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Page Sum m er Su m m a r y ...... Emeline K. Paige 3 Maine Inspires Creative Genius Miss Maine A t Bar Har bo r ...... Bill Hatch 7 Week End on Mt. Desert Island The Portland Public Lib r a r y ...... Elsie Wood 13 Service Record With A Future Recent Maine Bo o k s ...... 18 A Listing In Maine and On Maine Outdoors In M a i n e ...... John C. Page, Jr. 20 Duck Hunting Data From An Expert The Bates Outing Cl u b ...... Roy P. Fairfield 24 Year-Around Fun For All Students A round T he Cracker Barrel . . . Elizabeth A. Mason 28 Notes From Around the State Bayberry Ca n d l e s ...... Doris Barbour Jordan 31 A Little Touch — and Aroma — of Maine M instrelsy of Ma i n e ...... Edited by Dan Kelly 33 Poetic Inspiration in the Pine Tree State Famous Maine Re c ip e s ...... June L. Maxfield 36 Maine Cooking At Its Best My Is l a n d ...... Inside Back Cover A utumn Pa r a d e ...... Back Cover THE PINE CONE AUTUMN, 1950 VOL. 6, NO. 3 Published Quarterly by THE STATE OF MAINE PUBLICITY BUREAU PORTLAND - KITTERY - BANGOR - NEW YORK Main Office: 3 St. John St., Portland 4, Maine GUY P. BUTLER RICHARD A. HEBERT Executive Manager Editorial Manager PINE CONE SUBSCRIPTION: $1 A YEAR (Printed in Maine on Maine-made Paper) Summer Summary

Maine loved every one of its more than 200 “ Summer Events,” but takes special pride in the inspiration it offers to a growing list of nationally-famous artists, musicians, writers and dramatists, who gave concerts and exhibitions, held forums and world-premieres and generally contributed richly to life in the Pine Tree State.

By E meline K. Paige

hether it’s fishing or fancy- Calais. There may have been some W work . . . music or sculpture we didn’t hear about, but the success . . . the stage or a beauty contest—if of Open House Days, both as a form you like it, you’d have found it in of entertainment for visitors, and as Maine this past Summer. a means of raising funds for local Lakewood, at Skowhegan, cele­ charitable and cultural activities, is brated its golden anniversary, with a matter of record. Clarence Durwent, president of Ac­ . . . Bowdoin College unrolled its tors’ Equity, on hand to applaud with red carpet for Lakewood and Mr. old friends and famous people. A Durwent, and that giant among Amer­ tall, blonde Millinocket girl with an ican playwrights, Owen Davis, and an Irish name earned the title of “ Miss overflow audience on July 20, at an Maine.” Half a dozen nationally occasion called “ Dramatic Arts Day.” known artists sat around a table at Members of the Lakewood company Brunswick and criticized their own gave two scenes from that week’s work. More people than ever before play: “ Harvey.” saw an exhibit by more Maine crafts­ Getting down to places and people, men than ever before, who pooled on July 2 the New England Folk their products at Rockport. Dance Festival at Southport featured A new play, seen at Ogunquit Play­ a world-wide radio broadcast, linking house before it went to Broadway, Southport, U.S.A., with Southport, was a sellout for two weeks, a record England. Guest “ caller” was Albert for the straw-hat-and-barn circuit. Haynes, former director of Henry The Camden Hospital is richer for a Ford’s Folk Dance School. concert given by three internationally . . . the Jan Veen Dancers stopped acclaimed musicians, who summer in off at Machias on July 13, for a ballet Maine. Lea Luboshutz, violinist, and performance between engagements in Pierre Luboschutz and Genia Neme- Boston and in St. John, New Bruns­ noff, duo-pianists, playing at Camden, wick. August 29. One of our town libraries . . . two new art groups settled in acquired by gift a portrait of a form­ the Mount Desert Island region: er resident, painted by Greenwood. Studio Lodge, headed by Charles R. In other words: It was a typical Kinghan, nationally recognized water Maine Summer. colorist, was at Lamoine Beach, over­ . . . famous and beautiful houses looking Frenchman’s Bay; and the were open to a large and appreciative Mount Desert Island School of Art public—all the way from Kittery to had for its director William Dacey,

AUTUMN, 1950 3 . . . organ music at its magnificent best was free for the listening at Portland’s City Hall four afternoons a week all Summer, when resident and visiting artists gave concerts on the Nation’s first (and still the largest) municipal pipe organ: the Kotz- schmar Memorial organ, gift to the city of his birth by the late Cyrus H. K. Curtis. Mr. Curtis was born in Portland a hundred years ago—June 16, 1850. William J. Ryan, Yale student, put­ . . . hour-long programs of classical ting finishing touches on the “ Yes, and semi-classical music “on the My Darling Daughter” set for Deer- lawn” made waiting for curtain time trees final play of the 1950 season. at Deertrees Theater (Harrison) a pleasant prelude to invariably top- level dramatic fare. Of special ex­ cellence were the stage settings de­ whose portrait of Dr. Charles A. signed and executed at Deertrees by Kraus, internationally known chemist, a young man still busy at Yale after belongs to Brown University. a noteworthy foundation at the Car­ negie Institute of Technology, Wil­ . . . Mrs. Walter Hartwig’s Ogun- liam J. Ryan. Bill Ryan’s a lad to quit Playhouse raised the first curtain watch. on Garson Kanin’s current Broadway . . . at the end of July, after suf­ show, “ The Live Wire,” on July 17, fering all the delays a new building the Michael Todd production attract­ can suffer, the Rowantrees Pavilion ing not only the author and the pro­ of Creative Arts opened with results ducer and the author’s distinguished that will bring new laurels to the wife, Miss Ruth Gordon, but The Blue Hill Peninsula . . . straight from Critics. Such was its local and long New York’s 57th Street, stronghold distance appeal that it ran to ca­ of Art, these days. pacity audiences for two weeks, in­ . . . Colby College invited the public stead of the summer theater’s usual to attend the dedication of a highly one week. prized addition to a still-expanding . . . maybe beauty is no deeper than campus, the Walcker Memorial Organ, the suntan, but a lot of it showed in July 28. Three days later, Kenne- Maine this past Summer. First bunk Town Hall opened its doors to Ladies were selected in the name of an Antiques Fair, the opening de­ the Potato Blossom, the Lobster, Va- layed slightly because of previous oc­ cationland, and, of course, the State cupancy by a group of talented young of Maine itself. With pulchritude to musicians and dancers known as The spare, local communities may well be Arundel Opera Theater in Englisn. obliged to add new categories another . . . Shakespeare-in-the-open, and year—choosing Miss Inland Water­ theater-in-the-round, were both in­ ways, Miss Pulp - and - Paper, Miss cluded in the season’s dramatic of­ Canned Corn (Maine is world-famous ferings, and much applauded, the for canned corn!), and, as a gesture former in the Bok Garden at Camden, to guests, Miss Summer Theater. the latter at two of the thirteen . . . York Village welcomed at its summer theaters, Bar Harbor and Town Hall (July 25-28) all those Shapleigh. who can admire a genuine antique . . . the Maine Coast Craftsmen’s without looking to see if they dare Exhibition and Sale attracted record- risk another dollar to make it their breaking crowds at Rockport the week own. The show was staged by pro­ starting August 7, when work of out­ fessional exhibitors and drew wide standing quality showed how practical attention. things of beauty can be.

4 THE PINE CONE . . . art museums throughout the State held representative shows dur­ ing July and August, the list of names reading like a cross-section of Who’s Who in American Art. Most notable, perhaps, (and please note the tentative “ perhaps” !) was the August exhibit at the Walker Art Museum (Brunswick), which came most sharply into focus on the 18th, when Russell Cowles, Ernest Fiene, Abraham Rattner, Sidney Simon, and Artists round table discussion at Marguerite and William Zorach sat Bowdoin Dramatic Arts day August around a table on the museum ter­ 18. Around the table, left to right: race, each with a microphone, and Marguerite Zorach, Russell Cowles, criticized their own work! These are Ernest Fiene, William Zorach, Sid­ only half-a-dozen of the brilliant ros­ ney Simon, and Abraham Rattner. ter of faculty and visiting artists who make the Skowhegan School of Paint­ when “ Wild Life Down East” was ing and Sculpture a brush-and-chisel shown at the Kennebunkport Play­ counterpart of what Tanglewood is to house on August 21, the seating ca­ music. This occasion was Bowdoin’s pacity was taxed to the point of fold­ tribute to the Skowhegan school. The ing chairs being placed in the aisles Farnsworth Museum at Rockland (mindful, however, of the fire regu­ held notable exhibits all Summer. lations!), and a goodly number turned . . . the Maine Writers’ Conference away. at Ocean Park, the several music . . . finally . . going back to the schools, and an ever-growing number afternoon of July 6, art and history of art schools, are three reasons why met in the town of Alfred where, as so many people who appear to come Adelbert M. Jakeman of Ocean Park, to Maine to vacation come, in reality, has said, “the State of Maine was to work. Maine’s reputation as a born.” Quoting from an account by place where creative talent feels “ at Mary Carpenter Kelley, we learn that home” becomes stronger each year. “John Holmes came to Alfred, which . . . most notable among the music was then the North Parish of San­ schools, in that it is “ the only one of ford, in 1799, and opened a law office its kind,” is the Summer Harp Colony in a house which stood on the site of of America. Celebrating its twentieth the present Parsons Memorial Li­ season this year, Director (and brary. The next year he went back founder) Carlos Salzedo counts to Massachusetts and married Miss among his students every leading Sally Brooks, of Scituate, and brought harpist now playing in this Country, her to Alfred. for teachers and professionals are al­ “John Holmes seems to be better so “ students” at the famous school in known for the wrought-iron bows and Camden. arrows in the railing about the top of . . . somewhere between “ art” and his Southern-style white mansion in “ education” is the Audubon Camp on Alfred Village than for the important Hog Island in Muscongus Bay. Sum­ things he accomplished for his state mer visitors had numerous oppor­ and country. This is rather regret­ tunities this year to see the Audubon table, for although such architectural Society’s outstanding motion picture, embellishment is unique, and ex­ in technicolor, “ Wild Life Down pressed Holmes’ friendly relations East,” which was shown, with an ac­ with the Indians, as he meant it to do, companying lecture, by the camp’s di­ he was a great man; in the opinion rector, Carl W. Buchheister, vice of some, the greatest and most dis­ president of the National Audubon tinguished citizen Maine ever had. Society. It’s all very well to say that In fact, perhaps Maine would still be people aren’t interested in birds, but a part of the Commonwealth of

AUTUMN, 1950 5 The Parsons Memorial Library at Alfred (left) contains many rare volumes among the 15,000 books here. (Right) Greenwood’s portrait of Sally Brooks Holmes, wife of one of Maine’s first two U. S. Se7i- ators, hangs in the library.

