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.”
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]
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]
MOOSE MOUNTAIN revolves around Ranger Todd, a nature loving do-gooder, and the wildlife that resides at Moose Mountain National Park. There's a brooding, love-sick blackfly, a New Jersey squirrel family relocated to the park by the wildlife witness protection program, a self-centered, passive aggressive black bear, and a moose whose four husbands were all killed in tragic car crashes. Most of the strips are set in the park, which, in many ways, resembles Maine's Acadia National Park, but sometimes the action takes place in the coastal resort town of Bar Harbor where Todd reluctantly shares his house with a beaver named Orson.
New strips (and more) every Tuesday and Thursday.
We arrived at the end of the dirt road, 100m inland from the shore, and 500m north of the confluence. We brought kayaks, and found a portage trail which took us directly to the rocky shore. Morning mist had just lifted from the river valley, the lake was relatively calm. We launched the boats, and paddled to the zero point in only a few minutes. It took a while to get a picture of the GPS, as the breeze quickly moved the boat off the coordinates. After obtaining the requisite documentation, we landed at the shore, searched and found a geocache hidden in the woods. [Link]
FRENCHMANS HOLE [FREN]: PLEASE TREAT THIS AREA GENTLY The landowners here have graciously allowed the public to access this swimming hole for a few generations. Recent abuses of this place has caused the owners to question their generosity. Please make an effort to leave no trace of your visit and to remove the traces left by others. YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE at this swimming hole and at any others that you may visit. Be brave. Be a leader. Set the example.
[T]he married men of the Islands, when this obsolete law had been brought to notice, were not permitted to rest in peace, until it was expunged from the statute book. A petition for the repeal of the obnoxious law was presented to the Court by one William Wormwood, the hapless husband of Jane Wormwood, who had been already complained of as a common scold; and it was urged with such zeal, that at the General Court, held at Gorgeana, in 1650, "It was ordered, upon the petition of William Wormwood, that as the fishermen of the Isles of Shoals will entertaine womanhood, they have liberty to sit down there, provided they shall not sell neither wine, beare, nor liquor."1Jenness proceeds to enumerate several cases of women of the Isles abusing their husbands and neighbors with "evil speeches" and "badd words." Installation of a "cucking stool" to punish them was resisted, and "the natural liberty of tongue, which the fishwives of Gosport and Hog Island seem to have prized so highly, was never afterwards assailed."
We regret to add, that the "womanhood," thus licensed to sit down at the Shoals, did sometimes sorely abuse their privilege. Their offences generally consisted, it seems, in a singular volubility of tongue, and a certain asperity of temper.1York County Court Records
