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TONIGHT IS NOT HALLOWEEN

October 30, 2023 – 2:59 am

Halloween has been celebrated on Oct. 31 for most of my entire life, but three year ago a Connecticut State representative floated an ill-conceived idea to re-schedule the holiday to fall on a weekend. “Halloween is fun night for the whole family, but not so much when you have to race home from work, get […]

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Seagulls In The Air

August 23, 2023 – 2:03 am

Age six Summer My best friend and I walked To the end of the McKinley Road On Falmouth Foresides. Portland across the harbor. The color of the water was a Maine blue. Seagulls skated through the cloudless sky. Chaney pulled out darts from his father’s den. He handed me one. I threw it The dart […]

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Dtik Ang – Stuttering in Thai

December 20, 2021 – 7:25 am

My speech problems were many in my youth across the harbor from Portland, Maine. A stutter coupled with a lisp and stammer forced the school authorities of Falmouth Foresides to test my mental competence. The teachers were surprised to discover through a battery of intelligence exams that I was the smartest child within the school […]

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A GIRL AT HER BEST by Peter Nolan Smith

October 4, 2021 – 11:37 am

My introduction to baseball came on a warm Saturday morning in April of 1958. My older brother and and I was watching my favorite show, THE THREE STOOGES. Moe was slapping Larry and Curley. My father entered the living room of our house on Falmouth Foresides and shut off the Zenith black-and-white. “It’s too nice […]

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Thunder And Rain Over Maine

August 4, 2017 – 9:48 am

Maine was my home state from 1953 to 1960. My family’s house was in Falmouth Foresides. Portland was across the harbor. The coast had been civilized for centuries. First by the Indians and then the French and English. Rivers ran inland to the mountains. A savage wilderness. Few roads. Only weather grew in that land. […]

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