Tag Archives: maine

Christmas Tree Burning

January 28, 2014 – 3:40 pm

When I was a kid in Maine, every family on Falmouth Foresides, Maine dragged their desiccated Christmas tree to the town dump. My father unloaded ours from the rear of the Ford station wagon and dumped it over the snowy bluff to join a score of orange spruce trees. My younger brother was a pyromaniac […]

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Tongue To Metal

January 7, 2014 – 7:18 pm

As a child I lived in maine, where winter was winter. A good time for sledding. At Pine Grove Primary School Skeeter Kearsy the school bully wanted to test the theory that if you put your tongue to metal it would stick there. No one told him to stop. He liked to beat up everyone. […]

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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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Friend and Family

August 1, 2012 – 9:17 am

My paternal grandfather had qualified to represent the USA in the pole vault for the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, unfortunately Frank Arthur Smith I broke his leg at an exhibition in Portland and he was replaced by the alternate jumper. Harry Babcock of the USA won the event topping the height of 3.95 meters. […]

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TWICE THE MAN by Peter Nolan Smith

July 28, 2012 – 12:15 am

My good friend Marge had lived a long life. The Maine native had served as the athletic director at several all-women’s colleges in New England. The nonagenarian exercised daily and ate healthy foods. Marge abstained from alcohol, although she liked a cold beer on a hot summer day on Watchic Pond. Back in 1927 my […]

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