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Sparsely scattered throughout the fields and woods of this Downeast region are the rural communities for which Route 1 is Main Street. Cherryfield, Columbia Falls, Jonesboro, Machias--all are homes to an average of several hundred inhabitants who use the road to drive to the fields during the day, and perhaps to Machias in the evening to see a movie or eat at Helen's Restaurant...
This down-to-earth quality, combined with a small-town atmosphere, creates a scenario of rural life and attitudes which is all-pervasive in Washington county. It's a region in which the undertaker in the town of Cherryfield also runs the ambulance service and where Helen's, a small restaurant in Machias famous for its pies, can become a county center. "You'll meet more people from Washington county here at Helen's than you will in the whole damn town," said one middle-aged man in baggy brown trousers and frayed shirt, scooping up his blueberry cream...
Last week citizens of small Cherryfield, Me. & vicinity were being treated to a sight on a par with that of a king rummaging in a slop barrel. Some of last year's drought-starved Western cattle were shipped to Cherryfield. They failed to recuperate, left natives with a large number of ribby carcasses on their hands. Cherryfielders piled the hulks on wagons, carted them to a lonely spot well back from their Black Woods road, dumped them out to rot. Snow soon covered the charnel heap...
...oldest living graduates belong to the class of 1804, and are William Freeman, Esq., of Cherryfield, Me, aged 94, and Joseph Head, of Newton, aged...
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