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1 ® 5 3 N I M M K K I 7 !“ <=A Page Wells and the Kennebunks .... Richard A. Hebert 3 A Profile of the Region Stock Car Racing in Ma in e ...... Victor A. Schlich 10 Thrills and Chills on the Speedivay Why Maine Attracts Summer Visitors Adrian H. Scolten, M.D. 15 Maine Has Interesting People Betty Curtis’ Look-alike Do l l s ...... 16 A Hobby That Paid Off T he Town that Lived for the Outdoors Edmund Ware Smith 18 Greenville, Maine A Drive Do w n ea st...... Ruth Harvey 22 From Portland to Calais This Summer in Ma in e ...... 29 1953 Calendar of Events Around the Cracker Barrel ...... 34 Minstrelsy of Ma i n e ...... Edited by Dan Kelly 39 Maine’s Sea Lex in g to n ...... Janie Michaels 43 August...... Addison Liberman Back Cover

THE PIN E CONE SUMMER, 1953 VOL. 9, NO. 2 Published Quartrely by THE STATE OF MAINE PUBLICITY BUREAU PORTLAND - AUGUSTA - KITTERY - BANGOR - NEW YORK Ma n n Offic e: 3 St. J ohn S t., P ortland 4, Maine GUY P. BUTLER WILLIAM A. HATCH Executive Manager Editorial Manager PINE CONE SUBSCRIPTION: $1 A YEAR (Printed in Maine on Maine-made Paper) 300 Years After:

Wells and The Kennebunks

This Summer, the York County coastal towns of Wells and Kennehunkport celebrate the 300th anniversary of their founding as Maine’s third and fifth incorporated townships, respectively. Appropriate celebrations are planned. Herewith, an up-to-date profile of the region.

By Richard A. Hebert Community Promotion Manager

he three towns of Wells, Ken- months, quickly burgeon into a bus­ T nebunk and Kennebunkport, in tling, albeit decorous, area filled with the center of the York County beach vacationers, artists, writers, yachts­ area, have a combined population of men and hotel guests. Having been 8,116 residents. developing the resort business for This Summer, and every Summer more than 75 years, the area can take nowadays, an estimated five times th a t the annual influx of visitors and vet­ number will throng to this coastal eran summer residents in stride. Most area to occupy its several score hotels important physical attraction of the and inns and the hundreds of sum­ three towns and chiefly responsible mer cottages for seaside vacations. for the concentration of resort activity Many thousands more will visit the is the nearly 20 miles of fine sand beaches, or make day motor trips beaches, interlaced with river inlets along the towns’ scenic by-ways on and bold headlands, stretching from sparkling summer days. Perkins Cove to Hoyt Neck. Tens of thousands of other travel­ The rivers, all of which have pic­ lers to Vacationland will pass through turesque tidal inlets, are the Josias, the townships via U. S. Route One, Ogunquit, Webhannet, M e r r i 1 a n d, One-A and the Maine Turnpike, en Mousam, Kennebunk, Batson and Lit­ route to vacation destinations further tle. Named beach areas include Ogun­ north and east in the Pine Tree State. quit, Moody, Wells, Crescent, Kenne­ From normally quiet Maine coastal bunk and Goose Rocks. communities for nine months of the Back from these beach areas an year, the three towns, in the summer average of five to eight miles are roll-

SUMMER, 1953 3 Nearly twenty miles of fine sand beaches are interlaced with bold headlands such as this scene along the Kennebunkport shoreline.

ing farm and forest lands, criss­ ing and fishing playgrounds. Families crossed with highways and rural that have held property in the area roads, making as eye-pleasing a pros­ for more than 200 yea?s, as well as pect as can be imagined. newcomers established there for only a few seasons, sense the “charm” with Before the white man set eyes on which the region holds its residents. this region, it was a favorite of Maine Even though the word itself is Indians. They, too, made summer en­ wholly inadequate, this “charm” has campments along the river inlets and found expression everywhere through­ beaches. Their relics have been found out the region, in prose, poetry, paint­ at many places in the area. Their ing, photography, architecture and fondness for this summer playground wood carving. It is even the source probably contributed to the fierceness of the area’s strongest economic im­ with which they eventually sought to petus today, for much of this Vaca- expel the first settlers as “intruders.” tionland’s economic strength is based From a distance of three hundred on the “repeat business,” which re­ years, many of today’s residents of turns year after year, held by the the area will admit they can under­ spell of natural beauty combined with stand the resentment of the Indians deep-rooted historic associations. Even over the encroachment of the white so, modern techniques of communica­ man on one of their favorite hunt­ tion and promotion are not neglected

4 THE PINE CONE to attract a constantly increasing stream of new vacationers each year.

Many years ago, Maine people learned that the vacationer of today very often becomes the permanent resident of tomorrow. As in many other towns throughout the State, the advent of the automobile and the building of paved roads during the past thirty years has made possible a pleasant, graceful living in small com­ munities, with satisfying employment in small industries located anywhere in the nearby area. Daily commut­ ing of up to 25 miles is considered almost insignificant today. While Wells and Kennebunkport re­ Turbat’s Creek, Kennebunkport, main essentially residential and vaca­ tion communities, Kennebunk, the most populated town of the trio, in re­ cent years has attracted medium- size textile and shoe plants. These tributive and service trades. The are by far the largest single employ­ three towns also contain a higher than ers among more than a score of small­ average number of economically in­ er plants and shops in the three dependent retired persons, as might towns, nearly all of which employ be expected from the naturally pleas­ less than 25 workers. Lumber, wood ant environment. products, boxes, boats, cabinet work, All three towns have their quota shoe parts, and printing make up of historic houses, many of which are other principal products. open for visit, especially on “Open With agriculture and sea and shore House Days,” held annually. Prob­ fisheries, along with manufacturing ably the most famous of these is the and the vacation-travel industry, mak­ “Wedding Cake House” in Kennebunk, ing up the basic economic components constructed by a ship’s carpenter in of the area, a reasonably balanced the early Nineteenth Century. Its or­ economy is evident, supporting nearly nate scrollwork and “gingerbread” 100 business establishments in the dis- typify the almost forgotten exterior house decorations of that era. Many of the historic mansions, especially in Kennebunk and Kennebunkport, Many thousands visit the beaches. were built by prosperous sea captains, with interiors and furnishings of pe­ riod elegance. Their owners were the builders and sailors of world-famous vessels which journeyed to the Seven Seas and brought back to Maine Oriental and European articles and ornaments. These helped to establish a peculiarly international flavor to the area, which lingers to this day.

A lthough settled a few years later than Kennebunkport, then known as Cape Porpoise, the Town of Wells ranks as third incorporated town in Maine. U ntil 1820, it included the area of the present Town of Kenne-

5 Kennebunkport

Cape Porpoise

6 THE PINE CONE Perkins Cove, Ogunquit

Wells Beach

SUMMER, 1953 7 lage was separately incorporated by the Legislature in 1913 as a relatively autonomous village area within the township. Wells will celebrate its 300th An­ niversary with a special program on August 29, 30 and 31. A parade of historical floats, exhibitions of an­ tiques, curios and old houses, colonial church services, field day and barbe­ cue, plays, clambakes and street danc­ ing will be among the features. Wedding Cake House, Kennebunk. Kennebunkport, or “Cape Porpus,” had been visited by fishermen as early as 1602 and by Samuel de Champlain in 1604. He gave it the name of Port aux Isles. Captain John Smith named it “Porkpiscis,” a mixture of English bunk, which became Maine’s 238th and Latin, from the many porpoises town. A part of Kennebunk was set he observed there. The native pro­ off again to Wells in 1868. nunciation of “Cape Porpus,” under Wells was founded by the Rev. John which it was incorporated in 1653, Wheelwright and a group of Puritan lasted for nearly 60 years, before the dissenters from Massachusetts. In the spelling “Porpoise” appeared on offi­ early Colonial period, it was the ro­ cial records. mantic setting for Indian warfare, In 1719, the town’s name was witchcraft and maritime activities. changed to “Arundel,” after the town For three hundred years it has re­ had been resettled following devasta­ mained a town untouched by indus­ tion by Indian raids between 1689 and try, with only a few lumber and boat­ 1713. The present name of Kenne­ building activities, yet it enjoys an in­ bunkport was adopted in 1821 and in ternational fame for its sandy beach­ 1915 a portion of the township was es, scenic walks and drives, surf fish­ set off to form the Town of North ing, art colonies and summer theater. Kennebunkport. Its three principal settlements are The actual village of Kennebunk­ Wells, Webhannet and Oqunquit, with port lies at the southern tip of the minor settlements at Perkins Cove town, at the mouth of the Kennebunk and Moody. U. S. Route One pro­ River. Cape Porpoise is today the vides the approach to all these shore name of the original village, a fisher­ areas, while the Maine Turnpike pass­ men’s haven, a few miles to the north­ es through the township a few miles east. Goose Rocks Beach and Curtis west of Route One, with a traffic in­ Cove are on the northern shoreline of terchange for Wells and Sanford. the town. With the rise of the vacation-travel As the first settlers were seafaring industry over the past 75 years, Ogun- people, the town still boasts many quit has become the most publicized old sea captains’ mansions. Booth area within the township. It is an Tarkington and Margaret Deland Indian name, meaning “Beautiful were among the most famous writers Place by the Sea,” given it by the who made their summer homes in Ken­ Natick Tribe, which inhabited the nebunkport. Its present most famous region before the white man came. writer-resident is Kenneth Roberts, This area has a “Marginal Way,” born in Kennebunk, who took the town a well-kept path following the rock- for the setting of his famous novel bound coast from the mouth of the “Arundel.” Many of its characters Ogunquit River to Perkins Cove, at were conceived by him in the light of the southernmost corner of the town­ his observations of local personages. ship, a center for artists, fishermen, The town today has some 15 large shops and tea-rooms. Ogunquit Vil­ summer hotels.

8 THE PINE CONE Royer S. Bragdon’s oxen will participate in the 300th Anniversary of Arundel celebration, symbolizing the region’s historical past.

Kennebunkport plans a summer- the West Indies. This prosperous mer­ Ions celebration of its 300th Anniver­ chant shipping and shipbuilding era sary, beginning with a traditional grew during the first half of the 19th bonfire and fireworks the night before Century and the Kennebunk River be­ the Fourth of July and ending with came one of the important centers of a three-day country fair over the La­ shipbuilding and trade along the bor Day week end. The observance Maine coast. The former custom house will include old-fashioned clambakes, there is now the Louis T. Graves a horse show, a tasting tea, hobby Memorial Library. Several cruise shows, street dances and formal balls, schooners will visit Kennebunkport and Colonial Sabbath observances. this Summer to revive memories of the An art exhibit will feature the work town’s former glory in the sailing of outstanding Maine artists, many of days. whom summer in the region, and a As the sailing ship era gave way memorial showing of the work of Ab­ to the age of steam in the late 19th bott Graves, A. N. A. There will be Century, the town began to develop also a series of Open House Days, its resort economy, a trend still in progress. sponsored by the Kennebunkport His­ Thus does the Wells-Kennebunks torical Society and a revival of Ken- area of Maine look back on its first nebunkport’s famous River Carnival. 300 years as organized communities A fter Indian raids ended in 1727, —proud of a colorful history, con­ the town began to expand and pros­ scious of unusual natural advantages per. Lumber and fish were the basic and optimistic over the prospects of industries, with growing exports to continued growth and prosperity.