Massachusetts, had it not been for trait is a mystery, but the Greenwood Holmes, for he was the leader in the has come home to Alfred. It was separation, and chairman of the com­ given to Parsons Memorial Library mittee that drew up the Constitution in June by Sally’s great grandson, of the State of Maine in 1820. Walter F. Willcox, of Ithaca, New York, Professor Emeritus of Eco­ “ Now, in that golden year of 1820, nomics at Cornell University.” when Maine became a state, and John The painting was accepted by Miss Holmes one of her first two United Marion E. Hewey, president of the States Senators, John and Sally went Board of Trustees, at a ceremony to Washington to live. There John held in the Library on July 6, 1950. had his portrait painted by Gilbert It hangs on the center of the curved Stuart, and Sally had hers done by balcony railing. Thus the attractive Greenwood. At least hers was painted Sally Holmes seems to be looking over in 1820 and probably in Washington. the shoulder of the presiding li­ The whereabouts of the Stuart por­ brarian, Miss Florence R. Hewey.

W eekly information bulletins through the Summer were sent out by the Maine Publicity Bureau to nearly 50 co­ operating information bureaus in the State and to the members of the Maine State Police.

6 THE PINE CONE Miss Maine at Bar Harbor

By Bill Hatch

Jane Harrigan, a statuesque 21-year-old blonde from Millinocket, captured the coveted “Miss Maine” title at the Skowhegan State Fair in August. Prior to her trip to the Miss America Contest in Atlantic City, Jane took several tours around Maine to better acquaint herself with her native state. Outstanding among these was a week end as guest of Rodney C. Johnson, genial manager of the new Hotel Bar Harbor. Miss Maine’s three-day stay at Maine’s newest resort hotel were busy ones, trying to visit all of the scenic places on Mount Desert Island.

AUTUMN, 1950 7 Johnson extends a cordial welcome to Miss Harrigan upon her ar­ rival at the Hotel Bar Harbor and escorts her to the suite reserved for the occasion.

Jane’s first stop is at the Bar Harbor Information Bureau (below left) where she signs the guest register and is told, modestly, by John Heath, office manager, that she is about to see the most beautiful island in America. Back at the hotel (below right) an unexpected treat for Jane was meeting the eminent authoress, Mary Roberts Rinehart, a summer resident of the Hotel Bar Harbor. Mrs. Rinehart very gra­ ciously autographs her latest book, “Episode of the Wandering Knife” and presents it to Miss Maine.

8 THE PINE CONE After a visit to the water­ front in the company of the Harbor Master, Otis Keene, Jane takes time out from her sightseeing schedule to don swimming attire and spends the afternoon on the beach in front of the hotel. The mice at the Jackson Me­ morial Laboratory have no fears for Miss Maine as Dr. Clarence C. Little, director, above, dis­ covers. Mrs. Little, left, shows Jane around the lab.

Colorful flowers and plants from all over the world fascinate Jane at the beautiful Reef Point Gardens. Here she wanders through this floral fairyland overlooking the deep blue waters of Frenchman’s Bay. Boarding the sightseeing boat of Capt. L. B. Hayes for a cruise on the bay, Jane sees the many summer estates from the water and poses for a picture aboard one of the sailing yachts in the harbor.

Thomas Caruso, manager of the Bar Har­ bor Airport brings in one of his amphibious planes so Jane can see Mount Desert Island and the Porcupine Islands from the air. She gets a gulls-eye view of the hotel as Caruso comes in low over the municipal pier. A tour of Acadia National Park is arranged by superintendent Ben Hadley for Jane[s last day at Bar Harbor. Upper left, Jane strides along the summit of Mt. Cadillac; center, a visit to Sieur de Monts Spring and upper right, from the Atlantic’s highest peak, Jane looks through the binoculars out over the spectacular panorama of French­ man’s Bay. In the lower photo Miss Maine pauses along viewful Ocean Drive for a last look out over Otter Cliff and Great Head.

On a radio broadcast from the hotel, over Bangor’s WGUY, Jane said, “ I will certainly tell everyone at Atlantic City about the wonderful people and the beauties of Bar Harbor.” John­ ston bids Jane farewell as she takes her leave on Northeast Airlines’ modern counterpart of the square rigger Champlain sailed into the land of the Cadil­ lacs and the DeGregoires 346 years ago. The Portland Public Library

With an historic background closely paralleling the de­ velopment of Portland, its Public Library today faces new problems of expansion in its great field of service to the area’s people.

By E lsie W ood

« a BLUE WHALE weighs 5,000 books were circulated among the ■a x pounds at birth and is 20 feet originators and a few others, until long . . the British burned the town, and the That’s the right answer to one books were lost. Five years later, question shot at Portland’s Public the urge to read was strong enough Library recently, but the $64 ques­ to bring the library back, Phoenix- tion still goes begging: fashion, and it was named the Fal­ Where is the tallest flagpole in mouth Library Association. Maine ? Samuel Freeman served as librar­ Miss Grace Trappan and her staff ian, at a salary of six shillings a — especially the Reference Room quarter. The books were kept in his staff—would be grateful for informa­ house, and the Association held quar­ tion on this subject. Not so much terly meetings. because they aim to deck the pole “ Samuel had many of the same with ribbons and dance around it, problems a librarian has today,” Miss come May Day . . . it’s the principle Trappan said recently. “ We have of the thing: They prefer to have the two modern advantages: the tele­ answers. phone and the penny postcard. But When Portland was town-size and when borrowers neglected to return called Falmouth, with a mere 2,000 books, my harassed predecessor inhabitants, and those living for the turned to the newspaper with earnest most part in what is now the busi­ pleas that the overdue books be ness district between the Fore River brought back.” and Back Cove, a group of prominent This advertisement appeared in the men—between twenty and thirty of Falmouth Gazette for December 24, them—set themselves the far from 1785: easy task of forming a library. It “ The Library Society in Falmouth, was far from easy because then—it would be obliged to those persons was 1763—there was almost no print­ who have possession of any of the ing done in America. Books were following BOOKS, belonging to imported from Europe, were costly, said Society, to return them to the and scarce. They were twenty-odd subscriber, viz. years ahead of the first printing in Antient Univ. Hist. Vols. 2, 3, 4, Maine, which came in 1785, with the 9, 10, 14, 15, 17, 20. first issue of the Falmouth Gazette. Modern Univ. Hist. Vols. 2, 4, 5, At the end of three years, these 11, 14, 15, 16, 23, 31, 36, 39, 41. hardly-remembered gentlemen had col­ Leland’s View of the Deistical lected a total of ninety-three vol­ Writers, Vols. 1, 2, 3. umes, all from English presses. The Various Prospects of Mankind, &c.

AUTUMN, 1950 13 L eft: Books are checked in and out at the central desk of the spacious Open Shelf Room. The Art Room (right) looks out onto the gardens and the vine-covered courtyard. Elizabeth Ruma and Florence Green, Portland High School pupils, check reference ma­ terial here.

Lardner’s Hist, of the Writers of Today the borrower has 141,877 the New Testament, Vols. 1, 2, 3. books to choose from (this as of the London Magazines for the year end of 1949) at NO cost, directly, be­ 1755, to 1763. yond a fine of two cents a day for Derham’s Physico Theology. keeping his selection past the two Propagation of Christianity, by R. weeks (with renewal privileges) Miller, 2 Vols. established as the usual borrowing Pemberton’s Sermons. period. Municipal taxes amounting Rapin’s Hist, of England, Vols. 3, 4, to 66 cents per capita per annum— 5, 6, 7. plus the generosity of public-spirited Hist, ol Peter I, Czar of Muscovy, donors—make this possible. Vols. 1 and 3. SAMUEL FREEMAN, T he names of some of those re- (Library Keeper) sponsible for the beginnings of what is now an outstanding public library N.B. Said Freeman would take it are closely woven in this town’s past. kind if those who have borrowed There were Samuel Deane, second BOOKS of him would return them pastor of the First Parish Church, —particularly, Mrs. Rowe’s Let­ whose diaries are in the Portland ters; Modern Story Teller, 2 vols.; Public Library; Elijah Kellogg, pas­ Oxford Magazines for 1770 to 1773; tor of the Second Church, and father French Exercises corrected; Eng­ of the author of the Elm Island lish Physician enlarged; Roseau’s stories; Maine’s first printer, Ben­ Works, Vol. 5; Mason’s Self-Knowl­ jamin Titcomb, whose portrait hangs edge; Martin’s Philosophy, Vol. 1. for all to salute in the Open Shelf In those days a borrower paid an room; and the man who built the first admission fee of $15 to join the Fal­ brick house in this section of the mouth Library Association, and an­ country—Hugh McLellan. The house nual dues of from two to three dol­ still stands, on Fort Hill Road in Gor­ lars. By 1825 the fee had risen to ham. $25, and the collection to which he Feeling the need of a reading room, had access contained something less instead of the cramped office where than a thousand volumes. the 1,640 books were kept (when they

14 THE PINE CONE weren’t at the homes of members), Willis; John Neal, and others. Thir­ the sponsors considered, and brought teen, in all, made application to the forth, in 1827, the Portland Ath­ Legislature for an act of incorpo­ enaeum. Shares in the new society ration. The Governor signed the Act were bought at a cost of $100 each. on January 22, 1867, and one month This made one a “ proprietor.” But later it was accepted by the Corpora­ those who were content to enjoy only tion. Portland had an “ Institute and the privileges of the reading room Public Library.” might do that for just five dollars a While there were “ life members” year. who paid $50, any citizen of Portland “ Hours were different, too, at the might, for an annual fee of $2, bor­ Portland Athenaeum,” Miss Trappan row books. Life members were per­ reminds us. “ For instance, in 1839, mitted to pay their fee in kind—giv­ the rules stated that ‘books may be ing books to the value of fifty dollars, borrowed or returned every Tuesday the “ value” to be in the opinion of and Saturday, from two until five the directors, not the donors. Gifts o’clock P.M., or until sunset, when the of books came from former Portland sun sets before five.’ ” residents, from publishers (such as By 1861 the flourishing society had Ticknor and Fields in Boston, and to look around for still larger quar­ Harper and Brothers in New York), ters, and erected a brick building on and from individuals, including Henry Plum Street, to house its ten thou­ Wadsworth Longfellow, Capt. George sand books! Henry Preble, U.S.N., Charles Eliot Things went well until the Fourth Norton and James Russell Lowell. of July, 1866, when a careless cele­ Choicest of gifts, at that time or brant tossed a firecracker. Later, since, perhaps, is the complete set of John Neal’s Account of the Great The Eastern Argus, presented to the Conflagration in Portland says, “ Its Library by the Editor, who had saved new and very handsome building on nothing but this from the Argus of­ Plum Street was utterly destroyed, fice at the time of the fire. The together with a library of eleven Library’s newspaper vault also con­ thousand volumes.” Several other tains an almost complete set of the library groups, including the Society Portland Gazette, and of the Portland of Natural History, the Young Men’s Advertiser. These three made the Christian Association, and the Girls’ foundation for the valuable collection High School Library, also were lost. of Portland papers now there for the But instead of leaving Portland use of historians and writers, and for without library facilities until other the delight and amazement of any needs were met, this disaster served who care to look. to strengthen the resolve of the citi­ zens to provide reading matter. By As might be supposed, housing be­ October of that year—three months came a problem again. In 1881 the after most of the books in the city, City hinted that it needed the space and, for that matter, most of the city, occupied by the library in the City had been reduced to ashes—plans Building. James Phinney Baxter, a were in the making for a public li­ member of the Library’s Board of brary, to replace the several pro­ Directors, came to the rescue, and in prietary libraries destroyed. Thus 1887 the cornerstone of the present for a second time, Portland’s library building was laid, and on February 2, came back, Phoenix-fashion. 1889, the handsome doors were opened Behind this enterprise were Ether to the public. Less than a week be­ Shepley, United States Senator and fore, the Directors had approved an chief justice of the Maine Supreme act of the Legislature amending the Court; U. S. Senator William Pitt charter to change the name to the Fessenden, Secretary of the Treasury Portland Public Library, and to under Abraham Lincoln; U. S. Sen­ abolish the annual $2 fee. Miss ator Israel Washburn, Jr., Maine’s Alice Furbish was the full-time li­ governor; Portland’s mayor, William brarian.

