tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13925833078663752872024-03-13T00:26:38.379-04:00Hidden History of the Sebago Lakes RegionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1392583307866375287.post-55505832738220539932015-09-30T11:37:00.002-04:002015-09-30T11:37:49.042-04:00Bones and Stones--Bartlett Adams, Portland Stone Cutter<div class="MsoNormal">
Portland researcher and lecturer Ron Romano has catalogued more than 1,700 gravestones in the
region carved by stone cutter Bartlett Adams (1776-1828) in Portland. Last
Saturday, Ron conducted a walking tour of the Gray Village Cemetery that
contains some of these early Bartlett shop gravestones. Ron reminded us that when
a gravestone competes with a tree, the tree is always the winner. Have you ever
seen any gravestones embedded in trees? Romano will be speaking about Bartlett Adams at the Maine Historical Society on Oct. 1. <a href="https://www.mainehistory.org/programs_events.shtml#event_521">For more information about this event and Eastern Cemetery tours, click here.</a></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1392583307866375287.post-89924750399098781092015-09-23T10:46:00.002-04:002015-09-23T10:46:42.477-04:00Crescent Lake Was Once Called Rattlesnake PondIn the summer of 1925, summer cottage owners on Rattlesnake Pond in Casco changed the name of that body of water to Crescent Lake because they thought it sounded better. Old maps of the region show the name as Rattlesnake Pond. The last recorded capture of a rattlesnake in the area was in 1870. Little Rattlesnake Pond is now known as Raymond Pond.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1392583307866375287.post-80089345466747813242015-09-11T08:30:00.004-04:002015-09-11T08:30:39.572-04:00Eulogy for Mr. and Mrs. Tarbox, Frozen to Death in 1819<div style="background: white; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Chapter 21 of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hidden History of the Sebago Lakes Region</i> relates the story of theTarbox couple who froze to death in a blizzard on Standish Neck. Their story was eulogized in a ballad by Thomas Shaw, published in 1819. Because of space limitations in the book, the entire ballad was not printed in the book. Here now is the entire ballad:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mournful Song</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">On a man and wife, who both froze to death in one night, on Standish Cape, so called</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Attend my soul and hear the sound,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">That’s solemnly a passing round,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">That strikes each heart and listening ear</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">To hear the solemn sound draw near.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Husbands and wives may now attend,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And let your hearts to heaven ascend,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">While I unto you make known,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A solemn stroke as e’er was born.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Let children too draw round and hear</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">With trembling hearts and holy fear,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">With all our neighbours all as one</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And listen till my story’s done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And thou great God pray lead my heart</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And mind to act my solemn part,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In this affair before our eyes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Which stricketh all hearts with surprise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Good Lord confound every one</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Who ever to these lines makes fun,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">That they may hide their heads with shame,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Or brought to praise thy holy name.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And now the story I shall tell,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Who am informed of it full well,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And O my soul what can this mean</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A real or a fancied dream.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">O yes it is the truth I tell,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">On Standish Cape these two did dwell,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Together liv’d as man and wife,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Until ended their day of life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This man for food abroad did go</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In a snow storm in a deep snow,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">At his return his strength gave way,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Which brought him to his dying day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Under his load he seemed to fall,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And then aloud for help did call,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">His wife his dying sound did hear</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Then for his help did soon repair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">She left her children then with speed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">To help her husband then in need,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Through cold and wind in a deep snow,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">God knows what she did undergo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">She met her husband in a fright</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Through winds and snow on a cold night,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Whom she most lovingly did own</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">To save his life she lost her own.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">She took her clothes from off her frame</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And on her husband plac’d the same,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For help she cried aloud and strong</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Was her last fierce and mournful song.