There is a saying that some enlightened non-Mainers like to quote: “I wasn’t born here, but I got here as soon as I could.” To which William Trevenning Housum Jr., would have added: “And stayed as long as I could.”

William T. Housum Jr.

The Grand State of Maine, the magnificent White Mountains and Fryeburg, Maine, in particular were fundamental to Bill’s identity, starting with his childhood time at Camp Ettowah. A cousin, G. Britton Holmes (Britt) ran the boys camp on Kimball Pond, so Bill was allowed to attend at age 6 — a year early — and did not miss a summer for 20 years, until he joined the Army.

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