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In January of 1951, Owen Osborne, sports writer for the Bangor Daily News, wrote an article about new features being added by the Katahdin Outing Club to the ski & recreation area on Black Cat Mountain outside of Millinocket.  Osborne predicted that this ski area, with views of Mt. Katahdin would become one of the leading recreation areas in the state of Maine! A new 1200 foot Underwood ski tow (almost in the shadow of Mt. Katahdin and bordering Millinocket Lake) had recently been installed....

In the old logging days of GNP, work horses played a major role. In John E. McLeod’s The Northern, he describes the importance of these horses and the work they did. In the beginning of GNP, horses hauled supplies to the log camps in winter on sleds from Greenville to the head of Moosehead Lake (40 miles) on iced-over trails marked by brush stuck in the snow. They all traveled the same marked path, following one another to build up a hard-packed surface. There might have been as many as 20...

Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM!        By Trudy Wyman, Curator, Millinocket Society Museum   A phonograph was first demonstrated by Thomas Edison in 1877. His device recorded sound vibrations onto a tin foil cylinder which could then be played back.  In the 1880’s, Emil Berliner improved on Edison’s design by producing the gramophone. This machine played flat discs rather than cylinders. These inventions allowed music to be in homes in a ways and individuals and families started purchasing...