This is the house and farm on which I was reared. The house still stands, but it is no longer sided in white asbestos shingles. It has green clap-board siding and a black roof. A front porch was added less than five years ago. A two car garage sits behind, to the right. There was a large barn behind the house that burned down, I am told, in 1958. The smaller building behind the house was used as our chicken coop. The circle to the left of the two structures is a silo base, which my mother uses for her compost pile. This property is located at 862 Waterville Rd, Skowhegan, Maine.

This is the house and farm on which I was reared. The house still stands, but it is no longer sided in white asbestos shingles. It has green clap-board siding and a black roof. A front porch was added less than five years ago. A two car garage sits behind, to the right. There was a large barn behind the house that burned down, I am told, in 1958. The smaller building behind the house was used as our chicken coop. The circle to the left of the two structures is a silo base, which my mother uses for her compost pile. This property is located at 862 Waterville Rd, Skowhegan, Maine.

This house is located at 862 Waterville Road, Skowhegan, Maine. I grew up on this farm! My parents bought the property in 1969 and have lived their ever since. The house has green clap-board siding now and a black roof. A front porch was added about five years ago. The small building behind the house was used as a chicken coop. It was torn down in 1979. To the right of that building you'll see the base of a silo. It's still there and my mother uses it for her compost pile. The large maple tree closest to the house was cut down in 1981. Embedded in the trunk was a hook used to hold sap buckets. One day one of my older brothers was out mowing the front yard and an elderly man drove up and told him that it was his father who had built the house in 1912. We have reason to believe the house may have been constructed on a much older foundation. Relics found on the property through the years suggest the land was occupied as early as the 1830s.