The Fence Builders N. C. Wyeth  Brandywine River Museum... 1915

- April 2022 -  

Welcome to our 18th issue of the "on-line" "Friends of Whitefield" news site.
This is a free, un-official, and occasional  e-zine about matters of our wonderful town, Whitefield, Maine.
David Chase -editor

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and if you like graphs, you'll LOVE George Fergussons latest:

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The 1950 U.S. Census for Whitefield just came online

click the map to see your house
or HERE to see the Whitefield Census (scroll to Population Schedules )

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What our Tourists reported 114 years ago :

 

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Words to ponder :

"Fear seemed to hover in the air like a blizzard of black snow. "
James Dashner

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"The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love."
  Margaret Atwood

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“Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.”
Bill Bryson

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"The only really firm rule of taste about cross dressing is that neither sex should ever wear anything they haven't yet figured out how to go to the bathroom in."
 P. J. O'Rourke

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"People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. That's ridiculous. If you rid the earth of flowering plants, people would die, period. But the earth was without flowering plants for almost all of its history. "
Lynn Margulis

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" The average tourist wants to go where there are no tourists."

Sam Ewing


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