Previous Entries
November 12 - December 8, 2000
Date: December 8, 2000 Name: Marian Elkins Location: Plant City,Fla. Email: joelunchbuckete@aol.com Comment: Dear Ken, A friend set up Cattailpress for me. I worked as a 3rd generation employee at (Striars) Eastland Mill, 1963-1977. Corinna will never be the same! Beautiful photography....
Date: December 7, 2000 Name: Charles Sawtelle Location: Virginia Beach Email: Comment: Ah yes, the sunrise!
Red at night - sailors delight
Red in the morning - sailors take warning
Charlie
Date: December 7, 2000 Name: Phil Young Location: Augusta Maine Email: younpm@aol.com Comment: I haven't signed in for several months but I check this site almost every day and marvel at your expertise at showing and describing what has been going on there in Corinna.
If I haven't congratulated you on the Governor's Award to you, let me do so now. An outstanding achievement.
I see many familiar names here in the Guestbook but I expect they belong to people who are several generations removed from mine.
Keep up the great work. Regards, Phil
Date: December 7, 2000 Name: KEVIN KRISTA Location: North arlington, NJ Email: EAKCK10282aol.com Comment: Enjoy seeing the progress of the route 7 project. We are summer residents of Dexter, Maine. Looking forward to a relaxing visit at Christmas. Order up some snow please.
Date: December 5, 2000 Name: Peggy Dearborn Hamblett Location: Cape Cod , MA Email: toastie25@aol.com Comment: Everyone seems to appreciate the work you are doing Kenny....It is outstanding. Thanks for all the hard work.....Peggy
Date: December 4, 2000 Name: elizabeth richards Location: dexter Email: lizrich31@hotmail.com Comment: hope you don't tire of hearing how much we appreciate this site, along with the updates @ your great pictures, we can re-connect with former classmates to see where everyone has moved all over the country.
interesting memories on forum from the two room schoolhouse at Corinna center. check it out.
Date: December 2, 2000 Name: C.R."Bing" Grindle Location: Roanoke, VA Email: crgrindle@worldnet.att.net Comment: Dear Ken,
In any recent pictures showing the corner lot where your house (and my grandfather Redman's) stood, the lot always appeared too small for that house to have been. Then yesterday I noticed something in those two pictures you showed. In the November 18th photo you can just barely see a curved line on the pavement of the street where a considerable part of the lot was taken when the pavement was widened and rounded at that corner. That greatly reduced the size of that lot where the house was. As you so well know, that was a good size house and with the road the way it used to be there was room for it!
Date: December 2, 2000 Name: Ron Goldstone Location: Dexter Email: rong@kynd.net Comment: Thank Judy Doore for advertising existence of site. Come visit us at dextermaine.org.
Date: December 1, 2000 Name: Marsha Doherty Location: Corinna Email: mddohrty@webtv.net Comment: Ken. Danny and I have just recently got onto the internet. What you have done with the cattail press far exceeds anything we have seen anywhere on the net. You should be extremely proud of your fine accomplishment. I haven't taken any pictures of Corinna since the cleanup started. I guess it hurt to much to see the town I grew up in and love totally gone. I'm so glad now I can look at your pictures. A lot has changed here since I was a child, memories I'll never forget. Lets hope the future of Corinna can make pleasant memories for us and the next generation. Keep up the great work!!!
Date: November 30, 2000 Name: Wanda Hester Location: Auburndale, Fla Email: Comment: I found this very fascinating especially since I was moved from Maine at a young age. I went in to print out some pictures for my mother Ertelle (Stevens) Ingram. These will mean much more to her I am sure. I only wish she was on-line so she could see your whole web site. Maybe this will inspire her to get on-line. Keep up the good work and thanks to my Aunt, Esther Buck who told her about the site. It is a small world when you can turn on your computer and travel to another state so quickly.
Date: November 30, 2000 Name: Jay Hanson Location: Winslow, Maine Email: jhanson@qsilver.net Comment: I find it interesting that so many people have found this site and know where Corinna, me. is. We are originally from Dexter, Me. and have a summer home in Ripley, Me. We travel the road through Corinna often and find it interesting to watch the great progress and improvements that are taking place.
