Category Archives: youth

Linear Algebra 101

December 10, 2021 – 8:15 pm

Back in the 1960s most New Englanders’ were loss at sea when asked to count beyond ten on their fingers. Multiplication and long division flummoxed college students. Calculus was the Black Plague, but I loved the intercourse between numbers and in 1966 I was awarded a scholarship to Xaverian Brothers High School on strength of […]

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FLUTE THING By Peter Nolan Smith

October 1, 2021 – 10:24 am

In the Spring of 1969 I ran for president of the South Shore CYO Deanery. My older brother was the incumbent and my election was close to unanimous. Mid-summer summer I met with the other officers at the CYO headquarters in Weymouth to plan out our event schedule for autumn, winter, and spring. The previous […]

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TWICE THE MAN by Peter Nolan Smith

September 23, 2021 – 2:00 pm

My good friend Marge had lived a long life. The Maine native had served as the athletic director at several all-women’s colleges in New England. Her basketball teams had played big teams. She had been a great coach and refused to act her age. The nonagenarian exercised daily and ate healthy foods. Marge abstained from […]

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The Touch Of The Stars

August 11, 2021 – 8:05 am

As a child of the 1960s I lived in the suburbs south of Boston. Summer nights were filled with silence; no cars, no voices, no music. Every house was a tomb and the deep darkness often found a pre-teen boy stealing out the back door to spread a blanket on the ground, strip off his […]

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Da Friggin’ Quincy Quarries

July 25, 2021 – 3:47 am

On August 28, 1994 three teenagers climbed up to the Quincy Quarries. Their death-defying leap into Swingles Quarry was followed by low-drive from Rooftop. On August 28, 1994 three teenagers climbed up to the Quincy Quarries. How high was from the Rail to the water? 120 feet? We’ll never know. The Quincy Quarries were buried […]

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