Maine 1899/07/20 - Hairy Wildman Chases Raspberry Pickers

[Trogluddite]

Published in the Lewiston (ME) Evening Journal on Jul 20, 1899.  The wild man was not riding a hedgehog, "Hedgehog" was the name of a local geographic feature that people of the area were familiar with. 

 

 

                                      

Edited October 2 by Trogluddite
To improve chronology and/or formatting. Then to provide a better copy of the news article..

[norseman]

14 minutes ago, Trogluddite said:

Test Post.

 

 

Note that the wild man was not riding a hedgehog, "Hedgehog" was a local name for some geographic feature that "everyone" in town knew. 

Coming in loud and clear!👍

[VAfooter]

22 hours ago, Trogluddite said:

Note that the wild man was not riding a hedgehog, "Hedgehog" was a local name for some geographic feature that "everyone" in town knew. 

 

Hedgehog Hill is still a place there...

[Trogluddite]

^^

Thank you - I have to incorporate some of these into my database.