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Chester Greenwood 1858-1937 a Farmington tinkerer and entrepreneur invented earmuffs at age 15 patented them at age 19 and in 1936 shipped 400000 Champion Ear Pro- tectors worldwide from his Farmington factory. The tireless teetotaler also invented the steel rake in his workshop. The Maine legislature officially declared Dec. 21 Chester Green- wood Day in 1977. On December 5 Farmington will hold a parade in his honor. Although she removes jewelry to avoid setting off the metal detector when visiting clients at the Cumberland County Jail Attorney Amy Fairfield drew the line when she was asked to remove her underwire bra. They are just inviting a law- suit Fairfield said to the Press Herald. Its harassing and its a constitutional issue. This wouldnt have happened 150 ago when cetaceans were being hunted to the brink of extinction the better to keep women laced into confining foundation garments made of whalebone. But it might happen today now that corsets some re- inforced with metal are in style again as reported by the New York Times. Maines whaling in- dustry sputtered out in eastern Penobscot Bay in the mid-19th century. Cumberland County Jails underwire bra policy sput- tered out immediately. Does this corset make the detector go off at Cumberland County Jail If it wasnt bad enough that the Whole Foods parking lot in Portlands Bayside neighbor- hood was swamped in the record rainstorm September 30 look who showed up as a mini- memeCassie the Casco Bay Sea Serpent is a nickname coined by this magazine in 1986. Whales Tale CloCkwisefromtopleftCollagebyDonnelsonfaCebookmemeDonnelsonillustrationCourtesyportlanDsChoonerCompanykisiselblog.Com 14 P o r t l a n d MOnThly MAGAzIne MaineClassics Cassie Sighting The Portland Exposition Building is celebrating its centennial. Fun Fact The first East Coast concert of the Beach Boys took place here in 1963. Other expo headliners Rudolph Val- entino Babe Ruth Rocky Marciano John F. Kennedy Barack Obama James Brown Dolly Parton the Mon- kees Janis Joplin Ani Difranco Paavo nurmi and natalie Merchant. Years Counting Warm Your Ears Maine Years Counting Ladies Night OutPolice have concluded there is no evidenceto support that the schooner Wendameenand topsail cutter Frances were releasedintentionally. These two classic harbor-cruisesailing yachts became mysteriously untiedand set adrift from their berths in PortlandHarbor around 430 a.m. on October 1. For-tunately they were quickly located and dam-age was minor. tunately they were quickly located and dam-age was minor. 100