SUMMER, 1953 9 Stock Car Racing In Maine

The deep-throated roar of stock cars churning their way around hundreds of small tracks from Maine to California is sweet music to the ears of millions of stock car racing fans throughout the country. For them it holds the promise of thrills and chills.

B y V ic t o r A . S c h l ic h

tock car racing is on the upswing mechanical equipment that does not S in Maine. It was introduced to the deviate from the manufacturer’s orig­ state four years ago and is still grow­ inal specifications. ing. Each week thousands of enthusi­ Call one of the drivers “hot rod” asts flock to the tracks and cheer on and you’re likely to get your ears their favorite gas buggy drivers. pinned back by a verbal blast. Sure, The rapid growth of this new sport the boys like to race. Sure, they’re is due largely to the promotional ef­ known for a heavy foot on the gas forts of two organizations made up of pedal. But they’re also known for car owners, drivers, mechanics and their safety regulations. And it’s just plain friends. They are the Maine those regulations which enabled Maine State and Pine State Stock Car Rac­ to enjoy four years of stock car rac­ ing Associations. Both groups con­ ing without a single driver fatality. duct racing under a strict set of rules Maybe the drivers have extra hard and regulations. heads under the heavily-padded crash Stock car racing in Maine often is helmets they’re required to wear. called “the poor man’s racing game.” Maybe their bones aren’t as brittle as It gained this reputation because just ours seem to be. But it’s more than about anybody can own or drive a just luck which protects them from stock car. Many of the owners or driv­ injury. Next time you have a chance, ers are barely out of their teens. Long look inside a stock car. on desire and ambition, but short on Nothing very pretty to see, we’ll cash, their technical know-how never­ grant you. Seldom is there much of theless is on a par with the best. a floor, and all the seats and window glass except a windshield are ripped W hat is a stock car? You ask. out. Everything that isn’t absolutely Basically, it’s a hard top passenger essential to make a car run is tossed car stripped down for speed racing. aside in the quest for more speed. Regulations stipulate that stock cars But you will see things inside that racing on Maine tracks must have would go far toward cutting down

10 THE PINE CONE A stock car is a hard top passenger car stripped down for speed racing.

the annual highway death toll if in­ 2 p.m., though Sunday dates may be corporated in regular car designs— dropped later. things like steel bracing welded to the Three are dirt tracks. Sanford is frame. The driver’s seat also is weld­ the only macadam track in the state. ed to the frame, and he always must Sanford and Beech Ridge are one- wear an airplane type safety belt. third mile in length, while Unity and Precautions like these enable driv­ Oxford Plains are half-milers. ers to clamber grinning and unhurt Beech Ridge Speedway was the first from crackups and rollovers that leave Maine track built specifically for stock spectators gasping for breath. It’s car racing. It was put up in 1949 by nothing to see a car roll over several James B. McConnell of Scarborough, times, absorbing what appears to be whose venture earned him the nick­ brutal punishment, and then have it name “Father of Maine Stock Car Tightened by a wrecker ready to run Racing.” The Sanford and Oxford in the next race. Plains ovals were built in 1950. Unity is a harness track converted for gas Stock car racing fans in Maine buggies. this Summer will have four tracks to It was Beech Ridge which pioneered choose from for their weekly diet of many of the safety devices developed thrills and spills. These are the Beech for spectator protection. Wheels Ridge Speedway at Scarborough, just breaking loose from fast-moving cars outside Portland and a half-mile from literally are carriers of death. The Route One; the Oxford Plains Speed­ only two spectator fatalities at Maine way, located on Route 26 in Norway; tracks were caused by flying wheels. the Sanford Speedway, on Route 109, They occurred several years ago be­ three miles east of Sanford; and fore protective fences were installed Unity Fair Grounds, located on Route to keep the wheels on the track. 202 at U nity in central Maine. There is ample protection provided Beech Ridge has races carded for for drivers, too. Here again Beech Wednesday and Saturday nights at Ridge offers a good example. An am­ 8 p.m. Unity and Oxford Plains plan bulance and doctor are on hand in the 2 p.m. Sunday races. Sanford will track infield during every race meet. run Fridays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at If a car develops trouble spelling po­

SUMMER, 1953 tential danger to other cars on the of the line. This permits a handicap track, traffic signals installed at the type of race start. four turns are called into action. Winners of the various race events These lights function like the traffic get points, and prize money, as set lights you see at street intersections, up in the regulations. Prize money and the colors mean the same thing. depends on the attendance at each On red all cars come to an immediate meet. The larger the crowd, the halt. Flashing yellow means caution, larger the purse. but the race continues. Green is all Although the driver faces trouble clear. confidently because of the many safety devices, there’s one man involved in T he average meet offers specta­ the race who has nothing but a pair tors eight separate races. As in har­ of eyes and nimble feet between him ness racing, there are qualifying and death at all times. He’s the flag­ heats. Generally the first four or five man or starter. to finish in each heat qualify for It’s his job to get races started the feature race. Non-qualifiers run properly, to give drivers flag signals in the consolation race. The first on the progress of the race as they three to finish in this event are allowed whizz by, and to wave off cars dis­ into the final race, too. In addition qualified for driving faults or mechan­ there are two semi-final races and ical troubles spotted by observers. the feature race. Heats are ten laps, Doing his job puts the flagman out on the feature 20 laps or more. The the track as the cars hurtle by. others are 15-lappers. Tracks aren’t wide enough to per­ T he best known flagman in Maine mit all the cars to start evenly. Con­ circles is a quiet-mannered Portland sequently they line up two by two in milkman named Harold V. Ellis. But Indian file at the starting line. Cars if you want him to pay attention when or drivers with the most points earned you call, you’d better call him “Lefty.” in previous races are put at the rear His job is one which insurance com-

Safety precautions enable drivers to clamber grinning and unhurt from crackups and rollovers.

12 THE PINE CONE It’s the flagman’s job to get races started properly.

panies won’t cover, and the reason is baseball spikes, for his protection. The obvious after you’ve seen a few races. feet, together with eyes that seem to Close brushes with death are a steady be looking in all directions at once, so diet for Lefty. far have kept Lefty out of any serious Looking back on three years as flag­ trouble. man at Beech Ridge and other Maine Stock car drivers are, as a rule, tracks, Lefty recalls most vividly two young men with a thirst for speed close brushes involving driver Real L. th a t can’t be slaked on Maine’s 45- “Butch” Boucher of Saco. Both oc­ mile-an-hour highways. They’re a curred during races in Lewiston. courageous lot despite their youth. On one occasion Lefty lost a pair Typical of the spunk and grit that of pants to Boucher’s fast moving car. are a must in any good driver’s physi­ Lefty was on the track giving drivers cal makeup is South Berwick’s Dick a flag signal when Boucher’s car G arrett. whizzed by a bit too close for comfort. As it tore by, the car caught Lefty’s D ick suffered a crippling attack pants. His pants went down the track of infantile paralysis when a young with Boucher as Lefty ducked for boy. He exercised countless hours be­ cover. fore he could regain any use of his Another time Lefty turned from withered left leg which cut short the waving a car off the track because it usual boyhood activities and sports. was disqualified, only to see Boucher Determined to participate in some kind roaring down on him in his Number of competitive sport despite his crip­ 66. There w asn’t time to do much of pling illness, Dick chose the most anything, but Lefty is used to quick thrilling of all—auto racing. thinking. He jumped up onto the hood Here’s what Sports Editor Blaine of Boucher’s oncoming car, escaping E. Davis, of the Portland Press Her­ almost certain death. ald, had to say about Dick in one of He looks to his nimble feet, shod in his “Maine-ly Sports” columns:

SUMMER, 1953 13 “He is a daring and intrepid driver, contribution to the development of to­ though not a reckless one. His tim­ day’s automobile. ing and uncanny judgment of distance It can safely be said that virtually and speed are recognized everywhere every improvement in automotive drivers meet. His performances are equipment and every new safety de­ all the more remarkable because he vice was paid for in blood by the tools the ton or more of speeding heavy-footed racing drivers who were metal on tarred and greasy tracks the real pioneers of the industry. although he occasionally has to move Old-time tires were thin, uncertain his cramped and tired leg with his and unsafe. The stock automobiles hands. That’s a neat trick, if you can of three and four decades ago—like get away with it—riding a roaring those raced on the sands a t Old Or­ car no hands while using them to move chard Beach in 1912—weren’t able to a weakened leg.” provide the sustained wear and pound­ But Dick Garrett isn’t the only ing that would show up the bugs. But driver with an interesting story. There the racers tore them apart and ripped are others. Take Harold Wood of them open. The special tires that were Portland, for example. Known as a manufactured for the racing cars soon hard driver on the track, Wood an­ after were placed on the market for nually wins safe driving awards for all. his accident-free handling of heavy Hard usage on sliding turns and the trailer rigs. Then there’s Art Proulx rough pounding of dirt tracks showed of Gorham. He piled up a reputation up the vulnerability of the steering as a rough competitor while main­ knuckle. The engineers went back to taining an excellent reputation as a their shops and designed one that even school bus driver. the harsh grind of the 500-mile In­ And Norway fans always will re­ dianapolis race couldn’t break. Today member 15-year-old Glenn Andrews, it’s standard equipment on all cars. the state’s youngest driver. Glenn de­ liberately rolled his car over and over T hese discoveries made at a ter­ in front of the Oxford Plains grand­ rific cost to the grimy race car pilots stand to avoid running into a group are a contribution to the safety and of track officials m inistering the flag­ pleasure of present-day driving. man struck down just seconds before These drivers were hard-bitten by another car. gamblers who recognized the odds every time they sped down on a start­ Yes, stock car racing is a sport er’s flag. It’s a good thing for the au­ which doffs its hat to none in offering tomotive industry that more of their spectator thrills. But it also has a kind still are providing the tests on more valuable, more lasting side hundreds of auto race tracks from as well. It has made a permanent Maine to California.

Great Northern Paper Company, currently building a big new power generating plant at Ripogenus Dam, has just announced that two new high-speed newsprint ma­ chines will be installed at the East Millinocket Mill. Con­ struction and installation will take an estimated 20 months, but will treble production at East Millinocket and bring the plant to equal capacity with the Millinocket Mill. The entire multi-million dollar expansion program further will establish Maine as one of the most important newsprint areas in the world.

14 THE PINE CONE Why Maine Attracts Summer Visitors

By A d r ia n H . S c o l t e n , M.D.

This is the time of year when people world but the people who live in them from many states come to Maine for use their own pronunciation of the their vacations. There are 43 states names. of the United States that are going These interesting people—many of after the summer business this year them—live in white houses with green but we who live in Maine are con­ shutters along elm-bordered streets vinced that we have the most to of­ in small villages and many of them fer. I sometimes think that too little live where their fathers and grand­ is said about the people of Maine. We fathers lived before them. Their roots get so absorbed with the beauty of are in the soil and there they stay. the landscape that we give too little In this age of so much that is hectic attention to the people who live here and transient this is a useful and and people are always more important pleasant way to live. Many people than places. work and save all of their lives so We talk about the green hills and that they can come back and spend quiet farms of Maine, her deep for­ their old age in a quiet country vil­ ests, centuries old, pungent with the lage. smell of pine which give peace to One thing Maine is beginning to do tired minds and sleep to weary eyes. for itself that has long been needed We tell the world that Maine still has is the improvement of its road mark­ virgin forests which have never known ings. Visitors and natives as well will the axe of man. All of this has power­ appreciate this improvement because ful appeal but the publicity writers it has been as easy to lose your way seldom write much about its people. in Maine as it is to slip on the ice They seem to leave that to the story on a w inter’s day. book writers and Maine certainly has New England towns have appeared its own lush crop of writers. so much in literature that teachers In addition to the abundant forest­ and students of history and literature land of Maine, her rocky promontories come to see these towns. Often, if which have withstood the stress of driving, they pass through without storm and wave, her clear streams realizing they have been there unless that bubble over stony beds and her they chance to see the name over a inland lakes—calm and crystal clear bank or a school. It would be a simple —as beautiful as they were when the matter to place the names of towns Indians silently paddled them in their on wayside signs for the traveler to canoes—in addition to all this, Maine read with perhaps a line of descrip­ has people, interesting people, salt- tive information. of-the-earth people. People who are If we make Maine a pleasant place native Americans as well as large to travel about in, our visitors will settlements of the foreign-born who come again. We want to make them congregate in industrial centers who feel that we like them for the kind of have adopted America. Maine is full people they are, not just for the money of little towns named Norway, Swe­ they spend in Maine. Then we shall den, Denmark, Mexico, Paris, Calais, see them when vacation time comes Vienna. They are named for the old round again.

