Higher Calling ; Steve Pinkham's New Book Tells How Maine Mountains Got Their Names.
Portland Press Herald › August 10, 2009
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Pity poor Luther Hoar.
Hoar, the first settler of Rangeley, planted a big garden of potatoes in 1816. After harvesting the potatoes, he placed them in a hole and covered them for winter storage.See the full content of this document
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Higher Calling ; Steve Pinkham's New Book Tells How Maine Mountains Got Their Names.
But the next spring, when he returned to his stash, he discovered they were all gone. The Indians had discovered his hiding place and eaten all the potatoes. Hoar and his family had to live on nuts until the next season.
The story goes that Hoar named nearby Potato Nubble, a 3,010- foot subpeak of Saddleback Mountain, after this unfortunate incident.That's just one o...See the full content of this document
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