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Subject: [MaineRoots] "Recollections" by Henry E. Whitney Sr.
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PART III
The placed we lived in was known as West Bangor although it was a part
of Bangor. It stretched about 3/4 miles along Hammond Street the main
road into the city from the west. 1/2 mile from our house was more of a
village where the Pine Grove School and cemetary were located. Just a
short ways beyond was a small hill in what was known as Tyler Stand. I
believe in stagecoach days a man by the name of Tyler ran a house and
stable where the stagecoach stayed overnight.
This was on another hill and people with bobsleds that were popular in
those days used to slide down this hill with momentum enough to go to
another smaller hill and down that also. They would stop about wher
ePilots Grill is now located. Also in those days we had a lot of crust
on the snow. Our house was on a very small hill and you could slide
from the back of our house down across Hammond Street and down further
until you reached a field that usually flooded and iced over so you
could go quite a ways on that. I have seen at least 50 to 75 people
come out from Bangor to slide there when the crust was good. Also, I
used to skate on this ice and there was a small stream that flowed at
least 1/2 mile from it and usually some time during the winter you could
skate the full length of it.
I went to Pine Grove School when I was five to the "Sub Grade" now
kindergarten. There was one teacher for 9 grades with about 30
students. The teacher I remember best was Mrs. Doane, she was tall and
sterne and her husband was a captain in the army. He was at Corregidor
in the Phillipines and was captured and made the long march that the
Japs made them take where so many died. We heard later that he lived
through it. I went through the 4th grade and as I was alone in that
grade I skipped the 5th and to start the 6th I went to Hannibel Hamlin
School in the city. This was hard going from the country to the city
school and skipping a grade. Some that transferred had to be set back
one grade but I made it all right even with skipping the 5th.
I can remember one late afternoon in April 1911 I went to feed the hens
and the whole horizon over Bangor was red. I ran into the house to tell
my folks and about this time someone whjo knew father called and wanted
him to cxome down and help him move his horses from a stable. They said
the whole city was on fire. That was as near as I got to the big Bangor
fire. Norman was in the National Guard and they had to go on guard duty
for two weeks. After that he took father's two horses and dump cart and
hauled rubbish about all summer.
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