You’ve never been to Maine, know nothing about the state parked up in the right hand corner of the world.
So far north we’re almost in Canada. So for the reader’s digest version..here goes with some highlights about the place in case a question on Maine comes up on Jeopardy for four hundred dollars [...]
I call them “wide bodies”
or Pontiacs.
These soap box derby racers have a driver, usually a past derby champion or veteran racer and a very enthusiastic passenger who gives the orders, makes the calls as heats are run. The big race for Maine, the entire state, is June 19th. For more on the [...]
Frugal and cheap. The two are a pair of different cats in Maine.
Watching your everyday spending for survival, being frugal goes back to living on the farm. Not that long ago we all lived on a patch of dirt with three generations under one roof, working the land. Heating with wood from the [...]
If you grow up in Maine with long views of rolling hills, fields, crystal clean lakes and a low population treading lightly, it is easy to forget it is not like this every where on the planet.
Maine images are vast too as the state is big, more than just lighthouses and lobster.
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The blogs we write about Maine properties, the local community flavor, videos we shoot, edit, post in marketing real estate now started with radio.
Broadcasting in a small market like a Houlton, Maine was a great job for a fourteen year old farm boy. The station WHOU, and two others in Calais and [...]
The drivers of a stock, super stock or master soap box derby car are the best. Because they are kids.
Why wait until you are sixteen to drive a car? The Northern Maine Soap Box Derby hosted their first race in Houlton Maine in 1996. And from 1997 for the next five years [...]
When you see the glossy colored brochures, write ups and tourism industry generated videos, promotional propaganda on Maine, you get excited.
Maine is vastly different than over populated areas with too many people to deal with, drive around, worry about crime wise. It is not like that here…life if so much simpler. After you [...]
Not many people will recommend hitch hiking.
But in Maine, the 4th lowest crime state, I never worried about getting picked up or myself giving someone road side a ride. I worked in broadcasting in Bangor Maine through out college and for two years after I graduated. And it was rare I could get [...]
As cars got quieter, roads improved, speeds on interstate highway systems kept a steady increase as the years zoomed by. Where you live and your day to day hubbub can be like that.
Much of the blur, the faster pace of life involved getting around the growing population of where you live and chasing the [...]
Today snow cancelled flights in to Washington DC’s Regan Airport. And many businesses, kids wondering what is up for Monday for the east coast snow storm that happened on Super Bowl weekend.
My dad was a World War Two B-24 tail gunner and when we watched war films growing up on TV or at [...]
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