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">O there she tended on her man</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">When he could neither go nor stand,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And when lain out upon the snow,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">God knows what she did undergo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dead or alive we cannot tell,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">God only knows the scene full well,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And her great cries that God would Save</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Her husband from the gapeing grave.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Trouble and grief, sorrow and woe,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This good woman did undergo,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">There nursed her husband in the cold,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Which makes our chill’d blood run cold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We cannot tell, nor can we show,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">To others what we do not know,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">But this we say a doleful night,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Upon this man and wife did light.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Without a covering or a hed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">That woman then in doleful dread,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Tended her man in cold and snow,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">God knows what they did undergo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Tempestuous winds and storm of snow</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">About this man and wife did blow,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Disstress’d in body and in mind</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This woman thought some help to find.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Her husband to God did convey,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So then for help she steer’d her way,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">With solemn groans ascending high</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">While her poor children heard her cry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Soon feeble woman took her flight</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For help upon this doleful night,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For help she sought, for help she cried.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Where human help was then denied.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Towards her neighbors she did steer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Through snow and wind and doleful fear,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">With solemn cries that God would save</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Her, and mercy upon her have.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">She went as long as she could stand,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Aiming for human help at hand,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">With bitter groans and solemn cries</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">That did before the Lord arise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And then she crept upon all four,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Until her clothes from her were tore,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The snow flying—sorrow and woe,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">God only knew her trouble too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Her solemn cries arose on high</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Her children hearing of her cry,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Which did distress each thoughtful mind,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">While they could not their parent find.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Their Father lying in the snow,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Their Mother for help tried to go,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Creeping and crying as she went</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Until her life was almost spent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">She crept till to a bloody gore,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Her flesh was into pieces tore,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">God only knew her heart-felt cries,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Which did unto the heavens arise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Until at last gave up her race,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And her self too, to sovereign grace,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And with her doleful cries severe,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Which reached to her Saviours ear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Her cries we say to heaven arose,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Then did her troubled heart compose,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">What time it was we cannot tell,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">She bid her troubles all farewell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And these she died, her husband too,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Both of them perish’d in the snow,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And gone to rest we humble trust,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As all good people surely must.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Two days these children were alone,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Their absent parents to bemoan,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">That God above did hear their cry,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">When both these parents quick did die.