To the editor:
Some of your readers will remember a book written in the early 1990s by my mother, Nina Way Lord, about her life in Davidson, Maine, the town near Stacyville that prospered, then folded and is now woods. A few years later she wrote a sequel to this book, this time picking up on the last days of Davidson and moving on to life in Hersey. She passed away in 1994 before we could get the chapters together and ready for printing.
This summer, her family has finally gotten the book put together and “Ollie’s Hersey” is now published. It is written in much the same style as her first one, “Ollie’s Davidson,” with words bringing to life the end of Davidson and then portraying life and events as she lived them in Hersey. Anyone reading this will get a glimpse of life in the 1930s and ‘40s and will also know many of the folk that made up the heart of Hersey as well as Patten and Mount Chase.
It was certainly the “good old days” with some of the days not so good, and some that made the bad times fade from memory. Patten Drug Store has agreed to be the contact place for anyone who wishes to get a copy of either book, that business being part of Patten during many of those by-gone years, meeting the needs of Hersey and Patten folk alike.
I hope anyone reading this will settle back and remember life as it used to be and treasure the many unique and wonderful people that make up our lives today as Mum did with her world.
Elsie Jones
Houlton
