by Roland D. Hallee This week we’re going to continue with our look at Life on the Plains during the winter, that we first took a look at two weeks ago. Besides the hard work of shoveling the driveway following every snowstorm – lots of nor’easters – we had a good time playing in the […]
by Roland D. Hallee Winters on The Plains in the 1950s and ‘60s were a challenge, to say the least. Anyone of my generation will remember winters back then, for some reason, were a lot rougher than they are today. In my opinion, winters now are nothing compared to back then. We would get blizzard […]
by Roland D. Hallee Recently, in my travels throughout central Maine, I have seen an unusual number of opossums dead on our highways. There seems to be more and more of them present these days. My first encounter with an opossum was in 1967 while living on Long Island, in New York. There was a […]
by Roland D. Hallee This week we are going to take a hiatus from the pictorial walk down Water St., on The Plains, and look at some other things we did growing up in the 1950s and ‘60s. Not everything we did occurred on The Plains. By the 1950s, the Maine Theater, on Water St., […]
by Roland D. Hallee The question has been asked: Was this past October the warmest on record? To come to any conclusion, I did much research and came up with the same answer everywhere I went looking. October 2022 was the warmest October on record. “October 2022 is definitely set to be by far the […]
by Roland D. Hallee A reader this week asked about eels. And urged me to write something about them. Well, I know for a fact that eels exist in Webber Pond, in Vassalboro, because my wife and I have caught them. They also can be found in China Lake. This one goes back a while. […]
by Roland D. Hallee Photos courtesy of E. Roger Hallee Part of a row of tenement buildings (top and below) between 30 – 44 Water St., which sat on the east side of Water St., overlooking the Kennebec River. All of these apartment buildings, and many others, were torn down in the 1960s. These (below) […]
by Roland D. Hallee During one of the final weekends of camp, my wife and I, one day, were sitting on the deck, enjoying the unseasonably warm weather and watched nature as we made our plans for closing up camp for the summer. It was a warm, sunny day with a slight breeze coming out […]
by Roland D. Hallee This week we will begin our stroll on the east side of Water St. Photos courtesy of E. Roger Hallee
by Roland D. Hallee It’s always a sad time of the year when we have to close up camp. That is a ritual my wife and I do every year on the last weekend of September. While taking a break during last Saturday’s “just gorgeous” day, we started to rehash the last six months. It […]