In 1968, logger Rodney
Richard watched as a Brown Paper Company foreman was
about to push an old snubbing machine over a bank.
"If you're going to do that," Rodney called
out, "I'll take it home." He did and his
dream of a logging museum began to take shape.
In 1979, Rodney, with a group of loggers, homemakers,
and area residents, founded the Rangeley Lakes Region
Logging Museum, intent on collecting materials and
raising money for land and buildings.
Today, a three-story Main Building stands on an eighteen-acre
site, just one mile east of Rangeley on Route 16.
Rangeley
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"The Woodland Bard"
Maine's Unique Storyteller
Traditional storyteller Gaylon "Jeep" Wilcox
of Rangeley, Maine, weaves stories and poems together
in his own very unique style.
He tells tales about experiences that are true, some
that are not quite true, and some that are not true
at all, but most relate to the people and the beauty
of the Rangeley Lakes Region in the western mountains
of Maine.
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