Last Log Drive Down the Kennebec

0952.0326
MPBN Collection
Kennebec River, Moosehead Lake, Lake Wyman, Maine
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1976
NHF tape #326. // Produced by Maine PBS, Joan Young sets the stage for the last log drive down the Kennebec River in Maine. Scott Paper Company's 1976 drive from Moosehead Lake to their Winslow mill is featured. Includes interviews with mill officials, woods workers, river drivers, and politicians about the impact the final drive on jobs, the environment, and highway safety. Young introduces pulpwood drive from Moosehead Lake to Lake Wyman down Kennebec. Map shows route to Winslow. Katahdin steamer at work cleaning up logs from Moosehead lake. Interview with Ronald Macomber, Scott Paper Co. drive foreman.

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