Gold medalist burned up local track
4/13/09 | 63 comments
Wayne Reilly

Gold medalist burned up local track


By Wayne Reilly
Special to the NEWS

"Can Johnny Hayes Beat Them Both?” That question was posed to sports fans in a large ad in the Bangor Daily News a century ago this week. The big race was April 15, 1909. This was back in the days when male Bangoreans loved a race — human or horse — almost as much as they loved a good prizefight.

The marathon craze infected the Queen City after Johnny Hayes became the first American to win the event at the Olympics the year before in London. Now Hayes was coming to Bangor to take on two other well-known runners in what seems today like an odd display of talent. Hayes was going to compete against a two-man relay team running 15 miles around the Bangor Auditorium. Veteran runner Pat Dineen would start the race, and John H. Neary, who also happened to be the basketball coach at the University of Maine that year, would finish it. Could Johnny Hayes beat them both?

The press was ecstatic. “This is the first time that a real Marathon crack has been seen in Maine since the great craze for this sort of sport was started by the big Olympic games in London last summer,” wrote one sports reporter in the Bangor Daily News the day before the event.

Johnny Hayes’ win at the Olympics had been surrounded by controversy. Dorando Pietri crossed the finish line first, but he had been assisted by spectators after taking a wrong turn and collapsing several times in the home stretch. In later competitions, the Italian beat Hayes.

But the son of Irish immigrants was a scrappy performer. At 5 foot 3½ inches and weighing just 124 pounds, “the fleet little boy from Manhattan” as the BDN called him, had placed near the top at the Boston Marathon and won or done well in other famous running events of the day. On April 3 he had won $1,500 for coming in third in a race in New York City (in which Dorando Pietri placed second).

At age 39 and only an inch taller than Hayes, Pat Dineen was referred to in the newspapers as “the grand old man of the six-day track.” He had been declared “champion of the world” in 1902 in Philadelphia when he ran 519 miles over six days and nights, finishing 10 miles ahead of his nearest competitor, having slept for only six hours and lost 15 pounds, said the BDN. A native of Ireland, Dineen called South Boston home.

Neary of South Natick, Mass., was also “no novice,” declared one of the many newspaper headlines boosting the Bangor race. One of Neary’s greatest claims to fame was that he had run even with Tom Longboat for 19 miles in the Boston Marathon, the year the great Indian runner set a course record. The 6-foot-2-inch Neary at 23 was as youthful as Hayes.

Hayes arrived in Bangor to fanfare. “Johnny Hayes is in town. The real Johnny Hayes, who got away with them all in the Marathon at the Olympics games in London, and since that time has been figuring in some of the biggest running events that the United States ever saw,” declared the Bangor Daily Commercial on April 14. “He is short in stature and is built close to the ground and has a chest that tells the secret of his success. Never having puffed at the fragrant weed or used any liquor of an intoxicating nature, he has a breathing apparatus and a heart that has meant a whole lot to him in the last year.”

Johnny was polite and modest. He had been out of condition, having entered vaudeville for a time after his Olympic victory, but he said he hoped he was on the road back to physical perfection.

The race was expected to attract a big crowd. Matthew J. Cowhig, the local promoter, had set aside special seats in the balcony for women and lined up the Bangor Band to play patriotic pieces. The cost of a seat ranged from 50 cents to $1.50. This was back when you could sit in a movie theater all day for a nickel.

The Bangor Auditorium of the period was a huge, drafty wooden building with magnificent acoustics at the corner of Main and Buck streets. The most famous opera singers in the world appeared there each fall in the Maine Festival. During the rest of the year it was available for political rallies, roller-skating and anything that required lots of space. Sixteen laps made a mile, said the BDN.

On the night of the race, the sportswriter for the BDN got to reminiscing: “To men whose sporting memory runs back 25 years, the scene in the Auditorium during the last half of Thursday night’s race recalled old days in the Norombega [Hall], when the rugged little Jerry Hourihan of East Boston, the graceful Dan Herty of Revere ... and others famed on the sawdust track used to struggle for the good money hung up by James H. Gillespie — when the band played Garryowen, the crowds yelled and cheered and the general excitement woke the echoes for blocks around.”

