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Page Come Back To Mount Desert...... W. H. Ballard 3 A Living Mo n u m en t...... Eleanor Dutton Martin 7 W inter W eekend A t Rangeley . .. William A. Hatch 14 Maine Communities: Rumford...... Richard A. Hebert 19 Minstrelsy of Maine .. Edited by Sheldon Christian 28 Around the Cracker Barrel . .. Elizabeth A. Mason 31 Made In Ma i n e ...... William A. Hatch 34 Famous Maine Rec ip e s...... June L. Maxfield 38 The Maine Sc e n e ...... 41 W hite Magic .... Albert Ralph Korn Inside Back Cover Maine Snow storm ...... Inez Farrington Back Cover t h e p i n e c o n e WINTER, 1947-48 VOL. 3, NO. 4

Published Quarterly by THE STATE OF MAINE PUBLICITY BUREAU PORTLAND . YORK CORNER . 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) Come Back To Mount Desert

A veteran photographer reports only a small section, most of it seldom seen by visitors, was affected by last October’s “big burn.” Here are names of many beauty spots on Mount Desert you may never have seen, but surely won’t want to miss.

By W. H. Ballard

f course the famous explorer, Bar Harbor. What is left of Mount O Champlain, was among the first Desert Island’s world renowned to take notice of Mount Desert Is­ beauty? ALMOST THE WHOLE OF land’s outstanding feature, its great IT! . . . hills, and because they appeared to As a photographer of this Island him to be bare rock, be gave the Is­ for fifteen years, the writer has land its name in 1604,—“ The Island of looked over his subject from every the Desert Mountains.” angle. No one feels more than I the In the three hundred and forty-four loss of a single spot of scenic beauty. years that followed, during which na­ Yet, I can agree with many others tions vied with each other for owner­ that at least 90 percent of the scenic ship of this unusual range of sea born spots which amounted to anything at hills, at one time dividing it between all are still here without change. The England and France, the forests in fire which swept through such a large the low valleys crept seed after acreage and did such tremendous struggling seed outward to the rock damage, was for a large part con­ shores and upward on the mountain­ fined within generally un-visited sides until they achieved the state of parts of the woodlands. This article, scenic perfection which was dis­ it should be noted, is concerned only covered by the first summer visitors with the natural attractions of the to arrive on the Island by boat from Island. Where scenic spots were Rockland. damaged, the area was concentrated No more beautiful combination of and such sections may, in large meas­ surf - beaten, ripple-c a ressed rocky ure, be avoided by visitors in pref­ shores, with cliffs rising out of the sea erence to othe'’ parts of the Island, beyond sheltered harbors and ever­ some being well-known and others be­ green-crowned headlands, and with a ing yet to be “ discovered” by the hinterland of eighteen rugged hills larger proportions of our visitors. rising as high as 1500 feet above the sea, cradling twenty-six lakes and Of t h e w e l l - k n o w n , it can be said ponds in their valleys, could be found that the seaward side of the entire within any other one hundred square Ocean Drive presents the same spec­ mile area, completely surrounded by tacle of rugged shore as ever, al­ the ocean. though the fire cut through some Last October, fire struck at these forest swaths on the landward side forests, burning out of control to of the road. The Cadillac Mountain reach a climax in leveling some out­ Road is similar in this respect, for fire lying sections of the famous town of remained almost entirely on one side

WINTER, 1947-48 3 Bar Harbor Main Street, showing the business center of the town totally unaffected by the October fires—although everyone agrees it was a close call. and the Western slopes of the moun­ mountains and lakes, the harbors and tain are untouched. The great new other attractions of the vast western Hunter Beach Drive, and the Sea half of Mount Desert Island, much of Cliffs Drive were out of the burn. which is contained in the Acadia Na­ One may travel the trails of Pemetic tional Park lands and easily ac­ Mountain, the west slope of Cadillac cessible by good roads and trails. Mountain, all over Day Mountain, The attractive little village of The Triad, Penobscot, Parkman, Somesville provides a gateway to this Norumbega Mountain, Asricou Hill, area, which was first to have summer and Sargent Mountain, with the ex­ visitors, church, hotel, telegraph, ception of its northeastern slope, steamboat service and automobiles, without encountering scars. and still retains all of its natural Jordan Pond, Bubble and Long charm and quiet. Ponds, Upper and Lower Hadlock The hills of Mount Desert are seen Ponds, Northeast Harbor, Seal Har­ at their best from Southwest Harbor; bor and Somes Sound, with its famous the only lighthouse on the Island may Sargent Drive, all on the eastern side be visited at Bass Harbor; real down- of the Island, were all unaffected and east fishing and boat-building villages out of the areas reached by fires. are there for the looking; the North­ Concentrated in all the above places east Harbor Fleet races its sailing are a very great percentage of the craft close by the Manset and Seawall best scenic spots on eastern Mount shores, and boats will take visitors Desert Island. to outlying islands or the fishing Not so well-known to the casual grounds. Seawall faces the Atlantic visitor, but due to become so, are the and is perfect for picnicking as well

4 THE PINE CONE The famous summer resort of Northeast Harbor is partly shown in this view across Somes Sound from Flying Hill. Islands in the distance are the Cranberry Isles. On the point in the loiver right foreground is the site of the early French Jesuit colony of Mount Desert Island. as for camping. The National Park Eagle Cliffs plunging down to Valley Service maintains a campground Cove; Acadia Mountain, with two there. summits; Beech Hill and its Beech Great Pond, Echo Lake, Somes Cliffs, with Beech Mountain above it; Pond, Seal Cove Pond and others can Western Mountain, consisting of two be visited; there are numerous coves peaks, Bernard and Mansell at an ele­ along the shore and roads lead to vation of 1071 feet. The trails on several points on Somes Sound where, Western Mountain are exceptionally at one spot, there was a French set­ interesting, and steepsided Bernard tlement over three hundred years can be surmounted in an hour. ago. With all of this to consider, it is easy to understand why we who know Many contend that the view from Mount Desert Island best can truly Beech Cliffs rivals that from Cadillac say that at least 90 percent of its Mountain, though on a smaller scale, scenic attractions are here for all to and certainly the scene of Echo Lake visit. below the cliffs is one to be remem­ bered. A road leads almost to the summit, which is then reached by an (Ed. Note: After the fire emer­ easy path. gency had passed last Fall, we made As for trails, nothing is lacking. a survey trip to Bar Harbor and Hikers will find a network of trails Mount Desert and found the situation leading to all points: Flying Moun­ exactly as presented above by Mr. tain; St. Sauveur Mountain, with its Ballard, who is familiar with nearly

WINTER, 1947-48 5 every foot of the 100-square mile Service, but this has been progress­ island. ing all Winter. As Benjamin F. Had­ Bar Harbor had Christmas lights ley, park superintendent, told us: strung on the main streets and the “ Some of the plumage is gone, but only fire evidence was around the the body is still here, with all its western edge of the town. All agreed scenic beauty. From the top of that only a miraculous shift in the Cadillac Mountain a few smudge wind kept the damage from being- spots show, but the glorious pano­ much worse. Yet, unless one went rama is unchanged. Another Spring looking specifically for fire scenes, or two and much of the grass and they are scarcely evident along the plumage will return.” main roads. Bar Harbor and Mount Desert will see thousands of visitors again this Rehabilitation of 203 resident fam­ year. In some places the grass will be ilies has been going on all Winter greener for having been burned over under the direction of the American and, if you look for it, you will see the Red Cross and was completed a few fire scars, still something to see, even weeks ago. if tragic. While the acreage percentage fig­ Just to give an idea of how the ures on the area affected is some­ early fire reports were exaggerated: what misleading, we would say that The Town of Bar Harbor prints a the average visitor would estimate folder which includes 16 photos rep­ hardly five per cent of the total area resenting typical scenic spots on bears the scars of fire. Mount Desert. Not one of these pic­ A big cleanup job remains, mostly tures will have to be changed as a re­ in the realm of the National Park sult of the fire.)

A W orld A ffairs Forum is being held weekly this Winter at Boothbay Harbor, drawing an average attendance of 50 or more. Outstanding speakers each week give a lecture on some phase of world affairs and there is plenty of time for dis­ cussion, which, needless to say, is often lively. Oliver Garceau, Oxford graduate who is in Maine doing research work for the Carnegie Foundation, originated the forum, with the assistance of local leaders like J. A. “ Tunk” Stevens, Jr., Mrs. Oliver Max­ well and “ Doc” Rockwell.

Canned tuna fish, hitherto a virtual monopoly of California and prewar Japanese canners, became the latest promising Maine product this Winter when tests at the Bath Canning Company and Riviera Packing Company at Eastport were highly successful. Riviera, with some 65 tons of tuna in deep freeze storage, already has started a heavy pack. Canned tuna is expected to be an ideal winter pack for Maine fish canning plants, as the big fish, caught in the summer, can be frozen and later canned during slack periods.

6 THE PINE CONE A Living Monument

The inspiring story of the Good Will Homes and Schools at Hinckley, and of the remarkable founder, Rev. Dr. George W. Hinckley, whose faith in God is expressed in providing a home for underprivileged children.

