This is the Brown Farm, Brown Rd.- Monroe, Maine. My parents, Lawrence and Eunice Cilley Brown raised 7 children there. My Dad took great pride in his Holstein dairy herd. My mother grew up on this farm and took care of her parents in their final years while starting their family. My twin sister and I would help help bring in the cows from that lower field most summer days for milking.

This is the Brown Farm, Brown Rd.- Monroe, Maine. My parents, Lawrence and Eunice Cilley Brown raised 7 children there. My Dad took great pride in his Holstein dairy herd. My mother grew up on this farm and took care of her parents in their final years while starting their family. My twin sister and I would help help bring in the cows from that lower field most summer days for milking.

My twin sister and I , the youngest of seven children, treasure the memories of growing up on this spacious farm. If enlarged, you can see my father and his hired man to the left of the silos out back. Dad also employed many locals to pick beans during August on his various twenty-five acre plots nearby. That truck you see in the photo was used to transport many Brooks, Maine youngsters, some singing with their feet dangling while sitting on the edge where a rope luckily kept anyone from falling off the truck. Brooks was the location of the bean factory. The farm was sold after our father died to a granddaughter of my parents friends. She currently raises horses there. The property across the road was purchased by Toby Hart, a well known sculptor, whose property abuts to the fields and meadow. This framed photo hangs in my home in Old Town today.