Robert E. Hunnewell

Robert Hunnewell was born in Pleasant Ridge, Maine in 1920. He felt it was important to document the history and lives of the people who lived in the local communities before Central Maine Power built the Wyman Dam and flooded the Kennebec River. All the farms on the Pleasant Ridge and Moscow side of the river had to be burned before the water level consumed the land. Robert started this book years ago on an old Royal Typewriter but when he was in his 70’s his daughter, Bea Bridges, was concerned that the book would never be finished and therefore the important history of the area might be lost. So together they worked on the book and saw it published before he passed away in 2009.

A second book - “Bingham, Gateway to the Maine Forest” – which was authored jointly by Robert Hunnewell and Bea Bridges was also published before he passed away and documents the early history of the area from the mid-1800’s.