By E leanor Dutton Martin

f YOU DOUBT that God answers tance away, are the farm buildings: I prayer, then walk with me for a the dairy, horse barns, chicken houses, while and I will tell you a story as sawmills, etc., and homes for the beautiful, as interesting as any ever farmers, gardeners and carpenters. written. Entering a circling drive, we find Up the Kennebec Valley, nine miles at a bend in the road and close to a north of Waterville at a point eight cherished rock garden, a small white miles south of Skowhegan where, house called the Shell House. With­ shadowing the banks of the Kennebec in are shells from many parts of the River, winding its quiet way to the country. Somewhat farther along is sea, may be found that very unusual the Rock House, containing splendid place which bears the name of Good specimens from many New England Will Homes and Schools. quarries. Standing silently for a few mo­ On the boys’ end of the grounds ments, on the Arnold Highway, and there are several trails through the looking toward the west, we shall see woods: Dartmouth, Bowdoin, Colby, a well-kept campus; trees and shrubs Bates, The Continental and Good Will. that have been planted with an eye At the entrance to Dartmouth Trail for the symmetrical and artistic; are two marble tablets; one giving its gravel walks, drives and flower beds. name, the other the date of its formal About twelve rods back from the opening. Its logical beginning is, macadam highway stand two Colonial however, the Ernest Thompson Seton structures of brick; the Administra­ Fireplace, built in remembrance of tion Building (Prescott Memorial), the noted author, artist and naturalist and Averill High School. These will soon after his visit to Good Will. be noticed particularly because of their purity of type. N ear the fireplace is a boulder with its copper plate, bearing the Then, too, there is the boys’ gram­ name and date of one of the great mar school; the Bates Museum, full men of our country, the late ex-presi­ of treasures from many parts of the dent Theodore Roosevelt. This tablet globe; the Hall of Dendrology with was given by a former Good Will boy its interesting specimens of wood, and in honor of a “ Conservator of our Na­ a Carnegie Library containing about tional Forests.” The boulder which fifteen thousand volumes. bears the tablet, is upheld by a stone Strolling casually about, we note selected by Mrs. Roosevelt on the eleven cottages each of which makes Roosevelt estate at Oyster Bay. homes for fifteen boys and their Back of Page Terrace is Bowdoin matron. Back of these and some dis­ Circle, and that is the beginning of r n M c

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t u c Colby Colby Trail begins at the western Many Many of these tablets bear quota­ * Trails. It was here that the first log Good Will. ers, ers, its vine-covered pergola and of trees which they first of had felled. many to be built for The work or cabin cabin was built by the students, out play in the beautiful woodlands of Walking rapidly, one soon comes to Lowell, Lowell, Whittier, Longfellow, Sharp, It is unusual to find such exquisitely God’s “ trees, birds, flowers and even And the Bird Station at “ Sunset En­ border of Good the junction Will of Colby golf and Good Will course. Van Dyke and many, many lovely others. thoughts deep in the woods, or the along the winding trails. heart of quadrupeds” have not been forgotten. trance,” with its sanctuary and mark­ nests, is not easily forgotten. Stones Stones were sent from east of Mis­ tions tions from people: the writings Bryant, of famous Kilmer, Thoreau, a a love of and Nature, poetry. of beautiful prose sissippi sissippi to be Entrance,” worked into and “ Sunrise from the west of “ Father of Waters”trance.” for “ The Sunset bronze En­ tablets indicate Averill High School at Averill High School Good Will, one that of the buildings sprang from a cherished dream and a psalm of David. psalm a and dream a from cherished sprang Close Close to the “ Sunrise Fireplace” is Following the winding trail through From here one goes to the Murray Fireplace,” the Tenterden Tablets, the Monument, Monument, built in honor of “ Adiron­ Hinckley Hinckley of Tenterden, England, Corner,” past “ Sunrise Entrance” to Adirondacks, which he made famous; marker marker rests upon a stone taken from the the entrance to the Continental Trail. the the third found from place the upon shores where of a Mr. stone Lake years Murray Champlain writing. spent five busy his his birthplace; another brought upon a from stone Lake Placid in the dack” Murray service in to recognition humanity of of as his the the “ Father Outdoor movement.” One Bowdoin Bowdoin Trail. Within the circle of father of the Hinckleys try. in this coun­ the the Continental Trail, the latter “ Sunrise erected in memory of Samuel locks, locks, one finally reaches “ Naturalists praise of some morial tree, to and some each friend a of me­ Good Will.” red red pine trees, one of sees a semi-circle stone masonry, bearing twelve the the woods, beneath pines and hem­ bronze bronze tablets, each “ reciting the

U..I Colby Trail was opened formally by to make strong bodies and contented Dr. Arthur S. Roberts, loved presi­ minds. dent of Colby College. It is along this There are other cottages in those trail that one comes upon Audubon “ Cathedral Pines,” and back on the Rapids, and then edges Marten hill stands “ Ellis Acres,” the “ writing Stream to Lovejoy Spring. The trail •home” of Good Will’s own “ Gee is one of historical interest, but has Double You,” the latter being the pen no part in this story. name of Dr. George W. Hinckley. The Bates Trail is entered near But Dr. Hinckley might inform you Ryerson Library on the northern por­ that he has and will continue to tion of Good Will, on the girls prem­ “ write all over the place.” He is ises to be exact. It winds toward the editor of the Good Will Record, a west, over a sandy hill and along a monthly magazine devoted to the plain which is often beautiful with the “ doings” of the school and its friends. lovely pink of rhodora blossoms each He has also written many, many year. It passes “ Three Pine Cabin,” books and articles for various news­ extends through a dense growth of papers. He is an unusually gifted birch and maple, and ends at Kendall writer of both prose and poetry. Annex. Looking from the east to the north, to the west and to the south, one is A nd so to Good Will Trail, just reminded of Beatrice Hussey’s lovely west of the National Highway, Route line in her poem, “ Hills in Winter,” 201 and known as the “ Arnold Trail,” “ Here is more beauty than the heart and named for Benedict Arnold, that can hold.” And one finds throat and one-time patriot. Stepping from the heart filled with emotion, realizing trail at Marten stream, one ascends the greatness of the young lad, grown a slight incline to reach the Soldiers’ to manhood, who through his love of and Sailors’ Memorial Arch, built in humanity and faith in the promises loving remembrance of one hundred of his Creator, made possible this and eighty boys who served in World haven for many less fortunate than War I. Their names may be found himself. on the bronze tablets under the arch, while overhead is a marble which T he story of Good Will Homes holds thirteen bronze stars, one for and Schools should be known the each lad who gave his life for his world over, for there never has been, country. nor ever will be another like it. “ Its This trail, too, has an historical in­ inception was in the heart of a boy” terest but does not particularly con­ because he knew the true story of an­ cern this story. other small boy too hungry for his It is but a few steps from the arch own safety, who stole left-overs from across the lovely little bridge, span­ a workman’s dinner pail since he ning Marten Stream, which divides could find no other way to appease the boys’ farm from the girls’. And that hunger; and because of that fact topping the hill toward the north, was “ sent to the State Reform School Ryerson Library stands just off the until he should be twenty-one years hiehway, and the Gould Grammar of age.” School is conveniently near as are the This unhappy lad was a schoolmate five homes built for the girls. of the young George Hinckley, and in “ Willow-Wood,” the famous Star- his book, “ The Good Will Idea,” Dr. bird House, shelters the founder of Hinckley writes, “ I did not believe this famous school. that the lad was, at heart, any more Facing the east and looking across dishonest than myself, but he was a the Kennebec River, are splendid pine victim of neglect and hunger. My groves; one is given over to the girls heart was hurt. I began to think. during the summer for their outings, Why had not someone taken an in­ and the other to the boys. terest in that boy before he had put The students may spend happy his hand in that dinner pail, instead carefree days, sleeping in their small of waiting until a petty theft had “ cottages,” eating in another and been committed and then demanding playing under the direction of an ex­ his punishment?” perienced teacher. Boating and fish­ “ I began to dream . . . boys do ing and long hikes may fill their days sometimes; I began to dream that

W IM T FR 1947-48 Q The Whitney Home, at Good Will, one of eleven cottages called “home” by fifteen boys and their matron in each cottage.

sometime I would become a man, and thy way unto the Lord; trust also in if I ever became a man I would build Him, and He shall bring it to pass.” a house . . . I would build houses . . . and when I heard of a boy imperilled It w a s a wonderful thought, a and in need as that boy had been, I promise, and suddenly he knew what would extend a helping hand until he he was going to do. He would de­ could take care of himself.” liberately make a test of God’s The years slipped by and though promise. he had become a clergyman with a In one of his articles he wrote: family, he had not forgotten what he “ Then and there I decided to commit hoped to do. But to develop such a my way unto the Lord, and trust Him work meant friends and money. He to ‘bring to pass’ that thing which says, “ I was dollarless and my was in my heart.” acquaintances were few and among “ I resolved to take into my home, them there were none of wealth.” to live among my own children, the But to him the need was great and neediest derelict of a boy I had ever he felt that his own life work would seen in the state. Toward the sup­ not be accomplished until he had port of this boy I decided to devote made possible such a place as Good one-tenth of my salary, which was the Will, a place where “worthy boys in maximum that I personally was able need or in moral peril” could find to give. And realizing that this tenth shelter. could not possibly clothe, feed, shelter In an hour of discouragement, he and educate a boy for one year, I told picked up that ancient book, the myself: Bible. Turning its leaves slowly, he I will say nothing of what I am do­ came to the psalms of David and in ing; I will ask no person in this world the thirty-seventh he read: “ Commit for a single penny, but if I receive

