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NEW YEAR’S EVE ALL RIGHT by Peter Nolan Smith

December 31, 2024 – 1:10 pm

In the Spring of 1969 my teenage sweetheart’s mother was dating a Chilean pianist. One Friday evening the two adults left the brunette cheerleader in charge of the house and after she put her younger brother to bed, I came over for a study session. An hour at the books was our passport to a […]

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JOURNAL ENTRY DECEMBER 27, 1978 – EAST VILLAGE

December 27, 2024 – 5:52 pm

. The visit to my family in the Blue Hills had been comforting, but I hadn’t said a single word about Alice’s possible pregnancy. Not to my parents or sisters or brothers. At the dinner table I saw how proud my father was of his wife and family and I asked, if I would feel […]

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12/7/1960

December 7, 2024 – 1:01 am

Published 2013 Seventy-SIX years ago Japanese aircraft attacked the US Pacific Fleet. Nearly every capital ship in Pearl Harbor was sunk of severely damaged by bombs or torpedoes and the Pacific Ocean became a Japanese lake until Midway. The next day President Roosevelt declared before Congress, “December 7th shall live forever as a day of […]

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Pumpkin Stand Bowling 1962

October 30, 2024 – 7:06 am

Route 28 From Chatham On Cape Cod To Manchester New Hampshire. The four-laner contracted to two Through the Blue Hills South of Boston___ Wider again after the lights After Chicktawbut Road Passing my neighborhood A fruit stand sold pumpkins On Halloween___ That evening Hundreds lay unprotected No lights Our gang of boys and girls Sleathily […]

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Burning A Draft Card Never

July 21, 2024 – 7:51 pm

After the 1963 assassination of JFK, the United States became more embroiled in the Vietnam civil war. Support for our involvement was widespread, however according to Wikipedia a twenty-two year-old conscientious objector, Gene Keyes, setting fire to his card on Christmas Day 1964. While the federal government declared the destruction of a draft card a […]

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