Category Archives: youth

HORSENECK BEACH by Peter Nolan Smith

May 19, 2013 – 8:05 am

The morning after my senior prom I drove my date down to Horseneck Beach in my VW Beetle. My schoolmates were having a beer bash, but I couldn’t find them in the dunes and Patti suggested that we cruise the beach road. “Maybe they went someplace more secluded.” The junior’s blondish brown air was sweeping [...]

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PROM QUEENS CRY by Peter Nolan Smith

May 18, 2013 – 8:49 pm

Few loves are more true than that of a high school sweetheart. Sophomore sessions of kissing on sofa were upgraded to petting during junior year and pledges of eternal devotion for the final year of high school. I was lucky enough to find myself in such a situation in the Spring of 1970. Kyla Rotta [...]

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Happy Mother’s Day 2012

May 12, 2013 – 11:14 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.

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TAKE ME by Peter Nolan Smith

May 2, 2013 – 7:48 pm

The summer of 1972. Seal Beach south of LA. My college friend and I were staying at his cousin’s beach house. We liked drinking in the dive bar on the PCH. Fish swan underneath a sheet of glass. We thought that was cool. Both of us were 19. Two nights before out departure for San [...]

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Napa Redux

April 23, 2013 – 8:32 pm

In the summer 1971 my friend Peter and I hitchhiked across the Golden Gate Park up into Napa. We stopped at a winery. A keg of red was shaded by an oak tree. Tin cups lay on a battered wooden table.The midday sun was strong. Peter and I drank our fill and some more before [...]

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