(upbeat music) (projector humming) - [Announcer] Have you ever wondered where the television signal you are watching is coming from?

(chorus singing) (projector humming) - Welcome to True North.

(upbeat music) (upbeat music) - Good evening and welcome to Maine Watch.

(projector humming) - [Narrator] 60 Years of television, seven decades of telling the stories of Maine's people, places, history, culture, music, and so much more.

Maine PublicPublic has changed a lot since those early black and white days.

But what hasn't changed, is the mission to use the medium of television to connect each of us, with our neighbors, our state, the world, to educate, entertain, and inform.

As Maine Public celebrates it's 60th anniversary, we thought it would be an appropriate time to rewind and look at how we got here and where we've been.

We've scoured the vaults to find highlights throughout the years, all the way back to the first broadcast day of November 13th, 1961.

Television first came to Maine in 1953, when WABI in Bangor went on the air.

As the decade progressed, more stations appeared featuring local programs of all sorts.

("Shout Shout Knock Yourself Out" by, Ernie Maresca) ♪ Shout, shout, knock yourself out ♪ ♪ Come on yell, yell, loud and swell ♪ ♪ You gotta scream, scream, you, know what I mean ♪ ♪ Put another dime in the record machine ♪ And while these stations did broadcast some shows for education sake, a national movement worked towards building a network of stations, where non-commercial education was the focus.

- This tractor may pull itself out of the mud hole, or it may tip over.

If it tips over, the fellow operating the tractor may not be one of the lucky ones.

- Organizing the family business, is one of the things that families like to do in order to keep papers well organized.

- [Narrator] In 1960, Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin Colleges began the work to establish Maine's first educational TV station.

And on November 13th, 1961, (static crackling) the nation's 60th ETV station (upbeat music) hit the airwaves, reaching viewers from Waterville to Portland.

At the same time, the university of Maine system had been working towards building a network that would serve the rest of the state.

And with the voters approval of a bond, in June of 1962, the groundwork for what became MPBN began.

Maine ATV as it was called, hit the air October 7th, 1963, and within a year, reached audiences in Northern, Eastern, and central Maine, along with parts of new Brunswick, Canada.

With the addition of WMEG in Portland, in 1975, most of Maine was now served by public television.

In the fifties and sixties, most network programming came from the National Educational Television Network, or NET.

You might remember seeing the logo when early episodes of Mr. Rogers neighborhood.

Then in 1969, the Public Broadcasting Corporation was formed, and in 1970, took over as the network serving the nearly 100 educational television stations.

PBS introduced us to a new world of educational, cultural, and scientific programs, Sesame Street, The Electric Company, Masterpiece, Great Performances, Nova, and many more shows that changed the landscape of television.

- Throw them away and start all over again!

And get a move on girl!

- [Narrator] WCBV and MPBN continued to produce original programs that focused on issues of special interest to Mainers.

Over the years, there were a few name changes.

In the beginning, there was WCBB Channel 10, joined by Maine ETV.

In 1971 Maine ETV, became the Maine Public Broadcasting Network or MPBN.

With the merger in 1992 the new name of Maine Public Television was born.

Then came Maine PBS, then back to MPBN and finally in 2016, Maine Public, and it all began 60 years ago.

So to celebrate the diamond anniversary of Maine Public, let's dive into the vault and take a peak at some shows from the past 60 years.

You will not only see how television has changed, but how our state has as well.

You'll see some old favorites, some of which haven't been seen in decades and who knows, you might even see yourself.

♪ Big John So let's go back to 1961 and see where it all started.

JSK was president, Jimmy Dean was at the top of the charts, the Reds beat the Yanks into the space, but the Yanks beat the Reds on the field, and WCBB was about to go on the air for the very first time.

♪ Big John November 13th, 1961, the broadcast day began at 10:00 AM with music theater, but at 8:00 PM, this is what viewers saw.

(upbeat music) - [Announcer] Educational television comes to Maine.

Welcome to Channel 10.

This is the first regularly scheduled program day for WCBB Channel 10 in Augusta, Maine's first educational television station.

It was the beginning of a different kind of television service for Southern Maine, a new service plan to be a benefit to the whole area, and a service, which we trust you will enjoy, appreciate, and support.

- Good evening, and welcome to this first evening of Telecasting by Maine's First Educational Television Station.

As you know, this station is a direct result of the efforts of the three private colleges, Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin.

