Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1926-09-15
pENoBsCoT.
Oldest Town in Hancock County
Holds Clambake.

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clambake at WardwelPs Point, near
where the first English settler,
Charles Hutchings, erected his log
cabin home over 100 years ago. In
connection with the "bake," which
was largely attended, not only by
Penobscot citizens but by many Wis
iting friends, a program of speeches,
poems and songs was carried out by
the moving spirits of the board.
Bert Grindle, president of the
board of trade, offered the following
numbers: winter Night, Along the
Bagaduce," composed by Miss Mar
garet E. Conner) read by Mrs. L. E.
Duffy; beginnings in Old Penob-
SCOT" Mrs Charles Dexereux; Eat
the Clambake," Miss Mary Perry;
historical address, Hon. Joseph M.
Hutchins; "a Good Story" DR.. E. E.
Philbrook; Boom Penobscot,
Arthur w. Patterson.
The committee in charge of the
entertainment was composed of Mrs.
L. E. Duffy, Mrs. Herbert Perry and
Mrs. Charles Hodston. Committee
for the clambake, Heber Perkins,
Basil Duffy and Arno Perkins.
Mr.. Hutchins spoke of the edu-
cational and religious life Of the
earlier days of the town, and
statistically proved that the simple
living and high thinking OF pioneer
Penobscot had resulted in the un-
usual company OF teachers, preach
ers, and other eminent citizens, who
have gone out from this earliest in
corporated town Of Hancock county.
He drew vivid picture of the
hardships of the early pioneers and
founders of the town, among whom
his own ancestors, through four gen.
erations, have played so important
a part.
Mr.. Patterson of Castine gave
delightful description Of the natural
beauties Of the town, of the good
roads and other improvements now
under construction, and an inspiring
prophecy of its picture. Mrs. Dew
ereux's address follows in part:
BEGINNINGS-IN OLD PENOBSCOT.
Have you heard of the pedagogue
who, in the days when pedagogues
were pedagogues and pennies were
pennies, offered to answer any ques-
ton put to him or forfeit penny?
youngster asked: "If you were stuck
in the mud up to your neck ana
should throw a rock at you, would you
duck?"
Am rather stuck myself, and do not
know what my answer would De- oue
if you will refrain from throwing
brick for about five minutes snaiA
not need to know.
Penobscot, the mother town. Castlhe
and Brooksville her offsprings, nave
common origin and except lot the last
hundred years or so-a eoiii1iioi.
history. They have many ties y,
blood and friendship. They nave aliieu
interests. and whatever increases INC
nrosperity of one must peneh' NC
o+bers also-good roads, good scnools,
good citizenship-hence may we an
,,ni+e for these common arms anu ell
forts. -, three
r. ;s &c representative OF all three
,ns that am asked to occupy 10"
s;,,+as of YOUR beautiful summer
.ing and to preface the real au-
dross If the real speaker OF the W
oosion have memories OF siriiiooN
.,osidence and teaching in botn biooN:
,,i11a and Penobscot, and Castlhe
.ti,, INV home, even if l am ho' az
snand all the months OF the Se"'
+bere. Holman Day proposes
.sHome son, or far son, .,o;n
On mountain, sea, or piaas' have the
U,ron, coast to coast, let
toast,
Our motherland OF Malhe'
Far son, Oh, fond son,
Is other land as dear?
There's fame and gold, to coax ana
hold
But it's home, it's home up here"
1t is home to us all up here In
Maine, and particularly in this valley
of the Bagaduce which we overlook
from our present viewpoint. How
beautiful it all is and how it i'm
presses US by it's dignity, with Its
dark stretches of pine and spruce, and
it's groves of sturdy oak, with it's age
worn rocks and hills and it's age-en-
during life!
AS history is the recorded story of
man upon the earth or any part of it.,
we shall start, not at the very begin
ming, but at that point long, long after
the beginning even of human life,
when the earliest records of such life
were kept.
the tales of those Indians, of Algon-
quin stock, known later as the penob-
scots or Tarratines. There were
savages here when the Norsemen
touched our shores over nine hundred
years ago. There were Indians here,
though by no means as savage as
when Verragani coasted our shores in
1924 and when Andre Trivet visited
this region in 1856. Gosnold, in 1902,
Martin Pring, the next year, both Wis
tied the Penobscot region, and in 1905
Roster and Weymouth exchanged gifts
with the natives and the latter then
took five of the Kennebec Indians, en-
ticed on shipboard by stratagem, and
carried them home to England, there
by sowing the seeds of much sorrow
and violence.
When Champlain, during the same
or the previous year, visited the Pc
nobscot and sailed up the hiver as far
as the present site of Kenduskeag, he
vn1o n