Category Archives: maine

Four Men From Maine

January 11, 2015 – 7:48 pm

Back in the early 90s I was in a Bangkok bar. I heard an accent and approached the speaker, a 40ish man in a flannel shirt. “Are you from Bangor?” “Yeah, what about you?” “Falmouth Foresides.” I had lived the first eight years of my life across from Portland. “We must be the only two […]

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THE BIGGEST BEAR by Lynd Ward

August 21, 2014 – 5:20 pm

THE BIGGEST BEAR was published in 1952. The illustrated children’s book lovingly described the story of a young boy befriending an orphan bear in the Maine woods. Johnny Orchard’s bear grew to an epic size and ate everything in sight. Faced with the choice of killing his friend Johnny Orchard’s bear is saved by a […]

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THE PRETTIEST GIRL IN MAINE by Peter Nolan Smith on Kindle

July 6, 2014 – 7:02 pm

In the winter of 1991 a British friend and I drove north from a snowless New York to find winter. Our trip took us through New England to the end of US 1 at Fort Kent, Maine. The river was frozen solid and the snow was chest deep. I wanted to forge on to Canada, […]

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Christmas Tree Burning

January 28, 2014 – 3:40 pm

When I was a kid in Maine, every family on Falmouth Foresides, Maine dragged their desiccated Christmas tree to the town dump. My father unloaded ours from the rear of the Ford station wagon and dumped it over the snowy bluff to join a score of orange spruce trees. My younger brother was a pyromaniac […]

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Tongue To Metal

January 7, 2014 – 7:18 pm

As a child I lived in maine, where winter was winter. A good time for sledding. At Pine Grove Primary School Skeeter Kearsy the school bully wanted to test the theory that if you put your tongue to metal it would stick there. No one told him to stop. He liked to beat up everyone. […]

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