Category Archives: boston

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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Bruins June 17, 2012 – The Cup

June 17, 2024 – 1:05 pm

Twelve years ago June 17, 2012 That morning I was at work on 47th Street and my coworker at the diamond exchange said there was a big crowd before the NHL store. I realized that the Bruins might have come to show off the Stanley Cup. My boss Manny asked where I was going. “Personal […]

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BACKWARDS ON ICE by Peter Nolan Smith

June 16, 2024 – 10:06 am

Back in 2014 the Bruins overcame a horrible 1st period to tie the Blackhawks and force another sudden death overtime. This time the flow of time was in the Bruins’ favor and Paille scored the game winner. Game 3 will be in Boston. I love hockey. Several years ago I beat my cousin Oil Can […]

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Trolleys and Bars

April 23, 2024 – 6:29 am

Oh the trolleys of Boston. The screech Of steel on subterranean rail, The Boston College trolley lurching into Park Station. I don’t know if I will ever return To Boston. Like Charley on the MTA The man never to return. Orange and white trolleys Me and my older brother With my Nana On the tram […]

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4:20 4/20 2024

April 20, 2024 – 3:20 am

Police and parents demonized Marijuana during my youth. Reefer smokers were condemned by the courts. John Sinclair, the MC5 radical, was sentenced to ten years of prison for the crime of ‘giving’ an undercover agent two joints. The severity of his punishment did not deter the millions of marijuana smokers of the 60s from becoming […]

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