Village Characters

Chesuncook VIllage has always been known for the characters that live there. Playing well with others or not, those who came before us were tough men and women.

William Lizack(sp?) aka "Blind Bill." Fished for the cats with an alder pole, string with an eyelet and nail. "That's a big one," he'd shout out, as he flopped the chub on the grass by the dog, Heindrick. Note fields and barn on Gero. Bill lived with Pete and Antosha where Fahey's house burned, now a cellar hole.

Antosha Numick, Pete's wife, and Heindrick. Antosha always wore her bambushka. "How you boy, how you misses?" she'd say. Always offering cookies. She bore Pete twin boys one winter while he was off lumbering, still born. She kept them wrapped and frozen in the wood shed so he could see them when he got back. May be buried on the property.

Roscoe, Stillman Gideon and Cook on Boom Jumper; note fields on Gero.

Roscoe with Dilworth's boat; Fiberglass+"Indestructable" Note the crawler: LeRoy Edwards used it to clear the alders from Mill Brook.

Roscoe MacDonald; wonderful shot from Rit Maloney

Bill Skiff at Chesuncook Village May'48

Lawrence DeBlois+Fish

Hank Emerson; note the "dri-Ki" or drift wood on shore. Taken in front of Kenneson's. Hank is at the right. 1957 3 HP Johnson and Old Town Lapstrake.

Myra Mulligan was our postmistress. Roscoe lived with her in her camp that is now Doane's. The original camp burned in the '50's. She and Roscoe lived in what is now the Jackass Annie camp, and mail was sorted out there for about two years until Roscoe built the new camp on the ashes of the old one. Nick Mulligan, her husband, is in the cemetery.

Nicki Collins 1953 at the right

Brad Edwards, 1951-52; scroll down....note open fields.

Lawrence and the Bear

Uncle Anse ©

Maggie, Bruce, Odette, Brad

Lawrence in his camp

Lawrence DeBlois

Nana Cowan and son.

Uncle Anse, Ansel Smith

Angus Miller

Fred Smith

Antosha Numick

Carl Kalkuhler, Mud Pond area

Sports from New Bedford Club

Bert McBurnie

Roy Nelson, Jr.

Annie Gilooly

Hiram Johnson; there's quite a story about Hiram Johnson who killed Lester Spear and burned down his own camp at Cuxabexis in the fall of 1962, perishing in the flames. Photo courtesy of Howard Collins.

Frank Cowan at Mud Pond Carry 1938

Frank with canoes at Mud Pond

Harry Edgerly

Lana Gagnon and students; Lana wrote "Chesuncook Memories," and her husband, Oscar Gagnon, spearheaded the restoration and rededication of the church.


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