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Pictures
from the Good Ol' Days - The Way Life Used to Be
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note from Jay Selberg, one of our island historians
and lifetime residents. Now
and then I check eBay for old Cousins Island memorabilia,
and
a few
years
ago
I found
a terrific
find. It was a wooden-covered book, with the words Cousins
Island and Littlejohn Island Community Center on the cover,
done with one of those old woodburning sets. All but 3 of
the pages were empty, but one page listed the summer residents
for the year 1940. It also listed the events sponsored at
the Community House that summer and the funds that were collected. The
list of events mentioned a Minstrel Show, which intrigued
me, and I went to reread the old book Katherine Tinker (of
the Tinker Preserve fame) that is available at the Merrill
Memorial Library, called Two Maine Islands, and I also attach
a scan of the page that mentions the minstrel show. Another
era, of course. Another thing of note, is that there is a
blank sheet of stationery, with the seal of the quasi-municipality
(the Village Corporation) that the islands were, not then
part of Yarmouth. |
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Cousins
Island 1934 (chapel up top) |
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All Photos
Submitted by John Robinson or Jay Selberg |
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If
you have pictures from the "good ol' days," please
e-mail them
to Paul Knoll at info@newenglanddowsing.com.
These contributions help us to realize what a special
place it is where
we live! Thank
you to everyone who has submitted a picture!
Our History..in a nut shell!
Pictures from the present......
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The
Little John Bridge Pre-Causeway |
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