Consider you have power half the time on a Maine island parked twelve to fifteen miles off the coast of Rockland in Knox County.
Vinalhaven And North Haven Are The Fox Islands In Penobscot Bay, Know County Maine.
Literally every six hours, one side of your island is energized. Then the next half dozen hours, where you live or work you are on own in the dark. Left to your own devices.
The old diesel generator taking turns feeding power to each half of the Maine island is bone tired. But the other two generators in the fleet sharing the electricity production task load died.
Help is on the way but fails to show up so deal with it.
Mainers are resourceful. Grateful for what we do have and working around the daily obstacles thrown in our pathway.
This week, I had a Maine real estate closing with a widow who’s husband grew up on Vinalhaven Maine island.
No Bridge Connecting Your ME Island To The Mainland? It’s All About Boat Transportation Using Watery Highways. The Ferry Runs If The Weather Cooperates.
John had a lobster boat. Grew up in the fishing village off the coast in Knox County Maine. Breaking down way way out to sea off the coast of Maine happens in choppy sea swells. You get a call, I need help.
Another lobster boat in the dark heads out to rescue tow you back into the Maine island harbor.
Do you think about the waves, the cold frigid temperatures, the danger that some hardworking Mainers face every day?
Miles of shore in the dark in a bobby lobster boat that’s engine quit. Hoping the your radio does not quit too.
Her story hit home. And having babies, raising kids on an island where maybe you can use the ferry.
Or maybe the sea and weather conditions are not just right. And you are stuck on the island for a time. Until the weather forecast conditions improve on your Maine island.
Surrounded By Water, Vinalhaven Is The Largest Of The Fox Islands.
Vinalhaven has roughly 1200, North Haven about 350 of the same kind of friendly year-round individuals on their respective Fox islands.
If you are a regular follower of the Me In Maine blog, you know my fascination with lighthouses.
I am not alone and know others get excited out in the audience with the buzz words Maine lighthouses.
Perkins Island Lighthouse – Georgetown Maine. Pretty Red Lens To Warn Sailors About Rock Ledges. Ship Wrecks Are No Fun And Lighthouses Avoid Them.
Surrounded By Water, Dependent On A Ferry, Boats Maybe Airplane Or Helicopter For Island Access. No Land Bridge To Zip To The Island. 75 Minute Boat Trip.Maine Lobster, Nothing Else Compares With Fresh Off The Dock Lobster Meat. Do You Agree?
Is the “old faithful” diesel generator still laboring, wheezing, doing it’s best to ration the Vinalhaven island’s electricity? No because three wind generators capable of 4.5 megawatts are now twirling overhead harnessing the breeze.
Spinning juice to supply more or less what Vinalhaven and North Haven needs.
The wind power generation project going online live in 2009. All the buzz of power managed by the Fox Islands Electric Cooperative.
Plus there is a submarine cable for power tether on the ocean floor like a giant extension cord to the main land just in case for electrical stability.
I will get to Vinalhaven Maine to collect a four pack of lighthouses to post in a future blog article.
Complete with the rich history about First Nation Red People, granite for the Washington Monument and base of the Brooklyn Bridge. With more to come on boat building, farming, lumbering, horse nets.
Vinalhaven has the distinction of being the first Maine island of lobstermen to unionize. Being 23 miles square.
A tight island community shaped by the rhythm of the tides, the pace of living depends on which season you land here.
Vinalhaven is Maine’s largest island off the mainland with no bridge connection. Could you live full time on a Maine island?
Maine has 4613 coastal islands in her collection to explore.
Vinalhaven Maine has access to much of the lobstering, fishing grounds in Penobscot Bay and further offshore waters.
Climbing on Interstate 95 traveling to Augusta for Maine Agriculture Farm Trade show.
Yesterday hitched a ride with my partner Meg who is a New Limerick Maine organic farmer up here in Aroostook County. We climbed in the van and headed down I-95 to attend the Augusta Maine 85th agriculture farm trade show.