in THF PINF CONE anything over my salary from any and Literature, and carries in its source . . . cash or anything which double circle these words, “ Home, might be converted into cash . . . I Education, Discipline, Industry, Rec­ will regard it as given for the sup­ reation, Religion.” port of the boy. The Good Will Totem is a mounted At the end of the year, if I have beaver, with the slogan based on the adequately supported the boy and animal’s habits, viz: “ He works when have a nucleus of one hundred dol­ he works; he plays when he plays; he lars left over, I will accept it as a is strong on individual effort, yet he sign from God that I shall go on to labors for community good.” fulfill my dream of a home for many The Good Will Emblem represents needy boys.” its four important interests . . . the And so he found the boy and the physical, social, intellectual and re­ means came to take care of him: ligious. Its flag has a white field, “ From the most unexpected sources, a carrying its emblem in orange and thousand sources.” black. At that time Dr. Hinckley’s work Understanding that his boys and was with the American Sunday girls should be familiar with the School Union. It was his duty to go beautiful and artistic in art, as well into the remote parts of the state to as fed with the products from the organize Sunday Schools, and it was farm, gardens and dairy, for physical the poor people of villages, crossroads and mental growth, Dr. Hinckley’s and lumber camps who helped pro­ longing for the former gradually be­ vide for the boy, and to begin the came a fact. work for Good Will through their There are fine life-size oil portraits small gifts of money, foods and by George Rufus Boynton, Campbell knitted hose, mittens and mufflers. Phillips, Robert Reed, Charles D. He began with a farm of a few Hubbard and others. There are, also, acres, one cow and fifty dollars, all of a number of landscapes by well known which had been given to him . . . and artists. three small boys. His first definite In the Museum may be found a decision was this: “ Nothing in the group of “ Wild Life Exhibits;” a name or conduct of my proposed home series of colored transparencies of would suggest charity, orphanhood or wild flowers as they grow at Good destitution, and to the fullest extent Will, and of course all the other speci­ possible it would be a home in fact.” mens usually found in such a place. In the Averill High School Build­ So Good W ill became a place for ing is a small but valuable collection deserving, dependent boys and girls of Chinese Antiques. between the ages of nine and four­ Mural paintings hang in the Shell teen, with the privilege of High House, in the Hall of Dendrology, in School Courses if desired. Mr. Moses the Granite House, and for stage use Giddings, an early president of the there are three sets of scenery in Good Will Home Association, once Prescott Hall. said, “ The education of the mind, the It is interesting to know that all training of the hand, and the culture of these, as well as memorials, mark­ of the heart . . . these if rightly used, ers, bridges, roads and stonewalls will form a foundation on which char­ were gifts to Good Will and not, in acter may be built that will assure any instance, bought with money success, usefulness and happiness.” given for sustaining or educational These facts the founder of this purposes. school knew well in his own mind and Tradition is a loved word here, and heart. Nowhere is the spirit of Good there are many, many interesting cus­ Will so fully symbolized as in the toms which one might write about. Roundel, a mural decoration in the The opening Campfire of the school Administration Building (Prescott season; the Girl Reserves’ beautiful Memorial), painted by Mr. Charles D. candlelight service at the chapel; the Hubbard. Murray Tablet exercises, the Thanks­ It symbolizes Forestry, Agriculture, giving, the Christmas (with a tree in Mechanical Arts, Organized Athletics, everv cottage), the Commencement, Architecture and Building, Science the Senior Spring and many more.

WINTER, 1947-48 I I Moody Memorial Chapel. Good Will is non-denominational and people of all creeds have been its donors.

There are bronze tablets in the playfellows. The dogs and cats are High School Building for each gradu­ well taken care of, too. ating class, and Good Will songs for One does not need a calendar here; every occasion. There are two fine the seasons may easily be determined pipe organs, one in Prescott Hall, the by the games being played at the mo­ other in the Chapel where a vested ment. It may be the competitive choir is under the capable direction “ snow figure” or the big bell in the of the Music Master. There are sev­ tower calling the lads to the “ swim­ eral pianos and a student orchestra. ming hole” that tells the story. It One could only understand through may be Spring with its proverbial living here, by being a member of the marbles or early Summer for “ ball,” community, what these “homes and soft or hard. It may be tennis, golf, schools” mean to a student while in snowshoeing, skating and skiing. residence and, too, when finished and In any event life is worth living to “ out on his own.” the whistling boy and dreaming girl striding along the trails or over the Good W ill is not in any sense a re­ fields . . . the high road to discovery. formatory, an orphan asylum, nor is In a discussion with Dr. Hinckley, it a boarding school. It is a “ home” I asked what he considered the cen­ first, last and always; prayed for, tral idea here; he looked at me for a built for underprivileged children, long moment and then a beautiful minus parent or parents or guardians, smile broke over his face. unable financially to provide for “ Religion,” he replied quietly, “ and themselves either a suitable place to then home; religion, flanked on either lay their young heads or gain an edu­ side by home and education.” And cation. remembering what the 37th psalm It is a place where there is a lot of David means to him, I realized my of fresh air, fun and even dogs for question was out of order.

I? TUP PIMP POMP The church and not its denomina­ Its “ few old buildings” have become tion concerned him. Good Will has over forty fine structures. always been undenominational and will continue to be. And people of all Good W ill Home Association was creeds have been its donors. founded in 1889, and it has a Board Its students are living a healthy of Directors who have charge of its life. They attend Sunday School and property and business. Its “ program Church services regularly. In their is on an all-year basis. Each boy and home life they have regular hours for girl is allowed one month of vacation eating plain, body-building foods; of either at Good Will or elsewhere dur­ sleeping, of arising and certain hours ing July or August.” for play and entertainment. Of “ The work of the Association is course the study hour is important. made possible in part by cash con­ And they are learning the art of tributions of benevolent friends, in taking care of themselves through the part by income from endowment advice of the resident matron or funds, and in part by such payments nurse. as may be made for individual boys They are learning, too, different and girls. It has no state aid. In no types of work: that of houseboys and case does the maintenance paid in housemaids; the care of the different support of boy or girl approach the buildings, inside and out; the campus, actual cost of maintenance.” the golf course and tennis courts. It is the type of work of which one The boys are taught to be farmers, may be very proud. At least each gardeners and carpenters; the girls individual worker is trying to do his can food stuffs and make many of or her best for the ultimate welfare their own clothes, and when they have of those entrusted to his care, and finished at Good Will Schools they many fine boys and girls have already know many ways in which to earn a made their mark in the world. living for sturdy, self-respecting And these young people, who come young people. back again and again because they Since its beginning Good Will has feel Good Will to be home, realize sent between two and three thousand that it is a materialized dream of one boys and girls into the world to do who loved humanity better than he their own work, and the “ few acres” loved himself . . . Good Will, a living has expanded to over two thousand. monument to a great man.

Industrial payrolls in Lewiston-Auburn, “the industrial heart of Maine,” reached an all-time record high of $27,957,889 in 1947. Total number of workers employed in Lewiston also was at an all-time high. These statistics are just two more in­ dications of the way Maine is growing as an industrial state, as well as expanding in agriculture, commercial fisheries and rec­ reation business.

W IN T E R , 1947-48 13 WINTER WEEKEND AT MNGELEV

Penguins At Play

By W illiam A. Hatch, Staff Photographer NOW comes early and stays late in the Rangeley Region. From S November until long into April King Winter plays host to the many parties taking advantage of the crisp, dry air and the snow covered mountains that make up this “ Wonder Winterland.” The PINE CONE dons its parka and ski boots to attend one of the early winter weekend parties at this popular ski resort. There is skiing aplenty and fun galore as we join the Penguin Ski Club of Portland at the warm comfortable lodge and enjoy a sample of re­ nowned Rangeley Hospitality at Back O’ The Moon Ski Lodge.

14 THE PINE CONE A Skiers Lot Is A Happy One

THE CARES of the work- a-day world have no place in the day's activities. Life centers around the spacious lodge nestled in the snow- covered basin of the Range- ley Valley and overlooking the famous chain of lakes 2,000 feet above sea level. Above: Pat Bove is a bit reluctant about leaving her nice warm bed at such an early hour, but Patty Cook, already in her red flannels and ski boots is ready for breakfast and the ski slopes. Right: The Penguins re­ quire two things at the table —good food and plenty of it. Rachel Andrew and Ralph Dutton say Rangeleu has an abundance of both. Below: What goes down, also comes up, thanks to the Tow. Dotty Polly loves it. Above, left: Dotty and Rachel, like all good skiiers, take their wax­ ing seriously. The hard red wax is best for the soft powder surface. Right: The Christy, or speed turn, a thing of beauty when exe­ cuted by an expert skier such as Doug Burt, is the ultimate ambition of all skiers.

Below: The rolling hills present a never-to-be-forgotten panorama. Patty Cook and Neil Starr pause before the downhill run to gaze longingly at the vast white caps of Saddleback, across the lake. THE PENGUINS repre­ sent one of the oldest and most active winter sports groups in the state. Many of these young business peo­ ple from Portland have re­ cently returned from the ser­ vice with a new and finer appreciation of their native Pine Tree State. Right: Ralph is an ardent believer in the value of a snow bath as an aid to beauty and to the appetite, so—with Doug's willing help —gives Jeanne Woodward a good-natured dunking. Below: After a hot shower and change to slacks, the crowd spends the evening reading, playing bridge arid dancing in front of the fire­ place. When Day Is Done.... Tired mid happy after their round of activities, the Penguins bask in the enchantment of the open fire with a feeling of con­ tentment such as life in the open can bring—each with a silent promise to return to Rangeley soon.

18 THE PINE CONE Maine Communities

Rumford

The business center of Northeastern Oxford County is humming today with a multi-million dollar industrial expansion, drawing in new families, new ideas and a progressive civic spirit. On the edge of a recreational wonderland, it looks forward to a new era of economic prosperity and peaceful, healthful living.

