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PHILLIPS Charlie and Kathy (Abbott) Gould are lifelong residents of Phillips. During their childhood years, their families both worked at farming and lumbering.
“That’s pretty much the way things were around here,” they agreed.
Charlie graduated from Phillips High School in 1969, a member of the last class to do so. Kathy attended Mt. Abram Regional High School in Salem, graduating in 1975.
On New Year’s Eve, 1978, a dance at the Legion Hall in Farmington precipitated their getting together. Charlie was there with his date. Kathy attended with her sister and brother-in-law, Ginny and Mike Auger. Ginny was a classmate of Charlie’s. Charlie left the dance early to take his date home, then returned. As fate would have it, he and Kathy danced the last dance together. Charlie followed the Augers and Kathy home and stayed to visit for awhile before heading home himself. He left with an invitation from Ginny “to come back in the morning for some blueberry m