writing. Seems to me he had an ad in a local weekly paper not too long ago. (Although I could not find it in a quick look through our newspaper archive, the recycling pile in the garage). Does anyone know more? -Ken
Date: January 11, 2002 Name: PETE METIVIER Location: buena vista va Email: 357451@ntelos.net Comment: Thanks for the memories and info. I don't get back home very often but your site makes me feel like I never left. it also helps with the shock of driving through town when I do.
Date: January 11, 2002 Name: Howard Small Location: Yarmouth Me Email: Comment: Hi Ken. Your photo is of the class CUA 28. However it was taken some time before graduation as a couple were not in school records. The two names I sent were the two not identified. Gerald Clark was Win Clarks son, Win was the owner of Kenwood Mills he was absent from the photo. Your photo of what is known as the Pearson Building at the junction of Stetson and Exeter roads was Don Maxims general store in the 20s and early 30s. It carried groceries and meats men's outer wear and boots as well as horse blankets and whips.
Don was a member of the school board and head of the town democratic party, which was miniscule at that time. Roosevelt won the election and Don was appointed postmaster as the spoils system was still in effect. Roy and I were cousins by marriage as his mother married my uncle. Hope this little history is of interest
Date: January 11, 2002 Name: Virginia Turner Location: Palmyra Email: evturner@wtvl.net Comment: Have to tell you again how much I like this site, check it every day. The progress pictures were very good but I really enjoy the old photos. Always loved the Library, read so many books from there, can remember the smell of the old building, the creak of the wood floors. Need to go back sometime.
Does any one remember the bowling alley and where it was? Daddy took us with him a couple times and really irritated my Mother, seems you didn't take little girls to a bowling alley back then!
So many memories! Can't believe the view of our old house, no one ever saw the back side of it like they can now.
Date: January 9, 2002 Name: Iris M. Black Location: Bangor Email: Comment: Just now found this site again and what a grand job you have done ! I once saw it 'way back when the site was first on. I hope you add some more old Main Street pictures..maybe of the stores there, including The Little Horn of Plenty Restaurant that Bern and I once were part owners of in the 70's. Congratulations Corinna!
Iris BlackIris- Thank you for your comments. I don't have any pictures of Main Street taken from the 60's to the early 90's. If anyone has some or other historic photos of Corinna they could send in, I'd be happy to post them. Contact me through the Guest Book or by regular email for arrangements. ken@cattailpress.com -Ken
Date: January 9, 2002 Name: Howard Small Location: Yarmouth Me Email: Comment: Hi Ken I believe the missing spaces in your photo are Florence Wingate and Ruth Libby. Howard- Do you mean the second and third persons in the back row? -Ken
Date: January 9, 2002 Name: Howard Small Location: Yarmouth Me Email: Comment: Hi Ken I goofed. Letha Nelson was Til Moses wife as Lorraine Hunter corrected. I knew the Nelsons from Dexter . Father Perry sons Andrew, Glen and daughter Avis the horselady.
Does anyone remember when CUA classes were held in the Grange Hall and also across the street in the church? I do. In fact I was a member of the grange at that time also. Hope this stirs up some memories.
Date: January 9, 2002 Name: Tebob Buckland Location: St Petersburg, Fla. Email: Tebob@msn.com Comment: To Carl Smith: Thanks for the info on the Maple Trees. After studying it more I can see where it is and no graveyard or cemetery. About the dead people::The only one who I knew who said the only good Republican was a dead one was Don Maxim, and Oklie Sprague said the same about Democrats. Anyway Carl thanks and have a Happy New Year
Date: January 8, 2002 Name: KEVIN KRISTA Location: NORTH ARLINGTON, NJ Email: Comment: SUMMER RESIDENT OF DEXTER, MAINE. I ENJOY SEEING THE PHOTOS OF PROGRESS OF THE
SITE. I ALSO ENJOY THE PHOTOS OF THE PAST. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. RECENTLY BOUGHT A CALENDAR
FORM BOB BROWN (BEST BARBER IN DEXTER). GREAT HISTORICAL PIX.
Date: January 8, 2002 Name: Sharon Richardson Location: Franklin, Indiana Email: srichardson1946@aol.com Comment: Graduated from CUA class of 1964 as Sharon Merrill
Date: January 7, 2002 Name: Brian Knowles Location: Penfield NY Email: bpknowles@aol.con Comment: Here is a bit of trivia regarding Tebob's comment about grave-yards. I don't think Corinna has any grave-yards? A grave-yard is a burial place in a church yard, cemeteries are burial sites not adjacent a church.
One more Aubrey Pinkham story. Willie Sanders? lost his brakes coming down Pleasant St. Aubrey and his car were the source of (literally) stopping Willie. Willie's early 50's Chevey had lost it's bumpers and Willie had replaced them with railroad rails. Willie added a fair amount of weight to the car and Aubrey lost the demolition derby, but Willie was ticketed for several infractions.
I would like to compliment the Carcieri's on how beautifully decorated the old Hutchin's House is this year. It really added to towns appearance coming through Main Street and up Pleasant Street.