By Richard A. Hebert

umford could be a case history built and the first paper mill was in R for scholars on the alert for new operation by mid-1893. Eight months frontiers in American life. later the railroad, now the Maine Here, in the heart of the Western Central, had been pushed ahead to Maine hills, is a mere stripling of a Rumford Falls and one hundred tons town, compared to the rest of Maine’s of freight were passing back and 350-year historical background. Yet, forth daily. Today this railroad today, it has safely crossed its ado­ branch originates the heaviest daily lescent stage and emerges throbbing tonnage on the Maine Central System. with the vitality of young manhood. Paper bags, newsprint and sulphite Only fifty-eight years ago, Rum­ pulp were the products of the first ford was a peaceful agricultural vil­ mills, but in 1901 the Oxford Paper lage, though it lay stretched out Company started up production with along the bank of the mightiest gorge only two small machines. Today Ox­ of the Androscoggin River. The ford is one of the largest producers Ellis and Swift Rivers came down of book and coated papers in the from the hills to join the overflow Country and it is certainly the largest from the Rangeley system at Hanover integrated mill making these papers and Mexico and the three reached exclusively. their climax in mighty Pennacook To Rumford and to Mexico, across Falls, where the combined rivers the Swift River, and to neighboring plunged 180 feet in three-quarters of towns, flocked the mill labor to keep a mile to form what has been de­ the machines running and expanding. scribed as the most magnificent cata­ French - Canadian, Scottish, Irish, ract east of Niagara. Lithuanian and Italian mostly, they The “ Island”—where the business became a part of the great “ melting center is now located—was hardly pot” process which makes America more than a mud patch in 1890 when unique in the annals of mankind. Hugh J. Chisholm and Waldo Pettin- Rumford’s boosters declare that the gill “ looked in wild surmise” at this amalgamation process is still notice­ tremendous display of power and at able, giving the community the atmos­ the tree-covered hills rising to the phere of a “ little metropolis.” skyline in every direction. Water, Unlike so many older Maine com­ electric power and forests—the three munities, it takes only a few months words spelled out PAPER; and it has to be accepted as a permanent resi­ been said that modern civilization de­ dent. Such is the present pace, in pends on paper. fact, that after a year or two, anyone The dam and power plant were may consider himself, and be so re-

WINTER, 1947-48 19 Rumford’s business center and part of the Oxford Paper Company are on an “island” in the Androscoggin formed by a canal whose gates are in the center of the picture.

garded by others, as virtually an old other civic and business leaders, timer. Rumford is similar to many seems based on fairly solid grounds. Aroostook Communities in this re­ First and foremost is a $10,000,000 spect, although many other Maine program of expansion and moderniza­ communities impart the same feeling tion at Oxford Paper, a program in recent years. actually started in 1946 and now halfway to completion, scheduled for A fter forty years of steady ex­ 1950. This centers around new build­ pansion and humming industry, the ings and new machines for “ machine depression of the Thirties hit Rum- coated” papers, a development of re­ ford hard. Population in the area cent years; and a new sulphite mill, fell off and commercial business vol­ which will utilize the tremendous ume shrivelled in tune with the con­ quantities of hard woods in the area tracted operations and payrolls of the for making bleached sulphate pulp. giant Oxford mills. During the early The present sulphite mill also will be years of the war, although the de­ greatly improved, along with greatly mands for paper had increased, the increased pulp storage and blending armed forces took a high proportion facilities. of the young men and women in the Power production also is being community, until the town’s popula­ stepped up, with a new high pressure tion had shrunk to an estimated steam boiler and a uirbo-generator 8,000 level. being added to the mills’ present From the mid-war period on, how­ hydroelectric and steam power sys­ ever, population has increased, until tems. it is estimated now at close to 12,000. In announcing its expansion pro­ But that is only the beginning, in gram, the company itself put it this the opinion of J. Merton Wyman, way: town manager. He confidently pre­ “ The completion of this current dicts an increase of another 3,000 program will keep Oxford Paper persons in the next five years. Company abreast of its competition This optimism, shared by most and protect the security of its em-

20 THE PINE CONE The new high pressure steam power plant, part of the $10,000,000 expansion program at Oxford.

ployees and the Town of Rumford.” District agreed to install more than Oxford employs more than 3,000 work­ $100,000 in sewers, roads and similar ers. facilities, accounting for the compara­ The Rumford Light Company has tively low price of the finished home started conversion from 40-cycle to on today’s market. The Cumberland 60-cycle power, the former cycle cur­ Construction Company, builder of war rent having been in effect since 1905. housing projects at South Portland, The changeover means that all Presque Isle, Houlton and other motors in use by the 5,000 customers Maine places is handling the project. of the Rumford Light Company must be converted or replaced. The work, A dd these and other minor ex­ made slow by the shortage of 60-cycle pansion and development programs in motors for home electric appliances, process in the area and one may see is expected to be well under way dur­ why employment is at a peak in the ing the coming year. Rumford area. It is generally ac­ The New England Telephone and knowledged that “ anyone who is will­ Telegraph Company also is putting ing to work, can find a job in Rum­ in a $1,000,000 plant expansion in the ford today.” area, including a new overhead cable At the Oxford mills alone, between between Rumford and Lewiston, com­ 500 and 600 tons of paper are being pleted last year. produced each day, and production is Forty houses of a new 100-home expected to increase month by month development already have been con­ during the next two years. The structed and the remainder may be weekly payroll at Oxford is just under completed during the coming year. $200,000 each week, or a total of near­ They sell at an average of $7,900 and ly $10,000,000 a year. the type of construction and layout Incident with Oxford’s expansion makes it one of the best housing de­ is the increase in the number of engi­ velopments going on today in the neers, research men and similar State of Maine. The Oxford Paper technicians needed for the program, Company donated the land and the all of whom tend to raise the eco­ Town, Village Corporation and Water nomic, cultural and social level of the

WINTER, 1947-48 21 area. Their influence on the civic an open hand, four hard-surfaced consciousness of the community al­ highway routes reach from Rumford ready is being felt. into the heart of the extensive Range- Company-community relations, al­ ley Lakes and Blue Mountains area. ways an important factor in Rum- All these finger routes extend off ford, are, by and large, among the U. S. Route Two, which runs through best in the entire Pine Tree State. A Rumford from Farmington to Bethel. present salutary step is an opinion On the west, branching off Route survey being made of the entire com­ Two at Newry, is the continuation of munity by the nationally - known State Route 26 to Upton, Lake Umba- Opinion Research Corporation. Ox­ gog and Errol, N. H., in the North­ ford is the first industrial firm in ern White Mountains. Next east is Maine to make such a survey and it State Route Five, branching off Route is regarded as the prelude to a Two at Rumford Point and Rumford forward-looking public relations pro­ Center, carrying through Andover to gram. South Arm, on Lower Richardson Most Rumford leaders believe that Lake. State Route 17 from Rumford the “ vision” and frontier exploring and Mexico, passes through Frye, which marked the founding of Oxford Roxbury, Byron and Houghton to Paper Company more than half a Oquossoc, in the heart of the Range- century ago is just as strong today ley Region, where Rangeley Lake runs in the new generation of management. into Mooselookmeguntic Lake. And Hugh J. Chisholm, the present presi­ at the forefinger, Route 142 branches dent of Oxford, is carrying on 'the off Route Two at Dixfield, going heritage of his late father. through Carthage to Webb Lake, Weld and the Mt. Blue State Park In the Rumford environs several Area. other industries, also based on wood, Such an immense natural play­ loom large in the economic picture. ground of lakes, ponds, hills, trout The BFD Division in neighboring streams and scenic beauty at its front Peru of the Diamond Match Company door, rates Rumford nearly ideal for employs some 600 workers and is one the “ Maine way of life.” While the of the world’s largest producers of “ finger” roads all lead into areas long matches and toothpicks. Expansion famous for sports and mountain to flatware also is being planned. scenery, the “ Rumford - Oquossoc” At Dixfield, the Stowell-MacGregor road has in recent years become an Corporation employs nearly 250 work­ important factor in Rumford’s busi­ ers in making spools, dowels and va­ ness life. Paralleling and crossing riety turnings. Numerous sawmills the tumultuous Swift River to beyond and smaller wood working mills in Houghton, it has been termed one of the area lend credence to Rumford’s the most scenic roads in Maine. claim to being the “ heart of the wood­ Besides its constant use by the resi­ turning industry in New England.” dent population, increasing numbers With such an industrial and com­ of tourists are using it each year to mercial resurgence taking place in reach the Rangeley area. As one the past two years, a spirit of opti­ nears Oquossoc over the “ Height of mism among business and civic lead­ Land,” or, as the residents say, “ Up ers is unavoidable. The Chamber of over the mountain,” one of the great­ Commerce estimates that some 50 est panoramic views in Maine is un­ new businesses have been started in folded, with Mooselookmeguntic and the area in the past two years, with other lakes and the mountains clear less than half a dozen failing to make to the Canadian border in view. Even a go of it. Rumford and Rangeley Region resi­ dents, who have been over the road Rumford’s strategic location in innumerable times, still admit that Maine also is regarded as a more every time they see the panorama, “ it than favorable augury. In addition takes the breath away.” to its industrial standing, it is the The “ Rumford-Oquossoc” road is last major business center on the black top to just beyond Houghton, threshold of the great hills and lakes more than half way, and “good area of Northwestern Maine. Like gravel” the remaining 15 or so miles. fingers extending from the palm of The black top is extended a little more

22 THE PINE CONE Look to the left at this business center intersection in Rum- ford and you will see the Hotel Harris, one of the best hotels in Maine. Look to the right and you see, across the canal, this winter pulp pile scene, one of the most extensive in the State.

each year and everybody says it is a the deepest annual snowfall in West­ foregone conclusion that “ it won’t be ern Maine (100 inches plus), now has long” before it is completely ma­ a thousand-foot tow and is blossoming cadamized. Extension to Houghton out as one of Maine’s best winter was begun as an ERA project and the sports centers. The skiing at Range- opposition it first encountered from ley lasts from November until late in the Route Four (Farmington to April. Local interests at Weld are Rangeley Village) interests has waned striving to obtain development of the considerably. Mt. Blue State Park area, which af­ Rumford believes that in a few fords similar excellent snow cover and years, with the completion of the terrain. black surfacing, it will become the Rumford itself sponsors one of the principal gateway to the Rangeley biggest winter carnivals in Maine and Region, as, indeed, it is nearly so now. the slalom course and new steel jump slide on Scott’s Hill is the scene of A ll these geographical and high­ regional ski contests. A Rumford way factors further mean that Rum- young man, Wendall Broomhall, is on ford, which is the normal trading the United States Ski Team this year area for some 25,000 residents, is at the Olympics in Switzerland. Two greatly affected by the seasonal busi­ community and one club skating rink ness increase brought by vacationers further attest to the enthusiasm for and sportsmen. During the summer Winter sports in Rumford. months especially, the population of Interest in sports continues the the area, more than doubles. Resorts, year round, however, at all age levels summer hotels, boys’ and girls’ camps of the school system. The various and vacationers generally, all add to Stephens High School teams, of the total volume of business flowing course, top community enthusiasm. through Rumford’s commercial and With trout streams and hunting service establishments. grounds only a few miles from the In tune with the current trend business center of the town, it is no toward making Maine a “ four-season” novelty to find commerce nearly at a state, the Rumford area has long been standstill on some warm Spring or noted for its excellent snow cover and Fall day. At such periods “ nearly winter sports terrain. Andover has everyone’s gone fishin’ ”—or hunting a ski tow, a winter carnival and is —as the season may be. noted for snow conditions often su­ perior to those found in the Eastern It is no secret that this nearness Slopes (N. H.) area. Rangeley, with to the “great outdoors” has helped

