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I have some pictures from my mother. She was born and raise on Beals Island (and of course, this would include Jonesport which she talks about). I am looking for anyone in her family line....her grandmother was Lydia Beal, great grandmother Elmira Alley and great-great Tryphena Peabody.
Jonesport was a fantastic place in 1949, money flowed well, weather was great, little if any crime, Harry Truman was president and at a later time a purple painted house then white at the head of Sawyer's Cove a baby was born, me. The world has not been the same since.
Everyone had a decent car and a fine boat. Bert Frost built his yard and built some reat boats. Beals still had the best boats built. Life was good.
Over the years Jonesport became deeply embedded in my soul and heart. Just was no better place on earth for anyone.
Then time came in and people passed on one by one. People left, life styles changed, money got tight, the three sardine factories there simply dissapeared. The off shore fish petered out and the ocean changed. Life no longer was like it used to be, and man alone was the culpret. Man and his greed.
Slowly the sea comes back but will be many more years, the sardine factories will never come back. The people that died will never come back. Is the people that make the town so wonderful, with those people gone almost all of the magic that made Jonesport so fantastic died also. Is now for new people to make new memories where they now 'rent' the land till they die so others can 'rent' the land and make more memories. But none will have those most wonderful memories I now have.
The one thing that remains constant for all time is change. And for sure that has raised its ugly face. But for now, life goes on. Most of my people are now in Jonesport permenantly, Greenwood Cemetary. Soon I too shall join them once again.
Rabid Clam And yes, I do have pictures to share
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