Ken thanks for the site and all great pictures. Someone mentioned photos inside the some of Corinna's buildings. I might suggest a series of Mr. Stewart's private library. I understand this room will become less accessible to the general public. Other then a school field trip I have only seen the room once as an adult.
Brian
Date: January 7, 2002 Name: [sent in anonymously] Location: Email: Comment: [Regarding the picture posted on December 20, 2001]
Back Right is Doris Coburn of N. Newport.
Date: January 7, 2002 Name: Bruce Moody Location: Hillsborough, New Jersey Email: bmoody@erols.com Comment: nice little site great wallpaper will be using them to remind me of your great state
Date: January 7, 2002 Name: Carl Smith Location: Hometown, USA Email: Comment: To Tebob, although you may think the only good Republican is a dead one, I'm still kicking and that is not a graveyard in my field, Cattail 1/4. To Donna, I agree that Maine (Marion) Sprague built the stone house. It is questionable whether he built it for himself or the Moses, but the Moses definitely lived there. I never knew him, but did know 2 of his fine offspring, Chet and Susan. I've always loved that house and consider it an architectural treasure of Corinna. With Lorraine, I agree that Letha Moses was a Nelson.
Date: January 7, 2002 Name: Bud Hilliker Location: Jacksonville FL Email: dhillike@bellsouth.net Comment: I believe the stone house in question was built by my uncle Main Sprague, brother to Chet Sprague, sister Vera Sprague Hilliker, Knowlton, Fern Knowles and sister Madeline Sprague Shepherd. His folks were Irvin and Velora. Grandma died when I was 7. Irvin Lived in a cabin under the tree in back of his home on the Dexter Road until he died in the early 50s. He and I did away with many half gallons of ice cream in that cabin.
Date: January 7, 2002 Name: Mary Bowden Location: Corinna Email: Comment: Ken,
Was looking at the Corinna Historical Society Calendar 2002. Was wondering what happened to the Twilight Grange Hall? I remember of it being there, but don't recall what became of it, and when?Mary- I'm not sure but think it was torn down. Maybe someone else remembers exactly. -Ken
Date: January 7, 2002 Name: Alice Russel Belgard Location: Sandston,VA Email: alicebel@msn.com Comment: Believe when we first moved to Corinna these Maple trees were seedling or maybe just a faint glint in their daddies eyes!! We lived first in Corinna in what we called the Ben Lancaster House. It was the last house on the road before the Hart Seed Farm which at that time the Larabee children and their Mom and step father. Can't remember his name. The next place was Errol and Vera Hilliker place. Think Errol may have died by then but not sure. I was little. My father worked for Rollie Ireland in woods collecting maple sap and in the place he cooked it down to make syrup. Also worked in woods I believe getting out wood. Remember in spring thaw time Mr Knowlton carried us to end of road to catch school bus that Lewis? Hutchens drove. Nice quiet area to live. Hopefully it still is.
Date: January 7, 2002 Name: Wayne Brown Location: Fort Myers, FL Email: rubway@earthlink.net Comment: For Donna and others that may not know: The stone house, which I understood last June was for sale, was built by Mayne Sprague. I believe he lived in for a while then sold it to Til Moses. In the late 30s or early 40s I visited with the Spragues along with Alton Dow, several times; they lived in Bangor at that time. Best to all you Corinna Mainers, past and present.
Date: January 5, 2002 Name: Tebob Buckland Location: St. Petersburg, Fla Email: Tebob@msn.com Comment: Hey Ken do not recognize the Maple trees in todays CatTail looks like a grave yard on the right Thought I knew every grave yard in Corinna. Thanks for any info I have made it my wallpaper.
TebobTebob- That picture was taken on the Smith Road, looking back toward town, a ways before the Heart Seed Farm road. -Ken
Date: January 5, 2002 Name: Donna (Bird) Boody Location: Bangor Email: dab58pnb@aol.com Comment: Was just reading the entry from Lorraine Hunter and I'm wondering if Til Moses built the stone house? My mother use to talk about the house being built by a Sprague (I believe) who was a mason by trade. She said he would joke about his home being "that pile of rocks" on the hill.
Date: January 4, 2002 Name: Perry Brown Location: New Brunswick, Canada Email: Comment: Reading Norm's account of Aubrey Pinkham's VW also
brings another story to mind. I recall my father
recounting how Aubrey had his car (then a 1965
Impala I think) parked in front of the mill. Seems
Aubrey was positioned on his usual counter stool
in the Rexall store talking to Bunny Nye. During
this time the guys over at the mill were doing
some painting above his car. Evidently a fair amount of paint "accidentally" found its way onto his Chevy resulting in a very interesting paint scheme. I also recall a story about Aubrey writing up a parking ticket on his own car, Bernice (MRS. PINKHAM to all you CUA alumni) was the driver and thus the happy recipient. My older brother Gerald swears this is a true story. I tend not to believe this as I think she would have vaporized him on the spot just as a matter of habit. Just the idea of it happening IS very amusing though.
