Previous Entries
May 7 - June 2, 2000
Date: June 2, 2000 Name: Marilyn Parker Conway Location: Prague, Oklahoma Email: bmconway@brightok.net Comment: Ken, you may have had a slow period from May 8th, but your old photos and post cards and questions such as "does anyone know. . ." sure has revved up the regular viewers of Cat Tail Press. I agree with Janet Miller of Taft, CA. I was tempted to write regarding that plowed field. Might not have looked like much to the casual viewer, but it is a view that is firmly planted in my memory and it looks to me like it was the field before the house where the Partridges lived in the 40's and 50's (I left in '59).
In response to Ronald Russell, I certainly do remember the movies at the old Grammar School on Fridays. I was a bus student, so we got to see it at noon time. I became a big fan of "The Durango Kid" during those show times. I believe the instigator of those film showings was Mr. Lancaster, the Principal of the school at that time.
Keep up the good work Ken, you keep coming up with great ideas.
Date: June 2, 2000 Name: Kay McKusick Gray Location: Corinna Email: kaymgray@kynd.net Comment: Ken, I just read my letter to you about our 40th and saw that in my old age I gave my old e-mail address. My new address is above, so I apologize to anyone who may have tried to contact me about our get together at my house on June17th
Date: June 2, 2000 Name: Helen Stewart Location: Corinna, ME Email: ghstw@tdstelme.net Comment: Hi Ken;
Great job each day with lots of work. I need help finding a poem. The title has the word "Hugs" in it. I have been looking for several weeks. It is a Christian poem. Thank you for the help;
Helen S.
Date: June 1, 2000 Name: Janet Miller Location: Taft, CA Email: Comment: Ken, I love your picture today (5/31) - is there any chance this could be added to the wallpaper collection? Also, the one from earlier this week of the plowed field with the blue, blue sky appealed to me - I guess I'm still a farmer's daughter.
I will do some wallpapering this weekend. -Ken
Date: June 1, 2000 Name: Betty (Bowden) MacKenzie Location: Newport, Me Email: betmacboop@hotmail.com Comment: Hi Ken, It's been a while since I signed in. Had to let you know that today's photo from the top of the town hall, is beautiful. It is hard to believe that that lovely view has been hidden behind the mill all these years. You are right it is also good to know, that this part of Corinna will be preserved. The " New Corinna" is going to be a nice place for people to come home to and to visit. I also have to say, Congratulations to Corey on his graduation, and Good Luck to him next year as he attends college. We will miss seeing him around.
Date: June 1, 2000 Name: Wayne & Lori Homsher Location: Lancaster County, PA Email: Comment: We come up to Corinna each summer to visit our relatives. Dave Poland told
us about your web site -- very nice. It's interesting to see all of the changes that have happened over the past year.
Date: June 1, 2000 Name: Ronald Russell Location: Rumford Email: ronrus@agate.net Comment: I remember the movie theater and the Saturday afternoon shows. Mostly Roy Rogers and Gene Autry westerns. I think that the cost to get into the movies was $.10 when it first opened up, and generally we got to see 2 movies. There was also a cartoon feature, so we got a good buy. Does anyone remember the movies at the old Grammar school on Friday afternoons where we were treated to a serial with an episode each week? Seems that the film broke at least once during the show.
Ken is sure is bringing back memories that have been long been forgotten with his web site, thanks Ken. I look every day to see what is new and who has signed in.
Ron
Date: June 1, 2000 Name: Marilyn Parker Conway Location: Prague, Oklahoma Email: bmconway@brightok.net Comment: What memories the recent week has brought to mind. I'd forgotten about the old movie theater, but seeing the photo reminded me of something else. Jean Schmitz was in my class and I recall her father drove a taxi in town and they lived in an apartment near the movie theater. Am I dreaming, or did Corinna have a taxi at one time?
Date: May 31, 2000 Name: Claudia Breslin Location: Wickford, RI Email: CCbreeze7@aol.com Comment: I can't wait to visit Corinna again in person. Haven't been up since March. I just love your website and enjoy sharing it with my family. Not everyone has had the chance to visit your ever changing town. I would love to know more about Edna Hutchins and her wonderful house. My sister and her husband have done quite a bit of work... but there is still a lot to do. Keep up the great work. History is so important to all our futures.