AUTUMN, 1950 15 Miss Furbish presided over the brary’s annual income is “ far below Library between 1894 and 1925, when the minimum which the American her place was taken by Miss Jane L. Library Association states is neces­ Burbank. These two women probably sary in a city the size of Portland, and did more to guide the interests of far below library incomes in other Portland citizens than any others in cities of the same size.” the same years. Miss Burbank, who Miss Trappan and her staff hope continued in office until 1941, “ re­ that a record collection may material­ made” the library, physically. Base­ ize before long, that listening rooms ment storerooms, with narrow slits of may be provided, that recorded con­ windows, were transformed into to­ certs may be possible, and that rec­ day’s pleasant Children’s Room, the ords may be available for circulation. School Department and the Periodical The hope is the same for films. It Room. Generous windows facing seems not to be asking too much that Congress Street allow passersby to public support should enable this to see the Library in action The at­ be a library which keeps pace with tractive display cases inside the en­ the times. trance are also a Burbank idea. The well-trained staff of 25 played Children and grownups alike may its appointed part in lending 394,639 take their books into the attractive books last year. These parts include garden behind the main building, en­ the selection, purchase, cataloging, joying a rare combination of quiet checking out, checking back, and and beauty just a few steps from dusting of these books. Some 200 Portland’s busiest street. The Long­ volumes were borrowed from 13 other fellow Garden Club is responsible for libraries, including the libraries of this added touch. It is interesting to Harvard College, Catholic University know that all books purchased for of America, the State of Tennessee children are bought with funds from and the University of Iowa; and 75 the Harry Butler Fund. volumes were loaned to 18 other li­ The Trustees, a realistic group of braries, including town, city, school, men, certainly, denied a petition in college, and university libraries. 1899 for a branch library for the new­ Lack of space for even the current ly annexed Deering section. “ Peo­ collection is not the only housekeep­ ple,” they decreed, “ only appreciate ing difficulty faced by the Librarian. what they struggle for, and acquisi­ An elevator, or even a dumbwaiter tion of books should not be made too would be a blessing! As it is, “ evei*y easy for them.” So, would-be readers book must be carried by hand from in Deering struggled over the hill to floor to floor (four floors) and hun­ Congress Street for their books. The dreds of books are called for in the enlightened year of 1912 found the rooms open to the public. And the Trustees of the same mind. one level of radiators in the Stack It was not until 1940 that a branch Building is insufficient to heat the of the Portland Public Library was three floors of stacks. The tempera­ opened—at Woodfords. Other sec­ ture here in Winter, ranging any­ tions of the city are as remote, and, where from forty to sixty degrees, being densely populated, as greatly is reflected throughout the winter in need of branches. It is still in the months in the series of colds among realm of Someday, however, for Mun- staff members.” joy Hill, Rosemont, or Stroudwater Paint, and some new floor-covering, to have their own branch libraries. are far beyond the present budget, It’s no longer because the Trustees but never far from the mind of the believe that books should be struggled slender, pleasant young woman who for—it’s simply a matter of funds. is as likely to be around to answer your question or to find your book as A lthough generous Portland peo­ she is to be in the Librarian’s austere ple have built up endowment funds, office. and the City appropriation has been And speaking of questions—from 16 increased, the Portland Public Li­ mimeographed pages headed “ What

16 THE PINE CONE Miss Lysla Abbott, School Librarian, has a responsive audience in the third grade pupils of the Rosa E. True School at the first story hour of the season held in the children’s room of the library.

Portland People Want To Know”— What is the address of Mrs. Wen­ these give you a general idea: dell Willkie? Who is the director of admissions When was capital punishment abol­ at Harvard? ished in Maine? What is the correct spelling of What is the formula for white­ “ Chiang Kai-Shek?” wash? How is the word “valance” pro­ For what does the “ S” in Harry S. nounced? Truman stand? How to obtain Talking Books for How long does it take a pigeon’s the Blind? egg to hatch? How to grease a Pontiac? What is a bathing machine? What is the name for a word that Are there rattlesnakes in Maine? is spelled the same backward and Is an 1897 copy of “ Alice In Won­ forward? derland” of value? Hanford, Washington, is near what What is a book which shows char­ town? acter of Maine people? W*ho acted in the original cast of What is the Florence Nightingale “ Loyalties” by John Galsworthy? pledge? Is Fritz Kreisler an American citi­ What is the starch content of po­ zen? tatoes? What does one feed a seagull?

AUTUMN, 1950 17 Recent Maine Books

(Compiled by Campbell’s Book Store, Portland)

Carroll, Gladys Hasty King, W. L. Christmas Without Johnny Melville West Fuller, Chief Justice Macmillan: $2.50 of the United States, 1888-1910 Macmillan: $5.00

Rich, Louise Dickinson Chase, Mary Ellen My Neck of the Woods Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Lippincott: $2.75 Macmillan: $3.00

Williams, Ben Ames Coatsworth, Elizabeth Owen Glen Night and the Cat Houghton Mifflin: $3.75 Macmillan: $3.50 A collection of Elizabeth Coats- worth’s poems, reissued with illustra­ Woodman, Charles M. tions by a Japanese artist. Quakers Find a Way Bobbs Merrill: $2.50

Coffin, Robert P. Tristram Apples By Ocean Beston, Henry Macmillan: $2.75 White Pine and Blue Water: A Maine Reader Farrar, Straus: $4.50

Gould, John The Olde Down East Almanac (Published by Falmouth Publishing Himself: 15 cents House, Portland) Stanton, William Arthur The Awakening of India: $3.00 MacMillan, Miriam (Mrs. Donald) Adopted by the Baptists as “ The Etuk, the Eskimo Hunter Study Book on India for 1950-51.” Dr. (Juvenile) Dodd, Mead: $2.75 Stanton tells of his 40 years among the Telugus as a Baptist missionary, India’s independence and the steps leading up to it. The portrayal of Moore, Ruth Gandhi as a spiritual leader, as well Candleman Bay as an emancipator, are sensitively Morrow: $3.00 sketched.

THE PINE CONE Laws, Edythe A. Clem Clam: $2.00 The story of the Happy Clam fam­ ily. Many pages of fascinating color illustrations about the adventures of Clem and his sister, Cassie. These clams really live and are something to behold. Like all children, they get into mischief. They live in an imagi­ nary world in the mudflats.

Smith, Alta L., and Dunham, Esther J. The Maine Calendar: $1.00 Candid camera shots with humorous sayings under them, appear directly opDOsite each weekly calendar page. Attractively printed in brown, blue and green inks, with white spiral binding.

Olmsted, Carolyn and Margaret Penobscot Bay Treasures: $3.00 Deer Isle, Vinalhaven, Isle au Haut, Bar Harbor, Eagle Island—these are a few of the place names, illustrated by more than 50 photographs of sea- coast and island village life. Dry, di­ rect humor and an insight into char­ acter with the sea in the background. A recent addition to the Portland Public Library is this Recordak for Packard, Aubigne Lermond checking back newspaper copy. Pro­ The Town That Went To Sea: $4.50 jecting 35mm. film strip onto a screen, In this remarkable saga of a town many entire editions of newspapers and a valley is written the lively his­ can be scanned from a single film. tory of the Georges Valley area and Here Constantine P. Ferrante inspects the town of Thomaston. Hub of the this Summer’s State of Maine Edition seafaring world, it presents a fasci­ of the Portland Press Herald-Express nating story with photographs illus­ with the assistance of Reference Li­ trating various vessels. brarian, Miss Eugenia Southard.

More than 100 conventions will be held in Maine this year, with the Maine Publicity Bureau assisting in their promotion in various ways. Maine people going to con­ ventions out-of-state are “ Boosting Maine” with Maine Publicity Bureau literature.

AUTUMN, 1950 19 OR some unexplained reason, Duck black ducks, consistently fly from the F Shooting in Maine seems to con­ coast inland daily during southward tinue as the least developed of all our migrations to enjoy the fresh water hunting sports. The answer may be and numerous types of aquatic food lack of interest or lack of informa­ not found in tidal areas. This daily tion but whatever the cause, plenty inland flight usually takes place in of hunters both resident and non­ late afternoon, just at dusk and fre­ resident have been missing a golden quently after dark. The birds, as a opportunity. rule, return to saltwater during the Each Fall, when millions of ducks, first few hours of daylight the follow­ geese and other waterfowl start their ing morning. annual southward migration along Of course, the wisest of these ducks the Atlantic Flight Line from north­ drop into fresh water ponds just after ern breeding grounds, Maine is the dark and leave in the earliest day­ first state in this Country that they light of morning before hunting is reach. Nearly 2,500 miles of rugged lawful — but that usually leaves coastline made up of bays, peninsulas, enough early P. M. arrivals and late beaches and marshlands offer a va­ A. M. departures among the so-called riety of the very best in feeding and “ foolish” ones to make good shooting resting places for these birds. This in hundreds of our coastal ponds, same pattern of coastal terrain and lakes and rivers. These “ foolish,” waters in turn offers the hunter uneducated and carefree ones make countless thousands of truly wonder­ just as good eating at any rate, I’m ful natural locations from which to happy to testify, since they’re the hunt. ones I’m most often able to hit! With the possible exceptions of the Weather conditions influence water- Merrymeeting Bay, Casco Bay and fowl activity a great deal. Warm, Eastern Washington County regions, bright, sunny days usually slow down little recognition has to date been ac­ the general southward movement corded the tremendous potential in while cold or stormy days keep the other coastal and fresh-water areas birds uneasy and increase activity. by most hunters and outdoorsmen. Easterly and, in particular, south­ easterly, storms help bring about the Wildfowling in freshwater ponds, best shooting in fresh water areas. lakes and in rivers, particularly those Both during and immediately after within a radius of 25 to 30 miles one of these storms ducks and geese from the coast also seems underrated. alike, weary from bucking strong Ducks of many species, and especially winds and seeking rest and calm