But times had changed. The reporter’s nostalgic recollections came first in the story, because the turn out for the race was a disappointment. The weather — “ugly and raw and the streets muddy” — kept away the “thousands” who were expected. “The excitement of 25 years ago may be revived, but it can’t be done in a minute,” said the old reporter.

Even with such a handicap, Dineen and Neary were no match for the speedy little Olympic victor. Hayes had started out “with the confidence and ease of a boy running the block to hear the band play.” The “Gotham wonder” beat Dineen by six laps and stayed just ahead of Neary in the seesaw battle that followed. “Bedlam reigned in the big hall,” the reporter wrote. “Cheers for Neary and shouts of ‘Hold him, Johnny — go it, Hayes!”

Despite the poor turnout, marathon fever was still in the air. Promoter Cowhig promised a real 26-mile marathon around the track at Maplewood Park, known as Bass Park today, around Memorial Day, and Johnny Hayes said he would be there, said the BDN on April 17 — that is, if Cowhig could find 500 people to buy that number of $1 tickets.

Meanwhile, A.S. Field, manager of the Eastern Maine Fair, said he was going to feature long-distance runs this year for the first time — 10 miles for amateurs and 15 for pros, and the winners would get loving cups made of silver or gold. At the end of five years, the men who had won the most would get gold, silver or bronze medals. Of course, there would be an entry fee of $1 “in order to keep out everyone but the real thing.” This also might show how long Bangor’s latest marathon craze was going to last.

Wayne E. Reilly may be reached at wer@bangordailynews.net.

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On 4/12/09 at 7:59 PM, chersully2000 wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Mainelyme:

A couple of comments re this article.

I don't think the conditions,currently, of the Bangor Auditorium have improved all that much from the description above.

Also, I got a kick out of the quote at the end..." Of course, there would be an entry fee of $1 in order to keep out everyone but the real thing." Imagine......

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On 4/12/09 at 8:02 PM, Mainelyme wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

The Annual New York City Marathon the first Sunday of November is a pain in the ------------------

'nuff said!

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On 4/12/09 at 8:05 PM, Mainelyme wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

chersully2000

The wind is blowing so strong and cold that I just had to close the kitchen window and make myself another chopped liver sandwich!

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On 4/12/09 at 8:28 PM, chersully2000 wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Mainelyme:

Maybe that will bring some warmth...the chopped liver. It was really cold here today too; and very windy.

As to what you mentioned about someone earlier. I do not give this individual any significance.....a few multiple names,etc. It is no one like you mentione...Nutting,etc. It is no one! Just someone who tries to get a rise from you and others. Goes around finding those he wants to make nasty remarks about. Give it no credence. It is no one important. Anne tries to figure it out......I do not as it became evident to me a while back. There actually is not much to it....just a waste. I am not going to indulge in any speculation with Anne or anyone else. I think it is up to each person to see things they way they do.

I have been asked at the BDN my opinion on the credit card verification thing.....there would be a fee,etc. I don't frankly care what they do. It is not the BDN that is causing this person or few to stalk people. You can figure that one out. That is all I am going to say about it. I just do not care...but thought I would respond to your conjecture re it on another one. Some of what you see, I do not, I guess. There is more I could say, but prefer not to..it just is not worth it. Ignore it.

Today was a good day, cold and all. Wonderful church service this morning ,etc. Trumpets,etc.

It must be truly beautiful in the City there right now. I hope my friend enjoyed her brief visit there this wk. She flies back to Fla tomorrow.

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On 4/12/09 at 9:16 PM, Mainelyme wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

So, find out what she thought of the new interpretation of West Side Story.

It doesn't look to me that it has been tradionally staged.

They mess Shakespeare up so many tmes nowadays.

Yes, to the credit card identification plan as long as they get rid of the nasty dirty mouthed posters whop have to be replied to in kind.

I've got to get over to Central Park before the petals fall off the flowering trees.

Every spring it's a whole new beautiful feeling to see the glorious flowering blooms.

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On 4/13/09 at 3:47 PM, chersully2000 wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Way too cold and windy right now but Spring on the way;

how is it there?

