Weird New England and Old George
Checking Out the Local Sights A while ago I was preparing to write about two odd places that I remembered from my childhood in New England. More like landmarks really.…
Poppins or Goldfinger
Boston on a Holiday Night The streets of downtown Boston were gray and cold, but the windows of the department stores we had come to town to view were bright…
The Snake Quilt
Famous Blankets Linus Van Pelt had his blanket, and so did I. Sort of. Actually it wasn’t a blanket. To be precise it was a quilt. It was made with…
Fireflies and Ticonderoga
Making an Indoor Fort First you placed two chairs, preferably wooden with high backs, some three to five feet apart, and then stretched between them a blanket or a sheet…
Sunday Drives in Essex County
And What We Saw on Our Drives Just as in Colville, when we lived in New England my family liked to go for drives on the weekends. We took in…
The Managed Outcome
Science Education Science at Saltonstall was by the book. No scientific equipment that is. A periodic table on a drop down roll at the front of the class, maybe, or…
Moony and the Baptists
Checking Out the Baptists I do know who invited me to the Baptist church in Salem – one of my best friends did – Steve, or Moony as he liked…
My Brother vs the UU Church
Checking on Religon I have no idea how we ended up going to the Universalist Unitarian church in Salem. I don’t believe it was a friend at school that invited…
The Summer of Bond, James Bond
A Big Change for the Family As I related before my father held down two jobs in Salem, one as driver for the Salem Laundry and the other as assistant…
Strangler Redux
MORE OF THE STORY There was another reason that my mom and my gramma were upset after the woman was strangled down the street on September 8, 1963. A few…