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TEST YOUR MEMORY

We did not try to stump everyone with the Fall/Winter ’21 Memory item. We knew it was hard but thought that
someone would research and find the answer we were looking for. Alas, no one did so no one got the Gold Star.

This issue’s test should be easier, but it will still take some research most
likely to get all questions correct.

Once again, this issue’s item can be found within the Aroostook Historical
and Arts Museum’s link to the Maine Memory Network.
Put on your Sherlock Holmes detective hat and go to the museum’s website.
Do your research and you could very well be the Gold Star winner for this
quiz.
HINT: Might want to go to the last pages of the site and work your way back
to the first pages.

Here’s your quiz questions for this issue’s item:

1. What is this gizmo?

2. What year was this item made?

Answers to the Fall/Winter '21 Test Your Memory

We knew that the Fall/Winter ’21 issue of “Test Your Memory” was an extremely hard one to solve, but we thought
someone might do the sleuth work needed to solve it. The clues must not have been easy
as no one stepped forward in an attempt to solve it.
WE ASKED THESE QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS PICTURE:
1. Who is the gentleman in the picture?
2. What year was the picture taken?
3. Where was the picture taken and the role the gentleman had?
4. Most importantly who was the child and the commonality that
ultimately bonded the two?
THE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS:
During World War II, the United States interned German, Italian, and Japanese prisoners
of war (POWs) in the US. Thousands of German prisoners of war came through Camp
Houlton in Maine between July 1944 to May 1946. The Geneva Convention permitted
prisoners to work on area farms, administered through the Farm Bureau Labor Association.
Prisoner activities were closely monitored. The work program was a great help to the
farmers at harvest because of the severe labor shortage due to the war.

• The gentleman in the picture was a German prisoner of war imprisoned at Camp Houlton.
• The picture was taken in September 1944.
• This POW worked on the Leslie and Ellen Rhoda farm in Hodgdon.
• This POW became friendly with the Rhoda family and was very fond of their young son Richard (pictured with the
POW). The prisoner had a son the same age in Germany that he missed terribly.
The POW was an attorney before he was forced to join the German Army. As a coincidence, Richard Rhoda
became an attorney.

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