24 Kendall Lane in Freeport was converted to a single family dwelling in 1977. The Christian Science Church of Freeport sold the property in that year. Through a bit of networking today, I had the pleasure of speaking with Clinton Mason who now lives in Florida. Clinton and his family moved to Freeport in the early 1940's from Winchester, MA. He mentioned that the first Christian Science Society was located on the Pownal Road in Freeport. Clinton's family owned Mason's Drug Store in Freeport right near L.L. Bean. In those days, L.L. Bean was in a building located over the post office. In the 1950's Clinton sold advertising for Channel 8. He actually called on Mr. L.L. himself and sold him a television Ad. According to Mr. Mason, back in the 1950's L.L. Bean was doing $300,000 a year in sales. He and I couldn't put a figure on how many billions of dollars the company makes today. One other memory stood out to Clinton which was that on his first day of high school back in 1946, Clinton was given a bucket to collect the rain water that dripped through the roof. Clinton would be amazed to see how nice the Freeport school buildings are today.
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