Date: May 30, 2000 Name: Jane Quimby Biscoe Location: Waldoboro, Maine Email: mb81036@midcoast.com Comment: I was so eager to show off my knowledge of the Kenwood Inn that I completely missed the building you REALLY asked about! Gladys Harris is right - it was the movie theater but I can't remember when it closed down. I remember going to movies there in the late 40's and very early 50's but not after that. We all went to Dexter or
Newport to the flicks from then on!
Jane Biscoe
Date: May 29, 2000 Name: Jane Quimby Biscoe Location: Waldoboro, Maine Email: mb81036@midcoast.com Comment: Regarding your question, Ken, about the building in your picture of May 27 - I believe it is the old Kenwood Inn, which was run as an inn by the owners of the Moosehead Woolen Mill. After the Moosehead Mill burned, the Inn was converted to apartments and eventually demolished. I moved away from Corinna in 1953, and the building was certainly there at that time.
Cheers - Jane Biscoe
Date: May 29, 2000 Name: Donna Boody Location: Bangor Email: dab58pnb@aol.com Comment: Hi Ken, The long building was a theater. I remember going there as a child in the mid to late 1940's. I'm not sure what the building was used for before, or after that. Still enjoying the pictures and entries everyday. Thanks...
Date: May 29, 2000 Name: Debora Ricker Location: Corinna Email: debora_ricker@hotmail.com Comment: Hi Ken, Mum told me there used to be a movie theater and a roller rink in town when she was a girl. I believe she said the theater closed in the 50's. That long building is the theater. Mum has showed me other pictures of it that Gramp had.
I think your website is great, Ken. I looked at it almost every day when I was at school and I've also told every one the family who lives away about it.
Keep up the good work.
Deb
Date: May 28, 2000 Name: Matt Guay Location: Corinna, ME Email: guay@tdstelme.net Comment: I enjoyed your finding the falls article. Tell Paco (Gavin) I said hi.
Date: May 28, 2000 Name: Helen Stewar[t] Location: Corinna, ME Email: ghstw@tdstelme.net Comment: Thank you for this special page. As I read each entry this morning it took me back to the country child who moved here at the age of 13. Thank each of you for being a part of this page. Will close for now and look forward to hearing from friends.
Date: May 27, 2000 Name: Cathi Austin (Hopkins) Location: Garland ME Email: cathia@kynd.net Comment: Hi Ken; It's been a Long time since we've seen each other. I'm so glad to see your still working with computers. Remember 1980, when I was in the 7th grade and you were the first to teacher comp class. We felt very lucky. And when we went to high school so did you. Your web sight is a wonderful place, because many people don't get the chance like we do to drive by and see the progress that has taken place this spring. Amazing !! of course I do remember when the street was full of buildings. Before the fire. My Mother (Linda Bourgoine) has a picture of me in a parade back when everything was still standing. I'm sure you remember my grandfather (Shanny Fernald). Main street was his first start in the grocery store business. And what a good business he had for many yrs. We miss him very much!!
Thanks again Ken, for the walk down memory lane.
Cathi Austin
Date: May 27, 2000 Name: Clyde Smith Location: California Email: Phantom266@aol.com Comment: Ken: Great aerial pictures, keep up the great work.
Clyde
Date: May 27, 2000 Name: MARY BOWDEN Location: Email: Comment: HI KEN, BEEN LOOKING FOR MY MOOSE FOR MY WALL PAPER! WE SAW 5 GOING TO GREENVILLE YESTERDAY. THEY SURE LOOK AWFUL RIGHT NOW. MARY
After I put the Plastic Moose picture on the site, Mary gave me a picture of a real moose. I think she felt sorry for me. :-)
I will put her real moose picture in the wall paper collection soon. Thank you, Mary.
Date: May 26, 2000 Name: Philip Young Location: Augusta, Maine Email: younpm@aol.com Comment: Hi Ken
It has been a while since I signed in. The photo showing the pond north of the mill site reminded me of the times when we Boy Scouts would meet in the early morning on Memorial Day to put out the flags. Later, in the parade we would pause on the bridge to toss a wreath over the bridge (where did it go?) in honor of the naval personnel who were lost at sea. Later we skinny dipped off the upper dam. Lots of water over that dam since then.
Keep up the great work.
Regards, Philip Young
Date: May 25, 2000 Name: Kay Mckusick Location: Corinna Email: kaymgray@midmaine.net Comment: Hi Ken, So nice to get back on the internet again and the first place I went was your page, it is wonderful to hear from other Corinna"ites" Ask Mrs. Pinkham if that is a word. I thought this would be a good place to announce to the "Class of 1960" that they are invited to our house on the Airport Rd. (which used to be called the Ridge Rd. before 911) at 1:00 PM on June 17th (the day of the Alumni Banquet) Jackie Emerson and I have been trying to find some of the kids we went to school with and I saw Ginny Day sign this and she is one we're trying to reach. Anyone else that went to school with us most of the years, please come over. They are also opening the CUA building from 2 to 5 for us!!!