We met, listened to the Maine agriculture farm commissioner Amanda Beal.
Got to network with lots of other agriculture farm producers, talk to vendors at this 85th Maine agriculture farm trade show.
Attended a couple break out sessions to tackle farm operation problems everyone has to hunt down solutions for in Maine farming.
I love farming, grew up on one and still own the family agriculture spread where the four boys, my brothers and I were raised.
By renting out the Maine farm in the video for agriculture organic farming to Nature’s Circle farm, to Meg I can keep my hand in digging in the dirt.
The thing that hits you at the Maine farm trade show is how diverse, how small and precious the agriculture operations really are in Maine.
Nice Antennae. Maine Honey Bee Producing Out Of This World Nectar Food.
You have to stay small to survive and to keep your expenses low to the ground on a Maine farm.
Nothing Compares For Taste, For Health Benefits! Wild Maine Blueberries.
The love of raising, growing something and the farming lifestyle is the Maine attraction.
Farm to table is so important and finding a market to make agriculture in Maine sustainable is the constant battle.
Making A Living Peddling A Product Made Form A Small Maine Farm.
Teenie weenie itsy bitsy Maine micro farms make it happen with keep it simple homesteading.
If you keep it small farming in Maine, the rewards are rich and home grown. Nothing is taken for granted and your family raised on the family farm really benefit.
Big And Small. The Equipment To Farm Is Old And New. Depends On How Deep You Want To Go Out On The Financial Limb.
It was refreshing to see Maine Future Farming high school members in attendance at the agriculture show in Augusta.
Blue Corduroy Jackets, FFA Future Farmers Of America Members At The Maine Agriculture Trade Show! These Ladies From Mars Hill, Aroostook County.
I list and sell them all the time and Maine is a vast rural state. Where you can know your local Maine farmer.
Where In Maine Do Your Farm And What Kind Of Agriculture Are You Involved With Today?
When you think of draft horses, not just big horsepower Maine farm tractors. The farming types are diverse and have to be to carve out a living you really have to be born into to enjoy. Not that long ago, everyone was a farmer, agriculture was kind.
I did see a booth at the Maine farm show for the state grange.
Everything under the Sun arranged around the Augusta Civic Center for this three day Maine AG farm show.
Maine Agriculture Trade Show In Augusta Civic Center.
Break out sessions to work on a slew of topics. Big industrial drones for spraying and more.
Farming In Maine. Do You Team A Pair Of Draft Horses, Mules, Ponies?Agriculture Uses For Drones Of All Kinds And Prices.
Glad I tagged along and zipped down to Augusta for the Maine agriculture farm show. Hope you enjoyed the videos, the farm images collected yesterday from my travels.
Thank you for watching, sharing the Me In Maine blog posts. I appreciate you being out in the audience on anything the state Maine.
Cold fresh air, pure white snow of a Maine winter can do a body and mind good.
I remember as a kid the joy of bundling up, putting on hats and mittens hand knit by my mom. To head outside to dig impressive snow tunnels, to make snowmen with brothers, sisters, the neighborhood kids.
Playing in the outdoor fresh clean Maine winter air kept us healthier.
We did not, still don’t hibernate inside over a Maine winter.
The Dog Rides In The Sled, Not Pulls It In This Maine Ice Fishing Lake Photo.
Maine winters. Not counting the days on a calendar like a prison sentence sitting in a iron bar small space.
The crisp cold Maine winter air purifies and stimulates our white blood cell production. It is the shot in the arm that boosts our immune system.
Let’s snowmobile out to the lake ice shack and see what everyone’s up to this weekend.
Get off the couch, turn off the television, put down the cell phone device.
Go sliding with the kids. Support a local ski mountain or local ice rink.
The shoveling snow off the steps and clearing walkways, opening up driveways provides physical exercise that boosts our energy levels. Gets those endorphins pumping while filling our lungs with crisp clean fresh air.