Hence our call letter, WCBB.

Consequently, this is a private enterprise station made possible without state or federal aid.

Our station itself is owned by the Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin Educational Telecasting Corporation, which in turn is owned equally by the three colleges.

Covering some 54% of the people of this state, we also hope very soon that there will be a statewide network, part of which will be under the university of Maine, so that all of the state will be covered.

Now, perhaps at this time to say a few words about the other programming, which Channel 10 plans to bring to you in the weeks and months, which lie ahead.

In addition to the programs of instruction, which WCBB will be sending out to the schools of the area during the daytime, school time hours, Channel 10 plans to bring you on a regular schedule during the evening hours, such programs as Television International every Monday night at seven o'clock.

Included in Television International programs will be Prospects of Mankind.

Featuring Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt as permanent moderator.

Five evenings of great music, by the Boston symphony orchestra will be presented live from Symphony Hall over WCBB during the coming months.

Included in our news programming will be President Kennedy's press conferences in their entirety, highlights of events at the United Nations, Thursdays on UN Review.

These then are some of the highlights of the evening program schedules, which WCBB will bring to you.

We hope that you will enjoy and look forward to this new and somewhat different television service.

And that if you do, you will write and tell us so.

- [Narrator] And so, public television in Maine, was off and running.

Two years later on October 7th, 1963, Maine ETV signed on.

For viewers that tuned in that afternoon, they were treated to this.

(static buzzing) (cheery music) - Here we are inside, and here's one little chair for one of you and a bigger chair for two more to curl up in.

And here's the book we're going to read tonight, but this is too small, isn't it?

Yes.

We need one that's giant size, big enough so that we can the pictures.

So look up, look way up.

This one isn't big enough, but I think Rusty has a giant size copy of the same one in the book bag.

Rusty?

Rusty?

- Yes Homer, hi.

- Hi Rusty.

- Do you have the giant size copy of this book?

- Well, yeah.

It's in the bag.

- Good, and the kittens were coming tonight, weren't they?

Meow, and Meow Two?

I think this is one of their favorite books.

They should've been here by now.

- I don't know what's keeping them.

- Hmm.

One of the reasons we wanted to read this is because I know they like it.

- Oh.

- Well, they're not here, we'll just have to read it anyway.

They generally come right in the window, climb up the Ivy.

Oh, oh, hello Meow, hello Meow Two.

All right Rusty, now we're all here.

And we're already.

- [Narrator] The early years relied on programming from outside the state, but soon WCBB and Maine ETV, produced their own shows.

Very little from the 1960s survives.

Let's start our rewind with one of the oldest programs in the vault.

(upbeat music) (audience clapping) - Hi.

Hi, my name is Paul Vermel, and this is the Music in Maine woodwind quintet.

Now, do you know what quintet means?

Yeah?

- Five.

- Five instruments, right.

Now wind means of course that these instruments are played by blowing into them.

And wood means that they are made of wood.

Is that right?

Right are they made of wood, all of them?

Yes?

- The flute and french horn are not made of wood.

- Oh, you're absolutely right.

So the woodwind quintet comprises from left to right, a flute, an oboe, a French horn, a bassoon and the clarinet.

So let's get back to the woodwind quintet now.

- Thank you.

We'll start with a piece, which is very strange and unusual and we're sure you've never heard anything like this before.

(woodland quintet playing) (dramatic orchestra music) - My friends, let me tell you a story.

It is the story of many stories, in times of long gone by, in the lands of India and China, there was a King of the Kings, of Sons of Sassoun, who ruled over the empire of Persia and the deserts of the east.

- Good woman, what business brings you here?

And what do you have in that bowl?

- It is a gift, your majesty.

From my son Aladdin.

- Why is he giving me a present?

What does Aladdin want?

- Oh, I tremble to ask you, his request is so bold.

- Ask, ask, no harm will come to you.

- My son has fallen in love with your daughter, Badrubadore.

- Here it is.

Now we are saved.

(deep rumbling) Do not be frightened.

- What would thou have?

- Take me and the princess back to our own land.

(gentle music) (all chattering) (gavel pounding) - This convention is in session.

Meeting will come to order.

The various committees have been hard at work.

As you are all aware, the agenda now calls for recommendations from the committee for constitutional support of religion.

- Mr. President!

(gavel pounding) - Mr. President!

- Mr. President what is this- (all cross-talking) - Gentleman, listen for once in your lives!

