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December 2, 2002 - December 31, 2002
Date: December 31, 2002 Name: Norm Clarke Location: Email: Comment: Ken, Cool. No pun intended. It was quite a storm and still remember most of it. Pilots closing Tuesday also brought back many memories. We, as a gang, used to stop there a lot before or after dances in Bangor or Brewer. It has a lot of memories. Too bad it's closing. I will miss it. We did think about stopping there that night [of the storm] but decided to keep going. They always treated young folks with class and dignity. We had many a shrimp cocktail and meal there.
Date: December 31, 2002 Name: Donna Boody Location: Email: Comment: Ken, I can't be sure, but the man in today's picture with Ed Leavitt sure looks like Norman Young.
Date: December 31, 2002 Name: Ron Russell Location: Email: Comment: The person with Ed could be Hubert Flanders as it looks something like him to me. As a snowmobiler I wish we could get an old fashion snowstorm, it sure would be good for the economy over here.
RonRon- That's who I thought it was at first. It sure looks like him, but I'm not sure. This picture was taken 40 years ago. -Ken
Date: December 31, 2002 Name: Merl & Cathy Meagher Location: Silver Springs, Florida Email: Comment: My husband and I were looking at the picture of Ed Leavitt in front of the barber shop in the storm of 62. He thinks the other man could have been Maurice
Holbrook. He and his wife operated a small clothing shop beside the barber shop.
Happy New Year to all! from Catherine Meagher
Date: December 31, 2002 Name: Sherri (Gloor) Location: Email: Comment: Hi Ken and (fellow Cattail enthusiasts),
Here is what I remember about the storm of '62. My youngest sister was born on the 26th, so my parents were in Dexter at the hospital when the storm struck. It took days for the road from Dexter to Corinna to be cleared. So I was home alone, with five younger siblings to care for. We thought it was a lark! Our parents were worried sick! The snow blew in drifts up around the first floor windows, so it was like being in a cave on the ground floor. I think that after a couple days food was an issue. I guess we were out of milk and bread. But mostly it seemed like a huge adventure to have no parents at home! We stayed up half the night, with no one to tell us to go to bed! I remember one of Daddy's stories about trying to get home from Dexter, getting a couple miles out of town and facing a wall of snow. Then he realized that the snowplow was trying to get through from Corinna, and he had to back up all the way back to Dexter! We kids had a wonderful time digging tunnels and caves in the HUGE banks of snow along the road in front of our house. I wish I could remember the name of the street we lived on that year. But we had a pretty long driveway, and I know there was some concern about getting it shoveled so that when my Mom finally arrived with the new baby, she could get into the house. I think I shoveled part of it, or maybe someone came and plowed it for us. Can't remember. But I am pretty sure that that storm was partly responsible for Daddy's decision to seek another posting back in the Pacific islands! He carried snowshoes around in the trunk of his car and made house-calls on foot more than once. I even think he delivered a baby after trekking in on snowshoes! Does anyone know of that story? I'd love to hear it!
Happy New Year to all!
Sherri (Gloor)
Date: December 31, 2002 Name: Jason Location: Email: Comment: Hi Mr. Dow it's Jason. I wanted to know exactly when the Corinna Union Academy was built. I have heard that it was built anywhere between 1850 and 1853. I know it was incorporated in 1852 so it could not have been built in 1853. But it could have been built in 1850, 1851, and/or 1852.
Date: December 29, 2002 Name: Norm Clarke Location: Email: Comment: Ken,
The time has run out for those threats of bodily harm, so I can write to the Cattail again.
The Bangor Daily had a write up this weekend on the storm of 62. It asked for input from readers as to their own experiences with this major event. I saved mine for this forum and would like to hear other readers comments on the storm.
I was with Gary Wentworth the evening it started. I cannot remember who else was with us that evening. Sorry ladies. We were in Bangor and left for home, via Route 2, as it started to snow. We drove past Pilot's Grill where so many people were later stranded. As we neared Corinna, the snow was up to the rocker panels on the car. Gary had a 58 Pontiac and it had little trouble going through the snow. We all got home safely, It took three days to dig out, or tunnel out as was the case.
Someone, I think it was Gary, (memory is fading as fast as a campaign promise) decided to venture out. We went to Exeter for some reason. The roads were plowed only one car wide. We met a grader coming from Exeter and had to back up a couple of miles until we found a driveway to turn into so the grader could pass. Along the way, we talked to a couple walking along the top of the snow bank. We had to look up to talk to them. They stepped over and around the cross members of the telephone poles as they walked.
