Saturday, December 17, 2011

NORTHDOWN KENNELS CHINOOKS, Perry Greene Kennels, Harry & Katy Gray, Waldoboro, ME U.S.A.

And this a simple start to what will also likely become a Post to grow leaps and bounds this winter & thru the years, for indeed most (but not all) of the Tullibardine Farm and Atholl Chinooks kennel founders were either Northdown dogs themselves, or direct descendants of them.

So here's some of the first local reports then, of Northdown's own 1986-87 auspicious beginnings.  For Harry did indeed pour his heart and soul into his own kennel founders, as well as into the old Perry Greene Kennels themselves, Waldoboro, ME, which he resurrected from an overgrown jungle then, & with great gusto and love. 

And if memory serves, that is indeed 'Hoon' (North Wind Hoonah) and two of her 'champagne' litterbrothers pictured here, both articles. (All brought down with him from his family farm in Caribou, ME to Waldoboro then, along with 'Suzy', Alder Patch Suzitzka, Harry's first Chinook bought from Cathy Adams/Alder Patch).

Enjoy.  As I say, I'll have much more to add this post/page too through time...

And Pls Note:  Harry's claim herein to being the only place you could then buy a Chinook, likely also based on his '86 Contract w/the Wollperts, which would allow for Harry's kennels indeed to also act as a kind of 'marketplace' to aid breeders in selling Chinooks more readily, if memory serves.  So this was also the beginnings of the days of the Gray's original Chinook Club of America or CCOA too then, in '86.  I will share more of those docs on a club page for CCOA later this winter too then.  This just a note of explanation meanwhile.








PLEASE NOTE: Item 5. barring was later lifted by mutual agreement between Martha K/PGK and Wollperts/SW, after Martha had purchased Northdown/PGK direct from Harry Gray/Northdown.



This historic note signed by my brother & then farm partner, Jack R. Murray, fell out of my Tullibardine files here today.

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In particular, I'd like to encourage comments on these items from other breeders, owners, and lovers of Chinook Sleddogs that may also have first hand and/or anecdotal knowledge to add. Hereby creating an informal, online portal for sharing of more Chinook Sleddog history.