- [President] Gentlemen, gentlemen, let the lady speak.

Now then ma'am, let's hear what's on your mind.

- Why thank you sir, you need not patronize us.

- [President] Wouldn't dream of it, ma'am.

- The first thing you can do is, get that Sergeant of Arms out of here.

- All right, Sergeant, you can go now.

They won't hurt you.

(all laughing) - The next thing you can do is authorize our stay for the remainder of the convention.

We came to stay and we mean to do so, or disrupt the proceedings.

- Yes we will, yeas we will.

(all cross-talking) - [President] Do you think you can control you caucus ma'am?

- Of course, do we stay or don't we?

- [President] Why do you want to, these will be boring proceedings?

- We'll be the judges of that I think!

- [President] Well, gentlemen, what do you say?

(men cross-talking) - Are you asking for profanity sir, in this house of worship?

- Oh, it will be worse if we don't, I know, believe me.

- [Woman] Mr. Herick!

- Mr. President, I put it to you that your desire for a haste is suspect.

- [President] No, sir.

It's obvious!

We have no time for philosophical fancies!

We have to make a constitution now, do we not want freedom?

Is that not the question?

Why do we talk about enslaving ourselves?

We are here to free ourselves from the bondage to Massachusetts!

(upbeat piano music) ♪ Alice, draw near ♪ 'Tis a pleasure to see you ♪ An honor to hear ♪ 'Tis a privilege I do take dinner and tea ♪ ♪ Along with the Red Queen, the White Queen, and me ♪ ♪ So fill up your glasses twinkle and ink ♪ ♪ And everything else that is pleasant to drink ♪ ♪ Make sand with the cider ♪ And war with the wine ♪ And welcome Queen Alice ♪ Queen Alice ♪ Queen Alice ♪ With ninety-times-nine - [Announcer] Maine Educational Televisions, news and comment.

An in-depth look at Maine news today.

- So I think we can say that without exception, all these new supertankers will have completely separate and physically independent ballast tanks, with no piping connection with the cargo oil tanks.

- I believe we had another question from the audience, in the corner, please?

- Mr. Howe, I have two bumper stickers here.

One is oil men, are slick operators.

I think this is self-explanatory.

I have one here.

Clean oil can stop poverty and start progress.

Now I don't know what clean oil is, but I've always been interested in social problems.

And if you have something called clean oil, that can stop poverty, what in hell have we've been spending billions of dollars, for many years to try to eliminate poverty in this country?

And this really gets me, start progress.

Do you come from Main, sir?

- No sir.

- Would you tell me what you consider progress for our state?

- Tonight, John Stevens speaks not as commissioner, but as governor of the Passamaquoddy reservation at Peter Dana point.

- [Narrator] A lot of good Indians have died for this land and if we have to die again, okay, because what else is there left?

Now let's think, we can see fighting over little welfare money.

Indians are being educated, Indians are standing on their own feet.

They're gonna be heard from, and they're gonna be dealt with.

And the state of Maine has not listened one bit to all that.

I warned them 20 years ago.

This was gonna happen.

Never listened.

I think if the state of Maine thinks we're gonna lay down and die, you know, play dead, he got another thing coming.

They got an awful surprise coming.

- [Announcer] The program you're about to watch is a television simulation.

The names, places- - North of the Namaskeag, was a viewer active television project, which was broadcast in November and December of 1971.

Its purpose was to present real issues in a simulated circumstance, which would allow examination of issues without the heated emotions and prejudices, which surround such in real life.

We selected as the topic, the proposed plant location of Atlantic Canon Company in the small rural town of Freeboro, Maine.

We invented the town of Freeboro, Maine on the equally fictitious Namaskeag River, as our site.

This dramatization of a simulated crisis in Freeboro, leaves the decision-making up to you, as a thoughtful viewer.

Next week's program will proceed according to your vote.

Now we ask you to become a member of the Freeboro Chamber of Commerce.

A simulated chamber of commerce meeting is about to take place and your vote will help to decide what position the chamber will take in the Freeboro town meeting, next Thursday.

- The planning that has gone into this doesn't amount to beans.

So I'm not saying I'm a hundred percent opposed to it, but I do think that there's a lot more that should be done before the decision is made.

- As I said, we're aware of what the public wants and they'll get what we want as far as we're concerned.

- They'll get what you want?