Have a good day, Mainelyme.

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On 4/13/09 at 6:49 PM, chersully2000 wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

re: the bicyles passing school buses,etc.

I have a suggestion.......

PB...another charlatan.

Have a good evening, Mainelyme.

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On 4/13/09 at 10:49 PM, Mainelyme wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

On 4/13/09 at 9:03 PM, chersully2000 wrote: Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Anne:

It is getting even clearer all the time. PabMainer also a charlatan...did you know that?

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Just what kind of a charlatan is PabMainer?

Was my life long male friend in Bangor right?

It's the smooth talking ones that you have to watch out for!

Mainelyme

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On 4/14/09 at 9:26 AM, Mainelyme wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

chersully2000

???????????????????????????? !

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On 4/14/09 at 4:22 PM, chersully2000 wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Yes......

Not even worth it...

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On 4/14/09 at 5:20 PM, chersully2000 wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Is it warmer up there as well....supposed to be close to 70 degrees here on Friday.

As for PB.....he is still around....in various guises.

I'm not going to talk about that anymore. It is not worth it at all. Just a few using multiples trying to jerk people around (operative word..."try")

Steveydee 'apologized" to me at one point..... but, as soon as they think one "falls for it" they start the mind games again. It is so apparent. They are such nice people, don't you know! (not that there are many at all...very few actually...) But I think it is for each person to see it for themselves. It is a real waste.

Hope you have a good evening.

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On 4/14/09 at 6:15 PM, PabMainer wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden
On 4/14/09 at 6:36 PM, chersully2000 wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Oh, isn't that cute....6:15 PM

Give it up. I was just answering Mainlyme's question.

So glad you are still around...and enjoy your canoeing....yeah right......

Mainelyme:

If you have any questions about these "people" please ask them directly. I don't want to answer for someone else.

Also PabMainer:

Funny how you weren't around...then you see the comments on the homepage, so time to travel over here. Oh, so hard to figure out! Mainelyme may not "get it" yet, but I sure do.

Have all your fun,PB!!!

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On 4/14/09 at 6:38 PM, PabMainer wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden
On 4/14/09 at 6:43 PM, Mainelyme wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

chersully2000

No, it's cold, rainy and windy here.

It will warm up toward the middle of the week but, not as much as I wish it to do.

I've seen it colder this time of the year as the tips of the magnolia's would turn brown from freezing before the flower would open wide.

They didn't do it this year.

I'm happy I have lots of pictures from years past.

It's called meditating to put your mind on a higher level than your sordid surroundings.

Wouldn't it be nice if all people would practice it?

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On 4/14/09 at 6:49 PM, chersully2000 wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Mainelyme:

Yes, it surely would.

Those magnolia's can be magnificent. None here, though.

My oldest son may move to Washington DC in a few years. I told him, when he does, I will be down there for a visit , on the train. And would try and go at cherry blossom time.

Not a lot of color around here yet, that is for sure. Crocuses are trying to poke out I think. We have irises and tiger lillies in front of where we live.....in a few months anyway!

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On 4/14/09 at 7:06 PM, Mainelyme wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

chersully2000

As I've said before, Bangor is three weeks behind New York in Spring and three weeks ahead in the fall.

Your time will come, although there are trees flowers and shrubs here that wouldn't survive in Bangor.

The frost only goes a few inches into the ground here but, it can be quite a few feet deep up there.

Also, as you know the temperature here at nine degrees is damp and raw with the wind blowing, and it goes right through everything.

The temperature there at twenty below with a still wind isn't as penetrating, but the nose and fingers can fall off from the cold.

Although Bangor temps were getting very humid before I left 24 years ago the 6trh of next month.

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On 4/14/09 at 9:22 PM, chersully2000 wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Mainelyme:

We can still get some real humid days here in the summer but they are relatively few and far between.

Springtime here seems very brief from what I remember in Connecticut. A lot of mud right now. Maine is nice but certainly not as colorful in the Spring as further south. Every place has its pluses and minuses.

David Letterman almost always mentions Central Park in his monologues. Pretty funny....he speaks of the squirrels,etc.

Wonder how the Raccoons are doing these days.