Date: January 4, 2002 Name: Lorraine (Harris) Hunter Location: corinna Email: lhunter@tdstelme.net Comment: Ken,
Just reading tie guest book and the entry form Howard Small was interesting. May I add that was Letha Nelson that Til Moses married. They build the beautiful rock house just past the library.
Lorraine
Date: January 3, 2002 Name: Howard Small Location: Yarmouth Email: Comment: Hi Ken. Regards the photo. I recall that Mary Scott was headmasters John Scott's daughter. Letha Rogers married Til Mosses. Elsie Crowell was a close relative sister or cousin to Merle Crowell publisher of I believe the Sat Evening Post. Bob Buxton's dad ran a furniture store next to grange hall opposite Methodist church. He was also the undertaker.
Kenneth Wentworth lived on the Stetson road second house before the street to the Kenwood Mill. Probably this is all known by you. I may be wrong but I think a Dearbon boy whose first name I can't recall was a member of that class. He lost his life in an auto accident a big shock to the town. Hope this has been of some help.Howard- Thanks for the added information. -Ken
Date: January 3, 2002 Name: Alden Schmitz Location: Bellevue, Nebraska Email: aldenschmitz@msn.com Comment: Happy New Year Ken and All. Does the recreational trail follow the old RR tracks? Looks like it in today's picture.
Alden- Yes, from Newport to Dover-Foxcroft. The tracks were torn up a few years ago. Supposedly the Maine Department of Conservation is trying to buy the right-of-way to the trail. -Ken
Date: January 3, 2002 Name: Gerald Smith Location: Windsor, Ca./Dexter, Me. Email: glsmith@jerre.com Comment: Ken,
Another nice photo today.
How about some interior shots of the old landmarks?
GeraldGerald- Thanks. That's a good idea. -Ken
Date: January 3, 2002 Name: Norm Clarke Location: Memoryville Email: npclarke@gwi.net Comment: I vaguely remember the snow bank incident. I had the VW in 65. You could go all week on a tank of gas or less. Drive it down sidewalks and almost anywhere. Had no heat though. Had to scrape ice off inside windshield, even in the summer. As for the snowbank, I guess we blank out some of the more unpleasant things in our past? The storm of 68 was special! Took me all morning, me and Alan Meservey, to dig out my car and get it onto the street. It was parked behind the Turner block. Main St. was plowed as were most roads. Praise then and now for the road crews.
Speaking of VW's, I recall that I heard that a few town boys took Aubrey Pinkham's VW, lifted it up, and placed it down over a parking meter. The bumper had the meter sticking up through it. He too was less than pleased. I'm not sure about the truth of the incident but my brother told me about it a long time ago. I am not sure either how he got the car off the meter.
Oh well, happy new year to all.
Date: January 2, 2002 Name: Rich Meyer Location: On the Exeter line, Corinna Email: ricmeyer@tdstelme.net Comment: Wishing a very happy New Year to all !
Date: January 2, 2002 Name: Alice Russell Belgard Location: Sandston Va. Email: alicebel@msn.com Comment: I also was looking at the Storms and remembered back in late Feb.52 we had a big storm. My late husband was do in on train to Newport on Leave. The only person who could get to station was his Dad by following the snow plow up the Ridge Road from Plymouth. Luckily he lived on that road. I was pg with BethAnne and sick and Dr Burke Had to wait for snowplow to plow road to Corinna and stopped and checked me out enroute to his rounds at Dexter Memorial. The first part of Mar when I could get out we took the St. Albans RD to go to My brothers and snow was plowed back and top almost touched utility lines. The railroad hired high school boys and I guess men too to shovel so that the railroad plow could get through and plow line to Dexter. Remember school only closed if most of teachers couldn't get to school. and most lived close. Mr Leach. Ray Amsden, Mr. Rich lived up road and so we went to school. Here school closes sometimes in the anticipation of the first snow flake. No thats streching it a bit but they do close for what we took for granted as just winter then. First visit to forum page so gotta go back. Remember so many that people have mentioned, Jerome Emerson, Millard Quimby, john and Alice Bird, Bill Buckland, Carl Edgerly, And of course the younger ones Jane Q ,Donna Bird {I babysat her and Barbara} Marie and the other Turner girls as well as Manzer and Rachel, Joe Porter. Who had Drug Store before Joe???
Date: January 1, 2002 Name: Daniel Parker Location: New Bern, NC Email: dannielp@ncfreedom.net Comment: I was just at the computer and looking at snow storms in the forum. I can remember the time Norman had his VW Put on top of the snow bank in front of Eastland school. We came out from lunch and to our surprise there was his car perched up high for all to see.
Norm wasn't a very happy camper that day. I also remember in 68 the banks Were up to the tops of the telephone line. In front of my parents house the drifts were so high they were using bucket loaders and trucks to ship the snow to the stream. In Corinna they were dumping the snow from the streets into the stream that went under the town. they dumped it next to the mill side of the street. Happy New Years to all of you Maineiacs. May God Bless you all in the next year.
Date: January 1, 2002 Name: Ron Russell Location: Rumford Email: ronrus@loa.com Comment: Happy New Year everyone
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