20 THE PINE CONE water, often appear inland in large sunrise, ending one hour before sun­ numbers. set each day, except on opening day, which includes the first day of each Variety is certainly the word for split season. On these days, shooting Maine’s waterfowl population. In may legally begin at 12 o’clock noon. most plentiful supply are Black Tbe use of rifles is not permitted in Ducks, Wood Ducks, both Green and the hunting of any migratory water- Blue-winged Teal, Greater Scaup, fowl. A Federal Duck Stamp (ob­ Lesser Scaup (popularly known as tainable at all U. S. Post Offices) “ Bluebills” ) Ring Necks, American must be attached to your regular Goldeneyes (Whistlers), Buffleheads, hunting license before hunting migra­ American Eiders, Old Squaws, Amer­ tory waterfowl. ican Scoters, White-winged Scoters, Duck and goose shooting along the Surf Scoters, American Mergansers, Maine Coast actually provides more Red-Breasted Mergansers, Hooded continuous action and sustained thrills Mergansers, Canada Geese and Brant. than any other form of hunting with Snow Geese, Mallards, Pintails, Bar­ which the writer is acquainted. row’s Goldeneyes and Ruddy Ducks There is activity in almost all loca­ show up occasionally. Whistling tions and usually plenty of it. Many Swans, Blue Geese, Gadwalls, Wid­ Maine natives and non-resident hunt­ geon (or Baldpate), Redheads, Can- ers alike seemingly have concentrated vasbacks, King Eiders, Northern on Deer, Bear and Upland Bird shoot­ Eiders and Harlequin Ducks are seen ing, which admittedly is of the best, now and then, but are considered rare. and have given little attention to the Mallards, fortunately, seem to be in­ possibilities and honest-to-goodness creasing in numbers along the Maine fun in the excellent duck shooting coast during the last two or three nearby that is just waiting for takers. years. Since, as previously mentioned, Federal migratory bird hunting Maine is the state these birds reach regulations provide for a “ split sea­ in this Country first on their long At­ son” on ducks and geese again in lantic Flight Line, obviously they ar­ Maine this year. All ducks and geese rive in good physical condition and except Snow Geese, Ross Geese, Brant without being seriously depleted in and Swans may be hunted between numbers through hunting. Further­ Oct. 6 to 21 and then again from Nov. more, they are not as wild and are 24 to Dec. 9. Daily bag limit on ducks much more easily attracted to decoys except wood ducks is four, with a pos­ than some frightened skeleton of a session limit of eight birds at one duck that has dodged blast after blast time. In the case of wood ducks the of birdshot along half the North At­ bag and possession limits are both lantic Coast. These birds are fast, one. Those species of geese that may snappy on the rise and will try your be hunted have a bag limit of two skill to the utmost. If you miss, don’t per day with a possession limit also worry. They’re just like street cars of two. In the instance of American —there’ll be another one along in a and Red - Breasted Mergansers, 25 few minutes! They are excellent eat­ singly or in the aggregate may be ing, too. shot, with no possession limit in effect. W aterfowl in Maine is variety Scoters, popularly called “ Sea personified when it comes to methods Coots,” Eiders and Old Squaws may also. A favorite plan in the Merry- be hunted in all open waters during meeting Bay area is to disguise a the legal “ split season” on other wa­ specially - constructed sculling boat terfowl and otherwise anywhere in with reeds and marsh grass. The open coastal waters beyond outer hunter reclines in the front section of harbor lines, from Sept. 17 to Dec. 17 the boat with gun in readiness as the this year. Shooting hours on all guide cautiously maneuvers the craft waterfowl are set by Federal author­ toward the ducks. At the proper in­ ities and start at one-half hour before stant upon signal from his guide the

AUTUMN, 1950 21 hunter rises to a sitting position and At least one good dose of “coot takes the birds as they rise from the shooting” every Fall is practically a water. This is essentially a two-man must for any confirmed Maine duck operation and decoys are seldom used. hunter. These “ sea coots” or Scoters An experienced guide can usually ap­ afford worlds of hunting fun over the proach to within easy shooting dis­ longest open season allowed on any of tance of feeding or resting birds be­ the migratory waterfowl in the north­ fore they “jump.” ern zone. These birds are beyond Many hunters prefer to shoot from doubt the most foolish of all with re­ a stationary disguised boat hidden in spect to decoying easily. “ Shadows” tall marsh grasses not far out from or thin scoter-shaped forms, jig-sawed the shoreline. When reeds and out of only one thickness of one-inch grasses are not in sufficient abun­ board will do the trick. dance to afford good cover, a rough When painted appropriately these three-sided wooden framework cov­ “ shadows” are nailed in rows to a ered with brush is used to camou­ long strip of board which floats them. flage the general outline of boat and Often times these decoys are set up hunters. Since* this type of cover is singly (with proper base floating usually made in shallow water, fre­ standards) or in twos, threes and quently these “ offshore blinds” are sixes. These crude affairs, which staked or anchored to the bottom and would give any black duck the left after a day’s hunting to be used screaming meamies, serve with great again and again. In many states, effectiveness and are sufficient to stop such a flimsy affair would hardly be almost any of the scoter family, even adequate cover to deceive flying birds. with an undisguised boat painted Fortunately, however, most water- in the most glaring colors and con­ fowl arriving in the Pine Tree State taining hunters as nearby as 100 are still naive enough to trust any feet! half-natural looking clump of bushes. Don’t be fooled yourself, though— Another method popular with some these birds are tough. Shots have to hunters is to don rubber boots and be squarely “ on” and shot sizes No. 4 stalk carefully along the marshland and often even No. 2 must be used to edges of tidal rivers and creeks, par­ penetrate their exceptionally heavy ticularly during the period from about coat of feathers. Scoter or “coot” half-tide down to low water. This shooting is a special kind of madness may be classed as rugged duty, but and once you are infected you seldom it’s wing shooting sport of the best. recover, but it’s worth it! Small salt marshland ponds left W hen it comes to Eider Duck temporarily full by a receding tide shooting, Maine’s position is not only are also consistently good producers. unique, it’s quite enviable. These Drifting down tidal rivers just be­ Eiders, bred in the far north, never fore sunrise or late in the afternoon travel farther south than the Maine rate high on the list for duck shoot­ Coast. Consequently, no other At­ ing. In almost any style of small lantic State can offer the sportsman craft, from a rubber boat to the elab­ Eider hunting. They are in plentiful orate and carefully engineered scull­ supply and especially in easternmost ing float, it’s comparatively simple to Maine. The open season on these drift downstream using only one oar birds this year extends over a long or paddle for steerage and to move period from Sept. 17 through Dec. 17. within easy shooting distance of many Seven Eiders may be taken daily. birds. “ Singles,” “ doubles” and often Standard favorite among many vet­ substantial flocks of ducks that jump eran Maine duck hunters is the per­ as you quietly float ’round a bend manent blind or “ gunning stand.” move fast and the uninitiated will Always located in a selected spot soon find that many a charge of shot after careful study of prevailing rips large holes in the atmosphere flight and feeding habits, the gunning some six to ten feet behind these stand is a modernday carry-over from speeding feathered targets! the system in popular vogue some 20

22 THE PINE CONE years ago, when the use of live duck ing the bird with a brick—and then and goose decoys, including trained eating the brick) we’ll take a long flyers, was a common and legal prac­ chance and offer a few simple rules tice. on how to roast a black duck: Many of the more successful gun­ After your bird has been properly ning blinds are on peninsulas jutting cleaned and dressed, first place it in from the mainland or an island shore. a covered container and steam Sturdy wooden frame construction on actively for 30 to 40 minutes. Re­ all sides and a roof covering only the move and place the duck on its back rear half are customary for protec­ in a roasting pan. Stuff with sliced tion from the weather during late apple and two medium quartered season days. Chicken wire in a fairly onions. Before placing in oven, cover large mesh is attached to the outside breast and sides with thin strips of and roof. Then, pine, spruce, hem­ salt pork (about one inch wide and lock or other evergreen boughs are three inches long). Pin salt pork on worked into the wire until a natural with toothpicks. Bake for 25 to 35 looking disguise for the entire struc­ minutes in 450° F oven. Serve im­ ture has been effected. Oak branches mediately. You’ll ask for more! are excellent in blind building, along In spite of all this evidence staring with coniferous trees, since their us in the face, most Maine hunters leaves do not drop or blow off for will undoubtedly continue as deer- many weeks after being cut. In marsh track minded as before At any rate, areas, oak may be used entirely, since the principal ingredients for success it blends well with the brown dead in Maine duck shooting are interest grass surroundings. in the possibilities, the will to try and Decoys (artificial), whether the a shotgun with plenty of shells. This hunting location is from a concealed message must now come to a close. boat deep in the marsh grass, or a My togs are all laid out . . . the old permanent blind, should be placed shotgun is in the car and . . . I’m go­ carefully and anchored securely with ing “ COOT SHOOTIN!” ’ allowance planned for changes in tide level. Fourteen to twenty are rec­ ommended, arranged in the most life­ like pattern that thoughtful study of “Hunting In Maine,” a new publica­ waterfowl habits will allow. Natur­ tion of the Maine Publicity Bureau, ally, design and coloring of decoys written by John C. Page, Jr., is now should be in line with the plumage of in distribution. It gives the “what, the species being hunted. The near­ when, where and how” of the hunting est group of decoys is usually placed possibilities in Maine, discussing all about one hundred feet from the key the various game birds and animals in shooting position in the blind. This the Pine Tree State, whose wildlife gives hunters, both green and expe­ resources are more extensive and rienced, an opportunity to judge with varied than any other State in the fair accuracy the actual distance of Nation. It also contains advertising incoming birds from the spot where of the leading hunting resorts in shots are attempted. Black ducks are Maine and including many hotels, since probably the most suspicious among good hunting is available in Maine the many species frequenting the only a short distance from some of our Maine coast and waterways, but al­ largest cities. most always decoy well to an attrac­ Free Copies of “Hunting In Maine” tive “ set.” They are one of the very will be sent upon request to the Maine best as a table bird, too. Publicity Bureau, Gateway Circle, Portland. Specific information on any locality, or any question not covered W ith the thought in mind that in the “Hunting In Maine” booklet, some readers may be disillusioned by also is a free service of the Maine the countless humorous and discourag­ Publicity Bureau. ing stories telling about how to cook a duck (including that one about boil­

AUTUMN, 1950 23 The Bates Outing Club

A year-long program of outdoor activities provides healthful relaxation and fun for all at one of Maine’s leading colleges.