Come over for munchies and reminiscing!! Hope to see you, Kay
Date: May 25, 2000 Name: Fred N. McFarland Location: Corinna, Maine Email: fmac@ctel.net Comment: Hi Ken, I have never met you, but I know your mom & dad well, also knew your grandparents, who were wonderful people. You are doing a great job and making a lot of people happy. I enjoy looking at your Site and reading the guestbook comments. I lived in Calif. until 1996 when I come home to Maine. My sisters are Ethel Reeks and Grace Larsen who live in Dexter and Newport. I live across from the P&L store that is on the town line of Corinna & Dexter. When I was still in school, I worked in the mill one summer. My dad worked in the mill when I was growing up. I would love to hear from any of you who know me. You can contact me via of email.
Thanks again Ken, for all the work you are doing on the Corinna Site.
Fred
Date: May 25, 2000 Name: CHLOE(TRICIA)CRAY Location: Email: Comment: LINDA HENDERSON-SORRY FOR THE SCREWED UP LAST NAME!! ONE OF MY
BLIND DAY'S. SO TO SPEAK.
Date: May 24, 2000 Name: Lisa Hackling Location: Wilkes-Barre,PA Email: LisaH6759@aol.com Comment: Hello everyone.....great site. I wanted to say hi to my grandma up in Dexter.
And I want to tell her that I am on my moms account so that will explain the odd wording.
Love ya and miss ya lots. Love Alicia, Jessica and Daniel.
Date: May 24, 2000 Name: Marilyn Parker Conway Location: Prague, Oklahoma Email: bmconway@brightok.net Comment: Ken, just had to let you know how much I am enjoying this collection of old photos and postcards. Couldn't believe my eyes when the old grammar school popped on the screen. I found myself going from window to window remembering what grade was in that class room. I have saved a number of these photos so I can look at them whenever I want. I was in 8th grade when we moved to the Eastland Elementary School, but my favorite memories are of the old school. Thanks again!
Date: May 23, 2000 Name: Jane Quimby Biscoe Location: Waldoboro, Maine Email: mb81036@midcoast.com Comment: Hi Ken - Just checking in after viewing your most recent picture of May 21, 2000 - the two houses on the Newport Road that are to be demolished. I remember when I was young (a long time ago!) that the house on the left belonged to John and Grace Philbrick and the right-hand house to Charles and Sula Sawtelle. These folks were neighbors of my grandparents, O. L. and Jen Sprague, who lived in the house located just to the left of Philbricks' across the street going toward Newport. I well remember Grace Philbrick's lemon cookies! You are doing a great service to all of us who are so fond of Corinna - thank you. I also have very fond memories of your grandparents Herb (The Chief!) and Carmen Dow.
I'll follow the Cattail Press with great interest as the summer moves along.
Jane Quimby Biscoe
Date: May 23, 2000 Name: Mel Russell Location: Casselberry, FL Email: mr-upcic@att.net Comment: Ken - The picture on May 21 must have been nostalgic for you - didn't you used to run an ice cream stand between these two buildings when you were in High School? Mel Russell
Mel- Yes, my family did run the stand there for a while. -Ken
Date: May 22, 2000 Name: terry karen gallison Location: newport Email: gallison@tdstelme.net Comment: nice job Ken and Julie Have been enjoying the site . Sorry it took us so long to sign in.
Date: May 22, 2000 Name: terry karen gallison Location: newport Email: gallison@tdstelme.net Comment: nice job Ken and Julie Have been enjoying the site . Sorry it took us so long to sign in.
Date: May 21, 2000 Name: Ron McKusick Location: South Ridge Road - Corinna Email: ron@mckusick.20m.com Comment: If any of your kids are interested in going to this years Kid's Fishing Derby you can read about it here. http://kidsderby.20m.com/
I really love this site and look forward to more pictures. My nephew kept looking for the big green building when he came into town and couldn't believe his eyes when it was gone.
Date: May 19, 2000 Name: CHLOE(TRICIA)CRAY Location: ORONO/OLDTOWN Email: Comment: WELL, IT HAS BEEN AWHILE SINCE I SCANNED THE SITE; CAN'T BELIEVE MY EYES!!!! WOW IS ALL I CAN SAY.
