UMaine Folklife looking for copies of ‘The Mill’

University of Maine Folklife Center associate director Pauleena MacDougal wrote to ask if our readers have copies of “The Mill,” a publication put together by Eastern Fine Paper Co., the former papermaking company in Brewer, and she has a second request, as well.

First, MacDougal explained that the MFC has issues of “The Mill” from 1919 to 1929, but she added she doesn’t know when the publication started or stopped.

If anyone has copies “of any other issues,” MacDougal wrote, “we would like to see them. We haven’t found any in libraries in the area.”

MacDougal reminded us that the MFC is “currently conducting research on the history of the mill,” and has interviewed “quite a few workers,” about their experience at Eastern Fine Paper Co.

She also explained that she is “doing a related, oral history project with women in the paper industry,” and that she “would like to interview women who currently, or formerly, worked in any capacity in the paper industry in Maine.”

Anyone with old copies of “The Mill,” or any former or current, female paperworkers, are asked to contact MacDougal by calling her at 581-1891, writing her at the Maine Folklife Center, 5773 South Stevens Hall, University of Maine, Orono 04469; or e-mailing folklife@maine.edu.

Nancy Bourgon invites you to the Elm Street Congregational Church Indoor Yard Sale 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, May 27, at the church in Bucksport.

Items range from glassware to furniture.

The Sebasticook Valley Lodge of Elks in Pittsfield is assisting two members of the military who are heading up campaigns to provide an Iraqi orphanage and an Afghani village with shoes.

Lt. Col. Andrew Gibson, a chaplain serving in Afghanistan, is leading the village shoe project, and Spc. Eric Walker, brother of Elks member Emily Anderson, is heading the effort to outfit an Iraqi orphanage with shoes.

Locally, Nancy Gibson and Liana Walker are organizing the collecting and shipping of the shoes.

To donate new or used shoes or sneakers, drop them off at the lodge, 26 Middle Street in Pittsfield.

Don Dow reports “the shoes must be in fairly decent shape with the laces tied together.”

The goal is to donate more than 1,000 pairs of new or used shoes to the village and to donate as many new shoes as possible to the orphanage.

For more information, call Dow at 487-6929 or Ken Hennessy at 416-9152.

Parents can register their youngsters and themselves, now, for the Bar Harbor Bank & Trust Open for Up and Comers, which begins at noon Saturday, June 3, at Bar Harbor Golf Course in Trenton.

Registration is just $10 for each child or adult team, which features a fun afternoon of golf events where youngsters can compete for prizes that include a set of junior golf clubs.

Lunch will be provided by Subway. There will be ice cream sundaes, and everything from driving lessons to four holes of golf at BHGC with event director Steve Joy is included. To register, call 664-5337. Proceeds, reports Jane Sanderson, “will be used to purchase a birthing bed and a bassinet” for the obstetrics department at Maine Coast Memorial Hospital in Ellsworth, and to help provide scholarships for lymphedema patients.

The first 24 to register will receive a free T-shirt from Bar Harbor Bank & Trust.

Linda Sutherland Allen wrote of more than 325 invitations mailed to announce the Bangor High School Class of 1971 35th Class Reunion on Friday July 14, and Saturday, July 15, many were “returned due to changed addresses and new street numbers under the updated 911 regulations.”

Allen asks that any classmate, or anyone who knows a class member who has not received an invitation, to e-mail her at vzlinda@adelphia.net or call her at 947-1353 “and give me their correct mailing address.”

She emphasized planners “want to include any classmates who were part of our class, even if they did not graduate with us.”

And, she added, “we still have a list of more than 120 missing class members” the reunion committee has been unable to locate.

The event includes an informal gathering at 7 p.m., Friday, July 14, at The Sport Arena on outer Hammond Street, and a dinner-dance at 6 p.m. Saturday, July 15, at the Muddy Rudder Restaurant in Brewer “for which reservations are required.”

Your classmate, Sharon Arasate Liberty, is offering discounted lodging at The Country Inn at the Bangor Mall.

Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; 990-8288.