Category Archives: boston

GO PATRIOTS

February 5, 2012 – 12:37 pm

In 2008 I watched the New England Patriots play the New York Giants in Superbowl XLII from halfway around the world in Pattaya. My team had coasted to a 19-0 record and were looking to close out a perfect season. Destiny was thwarted by a late drive in which the Giants QB miraculously connected with [...]

By Peter | Also posted in NEW YORK, Sports | Comments (1)

THE FIRST FORTY MILES by Peter Nolan Smith

December 26, 2011 – 10:51 am

THE FIRST FORTY MILES by Peter Nolan Smith  In late May 1974 my friend AK, a blonde co-ed from BU, and I picked up a Ford Torino Squire not far from the Forest Hills T station. The car was parked in a driveway next to a three-story apartment building off Centre Street. The middle-aged [...]

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THE RAT TRICK by Peter Nolan Smith

December 16, 2011 – 9:46 am

Hockey was bred into the blood of many New England boys. Frozen ponds and backyard rinks were our winter playground. My dreams of playing for the Boston Bruins ended with my father giving my older brother and me a lesson in how to skate backwards. We were standing the wind-swept surface of Watchic Pond. My [...]

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THE HOLE OF HEAVEN by Peter Nolan Smith

December 14, 2011 – 5:18 am

Adam and Eve were banished from Eden for eating apples. This Original Sin condemned future generations to the purgatory of this mortal coil, however from time to time humans have defied this divine decree with repeated attempts to recreate Heaven on Earth. Most of these utopias have been short-lived for nothing irked the true believers [...]

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Da Quincy Quarries – 1994

December 13, 2011 – 4:12 pm
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