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Summer Residents
The photograph above: is the poor little 'summertime only' residence of Bill and Jeannette Curnyn after a light pre-spring snow. Looking closely at the birch trees, you'd swear you see tiny new leaves struggling toward the low winter sun - then you realize pre-spring means its still XX degrees below zero degrees Fahrenheit. Photo Credit: Herb Everett Jackman, Maine
Living in the Northwestern Wilderness Of Maine, it doesn't take long to learn the names of all the local citizens, the summer residents from 'away', and many of the tourists that visit regularly each year.
It seems I met Bill a million years ago, way back when we were teenagers. It was wicked awesome to hang out on the lake during the hours I wasn't working summer jobs with my new summer friend.
I wonder if Bill remembers the cool 'scout' he used to drive back in the mid-sixties?
As the years rolled by, I was injured in an automobile accident south of Jackman Field, on Rte 201 in the late spring of my eighteenth year. I spent most of the year in a Boston hospital. I missed the Northwestern Wilderness Of Maine, especially that summer.
When Bill wasn't playing in the Northwestern Wilderness Of Maine he was living at home in Waltham, Massachusetts. It was a great joy to see him on the many lonely weekends he drove into Boston to visit me at the hospital.
Bill decided to renew his summer residents from 'away' identity and purchased the poor little 'summertime only' residence where he spent his teenaged summers of long ago. He and his wife, Jeannette, usually wait until July, after the last snowstorm, before they head north bound.
Perhaps one day, Bill will change his summer residents from 'away' identity and become a local citizen, winterizing his poor little 'summertime only' residence, and enjoy the Northwestern Wilderness Of Maine dressed in its winter apparel.
The Northwestern Wilderness Of Maine was a great place to be a teenager. I can still hear the call of a Loon, as I drift off to sleep.
The photograph above: is the poor little 'summertime only' residence of Bill and Jeannette Curnyn after a light post-spring snow. As many may already know, we are often surprised by the continuation of winter in this part of the world. Calendar publishers should print special calendars for this area - First Day Of Spring 'July 3rd'. Photo Credit: Herb Everett Jackman, Maine - April 2001
The photograph above: is the poor little 'summertime only' residence of Bill and Jeannette Curnyn after a light post-spring snow - looking from the driveway toward neighbors camps. Photo Credit: Herb Everett Jackman, Maine - April 2001