A story by John Brooks Howard from 1969
In 1939, Boston sportsman Jack Howard celebrated Thanksgiving with hunting companion and guide George MacArthur's family in Grand Lake Stream, Maine. Despite some hiccups, he described it as his best Thanksgiving and wrote about the experience thirty years later.
On Thanksgiving Day in 1939 Jack Howard (1875-1971), a Boston sportsman and story teller, spent the holiday in the Maine Woods with the family of the well-known guide and woodsman George William MacArthur of Grand Lake Stream. He wrote down the story of this adventure thirty years later--remembering it as his best Thanksgiving ever. It's read by his grandson and namesake.
Jack Howard made countless trips to Maine and New Brunswick between 1900 and 1950 to hunt and fish, but his passion was "hunting with the camera" rather than the rifle. He captured hundreds of images that document the sportsman's and canoeist's experience in northern Maine and New Brunswick in the early years of the 20th century. Many of the photographs of Maine from ca. 1900-1930 will appear in the Maine Memory Network.
Jack Howard with his canoe and camera in 1915
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