Tag Archives: boston

NORTH END MIRACLE by Peter Nolan Smith

May 12, 2013 – 12:16 pm

Every Friday evening throughout the 1960s my mother would drive our station wagon into Boston and pick up my father at 50 Milk Street, where he worked for Ma Bell as an electrical engineer. We would have dinner at a restaurant and then drive back to our suburb on the South Shore. My parents loved [...]

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Danger Mr. Smith

April 21, 2013 – 10:38 am

The 1960s Space Race between the USSR and USA exterminated young boys’ worship of westerns. Cowboy hats, vests, guns, and holsters were retired to the closet next to toy boats and teddy bears. I pleaded with my parents for an astronaut costume for Halloween and my father answered my dream with a gleaming space suit [...]

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KICK OUT THE JAMS by Peter Nolan Smith

April 14, 2013 – 10:22 pm

In the fall of 1969 my all-boys parochial school entered a chocolate-selling competition to compete with the other Catholic educational institutions in Boston. The top prize for most sales of the city-wide contest was a concert by a band from Elektra Records. Rumors abounded that the band on offer was The Doors. LIGHT MY FIRE [...]

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We Are Not Alone

April 13, 2013 – 6:47 pm

Last week the National UFO ALERT Rating System has been updated April 4, 2013, with California, Florida, New York and Texas moving to a UFO Alert 3 as the highest reporting states during the month of March 2013, filed with the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) according to Huffington Post. California had 59 sightings in March. [...]

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MISSILE AWAY by Peter Nolan Smith

March 31, 2013 – 4:13 pm

During his youth my older brother was a a good student. He was the top of his class, but he was also a pyromaniac. On several occasions Frunk came close to burning down our house in Maine. After our family moved to a suburb south of Boston in 1960, my brother exemplied our nation’s fascination [...]

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