$20.95
Paperback, 6″ x 9″
251 pages
ISBN 978-1-63381-456-1
by Norman R. Kalloch, Jr.
Also the author of A Long Way to Walk, 45th Parallel, Life in the Backwoods, Stranded, and Last Hike, and Washed Out.
For twenty-four years, two hundred residents of Flagstaff, Dead River, and Bigelow lived under a cloud of uncertainty, unsure whether a Maine power company would construct a dam on the Dead River—a dam that would doom their ancestral homes and forever change their lives. Washed Out is a murder mystery interwoven with the emotions and anxieties of good people striving to live their lives during uncertain times.
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Washed Out by Norm Kalloch is an engaging blend of fact and fiction that chronicles the building of the Long Falls Dam, which flooded three Maine towns in the Dead River region in 1949. This book provides an in-depth account of life in the rural communities of Flagstaff, Dead River, and Bigelow before they disappeared underwater. As one resident wrote, “My hometown may be gone, but I will always have memories, and they are happy ones.” Washed Out poignantly captures these memories as it seeks to preserve a chapter in Maine history.
—Earle G. Shettleworth Jr., Maine state historian
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Norman R. Kalloch, Jr., worked for thirty-four years in natural resource conservation. Retired, he and his wife, Audrey, live eight months of the year off the grid at a pond in Somerset County and winter in St. George, Maine. Kalloch has also written A Long Way to Walk, 45th Parallel, Life in the Backwoods, Stranded, and Last Hike.