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On 4/14/09 at 9:39 PM, Mainelyme wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

I have to get over to the park to find out how the Raccoons are doing and, to catch up on the latest news from the guys.

I also want to finish the 9th script before I have my eyes done.

I got an Easter Card from the friend in Bangor and she says she's reading them but, no critique.

At least she isn't angry at the way I portrayed her (lovingly ofcourse) in them.

It's still cold and windy and I finally finished the last of the chopped liver.

Did you batter fry the fish, scallops and shrimp and, are you still eating those, too?

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On 4/14/09 at 9:55 PM, chersully2000 wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

No, I did not batter-fry them although that way sounds good. I cook pretty simply....bake with some butter, lemon, parsley, oregano (sometimes).....things like that. I had haddock tonight and fresh asparagus. Yesterday it was a crab cake. Got to finish up some of the ham from Easter for the rest of the week.

I read a post from Bangorean on another string. He made a good point. Bangorean is legit......he is not one of the nasty ones. He is very intelligent. He suggests that the BDN do away with the comment sections due to all the nastiness, etc. He suggests just going to a "Letters to the Editor." instead. I think he is on to something.

Something definitely needs to be done.

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On 4/14/09 at 10:33 PM, chersully2000 wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Will probably have the shrimp later this wk or the wkend. Too much ham to finish up first. I like to fry the shrimp.....olive oil,etc. How do you cook yours?

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On 4/14/09 at 11:32 PM, Mainelyme wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

I batter fry them

I use them in chop suey, a rice casserole with peas and white sauce or even mayonaise.

Shrimp wiggle, and all other recipes.

Pasta sauce made of shrimp, clams, and small scallops in Olive Oil.

It's the bigger ones I batter fry. I thought the cooked and deveined ones wouldn't batter fry good but, they were delicious.

I can't get Little Neck Clams here shelled and by the pint so I batter fry mussels. They aren't sweet like clams but, what can you do.

I love fresh oysters but they are so hard to find all shelled, and I'm not going to cut my hands shelling them.

I make oyster stew from canned oysters. They aren't as good as the fresh ones that have the taste of the brinny water right in them, I even love the raw.

As a matter of fact I was thinking I have to get down to China Town and get two pounds of frozen broken shrimp for 8 dollars.

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On 4/15/09 at 11:21 AM, chersully2000 wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Yes, make your trip down to Chinatown. I wonder how a teacher here (Chinese) liked her visit to Chinatown in Boston last wk. It isn't quite like the one in NYC, of course.

I love any sea food.....love lobster but don't have it very often, that's for sure.

Love mussels, clams on the half shell.....all of it. Yes, many people use canned oysters for stews,etc. Works quite well.

About time for me to get some more sardines this wkend or next wk. They are really healthy and inexpensive.

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On 4/15/09 at 11:42 AM, PabMainer wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Stevey...are you still there for us?? I need some professional council...please meet me on the other one, OK? You know the place but don,t tell dave, vichet or BIGfootwearingloafers...thanks...

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On 4/15/09 at 11:51 AM, bigfootinheels wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Pab

I know it's on the DL.

The canoe was a great prop.

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On 4/15/09 at 11:52 AM, David889327 wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Hey, now...did you guys get a new load of coke in and you don't want to share? I thought you were buddies.

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On 4/15/09 at 11:58 AM, PabMainer wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Hey lighten up you guys I am in rehab...I will need a ride to the clinic in 7 days to get these staples out of my back and my psychologist is very concerned about my emotional state...says I need an "accountability" person so that is why I called on Stevey..:)

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On 4/15/09 at 12:24 PM, bigfootinheels wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Pab

Remember, you've been labeled a charlatan.

Stevey is one hell of an accountability guru.

He can always make you feel like you ain't done nothing wrong!!

Right Stevo?

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On 4/15/09 at 12:40 PM, David889327 wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Where's scatman?

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On 4/15/09 at 12:40 PM, Mainelyme wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

chersully2000

I bought a huge Portobello Mushroom yesterday and I 'm going to stuff and bake it today.

I tried using Alfredo Sauce to moisten it last time but, wasn't too crazy about the result.

