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A 55yr old photo showing Boy Scouts and former heavyweight boxing champs "Jersey" Joe Wolcott and James Braddock was found in a bag of recyclable bottles at Clynk's South Portland, Maine facility last month. The reverse bears the name "Clayton Duplissee." Need help finding owner and names. If you know anything about this photo, email Troy R. Bennett at tbennett@bangordailynews.com https://bangordailynews.com/2020/06/09/news/portland/help-solve-the-mystery-behind-this-old-photo/ The yellowed, wood-framed 5×7-inch photograph shows six or seven scouts lined up in a pine grove. The
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Business starts from a Boy Scout fly kit.
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Alvin Theriault was 11 when he tied his first fishing fly. “The material came from a Boy Scout kit,” he told me recently. “I tied several colorful feathers onto a hook, cast it into Fish River, a short walk from my Fort Kent home, and caught a nice trout. From that moment, I was hooked on tying flies because it was more fun than digging worms.” More lucrative too. By the time he was 15, Theriault, the oldest of 11 kids, was selling flies to Aroostook County anglers for a buck apiece. Now 64, Theriault and his wife, Connie, have been making and selling flies for 44 years, plucking the mate
