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Thirteen is a lucky number
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People from Connecticut knew that
Sam and Sis had family from Northern
Maine and they think it's wild country. A
bunch of hicks. We had a bathtub on the
front lawn that the cows used to drink from.
The kids used to swim in it in the
summertime. Sam took a picture
of Bob out there
without a shirt and
told everybody in
Connecticut that's
where his relatives
took their baths.
Mary Campbell
People ask all
the time why we
had thirteen children.
Bob wanted seventeen. I
wanted two. People would ask,
how do you do it? They just came one
at a time and you loved the next one as you did
the others. I wouldn't have done it any differently.
Mary Campbell
Over that way, you're looking
at 50 or 60 miles. It's all hilly. Nice.
It has so much color to it. You've
got your roads, your grain, your
potatoes, your peas. Broccoli has
taken the place of peas and
that's a beautiful color.
It's actually a beautiful
picture, all
painted for you.
So, I like it.
I've been overseas,
to Texas,
Florida and
Idaho. It's all
so much better
right here.
Bob Campbell
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About the Author Trudy Chambers Price was born in the Aroostook County town of Island Falls, Maine, and grew up in Caribou. Every fall from the ages of 10 to 18, she picked potatoes to earn money to buy her own clothes. On her record day she picked 100 barrels of potatoes (because her boyfriend pulled the tops). Trudy graduated from Caribou High School in 1958 and from the University of Maine at Orono in 1962. For 23 years she was a partner on Craneland Farm in Knox, Maine, where she and her husband Ron, bred and milked Registered Holsteins. She lives in Brunswick and works part-time for Islandport Press and Bath Book Shop. She is also the author of The Cows are Out! Two Decades on a Maine Dairy Farm. |