By Roy P. Fairfield

everal types of visitor come to FALL S Maine. There are those who are About this time of the season, we here today and gone tomorrow. Some begin to plan for two mountain like it well enough to stay tomorrow. climbs. We must keep several factors There are others who remain the next in mind. First of all, the mountain day and come every Summer. Finally, must not be too difficult nor too easy, there are many who come for four for everybody on the campus belongs years while they attend one of our to the Club and we want to encourage four Maine colleges. Ofttimes, the the freshman novice as well as satisfy first two or three types become more the senior who eagerly signs up for familiar with Maine’s landscape than every climb. the latter, particularly if the college Secondly, it must not be too far student happens to bury himself in away from Lewiston, lest the cost his books! of transportation preclude maximum But there are many opportunities participation. Then, too, while avoid­ for the perceptive student to see what ing home football games if possible, Maine is like, aside from the cursory we want to do our climbing when the glances he may take driving along foliage is most colorful. Usually we Route One or the other highways lead­ take a trip the first or second week ing to Brunswick, Lewiston, Water- of October and another the first week ville and Orono. I refer to the activi­ of November. This gives us a taste ties of the several outing clubs affili­ of two distinct types of weather, al­ ated with extra-curricular life at each though Winter sometimes overtakes of the Maine institutions. us and forces cancellation of the later Bates claims to have the second trip oldest outing club in the United With these qualifications in mind States, being out-aged only by Dart­ we draw our mental compasses mouth’s Club, whose constitution was seventy-five miles or so across the used as a model for our own when we map to the west. Tumbledown, near organized in 1920. During the past Weld, has been climbed by more thirty years, under the guidance of Bates students than any other in those most vitally interested in cabins Maine. With such attractions as the and trails, winter sports, and hiking, Nutcracker and Lemon Squeezer it is many generations of Bates students an interesting mountain if not the have become acquainted with Maine’s most arduous. mountains, lakes, rivers, and her Sometimes we journey to the west­ famous seacoast. Perhaps the full ernmost part of the State, into Evans extent of this activity can be ap­ Notch, where Baldface offers a gentle preciated best by observing a typical slope up to timber line. Then, while college year. the weary beginner sips hot cocoa by

24 THE PINE CONE the fire in the shelter of the lean-to, Maintaining the four sections of the more cat-like can scamper up to the trail assigned to us by the Ap­ the old quarry, which will remind palachian Trail Conference of Wash­ them of an industry of yesteryear, ington, D. C., which coordinates all and go on up to the sheer ledges of operations throughout the full 2,050 the near-4,000-foot peak. Here, they miles, is a distinct activity in itself. may obtain a magnificent view of the A typical trip will involve six or White Mountains to the West. Di­ seven hours of preparation, making rectly beneath them, to the South, wooden signs to be placed at key they may observe the pattern of the intersections, sharpening axes and fields, which will remind them of bush shears, checking sleeping bags what they read about stone walls in and mountain tents (if it happens to Robert Frost’s poetry. be an overnight), preparing menus Mt. Saddleback is one of Maine’s for the meals to be eaten on the trail, more spectacular mountains. Rising and packing knapsacks. over 4,000 feet, it was long considered Since the trail is two or three the State’s second highest mountain hours by car from Lewiston, the stu­ until Sugarloaf was more accurately dents who plan to go on the trip ar­ measured. It affords a most excellent rive at the home of the faculty ad­ view of the Rangeley Lake region and viser at 4:30 in the morning, where is easily accessible on Route 4, about an “ old-fashioned” New England six miles east of the town of Range- ley. The officers of the Bates Club are particularly interested in run­ ning trips to Saddleback, although it is ninety miles from the campus. Since the Appalachian Trail, which extends from Katahdin to Mt. Ogle­ thorpe, Georgia, passes over this mountain, it is a “gentle” reminder that the B.O.C. has a vital interest in that Trail. We maintain the sec tions running from the top of Saddle­ back to Andover B Hill Road, about forty-one miles to the west. Some may remember that the Bates Club cooperated with Life Magazine pho­ tographers in getting out an article on the Appalachian Trail just before World War II.

Geraldine Moulton of Auburn, Queen of the 1950 Bates Winter Car­ nival, reigns until her successor is chosen next February. may want to stroll up to Thorncrag on a Sunday afternoon, alone or other­ wise, for cookies and cider. Here they may refresh themselves on pine- scented air, too; and, by climbing a half mile or so to a plateau in the rear of the cabin, gain a splendid view of the Androscoggin River Val­ ley to the west and north, or the Sabbattus Region to the east. We also have six eighteen-foot Old Town canoes which may be used by anybody on campus. After motoring nineteen miles, students may explore another twenty miles of lakes and streams in the Gardiner area. Time out for lunch during an Ap­ palachian Trail work trip. The spot WINTER is an abandoned lumber dam at C Winter sports have been so popular­ Pond, near Andover. ized during the past twenty years it is hardly necessary to say anything about this phase of our calendar. breakfast of bacon, eggs, pancakes Bates men and women participate in and all the fixin’s is tucked away as all types both as organized groups fuel for axe-swinging, bush-whacking, and as individuals. and blaze-painting. The student The winter’s climax, however, is crew-leader then divides the group in­ reached in the Winter Carnival, which to teams. Each team normally has a is held immediately after mid-year heavy axeman, one to three people examinations. The Club begins plan­ to clear away smaller limbs with ning for this three-day event before machetes or bush cutters, and one Thanksgiving and works on the de­ person to paint the 2" x 6" blazes tails for nearly three months! Now with specially-prepared titanium oxide that so many carnivals are held paint. These trips are often co­ throughout the State, every schoolboy educational, the women doing an ex­ knows that Carnival includes ski ceptionally fine job at the last two meets, informal hockey games, snow operations. By the time the group sculpture, an ice show, oceans of hot has covered eight to fifteen miles in coffee and cocoa, and most beautiful, one or two days, has perhaps brushed of course, the Queen! seventeen-thousand black flies away, During the past two years, we have has possibly worked several hours in also transpoi’ted Carnival partici­ the rain, each person knows what it pants to Poland Spring and Naples means to take responsibility. for an entire day of recreation at two There are many compensating fac­ of the State’s highly developed ski tors, however, such as becoming bet­ areas. Those owning cars, of course, ter acquainted with fellow students can always borrow Outing Club equip­ and faculty members, eating dinner on ment and dash off to Sabattus Moun­ a sun-bathed rock ledge with “ half tain, or Pleasant Mountain, for some the world” at your feet, or discussing extra skiing. The club also organ­ world problems beside a dying camp­ izes two Bridgton trips every year. fire. The proof of the pudding rests in the fact that those who go once al­ SPRING ways come back for more! The Club owns a large log cabin When the snow melts and the ice about one mile from the campus. goes out of the ponds, the Club of­ Those who do not wish to participate ficers begin to think about Spring in the more strenuous Fall activities activity once more and make plans

26 THE PINE CONE far enough in advance to encourage maximum participation. For some reason or other, canoeing is more popular in the Spring than in the Fall. And the women take greater advantage of the canoes than the men! Overnights are eagerly sought. Six Old Towns with fifteen to eight­ een women may be seen on the sur­ face of Cobbosseecontee Stream or Horseshoe Pond almost any week end after the first of May. They camp out and cook their own meals, enjoy­ ing all the thrills and chills of rough­ ing it. Last Spring, the Club organized the first Katahdin trip since the War. Sixteen men and women, with a fac­ ulty guide, made the trip in three The “chow line” stampedes over the days. Several saw a moose. Then, hill at the Bailey Island shore outing. there’s the ubiquitous skunk! Travel­ ing up the Hunt Trail, slithering along the Knife Edge, and surveying the awe-inspiring cycloramic view are unforgettable experiences. And there is always that inner satisfaction of appetite for the hamburgers, potato having triumphed over one of nature’s salad, tomatoes, hermit cookies, water­ obstacles, one of the highest pleasures melon, and soft drinks which are of mountain climbing. stacked on the plate as one moves It goes almost without saying that along the shore from the fire pits. the Spring finds us face to face with After dinner, perhaps the biology the necessity of putting our section of majors will roll up their pant legs the Appalachian Trail into tip-top and go wading for marine specimens. condition for the summer traveler. The botanically inclined may go for a The entire forty-one miles must be stroll after flowers which interest surveyed to make certain that the them. Schists, faults, and meta­ wear and tear of the Winter has not morphosed rock will attract the ge­ obscured any part of it. One blow­ ology people while the more actively down can be hazardous for the novice inclined play softball in the grove. who might be pushing on to the next The “ lovers” just stroll! lean-to at dusk. If he gets lost mak­ So the year spins around and the ing a detour, our negligence might Club takes advantage of every twist lead to hours or days of misery and in the season. Financial and time anxiety on the part of the Maine For­ limitations necessitate the curbing of estry Service and friends as well as some activities, but those students himself. Responsibility knows no va­ who are interested in some phase of cation ! outdoor life can participate between For the final event of the year, the September and June if they desire. scene shifts to the seacoast. The Along with the athletic and intra­ place is Bailey or Orrs Island, a tiny mural sports program of the college, evergreen-banked cove. It is the Sun­ the Outing Club affords an oppor­ day before Memorial Day, this time tunity for physical development to during final examinations. Here, two balance the intellectual emphasis of or four hundred students and faculty the curriculum. Those who partici­ members are introduced to Maine pate wholeheartedly almost inevitably clams steamed in seaweed. Eight gain social poise, a sense of individual bushels are consumed with eight responsibility, and some understand­ pounds of melted butter. The salt ing of the natural setting in which air and relaxed situation sharpens the they live during their college career.

AUTUMN, 1950 27 AROUND ife CRACKER BARREL

By E lizabeth A. Mason lvrow color blazing across Maine Cloughs are restoring to their original forests is matched by golden state. pumpkins piled high in the farm­ A visit to Head Tide (home of the yards, boxes of red apples awaiting late Edwin Arlington Robinson) and trucks in orchards, orange zinnias the houses so carefully restored by and purple asters in fall gardens. Southport summer resident, Robert Sweet cider flows from busy presses. Tolly. Recalled also are Summer Art One anticipates long evenings before Exhibits, especially the Monhegan crackling fires, munching Mclntoshes Show at the Farnsworth Museum and sipping their juice, while remem­ (see Life Magazine, August 21), the bering highlights of a happy Summer. Annual Members’ Show at the Brick Events pass in kaleidoscopic re­ Store Museum, Kennebunk, and the view: Horse shows in lovely settings summer water color show at Port­ at Kennebunkport’s Hotel Nonantum, land’s Sweat Museum. Interesting, and in Bath at Judge Dunton’s ever­ too, was a visit to the new Kenne­ green circled ring, the vibrant colors bunkport Art Gallery of Virginia of firemen’s attire at the North Ber­ Adolph, who is assisted by Peggy wick Muster, cnarm of old houses and Shields, whose unique Finnish Ce­ gardens at Castine, Belfast and Cam­ ramic Shop is worth a visit. den, evenings at summer theaters, Another high spot was a visit with with the Camden Hills “ Midsummer artist Robert Craig, who for twenty Night’s Dream” in the Bok Garden, summers has found it pleasant and Shapleigh’s and Bar Harbor’s conducive to fine painting to come to Theater-in-the-Round, and the attrac­ Eastport, where, while the Eastport tive new Kennebunkport Playhouse Art School ran, he had been a Di­ standing out. A gala launching of rector. A student of George Ennis, the fishing boat Challenge at Goudy and teacher in Indianapolis, Mr. and Stevens, East Boothbay, on one Craig’s work may be seen in Maine of Summer’s loveliest days, the me­ at the Marguery Gift Shop, Eastport, morial program at Montpelier and or usually at the Rehn Galleries, New the charmingly costumed hostesses, York. Speaking of artists, our Edna an unforgettable trip to Dr. Bill Buzzell, in the New York office, tells Clough’s Doctors Island resort in us of the great success of the recent Rangeley. This we had read about exhibit of the Pemaquid Artists in in Elizabeth Foster’s “ Islanders” but our New York office windows. Inci­ only a visit can reveal the beauty of dentally, Parker Gamage has had two this lovely wooded island with its re­ typical Maine paintings accepted for markable terraced gardens, which the use in White and Wycoff notepaper.