SUMMER, 1953 15 Betty Curtis’

Look-Alike Dolls

rand Lakes Stream, way down in Washington GCounty, is well known to sportsmen the nation over as a hunting and fishing center but is hardly the place one would think of to go shopping for dolls. A few years back, a man and his wife moved there from out-of-state. The man to establish a business, the woman, simply because it was where her husband went. Not content busying herself with the usual household chores, she eventually set up her own business and called it the “Old Post Office Gift Shop.” Soon after, a friend recognizing her cre­ ative talents, asked her if she could make a doll for her small daughter.

L- Fi i Replicas of Maine guides, sports and Game Warden, in a setting de­ le tin g Grand Lakes, was used for Betty Curtis’ exhibit at the Maine Publicity Bureau office at Kittery recently. A visitor on see­ ing this exclaimed as if greeting an old friend, “W hy that Warden is Virgil Ladd!”

This started Betty Curtis off on a in minute detail as to color, style and new tack. Soon she discovered the fabric. futility of trying to compete with The unique treatment of Betty Cur­ commercial children’s doll manufac­ tis’ creations have won the acclaim turers and hit upon the idea of copy­ of doll fanciers far and wide. Her ing live models and pictures from the dolls have been exhibited at the Doll- old family album. ology Club of Washington, D. C., the Although claiming to be neither annual Doll Show held at St. P eters­ sculptor nor artist, Betty’s dolls have burg, Florida and the Curtis family’s a startling life-like appearance. After Great Aunt Sophronia can be seen at trying and discarding numerous pro­ the Wenham Museum in Massachu­ cesses, she has discovered a fabric setts. covering for the face and body that What started as a hobby has devel­ is a very close resemblance to human oped into a sizeable business for Mrs. flesh. Curtis. Although she has made no The dolls, about a foot high, are effort to publicize her dolls, recogni­ first cast in clay or plaster, the face tion through write-ups in national is molded, then formed in her own magazines and displays of her handi­ composition material that is flexible work have resulted in requests from and can be shaped in any position. all over the country for Betty Curtis The eyes are inserted and the crepe reproductions of favorite friends and hair applied. Clothes are designed relatives.

SUMMER. 1953 17 The Town That Lives For The Outdoors-

Greenville, Maine

By E d m u n d W a r e S m it h Managing Editor, Ford Times Magazine (Re-printed by permission of the Ford Times)

ou know the town is right there be in Folsom’s store, you hear an­ Y below you, but you can’t see it. other bit of talk—the business es­ You know the great, wilderness-reach­ sence of Greenville and the lake. ing lake is there, too. But now, in the early morning, looking from the win­ A man from Iowa, or New York, dow of Room Number One in the or Montana parks his car on a mound Hotel Greenville on the hill, you can of asphalt in front of Sanders’ and see nothing but the expanse of fog steps inside. —dense, cotton white, as motionless as He says: “I want to outfit for the a damp giant holding his breath. Allagash and St. John River trip.” In this situation, you hear the town This is routine for Harry Sanders. of Greenville, Maine, and you hear It was routine for his father and Moosehead Lake—before you see them. grandfather. It’s a strange and fascinating intro­ “How many, and how far downriver duction. A loon gives its long, sad, are you going?” he asks. wilderness call, and far away an­ “To Fort Kent. Four of us.” other answers from a cove. A band “Come back in a couple of hours,” saw whines from a mill, and you can says Harry; and the voyager may almost smell sawdust. An outboard rest assured that in two hours’ time motor starts with a roar, and stops. he will have canoes, guides, tents, The new Diesel on the Bangor & provisions and a supply of dry Aroostook R. R. fills the valley with matches adequate to his journey. a hollow moan. A door slams, and The wilderness region which serves dialogue takes place between two men and is served by Greenville and the unknown, unseen, their voices a glad lake inspired Whittier’s poem, “To cry flung by the mysterious acoustics a Pine Tree.” And a hundred years of the fog. ago this summer, James Russell Lo­ “Any luck yesterday?” well savored the lake and forest on “Four trout and two salmon.” a canoe trip on which he saw for the “W here?” first time a young lady dressed in “Off Dry Point.” bloomers. Far from being shocked, You could say that the lake and the the poet realized that the maiden’s town are talking, and that theirs is garments were well suited to a land a special communion. In Sanders’ especially designed for hunting, fish­ store, which is 114 years old, or may­ ing and camping. So he awarded his

18 THE PINE CONE one time was an important lumber- inf? community. Its homes are the only remains of the splendor of by­ gone days.

If you enter the Lincoln House, as I did, through the old part, here is the original kitchen with its huge brick fireplace and Dutch oven look­ ing now much as it must have looked 150 years ago. The room is at ground level and now makes an inviting re­ ception room with its planned com­ bination of the old and the new in its furnishings. In the morning, Mrs. Eastport is the easternmost city in Casey and her mother very kindly the U. S. showed me over the house. Every room is furnished in keeping with tradition, and every one has a name. I had slept, so they said, in the “Min­ ister’s Room.” Mrs. Lincoln’s room, route which has the reddest sand I a very large and sunny one, had its have ever seen. own fireplace and a hidden closet The road now passes through heav­ deeply recessed within another closet. ily wooded country in the town of It was pitch black in there—a perfect Baring which is the headquarters for hiding place from Indians! .... I the Moosehorn National Wildlife wonder what they did use it for? Sanctuary. I hoped to catch a glimpse I would like to have tarried longer of some wildlife here, but it must have in Dennysville and perhaps seen a been the animal napping hour as lucky fisherman pull in his salmon, the only sign of life was in the pass­ but the open road was beckoning. My ing automobiles. next destination was Eastport, the Calais, the next city on my itiner­ easternmost city in the United States. ary, had to be the “turning around” Eastport is directly across Cobscook point of my journey. My capsules of Bay from Lubec, a short distance by time were nearly gone, and I regret­ water but about forty miles on the fully had to forego the idea of see­ highway. Here at Eastport is another ing that world famed fishing country spectacular view that I found out be­ around Princeton and Grand Lake yond the edge of the town on a head­ Stream. land overlooking Passamaquoddy Bay. Calais too is a prosperous little Standing here, I gazed across to New city—with an international air—as Brunswick and beyond, across the here is one of the principal points of giant Bay of Fundy to the far-away shores of Nova Scotia.

A fter leaving Eastport, through Perry and Robbinston there are many / gazed across to New Brunswick. beautiful views of the Canadian hills and a glimpse or two of St. Andrews- by-the-Sea with its hilltop resort hotel dominating the town. At Perry is a stone monument which marks the ex­ act median point between the Equator and the North Pole .... And some people try to tell us that Maine is just next door to the Pole! Beyond Robbinston is a little community known as Red Beach. It derives its name from a beach beside the main

SUMMER, 1953 ago to mark the international bound­ ary line between the United States and Canada. On Dochet Island De Monts and Champlain wintered in the year 1604 making this the first recorded white settlement in America north of Florida.

Heading home again, I sallied forth bravely on Route 9, commonly known as the “Airline.” The Airline passes through the wilderness and lake coun­ try of Washington County, and had it not been fishing season would doubt­ Calais, a principal point of entry less be a lonely road indeed. Which from New Brunswick and Nova is not to say that no one travels this Scotia. route, because I have heard of many who have. It is the shortest route be­ tween Bangor and Calais and through the years has been the subject of much “cussin’ and discussin.” There entry from New Brunswick and Nova are just a very few communities Scotia. There is much to make the scattered over its eighty-odd miles, tourist happy, all sorts of fine accom­ but there are some beautiful views modations, especially cabin colonies. of woods and lakes and hills. The As a matter of fact, accommodations road is being improved constantly, and in the Washington County area which at present much of it is ready for I had already covered were plentiful. the inevitable top surfacing. I won’t No one traveling in this country need be sorry to see that good black top if worry about where to stay for the I go that way again. I must confess night. You will not have to go far I’m somewhat of a “city gal” and like to find just about what you want. a cushioned ride without the snapping Here at Calais is Dochet Island, and banging of gravel under my tires. formerly known at St. Croix Island, I am not such a pioneer after all. which was dedicated several years Home looked good.

The Town of Unity, which celebrates its 150th anni- vei-sary in 1954, will have its first complete history of the Town published prior to the celebration. James Vickery, Jr., head of the English Department at the Dexter High School has been collecting facts relative to the early his­ tory of the Town of Unity for 15 years. His book, orig­ inally intended as a thesis for a Masters Degree at the University of Maine, is being sponsored by the Maine Historical Society. Vickery is a direct descendant of five generations of the Vickery family of Unity. * * * The Mt. Kineo Hotel at Moosehead Lake is the latest Maine Resort Hotel to add an outdoor swimming pool to its facilities. The new pool, 75 x 35, contains 85,000 gal­ lons of water pumped from Moosehead Lake through Bowser Filters and a clorinator system.

28 THE PINE CONE Th is Summer In Maine

The dates and events scheduled for Maine during the 1953 summer and fall season have been obtained from usuallv reliable sources, however, the PINE CONE cannot assume responsibility in the case of changes or omissions in this preliminary tabulation.

