Category Archives: youth

CHOCOLATE MAN by Peter Nolan Smith

December 29, 2011 – 8:43 pm

In 1861 Maine was the northern most state on the Eastern Seaboard. The distance from Portland, Maine to rebel lines of Northern Virginia was approximately 500 miles. The 20th Maine Regiment traveled south to engage the enemy. The troops were stricken by a smallpox outbreak in camp and missed the bloody battle of Chancellorsville in [...]

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135 IN THE SHADE by Peter Nolan Smith

December 18, 2011 – 10:59 am

In late-July of 1975 Andy K and I left California on a cool morning. Our summer vacation had come to an end. We hitchhiked east from Pomona at the end of the Valley. Leaving LA wasn’t easy for long-hairs. The locals were the sons of Okie rednecks, but a young Mormon girl stopped at the [...]

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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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Bah Fucking Scumbug

December 13, 2011 – 3:14 pm

I remain true to the old school despite my non-believer status. Today we were hanging ornaments on the tree at the residence in Luxembourg. I came down in a Scrooge-like night garment. The young people regarded me strange and I explained that I was Scrooge. They had no idea what I was talking about. “Don’t [...]

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