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A neighbor then on the third day,</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1392583307866375287.post-7372803207687021422015-09-01T10:41:00.000-04:002015-09-01T10:41:00.478-04:00The Death of Molly Ockett<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">When Molly Ockett became ill at the end of her life, a contract was made between the town of Andover and resident Capt. Thomas Bragg for Molly’s end of life care. She asked to die in a camp of sweet smelling cedar, which Capt. Bragg built for her. There she died on August 2, 1816 and was buried in the Andover village cemetery. But that was not to be the end of Molly Ockett and her legend continued through family stories passed down through generations. On July 4, 1867, the Andover citizens celebrated her life by placing an engraved stone at Molly’s grave. The inscription reads:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">On the day I visited Molly Ockett’s grave, I found many tokens, flowers and other nature items, at the base of her stone, and the top was covered with coins left by visitors in remembrance, a testimony to the enduring legend that she is. (Photos by the author.) </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1392583307866375287.post-2729115686904933812015-08-25T10:38:00.002-04:002015-09-01T10:36:57.368-04:00Molly Ockett and Hannibal Hamlin<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">An excellent resource on Molly Ockett is the booklet “Molly Ockett” by Catherine S-C. Newell with illustrations by Sue Wight published by the Bethel Historical Society (1981). According to the author of this resource, Molly often traveled to Poland in the Sebago Lakes Region to visit her friends the Rickers, owners of the Poland Spring establishment. The Poland Spring mineral waters were world famous in the 19<sup>th</sup> and 20<sup>th</sup> centuries for healing powers. Molly Ockett, as a healer herself, may have regarded these waters as a powerful medicinal agent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Legend has it that Molly Ockett was once welcomed into the Hamlin home on Paris Hill where she found young Hannibal Hamlin ill. She “prescribed” a diet of cows’ milk for the boy and the boy was cured. Hannibal Hamlin, of course served a term as Vice-President of the United States under President Abraham Lincoln. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1392583307866375287.post-17086835601879206212015-08-20T10:51:00.001-04:002015-09-01T10:37:33.163-04:00The Legend of Molly Ockett<div class="MsoNormal">
Molly Ockett’s name appears on buildings and monuments throughout western Maine and New Hampshire. The Abenaki healer, who was born sometime between 1730 and 1744, was a well known woman to Native Americans and the early settlers of the region during her day. In addition to being a healer and herbalist, Molly was a skilled basket maker and craftswoman. Though several towns claim her as a one-time resident, the fact is that Molly was a nomad, which means she frequently through the Sebago Lakes Region during her travels. </div>
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The town of Bethel celebrates her life during an annual July festival known as “Molly Ockett Days.” A room is named for her at the O’Neill Robinson House, one of the “Museums of the Bethel Historical Society.” She is buried in the town of Andover, and a stone at her grave gives her death as 1816. Next week I will post an anecdote about Molly’s time in Poland, where she often visited with her friends the Rickers, of Poland Spring fame.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1392583307866375287.post-15405753351055844092015-08-11T10:25:00.000-04:002015-09-01T10:37:49.152-04:00The Shadow Knows<div style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in;">
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Are you old enough to remember the popular radio series <i>The Shadow</i>? The Shadow character was created by Walter Gibson, using the pen name of Maxwell Grant. Walter Gibson’s writing process involved first creating a written synopsis of the longer story, a kind of storyboard. One day when Gibson was in Maine, his cousin’s children were visiting his cabin on Little Sebago Lake in Gray, entertaining themselves by reading some of Gibson’s synopses. One of the children asked Gibson why he didn’t publish the synopses as well as the stories, and this suggestion gave Gibson an idea to ask his publisher if <i>The Shadow</i> might be published in comic book form, depicted with illustrations as well as words. At first, Street & Smith rejected the idea, but when they saw the success of the Superman comics, they decided to launch <i>The Shadow Comics </i>in 1940. The series ran monthly until 1947.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1392583307866375287.post-46238606329491256772015-08-05T10:27:00.001-04:002015-09-01T10:38:30.974-04:00Caroline Grimm Discusses New Book<div class="MsoNormal">
Yesterday, local author Caroline Grimm talked about her newest book <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cabin-Glory-Bridgton-Voices-Pondicherry/dp/1502906627">Cabin in Glory</a>, </i>the story of Enoch Perley and his family, some of the founders of the town of Bridgton. The presentation took place on the porch of the historic <a href="http://bridgtonhistory.org/Narramissic">Narramisic Farm</a> during one of the thunderstorms that rolled through the area yesterday. Twenty-five of us (mostly Bridgton citizens and all of us over 60 years of age) listened as Caroline related what she discovered as she researched her historical novel. She told us how she incorporated what she found as she developed her characters and wrote the plot. Although it is fiction, the book is a significant contribution to the historical record. During the question and answer time, several folks related their own recollections about the town history and its sites and their relationship to the people and events in Caroline’s book. Gatherings such as these help to uncover even more hidden history, and help to preserve the community identity. The next step is to write down those recollections so that historical remembrances can be passed on to future generations: RECOVER and UNCOVER community history for future generations to DISCOVER.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1392583307866375287.post-19298447006561781782015-07-28T11:42:00.000-04:002015-07-28T11:42:06.362-04:00The Sebago Lakes Region and the Underground Railroad Connection<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A map of the Underground Railroad system in Wilbur Seibert’s book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom</i> published in 1898 shows fugitive slave escape routes to Canada on both sides of Sebago Lake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chapter 15 in </span><a href="https://historypress.net/catalogue/bookstore/books/Hidden-History-of-the-Sebago-Lakes-Region/9781626198517"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">Hidden History of the Sebago Lakes Region</span></i></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> explains how the fugitives got there and why the region’s citizens were so active in the Underground Railroad movement.</span></div>
