How odd it seems now after spending hours every day torturing the family and neighbors with trumpet lessons beginning in the fourth grade, only to give it up entirely 7 years later after making first trumpet first chair. The music…

Growin up in Maine, the real thing for cooling off in the 1950’s was Popsicles®, and they were 5 cents back then. For those of us on limited budgets (8 kids in the family), winter provided a free alternative as…

My hometown is known for its 3 rivers. Cedar log rafting on white water is dirt cheap, and extremely dangerous, but one early spring in the 1960’s 2 teenagers from Derby, Maine and I decided to give it a try.…

Guest contributor: Judith Hayes, Maine USA and Maine Historian When I was a child growing up in Portland, the streets were safe. They were our playground. Jump rope, hopscotch, soft ball and other games were more fun when played on…