Arnold's Story: September 5, 1950

Jan Schuck writes Arnold about her experiences flying from Twillingate to Gander and returning to Boston. Clem Hiebert, Jerry Foster, Jan, and Ruth departed at the beginning of September, leaving Arnold behind for another four weeks. Ruth here may be the future wife of Jerry Foster.

The Norseman was a Canadian single-engine airplane designed to handle unimproved surfaces and land and take off on water. Apparently as Jan and the others landed in Gander, the airplane caught on fire and Jerry Foster put it out with an extinguisher.

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Leonard's Story: July 11, 1948

The Eastern Corporation has operated under a number of names over the decades, but may be the same as "Eastern Paper Corp" because it is located in Brewer, Maine, across the Penobscot River from Bangor. "The fire" may refer to the Great Fires of 1947, burning the fancy mansions of Bar Harbor in October of that year.  

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Arnold's Story: July 9, 1948

A postcard from Leonard and his then wife Pat in Bar Harbor, Maine, to his brother Arnold asking for his address at the McCloud River Lumber Company. 

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