28 THE PINE CONE One of the most varied exhibits of At the Rockport Studio of the How­ the season was that of the Damari- ard Jones you will find gay tiles, scotta Region Chamber of Commerce unique pottery and fine handwoven —what a range of products from place mats all with a Maine theme. precision made gears to dolls, hand- Or you might go to Bremen and pick wrought silver, and hooked rugs. We up the unique silver spoon wrought hope more regions will show what with the State of Maine at the handle they produce another year. Bridgton tip, by the Fowlers. also had a notable products exhibit. Sara Fowler is having a stimulat­ Remembered is a visit on a sunny ing effect on all her neighbors, and June afternoon to the Nordica Birth­ in her attractive “ Shop in the Shed” place near Farmington. We do hope one finds handsome silk neckties hand­ that the Nordica Association named made by Samantha Reed, who has for for this famed Maine Opera singer some time been eligible for the Three- will obtain funds for a fireproof Quarter Century Club. Then, too, building to house the precious things there are luscious candied mint leaves now in vaults—like the cloth-of-gold from another neighbor, and a young gown presented by the Czar of Russia, fisherman contributes skilfully carved the throne chair, gift of Diamond Jim paper knives. Mrs. Fowler’s Cottage Brady, and the various opera gowns, Kitchen jams and relishes are in de­ papers, pictures and china. mand too. We enjoyed visits to glamorous John Upton, Bremen, carves chests, new Maine hotels — the Rangeley dressers and other fine furniture in Country Club Hotel and the new the tradition of the early master Hotel Bar Harbor—both with impres­ craftsmen. sive views. At Rangeley right now Leaving there, a visit at Tenafly from the Hotel, the color reflected in Weavers would be exciting too, for the Lake must be magnificent. Mary their looms turn out lovely fabrics Roberts Rinehart chose the new Bar for everything from suits to baby Harbor Hotel for her summer home. blankets and men’s ties. In this same These then are only a few of the vicinity one also finds the expert high spots leading up to a crisp color­ cabinet workers George Jones (Dam- ful Autumn when one hopes for more ariscotta Mills) and John Upton. leisure to savor all that is Maine. Jones’ splendid mahogany reproduc­ This is a good time for a visit to tions are unique to find in Maine. A Westport Island, made accessible by pretty fall ride will take you from a new bridge — a lovely unspoiled Rockland to Owl’s Head and South wooded island ideal for fall foliage Thomaston, where the lovely little and picnicking. There are innumer­ gift shop of Mrs. Worth Kaufman able fall foliage tours we would like at the “ Old Spalding House” has to share with you: The rolling Aroos­ Maine crafts. Especially nice are took countryside, if you’ve time for a Mary Northgraves delicious conserves long trip, and everywhere in Maine and jams, bearing an Elsa West de­ brilliant color will make every lake signed label, “ Maine Coast Kitchen.” a stained glass window. Near Portland you will not want to miss the fine pine reproductions and beautifully painted tin of the Bar- W hile wandering Maine on fall trips, keep an eye out for Maine chards at their “ Shop in the Pines.” Craftsmen. This is a good time for These are only a few of the wonder­ Christmas shopping, but it will be a ful discoveries you’ll make if you’ll put following the “ Handicraft Guide” joy if combined with the hospitality high on your list of autumn adven­ of these talented people. Christmas turing. cards are available handblocked by the Shevis’ and clever ones, too, by Another fall tour that we want to artist Frank Hamabe of Rockport. suggest is the spectacularly beautiful Don’t miss the handsome driftwood drive to Jackman—the “ Switzerland lamps with handblocked shades cre­ Region of Maine”—past huge Wyman ated by Stell and Shevis in Belmont. Lake and into the mountains.

AUTUMN, 1950 29 A w ay from Maine all our societies lecture courses and also gave their will be organizing now for a busy large Seattle home to be used as resi­ year. Do please let us have your dence for the University President. news promptly and more often, as well On August 21, Little, Brown and as news of former Maine residents Company published Pearl Frye’s new and their careers. book, “ Game for Empires.” Mrs. Frye During the Summer we learned by who claims a Maine Yankee-Spanish reading the magazine International heritage is the daughter of Alexis Altrusan that Barbara Ellen Joy Everett Frye, Maine native and Har­ (Bar Harbor and Hazelhurst, Wis­ vard graduate, who organized the consin) was selected as one of the school system for Cuba. Mrs. Frye first five persons to be honored by the is also a talented artist, and now American Camping Association. The lives with her husband, Lowell San­ award was presented at the National ford Rau, and two children in Con­ A.C.A. convention in St. Louis, Mo. necticut. Some members of the Maine Wo­ A visit to one of Maine’s most re­ men’s Club of New York returned to markable business women, Mrs. Hig­ Maine for their vacations. Miss Isa­ gins of the Higgins Lobster Company bel Whittier was at her Brunswick at Boothbay Harbor, should be an in­ home, Miss Emma Irish was at the spiration to anyone aspiring to a Lookout Hotel, Ogunquit, and Miss future in Maine. Graduating in one Florence Pinkham, following a tour of Bryant and Stratton Business Col­ of the West and attendance at the lege’s earliest classes, Mrs. Higgins New Hampshire Writers’ Conference, has successfully conducted her busi­ came to her Casco Bay Island cottage. ness for sixty-eight years and right One of our summer visitors re­ at the same spot, we understand. A ported that Fryeburg native, Dr. daughter of Mrs. Higgins, Marion, Robert Nichols, is a successful vet­ has a most interesting position as erinarian at Skaneateles, New York. Food Merchandiser for the W. T. A recent newspaper article in the Grant Stores and flies all over the Boston Herald attracted us with a de­ United States. A graduate dietitian, scription of a miniature railroad built Miss Higgins is well qualified for the by the George Frenchs of Waltham. work. Interesting was the fact that it is N ew welcome signs appeared over modelled on Mr. French’s home town, Maine this past season, from Harri­ Sandy Point, Maine. son’s neat colonial sign to the huge From John Conrad, the Historian sign boards entering Washington of the Skagit County Pioneer Associ­ County. More local beautification ation in Washington State, comes was practiced this year, too. Bath some interesting information provoked landscaped its main highway ap­ by Mr. Conrad’s hearing of our proach nicely and erected hanging Maine Three-Quarter Century Club. baskets of flowers on the Carlton Mr. Conrad, who visited Maine in Oc­ Bridge, and right here we’d like to tober, 1949, recalls some contributions hand a bouquet to the Jenney Filling by Maine natives to the development Station at Bath for going right along of the West. As a boy he lived on with beautifying their place with the farm of two of the West Coast’s hanging baskets too. The little town wealthiest lumbermen, Cyrus and of Surry had pretty flower boxes William Walker, natives of Machias, ranged along the bridge rails in town. who arrived in 1853 and 1863. Their Visits to boys and girls camps as interests now own the vast Puget Mill usual impressed us with the number Co., and Walker Building in Seattle, of young people from other states also Pope and Talbot Shipping and who will grow up claiming Maine as Lumber Co., and McCormick Steam­ their second home. Perhaps the most ship Co. in San Francisco. William impressive out-of-state list in any Walker’s daughter, Mrs. Edgar Ames, spot were the twenty-two states rep­ left to the University of Washington resented in the excellent Camden the endowment for the Walker-Ames Hills Theater Group.

30 THE PINE CONE Bayberry Candles

Though difficult to make, there’s something about the aroma of bayberry candles that means New England and MAINE.

By Doris Barbour Jordan

Pungent bayberry, with roots in rocky soil, Spreading your incense on the sun-warmed air, I crush your leaf and breathe the perfume deep. . . . A heart-song drifts to me down Memory’s stair! * * *

'"pHere are probably many who have ocean and has been caressed by the A purchased genuine bayberry can­ brisk east wind and kissed by salt sea- dles and remarked upon the price as spray is more fragrant and virile compared with ordinary wax candles. than any other My first pair of bayberry candles When I was a small girl growing were a Christmas gift, with a lovely up in a small Maine coast-town, I pair of candlesticks. I hoarded them, well remember roaming the shores admired them and refused to burn with my grandfather, who was a re­ them . . . until the donor of the gift tired sea captain. He would pick a asked me why I didn’t use them. few bayberry leaves, crush them be­ When I said I thought they were tween his fingers and hold them to his far too nice to burn she smiled and nose, to inhale deeply of the pungent said, “ Well, that’s what I gave them fragrance. In the' fall, when the to you for; you won’t really enjoy berries are clustered thickly on the them until you do burn them you stems, he would gather quantities of know.” Of course that was the truth the branches, carefully strip off the . . . I wasn’t gaining a thing by keep­ leaves when they had shriveled, and ing them, for the true and delightful combine the bayberry branches with bayberry fragrance is released when pine and bright red berries that grew the flame is extinguished. in the woods nearby. Winter bou­ The bayberry is a common shrub quets of these filled mother’s big and may be found in sandy and rocky jardiniere and the window boxes out­ soil in many sections of the country side the porch. along almost the entire length of the I believe the Pilgrims were the Atlantic coast. I have seen it grow­ first to make bayberry candles, due to ing in rocky pasture land, far from a shortage of tallow. An old lady on the salt water . . . but I truly believe Cape Cod told me the story of how the bayberry which grows close to the the early settlers made these candles

AUTUMN, 1950 31 and since then I have never once ques­ become cold, when the wax will form tioned the worth of genuine bavberry a solid cake on top of the water. This candles. is removed to a clean container and It is a long and tedious process. melted down again when ready to dip I’ve often wondered if the little Pil­ the candles. grim boys and girls were suitably re­ Modern manufacture of candles warded for gathering the bushels of employs candle molds, which is really berries needed for a family supply of the easy way, if there is anything candles. There is a waxy coating on easy about making bayberry candles. the gray-green berry and after quan­ However, our Colonial ancestors had tities of them are gathered they are to do it the hard way . . . and so will covered with cold water and brought we if we do not have molds. A long to a boil, which continues for an hour piece of wood is used to fasten the or more over a slow fire. The wax wicks in place for dipping and the and bayberry oil will gradually float bayberry wax is melted down in a to the top of the water. If the ber­ deep, narrow container. Each coat ries have been picked over carefully of wax should be allowed to become there will be very little debris float to thoroughly hardened on the wick be­ the surface. fore re-dipping . . . and this re-dip­ However, if there should be, this ping and chilling process continues must be skimmed off and care taken and continues until the desired thick­ to waste none of the precious wax. ness of candle is obtained. If there happens to be a great quan­ You will love the results . . . even tity of leaf and twig soil the liquid if you do not think it worth the effort may have to be strained through a . . . and I am sure will never again fine strainer or cheesecloth while still doubt the worth of a real Bayberry hot. The liquid is then set aside to Candle.

T he Maine “ Hospitality” theme this year is being spearheaded by the Maine Hotel Association, which is conducting a contest among its employees for the best ideas on “ improving” Maine Hospitality. * * *

T he Boost Maine Campaign of the Maine Publicity Bureau is providing more than 2,000 in-state key informa­ tional outlets with promotional kits and ideas on each of the 12 monthly topics chosen for 1950.

32 THE PINE CONE Minstrelsy of Maine

Edited by Dan Kelly

Editor of As Maine W rites: An Anthology of the Poetry Fellow­ ship of Maine, and Poetry A n n u a l : A Magazine of Maine Poetry.

