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BIG FOOT by Peter Nolan Smith

November 30, 2021 – 6:51 am

In 1977 I moved out of my SRO room in Greenwich Village to the East Village with my hillbilly girlfriend. The third-floor walk-up on East 10th Street had a bathtub in the kitchen and a water closet off the living room. I carved Alice’s name on the wooden window sill. We lasted until 1979. The […]

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Beware of Moose

November 2, 2021 – 12:03 am

Several Christmas Eves ago I traveled north from New York to Boston on the Lucky Star bus. My sisters and I attended a party at our old next door neighbors from the South Shore. Everyone was in good spirits. I drank a little more than more but not more than everyone. It was a time […]

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Danger – Moose Crossing

September 4, 2016 – 10:15 am

Back in 2008 GOP made a big deal out of Sara Palin’s ability to kill a moose. The Alaskan governor claimed that she used to wake up at 3am to shoot them. Most people would still be in bed. Personally I have nothing against guns, but coming from Maine my relationship with moose is different […]

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