Our Maine Street's Aroostook Issue 2 : Fall 2010 | Page 34

A Conversation with

Eldon Pelletier

Back in 1954 Gerald Pelletier began a log hauling
operation in Fort Kent. Gerald reared eight sons and one
daughter in Fort Kent. Gerald’s son Eldon recalls that his
father’s work took him away from home as he trucked
out of the Ashland – Portage area. Gerald would leave
home late Sunday evening or early Monday morning
and wouldn’t return home until late Friday. During that
period of time Gerald worked out of woods camps located
in Oxbow, Round Pond and Chamberlain Lake. In 1959
Gerald hauled logs to Chamberlain Lake where they
were either milled or dumped
on the ice-covered lake. With
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