Playing in the white flakes of snow, moving and handling it around our Maine homes got us outside.
Look what happened over night while sleeping. Wow.
Rotate slowly 360 degrees around you at the sparkling crystal outdoor landscape.
You become very aware of the World around you spending time outdoors in a Maine winter.
Living in rural areas of Maine. Growing up, we all had family jobs and responsibilities in rural Maine. Snow handling was one of them. But we also played in the fresh Maine snow powder.
There is self-satisfaction pitching in and being needed as a family member no matter which of the four seasons growing up in Maine.
The natural beauty of a few inches of new fallen Maine winter snow transforms the backyard overnight.
The lower temperature, whitewash frozen splash of pretty much one primary color. Mother Nature performs a one-color chip instrument solo of white.
Maine Is Small Town Friendly Living. Who Would Trade That For High Crime, Over Populated Not So Friendly Areas To Live If They Had A Choice?
Winter white on white. In stark contrast from just a few months earlier.
When Jack Frost waived the baton. Conducting the vivid harvest color explosion light show with a huge orchestra of peeper popping hues.
Picnic Food Just Tastes Better Looking At This When Munching What Gets Fished Out Of The Basket. Potato Pickers Move Field To Field In Fall Harvest Colors.
Bundle up and go outside in the Maine winter landscape.
The endorphins you create and natural feeling of wellness and contentment from crunching snow on a brisk walk improves the mood.
Look up, take in the Maine winter night sky light show of stars on the black velvet backdrop.
That natural beauty can not go unnoticed.
Develop a short walk habit and embrace not fear a Maine winter. Burn some calories just easy does it on the chunky sweater and too many clothing layers.
Bringing The Outdoors Indoors! Maine Winter, We Don’t Hibernate. Can’t Wait To Get Out In The Maine Snow!
Anyone in a northern tier state, with Scandinavian country heritage who loves to ski or snowmobile, ice fish and snowshoe knows how to dress.
All can agree if you are cold, you’re not dressed to match the Maine winter temperatures of the day.
And when you turn off the light and head to bed, cracking the window a tad.
There is nothing to compare to winter slumber and restful complete sleep during a Maine winter with some bedroom fresh air. (Unless you are not prepared for winter and have nightmares about not being ready.)
Stay caught up, don’t fall behind is simple Maine survival 101.
Welcome To Maine. You’re Here. You Made It!
If you are new to Maine, welcome. If just visiting during a Maine winter, there is lots to do and enjoy. Native Mainers are outdoors every day and just change up the wardrobe.
Attend a local community homemade supper, a very affordable snow sled club breakfast.
Climb into the stands of an ice hockey or local high school basketball game.
And definitely hit the recreation trails to witness wildlife, the smell of the woods and sheer expanse of Maine.
Maine, Less Colors Than Fall’s Explosion Can Be Dramatic Too!
Clear a lake or pond and skate on the sheet of smooth frozen water with fish swimming below. Down hill or cross country ski in Maine to take in the natural unspoiled beauty. Fill your lungs with clean fresh Maine air.
Being prepared for a Maine winter creates heighten anticipation and erases any fear and regret.
Insulating a Maine house to tighten up the cracks of cold air. Shortening up the square feet of living space. Heating with more than one source and playing the energy market.
Less people, more space, tighter connections in small Maine rural communities.
Boats Floating Along The Maine Coast In The Lincolnville Beach Area During A Maine Winter. Anyone Feel Like Fish Chowder Or Crab Cakes, Broiled Scallops?
Maine winter weather causes you to batten down the hatches and stay ahead rather than fall behind of the day to day. You become heartier and more resilient and appreciative.
The landscape shapes the local Mainer who is fiercely independent and hands on actively involved.
Chopping, splitting their own firewood, canning and preserving to fill their root cellar provisions.
Excited about the sugar bush maple sap collecting ahead during spring thaw. Boiling it down to amber sweet syrup to drizzle on your pancakes, waffles and ployes.
