This was the Kilcollins homestead. I bought it in 2005. Sadly, the beautiful barn is no longer there. This is a wonderful photo!

Polly your Kilcollins homestead was 32-OAR-23. This one is Cogswell homestead, I grew up here and still live in the house today. The barn has ben gone for quite a few years.

I remember this as the George and Julia Cogswell farm. The barn was still there in 1964 and 1965. I stayed with my Uncle Cecil Emery those two summers on the last operating dairy farm in Fort Fairfield. The barn blew down shortly after. The Emery farm was just a couple miles down the road from this one. My grandfather and father moved from Fort Fairfield in 1950 to Fairfield about 400 miles south and went into dairy farming there. Very good memories those two summers back when life was slow and peaceful.

Paul, yes, this is George and Julia Cogswell farm, they were my grandparents. I grew up in this house and still live here today. The barn no longer stands, it came down around 1986. Cecil Emery was a very good family friend and I worked many summers haying for him, his barn still stands, it's a mile down the road.

Jeanne,I do remember Walter and Janice Bugbee. Had some good conversations with Walter there was an old tractor out in back of the barn that had not run for many years and an old 1950 ford truck in the barn. As a kid I was interested in those things.One time Walter and Janice stayed overnight at my parents house in Fairfield ,but I do not remember what the event was that they came to visit. I remember Peter Bugbee he must have been your brother. Fairfield is actually a little over 200 miles from Fort Fairfield ,but back in 1964 we had to go thru the Hainsville Woods because I-95 had not been built yet so it seemed a lot longer traveling in a 1956 Buick with my grandfather and aunt only an AM radio.