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up on 44 years this June since on Highland Ave. Peter and Paul doused hand cut french fries from ourselves, our relationship with a
wearing the black gown and square Johnston on Salem St. you could the Lunch Box on Broadway? It was loved one, spiritual connections,
hat that you and I wore marching easily walk to Bowdoin Street close by and in the park, that did and answers to the nagging quest
around in the gym on 7 Bird Street? School. Heck, Mike Jenkins was not have the outdoor amphitheater for juggling our priorities. Two Are
Me neither. Houlton, ME was a only two houses away. Lennie Rotary helped make happen, at that Better will no doubt inspire you,
super place to grow up because it Carmichael was just a few more time. Where all ages now enjoy the but the fun in these pages is riding
was safe and we were not lazy or houses away from Mike. Not sure outdoor summer musical concerts along with the Bishops." Over 100
entitled. None of us were trust fund if Tim McGillicuddy, who's Dad held each ursday night, weather color photos supplement vivid
babies that I know of and we had to lived across from the school in permitting. descriptions of their magnifi cent
work for what we had. e entire later years, lived in the bungalow surroundings. Embrace life like
village did have a role in how we at the time or not. at gray house Do you remember walking down never before. Read Two Are Better,
turned out and the skill set we have is where our new town manager to F.W. Woolworth's and sitting and begin your own quest to more
to work with in life. is buying to make it her new at the lunch counter for a shake or adventurous living."
Shiretown home. ice cream sundae? I remember the
If you were from a town outside fi re there. And before that event, ank you also to Ann Johnston
Houlton ME but under the SAD Did any of you attend Central some of us in our class of 1975 Parker who cued me in at the
29 umbrella you may have started School where the Aroostook went there for other reasons during eleventh hour deadline of what to
out in the Littleton School which County Sheriff 's offi ce is now as noon lunch break. Classmate, write for this alumni installment on
is now the Southern Aroostook your next educational stop? It was Brian Williams, told his teacher, that literary development. Not sure
Agricultural Museum. Ever been a very big deal when it was spring Mrs. Barker, one morning he had if she knew fi rst or class of 1975
to one of their public suppers? or fall and you could bring your forgotten his mother's birthday. He member, Rob Brown, spilled the
MMmmmm good as the soup bike to this school building on borrowed twenty dollars from her. beans on the social media grapevine.
company used to sing on the the corner of School and Military Brian zipped down to Woolworth's Rob is in the sunny state of Florida
jingles. Or you may have began Streets. e next move was a short to buy big boxes of the newest singing Jimmy Buff ett songs,
your public school education at the one to advance through the grades. shipment of Topps baseball cards applying sunscreen and enjoying life
Wellington School in Monticello. Lambert School, that was the old that had just came in that day. He walking the sandy beaches looking
High School, before the one we paid Mrs. Barker back the next day, for sea glass. He no longer has use
Did you ride the big yellow bus attended at the tail end wrap up to and I'm not sure if it was really his for a snow shovel like he did living
into Houlton and not get delivered receive our diplomas. Lambert was mom's birthday or not. Or if she back in Hampden, ME, raising a
and picked up by Mom and Dad just one property away to the south. collected baseball cards too with all family and playing accountant bean
or Gram and Gramps like today? I Tim Bishop and Jane Harbison that gum included packaged with counter man. I used to run into
don't remember calling the yellow could walk from the corner of the American and National league Rob anytime his or my boys played
bus the "loser cruiser", did you? Court and Green Street easily to get players. Bet some of those puppies against each other in high school ice
Did you walk to school? If you to and from school without a bus or from back in the late 1960's, early hockey games between the purple
were Dave Tingley on Lincoln / parent's car ride. 1970's are worth a lot if you market Hampden Broncos and black,
Washburn St. Doug Britton on them right on Ebay or some rare white and blue jerseyed Houlton
North St. or Maurice Martin and Frank McPartland remembers baseball card collector site. Hodgdon Blackhawks.
