A Selfie with Newport’s Little Maggie
New England Legends Podcast
Jeff Belanger
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 298 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore the shores of Lake Memphremagog in Newport, Vermont, searching for Little Maggie, the most photographed person in northern Vermont in the early 1900s. This wandering vagabond wore men’s clothes, she fished the lake all day long, and smoked a pipe like she was a chimney. This memorable eccentric always found what she needed. Maybe there’s a lesson there?
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, what a great spring day here by Lake Memphramag. The air is warming up and his sun is shining. |
| 0:09.0 | Ray, what are you doing? Hold on, hold on. Just one more. Another Ray at the Lake selfie? |
| 0:15.7 | Well, we're so close to the Canadian border. I wanted to capture both countries. Yeah, okay. I get it. |
| 0:20.6 | Do you ever worry, though, |
| 0:22.0 | that maybe we're too obsessed with pictures of ourselves, you know, in today's culture, I mean, |
| 0:26.4 | selfies, wait staff at restaurants that need to slow down the service so they can take a picture |
| 0:30.9 | of you with your meal? I mean, are we too vain? Probably, but what can you do when we all have |
| 0:35.8 | such great cameras with filters on us at all times? |
| 0:38.3 | Yeah, that's a good point. |
| 0:39.3 | Now, I'm guessing we didn't come to Newport, Vermont, just to take selfies. |
| 0:42.2 | No, we came to Newport to take a picture of a pipe-smoking, fishing woman, |
| 0:46.8 | don't give a hoot eccentric, who was the most photographed person in Newport in the early 1900s. |
| 0:53.0 | We're searching for Little Maggie. |
| 1:02.9 | Hello, I'm Jeff Belanger. And I'm Ray Osier. Welcome to episode 298 of the New England |
| 1:08.2 | Legends podcast. Think of us as your townie buddies taking you on a tour of all things weird. That we are. Twice each week now. We're on the hunt for ghosts and monsters, eccentrics, roadside oddities, and all the strange history that makes New England like no other place. And we're glad you're with us. Please click the subscribe button wherever you get your podcast and check out our super secret new england |
| 1:27.5 | legends facebook group that's not a well-kept secret no it's not not at this point and tell a few |
| 1:33.5 | friends about us it's how you can help us grow and the more people that know about us they can |
| 1:37.4 | share their story leads now before we go searching for a little maggie in newport we want to take |
| 1:42.0 | just a minute to tell you about our sponsor new New Otter Irbles. So, Ray, the weather is getting warmer. Sure is. The other day, it was downright hot. |
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| 1:58.3 | rootberry flavored tea. Oh, that's one of my favorites. Yeah, it actually tastes like root beer. Yeah. It's got all natural flavors like sasperilla, vanilla, spearmint, licorish, root bear extract, and more. Here in New England, you know how the mornings can be like 40 degrees, afternoons, 80 degrees. Yeah, of course. I mean, if you don't like the weather, just wait a minute, |
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