P o e m s, to be eligible for consideration for this Department, should be about Maine or of particular interest to lovers of Maine. While at least minimum standards of craftsmanship will be required, selections will be made on the basis of reader interest, rather than critical perfection. Only previously un­ published poems should be submitted. All submissions should be sent directly to D an K e l l y , Editor, Minstrelsy of Maine Department, 37 Stone Street. Augusta, M ain e; and should be accompanied by the usual stamped, self- addressed envelope for return of the material if not found available.

(Poetry Day in Maine will be observed Oct. 15, 1950)

Seafarer Crimson Tears

By Beatrice Oakes By Jane Gerow Olson n p H E ttn lik e my friend and neighbor, tears that fall upon the forest ^ Orrin Price, floor A shop or farm held no appeal for Drop gently from each tree that me. mutely grieves; While Orrin left the Island only twice They weep because warm hours come From boyhood I was wedded to the no more sea. And frost lies thick upon the crimson I lived with the mounting fury of a leaves. scud, Restless if I stayed too long ashore. Autumn Flower Arrange­ I saw strange scenes too rich for Yankee blood, ment In the Barbados, Cuba, Singapore, And had I loved my wife and children By Louise Darcy less T ’INNIAS within a yellow vase There would have been no reason to ^ Flaunt colors brightly gay, explain The flowering harvest gathered in Why I was never able to suppress Upon an autumn day. That intermittent longing to remain Far out beyond the sights and sounds Now add a branch of flaming leaves, of home, A crimson glory here, Riding the wings of storm, breathing And all the room is radiant the foam. With autumn atmosphere.

AUTUMN, 1950 33 Monhegan Island Grandmother

By John D. Kendig By W inifred G. Blanchard “LJ er house is as grey as the ledges t boarded the Captain Jamieson — A It was out to Monhegan for me — r 'L around it; Its face to the sunrise; its back to Left Port Clyde in the morning the pine; And slipped into the open sea. Her dooryard extending beyond the horizon The ship’s prow cut through the Now will be tranquil—now wind­ heaving rolls swept with brine. That stretched to the edge of the sky, While the blue of the heavens spread above A flag with an anchor is hung in the And the sea gulls drifted by. window, With three stars of navy and one star of gold; Then out of the haze in the distance And Grandmother sits all day long at Rose a long low hill of blue, that window That formed a rocky island world — Busily knitting with hands that are Monhegan, it was, I knew. old.

Quite soon we came to the landing Clickety-click, with what swift-flying And the people gathered around; needles I saw beyond to the village She knits woolen socks for her sailor And the steeply rising ground. lads three; Grandmother sometimes looks down at I went up the hill with the others, her knitting; Felt the spell of this sea bound land; Mostly her eyes, though, are watch­ Followed the narrow winding streets ing the sea. Where the quaint little houses stand. In the long, lonesome years she has lived on the island On out to the edge of the village There never has been or ever will be And beyond, to roam wild and free, A time when she hasn’t been watching Over highland hills and ledges and waiting— And cliffs that drop to the sea. Waiting for someone to come from the sea. I followed along the plunging slopes And below, where the waves seethed in, Old Moose I watched the water foaming white Down there, where the rocks begin. By Dolores Cairns

a tall, loose-jointed oddity I explored much more of the island — Left over from pre-history, Cathedral Woods and the rest, He stares across where summer folks The village, the shore, and the land­ Invade the ancient pines and rocks. ing — Time was when this was his domain But the rocks and sea were best. Beyond dispute. But now in vain He snorts and stamps and shakes his horns. A day, a night, and a morning A dim fear deep within him warns I roamed Monhegan Land, These bold intruders mean to stay. Just long enough to be wanting And so at last he makes his way more — To further woods, an old king who If you’ve been, you’ll understand. Grimly gives way before the new.

34 THE PINE CONE Strength of the hills has set its brand Garden Incident On their faces calm with quietude. Here they can rest from dogged toil By A delbert M. Jakeman Of coaxing growth to the stubborn e stood, my friend, just you and soil— I? Enjoy this sunset interlude. And saw a poem against the sky. The old man reaches for her hand, And they smile across their darkened Above the seaside garden here land. And in the silent twilight clear, Countryman’s Market There soared a single gull until Another winged creature still— By Rosemary Clifford Trott One made of wheels and spinning '"pHE countryman’s market shows things, crimson and gold, And gears and lights and metal And shades of purple and orange un­ wings— fold, As he spreads out his wares for the patrons to see, . . . Came crowding near enough to share The fruits of the vine and the fruits The freedom of the spaceless air. of the tree, . . . An instant there they seemed to stay, The pumpkins rounded with their yel­ Poised in battle’s fierce array. low sheen, The pink shell beans and the cabbage, Then suddenly the gull alone sea-green. Was left to claim the spot its own. Like leaves in the Autumn just after frost touch And we—we lingered on the scene, Are the pears, the russets, the grapes And wondered what the sight might and such. mean; Here the schoolboy stands with his book in his hand For here a solitary bird, While he dreams of the summer on Without a tear, without a word, Grandpa’s land, And the maid with the basket ap­ Briefly knew the poignant pain praises the fruit, Of heaven all but split in twain, And the tall brown lad in the blue checkered suit. Then spread its wings and proudly flew Weathered farm wives with their With hope and courage born anew. calloused hands, And their far-sighted eyes preside at the stands; How deftly they measure the jewel- Sunset Interlude bright store Into waiting containers that ask for By Margaret K. Burgoyne more.

o itting beside the farmhouse wall, Like a brisk fire glowing is this har­ ^ Under the heavy arbored grapes, vest spot They watched the saffron sunset flame Where the countryman offers to the Darken until the ridge became city his lot A cut-out pattern of fading shapes— Of cabbage and turnip and carrots Fountainy elms meet poplars tall, and beets, Apple trees squat there, hunched and Of pumpkin and apples for the holi­ small. day treats.

AUTUMN, 1950 35 By June L. Maxfield

't ' he first NIP of fall is always some- Here are some of our “ old reliables” A what of a shock. Thoughts spin . . . perhaps they’ll be of help to you. backwards to the Fourth of July, which seems only a few days ago, and Indian Corn Cake folks make the annual comment, “ Where has the summer gone!” . . . 1 egg 2 tbsp. molasses 1 c. sweet milk 2 tbsp. butter half question, half exclamation. Indian meal In a few mad days people have ac­ complished the move from summer Mix together the egg, milk, molasses and butter. Gradually stir in the meal until place to home, children have settled the mixture is thick enough to pour. Bake down to another year at school, fall in a covered greased spider about % hour and winter clothes are back in the in a moderate oven. closet, summer attire is put away. Then everyone breathes a long sigh Oatmeal Rolls for a moment . . . one of regret that 2 c. rolled oats 1 x/i c. sour milk summer fun is already gone for an­ 1 c. flour 1 tsp. soda other year, but at the same time one 1 eg g 2 tbsp. sugar of anticipation of the parties and Salt good times ahead during the crisp Soak rolled oats overnight in 1 % c. sour bright days and holiday evenings of milk. In the morning add the other in­ the Autumn and early Winter. gredients, mixed together. Stir well. Bake Football games, Halloween and in a greased muffin pan in a hot oven until Thanksgiving are standard occasions light and golden brown. for good-time get-togethers, as well as all the times when folks gather, Maine Apple Cake just for the fun of it, over glasses 2 c. flour 2 /3 c. milk of new cider, or steaming cups of % tsp. salt 1 tsp. vanilla 3 tsp. baking Top coffee, with fresh home-made dough­ powder 3 apples, sliced nuts and cakes. 3 /4 c. sugar 1 tsp. cinnamon Food is never out of season . . . *4 c. shortening 4 tbsp. sugar and, besides, it’s one of our major 3 tbsp. butter forms of entertainment. That’s why Cut shortening into sifted dry ingredients. an important part of “ converting” for Add vanilla and milk to the beaten egg Fall is meal and lunch planning . . . and add to dry mixture. Spread batter in a shallow pan and press slices of apple in­ getting out the old reliables that play to the top. Sprinkle thickly with cinnamon a big part in the fun. and sugar. Bake for 25 minutes at 400°F .

36 THE PINE CONE Applesauce Cake Oatmeal Cookies y2 c. shortening 1 c. sugar 1 tsp. soda 1 egg 1 c. unsweetened 1 cr sugar 2 c. oatmeal 1 tsp. cinnamon applesauce 2 /3 c. shortening 2 c. flour, scant y2 tsp. cloves !/, tsp. salt 1 tsp. cinnamon 4 tbsp. milk y2 tsp. nutmeg 2 c. flour Salt 4 tsp. baking y2 c. raisins powder y2 c. chopped nuts Beat the eggs, add sugar and melted shortening. Add the oatmeal, then the Cream the shortening and sugar together flour which has been sifted with the soda, and add beaten egg. Add the applesauce cinnamon and salt. Add milk. Let set for and the flour sifted with the other dry in­ at least an hour— better left overnight— gredients. Add raisins and nuts and bake and drop by spoonfuls on a greased cookie in a moderate oven until a knife inserted sheet. Bake in a moderately hot oven. comes out clean.

Spicy Gingerbread Ginger Snaps 2 eggs 2 tsp. ginger 1 c. molasses 2 tbsp. butter % c. brown sugar 1 y2 tsp. cinnamon 1 tbsp. ginger 1 tsp. soda % c. molasses y2 tsp. cloves Flour % c. shortening y2 tsp. nutmeg 2 y2 c. flour 2 tsp. baking Boil the molasses, then add butter, ginger 2 tsp. soda powder and soda. While it is still hot. add flour 1 c. bo ing water until dough is stiff enough to roll out. Roll very thin, cut. and bake in a hot oven Beat eggs thoroughly and add brown for about ten minutes. Try using crescent, sugar, molasses and melted shortening. star, and other fancy cutters for that holi­ Sift together the flour, soda and spices and day look . . . even decorate them with bits combine with other mixture. Add boiling of white and colored frostings. water the last thing, stir well and bake at 350° until a knife inserted comes out clean. Molasses Doughnuts Fruit Cake 2 c. butter 1 y2 tsp. cinnamon 2 y 2 c. brown sugar 1 y2 tsp. nutmeg eggs y2 tsp. cloves 6 c. flour x/2 tsp. allspice tsp. cream of y2 tsp. mace Cream the butter and sugar, and add the tartar % tsp. salt molasses and scalded milk. Cool until luke­ tsp. soda y2 c. molasses warm, add yeast cake dissolved in warm lb. raisins 1 lb. currants water, and add the .soda and cinnamon y2 c. coffee or milk sifted with enough flour to make a dough that can be handled. Knead lightly on a Cream the butter and gradually add the floured board, then place in a greased bowl sugar, then the well-beaten eggs. Measure to rise until doubled in bulk. Cut down and sift together all but *4 cupful of the and knead, roll out y2 inch thick and cut flour with the cream of tartar, soda, salt into strips % inch wide and 8 inches and spices. Add to the first mixture alter­ long. Cover and let rise again until nately with the molasses and milk. Mix doubled in bulk. Twist each strip a few the raisins and currants with the remain­ times and pinch the ends together. Fry ing flour and stir into the cake mixture. in deep fat. Bake in loaf pans at 275° for three hours.

