The bicycle photograph shown here gives away the ending of this episode of Growin’ Up in Maine, so I’ll just work up to the lesson learned. Some mistakes are only made once. This one was during the summer of 1960…
The bicycle photograph shown here gives away the ending of this episode of Growin’ Up in Maine, so I’ll just work up to the lesson learned. Some mistakes are only made once. This one was during the summer of 1960…
This may be my favorite photo from Growin’ Up in Maine, and was taken on the Sebec River in Derby at the end of a treaure hunt around 1961. The picture is yours truly in a very rare photograph of…
As a teenager in the 1960’s, that long awaited moment arrived. It was time for my first car. Like most teens I was absorbed in emotion and ignorance, and prone to making bad choices. I have since learned that parental…
This little known poor man’s equivalent to a Mediterranean Riviera resort located in Milo, Maine was at Hovey’s Beach on the Pleasant River. The jet setters shown enjoying the beach here were accompanied by their parents after paying the 10…
I witnessed Khruschev on television in September 1960 banging his right shoe on the desk at the United Nations screaming “We will bury you!”. Many Americans took the threat very seriously imagining all out nuclear war; underground bunker salespeople made…
Sunday morning rituals Growin’ Up in Maine included dressing up for church, and Mom putting a pot roast on the stove before we took off for Milo. It wasn’t until years later as an adult that I learned our paternal…