Lori Palmer Weston on Highland walking to St Mary's School under
Ave. you hoofed it to Bowdoin a continuous umbrella of elm And speaking of Tim Bishop, Speaking of hockey, when
Street School. Where Mrs Phyllis trees. And he could do it without he wrote a book. Spent some classmates Jace Trickey, Kenny
Nelder was my favorite teacher in getting wet when it was raining in quality time with his wife biking Hill, Mike Grendell, Mike Carroll
fi rst grade. Cecilia McGillicuddy the morning and afternoon jaunts. across country and putting pen from our class faced off to play it
was up front using the blackboard is was before Dutch Elm disease to paper to tell the story of what was a little diff erent than now. It
chalk and eraser in second grade. took out one by one the canopy it was like. e book might have was at the place you and I skated
And Edith Gray, who my Dad also of green, then yellow, orange and had a title of "Saddle Sores And to music while it was snowing
had at the same school in third red that took them out for good. Potholes Collected On A Western or bright sunshine all around us.
grade, put the fi nishing touches Barbara Rush on Kelleran, Cathy Flyer And A Schwinn" but he When the high school hockey team
before release from the fi nal grade. Ward on Burleigh, Kate Madigan and Debbie his wife changed it dropped the puck, chased the black
To fi nish out the tour of duty at on Court, Mike Currie on Park to something diff erent their agent circle, it was an outdoor rink before
Bowdoin Street School, they let (now Randall Ave) and others in suggested might work better. Order the one that caved in under too
you walk down to Drew’s Market, our class attended the Water Street it on Amazon or wherever you heavy snow loads in 1998. If the
a corner store, for penny candy at Catholic educational center. at buy your books and look for the puck was lifted a little too forcible
noon time. was once the Customs house and paperback title "Two Are Better: and fl ew up and out over snow
not sure if it had other uses along Midlife Newlyweds Bicycle Coast bank behind the outdoor boards,
I lived in the country... like most the way. at brick smasher is now To Coast". Here is the online intro the game sometimes stopped until
that did they rounded us up and we a private residence lived in by just to the nuts and bolts of this book it was retrieved. e bucket emptied
all attended Bowdoin Street school two people. ey are a couple who from a fellow classmate! Way to go fast playing outdoor where the
riding the bus. Bus 13 with short work online buying and selling Timmy and Debbie! puck did not stay rink contained
but feisty Hibby ompson, as our books. Would you want their winter with glass, nets, continuous boards.
driver, picked us up and brought heating bill? "Waiting upon the Lord takes on And the Zamboni was the parents
us home. We would get stuck new meaning when you've been clearing off the snow by hand with
sometimes in Porter Settlement Send in your educational school searching for companionship for scoops and shovels.
Road winter snow bank drifts, and experiences to include and share over thirty years. Such was the case
have to get out to help push the bus in the next fall edition of the for Tim and Debbie Bishop. At age Adding the water to repair the
down the road after doing a little alumni newsletter. Tell all when 52, the couple fi nally found in each scratches, chips, dips and grooves
shoveling. Bowdoin Street School, a Fair Street, Pleasant, Longfellow other that special someone they'd on the frozen sheet of ice naturally
beautiful three story brick building, closed in consolidation moves. You been searching for years to marry. not artifi cially. If Mother Nature
was on the multi corner elevated and I missed Houlton Elementary ey moved from marriage proposal and Jack Frost cooperated with
lot located on the northwest end of and Southside Schools located and wedding, to Tim's "retirement" temperatures below freezing. e
town, before the hospital merger on the end of South Street as and relocation, to embarking on locker rooms in the log clubhouse
caused HRH to move into our an educational option. I also their cycling adventure in only ten did not have bathrooms with
beloved Putnam Grove. don't know of many that were weeks.” lots of private showers in tile like
homeschooled like happens today. today. e "locker rooms" were
Putnam Grove was where we all Early reviewer Scott Emack knows partitioned off with a clothesline
had a last day year end picnic to More thoughts about what it this isn't just another travelogue: rope and an army blanket or two
celebrate the fi nish of each school was like so you never forget your "Framed within a coast-to-coast to divide up the opposing teams
year. If you were Dave Tingley on hometown experience growing up biking odyssey with its daunting changing areas for hockey gear
Lincoln/Washburn St. or Maurice where we were all pretty darn lucky. challenges lies a deeper and back to street clothes. Today if you
Martin and Lori Palmer Weston Do you remember getting vinegar engaging view of discovering have not been to the John Millar

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