Adam Boyd Kalloch and Family, c. 1902

Adam, Callie, Alice, Horace, Laura, Sumner,
Elmer, Carl, Olive, Ethel, Leroy, Herbert, Harold
(daughter, Myrtie, not in photo)
 

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The following story was contributed by Harold Kalloch and written by his wife Marie.  It was done in response to my [Nancy Kalloch Sack] request for stories from the family's. Harold told me at last summer's reunion that his family had lived in Wileys Corner, Maine, and he remembers the old Kalloch reunions for their abundance of food.

I still think of the good old days as a very good life.  Although I was one of twelve children, we had everything a family could wish for.  We had no use for a supermarket; the farm produced beef, pork, chicken, eggs and milk.  The garden produced vegetables, and mother and the girls canned them.  The boys worked around the homestead but also because we lived in St. George very near the ocean, we caught fish and dug clams.  Shore greens were gathered and cooked with a large piece of pork.  Our mother was a splendid cook and taught the girls to cook, sew and keep a good home.  The town school was an upgraded one-room school and the children learned as fast as they wished.  Much was learned by hearing the older children recite.  When they were older they could go to the high school in Rockland.  On rainy days after the chores were completed, one of the girls would read aloud while the others sewed.  Winter's cold never penetrated the warm quilts.  What fun we had in winter.  Molasses candy pulled and cut into good-sized pieces and of course apples and popcorn.  A bob-sled made from two sleds with a long board between made room for several to go sliding down the long hill.  Many a spill and a few tears but never a dull moment and no one bored.  They were certainly good old days.

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Photos of the Adam Kalloch house, Wileys Corner, St. George, Maine

8/28/1929 Front	8/28/1929 Back
8/25/1986 Front	8/25/1986 Back
3/25/02 (note the new addition to the right side of the house)	3/25/02 (These 2 photos were sent in by Marilyn Morrison)

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Photo taken at Glen Cove Fair - Oct. 1908

(L to R) Ethel (Dearborn) Kalloch, Sumner Boyd Kalloch, Olive (Kalloch) Blackman, "Callie" (Chaples) Kalloch, Alice (Kalloch) Frisbee, Laura (Kalloch) Rising, Myrtie (Kalloch) Sherer, Lydia (Chaples) Larrabee (Callie's Sister)
(In Front) Elmer Rising

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