My cousin, Dorothea Doughty, told me of her experiences of riding the Portland-Lewiston Interurban from Whitney Road, in South Gray, to the Gray village station to go to high school at Pennell Institute.
She had originally come from Berlin, New Hampshire, so she was a city girl.
When she arrived at the Gray station on the trolley, she proceeded to Pennell, not by the road but across the field. In the process, she went ankle deep in the mud – city girls didn’t know mud – and lost her shoes.
She arrived at Pennell without shoes and the teacher sent her down to the brick store to get a new pair and return to class. Her parents had to pay for them later. She told me that, as far as she knew, her shoes are still out in the field somewhere.
Everett Doughty
