DAYS OF OLD – Years ago, harvesting potatoes was done with a tractor and digger and lots of back-breaking work from potato pickers, who put the crop in barrels. This photo was included in the Northern Maine magazine, a Bangor and Aroostook Railroad publication, in the 1940s.
TIMES HAVE CHANGED – The harvester replaced the days of potato picking by hand, here Dale T. Henderson’s crew harvest potatoes on Route 1 in Littleton during the 2008 season.
ON THE FARM – Philip Brown stops from hand-picking potatoes to play with a puppy that his son, Adrian had brought to the field. The photograph was taken in the late 1940s or early’50s on the County Road.
POTATO BASKETS – Richard Silliboy of Littleton, a master craftsman, makes a variety of baskets including those used to pick potatoes, selling them throughout the United States.
WHAT TO DO? Kilian Willette, son of Alison Willette and Darren McCordic of Houlton, looks over the annual Potato Feast Day schedule during his visit to the Houlton Pioneer Times office last week.
