Monthly Archives: February 2023

Tom Verlaine July 29, 1978 / Bottom Line

February 6, 2023 – 1:44 pm
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A Walk In The Douglas Forest

February 5, 2023 – 3:05 am

Douglas, Alaska lies across the Gastineau Channel from Juneau underneath Mt. Douglas. Originally a staging ground of the Auke and Taru people for battles against rival tribes, the Treadwell and Douglas townships served the miners of the Juneau gold fields. The population grew to 1722 at the turn of the 20th Century. An explosion ripped […]

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THE LITTLEST BEAR

February 4, 2023 – 9:11 am

Vernon fished the Casco Bay from Peakes Island. The other day-fishers know his boat. A 1985 Seaway 22-footer ran the Drunken Ledge, the Cod Ledges, Big Ridge, and the Tanta’s ‘punkin bottom’ for pollock and cod in the winter. All in sight of the Ram’s Head Light station. Vernon was 56. Fishing was all he […]

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THE LONG MEMORY OF THE CHURCH by Peter Nolan Smith

February 1, 2023 – 12:32 pm

After the Roman Emperor Constantine I accepted Jesus, the once-persecuted Christians sought their revenge against the Greco-Roman pantheists. The burnt became the burners and the killed were the killers, as the diverse cults of the Empire shriveled under the iron fist of the Messiah’s ruthlessness. Mithra and Isis were forsaken en masse for the one […]

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