Date: November 30, 2000 Name: Jane Quimby Biscoe Location: Waldoboro, ME Email: mb81036@midcoast.com Comment: Like Alden Schmitz, I enjoyed the placement of the Corinna Pilings (Corinna Henge!) by the artistic machine operator. Another similarity came to mind - how about those Easter Island statues in the South Pacific with the distinctive faces? Possibilities are endless------
Date: November 30, 2000 Name: Gary & Brenda HANSON Location: Email: gbhansontelme.net Comment: This is some site . thanks a lot.
Date: November 30, 2000 Name: Jim Emerson Location: Corinna Email: jpemerson65@hotmail.com Comment: Ken, I'm beginning to enjoy the guest book more than any other part of the site. It's amazing to see how many other people keep finding it. For a little town, we seem to have been a part of many lives over the years. If folks keep telling friends about your Cattail Press, soon the whole country will visit. Keep up the good work. Jim
Date: November 28, 2000 Name: Bethel Litchfield Location: Madison, Indiana Email: Beth43753@cs.com Comment: Hi. I am new to your site. I grew up in St. Albans but have been living out of state for many years. I visited Maine about 2 times each year. Was there in August for my Mother's funeral. I was shocked to see the Main street of Corinna. I am glad they are cleaning up the site. I worked in Eastland for several years. You all take care. God bless. Beth
Date: November 28, 2000 Name: Halver A. Stedman Location: St. Augustine, Florida Email: hasstaug@aug.com Comment: Enjoy the web site as it keeps me up to date. As many of you know I have a cottage on Sebasticook Lake and spend the summer there. It is nice area.
Date: November 28, 2000 Name: Alden Schmitz Location: Bellevue, Nebraska Email: aldenschmitz@msn.com Comment: Say Ken...Your photo of the arrangement of pilings could be called "Corinna Henge". What do you think?
Alden- That is a perfect name for the picture! Druids could come by snowmobile to see the new henge in Corinna. -Ken
Date: November 26, 2000 Name: Sandra K. Mc Intire Location: Taylor, Michigan Email: sassyowl1@home.com Comment: I was deeply saddened to learn of the town's problems with the Mill contamination.
Myra & Walt Kerr were my ties to Corinna. They were my ex-husband's great-aunt and great-uncle. I miss them very much. They were both very special people.
Linda (Mc Intire) & Ron Richards are responsible for giving me your e-mail address so that I could see the progress being made in Corinna.
Thanks for the web site.
Sandy Mc Intire
Date: November 26, 2000 Name: Brian Knowles Location: Etna, Maine Email: bpknowles@aol.com Comment: We are home for Thanksgiving, first time in 6 years, another opportunity to see everything first hand. You can now plainly see what the end results of the new roads will be. Although there was much controversy about saving or destroying the OFH building I think it is going to prove a good decision. Last night coming into town from Stetson it was nice to see at least one building from Corinna's main street left. It is really too bad that the town did not keep the old railroad station, as it would have been another landmark and could have been made a part of the new downtown.
Thanks for the site.
Date: November 25, 2000 Name: Cheryl Collins Location: Waterville Email: ccollins@newenglandfeeds.com Comment: I am always driving through Corinna as I go to visit dairy farms as I sell grain. It was very helpful to see the pictures and explanations of what is being done. Keep up the good work.
Date: November 24, 2000 Name: Cheryl Smith Alston Location: Durham, North Carolina Email: csalston@hotmail.com Comment: I want to add my thanks for this wonderful web site. Last summer I drove into Corinna from the Newport Road--what a shock it was to see that the mill and so much else was no longer there. My parents then told me about the Cattail Press, and now I stay well informed.
