Excerpts from NA2218, Marie McCosh Alpert, “Baked Beans and Bean-hole Beans As Experienced in Maine Families.” Paper for ANT 422, Professor Sandy Ives, 1992. Alice Smith LaChance, born in 1914, Old Town, Maine: Beans were a big staple in our family. Mom had 14 children–8 that lived. On Saturday night we always had a huge,