I'M GLAD TO SEE THE TOWN GETTING CLEANED UP AND IMPROVED, BUT WILL MISS THE PLEASURE OF WALKING TO TIM AND T'S, HENDERSON'S AND THE WESTERN AUTO!!!!
I BOUGHT NY FIRST CLOCK/RADIO FROM DENNIS MY FRESHMAN YEAR OF COLLEGE!! (THE FIRST TIME THROUGH COLLEGE)!!! THANKS CORINNA FOR MAKING MY CHILDHOOD SO MUCH FUN!!!! LINDA HEBERSON--WHERE DO I ORDER PIZZA NOW WHEN I VISIT MOM??????
Date: May 18, 2000 Name: Matt Gleckman Location: Cortez, CO Email: mattg@cortezjournal.com Comment: Hey Kenny, haven't checked out the web site in a while. Thought I would see what was new in the area. The site looks great. I especially enjoyed reading of the trials and tribulations of your lazy pack sherpa — Paco.
hello to everyone in the east.
matt
Date: May 17, 2000 Name: Andi Welch Manley Location: Springfield, VA. Email: armanley@erols.com Comment: My father, Anthony Welch, grew up in Corinna and I have enjoyed annual visits there for the past 27 years. I find the changes sad but love the fact we can feel so connected even being so far away. We appreciate the updates.
Date: May 16, 2000 Name: Regina Graham (Parker) Location: Flagler Beach, Florida Email: grahamway@aol.com Comment: Great job on your website. Love reading what people have to say about all the changes. Keep up the good work.
Date: May 16, 2000 Name: Helen Stewart Location: Email: Comment:
Date: May 15, 2000 Name: Matthew and Janet Parker Location: Port Angeles, WA Email: parkermjj@hotmail.com Comment: My Father in Law Raymond Young of Corinna turned us on to this site. For a couple of home bodies so far from home it has been and continues to be a great treat. It keeps us so much better informed with the happenings of Corinna than our families do.
We enjoy seeing the daily updates and seeing what the weather is for the day. We also found some old time friends in the guest book and made some reaquaintences.
Janet was a five year employee for Henderson's so we have sadly watched the downtown change around it and will soon see it go. I guess time and things change. I remember touring the mill as a kid in grade school and now it is gone. It will be strange to drive through town the next time we are home and not see the mill and swing into Henderson's for a Pizza and chat.
We also enjoyed the trip into the falls. We will also have to check those out some time when we are banging around back home. We have kids of our own now and they might enjoy the scenery some day. Hello to all back home who know us.
Date: May 15, 2000 Name: Mike Pomeroy Location: Winston-Salem, NC Email: mpomero2@bellsouth.net Comment: Hi Ken, Still visiting your site. You have sure done some great photography. Watching Eastland go down was kinda spooky to me. Awhile back when you posted a picture of just the cement slab, I got my wife in here and told her, "look, I used to work there". Will not get to see it in person for another year. Thanks for calling the "Play by Play" on the demise of the mill. God Bless! Mike
Date: May 15, 2000 Name: Elvin Hawes Location: Moscow, Maine Email: alhawes@ctel.net Comment: I finally got the time to sign on to your web page. It sure is great to read the letters and find where every one is these days. I travel thru Corinna quite often and the old town is changing fast, hopefully for the better. As I read in Norm Clarke's letter the alumni banquet is for all attendees of CUA and we have a great time.
Date: May 14, 2000 Name: Jeanne Sawtelle Location: Peaks Island, ME Email: jeanneeas@aol.com Comment: Hi Ken, I just got my own e-mail address. I enjoyed all of your pictures during the winter by using Kim's computer. We took the computer to the hospital so that Elmer could see what had happened to Corinna while he has been laid up. You have done a marvelous job preserving a piece of history.
Date: May 13, 2000 Name: Marilyn Parker Conway Location: Prague, Oklahoma Email: bmconway@brightok.net Comment: Hi Ken, The Guestbook has not been updated since May 8th. Is there something wrong with my computers (office and home) or have you been on vacation? I made contact with a lot of old friends, thoroughly enjoyed the "falls" photos and your story, now I'm bringing people in to my office at work to "see the amazing changes in my home town". Everyone is interested in this unusual story. I'm very proud of our town and after reading the guestbook am also very proud of our people - I wonder how many people care so much about their home town and old friends and neighbors. Thanks again for your on-going effort. I hope you are enjoying it as much as we are.
