I’d dreamed for decades of building a house adjacent to my grandparents’ land in North Shrewsbury, VT. But we put building off until we were in our 70s – which turned out to be too late. However, we learned a lot about building in the North, and I’m taking this opportunity to pass some of […]
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I grew up with stories of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as my father had grown up nearby and he received his masters degree there. Here is my favorite story from him: A streetcar stopped in front of MIT and was surrounded by a crowd of students. They began to get on and off the
We moved to Fall Church from South Carolina (see my Age 5-8; Isle Of Palms, SC post) because my father, a naval officer, was transferred every 2-4 years. While my parents looked for a house we stayed for a couple of months in an apartment on a farm – this was where I first encountered
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The Isle Of Palms is the first place that I really remember and we lived there around 1950. It was connected to the mainland by a single bridge and is near Charleston, SC. My father, who was in the Navy, was stationed at a Naval Base nearby. Our house was the last house on the road to the dump before an undeveloped marshy area, and was just a couple of blocks from the beach.
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As a kid, stuttering was just part of life and I wasn’t really aware of it. When I was seven, my parents noticed me hitting my right thigh with my fist. This was my way of interrupting the stuttering, but it caused a constant bruise.
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