Category Archives: maine

December 13, 1978 – East Village – Journal

February 26, 2024 – 3:47 pm

My first childhood on Falmouth Foresides And then the South Shore of Boston. In 1976 I left for good. New York bound, Two years now Yet I miss New England The White Mountains The Maine Coast Old Orchard Beach, Portland’s Eastern Promenade The view on Mount Washington far to the west The two old schooners […]

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CHOCOLATE MAN by Peter Nolan Smith

February 1, 2024 – 2:04 pm

Maine is the northern most state on the Eastern Seaboard. The distance from its southernmost border to the Potomac River is approximately 500 miles and in the winter of 1863 the 20th Maine Regiment crossed into Virginia to confront the Confederate forces at Fredericksburg. That summer they avenged the one-sided slaughter beneath St. Marye’s Height […]

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Lobstah on Patpong – 1990s

February 1, 2024 – 11:10 am

Back in the 1990s I was in Bangkok s Patpong gogo zone. I was standing at the bar and heard a younger man order a beer. “Are you from Maine?” “Lewiston.” “Falmouth Foresides. We must be the largest gathering of Maine people in Asia.” We clinked beers and he shook his head, saying, “Those two […]

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Chaney – Sebago Lake – July 1960

January 30, 2024 – 1:10 am

Written July 1, 2021 My best friends as a child were my older brother and Chaney We lived in Falmouth Foresides, Maine. We did everything together. School, hockey, eating stolen strawberries from the nearby farm, hang at the docks at the end of our street, and swim at Sebago Lake. My family moved to the […]

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First Snow In New York City 2024

January 18, 2024 – 9:05 am

No snow In New York City. Three years. Not cold neither. Yesterday Snow. Two inches Cold. Not Omaha cold -40. 20 degrees Fahrenheit c Cold. And sunny. The wind cruel cold Fort Greene Park. The snow trampled by thousands and thousands of feets. Each step immortal in the cold. Steps atop steps Like first city […]

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