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Lore Rogers & Caleb Scribner , Founders PLM ca . 1960
about 50 horses . The cleat track has since been used , and is still used today , on bulldozers and military tanks . Patten Lumbermen ’ s Museum is proud to have an original , steam-powered , Lombard log hauler , one of only 83 ever built , as well as a gas-powered log hauler on display . Using these stories , Rhonda likes to tell local schoolchildren who come on tours not to be afraid of new ideas and that just because you are from a little town doesn ’ t mean you can ’ t do great things .
Also on display at the museum is a sawmill , a blacksmith shop complete with a local blacksmith working with the tools of the trade , a horse-powered drag saw , many old tools , equipment , artwork , and over one thousand photographs taken during the lumber camp days .
The 2017 season will kick off the Saturday before Memorial Day with the third Annual Fiddlers Fest . This event brings in fiddlers from all over the state and hosts a local craft fair with local food vendors , a silent auction , and a Fiddlehead Cook-Off in which contestants are given a basket of ingredients and must use their creativity to make a fiddlehead dish . Each year brings two thousand visitors to the museum with many coming from Europe , especially during the peak of the fall foliage season . Rhonda said that she especially remembers a group of loggers from Sweden making sure to visit the museum on their trip to America because they had heard so much about it .
The highlight of each summer is the Annual Bean Hole Bean Day Celebration in conjunction with Patten Pioneer Days in August . Sixteen pits are dug in the ground and fires built in them . When the fires burn down to coals , pots of beans are placed in the holes , covered in dirt , and cooked overnight . The dinner is served the next day with red hot dogs , coleslaw , boiled lumberman ’ s coffee , locally made gingerbreads , and biscuits cooked on-site in the open fire reflector oven . Around two hundred pounds of beans are served each year and many families come to celebrate this unique event .
The logging industry is alive and well even today in Northern Maine , with large , high-tech harvesting equipment and dedicated logging roads the new norm . Today ’ s logging leaders are great supporters of the Patten Lumbermen ’ s Museum , knowing that honoring the past helps build the future . +
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