Maine Feldspar, Families, and Feuds is the blog for my publishing company. The first book prepared by the company is also the blog's title.
Copies of Maine Feldspar, Families, and Feuds are available in selected Maine bookstores or from the author @ $19.95 and $4.95 shipping and packaging. Personal check or PayPal accepted. Credit cards may be processed at PayPal with payment to my email address or inquiries to:
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Photo captions: Top left. beryl, Albany
Top right: Dynamite blast, Newry
2nd row: West Paris, 1892
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| 3rd row: Topsham factory 1950s
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| 4th row Bethel train station, 1940s
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| 5th row East Liverpool, Ohio kilns where Maine product was made into plates, etc. |
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| 6th row Route detail of the Portland Pipeline |
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| 7th row Workers near Horse drawn wagon, February 1926 |
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| 8th row Feldspar factory near Maine Central Railroad tracks, February 1926 |
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| 9th row Horses Veery (black) and Tiger (black) in the Bumpus Quarry, September 1928. |
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10th row Double-jacking to drill a hole for dynamite, c1900. L Shavey Noyes R Tim Heath.
Dog is "Tig", named after a cartoon character. |
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| 11th row Haness Hakala using a compressed air drill at Mount Marie, 1949. |
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| 12th row Dynamite was easily available in Maine hardware stores into the 1950s. Farmers would use a pipe to dig dirt out under a rock so that the dynamite stick could be blasted underneath it to be able to plow their fields. |
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13th row Dynamite blasting was frequent on the Bumpus farm. The children learned to respect it.
L-R Edwin, Ruth Ann, and Harlan Bumpus. |
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| 14th row Togus Veteran's Hospital, 1905 |
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| 15th row Inside a feldspar factory. February, 1926. |
