[Clayton P. Hodgkin--home movies] Reel 4, Accession 2399

Date1958 – 1960

AbstractA shot of Laura Hodgkin and others on a beach. A boy driving a tractor with two children in a wagon filled with hay attached to it. A large crowd and people standing near cars parked in a field at an Androscoggin Pomona Grange picnic and lobster bake. Twin calves nursing from their mother. The Hodgkin family collies, Penny and Jeannie, herding cows. A double rainbow. Forest Hodgkin riding a horse named Stardust and giving his siblings, Mary and Clyde, rides on the horse. Mary, Clyde, Forest, their friend Mary Condon and their neighbors Claire Belanger and Margaret Fortin unloading a pickup truck full of pumpkins and hula-hooping, including Margaret riding a pony. Forest walking and brushing Stardust. Mary playing with and feeding a rabbit named Impy and a kitten. Mary playing with a hobby horse and pushing a doll carriage with a boy. Mary and her mother, Laura, inside. The Music Festival Parade in Lewiston, ME, including marchers, Martha Tebbets in a dark shirt with a white blouse being one of them, and several marching bands. The Hodgkin family in their Sunday clothes, including brothers Brian, Forest and Clyde playing baseball. Children playing outside, including on a seesaw, a spinning wheel and Mary and neighbor Pauline Belanger on a slide. Brian in a cap and gown for his High School graduation. A few of the Hodgkin children and their neighbors Margaret and Susan Fortin eating watermelon. Two boys on a hay elevator. People baling hay, including Arthur Cady and other men baling hay with a tractor hauling a wagon and Brian loading bales onto a hay elevator. Farm scenes, including cows going to pasture, Arthur mowing with a scythe, a woman picking flowers, Mary posing and men with tractors. Douglas and his girlfriend, Phyllis Sherman, on a swing set. A party on the lawn at the Hodgkin household, including Claire on the spinning wheel. Children from the Martel School in Lewiston, ME, on a class trip to a farm, including a tractor pushing an uprooted tree and a scarecrow. Joe Wheeler’s wedding, including the couple cutting the cake and Ray and Cecile Fortin dancing. Mary pulling a sled through the snow. Children at an indoor Christmas village, including Mary visiting Santa Claus and fishing in a small pond under a sign that reads, “Fish in Santa’s Fish Pond 25¢”. The Hodgkin children relaxing in their living room and unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning. Grandparents Irving and Nora Hodgkin in their living room. A group of people posing for Christmas at the Meade household. Arland and Beth Meade ice skating on a swamp behind a barn with their sons Thomas and Charles. Boys pushing Mary in a sled around some snow banks. Mary with Jeannie and the family cat, Inky. Children posing in their Sunday clothes. Children sliding down a slide with Lily Cady catching them. The Milk Parade, with riders on horseback, tractors, floats, marching bands, cars, a horse and buggy and majorettes performing. Mary, Clayton, Clyde, Forest and Brian doing chores in the barn, including raking hay, cleaning and milking cows with Penny watching. A party at Arthur and Lily Cady’s house, with Ray Fortin, Cecile Belanger, Arthur’s mother and Lily’s mother, including Lily playing the piano. Notes on can: “1958-1959 IV” Donor Notes: All names and the majority of the locations come from the donor’s notes. Please refer to them for further information.

Creator

• Clayton Hodgkin

• Clayton Hodgkin