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A GIRL AT HER BEST by Peter Nolan Smith

June 15, 2025 – 11:37 am

My introduction to baseball came on a warm Saturday morning in April of 1958. My older brother and and I was watching my favorite show, THE THREE STOOGES. Moe was slapping Larry and Curley. My father entered the living room of our house on Falmouth Foresides and shut off the Zenith black-and-white. “It’s too nice […]

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My Father, My Best Friend

June 15, 2025 – 4:10 am

My father, Frank A Smith II came from Maine. His mother and father met during WWI. Edith Hamlin had been a nurse with Royal Canadian Medical Expedition. My grandmother had been trying to make a troopship to France. The gangway was being pulled and a man extended his hand to haul her aboard. That man […]

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Happy Mother’s Day From Maine

May 11, 2025 – 1:14 am

Falmouth Foresides, Maine 1957 My mother in bliss. A summer afternoon with her kids and my father. We were a happy family. Then now and forever. I’m on the far right. 8 years from my first beer. Happy Mother’s Day. We all had one. A mother. Not a beer.

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Loneliness On The Day Of Love

February 14, 2025 – 3:12 am

The snow fell with silence The clots of flakes feathered the sidewalks Snow shovels scrapped on the concrete I threw out no salt___ Drifts collected by the bottom of brownstones No one came to shovel away the floes That was an old man’s job Mine___ Snow loves the cold I have good gear against winter […]

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THE PRETTIEST GIRL IN NORTHERN MAINE – 2010 – by Peter Nolan Smith

February 2, 2025 – 12:26 pm

Scientists first warned the world about global warming with an 1975 article published in SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. ‘Inadvertent climate modification’ sounded like gobbledygook to the common man, who was more terrified by the possibility of a ‘nuclear winter’ produced by an atomic bomb exchange between the USA and USSR. American oil producers pooh-bayed the National Academy […]

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