- No, they'll get what they want.

This is the public as a whole, not one side.

We have to weigh both sides, you know?

I hope I helped.

- Thank you very much.

♪ Come home to the sea again (gentle music) - [Announcer] This place of itself from God and nature afforded as much diversity of good commodity does any reasonable man can wish.

Here are more good harbors for ships of all persons than England can afford and far more secure from all winds and weathers than any in England, Scotland, France, or Spain.

- [Narrator] Europeans knew about the coast of Maine by 1614.

They called it a Hundred Harbored Maine.

(harmonica playing) - Say mister, can you tell me how to get the Alfred?

- Alfred and let me see, Alfred?

Well, now it seems to me that you had down the road here, toward Dry Lake, keep going the way you're going and let me see, Dry Lake.

That's right, you come to a crossroads in Dry Lake and you could go left to Sabbath day or right to Gray.

Now let me see which one of them two roads do you take?

Nope.

You better turn right around at that crossroad, come right back up where you started from, right here in Oxford and head down the road.

You go right down the road in the direction of Otisfield and Casco.

Now that's a lumpier road.

That's why I didn't recommend it in the first place.

But you head on down there until you get to Raymond.

Now, when you get to Raymond, you're gonna get into some problems because they got one in new fangled traffic circles, and you go around that traffic circle and you take a turn off there.

And I'm trying to remember now whether it's the 180 degree or the 90 degree turn off there, let me see.

Go right round that traffic circle once more and by the time you come around it and once again, I'll have decided which one of them two turn off's to take, 180 or 90?

Come to mighty you know, come to think of it, you can't get there from here.

- Well, if you can't tell me how to get Alfred, at least you can tell me if there's a gas station nearby.

- You know, I don't know.

- Well, you don't know much, do you?

- No, but then again, I ain't lost.

♪ And the Plymouth boys are able ♪ ♪ First-class sailor every man ♪ But I'll haul down the sail ♪ Where the bays run together ♪ Bide away the days ♪ By the hills of Isle au Haut ♪ Now, the trouble with old Martin ♪ ♪ You don't try her in a trawler ♪ ♪ For those bay of Biscay swells ♪ ♪ They roll your head from off your shoulder ♪ ♪ Haul down your sail ♪ Where the bays run together ♪ Bide away the days ♪ By the hills of Isle au Haut (bell tolling) (suspenseful music) (clock ticking) (saw sawing) (man humming) - Jonathan, there's nothing like the smell of fir.

(hammer tapping) Can't say the same for that spruce.

(hammer tapping) - [Woman] You didn't leave me many cranberries here.

That's all right.

So long as the sauce is going.

I'll just put one cranberry to four popcorn.

(chorus singing) (fire crackling) - That composition, I think that somewhere along the line, we have to say something basic about man.

And I think that man is an arranger and composition is native.

(gentle music) - It's intuitive after a while.

With what I was doing today, I was just dancing and intuitively I had some form of composition that it just seemed to come out.

- I don't think the ideas have to be different for each house.

So of course, I hope I have absorbed some more ideas and gotten out some new ideas.

But basically you work on the same principle.

(piano playing) - And so with these, they are for music, putting together of musical tones, and you put them together into patterns that sound the way you would like them to sound.

- [Announcer] For the last 40 years, Scott and Helen Nearing have been living in the country, first in Vermont, now in Maine, farming and gardening, cutting wood, and living off the produce of the land.

Their book, "Living the Good Life" describes their self-sufficient lifestyle.

- Last year, 2,300 people came to visit us, in our Maine farm.

Most of these people were young people.

Most of them were from moderately well-to-do or well-to-do families.

Most of these young people have discovered from their experience that happiness does not come with a multiplicity and the variety of possessions.

They've already learned, this minority, they've already learned this lesson, and they're now setting up a homesteads of their own, setting up communes with a complete reorientation, with regard to happiness, through multiplicity, the more you have have, the happier you'll be.

They know it isn't true because they've seen it and tried it out in their own homes.

(dramatic music) - Once across the river Styx, you will then meet Cerberus, the three-headed dog.

(man laughing evilly) (chorus singing) (man speaking foreign language) - Hello, I'm Dawn Halstead.

And welcome to A Time to Live we're here in Van Buren, where they will be celebrating the heritage weekend of the French Arcadians.

