In the "it's a small world" department. We had a visit from two women from Perry, Maine....down by Eastport.

Well, many years ago, I spend a summer in Calais at the Moosehorn Wildlife Refuge working in a program call the Youth Conservation Corps (YCC). The YCC was established on August 13, 1971 through Public Law 91-378, as a three-year pilot program, with the intention of achieving several objectives. The most important objective being to take young adults from different social, economic, racial, cultural and gender backgrounds and placing them in an environment where they could cultivate work, social, and educational skills. In 1974, it became a permanent institution.

The program took 30 kids from Bangor and 30 from the Calais area and created a work program at Moosehorn Wildlife Refuge. We all worked at projects like fencing, surveying, and trail building, staying on the Refuge for a week at a time in large army surplus tents. So, Cyril and I got a small reunion of the first YCC group in Maine!

While neither of us recognized each other today, by sharing where she was from and Cyril having such a distinctive name, we figured out we attended the first season of YCC together!