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Wednesday, 27 August 2008

Bigfoot Sighted Near Maine

Posted on 12:04 by blogger
Now comes news from Cryptomundo of a "possible Bigfoot sighting a few miles east of the Maine-Canada border near Skiff Lake, NB."
What is being seen in the area is a “Black Sasquatch.” Specifically, it is described as a “pitch-black, sleek, hairy, approximately 8-and-a-half foot [tall] Sasquatch.”
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Tuesday, 19 August 2008

Horace Wilson, Japanese Baseball Hall of Famer

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A man from Gorham is credited with bringing baseball to Japan.
Horace Wilson, a Gorham farm boy who returned from the Civil War only to go west to California and eventually across the Pacific, is the man the Japanese say introduced baseball to their country. He was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 2003.
On a day in 1872 or a year later, depending on who's telling the story, Horace Wilson decided his students at the First Higher School of Tokyo needed to get away from their class lessons. A little physical exercise in the form of hitting a ball, throwing it and running would get the blood pumping.

He took them outdoors and introduced them to baseball, a game he had enjoyed, maybe from his time serving with the 12th Maine Regiment fighting Confederates in Louisiana. Weeks or months after Wilson's students took their swings, there was a seven-inning game between the Foreigners, with Wilson playing left field and scoring two runs, and a team of Japanese players. [Link]
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Saturday, 2 August 2008

No More Trash-Can Mail Delivery on Sutton Island

Posted on 23:04 by blogger
Residents of Sutton Island in Cranberry Isles can no longer have their mail delivered to a garbage can.
Residents say that since at least the 1950s, and perhaps longer, mail has been delivered to the island by a private passenger ferry service, leaving packages, postcards, letters, bills, and whatever else had enough postage in a specially marked trash can on the float at the end of the island’s lone municipal dock.
Though permitted by a succession of postmasters in Northeast Harbor, where the ferry service comes and goes from the island, the practice has been put to a sudden stop by the U.S. Postal Service. Now, to get their mail, island residents will have to make the two-mile ocean journey to Northeast Harbor to pick it up themselves. [Link]
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