Daughter Tara was living on the shores of Lake Tahoe for a while. Several of the mountain passes out there have very tall poles along each side of the road. They are placed there so you can tell where the road is when it the snow piles up six feet at a time. These passes, and the snow banks reminded me of that 62 storm and the trip we took through those long white troughs of snow It took Maine a few days to get back to normal but it was one humongous storm. If you haven't seen Saturday's Bangor Daily, try to get a copy, or go on line, and check out the photos and recollections.
Well, that's my exciting story. Just think, folks have waited until today to read this.Norm- Thanks for your story about The Storm of '62. Your timing is on the nose! I'm sure there must be more of you out there with stories to share. Please send them. -Ken
Date: December 26, 2002 Name: Alice Russell Belgard Location: Email: aliceb@msn.com Comment: Really hoping all were "good little boys and girls" and Santa was really nice to you. I received all I wanted except Goodwill on earth which I think is up to each if us to help happen But grandchildren were a delight and am sure they will make a difference in the world. Sense that it is the grandchildren, of us from the 30 plus to 50's, who are very involved in the future of Corinna. Hopefully people from Jerome Emerson's generation will hang on and keep being involved. Jerome is a true gentleman and a man younger people would do well to listen to. Like Millard Quimbey He never led any of us to do anything not good for Corinna. Of course in my life in Corinna it was near 50 yrs ago. BUT I can not imagine Jerome to not have not got not just older but WISER. Happy New Year to one and all.
Date: December 26, 2002 Name: Jason Location: Corinna Email: Comment: Hey Mr. Dow it's Jason. I was looking for info on the Stewart Library Building for school and in the guest book a lady mentioned the bell striking the quarter hour. Did the bell really strike the quarter hour? I know it strikes hourly now (though not quite on the hour I might add) and for a while not at all but I have never heard of it sounding on the quarter hour.
Date: December 24, 2002 Name: Herb Dow Jr. Location: Corinna Email: Comment: Hi Ken. And hi to Paul Miller. My records show a (Sidie) Josiah Hook Burrill, son of Danial Seavey Burrill + Zetta Adel Robertson. Born 5/7/1895, Died 12/13/1951 @ Togas Vet. Hospital, brother of; Addie Francis, Carroll Seavey, Willard Edman, Martha Augusta, Eugene, George Leighton, John Seavey, Albert Llewlliyn, Ralph Eugene and Minnie Olive. Looks like 11 children in the family. Several of then died as infants; Eugene, John and Ralph. Wow. Eleven kids! Thanks for sending in this information. -Ken
Date: December 24, 2002 Name: Daniel Parker Location: Email: lisaanddan@cox.net Comment: Sherri, I remember your dad, Dr. Gloor, and when he gave all the shoots to the people in town. We had to go to Eastland School as a family to get all our shoots. Then your dad went to the mission field, he was quite the man, so kind and tender. I was in the same class with Cindy Jones and really didn't know where she went. If you were her age you should have been in my grade in the lower years at Eastland.
Date: December 24, 2002 Name: Sherri Marie (nee Gloor) Location: Email: Comment: Thanks, Ken, for sharing your memory of my dad, who passed away in '94. If any of your other readers have memories of him, I would love to hear them! I had my first stitches in his office, too! On my 8th birthday, I was showing off on my new bicycle, took a spill, split my lip and had to have 3 stitches. In the middle of my birthday party! Ouch! The worst part was knowing that it was my own fault for showing off!
After writing for the guestbook last night, I remembered that Polly Nutter was the mom, and Marilyn (I think) was the oldest daughter that I played with. My favorite pastime with her was helping bring the cows in for milking. And other farm-related chores. Always a fun time! Happy Holidays!
Sherri
Date: December 24, 2002 Name: Brian Knowles Location: Etna, Maine Email: BPKnowles@aol.com Comment: Your photo of sunset on the winter solstice is great. In Newgrange, Ireland there is a large stone mound, that was designed to allow sunlight into the center chamber for a short time only on the winter solstice. The structure was built by the early Celts, 3200 years B.C., making it the earliest known man made structure in the world. It pre-dates the pyramids and Stonehenge.
We had hoped to get back to central Maine in time to attend the recent concert, but got delayed and arrived too late. I hope it was a success and enjoyed by all. I think it is great that a small town can sponsor such events and all for the price of a donation to help others. I think it may all be summed up in the poem in the front of the book "A Brief History of Corinna..." titled "It isn't your town, it's you" How do the Burrill's recently pictured relate to the the Burrill's I would remember in town, Phil and Byron?
