<a href="/live/profiles/1136-todd-little-siebold" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Todd Little-Siebold</a>, a professor of history at College of the Atlantic, is a revered historian of Maine heirloom apple varieties.Todd Little-Siebold, a professor of history at College of the Atlantic, is a revered historian of Maine heirloom apple varieties.

One of the most pleasant aspects of writing a column about apples is that readers sometimes contact you about the interesting trees on their properties. Although I have never grafted a branch onto rootstock nor laid out an orchard, I’ll gladly oblige requests to identify trees.

“We know that a man named Henry Little brought apple trees with him from Massachusetts and that he settled in the Bucksport area and that one of these apples he called the triangle apple, but that is all we have – an odd name,” Todd Little-Siebold, an apple historian and College of the Atlantic history professor, told me. “We just hope that he named it because of its odd shape so we can find it, but we have no way to know for sure.”

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