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In winter dress, Robert L. Davis's Maine cabin nestles on the banks of Hosmer Pond near the town of Camden.
SUNDAY. THE STAR MAGAZINE. WASHINGTON. D. C., MARCH 18. IUB2
Retirement
Cabin
in
the
Maine
Woods
By JIM BIRCHFIELD
Star Staff Writer
66/^* 0 NORTH, old man-go
WJ north!” That’s what Rob
ert L. Davis, retired Naval
Weapons Plant machinist, is
advising everyone these days.
And he’s talking from experi
ence, because he’s lived a Thor
eau-like life on the shore of a
Maine pond for the last two
years.
Mr. Davis got his cabin on
Hosmer Pond, near Camden,
almost by accident. He hadn’t
contemplated the life of a
woods-dwelling philosopher un
til he tried it, and now he thinks
retired people are a little loose
in the upper story when they
make tracks toward Florida and
the sunny South.
Mr. Davis hasn't tried a
Maine winter yet. it’s true. But
that may come later. “I’d like
to stay there all year long,” he
says, “but at my age I’m afraid I
might get lost in a snow drift and
not be found till spring.”
To see him, you wouldn't
think that likely. Almost 64. he
is tall and erect, and can out
walk most of his juniors. In
fact. Mr. Davis retired early, and
that’s a story, too.
“I figure a man who works
after he can retire on a pension
is working for about half pay,”
he says. “Say you are making
S2OO a week and could retire at
half pay. That means you are
really working full time for only
SIOO a week. Why do that?"
He didn’t. He quit work and
went to see his son. Coast Guard