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THE PRETTIEST GIRL IN NORTHERN MAINE by Peter Nolan Smith

February 6, 2017 – 2:34 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 and American oil producers pooh-bayed the National […]

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Danger – Moose Crossing

September 4, 2016 – 10:15 am

Back in 2008 GOP made a big deal out of Sara Palin’s ability to kill a moose. The Alaskan governor claimed that she used to wake up at 3am to shoot them. Most people would still be in bed. Personally I have nothing against guns, but coming from Maine my relationship with moose is different […]

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A MAN OF SPEED by Peter Nolan Smith on Kindle

June 29, 2016 – 12:09 pm

In early September of 1960 Hurricane Donna struck New England as a category 2/3 storm. The radio station WBZ announced numerous school closing. My primary school on the South Shore, Our Lady of the Foothills, was one of the first on the list following Beaver Country Day School in Newton. My older brother and I […]

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Aye Aye War Ships

May 21, 2016 – 2:55 pm

In my youth my father drove our family north from Falmouth Foresides to Bath to witness the launching of various warships into the Kennebuc River. We were always impressed by the massive steel hulls sliding down the slipways to the river and the crowd always applauded an addition to the US Naval Fleet. America was […]

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Juvenile Mobile Lock-Up

May 21, 2016 – 11:10 am

The Catholic Church in Maine promoted procreation in hopes that those of the faith would demographically overwhelm the State’s predominant worship of Protestantism. A devout member of the Roman Church my mother produced six healthy children through the 1950s. Our family car was a Ford station wagon and my father feared one of us slipping […]

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