Saps Running As Temperatures Moderate And Winter Starts To Sputter.
Getting a new garden seed catalog to plan what to plant and where when spring renewal happens again.
Maine farmsteads with empty storage houses plant again. Work the soil, prepare the dirt for cultivating and planting another homestead crop on a Maine farm.
One Basket At A Time! Picking Maine Potatoes A Skill Learned By The Lucky Youth Growing Up In A Fall Harvest Potato Farm Field.
Summers on the waterfront, riding and hiking the recreation trails. Then another Maine winter spent like the other three seasons, outdoors.
A winter in Maine that you greet and look forward to like a reunion with an old friend.
But like being nervous before you get to know someone that becomes a friend for life, a Maine winter takes effort on your part.
Take a chance. Experience a Maine winter and don’t limit yourself to one or two seasonal visits.
Waterfront Islands, Sandy Beaches Make Never Fade, Memory Rich Vacations.
I know, I know Maine summer weather is hard to beat but layer up, find the value of wool and come on.
You and I are heading out in a snowy landscape in Maine to explore and discover.
Use the Maine weather to your advantage.
See how an old haunt like one of the 60 plus Maine lighthouse visits is so so different picking a different season to sample it.
Windy, No Tourist To Shoot Images, Video Around. That Is Why Winter Lighthouse Visits Leave A Lasting Impression.
Make the effort, see what happens and maybe what you have been missing during the end and the beginning of another trip around the sun.
Temperature 62, It Was Clear Blue Sky Sunshine On Total Solar Eclipse Day Houlton Maine. It Was April 8th, 2025. Perfect Weather For Viewing The Totality.
Before you just dismiss a Maine winter as something to dread and avoid at all costs. And instead of drawing the wrong conclusion from lack of trying and a lot of Maine weather myths. Gain perspective, log some hours in Maine besides when temperatures are highest.
Try the peace, the stillness, sample the quiet and learn a lot from the solitude of Maine’s snow white outdoors.
No black flies. Not as many tourists. No traffic and we never ever have to park on the street in small town Maine.
Everyone waves, says hello in Maine, the 4th lowest crime state. The cheapest state of car insurance and lots of other great things to set Maine apart from the rest of the World..
Maine Lighthouses, Big For Tourism And Fun For Locals To Visit. Over 60 Of Them To Collect Along The Rock Bound Craggy Coast.
Meg and I have skipped closing up the Maine lake home this fall. We are having fun spending the winter living on a Maine lake and blogging about the outdoor experience.
Thank you for following our Me In Maine blog posts series on living on a lake this winter.
My first minibike was a 3.5 horsepower Briggs and Stratton model. Just a simple, low-cost minibike that was dark green with knobby tires.
It has a thick long cushion seat to make up for a serious lack of suspension. No gears, the minibike equipped with a centrifugal clutch. Just twist the throttle and away you go.
Straight gas, nothing to mix and fun to ride minibike to explore the area when farm chores, schoolwork were completed.
Simple, Affordable Minibike
I would ride the minibike around my Maine family farm field roads, woods trails and in the beginning stayed pretty close to home.
I was nine years old. My Dad has picked up the minibike I earned with potato picking money at the Sear store in Presque Isle Maine.
Riding the minibike around the farm was fun. But eventually longer excursions to my Aunt Ruth’s farm on the Callaghan Road was a frequent destination. Aunt Ruth lived with Freeman Taylor and ran a horse-riding summer camp.
Camp Little Ponderosa was just a couple miles away by car.
On the minibike, it was about three miles going up and over the Interstate 95 overpass on the Mooers Road.
Mooers Family Farm Houlton Maine
Then crossing the Ludlow Road near my Uncle Fred and Molly’s farm.
Then after looking both ways, zig-zagging to taking a trail through farm fields and tree plantation up through a horse back or esker of gravel deposits on Holland Taylor’s farm. Always, always wearing a helmet.
