Category Archives: 60s

NORTH END MIRACLE by Peter Nolan Smith

May 14, 2023 – 7:16 am

Throughout my childhood my mother cooked dinner for six kids and every Friday evening she drove our station wagon into Boston. We picked up my father at 50 Milk Street, where he worked for Ma Bell as an electrical engineer. He took the wheel and headed to a restaurant. Throughout my childhood my mother cooked […]

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IRISH TWINS by Peter Nolan Smith

March 17, 2023 – 1:42 pm
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WIN AT ANY COST by Peter Nolan Smith

February 11, 2023 – 7:22 am

In 1968 the Baltimore Colts entered Super Bowl III as 18-point favorites over the New York Jets. The NFL champions were led by Earl Morrall in place of Johnny Unitas, while the AFL underdogs were quarterbacked by the flashy Joe Namath and the Alabama native boasted in Miami, “We’re gonna win the game. I guarantee […]

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SAY IT LOUD, I’M BAD AND I’M PROUD

January 16, 2023 – 5:56 am

Martin Luther King Jr. was a great orator. His speech I HAVE A DREAM is recognized as a masterpiece of the spoken word. I know parts of it by heart. Another voice for Civil Rights was the legendary James Brown. His songs united blacks and whites, but the Godfather of Soul sang about pride and […]

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Le Necrophile

December 11, 2022 – 12:16 am

Back in the late 1960s the biggest house in Quincy, Massachusetts was owned by a funeral director. His daughters were the most beautiful girls on the South Shore in 1967 and they introduced Cream to their admirers. I was one of them. So was an apprentice embalmer for their father. The other suitors joked that […]

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