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The Kate

In the chapter on the 1970s in Maine at 200, I write about the last log drive down the Kennebec River. Making a cameo in that chapter is the steamer Katahdin, known familiarly as the Kate. I write, “For years the Kate had towed rafts of logs across Moosehead Lake to the dam at theContinue reading “The Kate”

Space Age Memories

In Maine at 200, I write about how the history I was covering gradually morphed into memory as the events I was writing about eventually became subjects I had witnessed personally. That transformation started with the chapter about the 1960s, where I write about the Telstar satellite and the big ground station built in westernContinue reading “Space Age Memories”