Category Archives: maine

THE LITTLEST BEAR

February 4, 2023 – 9:11 am

Vernon fished the Casco Bay from Peakes Island. The other day-fishers know his boat. A 1985 Seaway 22-footer ran the Drunken Ledge, the Cod Ledges, Big Ridge, and the Tanta’s ‘punkin bottom’ for pollock and cod in the winter. All in sight of the Ram’s Head Light station. Vernon was 56. Fishing was all he […]

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FIRST LAST THOUGHT

January 28, 2023 – 12:29 am

I was nothing I possessed nothing I felt nothing Not Love Food Pissing Shitting Nothing touched my nothingness Then I woke Underwater My lungs filled with water Panic Around me nothing I looked up A hand I reached up Two hands touched I was pulled to the surface A woman on a raft hugged me […]

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THE PRETTIEST GIRL IN NORTHERN MAINE by Peter Nolan Smith

January 22, 2023 – 12:26 pm

Scientists first warned the world about global warming with an 1975 article published in SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. ?Inadvertent climate modification? sounded like gobbledygook to the common man, who was more terrified by the possibility of a ?nuclear winter? produced by an atomic bomb exchange between the USA and USSR and American oil producers pooh-bayed the National […]

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Pocket Radio

July 31, 2022 – 9:27 am

The following day my father brought home two crystal radio sets shaped as rockets. They were made in Japan. My father was an electrical engineer with New England Bell and explained their workings, “You attached alligator clips to a metal object. The signal is transmitted to the antenna and you tuned the radio with a […]

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Aurora Borealis Maine July 4, 1971

July 4, 2022 – 6:26 am

On the 4th of July in 1971 John Gilmore, Mark McLaughlin, and Tommie Jordan and I left the South Shore of Boston to holiday in Maine. A large store at the New Hampshire border sold fireworks. John purchased $20 worth of M-80s and various rockets. The four of us stopped at my grandmother’s cabin on […]

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