Hello Grand Manan!

East-West Highway A Congressional High Priority "A Bangor Daily News story says the east-west highway from Calais to Watertown, N.Y., is now identified on a new Congressional High Priority Corridor map, unveiled Monday at the Bangor-based East-West Highway Association offices." Gee, then Fort Drum can defend Calais from the Ganong candy bars. Do they still make that special candy for Grand Manan, the sassafras drops, plain or chocolate covered? I read Calais, ME never got their promised powder from the US and during the War of 1812, St. Stephen lent the guys in Calais a bunch to celebrate the Fourth of July, even though we were supposed to be "hostiles". Last time I was there I was down to the Whistle to watch the fireworks over Eastport(?) from there on the Fourth of July. I guess FDR watched them too, perhaps, well the sunrise anyway, probably rose over Grand Manan. Kenneth Branagh got an Emmy for "Warm Springs" playing FDR. Wonder if he's been seen around your parts? He was Dr. Frankenstein, and Robert DeNiro the monster, in a more literary "Frankenstein" Tim Curry played the Dr. on an interactive CD where you wake up as the monster! Once upon a time they were going to build a railroad from North Creek, NY to Watertown and Sackett's Harbor, NY (where the US Navy started in the 1812 Unpleasantness. In fact if you looked at an 1867 map you might think its there) the only railroad built from there into the Adirondacks was to Tahawas in WWII, where it's reported there was "the world's largest titanium mine" that Henry Ford wanted to mine in the 1930's. The historic McIntyre Iron Works (1826) ("titaniferous magnetite" used to drive metallurgists crazy, thinking they'd found the other half of those nuts squirrels forget in the mix) and abandoned town of Adirondac, just got $500,000 for preservation and historical interpretation. I wonder where the road will go through? No more scary Route 9 over there, probably would be good for Route 1 traffic. Somewhere it will cross the abandoned cattle drive route north to Montreal from New England.