WINTER, 1947-48 23 the clean, crisp air, to be able to go fishing and hunting and swimming only a few minutes’ drive away, etc., etc. But most impressive of all, San and Steve will tell you of the hospi­ tality and friendliness of the people of the whole area, of a kind that they didn’t even know existed: of the op­ portunities for business, to be of ser­ vice. They are of a type of new citi­ zen and booster that is locating in Rumford today. Or take Tom Grace, who runs a modern general store at Rumford Center. Tom first came to Rumford from Massachusetts in 1939 as man­ ager of a chain department store. He found Rumford a “ good, healthy place to bring up a family.” He found it a place where “everybody helps every­ body else.” He found a hospitality he never before believed could exist. Before very long Tom was elected president of the Chamber of Com­ merce. He became president of the Rotary Club. He is a past exalted ruler of the local lodge of Elks. He went to the top in “ nearly every­ A spectacular jump at the new thing,” including the Northeastern Scott’s Hill steel jump slide. This Oxford Fish and Game Association. view shows some of the winter sports Just to make sure he wouldn’t have possibilities of the terrain. to leave Rumford, by transfer or otherwise, Tom left his company and set up in business for himself at Rumford Center, a business which has been growing from the very first day he bought it. make Rumford an attractive commu­ Tom likes fishing and hunting and nity to both old timers and new resi­ he finds plenty of both in the neigh­ dents alike. San Downing and Steve borhood. Greene, for example, were “ sold” on “ Plenty of fish, plenty of deer and locating a new electrical contracting this Winter I’ve had plenty of fun business in Rumford two years ago rabbit hunting” is the way he puts after they had made a weekend trip it. “ This life seems to have a fasci­ to Oquossoc to wire a summer home nation for us (he has three growing for a friend. They came back again boys) and we only go to the city once and again on weekends to make that in a while for a short vacation. And trip “ up over the mountain,” looked I could name you a dozen other men the situation over, and chose Rumford like me, who came to Rumford, liked to be the base of their postwar plans. it and have opened up new businesses Today their business is booming, here.” their payroll has grown to seven, and Town Manager Wyman is likewise they see no limit to what the future enthusiastic. has in store for the area. They won­ “ Stay here three or four years and der why they had never come to Rum­ the place grows on you,” he declared. ford sooner, even though both young “ You feel that you never want to men have seen most of the United leave it.” States. They would go on for hours, Mr. Wyman has a camp in the if they had the time, to tell you they Andover region and last Fall, when never knew what it was to live until his boy came up from Boston, they they located in Rumford, to breathe went to the camp one morning to go

24 IMP PIMP POMP These houses sell for $7,900. Forty of a projected 100 in this development have been completed.

hunting. Within half an hour each and surfacing is carried on and the had a deer. snow removal operations this Winter As an added proof of the way Rum- are rated far ahead of some other ford attracts and holds residents, he Maine cities. declared that an unusually large per­ While the school plant would gen­ centage of young men had come back erally be considered good by most from the service and were staying. municipalities, an alert citizenry, led New businesses are springing up by the League of Women Voters, is nearly every day, was the way he put demanding improvements. At this it. year’s town meeting, the citizens overrode the recommendations of the Rumford’s municipal finances are Budget Committee and voted through generally considered to be in excellent a $40,000 school renovation program. shape. The past six years have seen Other additional appropriations voted $153,000 cut from the town’s bonded beyond the committee’s recommenda­ indebtedness, with the total now out­ tions brought the added total to standing at $184,000, well below the $80,000 higher. This will mean an in­ statutory debt limitation. A town crease in the tax rate, but the ma­ council of five members governs, jority apparently believes that the along with the town manager. town’s prospects justify the outlay. The fire department is rated as one An interesting side feature to the of the best in the state for a town of school program is that while Rumford Rumford’s size, with an aerial ladder, has some 1,500 pupils in its public several pumpers and hose vehicles. schools, there are also 707 pupils in A steady program of road rebuilding two elementary parochial schools.

WINTER, 1947-48 25 Other civic needs in the minds of ford’s foremost boosters, and past residents are for playgrounds and president of the Chamber of Com­ parks, improvements at the athletic merce and the Maine Press Associa­ field and a gymnasium. More atten­ tion. The Times is one of the seven tion will probably be given to these ABC weeklies in the State of Maine. items in the next few years. Rumford has an airport and is One Rumford institution in which served by three bus lines, besides be­ the citizenry takes more than ordinary ing on the Maine Central System. pride is the Rumford Community Hos­ One of its three hotels, the Harris, pital, rated Class A by the ACPS. is one of the best in Maine. With 75 beds and modern facilities, Another measure of its prosperity it serves the entire population of is the total deposits in the Rumford Northern Oxford County. Falls Trust Company and the Rum­ But one of the hospital’s chief as­ ford National Bank, aggregating more sets is its Women’s Auxiliary, com­ than $12,000,000, which is a 50 per posed of women from Rumford, cent increase since 1939. Mexico, Dixfield, Bethel and sur­ Eight churches serve the religious rounding towns. To help pay the hos­ needs of the community, representing pital’s operating deficit and to pur­ Baptist, Congregational, Methodist, chase needed equipment, the Women’s Episcopal, Roman Catholic and Uni- Auxiliary once a year mobilizes the versalist denominations, besides a entire countryside to put on a mam­ Jewish synagogue. moth one-day country fair. Rumford people also are known as This is held on the first Thursday great “joiners.” Out of curiosity at in November in the Rumford Armory, one time, the local newspaper editor, largest assembly hall in the area. Everett Martin, counted 156 different Last year it attracted 10,000 persons organizations in the news within a and netted more than $14,000 for the few weeks. Auxiliary’s Hospital Fund. It is by With the Chamber of Commerce be­ far the largest single community ing revitalized, other large organiza­ event of the entire year, enlisting the tions in town include the Eagles, with aid of all organizations, and, to no 1,000 members, the Elks, various im­ small measure, “ the company” itself, portant Masonic groups, an active which donates manpower, trucks, etc., Knights of Columbus Council, the for the cause. Grange, Lions and Rotary Clubs, A complete lack of inhibition when BPW Club and the Searchlight Club, it comes to promoting the fair is a literary group. The League of Wo­ shown by the auxiliary. Besides go­ men Voters, mentioned above, is gain­ ing over the area with a fine-tooth ing rapidly. comb for every available and saleable A eood high school band, a Commu­ article that can be put up for prizes nity Orchestra in the process of re­ at the fair, the women last year circu­ organization, and a public library larized the governors of all 48 states also planning expansion are other cul­ for gifts. What amazed the hard- tural assets. The Superior Court for headed husbands of the auxiliary Oxford County divides its time be­ members was that 25 of the 48 gov­ tween Rumford and South Paris. The ernors responded. Rumford Courtroom is distinctive for In addition to oranges from Flor­ a mural by the late famous Harry ida, grapefruit packs from Texas, Cochrane of Monmouth, depicting maple sugar from Vermont, pecans Moses receiving the Ten Command­ from Oregon and a score of other ments. distinctive state gifts which were The Rumford Falls Times, which raffled off, the women gathered as serves the entire Northern Oxford prizes an automobile, refrigerator, a Area, is rated as one of the best week­ complete bathroom set, all manner of ly papers in Maine. Its publisher, appliances and so on, down to an­ Douglas Fosdick, is a former Maine tiques and hobby collections and Associated Press man, and his pro­ handicraft articles. gressive editorial policy is not only This year the women intend to in tune with the spirit of the region, spread their wings even farther and, but has drawn the attention of many besides the 48 state governors, to take Maine leaders. He is one of Rum- in a list of leading manufacturers in

26 THE PINE CONE Rumford Community Hospital, Class A and noted for the enthusiasm of its Women’s Auxiliary.

Maine, New England and the Nation concern. Then a fire cleaned them in their search for donations to the out. hospital Country Fair. One of the present sparkplugs of As one of the auxiliary leaders the Hospital Auxiliary, who herself asked: “ What have we to lose? It had come to Rumford only a few only costs a three-cent stamp!” The months before, started calling on the idea isn’t as far-fetched as it sounds. merchants and business men in Rum­ Besides, that gleam in the eyes of the ford. In a short time, with everyone Women’s Auxiliary is a $500,000 hos­ pitching in, a fund had been raised pital wing that is needed to keep pace large enough to start the brothers with the growth of the area. rebuilding and reestablishing their business. T here is an increasing conviction “ That’s the way people are around around Rumford these days that any­ Rumford,” said this estimable lady. thing is possible. Not long ago two “ When something like that happens, G. I. brothers, new to the area, bought all you need is someone to start the a farm outside town and within a ball rolling and everybody is willing short time were well on their way to to help out. I think Rumford is go­ building up a prosperous and going ing places.”

WINTER, 1947-48 27 Minstrelsy of Maine

Edited by Sheldon Christian

Editor of Poems A bout Ma in e : An Anthology, and T he W inged W ord: A Quarterly Devoted to the Poetic Arts.

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 S heldon C h r is t ia n , Editor, Minstrelsy of Maine Department, 10 Mason Street, Brunswick, Maine ; and should be accompanied by the usual stamped, self-addressed envelope for return of the material if not found available.

