By the Way

(as appeared in the Orono Weekly Times Wednesday,  2005)

            It was at the “repeat if necessary” stage while cleaning the car carpets, that I realized I wouldn’t be attending the workshop on genealogy in Warkworth. It rained heavily, so I was greeted by soggy dog smell and it was time to; as the instructions indicated, “Thoroughly vacuum. Apply foam and repeat.”  .....

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Migratory Monarch Butterflies

(as appeared in the Orono Weekly Times Wednesday, October 12, 2005)

In our Beech grove, there stands a simple cabin; screened porch; picnic table out front; a two-seater not far. Our summer cabin has a lovely sloping ceil­ing, beams rising from the wall plates set on concrete footings poured by Grandfathers and Fathers before me.

I was very little and ......

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I credit my early driving experience to the Staples stable of Massey Ferguson tractors. Most of my school holidays spent on the Staples family farm meant mechanical opportunities of all sorts. One vivid memory was crashing a Massey Ferguson 12HP lawn tractor into a tree. The cousins and I took turns hurtling the tractor down the lane pulling each other on a snow sled swerving, the goal to send the rider flying. . . .

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Orono Quartet earns a Guinness World Record
(as appeared in the Orono Weekly Times Wednesday, November 30, 2005)

 Parked beside the red building, they all had different names, this red structure being the oldest.  And although all were all red, we knew this particular barn as the Red Building. Perhaps, it is still filled with straw.  Decades ago, we'd overlap the bales to make forts.    . . .

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