http://maineoutdoorstoday.com/crews Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:17:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Look at all that front lawn I had to mow down there at Katahdin Lodge and Camps. Anytime Finley Clarke's Nephew, that'd be me, David Robert Crews, was living and working at Finley's Katahdin Lodge and Camps, David was the Lodge's sole grass cutter and weed whacker. I wouldn't have it ... http://maineoutdoorstoday.com/crews/?p=198 I shot this photograph in July 1969, when I was a passenger in the rear seat of my buddy Bobby's little two seater, bush pilot's plane. That groovy little ol' hedge hopper didn't have lights or a radio. The shot is looking westward over Rural Route 11, about seven miles ... http://maineoutdoorstoday.com/crews/?p=197 In order for you to understand what my Northern Maine Adventures truly meant to an eighteen-year-old, Baltimore area, suburban kid you must know a little about where I lived, and what my life was like, just before I moved to Maine. Throughout this new series of blog posts, pages from ... http://maineoutdoorstoday.com/crews/?p=196 This shot was taken at the end of a fantastic week-long stay at my uncle's hunting lodge in Maine. It was Thanksgiving Day Week of 1968. That good-lookin-like-me fellow there is my father. Dad is getting ready to go back to our home town of Dundalk, Maryland, a Baltimore County ... http://maineoutdoorstoday.com/crews/?p=195 L to R:L to R: The mailman's daughter; lucky me; Jughead McCarty's girlfriend; Arnie Ballard; and Deanna Caldwell--who was my first steady girlfriend up there. I'm second from the left and right where I wanted to be. That cozy little scene took place about eleven months after Deanna and I had gone ... http://maineoutdoorstoday.com/crews/?p=194 That's Arnold Ballard at the left, but I don't remember the other two guys. This was in Ballard's Full Service Citco Gas Station in Patten, Maine. Arnie's father owned it. I took this series of photos to show my family and friends back in Dundalk, Maryland--a suburb of Baltimore--what it ... http://maineoutdoorstoday.com/crews/?p=193 If you'll notice, this business cards says that the post office for Katahdin Lodge is located in Smyrna Mills, Maine. Not Patten, as is said throughout all of my Northern Maine Adventure writings and is on the painted signs in the dead bear photos. Patten, Maine was the original post office ... http://maineoutdoorstoday.com/crews/?p=192 That's me, when I was finishing up with splitting 19 cords of hardwood, for firewood. I worked on that wood pile for 9 or 10 hours a day, for 10 weekdays, during 2 weeks in the late summer of 1969. My Uncle Finley bought the wood and had it delivered ... http://maineoutdoorstoday.com/crews/?p=191 L to R: Down there at the far end of Katahdin Lodge's long, wooden dining room table is: Marty; one of her workers, I hope to learn her name again; the goofy gal down there pinching her nose up at the camera is Cathy Glidden; the next woman may be ... http://maineoutdoorstoday.com/crews/?p=190 That is my mother, Finley's older sister Doris, on that ornery horse; Finley's chit chatting with the beast, they were best of friends; the woman standing back there on the Lodge's boardwalk is Doris and Finley's mother, my Grandmom Clarke. Very few people ever got anywhere on that ornery horse. He ... http://maineoutdoorstoday.com/crews/?p=189