Friends Of
Whitefield
Newsletter - November, 2003.
Welcome
to our 8th issue of the "on-line' "Friends of
Whitefield" newsletter. 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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Thanks
to Tim Chase for this haunting image of our impending autumn seen from his
web camera looking down Grand Army Hill to Partridge Bridge.
In
This Issue: (just
click on the picture or underlined
link)................................................................................................
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Dressing
up in Whitefield
As I made and collected
images from our town's 4th of July Celebration and other gatherings, it began to
occur to me that "we like to dress up"
!
I then began to organize these images and settings so that you can experience
what I enjoyed.
click on the subject below to see
these reports:
Head Gear at Kings Mills .
Glamour Girls from KMVF suppers days
A colorful "dresser" from the olden days in Coopers Mills .
Joe Doyon lived
in Whitefield for a relatively short time.
But for me
it was perfect timing.
The
memories of he and his wife still provide me with insightful recollections of my
youth. Click on the image to read how these neighbors are remembered.
Another
fascinating visit to the Special Collections Dept in the Folger Library
at our University in Orono, yielded even more Whitefield history.
From a large collection of very early Whitefield Town Reports I made scans of
the cover of the earliest report I've seen (1852-3) and of pages showing Civil
War soldiers and funds paid them and their families as part of the great Civil
War effort. (click on the
image)
Continuing
our serialization of
"KINGS
MILLS WHITEFIELD, MAINE"
by Henry Waters
Volume Two of a
Continuing History of the Town of Whitefield, Maine ......
click
on Henry's portrait to read part II of this history 1813 - 1848.
Copies of this books are available from the Whitefield Historical Society at Uncas Farm Store.
Tony
Marple is known to many of us as a very civic minded Whitefieldite.
His work on our school and planning boards - his interest in our land use,
recycling projects and his professional life as a health care administrator are also well known and appreciated.
But, his other dimension as landscape photographer and mountain hiker deserves
more notice. Click on his image to see some photographic creations that also illuminate
his trekking adventures through the hills and mountains .
Some Exciting News !
A
NEW INFORMATION PAGE !!
www.mainething.com/home
is the site of a new page designed to have many
useful links all in
one place. There are links to The Lincoln County News, Tim's web camera, Google
search, telephone # lookup, Whitefield addresses and much much more. There
is even a tag to a second page of "Tools
& Toys". Here you will find great sites
for making things and finding obscure and interesting information.
Click on the image to the left to see these new creations. You are welcome to
make this your own home start page (click
here if you need to know how).
If you know of other interesting links
that are in the spirit of these, let me know and I'll consider adding them.
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words to ponder.......
LIFE
Life does not accommodate,
it shatters you.
It is meant to,
and couldn't do it better.
Every seed destroys its container
or else there would be no fruition.
- Florida Scott-Maxwell