[Rebecca Freethey Viall--home movies] Reel 3

Date1949

Can DescriptionsMaine 1949

Viewing NotesA toddler and a dog next to a chicken coop. A horse drawn wagon. A car pulling a combine. A man chopping wood. A wagon piled with hay. People piling in more hay. A boy holds up a fish. A boy next to a tree stump. Road signs: ‘CADILLAC MT. RD. ENTERING ACADIA NATIONAL PARK’. People on top of Cadillac Mountain. A sign: ‘LOBSTERS’. Panning shot of the shoreline. A toddler on the beach. A man holding a lobster. Sign: ‘BLACKCAP ROAD CAMP ROOSEVELT’. [Camp Roosevelt, Katahdin Scout Reservation, East Eddington, Maine. Black Cap Mountain and Little Fitts Pond] A car parked under an archway. An American flag and a log building, with the sign: ‘TRADING POST, CAMP OF FIRE’. The toddler next to a painting. People swimming in a lake. Sign: ‘ROPE YARD, WHIPPING SPLICING LASHING KNOTS FUN’. A picnic. A person playing a trumpet into a bullhorn. People gathering around the flagpole. A cave. A road sign: ‘DEER ISLE 6, STONINGTON 12, 172’. A car parked by a bridge. A boy by the shore. People walking up the road. A garden with miniature houses. (Stonington, Maine. Everett Knowlton (1901-1978) built the houses in the miniature village.) Children on the beach. The Deer Isle Bridge. A fighter jet in a field in North Sedgwick, Maine. Pan of field with cow and houses in background, people gather around the jet. On August 21, 1949, Lieutenant George Aiken’s F-80C fighter jet of the Maine Air National Guard’s 132nd Fighter Squadron suffered engine failure and conducted a belly landing in a field. [Information on the Lockheed F-80C Shooting Star accident provided in 2020 by CPT Jonathan D. Bratten, Command Historian, Maine Army National Guard, Augusta] A campfire and a picnic on the shore. A sailboat. A boy in a rowboat. A toddler in an inflatable pool. Children playing in the water. A man parks a car. People pose for the camera next to cars. A toddler on a swing. A boy with a toy sailboat. [End of Reel]

OtherRegarding the images of the airplane in a field: "That is an accident that occurred on August 21, 1949 in a field in North Sedgewick. Lieutenant George Aiken's F-80C fighter jet of the Maine Air National Guard's 132nd Fighter Squadron suffered engine failure and conducted a belly landing in a field." Information provided by CPT Jonathan D. Bratten, Command Historian, Maine Army National Guard.