GENERAL EVENTS Aug. 8: “Doc’’ Grant’s Pet Show, Rangeley. July 1-5: Camera Tour, Rangeley Aug. 8: Doll and Hobby Show, Lakes. Castine. July 3-4: Old Timers Reunion and Aug. 9: “Doc” Grant’s Annual 4th Celebration, Eastport. Children’s Day and Doll Carriage Pa­ July 4: Fireworks, Naval Cruis­ rade, Rangeley. er, Bar Harbor. Aug. 10-11: Community Fair, July 4: Old Fashioned Fourth West Point. Celebration, Blue Hill. Aug. 12: Summer Visitors’ Hos­ July 4: Fireworks Display, York pitality Day, Damariscotta Informa Beach. tion Bureau. July 4: 4th Celebration, Thomas- Aug. 14: Beaux Arts Ball, Range- ton Park, Thomaston. ley. July 4: Soap Box Derby, Farm­ Aug. 15: Bean Hole Bean Bake ington. and VJ Day Celebration, Hallowell. July 5: Fireworks and Doll Car­ Aug. 15: Giant Bean Hole Bean riage Parade, York Beach. Bake, Cumberland Fair Grounds. July 11: Horse Show, Kennebunk- Aug. 15-16: Western Rodeo, port. Skowhegan Fair Grounds, Skowhegan. July 11: Annual Fireman’s Field Aug. 16-22: Regional Products Day, Wilton. Exhibit, Damariscotta. July 15: Community Fair, Owl’s Aug. 17-18: Miss Maine Pageant, Head. Skowhegan Fair. July 15: Country Fair, Ogunquit. Aug. 21: % Century Club Annual July 18: Maine Press-Radio Wo­ Meeting, Lewiston Armory, Lewiston. men’s Outing, Snow Bowl, Camden. Aug. 22: All Morgan Horse Show, July 18: Lions Club Horse Show, Woolwich. York Beach. Aug. 27: Natural History Club July 19: Fashion and Fur Show Flower Show, Turner Center. on Boardwalk, York Beach. Aug. 30: Old Tim ers’ Fiddling July 22-23: Old Bristol Flower Contest, York Beach. Show, Newcastle. Sept. 5: Grand Mardi Gras Block July 26: Beauty Contest, Miss Dance, York Beach. York Beach, Yoi’k Beach. Sept. 6: Beauty Contest, York July 29: Cinderella Block Dance, Beach. York Beach. Sept. 7: Labor Day Observances July 27-Aug. 1: Maine Products in Most Maine Communities. Week—Displays in most Communities. Sept. 11-12: 2nd Annual Retired July 28-Aug. 1: Shakespearean Skippers’ Races, Mt. Desert Island. Festival, Garden Theatre, Camden. Oct. 1-8: Maine Newspaper Week, Aug. 2: Old Time Field Day and Sadie Hawkins Race, York Beach. University of Maine, Orono. Aug. 5: Founder’s Day, Home for Oct. 2-3: 2nd Annual Fall Foliage Aged, Newcastle. Festival, Rangeley. Aug. 5-7: State of Maine Writers’ Oct. 21: Annual Hunters’ Break­ Conference, Ocean Park. fast, Old Town.

SUMMER, 1953 29 HISTORICAL Art Exhibition, University of Maine, Orono. July 3-4: Centennial Celebration, July 6-Aug. 14: Summer Work­ Veazie. shop, Bryn Mawr Art Center, Sulli­ July 3-Sept. 7: 300th Anniversary van. of Arundel, Kennebunkport. July 12: Handicraft Sale, Win- July 5: Re-enactment of sub­ throp. mission to Massachusetts to be July 15-Aug. 15: A rt Exhibit, held at Wells. Kennebunkpoi't. July 15: Open House — His­ July 15-Sept. 1: Summer Art Ex­ torical Society. hibit, Walker Museum, Bowdoin Col­ July 26: Colonial Sabbath, lege, Brunswick. South Congregational Church. July 19-Aug. 31: Maine Coast July 30: “Ships Cargo” Fair— Artists Show, Rockport. Cape Porpoise. Ju’y 23-25: Art Exhibit, Ells­ Aug. 7: Arundel Lodge—Wash­ worth. ington Bi-Centennial. July 27-31: Maine Antiques Show, Aug. 14: Open House, Histor­ Camden. ical Society. July 27-Aug. 1: Penobscot Bay Aug 21-23: Reunion, Clough- Craftsmen’s Show, Camden. Cluff Families. Aug. 2-8: Art Week and Boat Re­ Aug. 23: John Clough Gene­ gatta, Rangeley. alogical Society. Aug. 3-7: 16th Annual Antiques Aug. 29-31: Celebration at Wells. Fair, Kennebunk. Sept. 5-7: Country Fair, Arun­ Aug. 22-24: Annual Art Show del Grange. and Exhibition, Five Islands. July 6-12: Sesquicentennial Cele­ bration, Wilton. MUSIC July 11: Open House Day, Ells­ worth. June 29-Aug. 25: New England July 16: Open House and Gardens Music Camp, Oakland. (Public Sun­ Day, Camden-Rockport. day Concerts). July 14-19: Edna St. Vincent Mil- July 7-Aug. 24: Organ Recitals, lay Week, Camden. Kotzschmar Memorial Organ, City July 25: Henry Knox Birthday Hall, Portland. (Tuesday, Wednes­ Celebration, Montpelier, Thomaston. day, Thursday and Friday). July 2 8 -Aug. 1: “Old Peabody August: Domain School for Con­ Pew” Revival, Buxton. ductors, Hancock. (Public concerts, Aug. 1: Casco Day, Casco. Wednesdays and Sundays). Aug. 8: Old Bristol Day, Pema- July 13-Aug. 22: The Berkeley quid Beach. Summer Music School, North Bridg- Aug. 14-16: Centennial Celebra­ ton. (Public concerts, Wednesdays and tion, Belfast. Thursdays). Aug. 29-31: 300th Anniversary, Town of Wells. FOOD FESTIVALS Sept. 7: Sesquicentennial Cele­ bration, Harmony. July 10-11: Annual Maine Broiler Days, Belfast. ARTS AND CRAFTS July 11: “World’s Largest Chick­ en Barbecue,” City Park, Belfast. July 1-Aug. 31: Maine Water July 23 - 25: Aroostook Agricul­ Color Society Annual Exhibition, L. tural Carnival, Caribou. D. M. Sweat Memorial Art Museum, July 31-A u g. 2: Annual Maine Portland. Seafoods Festival, Rockland. July 1-Sept. 1: Special Exhibits, Aug. 1: Freeport Lobster Festi­ William A. Farnsworth Library and val, Freeport. Art Museum, Rockland. Aug. 22: Annual Blueberry Festi­ July 6-8: Antiques Show and Sale, val, Stockton Springs. Newcastle. Sept. 6: First Annual Corn Festi­ July 6-Aug. 15: Summer Session, val, Farmington.

30 THE PINE CONE Greenville, on State Highway 15, is the doorstep to Moosehead Lake.

Sanders’ Store, in Greenville, is 114 years old.

SUMMER, 1953 19 Greenville, the result of a collaboration between Sanders’ store, Moosehead Lake, and the Great Northern Paper Company.

blessing to bloomers, and predicted Moosehead, so named because its that they might come into general shape resembles the antlers of a use—“When women believe that sense moose, is about thirty-five miles long, is an equivalent of grace.” and from one to twenty miles wide. Mr. Lowell, Greenville, Moosehead It is New England’s largest lake— Lake and women have all proved out. mountainous, islanded, most of it for­ Today, except in black fly season, you ested in spruce, fir, pine, beech and can count a thousand or more ladies birch. in shorts in Greenville and vicinity. Greenville, on State Highway 15 about twenty-five miles north of Guil­ Someone has said that Greenville, ford, is the doorstep to the lake, and Maine, is the result of a collaboration to a hundred miles of almost unbroken between Sanders’ store, Moosehead wilderness fanning outward a n d Lake, and the Great Northern Paper northward to the Quebec border. From Company. Thanks to the Great North­ the high hill above town, when the ern’s logging operations and road fog lifts in the morning, you can see building, you can drive almost around part of this wilderness—with Squaw the lake. The company is currently Mountain and Kineo rising from the building a road which will open up lake. miles of formerly inaccessible por­ You can see boats and canoes put­ tions of the Penobscot River’s west ting out from innumerable sporting branch. This will give Greenville camps for the day’s fishing—trout, more of what it has always had—ac­ salmon and lake trout. A little sea­ cess to the finest fishing, hunting and plane takes off, the w ater blown to camping in the northeast. vapor which trails from its pontoons.

20 THE PINE CONE The pilot is George Later, Maine’s weekly, tells how Gene Dupre, who first flying game warden. Another runs a sporting camp on Allagash noted Greenville warden is Ed Lowell, Lake, was so severely injured in World retired. Ed is the dean of American War I that in winter he has to go to wardens. He helped take spawn from Arizona to hunt mountain lions. the first trout ever to be used for Good nature, patient honesty, dura­ artificial propagation. bility—and loyalty, too.

Greenville’s two thousand citizens T he Greenville people loved the have ignored the trend toward ranch r ight and sound of the old steam en­ type homes. They reside comfortably gine on the Bangor & Aroostook when in clapboard houses, and every other she pulled into the Junction. When the front lawn is functionally adorned brand new Diesel was announced, with a pile of split wood and a canoe. Greenville hearts were saddened—but Wall decorations, in homes and stores, when on the Diesel’s first run it ar­ run to mounted specimens of trout, rived thirty-three minutes late, hap­ salmon, togue and game animals. The piness was again restored and cheers lake, incidentally, has offered up were audible. countless specimens appropriate in The sporting camps and resort size and form to the most fastidious hotels and inns around the lake are museum. A huge landlocked salmon famous the world over, with recre­ mounted on the wall in Sanders’ store ation opportunities for every whim, is said to have caused first utterance, whether you’re a golfer, camper, fish­ of a now time-worn comment. On erman, hunter, canoeman or boat­ sighting the mammoth salmon, a man. nameless stranger remarked: “The man who caught that fish is I n general, the spirit of recreation a liar.” prevails in Greenville-on-the-lake. This spirit is somehow crystallized It is hard to name the outstand­ and made merry by an item in The ing characteristic of the citizens of Moosehead Gazette, which says, in Greenville. It might be good nature. p art: Everyone seems to be smiling—usually On Sunday, August 3, the Meth­ in memory or anticipation of fishing. odist Church in this nationally It might be patient honesty. A visi­ known sporting community will tor once bought a pair of moccasins again be host to visiting sports­ in the Indian store and left them on men when the parish will hold the counter. Two years later he came back and the Indian girl who had Fishermen's Sunday Service. waited on him wordlessly passed him Maine guides will act as ushers, his moccasins. Or maybe, after all, and the Rev. George Bullens the chief characteristic is durability. will preach on the topic: “Let's An item in The Moosehead Gazette, Go Fishing."

Maine fishing this year will go down in the books as the best in recent years. Fast action started with ice-out and lasted through the Spring and early Summer season pro­ ducing both quantity and sizable fish. Sebago’s yield of a lO^-pound Brown Trout in May set an all time record for this specie in Maine’s second largest lake. Summer fishing for Bass and Togue showed equally good results. Moosehead and the Narrows, Winthrop gave up Lake Trout over 22 pounds. Experts claim that Salmon, Trout and Togue up to 30 pounds in weight will be taken from Maine waters within the next few years.

SUMMER, 1953 21 A Drive Downeast

I always feel a twinge of regret for those tourists who skim into Maine over one of the principal arteries, take a fleeting glance and hurry along home again.

