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Monday, February 28, 2011

MEMORIES PT27

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Mom used to say about Dad that you could take the boy out of the country but you can’t take the country out of the boy. This usually came a...
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Sunday, February 27, 2011

MEMORIES PT26

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Dad did a lot of work on our house on Bicknell Hill Rd. A lot of it was landscaping, like planting two weeping willow trees on the side law...
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Saturday, February 26, 2011

MEMORIES PT25

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I was 17 years old when my younger brother Phil was born. On the morning he was born, poor Dad who was usually unflappable actually did som...

MEMORIES PT24

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We didn’t get any pets right away after we moved into the new house. I think the experiences with Flipper and Peppy had put my folks off on...
Thursday, February 24, 2011

MEMORIES PT23

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If yardwork at the new house was enough of a revelation, the start of my sophomore year of high school was another. In Boston I’d taken the...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

MEMORIES PT22

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Moving from the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston to the suburban community of Abington was quite an adjustment. I used to envy my Packar...
Monday, February 21, 2011

MEMORIES PT21

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I graduated from St Matthews 8th grade in 1962 and that fall entered Cathedral High School in Boston. Vernon Eldringhoff from the neighborh...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

THE WRONG JOHN MCFARLAND

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I'd been waiting for two weeks now for a piece of mail from the NARA with the Naturalization Papers for my 2x great grandfather John Mc...
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MEMORIES PT20

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I think it was while we were living at 18 Evans St that our Mom got her stereo console cabinet. It was a big cabinet as stereos were back t...
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MEMORIES PT19

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My maternal grandmother Agnes (Aggie) McFarland White had been one of thirteen children, and one of the younger ones at that. There was eig...
Saturday, February 19, 2011

"WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?" :ROSIE O'DONNELL

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The third episode of WDYTYA was the best so far this season and has replaced the Vanessa Williams installment as my all time favorite in th...
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Friday, February 18, 2011

MEMORIES PT18

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One of the best things about living in Dorchester was the Boston Public Library system. I lived within walking distance of three branches a...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

MEMORIES PT17

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We hadn’t had a dog since we’d left Malden. We did have our first cat, Mittens, when we lived on Capen St. Up until then Mom had been again...