(children singing foreign language) (audience clapping) (upbeat music) (people singing foreign language) (woman speaking foreign language) (girl speaking foreign language) - Maybe I should be playing with dolls or something.

(woman speaking foreign language) - You know you can do it if you keep trying.

(woman speaking foreign language) - But I'm a girl.

I shouldn't be working on inventions.

- Who says that?

You are eight person, Julie.

And if you are a good inventor, then that's what you should do.

Work on inventions, right?

- I guess so.

(woman speaking foreign language) I know, they think I'm weird.

I guess girls shouldn't be too smart.

(woman speaking foreign language) - You and your friends have taught Derik and me to be proud to be your parents.

Now why tell you Julie, be proud to be a woman.

- I'll try, but they don't make it easy, do they?

- No, they don't.

- Boy I wonder if ill ever get this thing to work right.

- If I know you Julie, you will.

I've got to leave now, I promised my mom, I go to a veno game with her.

You want to come?

- No, thank you, Liz.

I'm going to get this thing to work right if it takes me all year!

(girl speaking foreign language) - Same to you, Liz.

Hope you and your mother wins something bye!

- Bye-bye.

(upbeat music) (announcer calling out bingo numbers) - Bingo!

(mellow music) (man speaking foreign language) (woman speaking foreign language) - Hi and welcome to the news machine.

Hand and I were just looking through the stacks of mail we've received lately.

Do you know that over a hundred Valentine's stories were sent into our Valentine's story contest?

Snowmobiling is always very popular in our state, in the winter.

And once a year in Bangor, people come from all over to race snow machines.

Here's our report.

(engine revving) At the 10th annual Paul Bunyan snowmobile open in Bangor, Maine, we met Mr. Dick Bojuer.

He's going to speak to us a little bit about what this race means, a little bit about the history, and what's gonna happen- Next spring the Kennebec river will flow free of logs for the first time in more than a century and a half.

For Maine with 90% of its land still covered by forest.

Wood is still big business.

And when the industry was young, rivers provided the only route from Virgin forest to the mills.

Visitors to scenic Western Maine this summer, have been able to observe history in the making.

As they've watched these last river driven logs being moved down Weiman Lake to the Wyman Dam, sluice way.

- I'm Herb Ziecheck.

- And I'm Doris Bro, and this is Magazine.

(upbeat music) - On this issue of magazine, we're learning something about the flammability of different fabrics.

Watch some Indian pudding, being made, get some hints on planning our personal estates and some shopping tips, Doris?

- Yes, and we'll see how to re-pot houseplants, learn something of electrical wiring at home.

And let's start with consumer dating and Nellie Gushie.

(upbeat music) - Every year in this country by accident of birth, over 3 million people become citizens of the United States.

Also each year, across bridges such as this one, through ports of entry at international airports and seaports come thousands of aliens who ultimately for reasons of their own, choose to become citizens of this country.

(upbeat music) - Good evening, welcome to the final round.

The third in a series of televised debates between the candidates for the Us Senate.

Seated to my left is the democratic candidate, Senator Edmund Muskie.

Seated at my right is the Republican candidate, Robert Monks - I would like to invite you to comment in any way you'd like on the white paper, I've prepared.

- Your white paper is a fraud.

It's a fraud.

- I would like to say to you that if you would like to stop confusing the people of Maine, the people of Maine hear you, and they have the impression.

Senator Muskies, clean, he's cleaned up the environment.

He's had this wonderful Muskie amendment and what's happened?

We've got a waste treatment plant in Greenville that doesn't work.

Then he says, oh, heavens, they did something naughty.

I don't know anything about that- - [Edmund] I didn't say any such thing.

- You said the EPA without authority- - I said EPA.

- Very well, now the people of Maine- - It does not refer to the people of Maine- - The people of Maine now have a facility that doesn't work.

A lot of public money has gone into that.

You are the chairman of the public works subcommittee responsible for oversight.

So either you're responsible for the amendment or you're responsible for oversight.

And here you come.

And you in effect, pretend that you are always right.

And yet this facility got built and it doesn't work, and it's somebody else's fault, sir, it's your fault.

- Mr. Monks, we are talking about the importance of not distorting your opponents votes and the opponents records.

What you've just said is a complete non-sequitur.

- I like it.

- May I finish?

- [Announcer] Among the ships lost in the Penobscot Expedition was the American brig defense.

This 16 gun privateer was only one year old when sunk and her remains have been preserved in the mud of Stockton Harbor, creating an underwater time capsule.

