more... from my childhood...

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Traveling with my Uncle Doug and Aunt Dot in their new Ford Crown Victoria...with the glass roof. Fresh caught lobster with melted butter and corn on the cob... picking a cup of wild blueberries so Mom could make a cake... the lone trout living in the shallow well... riding on the hay wagon while the men gather hay in the pasture... picking blackberries and raspberries and knowing a bear is on the other side of the berry patch.. rowing a small boat around the harbor with my cousins... watching the light at the airport in Trenton Maine shine through the bedroom window and dance on the walls... sitting on the front porch with Grandpa and watching the tourists drive by o their way to Acadia and Bar Harbor... siting on the lawn and watching the fireworks at Bar Harbor on the 4th... going to the Blue Hill Fair... roaming through the junkyard at Overlocks looking for parts for my Dad's 1940 Chevy Coupe... seeing Fantasia in a theater when it was first released courtesy of Mr. Cunningham, the theater owner.. fishing for flounder at the base of the Sullivan bridge... roaming along the shore in Northeast Harbor Maine... checker berry (wintergreen) growing wild... collecting wild berries for jam.. snow sledding down the hill st the Crabtree house.. going to Gott's store in Franklin when stores had penny candy... watching my Dad build a chimney from the basement to the top.. roaming the woods behind the house fearing nothing.. riding in a wagon as the horse pulled it to the cemetery... playing cowboys and indians... the early exposure to rock and roll and rhythm and blues...driving to Bangor (the big city)... traveling from Maine to California by car (1959)... seeing segregation in Mississippi (1959)... my first night in California (Indio, 1959)... my first day in school in Orange California.. growing up fast in Southern California... my first car (a 1957 Chevy Bel Air Coupe - I should have bought the 1958 Chevy Impala instead)... more later...

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