Log drivers, including David Calder, right, of Canaan, move pulp logs in the Kennebec River in Madison in the 1970s.
David Calder of Canaan on Wednesday speaks about his experience as a log driver on the Kennebec River. Behind him are photos of himself and other workers.
Stone piers in the middle of the Kennebec River above the dam in Madison were built and used to help navigate floating logs into a channel during the log driving era that ended in Maine in the 1970s.
Log driver Buster Violette worked on the Kennebec River in Somerset County and was log driver David Calder’s first foreman.
Log drivers, including David Calder of Canaan, prepare to move floating logs piled up near the Great Eddy on the Kennebec River in Skowhegan in the 1970s .
U.S. Sen. Ed Muskie speaks to the press in January 1970 about his proposed environmental legislation. Muskie’s Clean Water Act of 1972 helped make the Kennebec River viable again.
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