Category Archives: youth

WHO DO YOU LOVE – Tom Rush

This cover of a blues classic was played on WMEX. Electronic. A growling voice. Tom Rush “A little bitty chimney made of human skulls.” Go to this url to hear WHO DO YOU LOVE For a related article click on this URL https://www.mangozeen.com/2010/03/10/travel/tennyson-walk-the-isle-of-wight-1985.htm“>

WHEN FAT MEN FLY Chapter 5 by Peter Nolan Smith

After work on Friday I hitchhiked to the Cape Cod. The first ride was to the Sagamore Bridge and the next one got me to Chatham. It was dark by the time arrived in Truro. Linda was happy to see me. Her daughter was shy at first, but after dinner I won her heart by […]

WHEN FAT MEN FLY by Peter Nolan Smith Chapter 4

The first week in February I moved into an apartment in Brighton’s Bug Village. The walls were thin as a potato chip and a single electric space heater warmed the living room. I colonized it with a color TV. Wayne came over to crash with Marie after concerts. Neither of them had a car. She […]

WHEN FAT MEN FLY by Peter Nolan Smith Chapter 3

In the morning Sookie and I ferried over to Staten Island. She loved the boat ride across the harbor. The Statue of Liberty was bigger than I remembered from my last trip to New York. Nick met us at the terminal in his Mini-Cooper. He looked splendid in his hippie dealer clothing; patchwork leather jacket […]

WHEN FAT MEN FLY by Peter Nolan Smith Chapter 1