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THE FIRST TEN MILES by Peter Nolan Smith

December 3, 2013 – 3:55 pm

May 24, 1974 began as a warm morning in Boston. Pale blue swathed the sky from east to west. It was a good day to start a long trip. My friend AK, a blonde nursing school co-ed, and I traveled by the trolley to Jamaica Plains. We got off at Boynton Street and walked down […]

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A Man’s Best Friend

November 10, 2013 – 2:22 pm

Three years ago my father passed from this world. He is here with me more than ever. A boy’s best friend. Frank Arthur Smith II.

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The Punch Bowl – Boston

October 16, 2013 – 8:00 pm

From http://archive.guidemag.com Steps away from Park Square, in Bay Village, gay patrons poured into Mario’s, a restaurant with an upstairs bar; Jacques, a drag venue that still exists; Cavana’s, a boisterous women’s bar; and, in a former speakeasy space, the more formal Napoleon Club. Not far away, straddling the block between Providence and Boylston Streets, […]

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Early Phone Sex

October 15, 2013 – 9:12 pm

In the summer of 1968 I worked in a Boston phone exchange. There were hundreds of cable banks corresponding the working numbers. My friend and I would eavesdrop on thousands of conversations. Few people said anything of importance, but one couple practically invented phone sex and spoke at the same hour every day. One afternoon […]

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Vanishing Everywhere

August 8, 2013 – 8:00 pm

“What did you miss about New York?” my friends asked me after my return from Thailand. Looking around the city I had to admit that during my eight year absence from the Big Apple I missed nothing of the now, but everything of the then. Gone were CBGBs, the St. Mark’s Theater, The Orchida, Times […]

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