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As I write this, it’s the first week of December and we are ending the year with the normal daily and weekly activities at Silver Threads Seniors Club, with…
As I write this, it’s the first week of December and we are ending the year with the normal daily and weekly activities at Silver Threads Seniors Club, with…
Tails of a ghost ship has been mid-coast Maine folklore since the 1800's. It hasn't been seen in over a hundred years, which is probably a good thing.
For 10 years, long ago, there was an elk outside my bedroom window. It never moved. The life-sized bronze statue stood on a pedestal in front of the Elks Lodge in downtown Portsmouth. I lived across from 93 Pleasant St. I was so fascinated by the giant metal deer that I never paid much attention to the three-story brick building that loomed behind. I didn’t know it had been a private home and a hotel, and I didn’t believe the rumor that George Washington slept there. Until last week, I didn’t know its official name is the Treadwell-Jenness House. When I read about a proposal to conv...
When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest, if you must, but don’t you quit. Life is queer with its twists and turns, As every one of us sometimes learns, And many a failure turns about, When he might have won had he stuck it out; Don’t give up though the pace seems slow— You may succeed with another blow. Often the goal is nearer than, It seems to a faint and faltering man,