Northern Lights Winterlude

By E dith Morrison F ortier By Parke Grindell

T he constellations shivered A ll living things surrender to the As the sky of Earth was quivered frost; By the weird, ethereal flare of The icebound lake reports a driving Northern Lights thunder That rolls along the hills and then is The light of stars was paled, lost. ’Twas as though they looked and The pines and spruces bend down quailed under At the awesome, unreal sight of Their heavy load of snow, of lacquered Northern Lights. ice, That gleams like glass when captured The angels must have played by the sun. In the heavenly arcade And the tones of music swelled to such a height, A breeze makes branches click like rattled dice; That the overtone vibrations The snow has drifted high the Turned to visual coruscations, rabbit’s run. And the overtones were seen as And long since buried are the old Northern Lights. stone walls (Where oftentimes I’ve watched the Then the vibrant tonal sweetness weasel slink). Needed color for completeness The cattle stamp and puff in bedded So they added green and flame to stalls; Northern Lights. One has to break the ice that they may drink. Now the living liquid shimmer Made all earthly things grow dimmer, The countryside, as far as one can And we sought the face of God in see, Northern Lights. Is unadulterated poetry.

28 THE PINE CONE Country Snowfall Back of Town

By E dna S. E arle By A rthur R. MacDougall, Jr.

Deep in the low lands, slight on the I am the one to wake at night high hills, And travel narrow roads that run Quick to hide sheep paths and tumbled Between the hills and cease to be stone wall, In silver moonlight vagrancy, Drifting and sifting hard by the barn That only wild things know by sight sills, And need not wait the rising sun. Soft, fulgent flakes pack as they fall. Nights when the branches covered So many roads to empty farms with star dust, The wind has sown to birch and pine; Or where the lunar light spreads its That yield to creeping ambuscades soft glow, Of silence where the wild deer raids Or swaying cat-tails or grass in an The apples on the broken arms ice crust— Of Russet trees that are a sign. There glisten diamonds left by the snow. Forgotten roads that lead a man Where spruces shout, “ Next year we’ll Country snow lovelier than that in stand the city Across the trail and challenge you, Lies placid on meadows, and stretches And after that you’ll not get off white through!” To cover the toof-tops and hills. As if the forest had a plan What a pity To hide the shame of fallow land. All lives can’t reflect it, this peace of the night.

Maine Church Pirate Hawk

By A delbert M. Jakeman By Jean Milne Gower

Let this be symbol of a faith Spirit of outlawry, Beyond the transient things of earth, Embodiment of piracy, For here commingle elements A marsh hawk, cruising, ever cruis­ Of loveliness and deathless worth. ing, Are you some reincarnation of a pi­ The spire communes with midnight rate stars, Or of a smuggler? The noonday sun and wind and rain; Amidst the bold brash beauty of your Its ancient frame is bulwark strong feathering Against a world’s persistent pain. Is there, perhaps, a skull and cross­ bone sign? Within is quiet peace for all Watching the shadow of your seeking The needful people of the town, flight Where each alone may search his Above the moor along the blue sea’s soul edge, And know that God is looking down. My eyes grow dim. I’m thinking of my little feathered And never far are tall Maine pines friends That breathe eternal melody, Who breakfasted and supped with me And scent of salt spray on the shore on crumbs Where seagulls cry complainingly. All summer long and who have pecked upon my screen So heaven is not distant now, When I have been forgetful. And cares no longer interfere; There seem but few, these days, of For sweeter than a hymn or prayer, little pecking beaks— A benediction lingers near. And still you cruise and cruise.

WINTER, 1947-48 29 Hen - Folk Family Burial Ground

By Dolores Cairns By Beatrice H ussey Oakes

T hey scoop for baths a dusty hollow Sometimes with a sudden yearning Where they can fluff and scratch and She finds her eyes and heart return­ wallow, ing

And lie and gossip in the sun— To this, the place that she loves best This is, for hens, the height of fun! Where markers bear the words, “ At Rest.” They saunter idly here and there; One croons and trills a quavering air, Comfort is the thing she craves, Or stands and turns up at the sky And here among familiar graves What seems a speculative eye, Life and death go hand in hand. Uttering, for the public good, They earned their living from the Some cryptic weather platitude! land

Deliberately they lean to drink, And now they lie in fields they tilled, And tilt their heads, and stare and Their mortal voices ever stilled. blink, And shake their beaks, and then run fast To catch some bug that’s flying past. Covered Bridge

As twilight falls, they push and By Muriel Doe T hurneysen flock Before their house, to stand and talk, A heap of rubbish and a pair of bars Across the road block the remem­ Craning and peering, as if in doubt bered way Whether to enter or stay out. To the old covered bridge, unsafe to­ day At last, convinced that shelter’s best, For heavy trucks and careless speed­ By twos and threes they go to rest. ing cars. ♦From The Winged Word, copyright 1947 No doubt its gray dilapidation mars by Sheldon Christian. The modern splendor steel and stone display A few rods downstream. Still it seems to stay As much a part of things as trees Seagulls and stars. Stray shafts of sunlight fall through By Louise Darcy widening cracks Where boards have warped . . . here Between two elements, lies the Past asleep; Water and air, The bolts that held the arch are You soar with outspread wings, turned to rust; Forever there. No buggy wheels spin by, no great hayracks Beneath the azure sky Go rumbling through, but splintered You spiral now; floor-planks keep Above the cobalt waves Their traffic record in the ancient You plummet low. dust. ♦From The Winged Word, copyright 1947 Ever you wheel between by Sheldon Christian. The cloud, the foam, Two realms of blue and white Fused into home.

30 THE PINE CONE By E lizabeth A. Mason

in t e r CAME early, so we’ve been organized by Mrs. Frank S. Tolman W sitting ’round the Cracker Bar­ and Mrs. Jeremiah S. Ferguson (both rel, toasting our feet on the Round deceased). Oak Stove, and picking up the news “ Maine Daughters in Mass.” are a several weeks now. mighty active group. Mrs. Chester Out in Pasadena homesick Maine Merrifield, 175 Main St., Waltham, folks may have a baked bean supper is Chairman of the Scholarship Fund (4 th Wednesday monthly at 6:30 for Maine’s rural boys and girls about p. m.) for $.60 or $.70 and hob-nob which we hope to learn more. with lots of other Maine people in the Pasadena Maine Society held at 922 Man y Maine G. I.’s are good Am­ E. Mendocino, Altadena. Mrs. Verne bassadors for Maine while attending Kelsey (Pres.) 395 E. Orange Grove, schools all over the U. S. Such a or Mrs. Cora Dudley (Sec.) 1166 No. G. I. couple are Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Michigan will tell you more. Barley (Bethel), at the University of In Washington, Providence and Wyoming (Laramie). Ex-Wave Becky New York more Maine people gather B. (Pine Cone contributor Spring ’47) too. Erlin Fogg (1020-19th St. a graduate student in history was N.W.) will tell you when the D. C. just initiated as a Thorn Rune meeting is held. That Pine Tree (American College Quill Club) mem­ State Club in Providence is lively and ber on basis of ber creative writing. this year Mrs. Linwood Gardner (49 Army G. I. Bruce B. is an honor stu­ Hanover St.) and Miss Sally Hilton dent Freshman. (30 Wichford) are Pres, and Sec. Speaking of veterans, on Dec. 2 at Mrs. Ralph G. Stone (2205 Foster Goff’s Falls, N. H., New Hampshire’s Ave., Brooklyn) writes that: only surviving Civil War Veteran “ From the North and South, East James Lurvey, native of Palmyra, and West, we invite all Mainites to Me., celebrated his 100th birthday. be our guests.” , referring to the Maine folks in St. Petersburg cele­ monthly meetings of the “ N. Y. Maine brated Christmas with a party chair- Women” held the first Saturday of manned by Mrs. Taylor of Ellsworth. each month at the Hotel Astor (2.30 How our “ Natives” do travel! New p. m.). President this year is Beulah commercial attache at Karachi, Pakistan, is Wiscasset’s James Ross, E. Wittee, Brooklyn, and Correspond­ husband of the Daniel Sortwell’s ing Secretary, Isabel Whittier, New daughter, Elizabeth. York City. This group has met since In Washington many Maine people March 14, 1903 (Can any other Maine are employed, among them Mrs. Har­ Club boast a better record?) when riett Stevens Gray (Inter-State and

