Tag Archives: maine

September 10, 1970 – Journal Entry – East Village

September 10, 2021 – 7:09 pm

Gold, jewels, power, hate, and sex. Why nations fight wars People decided to die rather than live Stupid reasons. I had a friend in Maine. Chaney and I promised never to swim alone. My family moved from Falmouth Foresides in June of 1960 A week later Chaney drowned in Sebago Lake He was eight. In […]

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My Father, My Best Friend

June 20, 2021 – 4:10 am

My father, Frank A Smith II came from Maine. His mother and father met during WWI. Edith Hamlin had been a nurse with Royal Canadian Medical Expedition. My grandmother had been trying to make a troopship to France. The gangway was being pulled and a man extended his hand to haul her aboard. That man […]

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The New Ice Age

January 27, 2021 – 3:02 pm

Most people in the world accept the threat of Climate Change or Global Warming, however over 13% of Americans along with the Saudis and Indonesians deny that the rampant greed of Mankind has any effect on the weather and another 40% of my countrymen are agnostics. Right-wing newspapers report the expansion of glaciers, while scientists […]

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Italians To Go

December 23, 2020 – 4:10 pm

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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Zombie Strippers / Kelly’s Heroes Drive-In Double Bill

July 10, 2020 – 8:44 am

My parents exposed their children to the magic of cinema at the Cornish Drive-In in Maine. The screen faced the pine forest and the owner’s house served as the concession stand. The grandmother sold salted popcorn and bottles of ice-cold Coke from the porch and her son worked the projector housed in an old chicken […]

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