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Houlton area From our Files – Week of July 17, 2024
Gov. Payne Lists Festival As Top Maine Attraction — Five New England Governors and three from outside this area have been extended invitations to the 1949 Potato Blossom Festival in Fort Fairfield August 15, according to an announcement today by Gov. Frederick G. Payne. Personal invitations went to Governor John Pastore of Rhode Island; Paul A. Dever of Massachusetts; Ernest W. Gibson of Vermont; Sherman Adams of New Hampshire; Chester Bowles of Connecticut; Earl K. Long of Louisiana; Alfred E. Driscoll of New Jersey and C. A. Robins of Idaho. Gov. Payne said the governors have been asked to bring their wives, and a week-end fishing trip is being planned, climaxed by the festival. In his letter to neighbor governors, Payne wrote, in part: “One of Maine’s top vacation attractions for summer visitors is the annual Maine Potato Blossom Festival in Aroostook County where we really turn out spuds.”
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