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ROADS OF THE FLYOVER Part 2 by Peter Nolan Smith

July 30, 2013 – 9:25 pm

“We have nothing like this in England,” Brock said, as he filmed the Mississippi spreading onto its broad flood plain north of St. Louis. “Is this going to be in your movie?” I hadn’t asked too many questions about his Barry Flanagan project. “You never know what will mean something in a film.” Brock was […]

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THE SEASON FOR GIVING by Peter Nolan Smith

July 26, 2013 – 11:46 pm

Early on the morning of December 24, 1985 Vonelli, Lizzie and I boarded a train at Gard Du Nord. I could see my breath in the cold. Lizzie exhaled a thick cloud of smoke. She liked her Gaulloises. Lord Ventnor had invited us to spend the Christmas Holiday on the Isle of Wight. The train […]

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CROSSING THE CHANNEL by Peter Nolan Smith

December 27, 2012 – 1:24 am

I had moved away from Boston in 1971, but every Christmas of my adult life had been spent with my family on the South Shore. This streak of thirty-three years was broken in 1985, when n art dealer invited a female French singer and me to his cottage on the Isle of Wight for the […]

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THE DEATH OF ME by Peter Nolan Smith

November 28, 2012 – 10:10 am

Last December I attended the opening of the “Dream’ exhibition at Luxembourg’s Mudam Museum. Madame l’Ambassador bailed from the event early for a formal dinner with diplomats. I was not invited for supper. “It’s a diplomatic thingee.” Madame l’Ambassador explained, as we walked through a thickening fog to the waiting Jaguar. “I understand.” A writer-in-residence […]

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