AND
AND GREAT
AND GREAT TEACHERS. >>> THE MAGIC OF THE SEVEN LAYER BARS4@.
LOOK BACK 4@AT THE HOLIDAY
RECIPE.
>>> THE STATE OF MAINE IS
FILLED WITH HISTORY, THE GOOD,
THE 4@BAD AND THE WEIRD.
MUCH OF THAT CAN BE EXPLORED
TODAY.
THAT WAS THE IDEA BEHIND4@ WILD
WEIRD, WONDERFUL MAINE.
IS PACKED FULL OF FACTS, FUN
AND CREEPY BUT TRUE STORIES.
>>4@ YOU HEAR THESE STORIES AND
THESE LEGENDS4@ AND YOU SAY ALL
OF TH4@ESE ARE PIECES OF WHAT
MAKES MAINE IN TOTAL.
THERE'S NO ONE DEFINITION.4@
IT WAS A PROCESS TO DISCERN
WHAT THAT WAS4@ AND TO JUST LOO
AT THE SPIRIT BEHIND THE THINGS
PEOPLE DID OR HOW THEY
APPROACHED THINGS OR WHAT PRIDE
THEY HAD IN THEIR COMMUNITIES.
>> YOU HIT ALL DIFFERENT
CORNERS OF MAINE LET'S4@ START
WITH TH4@E REAL-LIFE PET SEDENTY
CEMETERY.
>> GOVERNOR BAXTER FOUNDED THE @
BAXTER STATE PARK AND HE REALLY
LOVED HIS DOGS.
HE HAD 14 IRISH SETTERS MANY OF
WHICH HE NAMED GARY4@. HE ALSO
HAD A HORSE4@ THAT HE THOUGHT W
A NOBLE HORSE SO HE CREATED A
CEMETERY IN WHICH TO BURY HIS
PETS.4@
WHEN HE 4@WAS IN THE STATEHOUSE
THERE IS SOME CONTROVERSY
BECAUSE ONE OF 4@HIS DOGS HAD
DIED AND THEY WERE ESCORTING IT
TO THE CEMETERY AND HE HAD THE
FLAGS ON THE CAPITAL FLOWN AT
HALF STAFF 4@IN HONOR OF HIS DO
WHICH DID NOT SIT TOO 4@WELL WI
HIS OPPONENTS.
>> MOVING ON TO THE COUNTY,
THERE IS AN4@ OUT OF THIS WORLD
40 MILE STRETCH.
>> THEY HAVE A SCALE MODEL OF
OUR SOLAR SYSTEM ALONG THE
HIGHWAY 4@FROM HOLTON TO PRESS
STYLE AND 4@THE PLANETS ARE IN
SCALE4@ AND THAT IS A JOURNEY O
OVER 3 TRILLION MILES. 4@
YOU CAN DO IT4@ IN ABOUT AN HOU
IN THE CAR AND THERE IS ONE MAN
WHEN THE SIGNALS CAME BACK FROM
THE PLUTO PROBE HE RAN TO
SIMULATE THE SIMULATES4@ SIGNAL
COMING BACK TO EARTH.
I THINK HE RAN FASTER 4@THAN TH
SPEED OF LIGHT.
>> MOVING TO THE EAST.
CUTLER4@ WHERE THERE IS A CASKE
OF RUM. 4@
>> IN 1873 A YOUNG SEA CAPTAIN @
SAILED OUT OF CUTLER WITH HIS
BRIDE AND THEY WENT TO CUBA AND
THE WOMAN CA4@UGHT A DEADLY
DISEASE.
SHE DIED4@ IN ON HER DEATHBED I
THE WOMAN CA4@UGHT A DEADLY DISEASE. SHE DIED4@ IN ON HER DEATHBED I@
CUBA SHE MADE HER HUSBAND
PROMISED TO BRING HER BACK AND
BURY HER AND MAINE.
IN 1873 HAD A 4@BODY BACK FROM
CUBA IN JULY.
THEY PUT HER IN A BARREL AND
FILLED IT WITH RUM FROM THE
DISTILLERY AND THEY SELL BACK
TO MAINE AND THEY ARRIVED4@4@ T
FAMILY WANTED HER TO BE LAID
OUT IN THE CEMETERY BUT THE
UNDERTAKER SAID I AM NOT
OPENING THAT CASKET.
I DON'T WANT TO UNLEASH
WHATEVER WAS IN THERE ON THIS
COMMITTEE TO PICK THE 4@PUT HER
IN A CEMETERY WITH 4@HER BARREL
AND ALL.
THAT'S WHERE SHE IS 4@TODAY.
>>4@ MARGARET4@ HAMILTON STARTE
AND ALL. THAT'S WHERE SHE IS 4@TODAY. >>4@ MARGARET4@ HAMILTON STARTE@
THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
AND HE WAS A DIVORCE AROUND 1961
AND 4@SHE BOUGHT A HOUSE4@ IN T
BOOTHBAY AREA AND THAT IS WHERE
SHE SPENT 4@HER SUMMERS 4@AND T
LOCAL FOLKS REFER TO IT AS
WHICH I WENT WHICH ISLAND.4@
AT ONE POINT4@ SHE FELL INTO TH
HARBOR AND WAS SAVED BY A LOCAL
LOBSTER MAN, SHE DID NOT JUST
DISAPPEAR IN A CLOUD OF 4@SMOK4
>> WATER COULD'VE STILL BEEN
HER DEMISE.4@
THIS IS FASCINATING TO ME.
I'VE NEVER HEARD THIS.4@4@
THERE ONCE WERE PRISONER OF WAR
CAMPS4@.
>> THERE WERE SEVERAL IN MAINE.
THE BIGGEST WAS IN HOLTON.
NEAR SPENCER LAKE THEY HAD 4@30
GERMAN PRISONERS AND THEY
WORKED IN THE WOODS CUTTING
POPE AND4@ DOING VARIOUS THINGS
IN 1945 THREE OF THEM ESCAPED
IN MARCH AND THEY HAD GOTTEN
SOME PROVISIONS AND MADE
SNOWSHOES AND THEY MADE A COUPLE
AND COMPASS AND NOBODY COULD
FIND THEM AFTER 4@SEVERAL DAYS,
THE FBI AND STATE POLICE.
THEY FINALLY TALK TO AN OLD GUY
WHO SAID IT'S I SEE OVER HERE
IN SNOWY OVER THERE, GO DOWN TO
THE FORKS AND THREE DAYS AND
THEY WILL SHOW UP AND THAT'S
REALLY FOUND THEM.
LOCAL SCHOOL KIDS BUILT A
MONUMENT.4@
>> WHAT I LOVE ABOUT SOME OF
THESE FACTS, A LOT OF 4@PEOPLE
KNOW ABOUT THE SOLAR SYSTEM BUT
YOU PUT VERY INTERESTING TIDBITS
IN HERE AND IT IS TO INSPIRE
PEOPLE TO EXPLORE 4@MAINE.
>>4@ THERE ARE OVER 300 PEOPLE,
PLACES AND THINGS ABOUT MAINE
IN ITS HISTORY AND WHAT MADE US
WHAT WE ARE TODAY AND EVERYBODY
HAS THE COORDINATES SO YOU CAN
GO