Monthly Archives: May 2007

22MPH Grandmother by Gary Crocker

Guest contributor:Gary Crocker, from Maine Humor with Gary Crocker, Maine Humorist & Unregistered Maine Guide My Grandmother!… You know I got on the highway there for a minute and I just remembered Grammy is still driving… Grammy’s 85 (I just

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Typing Champ for a Day

One of the best choices I made in life was Beginners Typing class in high school in 1966. Who would have envisioned $5000 computers 20 years later and then a $500 price tag another 20 years after that? For me

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Mystery Rock in Goulds Pasture

Things formed by nature were familiar to my group of friends Growin’ Up in Maine in the late 1950’s. After years of playing Down Back and exploring every corner of the great outdoors, you eventually recognize and perhaps named many

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Where Derby Turns Into Milo

This topic about the border between Derby and Milo was requested by email from a well known political radio and television talk show host in Maine, and fellow classmate at Milo High School, class of 1967. He recently gave up

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Singing Bass in Every Camp

Almost 100 years ago Henry Ford wanted a Model-T in every driveway, or was that another saying with a chicken in every pot? Colonel Sanders? I normally try to mix it up and avoid consecutive stories on one subject, but

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Grandaddy Bass of Derby Maine

A favorite summer pastime was fishing for largemouth bass on the Sebec River near the old swimming hole Down Back in Derby, Maine. Sunfish were no challenge, but the biggest, and therefore oldest, bass got that way for a reason.

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