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Thursday, October 28, 2010

A THURSDAY ROADTRIP TO WORLD'S END

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The temperature today was a very unAutumn-like 76 so I went out to enjoy the weather. After all, this is New England.; we're not likely...
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

A SUNDAY ROADTRIP TO NEW YORK CITY PART2

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We decided to eat when we reached Ellis island so we headed into the cafe and bought lunch. I had a turkey burger with french fries and we ...
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

A SUNDAY ROADTRIP TO NEW YORK CITY PART1

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Back in August my sister and I had to cancel a weekend trip to New York City, but last week Cheryl suggested we try a one day run down thi...
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Thursday, October 21, 2010

ANOTHER MAINE SONG FROM NICK HUMPHREY

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Last week singer-songwriter  Nick Humphrey shared with us his song "The Wangan Camp"  which is based on the poem of the same nam...
Saturday, October 16, 2010

WHY I STOPPED USING FOUNTAIN PENS

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This afternoon I needed a pen to write something down and a co-worker handed me one. When I pulled the cap off, I was surprised to see it w...
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Thursday, October 14, 2010

THE HOUSE THAT STOOD HERE.

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The house that stood here was big and white, and nearly a century old. It had a  big kitchen, a walk-through bathroom, And a small col...
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THE SECOND GREAT AMERICAN LOCAL POEM AND SONG GENEALOGY CHALLENGE!

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It's time for the Second Great American Local Poem And Song Genealogy Challenge! As you can see, I've added music to this year...
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

"THE WANGAN CAMP SONG " BY NICK HUMPHREY

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A few weeks back I shared a poem by Maine poet Holman Day, entitled "The Wangan Camp" which was about a company store in a lumb...
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Sunday, October 10, 2010

A SUNDAY GENEALOGY EXCURSION OF SORTS 2

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Having failed last Sunday in my quest to find the gravestone of my distant cousin James C Gurney, I returned to Mt Pleasant Cemetery in Ro...
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Saturday, October 09, 2010

GRANDUNCLE CLARENCE REMEMBERS MORE CONCLUSION

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In the final installment of excerpts from a 1975 interview, GrandUncle Clarence recalls more about his life as a logger in Oxford County, M...
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Friday, October 08, 2010

GRANDUNCLE CLARENCE REMEMBERS MORE5

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  GrandUncle Clarence led an interesting life. Here he talks about blowing up a mountaintop and handling a team of skittish horses. And h...
Thursday, October 07, 2010

GRANDUNCLE CLARENCE REMEMBERS MORE4

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In this installment, My granduncle Clarence P. West talks about driving logs over the Azicohos Dam, and describes how a wad of chewing tob...
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THE 98TH EDITION OF THE CARNIVAL OF GENEALOGY IS UP!

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I've been so absorbed in working on my sources and with transcribing GrandUncle Clarence's interview that I missed seeing until thi...
Wednesday, October 06, 2010

GRANDUNCLE CLARENCE REMEMBERS MORE3

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In this excerpt from the 1975 interview, GrandUncle Clarence talks about water power and some of the aspects of logging and lumber drives....
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Tuesday, October 05, 2010

GRANDUNCLE CLARENCE REMEMBERS MORE2

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Here's more from the 1975 interview in Maine Profiles of my Granduncle Clarence West by Lynne Franklin. In this excerpt he talks abou...
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Monday, October 04, 2010

GRANDUNCLE CLARENCE REMEMBERS MORE1

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Back in 2008 I did a series of posts in which I shared a published interview with my granduncle Clarence P. West in which he looked back ...
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Sunday, October 03, 2010

A SUNDAY GENEALOGY EXCURSION OF SORTS

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It was a Sunday without a Patriots football game to watch, so after sorting and loading up my laundry I drove Ping the Wonder Car over to ...
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"MENDING WALL" BY ROBERT FROST

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Robert Frost was Californian by birth but lived for a time here in New England and many of his poems speak about life here. The following o...
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Thursday, September 30, 2010

THE GENEALOGY CIRCLE GAME

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And the seasons, they go go round and round. The painted ponies go up and down. We're captured on the carousel of time. We can't ...
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Sunday, September 26, 2010

GENEALOGY DAYTRIP3

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This past Thursday's Genealogy Daytrip was a special one. My Aunt Dorothy and her daughter, my Cousin Diana, were on their way up to B...
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