The Way That This Site Is Set Up

Welcome to my music playing web site. It friggin-aye-right Rocks 'n Blues and Rhythms 'n Blues and sometimes tickles your innards too. Guaranteeeed!!!

The way that this site is set up is that there is a list of Other World Wide Web Published Works Of Mine listed down the right side column; then over here in the left section, under this entry, is one more blog post containing introductions to my stories about when I was an 18-year-old kid from Dundalk, Maryland who moved to Patten, Maine in 1968 and became a bear hunting guide and country women's delight; then at the bottom of the page is a set of my music playlists.

You gotta check 'um out and listen 'um to believe me that they're great. Just give them a minute to load onto your monitor screen and away ya' go. Enjoy.

A Guide To My Published Short Stories About Maine

Here is a guide to my short stories about being a Maine bear hunting guide and country women's delight, up in Patten, Maine at Katahdin Lodge and Camps. I will provide links to each of these stories, where they are published on a Maine web site. Some stories are on several web sites.

Just keep in mind that I need a little bit of professional editing help. I also need to do some other 'sprucing up' of the stories, in order for me to be completely satisfied with these written works.

But the stories sure are interesting, entertaining, a tad bit educational, they contain some cool history and are (according to thousands of readers so far) easy and enjoyable to read.

I hope that you enjoy reading one or all of them.

The House Fire is a nice, but scary one (it scared me when it happened, that's for certain). This story is good reading for gentle and not so gentle folks of all ages.

The Day I Fell In Love With Patten Maine ain't nuthin' like you will expect, and it could be a mind blower. It's a real, small town, soap opera scene and a teenagers' thrill a second experience.

An Italian Nice Guy is a good bear hunting story that is really a chipmunk story. It is actually good for kids to read. No bears are even shot at in it. It is fictionalized a bit, but mostly true. I expanded on what I knew about Tony and his family, but they had to be real nice people.

Here also are copies of emails exchanged between myself and the Italian Nice Guy's family, confirming that I wrote his story well.

The Rocket Scientist is a crazy trip about a genuine Washington, DC Rocket Scientist. It is about one of a hunting guide's worst fears and dangers.

Jungle Dirt is something which stands on its own. It was my first attempt at fictionalizing a true story. It is about a Vietnam Veteran's experience, when he went bear hunting in Maine just three days after coming home from fighting hard for a full year 'Nam. It is a good story for all of us Vietnam Era Veterans and others who care about us, and how we were treated in America during and after the Vietnam War. Just about the only fictional parts have to do with the me making some descriptive guesses about the Nam Vet's mother and a small amount was expanded on to the guy's stepfather's description. Boss Hog on the Dukes of Hazard did look exactly like that friggin' jackass of a stepfather though.

Easiest Way To Carry A Dead Bear or My Uncle Finley Couldn't Handle It is a nutty piece, but it does give a darn good hunting tip. It gets right loony, ain't no doubt about it.

Bananastien is about young adults testing the limits in 1969 Patten, ME. Part of it gets real wild on those wild and woolly Maine country roads, when there is a true life high speed police chase.

Driving Northern Mainer Style is a basic "how to guide" on driving on those wild and woolly, climbin' and droppin', twisty and hard turning country and backwoods roads up there in Maine. And also how not to drive them roads. Within that written piece, there is also a story about how I nearly 'bought the farm' early one morning up on the Washburn Road, where it goes into the small city of Caribou, Maine. Ya' better tighten up y'ur seat belts for this one.

My VW Bug Trip To Maine has a hilarious bear hunting scene in it. It's a hoot! And the rest of it is a wild, funny and very, very happy story. It was about a trip of mine back up to Maine, while I was on leave from the Army, just after I had graduated from US Army Photographic Laboratory Technician School, and before I was assigned to overseas duty on Okinawa. This story goes from Patten, ME down to Dundalk, MD and through a bunch of quite memorable experiences.

Then They Own You takes place in 1979, when I tried to work for my Aunt Martha and Uncle Finley Clarke in Maine one more time. This one comes down heavy (in a bad way), as the Hippies used to say.


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