B y R u t h H a r v ey

hey’ve seen Main e—a t least the more scenic spots along Route T that’s what they think—but oh, One. This one is not far from Kob’s what they’ve missed! There are miles Lobster Pound .... a chance to en­ and miles of beautiful State beyond joy piping hot lobsters outdoors, the that little Southwestern slice—which best place in the world to eat them. I like too because I have the good for­ Bath is always an interesting place tune to live there. As a matter of to stop and stretch your legs. Usually fact, after spending the greater part there is a destroyer or two on the of my life in the Pine Tree State, I ways or in the water at the Bath Iron still am undecided as to which sec­ Works .... In Damariscotta, where tion has the most to offer—it always the Indian oyster shell heaps are lo­ seems to be the part I’m in at the cated on the banks of the Sheepscot moment. This time, it was the east­ River, I stopped at the attractive ern Coastal area, down to Washing­ County Fair Restaurant. Here is ton County. Way down east is one good food served in a pleasant atmos­ section of our State I hadn’t seen phere, and best of all, at reasonable since childhood. prices .... In Thomaston, the State I do not recommend trying to cover Prison Showroom is open daily from as much of Maine as I did in the nine in the morning to seven at night short time I had to do it in. I missed and just beyond, is Montpelier, the a great many attractions that I hope beautiful reproduction of the home of anyone else making this same trip will General Henry Knox. This imposing have the time to enjoy. mansion is open to visitors from ten But here are a few impressions .... to six daily. In Thomaston also is Traveling along from Portland, I New England’s only cement mill, the noticed that roadside picnic sites had Dragon Cement Company, which this been springing up like mushrooms year is celebrating its twenty-fifth since my last journey over the high­ anniversary. If you would like to see ways. There is a new one directly cement being made, you are welcome opposite Perry Greene’s Chinook Ken­ to visit here too. nels at Waldoboro. There is another I recall particularly which overlooks N ext stop Rockland. A busy town Penobscot Bay in Searsport at one of always, with its fishing industries, its

22 THE PINE CONE annual Seafoods Festival, to be held “Governor Brann,” slid in to the dock this year from July 31 to August 2, to discharge its cargo of automobiles and home of the Van Baalen Heil- and to swallow up more that have been brun “State o’ Maine Bathrobes and awaiting its arrival patiently. If you Rainw ear.” have never been to Islesboro, it is a Rockland suffered a very disastrous short but enchanting trip on a day fire in its business section last win­ when the sky is blue and the water a ter. There are now gaping holes deeper reflection of the same color. It where buildings once stood. But there is exciting too when the tide is low is a view now of the harbor where a id the cars have to make a quick formerly it was obstructed by build­ powerful spurt to climb the ramp ings. I’m another of those people for­ from the ferry to the dock at practic­ ever in a rush to get “somewhere ally a 90 degree angle! else,” and I do enjoy this glimpse of Islesboro is the largest of the islands the waterfront and harbor because be­ in Penobscot Bay. It is only thirteen fore I seldom took the time to go miles long, but it has more than forty around those buildings! miles of improved roads. At Dark Most through travelers now take Harbor, there is one of the finest the new route which by-passes the natural swimming pools on the Atlan­ lovely little town of Rockport going in­ tic Coast, the sun warmed waters con­ to Camden. I may De in a perpetual trolled in their ebb and flow by tide hurry, but I have a strong aversion gates. to cut-offs that more often than not Just outside Belfast, a town like go straight through the woods and many others along the Coast of beau­ fields. Rockport has a new bridge, tiful mansions once owned by sea cap­ to replace the somewhat ancient one tains and ship owners, I stopped at an which crossed Goose River, and I attractive little restaurant overlooking always enjoy seeing that beautiful the Bay called the “Snack Bar.” You landscaped harbor, a gift of Mrs. can get a “lobsterburger” there that is Mary Louise Zimbalist. chock full of meat fresh from the On this “old” route after leaving sea, or you can get a full course meal Rockport is the big wooden gate which with homemade pies that melt in your proclaims that you are “Entering mouth. Camden.” I don’t know just how old At the approach to the Waldo-Han- that gate is, but I do recall it as be­ cock Bridge stands Fort Knox, a mas­ ing a special landmark or milestone sive structure of Mt. Waldo granite. in journeys down the Coast during From this spot there is one of the my “growing up” days .... Camden most beautiful views on the Penobscot is another lovely town that hides River, a river which now winds peace­ some of its beauties from the motor­ fully towards the sea but was once a ist hurrying through. To be sure, he teeming artery of commerce. The Pen­ does notice the hanging pots filled with obscot River Region is rich in nauti­ summer flowers on all the lamp posts, cal history. Some of this has been but is very likely to miss the unfor­ recorded but much has gone with the gettable perfection of the Bok Amphi­ last of its sea captains. theatre, another project of Mrs. Zim­ balist, which is ju st off the main B ucksport, beyond the bridge and route—a scenic setting for Shake­ past Verona Island, is the home of spearean Festivals held each summer. the famous Jed Prouty Tavern. I Just, across the street, green lawns wandered around the town a bit, and slope down to Camden’s bustling little being a gift shop enthusiast, was harbor with fishing boats, pleasure drawn like a magnet to a sign which yachts, and the famous sailing schoon­ said “Pilot House Gift Shop.” You ers at the docks being readied for a go in through a hardware store and cruise down Penobscot Bay. way out in back, practically hanging over the river, is a sunlit room with Rolling along again, I soon came large windows facing the water that to Lincolnville Beach just as the new formerly was a retired sea captain’s Diesel powered Islesboro Ferry, the office. There is a monstrous fireplace

SUMMER, 1953 23 I would liked to have gone over the long bridge to Deer Isle.

with the captain’s initials carved in nearer! My present itinerary includ­ the wood beneath the mantel, and I ed Bar Harbor, Acadia National Park, was told that before the gift shop and Mount Cadillac. took over, there had been a large teak- During the years that I have been wood table in the center of the room. traveling to other parts of the world, Here the old seafarer and his cronies they have built a road to the summit played cards while he kept a watch­ of Mt. Cadillac—a road that winds ful eye on his dock workers outside! gradually and effortlessly up the Oh yes, sea captains never actually mountain with breath-taking views all retire—they just go into some other the way. That the road was an en­ line of business once their ocean go­ gineering feat I’ve always known— ing days are over! but no one ever told me that its sur­ face was of pink granite! Of course, no trip down the Coast The history of Bar Harbor as a of Maine is complete without taking world-renowned resort is an interest­ the time to visit Mount Desert Island. ing one. After the Civil War, many I would have liked, too, to see lovely people began to learn of the great Castine again and watched the boys beauty of this region. Although steam­ once more catching fish from the town ers did not come until 1868 and the wharf within sight of the Maritime nearest railroad station was Bangor, Academy’s training ship. I would liked 50 miles away—with a rough road be­ to have gone down to Penobscot and tween—the summer population be­ Brooklin, to Stonington and Deer Isle gan to grow by leaps and bounds. but—another time. Meanwhile, Wash­ The cottages of the native popula­ ington County was not getting much tion were soon filled to overflowing,

24 THE PINE CONE and within the space of a very few to Schoodic Point, back of which a years they expanded and became inns; magnificent headland rises to over but to this day they are still known 400 feet in height. Eastward is an as cottages. It was an outdoor life, unbroken view into the entrance of casual and free, but as time went on, the Bay of Fundy, southward a broad land was bought up and summer expanse of ocean, and westward across homes were built. Life of a new kind the entrance of Frenchman’s Bay to began, one patterned after that of the Mt. Desert Mountains in Acadia formal society, and the informality of National Park. A memorial stone the early days gradually passed. It stands guard over the wave-lashed was from this beginning that the idea shore here, in honor of John Godfrey of a national park was born to pre­ Moore (1848-1899) who once owned serve the beauty and freedom of the Schoodic Peninsula. It was he who island for all the people in the years built the first road through it, and to come. Originally known as La­ he lived to see it opened to the pub­ fayette National Park, it was the first lic in 1897. This road is now m ain­ national park east of the Mississippi. tained by the Acadia National Park. In the park, I stopped to see the On Schoodic, I saw that lovely pink Sieur de Monts Spring where I had granite in its native state. In fact, picnicked as a child, and nearby, the I saw literally thousands of tons of Abbe Museum of Archaeology which it! Then the highway brings you contains relics of the Stone Age pe­ abruptly to Prospect Harbor, another riod of Indian culture in this region. village at the water’s edge and a It is open seven days a week during photographer’s dream for that typical July and August. Maine scene showing lobster pots, I could not see it all in the time that traps, fishing gear of all sorts until was mine, but I did manage a quick I began to wonder if all the fish in ride along the majestic Ocean Drive the sea were not caught in that one through the pretty town of Seal Har­ little town. bor, through Northeast Harbor with its beautiful homes and resort hotels, A ll along the highway for miles and then up Sargent Drive along back, I had been seeing the sign “Flea Somes Sound, the only natural fjord Market” with an arrow pointing in the United States. straight ahead. It became an obses­ Much has been written about Mt. sion to reach that particular attrac­ Desert Island, called the “most beau­ tion, and when I finally did see a sign tiful isle in the world.” The rest I which pointed off the road, it was leave up to you—to discover for your­ such a surprise that I sped right by. self its enchantment—whether you are The Flea Market, named after the a student of geology, a photographer, flea markets of Paris, is at Goulds- a collector of minerals, a lover of na­ boro, and it is run by Mrs. Milton ture, or just plain sightseer. Young whose husband is a retired There are many fine places to stay Naval officer. If you like antiques or on the Island, to suit every purse. anything that is a bit out of the or­ This time I chose the elegance of the dinary, be sure to stop in and visit new Hotel Bar Harbor—just because Mrs. Young. I remarked to her that it was my birthday—and woke in the it must be rather lonely there in the morning to a view of sparkling water winter, but she assured me that life and the pine quilled Porcupine was never dull, winter or summer. Islands. There is a naval station nearby on Schoodic Peninsula, they keep busy Leaving Mount Desert, the next with their children and their stock, peninsula is Schoodic with its sea­ and winters they often travel abroad side town of Winter Harbor. Here on where she picks up the articles that Schoodic is another, less publicized make her collection unusual. Part of Acadia National Park where Leaving Gouldsboro I soon found the rock-bound coast of Maine may be myself back on Route One and enter­ seen at its most rugged. I traveled ing Washington County. In Washing­ down another pink granite highway ton County there are many miles of

SUMMER, 1953 25 To me it was new country and a sense of adventure went singing through my veins.

excellent highway, and doubtless Diesel powered streamlined craft, but thousands upon thousands of people surely just as dependable. Beals have traveled those roads. But to me, Island, I recalled, was the village it was new country and a sense of that achieved considerable fame this adventure went singing through my past winter by winning the State veins. Although the path ahead was Small Schools Basketball Tournament. well worn and well marked, no one Driving into Lubec, a town of beau­ had gone this way before! tiful views of ocean and islands, I had All through this section, I noticed the feeling that here was a pleasant lovely old churches, always painted place to live. This community, which white in the New England style, and lays claim to being the easternmost nearly always with a graceful spire town in the United States, has a fresh­ or sturdy belfry. I remember espe­ ly laundered appearance—it seems to cially the churches in Steuben, East be a contented and a prosperous town. Machias, and Dennysville. Back to the main route again, and No trip “downeast” would be com­ it was time to eat and find a bed for plete without exploring some of the the night. Dennysville seemed like “offshoot” routes which lead to the a good stopping place. I had heard sea communities such as Jonesport, of the Dennys River Inn on the banks Lubec and Eastport. of the Dennys River where the coveted Atlantic salmon abound. To my dis­ A t J onesport, a thriving town may, there were no rooms available, noted for its industries of the ocean, but the friendly hosts, the Godfreys, and for the only twine and netting made arrangements for me to stay business in this part of the state, I down the road at the historic Lincoln stopped for an ice cream cone and House. The Godfreys came to Maine strolled down to a nearby wharf. from Massachusetts. Their inn is There below, the ferry to Beals Island operated in a homelike, informal man­ was just leaving the shore. How sorry ner, and their food is excellent. I was that I had forgotten to load At the Lincoln House I received a my camera. To me it was an inter­ very cordial reception from Mrs. esting picture—the ferry, a stout raft Dorothy Casey who is a transplanted propelled by twin fishing boats, one New Yorker. This is a beautiful old lashed to each side. Each took its house which was built in 1787. It was turn, depending on whether the go­ the first two story house in the town ing was to the left or right, or straight of Dennysville where, as time went ahead. Perhaps it wasn’t so modern on, many lovely homes were built a method of crossing water as by a overlooking the river. Dennysville at