Think I'll make a Shrimp and Rice Casserole with a can of undiluted Campbell's Chicken, Mushroom, Celery, or Asparagus Soup as a binding moistener, sprinkle it with finely chopped Cheddar Cheese, and place the whole concoction on a bed of crisp green lettuce.

I usually make my own sauces but, I'm starting to think it's just as easy to use Campbell's even though it sells for $1.59 to $2.09 a can now.

I remember when it was fiften cents a can back when Franklin Delano Rossevelt and Harry S. Truman were great Presidents!

My two male friends who own the Key Food Chain of grocery stores all over the Metropolitan New York Area have a terrific selection at the store on the next avenue.

I stopped in the other day and spoke to one but, ignored the other.

The one I spoke too owns an eleven million dollar single family brownstone on Amsterdam Avenue in the upper seventies, , while the one I ignored only owns a three million dollar house on a lake in Plainfield, New Jersey.

Of course, it not a matter of real estate, as I've said before. It's a matter of who is the most kind and sensitiive, and who would try to beat me to the mirror the first thing in the morning.

Mainelyme

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On 4/15/09 at 12:45 PM, Mainelyme wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

chersully2000

Of course, it's comforting to know that all three of us have the utmost respect for each other!

Mainelyme

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On 4/15/09 at 12:50 PM, Mainelyme wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

One has worked all of his life in his father's and uncle's supermarkets while the other has a Degree in Structural Engineering from a noted midwest college..

Both are quality gentlemen, and it's easy to see that they were both raised properly by their respectable parents.

Mainelyme

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On 4/15/09 at 12:50 PM, PabMainer wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Bigfoot...re: your 12:24...Yes I thought the charlatan characterist being attributed was too cute..esp. coming from some of the quacks posting on here... LOL

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On 4/15/09 at 12:52 PM, PabMainer wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Oh, Bigfoot what are you having for dinner today??

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On 4/15/09 at 12:55 PM, Mainelyme wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Big funeral in Brewer today.

The Holy Roman Catholic Church recognizes suicides now!

It will recognize anything if the price is right!

Mainelyme

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On 4/15/09 at 1:03 PM, Mainelyme wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Of coure, anyone can eat any of Father Harvey's little boys.

He's dead and they are all bitter old drunks now!

Mainelyme

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On 4/15/09 at 1:50 PM, bigfootinheels wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Pab

I gotta tell ya. I think I'm going to drink my dinner, it's easier for me to believe people like Perley exist if I'm kneewalking drunk.

Of course the nectar of choice will be PBR pounders, a case for $13.

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On 4/15/09 at 1:51 PM, bigfootinheels wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Perley,

What about that run in with Pat Farnsworth? I remember that.

Danforth E. West

Bangor, Maine.

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On 4/15/09 at 1:57 PM, bigfootinheels wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

You know it's sad Perley, I graduated high school in '69 and I'm quite a bit more versed in the history of Bangor than you are.

I would think that you would be well educated, especially with a 15 year head start!!!!

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On 4/15/09 at 2:20 PM, SteveyDee wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Man I was on the wrong thread.

Yes I'm here for you Pab.

Always have and always will.

Dave's a good man.

He's come a long way.

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On 4/15/09 at 2:30 PM, bigfootinheels wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Perley

Back in the 40's it was Farnsworth's cafe. All of us from the University used to congregate there.

I know for a fact I saw you there. Unless there are two Perley J. Thibodeau's

Which I highly doubt!!

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On 4/15/09 at 2:35 PM, Mainelyme wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

bigfootinheels

Danforth;

You may well have been in the small auditorium at Abraham Lincoln School back in 1977 when I went up one side of city councilor Lloyd Willey and down the other over his referrence to canned heaters in Cassidy's Field, but that wasn't Pat Farnsworth of Orono.

You don't know as much about Bangor's history as you claim to because there was life beyond West Broadway and your parent's alcohol filled glasses.

Please don't write my biography if I go before you do.

My life was fact not fiction.

By the way, didn't Pat Farnsworth pass away a few years back?

He couldn't have told you that a. As you know 'dead men tell no tales!

