100 Years Ago: 1924

Lieutenant Colonel T. W. Hollyday, commanding officer at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont, arrived here by motor on Wednesday morning, bringing with him Captain Nikolal Romanoff who is an addition to the cast of the Twin City Players. The captain will play special parts in many of the plays to be presented by the stock company during the summer months.

50 Years Ago: 1974

Miss Anne Finley who graduated this month from St. Joseph’s School leaves Thursday for another learning experience, this one to take her abroad where she, with approximately 100 other young American teenagers will study and perform musically.

Anne is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Finley of 110 Sabattus Street, Lewiston. As a small child her singing ability was apparent and she mastered many musical selections from her family’s collection of recordings before beginning formal study.

25 Years Ago: 1999

The stage was warped and rotten with a speed bump down its center. On the floor where the audience would sit black borders marked numbered shuffleboard spaces. And in the corner, a beano machine lay unlit and unplugged.

In November 1996 the old Odd Fellow Hall in the center of Buckfield was a gamble, said owner Mike Miclon.

But he says the odds have changed. Miclon opened the Odd Fellows Theatre in the renovated hall a year ago to sold out shows: electric mixtures of dance, music and old time vaudeville.

The material used in Looking Back is produced exactly as it originally appeared although misspellings and errors may be corrected.