Thank you very much for this site and a very Merry Christmas to you and all your family and all who follow this site.
BrianBrian- Thank you. Someday I would like to see the stone structure you mention. I'm not sure of the exact link to Phil and other Burrills but I'm sure we will find out. -Ken
Date: December 23, 2002 Name: Sherri Marie (nee Gloor) Location: Email: Comment: I can't believe this web-site devoted to Corinna that I found purely by accident a few nights ago! I lived in Corinna as a young girl and have never forgotten it. Even though I was quite young (9 years old) when we left, the memories of that little town are vivid and compelling. Maine, in general, holds a mythic pull on my imagination and I am so happy to have found this site, with all of the history that I never knew.
My father was the town doctor (Bob Gloor) and we lived on Pleasant Street, just up the hill from the Stewart Library Building. How well I remember my first trip to the Library with my mother, and the enchantment I felt at the possibilities presented by those tall shelves of books! And all the pictures of the river remind me of many happy and blissful hours I spent exploring the marshes and surrounding areas. Another memory is of the stillness of snow on the trees, in deep winter. It is all flooding back as I look through the great photographs you have posted here. I remember Daddy taking me along on house-calls throughout the countryside to isolated farms. The barns were wonderful and I would always ask for permission to go into them, climbing up into the hay lofts, looking for barn owls and relishing the smell and darkish filtered light of those barn interiors.
The town clock features big in my memories, as I used to lie in bed at night and count to 60 15 times and see if I could be right on time with the chiming of the quarter hour. I never quite succeeded, but I tried many times!
I don't remember any names, except Hazel Knowles, who worked in the office, as a nurse? I can't remember. But she must have been related (by marriage) to a descendant of Robert Knowles, pictured just a couple days ago. And I remember the Nutters, who owned a dairy farm about a mile or two out of town. I played with their daughter, Polly. And Cindy Jones, who is a teacher there at the elementary school, was also a playmate of mine. I just remember the town as a wonderful place to live, with natural beauty everywhere! And something about that big sky that stretches out to forever has stayed with me my whole life. I sigh with remembered delight every time I hear the word "Maine".
So thanks for the memories, Ken, and I will be visiting your wonderful site often, to relive the joy of my time spent in Corinna. I am using your wallpaper offerings and really enjoy seeing my current choice (early winter on the bog) every time I sit down at my computer. Thank You! I love the picture of the snow fence. Could you size that for wallpaper, too? Just wondering. Thanks for keeping this site up and running. It has certainly enriched my life to find it!
Sincerely, Sherri Marie (nee Gloor)Sherri- I am pleased that you found the web site. Thank you for sharing your wonderful memories of Corinna with us. The "downtown' you might remember is gone and the town clock only strikes on the hour, but much of the countryside is still as you describe so well. I remember your father. He took care of a bad cut on my shoulder. It was the first time I had stitches. He helped a frightened little boy feel much better. -Ken
Date: December 23, 2002 Name: Bing and Geri Grindle Location: Roanoke, Virginia Email: Comment: Hi, Ken. Long time since I've Guest Booked. (I'm the one who's granddad was Dr. Fred Redman.) It's no longer easy to pinpoint exactly where that house of his and your family's was located! You can I'm sure. Anywho, my wife Geri and I have always pulled up Cattail Press every morning (except Sundays) before we do anything else (We like the weather chair, but haven't seen it for several days.) You have done such a great informative service to so many viewers we just wanted to wish you a very Merry Christmas. You've been a good boy. Hope Santa is good to you! Best wishes from Bing and Geri Grindle in Roanoke, Virginia Bing and Geri- It is good to hear from you. Have a great holiday. -Ken
Date: December 21, 2002 Name: Paul B. Miller Location: Email: Comment: Ken,
Regarding the picture of Josiah Hook Burrill on Dec. 19, and your question about whether he was your gggg grandfather. He was not. He was one of your gggg grandfather's sons, brother to Daniel Foss Burrill (12/17/1821-4/28/1876) who was your ggg grandfather. (I thought I might get this to you before Carl does.) There were a number of Josiah Burrills through the years. I think the name was first in the family from Josiah Ripley who was your gggg grandmother, Lydia Ripley's (Benoni Burrill's wife's) ancestor. The last Josiah Burrill that I know of was your g grandmother, Addie Burrill Dow's brother, my uncle, known as "Side" in the family. I don't know what "Side's" middle name was. My father, Percy F. Miller, once told me he heard Side's middle name was Hook, named as a joke. I don't think that was true. If Side's middle name was Hook he was obviously named after Josiah Hook Burrill whose picture is on the corridor wall in the Stewart Library. Your picture is a lot better than the one I tried to take about 17 years ago. I really enjoy this series you are doing about the people in the pictures there. Thank you.
