Growing Up in Maine Recollections of Childhood from the 1780s to the 1920s

Description: Growing Up in Maine: Recollections of Childhood from the 1780s to the 1920s Paperback – January 1, 1992 264 pages 6.2 x 0.8 x 9.2 inchesIn these pages, twenty-two voices recount cherished memories ofMaine childhoods, each one different, all fascinating.Here is a sampling:I enlisted in the spring of 1862, Company A, at the age offourteen years, weighed 102 pounds, height 5 feet 3 inches, beingT. Libbyone inch less than the required heightOnce, all of us children caught the measles at the same time.Our mother's pig caught them too. She doctored him along withthe rest of us, and he lived. M.P. SmithI was bred with thoroughly Calvinistic opinion, which I questionedwhen a child of five years, taking my stand that if God never loved allthe creatures he made, he was not a good god. — E.O. SmithWe young ones always went barefoot, butfor the job of huntin'lobsters we put boots on... What yellin' and splashin' as the lobsters— C. Yorkbacked away, tryin' to escape, and us kids after 'emI was not a promising child at the start. I was pronounced"weakly." My "head was too big." So the wise old ladies comfortedmy dear mother, and told her she must "never expect tobring up that child." ---- C HamlinSometimes we would sit on an old log, watching up the river;soon we would see the white water tumbling and foaming,filled with giant logs —some eighteen inches or more on the butt,and forty feet or more long—A, AllenThe island was interesting, but the people were more interesting.If a person or a family wishes to live out on that island they need to beof a certain breed. You take the knocks and then forget it. — A.P. Rowe

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