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I will be discussing the connection at the North Gorham Public Library from 7 to 8 this Thursday, July 30.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1392583307866375287.post-27280510558970559152015-07-23T09:14:00.000-04:002015-07-23T09:14:01.425-04:00Little Sebago Lake Once a Center of Industry<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Little Sebago Lake was once connected to Sebago Lake, according to an article in the </span><a href="http://www.pressherald.com/2010/09/22/historian-explores-shifting-shores-of-little-sebago_2010-09-22/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">Portland Press Herald</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>written in 2010. Little Sebago used to be a center of industry as it flowed through to big Sebago. Now, however, it flows through two smaller bodies of water, Mill Pond and Collins Pond. The change was initiated by an event in 1814 known as “the great freshet.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This event caused the water in Little Sebago to rise and the dam to give way, causing flooding and taking out mills and bridges all the way to the Presumpscot River, according to the article written by Don Perkins. Today, Little Sebago Lake’s 24 miles of shoreline is privately owned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The story of the stranger buried in the Gray village cemetery has once again captured the attention of the news media. According to a </span><a href="http://www.wmtw.com/news/confederate-flag-removed-from-grave-of-unknown-civil-war-soldier/34098092"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">July 10 story on WMTW News 8</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">, someone removed the Confederate flag that usually decorates the grave of an unknown Confederate soldier buried there when his body was mistakenly sent to Maine in 1862. The Confederate flag, a controversial symbol of late, was replaced by two American flags. The Confederate flag was found blowing across the cemetery.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1392583307866375287.post-88691177885208640432015-07-07T10:04:00.000-04:002015-07-07T10:04:15.686-04:00Longfellow was frequent visitor to Sebago Lakes Region<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a famous poet and a frequent visitor to the Sebago Lakes Region. He was born in Portland in 1807, and grew up in the Wadsworh-Longfellow house that is maintained today as a museum by the Maine Historical Society. Longfellow’s grandfather Peleg Wadsworth, who built the house, was an important Revolutionary War figure who participated in the disastrous 1779 Penobscot battle with Paul Revere. Revere was arrested for insubordination for his behavior in that battle. Surely, Longfellow would have heard about Paul Revere from his grandfather. However, the poet chose to commemorate Revere’s famous 1775 ride to warn the Americans of the British invasion in his poem “Paul Revere’s Ride.” Although the poem is filled with historical inaccuracies, most critics view it as a call to action for the nation that was on the verge of a civil war. The poem was published in January of 1861. This summer the Maine Historical Society is offering </span><a href="https://www.mainehistory.org/programs_events.shtml"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">tours of the Wadsworth-Longfellow House</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> that feature some of the Revolutionary War artifacts connected with Peleg Wadsworth, who served under George Washington.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1392583307866375287.post-26499272786649755872015-06-29T09:39:00.001-04:002015-06-29T09:39:58.443-04:00How Inkhorn Brook got its name<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Inkhorn Brook was named when surveyor Rowland Houghton of Massachusetts came to lay out and measure what is now the town of Windham. Among his tools was an inkhorn, a section of animal horn hollowed out to hold the powder that made ink when mixed with water. When Houghton came to a brook overflowing with spring runoff, he struggled to cross the brook and dropped his inkhorn. Thus the brook is forever remembered as Inkhorn Brook and the town seal of Windham features the image of an inkhorn laying beside a brook. Here is a picture of the town seal, which does not appear in my book.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1392583307866375287.post-10928785329143795632015-06-23T09:52:00.000-04:002015-06-25T12:57:49.432-04:00Even More Hidden History Uncovered!<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In </span><a href="https://historypress.net/catalogue/bookstore/books/Hidden-History-of-the-Sebago-Lakes-Region/9781626198517"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">Hidden History of the Sebago Lakes Region</span></i></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> , Chapter 24, I relate the story of the widow who places a curse on Enoch Perley, known in the Lakes Region in the late 18<sup>th</sup> century as “The Old Squire.” Recently, I finished reading Caroline Grimm’s </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cabin-Glory-Bridgton-Voices-Pondicherry/dp/1502906627"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">Cabin in Glory, a novel based on the early days of Bridgton, Maine</span></i></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> (Voices of Pondicherry, vol. 3, 2015).</i> The novel tells the story of Enoch Perley, who built a cabin in what is now Bridgton, and then brought his wife and her black female slave Cloe to live with him in the Maine wilderness. In the novel, the cabin that Perley built becomes the metaphor for fortitude and survival. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is no coincidence that the sturdy cabin built in 1776 still exists and is located near Highland Lake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grimm’s novel includes a photograph of the 18-foot square cabin, courtesy of the Bridgton Historical Society. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I didn’t know:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>another house built by Enoch Perley also still stands today. According to Grimm, “You can see it when you visit Enoch’s farm, now the apple orchard owned by the Gyger family.”</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1392583307866375287.post-62321594081901126422015-06-15T10:55:00.002-04:002015-06-15T10:55:33.203-04:00World famous painter of horses!<div class="MsoNormal">
One of the chapters in <a href="https://historypress.net/catalogue/bookstore/books/Hidden-History-of-the-Sebago-Lakes-Region/9781626198517"><i>Hidden History of the Sebago Lakes Region</i></a>
relates the story of Nicholas Winfield Scott Leighton (1847-1898), a Gray
native, who became a world famous painter of horses. Leighton especially liked
