Category Archives: New England

Bertha Goes Whaling 1871

August 27, 2023 – 1:13 am

I want to be an angel And with the angels stand, A crown upon my forehead And a harp in my hand. The ship was sold in March, 1873. Capt. Hamblin, my father, had decided to give up whaling and go home. The ship sent home 895 barrels of oil and never went back to […]

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The South Shore to Maine – New England – Quinton Sprague and Peter Nolan Smith

August 24, 2023 – 3:08 am

THE SOUTH SHORE TO MAINE by Quinton Arundel At the 169 Willem gives his blessing to our road trip

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Emily Dickinson Antithesis – I’M FUCKED – ARE YOU FUCKED TOO

July 18, 2023 – 12:29 pm

I’m fucked. Who are you? Are you fucked too? Then there’s a pair of us. Don’t tell them. They are not us. They’d snitch us out – You know. How dreay to no be fucked! How dreary as a frog. To live as an alias to please them All summer long To an admiring bog.

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July 20, 1978 – Provincetown – Journal Entry

July 16, 2023 – 2:35 pm

Provincetown is packed with cruising homos and hippies retired from the world. P-Town is the end of the world. Thankfully beyond the end of US6 and a ferry ride away from Boston. Ann suffers from motion sickness after a morning session of sit-ups and yoga. I feel free her, fresh sea air, a morning fuck, […]

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Best Meal Of All

May 19, 2023 – 12:05 pm

Next week my younger sister and her husband are leaving for a holiday in Northern Italy. I am so envious, as I have been confined to New York City for the past year, due to a long illness. My body has been steadily healing after a major operation over Yulemas, but the doctors have strongly […]

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