From its birth in 1901 through 1944, St. Andrew’s was a mission and had many short-timers for clergy. However, on a special Friday night train in 1944 came Father Herman Ebert to Millinocket. He spent the next two days “looking us over and taking pictures” and decided he’d like to stay! It was believed by some that he’d been sent to build a launch pad….and from that time on we were no long a mission or “on the town”, but a self-supporting parish with wardens and a vestry. In the words of J. Fred Tingley, our Warden Emeritus, “If it weren’t for ‘so and so’ or ‘someone else’, we could never be where are are.” And he was absolutely right!
