OTISFIELD — Want to know what the scuttlebutt and who the characters were from Otisfield in the 1950s?
Henry Hamilton, president of the Otisfield Historical Society and a native of the town will tell the stories at a meeting of the society at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6, at the Otisfield Town Hall on Route 121.
“Those old stories,” he said, “may seem like fiction to people living in Otisfield today, but they’re 90 percent true,” Hamilton said.
Hamilton began telling stories of his hometown while a graduate student in Alabama when he said he realized that Otisfield was about as strange to Alabamians as Timbuktu. He went on the radio and began broadcasting stories about life in a small Maine town.
“They were incidents from my childhood, some of the old characters and scuttlebutt,” he explained.
Hamilton said many of the stories are those he heard secondhand.
“Sometimes because the stories I heard I can’t verify I have changed the names to protect the innocent. But people who have been around for 60 years or so will recognize who I’m talking about,” he said.
The public is welcome to attend the event.
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