Cash and Carry

Houlton farmers helped airmen walk the lines of neutrality shortly before World War II.

Arnold Peabody knew firsthand that folks in northern Maine sometimes have to wear a few different hats to make ends meet. He supplemented the income from his farm equipment company in Houlton by harvesting a hundred acres of potatoes. In later years he would even make the two hundred-mile commute to Augusta while serving as a Maine senator. So Peabody, shown seated on a John Deere tractor in this dramatic snapshot taken in 1940, was more than happy to oblige when the folks at the Houlton airfield asked him to tow a biplane across the Canadian border.

 




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