26 THE PINE CONE GOLF Aug. 2: Maine Seafoods Festival, June 17-19: Maine Interscholastic Rockland. and Junior Championships. (Qualify­ Aug. 9: Echo Lake, Southwest ing rounds, June 6 at: Augusta Coun­ Harbor. try Club, Penobscot Valley Country Aug. 16: Damariscotta Lake, Jef­ Club, Riverside Golf Course, Portland ferson. and Waterville Country Club.) Aug. 23: Penobscot River, Ban­ July 7-10: Maine Amateur Cham­ gor. pionships, Penobscot Valley Country Aug. 30: Wilson Lake, Wilton. Club, Bangor. Sept. 6: Winnecook Lake, Unity. Aug. 3-6: Maine Women’s Golf Sept. 7: Silver Lake, Bucksport. Championships, Riverside Golf Course, Portland. YACHT RACES Aug. 16: Tri-State Matches, Au­ July 4, 5, 11, 18, 25: O rr’s and gusta Country Club. Bailey’s Islands. Aug. 13-14: Maine Open, Augusta July 21: Junior Races, Camden- Country Club. Bucks Harbor at Camden. Aug. 15: Caddie Fund Tourna­ Aug. 13-14: All Maine Finals, ment, All Maine Courses. Adams Cup for Women Sailors, Cam­ Aug. 22-23: Rangeley Combina­ den. tion Tournament, Hotel Course, Aug. 15-16: Annual Portland- Rangeley. Monhegan Races, Portland Yacht Club. SPORTING EVENTS Sept. 4: Parents Race, Camden. May 15-Sept. 7: Season-long All Season: Weekly Racing at Salt Water Fishing Derby, Orr’s and Casco Bay, Boothbay Harbor, Cam­ Bailey’s Islands. den, Bucks Harbor, Bar Harbor, July 17-19: Maine State Trap Southwest Harbor and Northeast Har­ Championships, Waterville. bor. July 19: Maine State Small Bore Rifle Championships, Damariscotta. July 19: 7th Annual Field Day, HORSE RACING Quoddy Rod and Gun Club, Perry. (Runners) Aug. 2: State Field Archery (Pari-Mutuel Betting) Championship Tournament, Gardiner. Aug. 9: Junior Fishing Derby, July 4: Scarborough Downs (Af­ Megunticook Lake, Camden. ternoon) Aug. 22: Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo July 11: Scarborough Downs for Boys and Girls, South Portland. (Night) Aug. 22-23: State Archery Tar­ July 13-thru Labor Day: Scar­ get Championships, Portland. borough Downs (Nights) Sept. 5-6: Labor Day Shoot, Dam- HORSE RACING Sept. 12-13: New England Field Championship Archery Tournament, (Sulkies) Auburn. (Pari-Mutuel Betting) June 15-July 11: Gorham (Night). OUTBOARD RACING July 13-18: Lewiston (Tentative). July 4: Outboard Marathon, Orr’s July 18-Aug. 8: Bangor (Night). and Bailey’s Islands. Aug. 10-15: Presque Isle Fair. July 4: Outboard Marathon, Win- Aug. 17-22: Skowhegan Fair. necook Lake, Unity. Aug. 24-29: Union Fair. July 5: Cobbossecontee Lake, Aug. 31-Sept. 7: Windsor Fair. East Winthrop. Sept. 7-12: Lewiston Fair. Ju ’y 12: Lions Club Regatta, Sept. 14-19: Norway-South Paris Maranacook Lake, Winthrop. Fair. July 19: China Lake, China. Sept. 21-26: Farmington Fair. July 26: Annual Outboard Re­ Sept. 28 - O c t. 3: Cumberland gatta, Pleasant Pond, Gardiner. Fail'.

SUMMER, 1953 31 Oct. 5-10: Fr*yeburg Fair. SUMMER THEATRES Oct. 5-10: New Gloucester Fair. Oct. 12-17: Topsham Fair. ARl'NDEL OPERA THEATRE Oct. 19-Nov. 7: Late Overcoat KEKNEBUNK Meets—Locations to be announced. BAR HARBOR PLAYHOUSE BAR HARBOR BOOTHBAY PLAYHOUSE BOOTHBAY MAINE FAIRS CAMDEN HILLS THEATRE CAMDEN GILBERT AND SULLIVAN Aug. 2-8: Bangor Fair, Bangor. FESTIVAL THEATRE Aug. 10-15: Northern Maine Fair, MONMOUTH Presque Isle. KENNEBUNKPORT PLAYHOUSE Aug. 15-22: Skowhegan State KENNEBUNKPORT Fair, Skowhegan. LAKEWOOD THEATRE Aug. 21-22: East Pittston Agric. LAKEWOOD Fair, East Pittston. OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE Aug. 25-29: Knox Agric. Fair, OG UNQUIT Union. OLD ORCHARD BEACH Aug. 29: Piscataquis Valley Fair, PLAYHOUSE Dover-Foxcroft. OLD ORCHARD BEACH Aug. 29: Honesty Grange Fair, SURRY PLAYHOUSE Morrill. SURRY Sept. 1-3: West Washington Agri­ cultural Fair, Cherryfield. Sept. 2-7: South Kennebec Agric. Fair, Windsor. Sept. 5-7: Hancock County Agric. MAINE HISTORICAL AND Fair, Blue Hill. ART MUSEUMS Sept. 5-7: North Penobscot Agric. Fair, Springfield. ABBE MUSEUM OF Sept. 10-12: York County Agric. ARCHAEOLOGY Fair, Acton. Acadia National Park Sept. 11-12: Litchfield Farmers’ ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY Club, Litchfield. HISTORICAL COLLECTION Sept. 7-12: Maine State Fair, Auburn Lewiston. AROOSTOOK HISTORICAL Sept. 12: Guilford Fair, Guilford. MUSEUM Sept. 14-19: Oxford County Agric. Houlton Fair, Norway. BANGOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY Sept. 15-19: Washington County COLLECTION Agric. Fair, Machias. Bangor Sept. 22-20: Franklin County BAXTER MUSEUM Agric. Fair, Farmington. Gorham Sept. 25-20: Cochnewagan Agric. BRICK STORE MUSEUM Fair, Monmouth. Kennebunk Sept. 20: Readfield Grange Fair, CARNEGIE HALL ART MUSEUM Read field. University of Maine, Ofono Sept. 28-Oct. 3: Cumberland EASTERN PENOBSCOT Farmers’ Club Fair, West Cumber­ ARCHIVES MUSEUM land. Stonington Oct. 2-3: World’s Fair, North FARNSWORTH ART MUSEUM W aterford. Rockland Oct. 5-10: Androscoggin Agricul­ FORT WESTERN tural Fair, New Gloucester. Augusta Oct. 5-10: West Oxford Agricul­ FORT WILLIAM HENRY tural Fair, Fryeburg. Pemaquid Oct. 13-15: Sagadahoc Agricul­ GOOD WILL FARM MUSEUMS tural & Horticultural Fair, Topsham. Hinckley

32 THE PINE CONE ISLESFORD HISTORICAL BLACK MANSION MUSEUM Ellsworth Little Cranberry Island OLD GERMAN MEETING HOUSE ISLESBORO MUSEUM Bremen Islesboro HISTORIC HOUSE MAINE COAST MARINE Skowhegan DISPLAY JE F F E R D ’S TAVERN Boothbay Harbor York Village MUSEUM OF NATURAL SARAH ORNE JEWETT HOUSE HISTORY South Berwick Portland MONTPELIER NYLANDER ROCK COLLECTION Thomaston DISPLAY LILLIAN NORDICA HOME Caribou Farm ington PENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM REDINGTON HOUSE W aterville L. D. M. SWEAT MEMORIAL ' P RUGGLES HOUSE ART MUSEUM Columbia Falls Portland HARRIET BEECHER STOWE WALKER ART MUSEUM HOUSE Bowdoin College, Brunswick Brunswick WILSON MUSEUM TATE HOUSE Portland Castine VICTORIA MANSION OLD YORK GAOL Portland York WADSWORTH-LONGFELLOW YORK INSTITUTE MUSEUM HOME Saco Portland

During the first half of 1953, Maine has been the re­ cipient of a greater amount and more varied national recognition in the form of magazine feature stories than during any previous comparable period. These feature stories include the following: The Bradbury Lumber Com­ pany, Hollis Center—Fortune Magazine, February; Fred C. Greaves, Town Manager of Aroostook County—The Saturday Evening Post, February; The McCobb Mansion, Rockport—Ladies Home Journal, March; The Mystery of Lucy Farnsworth, Rockland—Saturday Evening Post, May; The Pride of Mayflower Hill, Colby College, Water­ ville—Post, May; Vacations off the Beaten Path, Better Homes and Gardens, May; Meals for Men—True Maga­ zine, June; Night on the Town, Bangor—Good House­ keeping Magazine, June; Fishing—Aroostook, Moosehead and Rangeley—Esquire, June; Address Unknown—Out­ door Life, June; L. L. Bean—Coronet, June; Cruising the Maine Coast—Holiday, August and Artist Andrew Wyeth, Waldoboro—Life, July.

SUMMER, 1953 33 B y R u t h H a r v ey

ummertime and Maine are practi­ tion’s activities during the past year. S cally synonymous. Here in the Eight regular dinner meetings were Pine Tree State, we never would con­ held on the 4th Wednesday of each tem plate leaving our cool green lake month. Customary feature on the and mountain country or our salty menu were Maine grown yellow-eye breeze-swept shores except in case of baked beans and brown bread. In­ sheer necessity. Away, in Hacken­ cidentally, the beans are shipped from sack and Hagerstown, from Madison Bangor, and sufficient quantities are Avenue to Michigan Boulevard, people ordered that members may purchase are dreaming wistfully of summer­ two pound sacks to take home. (Am time in Maine. (P. S. I hope all your I out of order here if I remind the dreams come true—the latchstring is California Maine-iacs that we here in out for you!) the Pine Tree State still say “bags” Even here in Maine, we have to —not “sacks” !) work sometimes, and while I’m sitting The 48th anniversary of the found­ here toying with the typewriter keys ing of the Pasadena Association was —bemoaning the wonderful tan I celebrated on the evening of April could be acquiring—pages and pages 22. Beautifully decorated tables were of notes are begging to be reported on. arranged banquet style and following the usual dinner, a huge birthday STATE SOCIETIES cake, ornamented with a replica of F irst of all, I’d like to tell a bit the map of the State of Maine and a about the Pasadena (California) large red lobster, was served to the State of Maine Association which 125 present. Mrs. Lester Lander, a celebrated its 48th Anniversary this past president, cut the first piece of Spring. Ever since undertaking prep­ cake. Past presidents were honored aration of the “Cracker Barrel’’ col­ and each given a corsage. Honorary umn, I have personally lamented the Life Memberships were presented by fact that we had received no news President Charles E. Hicks to Mr. and items from the Pasadena group for Mrs. Leon Verrill, Mrs. Addie Cham­ some time. I finally addressed a let­ berlain, Mrs. Lester Lander, and Miss ter to Mrs. A. B. Fernald whose name Clara Luce. was in some old files as secretary of the club. Mrs. Fernald, who is now E lected officers and chairmen of first vice-president, very kindly sent standing committees for the year 1953- me a few highlights of the Associa­ 54 were: President, Charles Hicks;