It was the same route used on the family snowmobile in the winter months, a blue 12.8 horsepower Sno Jet.
The trail just covered with white fluffy snow and I was dressed more warmly with layers.
On minibike or snowmobile, you ended up in the same place. The Lane gravel pit which was just behind, to the east of my Aunt Ruth’s summer horse riding camp.
I put a straight pipe on the minibike engine that was anything but high performance.
Only so much you could do to squeeze a little more speed out of the engine usually used on lawnmowers not a motor bike.
High test gas, experimenting with a different chain sprocket configuration all slightly modified the first minibike.
My neighbors Chris and Bryon Williams had minibikes too. Blue 4 horsepower Bonanza minibike models, a pair of them.
We would ride down the Hagan Road to farm roads that led to Cary Mills .
Over toward the town dump and Donald Guy’s gravel pit. Mostly dirt roads and staying off paved ones where traffic was a danger. And knowing we were not licensed motorcyclists yet and way too young to take the road test.
The minibike was freedom.
It was fun to have the privilege to ride with my friends and go places without mom and dad carting me around here and there. The minibike provided a variation of the same feeling of independence that I got riding the snowmobile with my countryside neighborhood friends.
It was not all gas-powered transportation either growing up in rural Maine. Summer meant going up into Market Square peddling a three-speed banana bike. The same feeling of independence provided weekly riding my bike with the long leopard seat into 5 Franklin Avenue to mow lawns.
The money-making gig grass clipping summer job passed down by my brother Brian.
It paid a whopping five dollars and a included an icy cold can of White Rock black raspberry soda a week. Money carefully managed from farm jobs, birthdays, Christmas gifts, mowing lawns was funneled into the minibike fund.
Helmets, repairs and modifications nibbled at the hard-earned fund that led to bigger and better. Eventually trading in the Sears minibike for one purchased at Tingley Brother’s Garage on the North Road or US RT 1 in Houlton Maine.
The orange Chibi was a serious step up for a mini bike.
3 Speeds, 58cc 2 Cycle Engine Powered The Chibi Minibike
It was really a miniature dirt bike with three speeds, a manual clutch, and tuned exhaust on the 2-cycle mixed oil 58cc Rockwell Industries engine.
The Chibi made by Bridgestone came in two models. For $285 you could but a basic blue model. For $315 you could get a snazzy orange Mopar color paint job scheme and a headlamp, taillight. This helped extend the range of the trips and when I had to be home.
Our parents allowed a group of us kids to take our minibikes to camp out with sleeping bags overnight. Looking back, I really appreciated the freedom I had growing up on a Maine farm. My parents trusted me to make good decisions and had loosened up over the years raising me and my three older brothers.
Fast forward to my own children.
Put on a helmet, tighten it up the chin strap. They started out with four red and white Honda minibikes that were three speeds with a clutch, around 50cc power plants.
I could not find a local outlet to purchase them so went across the border to Dave’s Sport Center in Woodstock New Brunswick Canada. The duty was 28 dollars for the Honda’s from Japan.
Then the growing kids graduated to four dark blue Yamaha 125 cc four-cycle off-road motorbikes. Taller, more bike for bigger trail riders. You could add a light kid and make them legally road worthy.
I know how much I appreciated having the freedom to trail ride growing up and the ability to explore with friends and on my own.
What is it like around you? The minibike was my ticket to find out growing up on a Maine family farm.
Did you have a minibike growing up? What kind, what was the experience like? Were you trusted by your parents to leave the yard and did you have earned freedom that looking back you really appreciate now?
Peace and quiet, Maine small town living offers plenty of both.
At a state Maine REALTORS convention this past week in Portland, it was great to be in Maine’s largest city for lots of continuing education credits. To rub shoulders, to compare notes with other professionals from around the state is invaluable to my small Maine real estate operation up here in “The County”.
Congratulations to Martin Cates, Maine Association Of REALTORS “Realtor Of The Year” Awardee.
