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Remembering the week when Maine burned
by Outspoken on Tue Oct 23, 2007 9:15 pm
Remembering the week when Maine burned
Sixty years ago, a natural disaster left ruins and some indelible memories
By ANNE GLEASON
Staff Writer Portland Press Herald
KENNEBUNKPORT — The Seavey family home on Wildes District Road in Cape Porpoise is one of the few in its neighborhood pre-dating the 1940s.
In the small neighborhood, near what was once known as Seavey's Corner, 14 homes burned to the ground in the October 1947 fires that ultimately burned about 200,000 acres in southern Maine and the Bar Harbor area.
Only eight homes in the Cape Porpoise neighborhood, including the one owned by the late George Seavey, escaped destruction.
"Nobody understood why that place didn't burn, but it never did," said Harrison Seavey, a son of George Seavey.
In 1998, Harrison Seavey, who is now 82, wrote a book with his sister about the 1947 fire, to preserve the memories for their descendants and record one family's experience with what was Maine's worst natural disaster.
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=141556&ac=PHnws
Courtesy Brick Store Museum
Sixty years ago, a natural disaster left ruins and some indelible memories
By ANNE GLEASON
Staff Writer Portland Press Herald
KENNEBUNKPORT — The Seavey family home on Wildes District Road in Cape Porpoise is one of the few in its neighborhood pre-dating the 1940s.
In the small neighborhood, near what was once known as Seavey's Corner, 14 homes burned to the ground in the October 1947 fires that ultimately burned about 200,000 acres in southern Maine and the Bar Harbor area.
Only eight homes in the Cape Porpoise neighborhood, including the one owned by the late George Seavey, escaped destruction.
"Nobody understood why that place didn't burn, but it never did," said Harrison Seavey, a son of George Seavey.
In 1998, Harrison Seavey, who is now 82, wrote a book with his sister about the 1947 fire, to preserve the memories for their descendants and record one family's experience with what was Maine's worst natural disaster.
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=141556&ac=PHnws
Courtesy Brick Store Museum
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