Vital Gagnon grew up here in Lewiston, moving all over Lincoln Street till ending up at a farm in Auburn, with both parents working in the mills located nearby. Both of them at one point even worked at the Bates Mill together, though his mom later worked as a...
Bert and John Morin are both very involved in the brick industry here in Auburn. Their family ran the Morin Brick Company, and the two share a lot of details both in the company as well as the brick creation process. They detail everything from the collection of clay...
Ray St. Pierre worked for the Bates Mill in accounting, sharing a lot of internal information about how the accounting side of Bates operated as well as how it changed as the years went on. He worked there as the mill was closing down, talking about how the mill...
Jim Wellehan and his family have deep ties to the shoe industries located across Lewiston-Auburn. His family operates Lamey-Wellehan Shoes with locations across the state, and the company got their start in 1914 when his dad opened the first store with Charley...
Born about six months before Pearl Harbor in 1941, Jack Tetrault grew up in the period right at the start and after World War Two. He grew up in Auburn, recalling a lot of the things that they used to do for fun back then before car traffic picked up like riding down...
