Here is another transcription of a recording of a meeting of the Alexander-Crawford Historical Society. Judging by the numbering of the tapes, this was probably recorded in 1981. People present at the meeting included Jane Dudley, Milly Winchler, Parks Carle, Frank Fenderson, Sammy Saunders, Kay Church, Rachel (Brown) Hamilton, Ethel (McArthur) Wallace, Mary (Belmore) Williams, Lloyd ?, and Margaret ?. John Dudley of Alexander, Maine filled in the names where there was only a first name mentioned on the tape. Names and other words that could not be transcribed exactly are in italics. Unknown voices are referred to as "man" or "woman." Comments, explanations, and additional names are in parentheses. There are several places where two or more people spoke at the same time and couldn't be transcribed. This condensation will be in two parts. Jane Dudley started the recording: "This evening we are having our first annual family picnic of the summer of the Alexander-Crawford Historical Society. This is Jane Dudley speaking. We have many guests here tonight and we're going around in a circle here and ask if several of them wouldn't like to give us a little historical story about this area." The first story teller was Millie (Stanhope) Winchler, who said: "Well, I was telling everybody that in 1923 I taught at the Four Corners School and I had 37 kids and all grades, all eight grades and one girl that was back for an extra grade because her family couldn't afford to send her to the high school, so I tried to give her something extra. What do you suppose I could give her with already eight grades and five hours in a day? But, it really was a very happy and satisfying year and I taught 19 years afterwards and I never had a more satisfying year." Next was Parks Carle who told the following story. "I can tell you a story that comes from my neighbor. Samuel Cottle (was) supposed to be the first settler of Alexander. He left Massachusetts and made plans with a man to work with him to come a few weeks later than he did and they arrived, Samuel and his wife arrived in Calais and he left her in Calais and he went in to Dwelley's Lake. The man came later, Lawrence Spearin, and those two men built their log cabin in three weeks. And, then they went back and got the wife in Calais and she snowshoed in to the cabin with them with baby on her back. And she stayed less than a month and she could stand it no longer so they took her back to Calais, left her in the same place she'd been before with friends there. And, the two men again go back to the cabin preparing to stay the winter alone, you know, the two. So the wife stayed three days in Calais and she could stand that no more, so she got her friend there to take her back to the cabin at the lake. She went back and stayed the rest of her life. It had to be around 1810." Milly Winchler asked what the name of the lake was then and said it is called Pleasant Lake now and was Stephenson's Lake when she taught at the Four Corners School. In between it was called Dwelley's Lake. Another woman said that in 1881 it was called Harwood Lake. The next speaker was Frank Fenderson. "Well, I can tell you a story about Kaye Church's father (Bill Cushing) coming into our office, I think, the summer of 1949, and he said, "Frank, tell me are you any relation to the Fendersons in Crawford?" And I said "How did you pronounce that name?" And, he said, "Fenderson." And, I said, well, they spell it F-e-n-l-a-s-o-n. He said, "Yes, I often wondered about that." He said, "But I was brought up by Sawyer Fenderson and Charlotte Ford, Lottie Ford," and he said, "they always pronounced it Fenderson. Now," he said, "I know the people up in Princeton, they call it Fenlason," so he said, "I wondered how the name was." So I told him the story of the Fenderson family. It started with a Wallace Finlayson, F-i-n- l-a-y-s-o-n who landed in Portsmouth, Maine, Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1712. And, the town records of Portsmouth, cross indexed the name under F-e-n-d-e-r-s-o-n, F-i-n-l-a-s-o-n, F-e- n-l-a-s-o-n, and four or five other ways of spelling the name. And I said he had five sons, he had one son, and that one son moved to Scarborough, Maine and all the records there cross indexed under various names, but he ended up adopting the spelling F-e-n-d-e-r-s-o-n. I've seen his burial stone and it's spelled Fenderson. He had five sons. Four of them went by the name of Fenderson and one Wallace Fenderson moved to Machias and he was in the battle of the Margaretta and he adopted the spelling the town clerk wrote down in the record of Machias, F-e-n-l-a-s-o-n. And, he had many children, one of which was Nathaniel Fenlason who was one of the early settlers of Crawford, and he came up as a representative of the Pope and Talbot Lumber Industry and handled the interests of Pope and Talbot for the entire township of Crawford which they owned. And, at one time they offered this Sawyer Fenlason the township for $9000 but he felt it was too much money, and decided he didn't want to buy it. So, that's my story about the Fendersons and the Fenlasons. [H]e said that definitely Sawyer pronounced it Fenderson just as prominent as can be, and, he said "I never could figure out why because there's no d in it."