34 THE PINE CONE First Vice President, Editor of “Fly­ Dale Williams of Waite, a senior at er,” and Press Chairman, Mrs. A. B. Princeton High, also writing on Fernald; Second Vice President and “Maine’s Future.” The Club voted to Program Chairman, Marshall Fields; continue this contest another year, Secretary, Mrs. Preston B. Lawlis; and also will sponsor a “Good Ci­ Financial Secretary, Mrs. Clarence tizenship Award” annually to be given Kimball; Treasurer, Mrs. J. S. Edge- to the person who has done the most comb; Auditor of Finance, Bertram for Maine. Lamphier; Technical, Robert Fer­ Entertainment at the dinner meet­ nald; Dining Room, Mrs. Verne Kel­ ing was furnished by singer Lloyd sey; Tickets, Harold Currier; Visiting Knight of Limerick who appears and Sunshine, Mr. and Mrs. John regularly on popular television shows, Meader; Buyer, A. B. Fernald; Phil­ and by Aura Coburn and Phil Bough- anthropy, Mrs. Donald Garnett; His­ ton who told humorous Maine stories. torian, Mrs. Bertram Lamphier; and Reception, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wil­ A lso in N ew York, the Maine bur. Women’s Club celebrated its Fiftieth During the summer months, the As­ Anniversary on March 14 with a sociation holds pot-luck dinners fol­ luncheon at Nancy Lord’s Restaurant lowed by canasta. The Annual Pic­ in New York City. About 65 mem­ nic will be held Saturday, A ugust 22, bers were present. The tables were at Jefferson Recreation Park in Pasa­ decorated with yellow daffodils, at­ dena. tractive gold color menus and mint baskets. Three new members were T he P asadena Maine A ssociation welcomed into the Club: Miss Erva meets in the Altadena Masonic Hall Giles of Ellsworth, honorary mem­ at 922 E. Mendocino Street, and form­ ber; and Mrs. Berniece Murphy Tag­ er residents of Maine, their families gart of Portage and Mrs. Barbara and friends are cordially invited. If Fossett Fish of Round Pond as active you would like to know more about members. the group, just get in touch with the At its meeting on May 8th, the president, Mr. Hicks, at 1277^ E. same group elected the following of­ 38th Street, Los Angeles, 37; or with ficers for the coming year: President, the vice president, Mrs. Fernald, 2425 Miss Effie Inez W ing from Quaker Cumberland Road, San Marino, 9. Ridge, South Leeds; F irst Vice Pi-esi- Back East again, at the 50th Spring dent, Miss Mary A. Gilman of Dover- Membership Dinner of the Maine So­ Foxcroft; Second Vice President, Miss ciety of New York, held at historic Ruth E. Carll of Gorham; Recording Fraunces Tavern on May 30th, Frank Secretary, Mrs. John M. Byerkle of Burns of Bronxville and Damariscotta Bar Harbor; Corresponding Secre­ was elected president. Other officers tary, Mrs. Conrad F. Nelson, Rock­ elected were Eugene A. Buzzell, For­ land; Treasurer, Miss Edna C. Har- est Hills and Winterport, vice presi­ riman, Bar Harbor; Assistant Treas­ dent; and Herbert M. Lord of Green­ urer, Mrs Ralph G. Stone of Harring­ wich, Conn, and Rockland, secretary- ton; Auditor, Miss Abigail Harri- treasurer. man of Orland. Miss Isabel Whittier Announcement was made of the of Brunswick will be chairman of the winners in the Club’s annual Essay Press. Contest which is open to students of The new President, Miss Wing, high schools, academies, and semi­ served for two years as Chairman of naries in the State. First prize of the Press, and during the last two $100 wrent to Mark Kapiloff of Bel­ years has been Corresponding Sec­ fast, a senior at Crosby High School, retary. She is a graduate of Maine for his essay entitled “Maine’s Con­ State Normal School at Castine and tribution to the N ation.” The $50 received her BS and MA degrees second prize was awarded to John from Columbia University. She is H. Whelton, a Portland High School a member of the Eastern Star in senior, for his essay, “Maine’s Fu­ Monmouth, Maine, of the College Club ture.” Third prize w inner of $25 was of Jersey City, of the American As­

SUMMER, 1953 35 sociation of University Women, and May; and Raymond H. Fogler, presi­ of the Business and Professional dent of W. T. Grant Company, a Women’s Club of Riverside Church in graduate of the University of Maine New York. in 1915, and one of the S tate’s most • active supporters and boosters, was Down in Washington on April recently named an aide to the Secre­ 8th, Senator Margaret Chase Smith tary of the Navy. held “Open House” in her office fol­ Future Maine citizens, too, have lowing a reception in the Senate Of­ been winning recognition outside their fice Building for Maine’s Cherry Blos­ native State. A Bates College senior som Princess, Elizabeth Ann Blanch­ has just won the 1953 Essay Contest ard of Westbrook. Members of the of the Atlantic Monthly Magazine Maine Society of Washington provided over 250 other contestants. He is refreshments for this occasion. Warren Hasty Carroll of South Ber­ The annual Spring Picnic of the wick, son of Professor Herbert Car- Maine State Society of Washington roll, head of the psychology depart­ was announced by President Clif­ ment at the University of New Hamp­ ford G. Mclntire on May 21st, to be shire, and of Gladys Hasty Carroll held at the Palisades Recreation Cen­ who wrote the best selling novel, “As ter on May 31st. Baked beans, brown the Earth Turns,” some years ago. bread, and coffee were to be furnished In addition to the prize winning es­ by the Society. Although I have had say, two other students of the ad­ no reports, the picnic should have vanced composition class at Bates been a great success if the weather wrote essays that placed in the top in Washington, D. C. was as perfect twenty; and two more placed among that day as it was in Washington the first forty. A great deal of credit County, Maine! for this admirable achievement should go to Professor Robert G. Berkelman who teaches the class. IN THE NEWS Another Maine youngster, Nancy E. Eugley, a senior at Waldoboro E very once in a while, someone High School, was named on June 6th writes to the Maine Publicity Bureau Northeastern regional winner of a inquiring about the “sauna” or Fin­ farm electrification radio script writ­ nish steam bath. Our authority on ing contest among Future Home­ this subject, or for that matter on makers of America. She had previ­ anything else having to do with ously won the Maine contest, spon­ Maine’s large Finnish colonies, is sored by Maine electric utilities com­ Frank W. Bjorklund, a practicing at­ panies last March, and went on to win torney at Norway who is also Honor­ over others from New York, Ver­ ary Vice Consul of Finland for Nor­ mont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, thern New England. On April 24, Mr. Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. A Bjorklund was honored at a recep­ $200 scholarship will be presented tion in the Hotel Stone at Norway Nancy in an all-expense trip to radio and was awarded Finland’s oldest station WGY, Schenectady, New York, civilian order by the Finnish Vice sponsor of the regional contest. Nancy Consul Ake Backstrom. Mr. Bjork­ plans to enter Farmington State lund was presented the order of the Teachers College next Fall. Knighthood of the Finnish White Rose for “meritorious service for Finland, especially during the war.” This dec­ WHAT’S NEW oration is bestowed by order of the President of Finland, Juho Paasikivi. T he 1953 edition of “Handcraft Nationally, two other Maine men Trails in Maine” has been published have been in the news of late. Ex- and is being distributed at all the Governor Horace A. Hildreth, who offices of the Maine Publicity Bureau. went on to be pi’esident of Bucknell “Handcraft Trails in Maine” is spon­ University, was appointed United sored by one of Maine’s craft organ­ States Ambassador to Pakistan in izations, The Maine Coast Crafts­

36 THE PINE CONE men. If you are interested in the plus the help of her courageous craft work of Maine’s artisans, I mother, won for herself a place among might suggest that you write for a the world’s musical great in the years copy of this folder before your trip before American talent was recognized to Maine this summer. Or better in Europe. She is considered by many still, stop at the beautiful Maine In­ music critics as the greatest Ameri­ formation Center at Kittery for a can singer of her time. copy and see the permanent exhibi­ In 1927, the Nordica Memorial As­ tion of Maine crafts and decorative sociation was founded to perpetuate arts which is on display in the lobby. the memory of Lillian Nordica who The building (just in case you had died on a world concert tour in 1914 forgotten!) is at the junction of Route at Batavia, Java. The first major One and the Maine Turnpike as you project of the Association was the come in to the Pine Tree State. In purchase of her home in Farmington addition to the crafts display, you and, subsequently, to open it to the will see there, also, a large exhibit public. In the intervening years, they of Maine-manufactured products of have discovered and purchased a every description in the specially de­ large collection of personal effects as­ signed exhibition wing of the build­ sociated with her life and her career. ing. Ultimately, the Association hopes to Speaking of Maine products re­ have a fireproof museum in which to minds me of the gift shop opened house these irreplaceable articles, and last year by Lawrence Stroh in Snow- they are actively trying to achieve berry Park on the beach at Pine Point. that goal now. You might like to stop in and see Mr. Stroh, who wholesales as well as re­ NEW BOOKS tails. Ask him about his colorful ceramic tiles with the Maine maps, Latest in the list of books about and the trivets in black, mahogany Maine is “Katahdin Fantasies” by or natural wood which give an added Marion Whitney Smith of Millinocket distinction to the tile. (Millinocket Press, $1.50). It is a col­ Here’s good news for the clothes- lection of stories based on old Indian conscious woman. Now you can have legends. In her foreword, Mrs. Smith those famous Hathaway shirts made says: “Living in the shadow of Ka­ in Maine of cloth searched for in exo­ tahdin and watching its various moods tic and far-away places of the world. as the seasons come and go, it is im­ No longer will you have to cast en­ possible to remain unimpressed by its vious eyes on the lucky male who has majestic grandeur. Sometimes the been wearing them for years, because mountain seems close and friendly. At Hathaway is making them for you other times it seems distant and aloof too! I’m saving my pennies for one . . . the Red Men ascribed human right now. There is a good selection traits to the character of the moun­ here in Portland at Porteous, Mitchell tain, and variously peopled it with and Braun, or I’m sure the Hathaway both good and evil spirits. The . . . Company at Waterville will tell you fantasies are based upon the old In­ where else. dian legends which go back in history long before the Revolutionary War NORDICA . . . tales of those spirits who ‘inhabit’ Mt. Katahdin.” On J une 17t h , Open House festivi­ Another book just published by ties were held at the Lillian Nordica Little, Brown & Company, Boston, Homestead in Farmington under is “One Million Islands for Sale,” by sponsorship of the Farmington Busi­ Robert Froman. This book tells where ness and Professional Women’s Club. to look for your own dream island Window displays in Farmington dur­ among the more than million along ing the week preceding the obser­ the coast and in the lakes and rivers vance featured personal possessions of the United States and Canada. of the Maine-born girl who, with only There are two chapters devoted to her exceptional voice and ambition, New England, one on coastal islands

SUMMER, 1953 37 Sebogo Lake Islands listed in Froman's “One Million Islands for Sale.”

and one on lake islands, both of which last poems of a man who dearly loved contain sections specifically on Maine. his home State, Maine. The booklet, published by the Waldoboro Press, About to be published by Doubleday was made possible by the diligent & Company is “The Seventh Sense,” work of his friends around Waldoboro a sequel to “Henry Gross and His who assembled his last manuscripts Dowsing Rod,” by Kenneth Robei'ts. and caused them to be published in Admirers of the incomparable Mr. tribute to his memory. The booklet Roberts will enjoy this detailed but may be purchased for only fifty-cents highly readable account of the activi­ from the Waldoboro Press. ties of Water Unlimited, Inc., the Another book of Maine poems as­ business which grew from the talent sembled by Jean Langille Rutherford of Henry Gross of Biddeford for find­ of Five Islands is just out. The book­ ing water where none had been lo­ let, entitled, “Soothing Sounds and cated before. Other Poems” is printed at the Guerin “Little Stories,” by the late Guy Printing Company at Bath. Irving Waltz, is a collection of the See You Soon, in Maine?

