Category Archives: maine

Watchic Pond Maine 1964

July 16, 2024 – 12:49 pm

Watchic Pond 1964 My grandfather and his friends had dammed a stream to create a lake. A foto of my brothers and sisters reenacting the Titanic sinking. My grandfather Frank A. Smith graduated from Bowdoin in 1912. A college friend drowned in the Titanic sinking. He was older than his classmates having worked the North […]

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THROWING LIKE A GIRL by Peter Nolan Smith

June 16, 2024 – 2:44 am
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THE LITTLEST BEAR

May 15, 2024 – 8:37 am

Quinton fished the Casco Bay from Peakes Island.
 The other day-fishers know his boat.
 A 1985 Seaway 22-footer running the Drunken Ledge,
 The Cod Ledges,
Big Ridge, and the Tanta’s ‘punkin bottom’.
 Pollock and cod in the winter.
 All in sight of the Ram’s Head Light station.
 Quinton 56.
 Fishing all he know.
 Not speaking much,
 […]

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Happy Mother’s Day From Maine

May 11, 2024 – 1:14 am

Falmouth Foresides, Maine 1957 My mother in bliss. A summer afternoon with her kids and my father. We were a happy family. Then now and forever. I’m on the far right. 8 years from my first beer. Happy Mother’s Day. We all had one. A mother. Not a beer.

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THE WRONG SIZE SHOES by Peter Nolan Smith

April 13, 2024 – 8:18 am

Twenty-five minutes after the stroke of Twelve New Year’s Eve 1982 a masked assassin shot dead the main investor a block away from the Continental Club on West 25th Street. The FBI and NYPD Internal Affairs investigating Viktor Malenski’s murder and quickly drew lines between the dots. My ex-girlfriend was living with the dead man’s […]

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