Big thanks to Scott Leonard, who runs the excellent Old Blue Genes blog over at http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/. He dropped me a line this weekend because he thought some of you Strange Maine readers would be interested in a story he recently did a piece on, and I think he's right:
The Clukey Fire of 1949
http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-clukey-fire-of-1949.html
As with many stories of bygone days, the newspapers tell a disjointed and partial version of the tale, revising the events that led up to a disaster as the witnesses step forward with different stories each time. This one is particularly convoluted, and in the end I don't know that the final version of events made anyone particularly happy. But it did make for a lot of newspaper coverage.
Scott Leonard delves into the murky ashes of the fire that killed WWII veteran George Clukey, and the history of Vinegar Road in Scarborough, Maine, where he lived.
Check it out!
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