(upbeat music) (upbeat music) ♪ Id rather be in some ♪ Where the sun don't ever shine ♪ ♪ Rather be in some big city ♪ In a small room with you upon my mind ♪ (guitar music) ♪ Well there was a lofty ship ♪ And they put her out to sea ♪ And the name of the ship was the golden vanity ♪ ♪ And they sailed her on the low land, low land, low ♪ ♪ And they sailed her on the low land sea.

♪ (upbeat guitar music) ♪ She passed me a heart and I fell apart ♪ ♪ When I read what it said ♪ Ready, willing, and able and then her face turned red ♪ ♪ Oh Amanita ♪ It was short and sweet and so was she ♪ ♪ That we had the chance to meet ♪ ♪ It was just the music - [Announcer] The Maine Public Broadcasting Network proudly presents the Dick Curless Summer Special.

(guitar music) Dick's special guests are Tina Welch, Harry Goodridge and Andre, the seal.

(guitar music) Now here's the Baron of country music, Dick Curless.

♪ Now Casey Jones, he was the mighty man, ♪ ♪ But now he's resting in the promised land ♪ ♪ Kind of music you can understand ♪ ♪ Was a eight wheel driver under his command.

♪ ♪ They made the freight train boogie, all the time ♪ ♪ He made the freight train boogie ♪ ♪ As you roll down the line ♪ Keep an eye out for Charlie ♪ I've got a feelin' that he's out tonight ♪ ♪ Keep an eye out for Charlie ♪ Don't let him see you holdin' me tight ♪ ♪ Keep an eye out for Charlie ♪ Oh Andre Andrea the seal ♪ We all love Andre the seal ♪ He's the toast of the coast ♪ And we all like to boast ♪ When we talk about Andre the seal ♪ ♪ We all love Andre the seal ♪ We all love Andre the seal ♪ He's the toast of the coast ♪ And we all like to boast ♪ When we talk about Andre the seal ♪ (audience clapping) - Fall's coming to a close.

Leaves are gone, woods and the shed, gardens all done.

Time to take a rest and see if I can survive another Maine winter, me and my great uncle Kurt back home.

Now he told us one time that he'd been out hunting up township 19, where they all go hunting.

He says, I come out of the woods and come out into the road.

And that was just black car sittin there.

Well the fellow sittin' in it, that I didn't know who he was I went to pass him and he stuck his head out the window, and he says to me, he says, how's the deer hunting?

And Uncle Kurt, you know, he was great one to brag.

He never could tell the truth, if a lie would suffice, you know?

He says, oh, he says not bad at all.

I killed three for breakfast.

Well, of course, as you know, in the state of Maine, you're only allowed one deer per season.

So this fellow looked at him and he says, you know who I am?

Uncle Kurt says, no, who are you?

He says, I'm the new game warden for Washington County.

Uncle Kurt says, you know who I am?

The fellow says, no, Kurt says, I'm the biggest lie in the whole state of Maine.

- Good, very good.

- The only time he ever told the truth.

(man chuckling) - Very good.

- And he get out and they say, now I want you to take that bucket of paint and that trans brush and I want you to paint a white stripe right down the middle of the road, all the way across town to the next town line.

Okay.

So he painted all that day.

And later that afternoon, the boss think about the guy, and gee I gotta go see what he done.

So he went up and look at it, and the guy was a good worker.

He painted a strip three mile long that day.

Boss said, boy that's a big day's work.

So he went home the next morning, when the guy comes in and the boss say, you go pick up where you left off yesterday.

Okay.

So he went up and that day he paint again.

When it come night, the boss went and looked and he painted two miles that day.

So that's all right, the next morning he say to him, you go back to the same place where you left off.

He done that.

So late this afternoon, the boss went over to see what he done.

That they only painted one mile.

He said, I wonder what happened three mile one day, two, and then one.

So he drove down to the guy's house here, the guy come to the door and he say, you like your job paint?

Oh, sure anything.

He says, you like that?

And the guy says, yeah, you've done a nice job.

And he says thank you.

He says that first day, he says you paint three miles.

Yeah, that's good?

Yeah.

Very good.

He said, thank you.

He says yesterday you, you paint only two mile.

Yeah, that's good?

Yeah.

That's good too.

Today, you only paint one mile, what happened?

What happened?