On this Thanksgiving Day I am reminded what a blessing it is to have grown up in the Newport-Corinna area. Seeing some of the older pictures of Corinna on the web site brings back memories of the wonderful tree lined streets--there was nothing like that cool Maine breeze on a warm day. I have memories of friendly people and fun times. Car keys weren't lost because they were left in the ignition, and we didn't worry about house keys because the doors were always unlocked--it was a place and time when we didn't even know about the dangers that children have to think about every day now.
My blessings are many , and your website has reminded of that. Thank you,
Cheryl Smith Alston
Date: November 23, 2000 Name: Jean Hatfield Location: Clearwater, Florida Email: missjjdm@aol.com Comment: Hi! My name is Jean Hatfield. I was married to Clayton Hatfield of Corinna who passed away in 1980. We had two children, Tammy and Brian.
We all visit Corinna whenever we have a chance. Martha Hatfield is down here with us and when she goes back to Corinna in the summer, we take her back or visit while she is there. However, she didn't make it back this summer because of her health. She enjoys your site so much. It eases her homesickness, while letting her keep up on what is happening. She has heard from a few people since Tammy and Brian signed on. It thrills her every time she gets a note. This is a wonderful site for all connected with Corinna. I left there and moved to Florida in 1981 and keep looking for names I recognize. I spent a very important part of my life there and have fond and lasting memories of that time. I hope you'll keep this site going. It brings much pleasure to a lot of people. Thanks.
Date: November 23, 2000 Name: TERRY AND SALLIE MORNACIE Location: BREWER, MAINE Email: BMIKE74@AOL.COM Comment: HELLO KEN AND AND ALL FORM CORINNA WHO REMEMBER SALLIE ROBICHAUD.
I LEFT TOWN WITH HER IN 1960. I THINK THAT I SAW SOMETHING ABOUT PAVING BLOCKS THAT COULD BE PURCHASED FOR THE NEW PARK THAT IS GOING TO BE BUILT WHERE THE MILL ONCE STOOD. CAN YOU, KEN, OR SOMEONE ADVISE WHO IS DOING THIS PROJECT SO WE CAN PURCHASE SOME. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. I WAS IN TOWN TODAY LOOKING FOR THE BROWN 4 LEGGED THINGS BUT ALL I SAW WERE TRACKS.
PLENTY OF THEM. THE HALL LOOK FUNNY SITTING WHERE IT IS. BYE FOR NOW
TERRY AND SALLIETerry and Sallie- Follow this link to the information about the paving bricks. -Ken
Date: November 22, 2000 Name: bill brooks Location: Pittsfield Email: bbrooks@mci-school.org Comment: Having grown up being friends with the Hartley family, I have spent many days traveling through Corinna. Now that I am grown up (or so I sometimes am told) I don't get to go through town very often. I would like to express my appreciation for all the work you are doing and I check in on a daily basis to keep track. I am truly amazed at what has been done and what is planned.
Thank you for the time you've put in.
Bill Brooks
Date: November 21, 2000 Name: Mark Chadbourne Location: Cleveland Ohio USA Email: max_pax@yahoo.com Comment: Just wanted to give a heads up for my website "Mark Chadbourne Online" @
"http://community.webtv.net/
mmchadbourne/MarkChadbourneOnline".
Please take a moment to sign the guestbook! There is a messageboard and other areas to explore, including links to my webpage on Ron Dante's site.
Hope you all have a great Thanksgiving!
Date: November 20, 2000 Name: Garry & Marge Sawtelle Location: Nokomis Road - Corinna Email: gsawtelle@yahoo.com Comment: Ken, We were very impressed to see photos of the stream taken today. We could see the well casing from the Tim & Ti's building in that photo. Again, thank you for your efforts.
Date: November 19, 2000 Name: Elvin Hawes Location: Moscow, ME Email: alhawes@ctel.net Comment: Just a note: Gary Meagher, a very close friend and classmate at CUA, passed away early this morning in Branford, CT. Funeral services will be held this coming week at the Brown Funeral Home in Newport, ME.
Date: November 18, 2000 Name: Arlene Nelson Location: Bangor Email: jakesdad@gwi.net Comment: First Ken, I want to congratulate you on the Governor's Award. you are providing a great service to the people of Corinna and surrounding towns, and to those of us who live in other parts of the country it is great to have a place where we can keep up with the progress and rebuilding of our town. Now, I have a question, maybe it has all ready been addressed.
