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Galen Cole
Galen Cole (born 1925) is a Maine World War II veteran and philanthropist. He manages the Cole Land Transportation Museum, the Walking Sticks for Veterans program, and organizes numerous activities and charity drives for veterans and related causes in his native Bangor, Maine. ==Background== Galen was born in 1925 to Albert J. "Allie" Cole, founder of the Cole Express delivery company, and Amy Stone, a schoolteacher. He was the fifth child of seven born to the couple.〔 From a young age he was interested in trucks and enjoyed spending time with the drivers employed by his father.〔 Galen would accompany drivers as they delivered Sears & Roebuck mail order catalogs to Deer Isle. He described the reactions of the Isle residents upon receiving the catalogs as: “You’d have thought we were the Queen Mary!”〔 In 1936, his family moved into the former Noyes & Nutter stove foundry in Bangor.〔 His father took a job loading potatoes onto schooners on the Penobscot River.〔
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