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Hill-Top magazine was published weekly during the summer season at the Poland Spring
House. First published in 1894, the magazine was printed by the Journal Print Shop in
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"The Hill-Top...published Sunday mornings for ten weeks, during the months of July, August and September, in the interest of Poland Spring, SamOset and Kineo visitors." (The Hill-Top Magazine, July 5, 1914) In an 1914 editorial, then Hill-Top editor Walter Graham described the purpose of the magazine: "To cover as completely as possible every phase of the happy life which you live here for two or three months of the year in the summer-land of Mine, to make enduring records of the sports and pastimes, the current events and passing pleasures so that these may be enjoyed in retrospect the better; to chronicle these hours and days of unalloyed happiness when...'heart-loose' and 'fancy-free' you roam the woodland paths, motor along the splendid green country ways, fish, golf, ride, canoe, or bathe in the stimulating waters of a clear Maine lake; -- something more or less then this is the purpose of the Hill-Top." (The Hill-Top Magazine, July 5, 1914) The Hill-Top was chock full of eclectic articles (some submitted by the guests) ranging from musings on the lakes of Maine, to recipes for Meringues, to amusing anecdotes: "He - I certainly had reason to think you cared for me -
"Miss Schmelzel of New York, Messrs. George and Wm. R. Schmelzel, were here for the months of May and June. This was their twenty-second annual visit at Poland Spring. They departed to Profile, N.H., where they have a cottage for July, and from there will go to Kineo, returning to Poland Spring for the month of September." "Very distinguished visitors at the Poland Spring House last month were Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell of Washington, D.C. , who, with Mr. Melville Bell Grosvenor, were motoring through New England." "Professor E.H. Sneath of Yale, famous author and philosopher, with Mrs. Sneath and two children, visited the Poland Spring house over June 17th and 18th." (The Hill-Top Magazine, July 5, 1914) "Notable transient visitors of the week are Count and Countess Ceppico of New York, who were at Poland Spring over the 7th." (The Hill-Top Magazine, July 15, 1916) |
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| Among the many articles and columns, The Hill-Top is peppered with interesting advertisements. Most describe local shops and services designed to appeal to the discriminating summer visitors. | ||||
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Brian Harris 07-March-1998 |
