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Loneliness On The Day Of Love

February 14, 2025 – 3:12 am

The snow fell with silence The clots of flakes feathered the sidewalks Snow shovels scrapped on the concrete I threw out no salt___ Drifts collected by the bottom of brownstones No one came to shovel away the floes That was an old man’s job Mine___ Snow loves the cold I have good gear against winter […]

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THE PRETTIEST GIRL IN NORTHERN MAINE – 2010 – by Peter Nolan Smith

February 2, 2025 – 12:26 pm

Scientists first warned the world about global warming with an 1975 article published in SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. ‘Inadvertent climate modification’ sounded like gobbledygook to the common man, who was more terrified by the possibility of a ‘nuclear winter’ produced by an atomic bomb exchange between the USA and USSR. American oil producers pooh-bayed the National Academy […]

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BLESS ME FATHER by Peter Nolan Smith

January 30, 2025 – 8:38 am

Written February 10, 2022 My First Holy Communion and Confirmation of Faith to the Catholic Church took place at a church in Maine in 1960. My mother dressed me in white to symbolize the purity of my soul, although she had me wear a red jacket with a black velvet lapel. I had a fight […]

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Italians To Go

December 31, 2024 – 6:10 am

If I could click my heels and be anywhere in the USA, my # 1 destination would be Watchic Lake in Maine. My grandfather and his friends dammed a stream at Watchic’s western end to create a lake by building a dam in the 1920s. He built a log cabin for his family and I’ve […]

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The Coast of Maine – Cape Porpoise – 2021

November 8, 2024 – 9:31 am

No matter what things don’t change fast on Cape Porpoise___

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