Tag: Photos

Roadside memorial still a mystery

~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

I’d love to know the story. Every time we travel to or from Bangor or beyond, we pass this well-maintained memorial along Maine Route 9, “the Airline Highway,” in Township 24. It’s just east of the Wilderness Lodge. I finally stopped to investigate but found no names or dates. Do any of you Mainers know more?

So far, I’ve found nothing solid.

One person said something about a hit-and-run that’s never been solved.

As former radio newscaster Tom McLaughlin said, “There are plenty of places around here where something happened and there’s no memorial at all.”

He added, “Jnana, there have been so many crashes and fatals on Route 9 in the time I was covering news (1992-2016). That may have been from a crash in July 2002 that killed a guy from Perry and injured his brother who may have succumbed later. Also in that general area, a dad, mom and older son from Calais died in a head-on crash on a snowy night 20 or so years ago. Guess I haven’t given you anything definitive, here. Not sure who I can ask. All the troopers I knew back then are long retired.”

The state’s fatal crashes web site turned up nothing.

So that’s where it stands for now.

 

 

Our home’s new backbone was surgically inserted

~ Jnana Hodson ~ 2 Comments

The last Saturday in October arrived clear and cool. We were now officially a month into the project, and Adam showed up with a crew of three for the dramatic operation of inserting a ridgepole. It was rather like laparoscopy, if you want to consider the small incision he made near the top of a street-facing gable.

Here’s how it went.

There was also the column to insert.

 

There was no anesthesia.

A sense of Lake Meddybemps

~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

Sunrise County is laced with big lakes. In fact, 21 percent of it 3,258 square miles is water, including streams of all sizes, bogs and flowages, and ponds.

The largest lake, Meddybemps, covers more than 27 square miles within four towns, reaches a maximum depth of 58 feet, is dotted with islands, and is famed for its smallmouth bass fishing.

Light on winter ice provides a unique clarity in perceiving the lake’s profile, seen in part here from State Route 214.

Wyman

~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

We recently had to flee our house for 24 hours after spray-foam insultation was applied to our second-floor renovations. That meant heading to an Airbnb in town.

This attractive wooden plaque above the stove caught my attention. Good use of a serif typeface in green ink.

And then it struck me: this was from the end of a blueberry-picking crate. I’m sure it’s been rendered obsolete.