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Jennie Cyr disappeared in 1977. Jerilyn Towers vanished in 1982.
Lynn Willette never came home on a night in 1994. Each woman had a
relationship with James Hicks, who in 2000 confessed to murdering
them, dismembering their bodies and burying the remains alongside
rural roads in Aroostook County. This is their story.
Trudy Irene Scee follows Hicks from the North Woods to West
Texas, detailing three decades of evasion, investigation and
prosecution. She interviews police officers and victims families
and finds Hicks at the state prison in Thomaston, where he remains
silent and remorseless as he lives out his days behind bars.
Thoroughly researched and carefully documented, "Tragedy in the
North Woods" is the definitive history of one of Maine's most
ruthless killers.
Many nefarious characters have passed through Maine on their way to
infamy, including the pirates Dixie Bull and Blackbeard (Edward
Teach), and gangster Al Brady, who was gunned down by G-men in the
streets of Bangor. The rogues and scoundrels assembled in this
book, however, are either Maine natives or notorious individuals
whose mischief, misdeeds, or mayhem were perpetrated in the Pine
Tree State.
An often overlooked segment of Maine (and American) history is the
story of women in the working class dance industries. Generally
looked upon with a gasp of shock, burlesque and vaudeville dancing,
and later taxi dancing and marathon dancing, were often the only
way for women to survive (In taxi dancing, men paid women by the
dance; while marathon dancing was a contest and women tried to
outlast each other on the dance floor.) In turn-of-the-20th-century
Maine, this new form of dancing was taking off, as it was elsewhere
in the country. Historian Trudy Irene Scee explores the dance
industries of Maine, how they were effected by national events, and
how events in Maine effected national trends. She explores the
difficulties women faced at that time and how they turned to new
forms of entertainment to make money and pay for food and shelter.
The focus of the book centers on the 1910s through the 1970s, but
extends back into the 1800s, largely exploring the dance halls of
the nineteenth century (be they saloons with hurdy-gurdy girls and
the like, or dance halls with women performing the early forms of
taxi- and belly dancing), and includes a chapter on belly dancing
and other forms of dance entertainment in Maine in the 1980s to
early 2000s. The newest form of dance-striptease dancing-is not be
examined specifically, but is discussed as it pertains to the other
dance forms. The book forms a unique look at one segment of Maine
history and is a terrific addition to the literature on women's
issues.
Al Brady was an armed robber and murderer in the 1930s and became
the FBI's Public Enemy #1. The crime spree of Brady and his gang
brought them from the south and midwest to Maine. A hardware store
owner in Bangor became suspicious when Brady requested a large
supply of ammunition and paid with an equally large amount of cash,
and notified police. The FBI was waiting in ambush for them when
they arrived to pick up the ammo. The rest is history, as on
October 12, 1937, Brady and an accomplice were killed in a hail of
bullets in broad daylight in downtown Bangor. This spectacular
public gun-battle has become an integral part of Maine lore. Now,
historian Trudy Irene Scee tells the story, including Brady's
growing up in Indiana, his criminal exploits, and what brought he
and his cohorts to Maine.
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