to paint trotting horses. Leighton had a studio in Boston that became a meeting
place for leading horsemen of the day, according to the <a href="http://losttrottingparks.com/">website of the Lost Trotting Parks Heritage
Center</a>. Leighton died in
Massachusetts, but he was interred in the Methodist Cemetery in Cumberland,
Maine, near his hometown of Gray. Ironically, his grave is located only a
couple of miles away from the Cumberland Fairgrounds where trotting horses are
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1392583307866375287.post-30221972563019776682015-06-08T12:59:00.000-04:002015-06-08T12:59:21.476-04:00More hidden history uncovered!<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In a bizarre plot twist to last week’s blog post, an </span><a href="http://maineatwar.bangordailynews.com/"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">article in the June 3 edition of the Bangor Daily News</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> reported that Lt. Colley may not be buried in the Gray Cemetery beneath the ornate headstone that bears his name. Documentation shows that Lt. Charles H. Colley, Co. B, 10<sup>th</sup> Maine Infantry, died on Sept. 20, 1862, and was buried in Grave 325 in the Arlington Virginia National Cemetery. But did his relatives believe that he was buried in Gray? According to the article, “The whereabouts of Charles Colley remains an enduring mystery.”</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1392583307866375287.post-3149070130705031832015-06-02T10:51:00.000-04:002015-06-02T10:51:55.255-04:00A Stranger's Grave <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">One of the stories that was not related in </span><a href="https://historypress.net/catalogue/bookstore/books/Hidden-History-of-the-Sebago-Lakes-Region/9781626198517"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hidden History of the Sebago Lakes Region</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> is the strange story of a grave in the Gray Cemetery. The simple headstone is engraved with “Stranger” and is often decorated with a Confederate flag. Here is what happened. During the American Civil War, Lt. Charles H. Colley of Gray was killed at the Battle of Cedar Mt. and his body was presumably shipped home for burial. However, when the casket was opened, the family discovered the body of an unknown Confederate soldier. That body was buried in the Gray Cemetery and the good citizens of that community arranged for the headstone to be placed there. Lt. Colley’s body did eventually arrive in Gray and is buried not far from the Stranger’s grave. This </span><a href="https://vimeo.com/80858816"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">video</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> from the Squid Diggers commemorates the strange story in song.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1392583307866375287.post-17342717815565649912015-05-12T13:40:00.001-04:002015-05-12T13:40:23.854-04:00Literary inspiration from the Sebago Lakes Region<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1392583307866375287.post-50988682519535723222015-05-05T12:57:00.000-04:002015-05-05T12:58:35.455-04:00Ghosts of St. Joseph's CollegeI uncovered much more history than could be included in <i>Hidden History of the Sebago Lakes Region. </i>Here is a story that does not appear in the book:<br />
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St. Joseph’s College of Maine on
Whites Bridge Road in Standish is the only college in the country to have “the
monks” as its athletic nickname. One wouldn’t think that the monk would be an
appropriate mascot for a competitive college athlete. However, the monk logo is
pretty creepy, its blue bearded grim face peering menacingly out from under a
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The college was founded in 1912 by the Sisters of Mercy, Roman
Catholic nuns with a history of work in education. According to the college’s
website, Saint Joseph's College of Maine is a liberal arts college for men and
women of all faiths, located on 430 acres on the shore of Sebago on what was
once a large estate owned by the Verrill family of Portland. When the young son
of the landowner died, he was buried in the nearby chapel before the college
itself was erected. His body eventually had to be moved, but the boy apparently
stayed in the chapel where visitors reportedly can sometimes hear him laughing
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The spirit of a nun has been sighted in Xavier Hall, which was
once the Verrill family home. This grand building was built in 1925, in part
from native fieldstone, and the back windows overlook Sebago Lake with a direct
view of Mt. Washington, sixty miles away in New Hampshire. Beautiful
Xavier Hall was once a residence hall for senior women and is now used
as an administrative office building. When I visited in August, the gardens on
the well tended grounds were in full bloom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1392583307866375287.post-90119589729971907302015-04-25T10:34:00.001-04:002015-04-25T10:38:39.355-04:00The Death of Chief Polan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Chief Polin (also Polan) of the Sokosis (also Sokokis) tribe was killed in the Sebago Lakes Region. Read about the curious discovery of what may have been his remains in Chapter 4 of <a href="https://historypress.net/catalogue/bookstore/books/Hidden-History-of-the-Sebago-Lakes-Region/9781626198517"><i>Hidden History of the Sebago Lakes Region </i>by Marilyn Weymouth Seguin.</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1392583307866375287.post-12931748756175214712015-04-20T09:28:00.001-04:002015-04-20T09:28:32.508-04:00Release Day!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://historypress.net/catalogue/bookstore/books/Hidden-History-of-the-Sebago-Lakes-Region/9781626198517">New Release from The History Press!</a><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1392583307866375287.post-72611652047480329812015-04-14T10:05:00.001-04:002015-04-14T10:05:47.362-04:00One week till publication!Marilyn Weymouth Seguin was born and educated in Maine and has spent parts of the last twenty-seven summers vacationing at camps in the Sebago Lakes Region. She recently retired from full-time teaching in the Writing Program in the English Department at Kent State University, so now she and her husband can spend even more time at their camp on Little Sebago Lake. Marilyn is the author of seventeen books and a member of the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1392583307866375287.post-60902848166409503242015-04-09T11:09:00.000-04:002015-10-02T16:42:13.368-04:00Publication Date April 20, 2015!<div align="left">
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