May all of your family and associates at the Cattail Press have a great holiday season, merry Christmas and happy and successful New Year.Paul- Thanks for sending this information. I remember Uncle Sidie's brother, Uncle Carol. I was very young but recall that he always dressed in warm clothes, even in the summer, and carried a sack of tools where ever he went. I've heard some interesting stories about Sidie and Carol and their attempts to develop a perpetual motion machine. There are a number of other Burrills in the SLB Collection. I'd be pleased to post any information you care to send in as I post their pictures.
Date: December 21, 2002 Name: Jim Lobley Location: Front Royal, Virginia Email: Comment: hi ken!
I believe the woman just to the right of the mirror is my late Aunt, Laura Cook. And I believe the woman in the front on the far left is Opal Weed? Not sure. I almost swear my late grandmother is there too, Leatha Moses but I know she moved to Massachusetts in the mid 50s so chances are she wouldn't be there but who knows.Jim- It's nice to hear from you. I'll bet someone out there can tell us if Leatha Moses in in the photo. -Ken
Date: December 21, 2002 Name: Jane Quimby Biscoe Location: Waldoboro, Maine Email: mb81036@midcoast.com Comment: Taking a stab at identifying the ladies in the December 20 picture, I would venture to say that this was a gathering of the Past Noble Grands group.
Here goes: Front row, left to right: Thelma Brown, Grace Philbrick, Opal Weed, Dot King and (standing) Glaydes Wentworth. Second row: __________, Erma Maxim, Zelda Emerson, Nola Sawtelle. Third row: __________,___________, Mertie Hilliker, Laura Cook, Rita Wade, ______, Cora Cook, Betty Dow.
What a blast from the past!Jane - Thanks for sending in these IDs. -Ken
Date: December 20, 2002 Name: Debbie Ricker Location: Email: Comment: Hi Ken,
Mum showed me the picture of Josiah Hook Burrill on the press today. He is not the Josiah Burrill who is our ancestor. Carl's info is correct for our ancestor but, Josiah Hook is too young to be our gggg grandfather.
Our gggg grandfather is buried in the little cemetery off 222 in what I believe is North Newport. I found his stone a couple of summers ago. I traced our family back through Gramp all the way to Benoni who is buried in the village cemetery. Josiah Hook is also buried there.Debbie- It seems that Josiah Burrill, our gggg grandfather was Josiah Hook Burrill's father. We are descended from Hook's brother, Daniel Foss Burrill. Also, and I never knew this, according to Carl's information our gggg grandmother, Hannah Steward Burrill, was a half-aunt to Levi Stewart. -Ken
Date: December 19, 2002 Name: June Jaworski Location: Corinna Email: Comment: Ken, I have heard that the camp up by Freddie
Annis place came from Carmel Bible Conference in Carmel on route 2. I am wondering if I heard that from Frank Knowles and will try to contact him about that. He went there as a boy with his grandmother. Frank was just visiting here this week-wish I had known then!
Date: December 19, 2002 Name: Jane Quimby Biscoe Location: Waldoboro, Maine Email: mb81036@midcoast.com Comment: Merry Christmas to all Cattail Press readers and contributors! I was happy to see that Corinna folks are being given a chance to enjoy the Julia Lane/Fred Gosbee music. They are from the midcoast area, not far from us -and it will be a real Christmas treat for anyone who attends the December 21st concert. We have heard them quite a few times and it is wonderful music.
Date: December 18, 2002 Name: Dad (Herb Dow) Location: Corinna Email: Comment: Hi Ken. I saw your picture of Dec 14. I believe that this little camp use to (many many years ago) reside on the shore of Brooks Pond which is about 2 miles east of our town. As the story goes, there were several camps similar to this one at Brooks Pond. Stories I have heard seem to indicate that the camps were used for a summer retreat, maybe by some religious group. The camp in the picture was moved to Maynard Hatch's farm, (Fred Annis farm), about 2 miles west of town. A total move of about 4 miles. It may have been moved by Walter Blanchard, as he moved many of Corinna's buildings to different locations. As a youngster I recall seeing Walter move several buildings through the middle of town. Most of the moving was done with horse power. If anyone can add info. about Brooks Pond camps and or Walter Blanchard (the mover) please send it in to the guest book. Dad- I've always been intrigued by this building. It seems out of place where it is. I've never heard it's story or about any development at Brook's Pond. -Ken
Date: December 17, 2002 Name: Jason Location: Corinna Email: Comment: Hi Mr. Dow, It's Jason. I was looking in computer class for info on the Stewart Library building for a school report and I found a picture I think on the February 9 2002 today in Corinna. The picture was marked Hotel' Corinna and a few days after that you had a picture of the Newport inn and asked if it could be the same building. I put both pictures in a word document so I could see them both and I believe they are the same building. Look at them closely enough and you'll see that the front door isn't center on the front wall, they both have five windows on the second and third floors, they both have a front porch and so on and so forth. Jason- It could be. At the time the pictures were posted there were those who felt it was and some felt it was not. -Ken
Date: December 13, 2002 Name: Ron Russell Location: Email: Comment: What the school district needs is Edna Hutchins, as when she was in charge school was never cancelled for anything as foolish as a snowstorm.
