Old Sebec Lake
1997
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4.75
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128
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Old Sebec Lake is an intriguing look at one of Maine’s most beautiful and historically interesting areas, containing a series of photographs as well as accompanying text that document the most colorful era in the lake’s history. T he photographs, which date from 1860 to 1950 and come mainly from private collections, illustrate a time of steamboats and tenting parties, log drives and spool mills, market hunters and 30-mile trap lines. This was also a time of uncertain employment, boom-and-bust economies, and remarkable changes in transportation, all of which profoundly affected the lake and the communities surrounding it. Although the images tell the story, woven through the text are interesting stories about B.M. Packard, Fred Gates, Walter Arnold, and others whose lives contributed to the lake’s interesting past. Accounts of the 1936 flood, the scuttling of the Marion, and the construction of The Castle are also included in the text.
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