Earlier this summer, I came across an old Maine Department of Agriculture pamphlet titled "Adventures with Maine Apples", dated 1960. The second edition (published sometime thereafter) added a directory of farms and orchards along with a map and directions which was not present in the original publication. These directions, of course, pre-date modern GPS and read more like clues for a treasure map... no addresses are listed.
I've taken as a side-project to bringing the list up to the modern day for the purpose of finding out which orchards survived the test of time and which did not. Hunting logging cuts in the north woods is very popular here in ME, but I figured it would be fun to try hunting some of the abandoned farms and orchards with their stone walls and apple trees that seemed ever popular in the old grouse hunting stories of New England we've all read. I know that as the years pass these covers are becoming few and far between. Hopefully I'll have some luck with this endeavor come October.
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