REALTOR Of The Year In ME Broker/Agent? Martin Cates Received The Maine Association Of REALTOR 2025 Award!
Well deserved for years of community volunteering, real estate listing sales mentoring service Martin!
Lots Of Maine REALTORS Attended The State Convention In Portland Maine!
Heading north up Interstate 95 after this year’s MAR convention wrapped up, I thought about all the many areas of Maine there are.
Hard not to as the mile markers rack up and township signs flash by the jeep passenger side windows.
One session speaker had done the math, counted over 480 communities in the great state of Maine.
The common denominator for many seemingly is lots of peace and quiet all for season.
A commodity not so plentiful in population centers outside of Maine. But don’t believe the low bidder ad agency that often wins the contract for providing out state generated tourist information.
I like see, hearing about the real deal Maine. Not the re-constituted spun kind that regurgitates old not accurate story lines.
Here’s the A-Z of what Maine offers in cartoon form.
Maine Is Low Cost High Beauty Real Estate! Welcome To Small Town Maine Simple Living!
Too many paint the picture that small Maine towns once were thriving but not anymore.
Change is inevitable in life and Mainers adapt, retool and press on in highly creative ways.
Squeezing more from what they spend is a life skill learned and earned early in life.
Picking in the potato fields, raking in blueberry barrens or harvesting seafood in fishing villages that dot the rock bound craggy Maine coastline.
One Basket At A Time! Picking Maine Potatoes Skills Learned By The Lucky Youth Growing Up In A Fall Harvest Potato Farm Field.
Please don’t get the wrong impression about what it is like in Maine.
It’s an easy trap to fall into when many are waving their fingers and flapping their tongues. About something making them hot and bothered on the national stage.We don’t make everything about who you did or did not vote for last election, the one before that.
When from our perch in a small Maine town, we think the peace and quiet out in the vast low population setting is the key. To stay balanced and aware of what is really important in life.
Volunteering and helping others is what Maine simple living is all about in Vacationland.
Preserving family traditions and making sure the next generation is taught more than just how to survive life. But to enjoy and cherish how lucky we really are to live in a place so beautiful and unspoiled and not crowded.
Details, Fine Workmanship, Small Maine Towns Are Special! The Community Is The People, Not Empty Buildings.
Maine small towns are not sleepy but many just don’t get the press.
Nothing ho hum or boring. Undiscovered small Maine communities often feel like a step back in time by design.
What’s important is preserved and the respect passed on. All the members of the small Maine community have important jobs besides what they do for work.
Volunteering and signing up to do the task year after years helps all of us get to know the other community members. There is so much local talent and nothing needs to be “hired out”.
Can I Help You? Here To See A Maine Moose? You Are Seeing Double!
Small Maine towns surrounded by serene peace and quiet are left alone by politicians too.
Not enough voters to bother with and too much travel or ROI for their support. Everything is local, grass roots and home grown. Garden fresh close to home always beats out trucked in store bought right?
So waking up on a Maine lake, slurping my hot coffee and peering out over the water, I feel blessed.
Maine Lake Loon Fishing, Feeding It’s Young. Living Here You See The Skill Taught To Baby Loons On A Maine Lake.
Have my do list for the day back from the Maine REALTOR convention hammered out, am wrapping up the blog post on peace and quiet simple living.
Feeling energized to rise above and seize the day.
Knowing I really am so so lucky to live in one of the many small communities that make up the vast majority of the state of Maine. Where we talk not just text.
And most locals don’t suffer from FOMO.
Our energy is saved for the big challenges of day-to-day life.
Not feeling sapped, always filled with the fear of missing out and anxious that somehow, we are missing out on a perfect opportunity. That desperation only leads to hurried or financially unsound decision making.
Laugh. Laugh Loud. Maine Small Town Comedy Is The Most Entertaining!
Small town Maine living teaches you what priorities to keep straight and never forget to deep down contentment and happiness.
What really matters?
