100 Years Ago: 1922

Every night at the Maine State Fair, Lewiston, September 4 to 8 will be a Fourth of July celebration to visitors who attend the big fireworks show featuring the evening program. Fair officials announced today that an unusually fine program of fireworks has been booked.

So elaborate is the show that a special force of experts wil be sent by the fireworks company to supervise the staging of the entertainment.The set pieces reproducing animals and other features in fire, will be planned by them.

“Safety first” must be practiced by the fireworks experts in assembling and shooting the fireworks, With hundreds of pounds of powder and high explosives piled about, great precaution must be taken to keep people away from the danger zone.

50 Years Ago: 1972

Children from the five Community Service playgrounds, the Frye Grammar, City Park, Garcelon, Lincoln Street and Androscoggin Park will unite for contests and exhibitions at the City Park this afternoon. Scores of children will take part in the festival.

25 Years Ago: 1997

Georgette Lepage of Bennett Avenue, Auburn proudly peers skyward at her 13 foot sunflower plants, which she said were supposed to grow between six and eight feet tall, but didn’t.

Mrs. Lepage, whose hobby is gardening, planted the plants last May. When Fall arrives, she will cut them down and have a lot of bird food. That’s pretty rich land, by the way. Mrs. Lepage reports that she came up with 167 tomatoes on one plant alone.

The material used in Looking Back is produced exactly as it originally appeared although misspellings and errors may be corrected.