Marilyn, Entries to the Guest Book have slowed. Yours is the first since the 8th. -Ken
Date: May 8, 2000 Name: Lisa & Mark LeGassey Location: Brunswick, ME, Formally of East Millinocket, ME Email: jordan23@loa.com Comment: We just had a great surprise visit from Judy (your Town administrator) and her husband Mike Doore. We went out to eat and your Town and web site came up, Judy is so excited about this information page I thought I write you a note. Say Hi to Judy if you see her. This is a very well done web page.
Date: May 8, 2000 Name: Mary-Jane Redman Whittier Location: Saco, Maine Email: Comment: My father was Charles Redman who facilitated the sale of the home on the corner to your grandfather, the doctor having been my grandfather. As a youngster I shared many happy hours with relatives on that corner in Corinna. We go through town fairly regularly to visit the cemetery where relatives are buried. I could not go on another day checking in to Cattail press without telling you I greatly enjoy the living history you are delivering to any one who wishes to log on. Of course my father had close connections to the mill at one time, just like so many other folks in the pretty little town. My cousin Crosby Grindle from Roanoke, Va., calls often to talk about what is on Cattail Press. We like having the connection, and we thank you for expending the energy to keep it interesting and ongoing. Thanks Ken. Mary-Jane
Date: May 8, 2000 Name: Bob Landry Location: Punta Gorda, FL. Email: flash@isni.net Comment: Hi Ken, I enjoy your website. Although I have never lived here, I have been a visitor for the last forty years and have many friends in Corinna.
I was told you have to be born at least two generations prior to coming here to be accepted. What nonsense.
Date: May 7, 2000 Name: Bruce & Roberta (Bemis) Fowler Location: Corinna Center Road Email: fowler@kynd.com Comment: First of all, thank you for your work on this Website. We check the site at least once a week and really enjoy seeing the familiar names in the Guest Book. As a member of the Bemis Family, Roberta grew up in Corinna. I'm from away (Hartland!), but remember Jr. High trips to the Town Hall to play hoops against the likes of Rick Veazie, Craig Pooler, Roger Seavey and others. My nightly ride from work through town is always filled with anticipation of seeing the "days work" at the site. I still remember when demolition started and that first time around the corner (from Newport) and the left side was gone!
Anyway, as Cub Scout Master, I had taken some of Corinna Cub Scout Pack 65 to the "Park" (beside Henderson's) to pick up trash earlier this spring. I asked the boys (7 & 8 year olds) what they knew about the Project. Well for any of you that don't have young ones around, trust me that their imaginations are quite amazing! So I decided they needed a first hand education. I called the EPA Project Offices and we were invited to come to the EPA/Eastland Cleanup Offices. I would like to thank Rick Leighton, Project Manager, for taking time out his busy schedule (actually his personal time!) to spend an hour with the boys explaining the project to them. He showed them maps, explained water tables, construction techniques and so on. He also had a Q & A session with the boys in which some great and amazing questions were asked! We were invited to come back later in the summer to see the progress. Thanks again Rick!
Date: May 6, 2000 Name: Kelli Richardson Location: Bond Road, Corinna Email: rkamrich@tdstelme.net Comment: Loving every minute of this. I especially enjoyed your narrative about trekking into the falls. I have been there quite a few times, rode in on my horse. Its especially nice there in the fall. The water isn't really a "falls" by then but the trails aren't muddy and the bugs have gone. Plus the fall foliage is so pretty . Our "little piece of heaven" right here in Corinna.
I have just received a new 35mm camera as a gift and am very green at photography. I loved today's pictures of the spring flowers and am wondering what kind of a lens you used for those shots. I have a lot to learn about this new hobby of mine.
Like many others who have signed the guestbook checking into it daily has become a routine of mine. You have taken lots of people on a trip down memory lane and provided a way for them to share those memories with others. If you listen close enough you will hear me applauding you!!!!!!Kelli- I use a Kodak DC280 Zoom Digital Camera. The flower pictures were taken using the close-up setting. I did have to lay down on the ground to get them. I'm not an expert, but two bits of advice, shot with the sun behind you and get as close as you can. Take a look at www.kodak.com. Click on "Taking Great Pictures" -Ken
Date: May 6, 2000 Name: Seth Young Location: Clinton, Maryland Email: sethy17@aol.com Comment: I enjoyed watching the mill go down all winter. My mother lived in Corinna for a number of years and I visited there every year. I'm using the sunset scene wallpaper on my computer. Thanks for all your hard work on the website. Seth
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