He said don't forget my paint bucket is six miles up the road.

(man chuckling) (man speaking foreign language) (guitar music) (man speaking foreign language) - And today we're going to talk about the origins of the St. John Valley.

Now Guy, we know this valley has to be an Acadian Valley, that is to say that there are a lot of Acadians here.

- Right.

Who are these Acadians and where do they come from?

- Well, you know, Acadia means the people coming from the Nova Scotia, new Brunswick area.

Okay.

But the population of the St. John Valley comes in from both east and west.

That is from east Acadia, west Quebec.

Realizing that Maine is the only state in the country, which is surrounded on three sides by a foreign terror territory.

- [Narrator] This then is the story of the Acadians part one, the tip of the iceberg.

(gentle music) What is Acadia?

And what is an Acadian?

Are Acadians, a sovereign people?

Are Acadians merely a point of view?

Is there a definition?

Is there an Acadian soul, an amorphous inexplainable- (Narrator speaking foreign language) (chorus singing) - [Narrator] Woods and Waters with your host, Bud Leavitt.

- Where's this little pond?

You think I'm going to give you that secret?

No, we're on the air.

I mean, he's he wants to know where that casting was done.

I'm not going to tell you that.

- [Man] It was worth a try, Bud.

- Well you tried, you tried right there, right on live too.

- [Bud] Bill Lee, good to see you.

- Thank you, bud.

Nice state you got here.

- Pretty good state, how about the provinces?

- Ah, the provinces are nice.

I got to play there for five years in Monkton and ended up in, up in Sydney Mines almost.

- [Bud] Sydney Mines?

- Yeah.

I ended up playing up there.

- Anybody ever hear of Bill Lee in Sydney Mines?

- They know about me now.

Did a long home run into a project over there in Waterford, I think it was and then they, I had a good time there.

I enjoyed my days in the, in the Maritimes.

- John Henry Williams here now.

I hope that you don't panic between Mike Noise on your left and Jim over here and be intimidated by me.

Glad you're here.

- I'll try.

- Will you try?

- Yes, it's fun to be here.

It's going to be fun.

- It's gonna be fun, is it?

- [Man On Phone] Just wanted to know whether you folks admitted whether there was mountain lions or cougars, Christy and I had one grease across the interstate in front of us last fall.

- Who did?

- [Man On Phone] My wife and I.

- Oh, you did?

- They're out there, they're out there.

My father was a guide for years and he swears that the tail was long and it was not a Bobcat.

And it was a mountain lion up in the red river country.

And I have to believe him.

A lot of people have had claims on it.

I don't know about New Brunswick.

- [Man] I'm a believe.

- [Bud] You're a believer too?

- [Man On Phone] That's the second one I've seen.

I saw one up in red river country.

- I don't know about two, you might've seen one now.

Wait a minute.

- I'm among the doubters.

- [Man] Oh, that's too bad.

- Well, that's all right.

That's all right.

There could be a big foot out there.

- [Bud] Yeah, but I mean- - [Man On Phone] Let's catch one for him.

- Oh yeah.

So this great, great audience that we have here at MPBN, I'm ever grateful for.

- [Narrator] In the summer of 1957, an amateur archeologist who was working near the center of an archeological site in the coast of Maine, he was working in a mitten layer, approximately five inches below the surface and two inches above the base of the layer itself.

When he came upon a small metal disc.

For 20 years, it was thought to be an English coin.

In 1978 however, the disk was reidentified and substantiated as a coin dated approximately 1080 AD and of Norse origin.

(upbeat music) (audience clapping) - [Announcer] Welcome to the all new seventh season of the award-winning, So You Think You Know Maine.

Match wits and wisdom with our four contestants as we explore Maine's past and present with your host Jeff Gable.

(audience clapping) - Laura, Mark, Crystal, and Michelle.

Are you ready?

Okay let's play, So You Think You Know Maine, Maine's second highest mountain is also one of the state's most popular ski resorts.

(buzzer dings) Can you name it, Michelle?

- Cadillac Mountain.

- [Host] Oh no, Mark?

- Sugarloaf.

- Sugarloaf Mountain!

(audience clapping) - This now is a visual toss up.

So please look at the monitor contestants.

As you look at this portion of the Maine map you see T9, R14, WELS, please translate that for me.

(buzzer dings) Barry?

- Township nine, range 14, west of east line of state.

(short ding) - [Host] Yes, indeed.

