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Subject: [MaineRoots] "Recollections" by Henry E. Whitney Sr.
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PART IV
Father was born on Hudson Hill. He went to school in the winter only
and that was the only time he wore shoes. He went through the 4th grade
before he went to work. He told me there were three schools; one in
Hudson, one in Hudson Hill, and one in Hudson Corner, with about 75
pupils in each school, but later it was reduced to one school only with
15 or 20 pupils. He said all teachers were male and could not teach
unless they could handle every boy. Father sat in the back seat when
theteacher came after him for doing something wrong. He hung onto his
desk until it was pulled up and every desk down the whole row was ripped
up, but the teacher finally got him down front and whipped him. I don't
know if this is true or not but that's what father told me. There were
nine children in his family and every family was about the same size.
They had a chimney fire for three nights in a row and the 3rd night the
house burned and one brother, Amos(Amos B. Whitney 1862-1875), was
burned to death. It was rebuilt and father bought the others shares
later. The first time I can remember going there the house was rented
but finally became so bad it was empty. I can remember taking a lunch
and eating it in the house and later we had to eat out of doors. There
was a 25 acre cedar woodlot, 25 acres of field that had mostly grown up
to bushes and 25 acres of pasture that had also grown up to bushes. I
inherited it later and sold it for $400 for the cedar only. I have no
idea how it is today.
As I said, we lived in West Bangor and usually every week in the winter
there would be a surprise party somewhere. My folks usually made a
gallon of icecream to take. The kids usually played in some room. Also
my folks would go to a dance in the Hermon Carver town hall two or three
times each winter. Of Course, all traveling in those days was with
horse and sleigh so it would take nearly an hour to get there with me
wrapped up in the back of the thing. The kids there played behind the
piano in one corner of the room. Father loved to dance but I wonder if
mother did as she had soft corns that hurt her a lot. Norman and the
girl that he he married (Ethel M. Davis) would take a prize as best
dancers quite often. One night we got home about midnight and Mr.
Runnels came over and said someone had been in the house and they could
see a light going from room to room, but we couldn't find anyone or
anything missing.
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