by Roland D. Hallee Christmas was a time for family gatherings on The Plains in the 1950s and ‘60s. Of course, growing up, once you became aware of your surroundings, Santa Claus was always the big hit of the season. Our father, who worked at Hollingsworth & Whitney, later Scott Paper Co., would take us […]
by Roland D. Hallee One of the things about growing up on The Plains in the 1950s and ‘60s, is all the wonderful things you can pass down to your children and grandchildren. Granted, they look at you kind of funny when you tell these tales, because they are not sure if you are telling […]
by Roland D. Hallee This week we’ll take a look at another winter activity. This one required work, cold nights, and the help of some adults. The four of us boys grew up in a family of Canadian descent: my dad and grandfather came to the United States from Canada. Even though my mother and […]
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 Eels are a little scary. 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. I was a young lad in the 1950s, when I was […]
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) […]