The best way I can describe the wedding I had planned to you, dear friends, is a snowball running amok, gathering vast amounts of snow as it rolls uncontrollably down a treacherous hill. I was helpless. I could no longer add to it, nor take away.
There has recently been some interest in bringing a curling club back to Presque Isle. Presque Isle has a long history with curling, and, in fact, had its own curling club from 1964 until the late 1980s.
Many genealogists like to accumulate a reference library for easy access to records. If your area of research is New England, here are five books that may interest you. Much depends on the areas you are researching but there’s something here for almost everyone.
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck … no, we’re not doing that one. Instead, we’re going to talk about actual wood. As in, how much have you gone through during the cold snaps this winter, and how can you compare energy use so far this year to other years?
Some of us love winter. Others not so much. For our ancestors winters could be brutal. Until the mid-20th century, a majority of Americans lived in rural areas, many on back roads. For them there were no town plows, sanding trucks, ambulances, phones or cars. Horses with sleds couldn’t fight their way through deep snow drifts.
The great snow battles have begun. Those lovely flakes have fallen and thanks to rampant frolicking undercover of darkness, they have multiplied. Consult your parents on lesson number nine of the birds and the bees for how to.
Presque Isle has long been a bastion of higher education. Today, the City boasts the University of Maine at Presque Isle (founded in 1903), Northern Maine Community College (founded in 1961), and the graduate program for Husson University.
So, what is it like to be a bit older than most brides-to-be and also the star of a scenario much like that of the television show, “Say Yes To The Dress?” Well, dear friends, let me borrow your attention for just a bit and I will tell you.
Eggs are nothing to joke about. That funny object in the fridge is round on one end and pointy on the other. Rather fragile if dropped but it still remains a potent protein source.Here in the states grocery stores carry mostly chicken eggs.
Do you love winter? Have a hankering to ride snowmobiles? Come on out for the first annual County Snow Fest. This City-sponsored event will take place Friday, Jan. 28 through Sunday, Jan. 30. There will be events for all ages, some of which are free.