Ruth Noble of the Berkshire Publishing Company has just published her 1954 Maine Engagement Calendar. This excellent picture calendar contains striking scenic views and historic houses from York County to Down- east Maine. The calendar is made up in both the regular and the de-luxe, boxed, editions.

38 THE PINE CONE Minstrelsy of Maine

E dited by Dan Kelly

Editor of As Maine Writes: An Anthology of the Poetry Fellowship of Maine, and Reed: A Magazine of Maine Poetry.

P oem s, to l><> 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 rrailrr interest, rather than critical perfection. Only previously un­ published poems should lie submitted. All submissions should be sent directly to Dan Kelly , Editor, Minstrelsy of Maine Department, 48 Water Street, Hallowell, Maine ; and should be accompanied by the usual stamped, self- addressed envelope for return of the mnterial if not found available.

those who say that inspiration can be marginalia shackled and made to perform at beck and call. I will agree that more or nspiration vs. perspiration .... a less ideal conditions can be set up I time-worn argument arising wherein inspiration is more apt to phoenix-like before each new writer. function, but I don’t think that it It’s been pretty well established by can be summoned automatically at now that perspiration is what pays any time of day or night and made off. Dogged determination, stick-to- to perform like Aladdin’s lamp. itness, hard labor, mastering the craft If inspiration were simply a matter and plain everyday sweat-of-the-brow of analysis and equation then a placing one word after another, these mechanical computor could be designed are the tenets of the drudging dogma that would produce nothing but in­ of writing. spired works regularly and monoto­ These are the hard facts on which nously. Cybernetics is performing the starry-eyed writer stumbles. But wonders these days, but if it creates in recognizing the stones which make the perfect robot-writer mortal writers the path so rough let’s not lose sight will have to eat their words for they’ll of the stars which make it refresh­ have precious else to eat. ing. Inspiration there is, whether it be 2% or 98%, and it must be given its due. I’m not inclined to the mys­ * * * tic view that inspiration comes en­ tirely from without (this is the lazy mind’s excuse) nor am I convinced that inspiration comes entirely from INSPIRATION within and that it’s just a question of stimuli triggering certain synapses His reach exceeded grasp by far (this is the mediocre mind’s alibi). And he stubbed his toe upon a star. Inspiration, to me, is more prob­ ably a combination of the two, plus Dan Kelley other known and unknown factors. Hook End Furthermore, I do not agree with Augusta, Maine

SUMMER, 1953 39 Enoch’s Chair Remembrance Cornessa would polish the old man’s Hark to the night wind’s murmur chair Sighing in the lonely trees; Until the wood shone dark as wine; Listen to her restless whispering It gleamed by day and made star- And think of me. shine; The last bright russet on Autumn’s Look to the golden moonbeams vine Painting pathways on the sea; Never could rival old Enoch’s chair. Watch for Orion’s rising Remembering me. Cornessa found it lovely labor, Smiled at the scorn of Jane, her W inifred G. Blanchard neighbor. Said Jane, “Why bother to shine the chair? He never sees it.” Enoch was blind, But Cornessa polished and loved her Green work, And Enoch knew shine of an inward To watch the spill kind. of chlorophyll, to hear the sound of grass in ground, Rosemary Clifford Trott to taste the clean bright taste of green, to smell the scent of spring’s advent, to feel the blaze of emerald days; these patterns are my own north star. Candid And when I stand on springling land He sits and rocks the day around him­ I know within, self, through mind and skin, Winding centuries and seconds into I’ve never seen the common skein a day so green. Of time; the warp and woof of history Is woven in the fabric of this flesh, N. Kay Dell Memory encapsulated by an ancient skull. He sits and rocks the seasons into years, The flight of birds, the sound of grass, Elizabeth Revolve themselves within the convo­ lutions of his brain, She walked fluently, The fading lenses of his eyes filter­ on coarse grass; ing the light and shade, Hay rubble was struck The essence that is now, with gold. Daguerreotyped. She walked wearily He sits and rocks today into eternity, and free, The shutters of his senses clicking Worn and strong: there futilely. is something Too soon, too soon, these pictures will Very good—and very be laid aside, rich, The album closed and put away. About plain people and the grass.

T. S. Stone E leanor D. Cole

40 THE PINE CONE Hill Home Sundown The sun at last had reached the west­ In summer the day bursts into flam­ ern window ing evening And now, on braided rug and waxen Like a small boy, reluctant to relin­ floor, quish an hour; A promise like a slender golden candle But in winter it passes quietly into Lay reaching, reaching toward the night maple chair. Like an old man drowsing into sleep. The rough rug made the sunshine Ina Ladd Brown seem to waver, It struck one vase and was a diadem. The woman closed her eyes. It seemed forever The Road Ran Straight That light would lie along her quiet room. The road ran straight enough from town, The candle-shaft grew dimmer as it Then dipped and sped away, widened, And by the side, all flecked with Crept slowly up the chair and to her gray, breast, Brooks ran a good halfway, Out through the farther window to And bordering them with roots far the linden down And in its eastern branches was Stood willows beckoning. erased. And there were lilacs, every limb Breathing of long ago. The sun went down where granite Hard by the fence, cream mea­ hills were graven, dow rue But as the paling finger flickered out And blue veined violets grew, It touched the mantel clock, be­ While nervous swallows, blue and queathed the evening slim, And charged its hand with keeping Were harbingers of spring. of the night. The road unwound, a ribbon road, The shadows in the corner spread and Miles went by two’s and three’s, deepened. And, suddenly, like canopies, The braided rug was mist. The vase Stood spreading apple trees of phlox Arrayed with nature’s perfumed load, Made afterglow . . . then footsteps . . . And slowly opening. then the opened Door and the light brought in. The And then I fell within the spell. clock struck six. The trees were great and small. One, misty pink, and not as tall, Burnham E aton Leaned to the graying wall, And there the pale-crowned sentinel The Best Roads Was just awakening. The road ran straight enough from People ask me as I journey town Be it north, south, east or west, Until the wild array Where I see the finest scenery, T hat graced the field to broad Where I find the roads the best. highway And I answer all their questions: Lured me to overstay. Makes no difference where I roam, My arm s were filled. The sun slipped That I see the finest scenery down, And the best roads—going home. And home was whispering.

George F. S mith Mabel Gould D emers

SUMMER, 1953 41 co For the spring is dry. One hastens On Climbing Katahdin on. t^ atahdin— ah, that magic name I must attain the top, I must — -*-*• Looms in my mind as if the sun Never stopping to reason why — the Had cast the shadow of its mighty view peak across my face. Will be no different, but still The magnetic peak draws you on­ The defiant and sullen giant ward, and then Dares all who approach to attempt its The summit is reached. Oh so gentle bottom hill-lets, and For w hat? — A view. Conquering these with ease, the young More mountains, salt and pepper with hopefuls lakes Aspire to greater heights. The true And then more mountains. Katahdin nature A view and then the downward Is then revealed as gravel tends to struggle. slide and Rocks and roots more treacherous Mischief-seeking roots reach out to than ever. trip And now the wind. The unsuspecting climber. Not the gentle, sea level wind but an Around the bend, and the pine cover untamed wind is dropped In all its fury, taking advantage of a To reveal the stark naked rock free piece of cloth, shimmering in the sun. Or a swirling column of dust, to hin­ The top towers, beckoning from above, der you. And with renewed vigor, one tightens And driving clouds, little snow-white one’s belt puffs and fierce thunder clouds And the crawl upward begins. Sweeping the white puffs away and bringing in an all enveloping Only one more pull and this rock is fog. scaled— The wind One mutters to oneself as the sun assumes But now the shelter of the forest is A vertical position — only one more regained and one rushes madly rock — down. Then the top. But again Pamola, Slipping and sliding to escape the The great God of a great mountain wrath of the unapproachable Has foiled you; for another peak, the Pamola. true peak, The bottom is reached. Throws its challenge from the north­ A group of fresh-looking, pack toting east people are about to start. Across the rock strewn plateau. . . . Was it easy — Oh, very. . . . Was it fun? — Lots. A last swig of w ater — there’s a . . . Make good time? — Wonderful. spring not fa r off Have a good trip! And again the pedi-flight resumes By J udy Mills Against the domineering God of (After climbing Maine's highest steep Katahdin. mountain while attending “Blazing But again the great God reigns Trail” summer camp at Denmark, supreme Maine.)

FRONT COVER, Ansco Color, photo by Maine Publicity Bu­ (Pkoto CneditA: reau; process plates and all oth­ er engravings by Waterville Sentinel Engravers. Printed by: Kennebec Journal Print Shop, Augusta, Maine. Pages: 11, 12, 13, 16, and 38 furnished. All other photos by the State of Maine Publicity Bureau. Maine’s Sea Lexington

By J anie Michaels

This story of Chief Orono, This Brave set off to halt this wrong— Comes down to us from long ago; In fishing coves, in meadows wide, From time to time ’tis good to hear, Wherever warriors of the tribe Lest memories of it disappear. He could seek out to act or guide, His vivid words did soon describe, The perils to those settlers white, ■dkave Orono, Penobscots’ Chief, That would their future surely blight. Would settlers save from woeful g rie f; These Braves made up the “Fast Ex­ Men who had fought in righteous press” Cause, Desired by Orono to stress From Concord, Mass, to Valley Forge, The menace of that nearby fleet— Against the bad, obnoxious laws, Of schooners five and brigs the same, Of stubborn, witless, old King George. Whose crews in brazen, cold conceit, For seven years they fearless fought, Thought they could land and put to Until the tyrant peace besought. flame, The homes and crops of those brave But wars are prone to backward kicks, ones, So happened this to ’76: Before they could put hands to guns. In seventeen-hundred eighty-one The British sailed the coast of Maine, With speed this “Fast Express” made To crush those men who, freedom won, bare Now sowed their seed and reaped their This plot the settlers to ensnare; grain; So when the fleet did hug the shore, On Sundays sang their pious psalms, They found an angry populace With never a thought of war-alarms. Blasting from guns a threatening roar, An Indian Brave, name lost to fame, No matter what the time or place. Told Orono of fleet and aim— And being Englishmen of sense, “ Five brigs, five schooners, skirt the They sailed away in their own de­ coast, fense. To plunder, to lay waste the land— Theirs is indeed no idle boast; Now this brave deed of Orono, So here wait I your quick command, Could not long unrewarded go, To warn these settlers of their fate, The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Before the hour shall be too. late.” Paid him in full the heavy cost, Declaring otherwise regrets Said Orono, “With no delay, Would come, and friendships fine be Find runners, canoe-men, where you lost, ’Twixt Indians and brothers-white— Anda tell m a these y ’ Braves all I possess To pay was only just and right. Of acres, wampum, guns, canoes, I’ll gladly give and nothing less Chief Orono lived to a ripe old age, To those who’ll carry these bad news, So read the annals of history’s page; Along these shores in record time, One hundred thirteen years was he To stop the doings of a monstrous When, shrouded in his garments fine. crime.” “Penobscots” did one and all agree, To tomb him by a stately pine, In breathless speed, with purpose In Old-Town-Indian-burial-ground— strong, A grave forever memory-crowned.

SUMMER, 1953 43 August

B y : A ddison Liberman

A ugust ... a brazen, golden trum pet! The sun, a liquid yellow note, strong, sustained and high . . . clear as a scream on the silent oven of earth, piercing as trumpeter’s challenge to toreador and bull wild and flaming, pulsing with a rhythm foreign to this staid New England soil. August . . . a brazen, golden trumpet played by a Spanish gypsy.