WINTER I947-4R Foreign Commerce Senate Sub-Com­ Mayland Morse as senior member of mittee on Aviation) and her brother the law firm, Morse and Grant, Con­ Robert who is with the Congressional cord, N. H. He is the Chairman of Aviation Policy Board. Their home the N. H. Public Service Commission in Maine is Spring St., Augusta. and very active in the Concord C. of C. W e’ve been doing research on what Engineers, Insurance men, Indus­ field some of our Maine people choose trialists—we have them all! Everett to follow while living away from Libby, former Rockport School Board Maine, and find so many making no­ member, has been with Hartford Ac­ table contributions we think a special cident and Indemnity Co. for 17 years paper devoted to such news called for, and is Safety Engineer. The Libbys but here goes with just a few items live in Manchester, N. H., and Eliza­ we’ve picked up— Dr. Kenneth Farns­ beth L. (a former Maine school worth (Dark Harbor) Lincoln, Mass., marm) is Pres, of the Y. W. C. A. a U. of M. and Harvard graduate— Board there. also American College of Surgeons— Waterville’s Karl R. Kennison has has been visiting surgeon at Boston the distinction of being the first City Hospital for 25 years, and con­ Chief Engineer for the newly created sultant in Gynecology and Obstetrics Construction Division of the Metro­ at many hospitals. Kennebunk native, politan Mass. District Commission. Dr. Elfred Leech, Bowdoin and Johns When you ate your Christmas cran­ Hopkins is Assistant Director of berry sauce did you realize that the Homer Folks Tuberculosis Hospital, initiative of Marcus Urann (native of Oneonta, N. Y., while new Supt. of Sullivan), Hanson, Mass., helped as­ Mountainside Hospital, Newark, N. J., sure the cranberry supply—he’s Pres, is Dr. Herbert Wortman (Howe of the National Cranberry Associa­ Brook native and Colby Alumnus). tion as well as Director of the Federal Do you wonder where all our Maine Land Bank of Springfield, Mass, (see teachers go? Here’s an idea: Prin­ Sat. Eve. Post Jan. 3.) cipal of Percy Bugbee Practice School And out in So. California one hears (Oneonta State College, N. Y.), is Dr. that Vassalboro’s Thomas J. Rey­ Willis P. Porter (Houlton). This is nolds heads the So. California Gas. one of 5 top teacher training schools Co’s. Legal Department. in U. S. In Providence Palmyra born Maine people report the news else­ Leland Goodrich, Ph.D., is Political where too— for Waterville is repre­ Science Prof, at Brown University. sented by John Roderick, AP’s corres­ He has served as Executive Secretary pondent in Peking, China. of the World Peace Foundation and is a member of Maine Central Institute’s T he Pine Tree State produces men (Pittsfield) Board. Another Maine and women for many distinguished man also teaching Political Science is roles for may we remind you that Norman Palmer (Hinckley), a Colby currently a Steuben boy, Kent Smith, graduate, who is at the Wharton has been playing with K. Cornell in School, Phila., Pa. Anthony and Cleopatra on Broadway. In N. Y. State serving many years We wish we had space to recount on the Board of Directors of the Rural the long and distinguished military Church Institute and doing outstand­ career of General Kenneth Lord of ing work in rural sociology is Miss Rockland, who retired on Oct. 1, 1946 Evelyn R. Hodgdon (Wiscasset), after 35 years of active service, he Assistant Prof, of Education at One­ was at that time Commanding Gen­ onta State Teachers College. eral of the Eastern Defense Com­ A Machias man, and Rhodes mand. General and Mrs. Lord Scholar Dr. John Powers is surgeon (Helen Cooper, Rockland) have two on the Mary Imogene Bassett Hos­ sons, Lt. Col. Kenneth Lord, Jr., and pital Staff, Cooperstown, N. Y. One Attorney Herbert Lord, New York recalls that Dr. Powers father was City. General Lord has just com­ many years head of Machias Normal. pleted an industrial survey of the Caribbean littoral. Doctors, teachers, well what of One of the U. S.’s most dis­ our legal men? Well, there’s a Madi­ tinguished zoologists, explorer, and son-born man and U. of M. Alumnus, lecturer and yes, even erstwhile

32 THE PINE CONE breeder of silver foxes is Robert resentatives (maybe Unity’s Kano- Thomas Moore, who claims as home kulus Fish and Game Club should Borestone Mt., Monson, but winters claim it). at Flintridge, Pasadena, Calif. He One mast of the Constitution was has made many zoological trips to cut on the C. E. Fowler farm, and Ecuador, and has done outstanding hauled by 16 oxen to Sebasticook Lake Ornithological Studies—he’s a fellow (It must be confessed that one pair of the Royal Geographic Society in hauled the rum!). One of the first London, and his many achievements men to explore certain sections of occupy several inches of Who’s Who Yellowstone National Park was space. Charles Cook of Unity, and in Bill­ Our Southport Summer Residents ings, Montana resides Frank Clark Assoc. Exec. Committee met in Bos­ who was Unity born and who has ex­ ton in December. Present were Earl tensive mining interests; and in Rob­ Hurst of Long Island, N. Y., Geo. erts, Montana, resides Elisha Clark, Elderhin of Princeton University, his equally successful brother, now Chas. Bolster of Cambridge and Allan ninety. Frank Clark is helping to re­ Furber of Milton, Mass. store the Quaker Hill Church in Unity. Then, Mary Baker Eddy W hen we see how versatile our spent a winter in Unity. residents and non-residents are from all over Maine, we are duly impressed, Sitting here by the cracker barrel but not too surprised at the astound­ munching Macintoshes, we recall how ing list of dignitaries Mrs. Virginia long Farwell’s General Store in Farwell names as one time residents Thorndike has been open. Oscar Far- of her town Unity. Small towns seem well started it in 1876 and the sons, to give a good impetus towards suc­ Bill and Dick, subsequently joined the cess, if the following is an indication! firm—operating it today. Now the Nelson Dingley lived all his boyhood store carries a more complete line of in Unity becoming Governor in 1877. merchandise than most first class Another Governor, Fred Parkhurst, country stores, to say nothing of the as an infant took up residence in furnishing of a good place to settle Unity. Nathan Farwell went to the town affairs close to the stove these U. S. Senate in 1864. George Chase wintry days. born 1844 in Unity became Bates Col­ In the early days the Farwells lege’s President (1894-1919). bought cowhides, dried apples, sheep A founder of Bangor’s First Bank pelts and produce. Orders for 150 was Nathan Ayer, born in Unity, kegs of nails were not uncommon, and 1817. One of the first boys’ camps before haying they always ordered 25 in the Country was Camp Winnecook barrels of common crackers to supply started by Herbert Rand of Unity in 1902. Oilcloth manufacturer Reuben each local farmer with a barrel. We Brackett, who lived near Quaker Hill think you’d enjoy some day a visit to Church, was the first man in the a good old time store like Farwell’s. U. S. to apply rubber to fabric—not Hope you enjoy the way we assimi­ only that but his son Walter became late the news enough to help keep us America’s greatest painter of fish— posted — we’ll be waiting at the his cod hangs in Mass. House of Rep­ Cracker Barrel.

WINTER, 1947-48 33 Made In Maine

The third in a pictorial series on Maine industries by Staff Photographer William A. Hatch again indicates the amazing diversity of Pine Tree State Products. These are from the extensive photo file being assembled by the Maine Publicity Bureau to acquaint both Maine people and customer prospects with the firms and articles produced in Maine.

Below: Every fisherman will start thinking of Spring, with its trout brooks and open lake fishing while watching these trout flies being finished at the Percy Tackle Company, Portland. Started as a hobby, this firm now produces hundreds of thousands of flies, leaders, spinners and lures every year. Above: This Maine pine log is starting on its useful career at the Pine Tree Products Company at Belfast, which turns out large quantities of barrels, boxes, pallets and similar products.

Below: Wooden bowls of all sizes, some with hand painted designs, are the postwar industrial contributions of two former G. I.’s, who have started the Downey and Thompson salad bowl factory at Kittery. Above: Maine’s important metals industry is here represented by the Record Foundry and Machine Company, of Livermore Falls. Here workers are pouring a casting for an 18-inch gate valve ordered from Holland. This company ships valves and other industrial items all over the world.

Below: Paint brush handles and shaving soap mugs for two of America’s largest cosmetic firms are only a few of the hardwood turned and shaped products of the Brewer Manufacturing Company of Old Town. Above: Old Town Canoe Company’s 18-foot Guide Model begins to take shape as Maine cedar ribs are carefully bent over the form which has been used for this model for the past 20 years. Old town continues the “know-how” of one of the oldest industries in the State of Maine, an industry which antedates the advent of the white man in the Pine Tree State.

Below: Desk tops are one of the wood product specialties of Nelson Page & Son, Inc., of Mechanic Falls. Boxes and flat wood novelties and other furniture are other items in their production line. By June L. Maxfield

henever I begin to draw ma­ Party fare is the business of the W terial together for an article in day, hence our subject this time. May­ this group, no matter what the time be I can share your holiday merry­ of year, my first thought invariably making by offering a helpful idea or is, “ Hm . . . this should be easy. Bet two . . . hope so! it’s everyone’s favorite season, just as it is mine!” Now, after ten con­ secutive seasons of thinking this same Baked Apples with Cranberries thought, I’ve virtually concluded that most people, me included, think along An old-time dessert, dressed up the same lines about four times each with a holiday flair, becomes the main year. We look forward to the good attraction for a late evening dessert weather, good times and seasonal or midnight lunch. With this year’s sports of each coming season, to dis­ bumper crop of fine apples, it’s well cover we’d forgotten that Winter worth while to make the most of them. brings slippery sidewalks as well as The following directions will prepare good ski snow; that with Spring six good-sized baking apples . . . can comes mud on the golf green; that easily be altered to fit the size of your hay fever goes on summer picnics and party. sniffly noses come home from autumn Wash and core the apples and place football games. in a baking dish. Fill centers with Then here we are again, stubbing prepared cranberry sauce, pouring our toes over another season of holi­ remaining sauce around the sides of days, wondering how happen they the apples. A generous 2x/z cups of came around so soon this year, and sauce should be used. Sprinkle a planning to make this the most festive tablespoonful of sugar over each year ever; for there’s no denying that apple (brown sugar is extra de­ the winter holidays have a special licious!) and bake in a moderate oven charm of their own. Forgotten is the (350°F) about 40 minutes, or until skidding mercury in the warmth of the apples are soft. Baste frequently hearthside glow and friendship’s with the cranberry sauce. cheer. To make the cranberry sauce, pick It’s the party season, and even with over and wash 4 cups of cranberries. the traditional family gatherings of Combine 2 cups of sugar with IV2 Christmas and the New Year past, cups boiling water, bring to a boil and there’s much to look forward to cook for 10 minutes. Add berries and through the months of St. Valentine, cook until they stop popping. Skim Abe Lincoln, George Washington and top, pour into a howl and set aside to St. Patrick. cool. Cranberry Pie Popovers While we’re on the subject of cran­ Here’s the supper attraction that berries, let’s give them their full speaks for itself . . . always makes a share of the limelight here. One of hit with family and friends. the oldest kinds of pie in Maine, this one has long been a favorite during 1 cup flour 1 tsp. melted the holiday season. From the good 1 cup milk butter authority whence came the recipe in­ 2 eggs, well tsp. salt to my hands comes the assertion that beaten the molasses is the making of it. Sift flour and salt together and gradually stir in milk, mixing well. Add the well- 1 qt. chopped cranberries beaten eggs and melted butter and beat 2 Vi cups sugar hard for two minutes with a rotary egg- beater. Pour into buttered custard cups 1 tbsp. molasses or iron popover pans that have been thor­ 1 heaping tbsp. corn starch oughly heated. Start baking in a hot oven (500°F) until the popovers puff, then re­ Dissolve corn starch in a little cold water duce the heat to moderate temperature and add boiling water to make % cup in (35 0°F ) and brown. It requires about 30 all. Combine with other ingredients, in­ minutes to bake popovers. cluding ti tsp. salt. Fill pie shells made from a rich dough and bake in a moderate oven. This recipe makes enough filling for three pies. Oatmeal Macaroons Many cereal grains—especially oat­ Fruit Polls meal—still maintain the high place in the recipe file which they held in An extra-special kind of biscuit can early days. Though their popularity turn your holiday supper into the talk before depended upon the availability of the town . . . and we’ll bet on these of cereals for cooking purposes, many to do the trick every time! We’ll old recipes have survived because they leave the choice of filling up to you are appealing as well as nourishing. . . . or, if you have my difficulty in deciding, you can always follow my 1 cup sugar % tsp. vanilla course of making half of each. 1 cup rolled oats % tsp. salt 1 egg white 'A cun grated For the biscuit dough! cocoannt 2 cups flour % cup milk Add salt to egg white and beat until stiff, 5 tsp. baking % tsp. salt then gradually add the sugar, beating con­ powder 3 tbsp. shortening stantly. Fold in the rolled oats, cocoanut and vanilla, mixing well. Drop from the Sift flour, salt and baking powder to­ tip of a teaspoon onto a greased pan and gether. Work in the shortening with finger bake in a moderate oven (3 5 0°F ) for tips or pastry blender. Add milk (sufficient twelve minutes. for a soft dough). Place on a floured board and roll as thin as possible (not over V2 inch thick). Maple Bisque Now for the choice:

(1) Brush with the melted butter and Dolly Madison, history tells us, spread with any desired sweetened fruit was the first person to serve ice cream (preserved cherries, strawberries, pineapple, in this country. However, it’s easy raspberries, peaches, apples, etc.) Roll up like a jelly roll and cut into pieces about to see that some ingenious New Eng­ three inches long. Pinch ends together so lander devised this way of using his that fruit juice will be retained. Bake in a own maple syrup to different—and hot oven (42 5°F ) about fifteen minutes. Rolls should be turned once or twice so that delicious—advantage. they will brown evenly. 1 pint cream (2) Brush with melted butter and 1 cup thick maple syrup sprinkle with chopped maraschino cherries, 4 eggs, separated citron, bits of preserved ginger, raisins, chopped dates and chopped nutmeats. Roll Beat the egg yolks until very thick and up like jelly roll and cup into pieces 1 % add the syrup. Heat over a vejry low fire, to 2 inches long. Stand up on cut edge, or in a double boiler, only until hqt, stir­ brush tops with butter and sprinkle with ring constantly. Cool this mixtures Beat brown sugar or cinnamon and sugar. Fol­ the egg whites stiff and the cream to a low same instructions for baking, except froth. To these add the syrup. Freeze in for turning. refrigerator trays.

W IN T E R . 1947-48 39 Molasses Candy Beat yolks of eggs until light and lemon- colored ; then add sugar and cream well. Add the vanilla. Sift the dry ingredients In the days of our forefathers no together and stir into the egg mixture. Add holiday was complete without a taffy the nuts and raisins. Fold in the stiffly pull. To my thinking, it’s a lost art beaten egg whites. Pour into an oblong buttered pan and bake in a moderate oven that should be recovered—and the (350°F ) for 20 minutes. While the cake sooner the better. To be sure, ready­ is still hot, cut into squares and cover with made candy is easy, good, and in powdered sugar. plentiful supply, but you don’t want to discount the fun that can be had in pulling a batch of molasses candy! Crabineat Patties 3 cups molasses G tbsp. vanilla % cup sugar % tsp. baking For that “ something extra” when 2 tbsp. butter soda you have guests . . . a recipe to whip up in a hurry and still taste as Cook together the molasses, sugar and vinegar until a drop of the mixture forms though you had a full-time maid in a hard ball when dropped in cold water. the kitchen . . . we’ll count on this Remove from the tire and add the butter one to be the hit of the party. and soda. Pour onto buttered platters and pull as soon as it is cool enough. Crabmeat 1 egg Bread crumbs Cream or milk Butter Lemon Apple Pie Soak breadcrumbs (used in about equal quantity to crabmeat) in cream or milk, When lemons appeared on the making a thick mixture of it. Add the American cooking scene they made beaten egg, butter and crab meat, flaked. their way quickly to the dessert de­ Canned crabmeat may be used if fresh is not in season. Form into cakes and fry partment, for there is a certain some­ in butter until brown. thing about the tingling tartness of a The feature that makes this a four-star lemon dessert that is particularly special . . . it can be made in advance of serving time, set aside in the refrigerator, satisfying after a hearty meal. At and used when ready. first these desserts compromised with the old familiar ways, as is shown here, but later days found them firmly Lobster Stew established in their own right. 2 lemons, juice 1 % tbsp. flour No party menu for a sit-down sup­ and grated rind 2 tsp. butter 1 large tart apple 2 eggs per is complete without steaming 2 cups sugar bowls of a savory soup or stew. Anil everybody’s favorite is mine, too, I’ll Peel and core the apple and chop very fine. Add to this the strained juice and bet. ’Nuff said! grated rind of the lemons and the flour 2 lbs. lobster 1 cup cream and butter. Add the sugar, separate the Butter Salt and pepper eggs, beating the yolks until very thick 3 cups milk and folding in the stiffly beaten egg whites. Add to the other ingredients. Bake in one Boil the lobster and remove the meat. crust. Cut into small pieces and fry in butter until it is lightly browned. Scald the milk, add the lobster and cook slowly for five min­ Bishop’s Bread utes. Add the cream and bring up to the boiling point. Season with salt and pepper. One more proof that the old and To make the most of its flavor, let it set tested in culinary art holds a firm for a few hours, reheat, and serve. place in today’s kitchen . . . an old- timer, dressed up, to be sure, with the almonds and raisins, but still retain­ ing its basic goodness. You’ll find it a favorite, too, especially with after­ June L. Maxfield, assistant in the noon tea or coffee on a brisk winter advertising department of the Union day. Mutual Life Insurance Company of 4 eggs, separated 1 cup almonds, Portland, contributes her tenth in this 1 cup sugar blanched and series on Famous Maine Recipes com­ 1 cup flour chopped (or 2 tsp. bakiDg other nut piled from the extensive file of old powder meats) Maine recipes which the company has 1 cup raisins Pinch of salt collected. 1 tsp. vanilla Powdered sugar THE MAINE SCENE

Latest Maine “ house organ” is “ The Wedgie,” published for employees of the Wilner Wood Products Company of Norway (Pine Cone, Winter 1945-46). Breathing confidence in Maine industrial prospects, “ The Wedgie” notes that in January the company used more than 1,000,000 feet of lumber and had a plant payroll of more than $100,000. The Wilner firm is now one of the Nation’s largest producers of wedgies and wood heels.

Latest estimate of the total being spent in Maine for indus­ trial expansion is $42,500,000, largest amount for any New Eng­ land State. This does not include planned expenditures for rail­ roads, highways, power, stores, residences, public institutions, etc.

T he C. F. Hathaw ay Company in Waterville (famous quality men’s shirts) plans to expand its output by one-third in the next six months and add up to 200 new workers. It now em­ ploys 550. Another Maine company expanding.

Miss Doris W right, city clerk of Eastport the past five years, has just been appointed City Manager, becoming the first woman city manager in New England and possibly the first in the United States. Maine now has 90 city or town managers, the highest proportion for any state in the Nation.

Oddest nature note in Maine this Winter was the insomnia of Maine bears, many of which, for the first time in the knowl­ edge of game wardens, were prowling around in the deep snow in the woods in mid-winter. Word of the phenomenon started a nation-wide controversy between zoologists and outdoors ex­ perts.

A standard sailing Maine Camp Boat, has been designed by William H. Millett, naval architect of Damariscotta, in cooper­ ation with the Boys’ and Girls’ Camp Owners’ Association. Twenty of these will be built this year.

WINTER 947-48 (Photo Cned it*:

Front Cover: Patty Cook of the Penguin Ski Club, Portland, on the ski tow at Rangeley. Process plates by Waterville Sentinel Engravers.

Rangeley, Made In Maine, Rumf'ord, Bar Harbor and Back Cover: by William A. Hatch, Staff Photog­ rapher.

Northeast Harbor and Bass Harbor: by W. H. Bal­ lard, Southwest Harbor, Mt. Desert.

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42 THE PINE CONE White Magic

By A l b e r t R a l p h K o r n

Now Winter waves a magic wand We walk enchanted ground; Ice glazes every brook and pond, Each bush is crystal-crowned.

Meadows are alabaster-white, Transfigured by the snow That fell so softly in the night On worlds we hardly know.

Pale sunlight cannot hope to break The spell so strangely cast. A diamond caught in every flake! A treasure, bright and vast!

Far as the dazzled eye can see, And miles and miles beyond, This white, miraculous con jury Of Winter’s magic wand! Maine Snowstorm

By Inez Farrington

he valleys gleam like frosted cake T The hills like an ice cream cone, The dark pine trees seem to settle down, With a whisper and little moan. The chick-a-dees peek from beneath the boughs, Chattering at their play. For this is their own and native land, And the world looks good today.

Down by the brook there are tiny tracks, Where a rabbit ventured out, Frightened perhaps by some far off sound, Or the blue-jays playful shout. Boys and girls hunt forgotten sleds, The hills echo back their glee, For this is their own and native land, And things are as they should be.

Diamonds twinkle on each little bush, Today they can hold their own, With the stately maple who nods at them Like a queen on an emerald throne. A new, pure beauty hides yesterday’s scars, Jewels sparkle in alley and lane. For this is our own and native land, Things are just as they should be in Maine.

(Reprinted from N orw ay A d v e r t ise r -D e m o c r a t )