Molasses Drop Cookies Hancock County Doughnuts

y2 c. shortening 1 egg 1 tbsp. sour cream A “ ftft y2 c. molasses 1 tsp. vanilla 2 /3 c. thick sour 1 c. and 2 tbsp. y2 c. sugar 1 tbsp. vinegar milk sugar 2 % c. flour 1 tsp. soda, 1 /3 e. sweet! milk 1 tsp. vanilla Spice to taste 1 rounding tsp. alt soda Cream together the shortening and sugar, Pinch of ginger then add the egg and molasses. Beat thor­ oughly and add the flour. Add vanilla and Mix together the first three ingredients, finally the .soda which has been dissolved and dissolve the soda in it. Add to the in the vinegar. Add cinnamon, cloves and egg which has been beaten. Add sugar, nutmeg to taste, if desired. Drop by salt and vanilla. Sift the ginger with spoonfuls on greased cookie sheet and bake enough flour to make a dough that can be in a moderate oven until puffy and until a handled. Knead slightly and roll out y2 toothpick or knife comes out clean. inch thick. Cut and fry in deep fat.

AUTUMN, 1950 37 Oyster Bisque Apple Butterscotch Pie 1 pint oysters 6 tbsp. flour 6 apples 2 tsp. vinegar 6 tbsp. butter 1 tsp. grated onion 1 xk c. dark brown 1 c. water 4 c. rich milk Salt and pepper sugar % c. flour 3 tbsp. butter 1 tsp. vanilla Melt the butter, add the flour, then slow­ Pinch of salt ly add the milk which has been heated. As soon as this begins to thicken slightly Mix together half of the sugar, the water add the grated onion and seasoning, and and vinegar and bring to a boil. Add the keep hot over a low heat. Heat the oysters apples which have been sliced 14 inch in their own liquor until the edges begin to thick and simmer until they are tender. curl, then add to the milk mixture. Serve Remove the apples from the syrup. Mix piping hot with croutons or crackers. remaining sugar with the flour and salt and slowly add to the syrup. Cook until Cranberry Duff it thickens. Remove from the fire and add the butter and vanilla. Let cool while pre­ 1 % c. flour 1/i c. sugar paring pastry. Place apples in pie shell % tsp. salt 2 eggs and pour thickened syrup over them. Top IV 2 tsp. baking 2 tbsp. butter with meringue or whipped cream. powder % c. milk 1 c. cranberries Corn Oysters Sift together the dry ingredients and add the milk and beaten eggs. Add the butter 2 c. grated sweet % c. flour melted and the cranberries which have been corn (or whole 1 egg cut in half. Pour into a greased mold and kernel) xk c. cream steam for one hour. Salt and pepper Beat the egg well, add the cream and Apple Custard flour and mix until smooth. Add the salt and pepper and corn. Drop by spoonfuls 3 eggs 1 c. strained sour into hot fat. Cook until brown. Although 1 c. sugar applesauce originally designed for lunch or supper. 1 /3 c. butter Corn Oysters make good “ finger fare” at Mix all ingredients together, and flavor buffet suppers and picnics. with vanilla or lemon if desired. Bake in small custard cups or pastry shells, gar­ Baked Squash nish with lemon sauce or whipped cream and serve warm. 1 % c. cooked squash Salt and pepper % c. cream or rich 2 eggs, separated milk 1 tbsp. butter Lemon Sauce 1 tbsp. flour 1 % c. boiling water 1 tbsp. butter Cream together butter and flour, add the % c. sugar Pinch of salt 2 tbsp. flour 1 % tbsp. lemon juice milk and cook slowly until thickened. Add Grated rind of *4 lemon to this the finely mashed squash and the yolks of the eggs, beaten well. Add salt Mix together the sugar, flour and salt and pepper to taste, and fold in stiffly and add boiling water. Stir and cook until beaten egg whites. Pour into greased bak­ thickened. Add butter, lemon juice and ing dish, which has been placed in a pan grated lemon rind. Serve hot. of water. Bake at 325°F . for about 45 minutes, or until a knife inserted comes out clean. Baked Indian Pudding 1 qt. milk 14 c. sugar Molasses Candy 1 tsp. salt 2 tbsp. butter Vi c. molasses (4 c. cornmeal 3 c. molasses 6 tbsp. vinegar % c. sugar % tsp. baking soda Scald the milk and stir in the corn 2 tbsp. butter meal until smooth. Add the other in­ Cook together the molasses, sugar and gredients and pour into a baking dish. vinegar until a drop forms a hard ball in Bake four hours in a slow oven. cold water. Remove from the fire and add butter and soda. Pour onto buttered plat­ Brown Bread Pudding ters and pull as soon as it is cool enough. 2 /3 c. brown bread *A c. nut meats, Sea Foam Fudge crumbs chopped 2 c. milk 2 tbsp. chopped 3 c. brown sugar 1 tsp. vanilla 3 eggs citron 1 c. water 1 c. nut meats, % e. sugar 2 tsp. vinegar chopped 2 egg whites Soak the crumbs in the milk for a short while, then add the other ingredients and Cook together the brown sugar, water mix well all together. Pour into a greased and vinegar, stirring only until it begins dish in a pan of -water and bake at 350° to boil. Cook until a drop forms a hard for one hour. ball when dropped into cold water. lte-

38 THE PINE CONE move from the tire and pour over the egg Finnan Haddie Casserole whites which have been beaten until stiff. Beat thoroughly and add vanilla and 1 to 1 % lb. finnan 1 medium onion, chopped nuts. Drop by spoonfuls onto haddie diced waxed paper to harden. Milk to cover fish 4 tbsp. flour 1 small green 2 y2 c. warm milk Baked Sausage Roll pepper, chopped Salt and pepper Cut fish in three or four pieces, place in Sausage meat 1 c. milk saucepan and cover with milk. Simmer over 6 potatoes 2 tsp. melted butter low flame until fish will flake (about one- Flour and salt half hour). While fish is cooking, melt but­ Fry the sausage meat until done, then ter in another saucepan, add green pepper chop fine. Boil potatoes, then mash them, and onion and cook until tender. Add flour beating together with milk and butter. Add and stir constantly until smooth. Add salt enough salt to season to taste, then enough and pepper and milk and cook until thick­ ened, stirring constantly. Place flaked fish flour to make a soft dough. Roll out and in a buttered casserole after removing any spread with the chopped sausage meat. bones and skin. Pour sauce over fish and Roll up like a jelly roll, brush with melted sprinkle with paprika. Bake in a hot oven butter, and bake in a greased pan until for about ten minutes. Casserole may be golden brown. topped with bread or cracker crumbs and cheese. Codfish Casserole Curried Fish % c. salt codfish 10 crackers 2 c. milk 2 eggs 2 lb. fresh cod, 2 c. liquor from 2 tbsp. butter halibut or other cooked fish fish % to 1 tsp. curry Soak the fish overnight in cold water. 4 tbsp. butter powder In the morning drain and cook. Flake the 1 tbsp. chopped 3 drops tabasco sauce fish thoroughly and mix with crumbled green pepper Salt crackers, scalded milk and butter. Cool 1 small onion, 2 tbsp. chopped and add well-beaten egg yolk. Beat egg chopped parsley whites until stiff and fold in. Pour into Mi c. chopped celery 3 tbsp. flour a well-greased baking dish and bake in a pan of water in a moderate oven. Simmer the fish for about ten minutes in a small quantity of water in a covered pan. Drain, saving 2 c. of the liquor. Melt but­ ter, add green pepper, onion and celery and Crab Timbales cook for a few moments over a low heat. IV-i c. crabmeat % tsp. salt Add flour a little at a time, stirring con­ 2 tbsp. butter 14 tsp. paprika stantly. Add fish liquor to which water has 2 tbsp. flour 2 eggs, separated been added if necessary to bring it to 2 c. Cook and stir for 3 or 4 minutes, add sea> 1 c. milk 1 c. cream, whipped sonings, stirring well. Transfer to the top Make cream sauce as follow s: Melt but­ of a double boiler and let steam for about ter and gradually blend in the flour. Stir ten minutes, making sure that seasonings in milk slowly, stirring constantly to pre­ are thoroughly blended. Remove skin and vent lumping. Add seasonings and crab- bones from fish, arrange on a hot platter, meat and cook for a few minutes. Cool. cover with sauce and garnish with parsley. Fold in beaten egg yolks and whipped cream, then the stiffly beaten egg whites. Potato Royals Pour into timbale forms or custard cups which have been well greased. Bake in a 2 c. hot mashed % tsp. salt slow oven for about forty minutes, or potatoes 2 tbsp. butter until a knife comes out clean. 2 eggs Combine mashed potatoes, butter and salt Beefsteak Pie with beaten egg yolks, blending well. Form into balls, swirls, patties or other shapes 2 lbs. round steak pieces (with the aid of a pastry bag, if you w ish). 3 c. water 1 stalk celery, diced Place on a greased cookie sheet and brush Vi c. onions, sliced 1 tbsp. shortening with stiffly beaten egg whites. Brown in a V-z c. carrots, sliced 1 tbsp. flour hot oven. 4 medium potatoes, 1 tsp. salt cut in small % tsp. pepper Plain ie crust Cheese Puffs

Cut steak in 1-inch pieces and brown 1 c. grated 2 eggs, separated well, together with onions, in the shorten­ American Cheese Mi c. milk ing. Add flour and blend. Add water, car­ 1 c. flour Mi tsp. salt rots, celery, salt and pepper. Cover and 1 tsp. baking *4 tsp. paprika simmer for one hour. Then add potatoes powder (4 tsp. dry mustard and cook for another 15 minutes. Pour Sift dry ingredients together. Beat egg into a casserole and cover with pie crust. yolks and add milk. Stir into the dry in­ Slit top for steam to escape. Bake in a hot gredients gradually, stirring well. Add oven until crust is lightly browned. cheese. Beat egg whites until stiff and fold

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42 THE PINE CONE My Island

By T. Gaillard T homas u NMARRED by man, my island stands aloof From argosies in search of Golden Fleece: With ocean waves for walls and sky for roof, In solitude at last, I find release. Hearing but call of snipe, and cry of gull, Long hours on an ancient rock, I muse; Or perch upon an old, half-buried hull, Forgetful of the world I long to lose. The fragrant, soft pine-needles are my bed, The gentle swish of surf, my lullaby; My dreams — of when a thousand years have fled, How this, my island home, unchanged will lie: And then, the teasing stars and laughing moon, Mock with their message — that I die, too soon! Maine’s Autumn Parade

By Pearl LeBaron Libby

'p he maples flaunt their scarlet All around the town, While birches, lily-white and gold, March up the hill and down.

The chestnut trees so stalwart, That grow beside the wall, Think rusty-brown, well-flecked with gilt, Should be the garb in Fall.

The elms shake out their flounces Of dusty yellow-green; The pine trees turn away and smile To see the spruces preen.

Red berries line the roadsides, The purple grapes hang high— And all these glowing signs of cheer Prove gypsy Autumn’s nigh!