by Roland D. Hallee This week, I’ll let Peg Pellerin tell her story about the cuisine on The Plains. Cuisine down on The Plains by Peg Pellerin I have found Roland Hallee’s articles about The Plains (La Plaine) in Waterville so interesting, especially since I grew up there from 1952 to 1972. His renderings have […]
by Roland D. Hallee With spring and summer several months away, now is not too early to be thinking about the browntail moth caterpillar. Following a severe outbreak in 2021 (a summer in which I had six battles with the rash they are famous for delivering), I saw only one caterpillar all of 2022. That […]
by Roland D. Hallee As everyone knows, The Plains, in Waterville, runs along the west shore of the Kennebec River in the South End of the city. The river played a large part in the development of the city and contributing to high numbers of industrial jobs. Many of the residents of The Plains, the […]
by Roland D. Hallee Back in the 1950s and ‘60s, New Year’s Day and following, didn’t really mean much to us kids. We would still be on Christmas vacation, although it was about to end abruptly on January 2. Also, during those years, winters were harsher than they are now. By January 1 snow would […]
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 […]