(audience clapping) - In 1900, Mrs. MD Hanson of Portland, became the first woman in America to receive a license to do what?

- Is this pen in hand?

- [Host] No, this is just jump on it.

(bell dings) Leslie?

- Drive!

(short ding) - [Host] That's right to drive the car.

Let's go for five- - Are you kidding?

- [Host] No, I'm absolutely- (audience clapping) - Is that the real true answer?

- Da-da-dah-dah.

(audience laughing) - Can I get five points for setting next to her?

(all laughing) (upbeat music) (horn honking) ♪ Hey now, where we're goin' ♪ Where will we convene ♪ We're gonna go on down the road to exit 13 ♪ ♪ We're comin' to the city ♪ The skyline can be seen ♪ Look at the lights, take that next right, it's exit 13 ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ It seems not too long ago ♪ One paycheck was enough ♪ For a family to get by on a prayer and a little love ♪ ♪ But now we're chained to two loves ♪ ♪ Workin' all the time and still ♪ ♪ The end of every month ♪ Finds us cryin' over bills ♪ She's workin' days ♪ I'm workin' nights ♪ I say hello, he says goodnight ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ Just give it to me straight ♪ If I were you ♪ I'd give it to me straight ♪ I'd give it to me straight ♪ Why don't you give it to me ♪ People who make us laugh in America ♪ ♪ Here's to the song and dance of pure romance ♪ ♪ All those who take a chance in America ♪ ♪ And here's to the people too ♪ Who's dreams have all come true ♪ ♪ In America (harmonica playing) (upbeat music) ♪ Rock you baby ♪ Rock you baby ♪ Rock you baby (upbeat music) - Good evening, and welcome to the inaugural edition of Maine Watch, I'm Angus King.

(upbeat music) - Hello, I'm Jennifer Rooks and this is Maine Watch.

Every spring and fall Maine experiences one of the world's great natural events, and most people here don't even know about it.

That event is the massive migration of birds to Canada's boreal forest.

(upbeat music) - There's just dozens of products here at the Made the Maine Way Catalog store.

Some of them you've seen on our show.

Some you will see in the future.

There's one thing they all share in common.

And we also share that too.

And that's the feeling of pride that we have about the products that are made here in the state.

And, you know, I'll bet given a choice, if you're out shopping for a gift and you found something that was made in Maine, I'll bet you you'd pick that one.

That's one of the reasons that we're here today and one of the others is to meet Karen Brace, who started the, Made the Maine Way Catalog and store.

How are you today Karen?

- Just fine.

- Season's greetings to you.

- Thank you.

(upbeat music) - [Narrator] This is Northern Maine, beyond the forests stretched to the Northwest, for more than a hundred miles, broken only by hundreds of clear blue lakes, you can find some of the best fishing in the world.

Most people, when they think of Maine, think of these things, first of all.

(upbeat music) - Many of us who were raised in Northern New England, remember a time when moose, black bear, bald Eagles, even white tail deer, could be seen.

- [Narrator] Other trees are used as babysitting trees.

So that foraging sals know their cubs are high and safe.

So if bear numbers are increasing, why don't we see them in the woods more often?

- I always wrote out of a real articulated feeling that what I wanted to do to the reader was to hurt the reader and to also exhilarate the reader at the same time, it's not all a negative thing, but I think the book should be approached with caution by the reader.

(mellow music) - [Narrator] The British is from their point of view, judged that the St. John actually emptied into the bay of Fundy.

Their interpretation was that the Penobscot was the most northerly river that emptied into the Atlantic.

So from Britain's point of view, the northern border was just slightly above Mars Hill.

The Americans on the other hand, said that the Highlands really were up to the Saint Lawrence river.

(audience cheering) (upbeat music) (projector humming) - [Announcer] Nick Gillfan, he's gonna throw the three, and it's good!

(audience cheering) He got it, my goodness!

Now Davidson side, off to McCormick, McCormick got it, it's all net!

If you're just joining us, we're approaching half time and not the end of the game.

The auditorium's roof was leaking and it took- We got a late start.

- [Announcer] Tonight are the final two games that will be played at this historic site.

(audience cheering) Oh my God!

- [Narrator] Well that's all we have time for and we barely scratched the surface of the past 60 years.

Thanks to everyone who appeared in and help to make these programs.

And thanks to you for watching and supporting Maine Public.

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