What about the old dump site? I am pretty sure that is a contaminated area all so. There used to be trucks from the mill hauling waste, probably chemicals, day and night, there must be contamination in that area and in my opinion should be included in the clean-up. This is the old dump site on the Stetson road . If you have any information, please let me know. thank you and keep up the good work.Arlene- Oh, yes! You are right. The old dump is presently receiving much attention...drilling, soil samples, the works. Not much information has been released yet but it may be part of the next phase of the cleanup. -Ken
Date: November 17, 2000 Name: C.R."Bing" Grindle Location: Roanoke, Virginia Email: crgrindle@worldnet.att.net Comment: Wow! Ask a question, and you get an answer. Thanks, Ken, for so quickly replying to my guest book entry of November 11 in which I asked about the initial identification of the contamination problem. You did a great job today giving us those three sections that explain in detail the original identification of chlorobenzene and related compounds found in the restaurant well water, etc. My wife, Geri, and I continue to be amazed at your ability to put together all the various types of input and information in the Cattail Press.
Date: November 17, 2000 Name: Keith Brooks Location: Presque Isle, Maine Email: kbrooks@maine.rr.com Comment: Congratulations Ken...on the award and the great service that you are providing for people with interests in the developments in Corinna. I would like to say hello to all my friends back home and let them know what I am doing now. In June 2000, my wife and 2 children moved to Presque Isle as I started a new career at Maine Public Service Company (MPSCo is like a CMP of Northern Maine). I am working as an Electrical Engineering Technician and really enjoy my work. My wife, originally from this area, is enjoying being back home as well as I am enjoying getting reacquainted with my old college friends. Our kids have adjusted fine and are doing very well in school. I hope that some old friends will read this and e-mail us with a short note to let us know what they are up to. Thanks Ken for letting me use this guest book to let friends know what is going on with us. Keep up the good work Ken!
Keith, Alana, Janelle(8), and Tyler(6)
Date: November 17, 2000 Name: Gerald Smith Location: Windsor, Ca. Email: glsmith@jerre.com Comment: Anyone interested and helping me setup a WebCam in Corinna?
I'll provide the expertise, equipment and ISP, if you don't already have
one. I will be in town February 2001, so if you're interested, please do get back to me. Best regards, Gerald
Date: November 15, 2000 Name: Donald Nickerson Location: Dexter, ME Email: beasties@kynd.net Comment: You have a great site. It is truly amazing that you could start out small and become quite large. My family and I continue to come in here for up dates.
I have a website and I would like to ask your permission to have you as a link on my site. I am a local wildlife artist and I am creating a links page for the surrounding area.
Date: November 15, 2000 Name: Dennis G Brawn Location: Sebec, Maine Email: lizden@midmaine.com Comment: GOOD JOB VERY NICE PICTURES
Date: November 13, 2000 Name: Marilyn Conway Location: Prague, Oklahoma Email: bmconway@brightok.net Comment: Ken, you are right. A lot of us do wonder about the same questions Bing Grindle asked. How did this cleanup all start?
Date: November 12, 2000 Name: Wm. Richard & Leta F. Hite Location: Aurora, Mo. Email: ledihite@hotmail.com Comment: We have visited Corinna, two times, the last being the first week of Aug., 2000, and have enjoyed our trips greatly. We check in on the Cattail Press every few days to see what is going on as to the new main st., Highway and etc. We have a son and his family that live in Corinna, and hope to be back in 2001. We traveled full time in an RV for several years and we have enjoyed your area and Maine, and find it very interesting and beautiful.
Date: November 12, 2000 Name: Lorraine Hunter Location: Corinna Email: lhunter@tdstelme.net Comment: Ken,
How nice your page was today. It brought back lots of memories, as I took care of Paul, his brother's and sister when I was young. ( My first
job. ) All I could think of was the song (Some gave all)
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