100 Years Ago: 1924
Visitors never fail to comment on the manner in which specimens of birds and game are displayed at the museum in the State House connected with the Fish and Game department. It is so different from what they see in other places. No long rows of shelves upon which stand stiffly mounted birds or animals clinging, the one to a precarious perch, the other standing on a piece of board over which has been sprinkled with some gravel held in place by glue. Instead they are grouped in cases in a way to make them appear natural—to appear as we see them in life in the woods and field in the woods and field.
50 Years Ago: 1974
When the Professional Dance Teachers Association meets Sunday at the Hotel Bradford in Boston, Mrs. Clara Harnden Desjardins, an Auburn dance teacher, will be a member of the staff for a “technique and material session.” She will conduct classes in Spanish dancing at both the morning and afternoon sessions which are for both teachers and students.
25 Years Ago: 1999
Borrowing a word from his 5 year-old son, Angus King looked up at “Angus, King of the Mountain” Friday morning and remarked, “This is awesome.”
The governor highlighted a two-hour ceremony in honor of the giant Bethel Station snowman.
David Berry, one of the group of core volunteers, said the day was incredible not for the snowman’s height, but for how it brought the community together. People have been pulling to the side of the road to stare, snap pictures and ask questions for two weeks, he said. At a Valentine’s Day party at his daughter’s kindergarten class last week he was barraged by children who knew every step of the project.
“A month and a half ago I was probably one of the doubters talking about the “Great White Hype,” he said, “I just want to thank everybody who was involved.”
The Bethel Area Chamber of Commerce sold wares to mark the event: Juice glasses, stickers postcards, T-shirts and totes were all marked with a drawing or photo of the snowman.
Many onlookers sipped hot chocolate and snacked on 520 snowman cookies baked the day before by chefs Dana Lunn and Dennis Arsenault from the Grand Summit Hotel at Sunday River Ski Resort. Both were easy to spot as they walked the grounds in full kitchen garb. “It was fun to be part of a good community cause,” said Lunn.
The chefs got a treat when they learned that cookies were being sent with King to the governors conference he’s attending this weekend to Washington, D.C., to be munched on by governors from across the United States.
“Angus, King of the Mountain” made his national debut Friday at 8:30 am covered with a layer of snow from the day before that caused his orange nose to drip paint onto his chest. A crowd gathered an hour before the “Good Morning America” spot was to go on the air.
Paula Wheeler said they should receive word from the Guinness Book official in the next few weeks on whether the snowman made it into the official record books. The current record for the world’s tallest snowman is held by Yagamata, Japan, with a 96 foot, 7 inch snowman, chamber officials said.
The material used in Looking Back is produced exactly as it originally appeared although misspellings and errors may be corrected.
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