Old timers would say if we didn’t have snow in January, we’d have it in the spring. That was certainly true this year, small amount at a time often. As a 1965 Senior at Farmington State Teachers College (the college’s Centennial year), the year before the college became part of the University of Maine System, […]
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In late December, 1989 we completed the construction of our house in Winterport, and on Christmas eve fired up our new wood stove. When we woke up on Christmas day the house was very chilly and the outside temperature was 20 degrees Fahrenheit below zero. The pipes in our baseboard heating system had frozen, and […]
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When my boots landed on the ground in the Maine Woods in ’65, I went to work for Dead River Timberlands. Back then it was common knowledge in logging circles that sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas the growing cold would freeze the wet soils, allowing loggers to build ‘winter roads’ without gravel. ‘Winter roads’ would […]
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