RonWe all ate the spinach at hot lunch, too. She stood right and made sure of it. -Ken
Date: December 11, 2002 Name: Marie Turner Birckhead Location: Email: Comment: In reference to questions regarding The Kenwood Inn I believe I can enlighten you a bit. In 1943 I left my parents, Rachel & Manzer Turner to go to Nursing School. At that time we lived on upper Main St across from Win & Ethel Clark. On my first trip back home in about 6 months they were managing The Kenwood Inn for Gerald Clark. That would have been late 1943 or early 1944. They had tenants, many mill employees, served meals and always had a full dining room at noon meal. They were still there when I graduated from nursing school in 1946. In 1950-51 my husband and I took it over from them for a short time. When we left I believe Gerald Clark sold The Inn to Striars and it was made into apartments. That was the demise of that lovely Inn. There were some rooms that must have been beautiful in its heyday I hope this will answer some folks curiosity. Corinna is sure looking great these days but so different than when we lived there. It will always be home to me. I would love to hear from other folks who remember those days. My e-mail address is cbbmtb@aol.com. We live in Lakeland, Florida in winter months and on Unity Pond, Maine in summer. Marie- Thank you for sending in this information. I've always wondered about how and when the Inn became an apartment house. -Ken
Date: December 11, 2002 Name: Jay Hanson Location: Winslow Email: jearleneh@adelphia.net Comment: I want to thank you and the people that have contacted me in reference to Razor Crossman. The information is very helpful to me.
Thanks everyone for the information and help.
Jay
President Maine Auctioneers Assoc.Jay also sent me his mailing address. If anyone would like to send him a letter. Email me at the Guest Book, I will pass it on. -Ken
Date: December 10, 2002 Name: Norm Clarke Location: Email: Comment: Ken, This just in!
The annual CUA Alumni Banquet will be held Saturday, June 7, 2003. It's probably too early for folks to make plans yet but we thought people would like to know. Now's the time to secure a good hotel room and make reunion plans. Nice to hear from Ellen. She used to be a neighbor.
norm
Date: December 6, 2002 Name: Ellen Pitcher Location: Email: Comment: Where has the time gone?
Yesterday I was speaking to a an 80 year old patient who went to Colby Collage. He knew the Freeze family from Corinna, the town I grew up in. At the time I could only remember Dana, "Bubby", who lived down the street from us. I wish I could have remembered more.
I have many fond memories of "home", as does my mother, Evelyn Bemis Pitcher.
We live in Florida now. But I, we, will always think of Corinna as "home".Ellen- It is good to hear from you. I hope you and your mother are well. You are right. The time has flown and many things have changed. Take care. -Ken
Date: December 2, 2002 Name: Carl Smith Location: Corinna Email: Comment: Brian, in reviewing the histories, I find no reference to the Silver Mines. My source was the Comprehensive Plan, which gives a very brief notation in the Topography section. The Lilla Wood History is in the Library. Also in the Library are Corinna 175th Anniversary 1991 which is mostly pictures, and 20th Century Corinna by William R. Sawtell which contains much more recent history. Re another recent subject, Sawtell relates that the Kenwood Inn was Win Clark's residence. He converted it to an Inn to provide housing for his crew. Sawtell also has a section highlighting some years. For 1945, he notes that separately the Literary and Amicus Clubs held their annual meetings at Kenwood Inn, so it must have had an upscale dining or meeting room for a tenement house. Most of Sawtell's sources are interviews in 1983-4.
Date: December 2, 2002 Name: June Jaworski Location: Corinna Public Library Email: Comment: In answer to Brian's question-we do have several copies of Lilla Wood's history of Corinna available for patrons. We also have some copies of the Sawtell book that can be loaned.
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