That easy living happens with peace of mind. That practical is not square. That debt is a cancer. Knowing relationships matter and need to be tended like a garden. And enjoying what you do for work, valuing your time is the secret. Thank you for reading, sharing, following our Me In Maine blog posts.
Going back to be with classmates, your Maine high school class reunion.
Have you been to a Maine class reunion at whatever school system you finished high school? If you have not, I suggest making every effort to attend your Maine high school class reunion.
Some say there is nothing more exciting, rewarding than reuniting with your childhood and high school class mates. Others would argue that period of my life was not all that rosy and why would I go back to relive the pain?
Maybe it is the 10th or earlier class reunion that spoils the habit of making an effort to attend your Maine high school reunion.
1975 Houlton Maine High School Class Reunion For The 50th Year!
If the classmates that moved away to return in swanky (leased) red sports cars and keep talking about their success, not asking about yours, that could sour the reunion.
In small Maine towns, the local community steps up and volunteers which in my book makes all the high school class graduates a “success”.
The longer you are out of high school and the more one by one you lose another reunion graduate, the tighter your class becomes.
Instead of a competition and comparing or defending your life so far since high school graduation, your class mates all pull together closer at reunions. News of the death of a high school classmate is a big part of it. That helps the rest wake up and notice we are not getting any younger. In my class of 1975 from Houlton High School we have lost 26 class mates since graduating.
Class of 1975 Class Reunion. This One In Houlton Maine To Celebrate 50 Years Being Out In Life.
The discussion when the get together is, say your 50th school reunion, shifts from jobs and promotions to how many grandchildren and comparing notes about health issues. How are you surviving losing your mate, the divorce, recovery from cancer, etc.
Just had my 50th Maine high school graduation celebration over a four day span.
Still thinking about the conversations, the laughter, the feeling of how much you miss these guys and gals. Some of my high school classmates for a slew of reasons missed the last reunion we nicknamed “The Shindig”. But I would bet most that were at this 50 year milestone reunion over the weekend will not want to miss another one for any reason.
Graduating From High School 50 Years Ago. Whoa. Long Time, Big Class Of 164 Members.
How do you answer in ten words or less “what have you been up to over the last half decade?
In my small Northern Maine town in Aroostook County of Houlton Maine, the high school’s alumni association is very strong and active. We get magazine newsletter editions of high school happenings around the year. I think this publication keeps fond thoughts of your classmates in focus.
When the latest alumni news edition comes in the mail or is opened up online and thumbed through digitally, most classmates beeline to their class year of high school graduation.
Maine 50th High School Graduation. Our Local Alumni Association Is A Strong One To Keep Us Connected.
News from your class, anything from a birth announcement to where someone took a trip or got together with another classmate or two. That hyper local Maine small town information is huge to stay connected with your high school classmates.
If you see the year you graduated but no one took the time to insert a paragraph or two of something pertinent to just your class, it is sad. I feel bad when a class above or below me is left blank. No news is not good news. It’s MIA and off radar. Draws a blank of just white space.
There is always something to report that others would love to read and to help the connection with your year graduating high school class.
Looking to re-connect with old classmates that you lost touch with after grabbing the rolled up sheet of paper and tossing the square hat with the dangling tassel high in the air?
Here is a video below that shows just one event of many held during my class of 1975 Houlton Maine high school graduation activities.
Do you regularly attend high school class reunions?
Does your high school education center hold a multi year event to celebrate with graduating alumni? When was the last time you re-toured your old high school or is it still standing? Remember where your locker was and who shared one beside, up or below you? The memories come back with the aid of a high school open house tour with your other classmates who help you “remember”.
The relationships began in the halls of your Maine school, from walking to it or riding the big yellow bus together are ones that only grow stronger.
What about you? As the years advance after graduation, after logging some miles outside the “My Old School”, the heart string tug of a Maine high school graduation reunion intensifies for me. Can’t wait for the next class reunion here in rural Maine.