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On 4/15/09 at 2:58 PM, Mainelyme wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

The pizza must have been pretty potent at Pat's if you were seeing pink Perley J. Thibodeau's

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On 4/15/09 at 3:37 PM, Mainelyme wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

How many hours a day do you spend asking people about me?

Must be fascinating to listen in on!

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On 4/15/09 at 3:37 PM, bigfootinheels wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

If I remember correctly, wasn't your daddy's name Edmund J?

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On 4/15/09 at 3:42 PM, bigfootinheels wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

DEW you remember me, the face in the crowd?

I remember you, the dandy with the buddy holly glasses!

Oh you were ripe, you were ripe I say!!!

Flaming away in front of the whole auditorium, do you remember the snickers??

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On 4/15/09 at 3:44 PM, Mainelyme wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

bigfootinheels

Danforth E. West

Yes, and my late brother's name was Edmund J. also.

Sorry, I never heard about you and yours.

I never could stand the nouveau riche!

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On 4/15/09 at 3:50 PM, Mainelyme wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

When you call yourself 4Him2Day I thought you were talking about Jesus!

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On 4/15/09 at 5:19 PM, Mainelyme wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

I've baby sat with you all day and I didn't even make .25 an hour.

I have to go to the park now and feed the Raccoons.

They love and respect me, and the conversation between us is much more intelligent and civilized!

So, there!

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On 4/15/09 at 5:45 PM, bigfootinheels wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Those coons must be some desperate!!!

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On 4/15/09 at 11:34 PM, chersully2000 wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Excellent comments....

My friend has returned to Fla from NYC. She stayed with relatives in Garden City, Long Island with a trip into the City. They drove in. She spoke of the "sea of humanity" in Manhattan. Also of all the beautiful flowers....jonquils, magnolias,etc. with the start of some tulips. She said that "West Side Story" was okay....some of it in Spanish. But how could it ever live up to Natalie Wood in the old West Side Story.....it couldn't! My friend said the weather there in NY was kind of crummy except for Fri and Monday, but then she is used to Fla weather now.

Well, this has nothing to do with your "friend" above.BFIH......that is between you and him.

But rather, there is one on yesterday's letters (well, today's, April 15th) stating he is not "a stalker." If he is not a liar, we will not be having a visit on this one anytime soon then....as we know he is not going on to read Mr. Reilly's current column....so what possible reason to visit here.....oh no, no stalker.....of course not!!

Have a good rest of the week. Kenduskeag canoe race is here this wkend. Hope they have good weather for it. Some years it can be quite cold. I saw some people practicing for it late this afternoon, with some ducks swimming by at the same time. Very nice.

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On 4/15/09 at 11:43 PM, chersully2000 wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

That John Supranovich you mentioned on another one died quite young. Besides the broadcasting, he later headed a well-respected consumer agency in Bangor, Northeast COMBAT. People from other states as well turned to this agency for help with consumer issues. I know a woman who worked with him there for years. He was well-liked and respected.

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On 4/16/09 at 12:18 AM, Mainelyme wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

chersully2000

BFIH is not a "friend " of mine.

I'm sixty eight years old and my mother and father have been gone for 32 years and 39 years respectively.

I still judge people by whether or not I would introduce them to my parents, and BFIH just doesn't cut it with me!

That Raccoon with the bad foot has been described to me as being an outcast., so I put two bags of food in back of the low wire fence on the other side of the pathway where he shows up.

Of course, being an "outcast" he ate those and climbed the two low wicker fences on both sides of the path to go right over to see what was on the other side to eat.

Wouldn't you know a couple of the other Raccoons started to attack him and I had to speak threateningly to all of them to cut it out.

If they don't cool it, as far as I'm concerned they are all going to be outcasts, and I think they know it.

I have an idea for a children's illustrated book about Raccoons, but have my hands full with the last two in the ten script series, and the two murder scripts, and the play set in a two bed hosptial room.

I understand that some dialog in the New West Side Story is now in Spanish. They are aiming at the Spanish audience, and sacrificing the English speaking audience .

Oh,well.

Of course the flowers and trees in Florida must be beautiful but, the petals of the trees have just started to fall off, and to me paradise must look just like Central Park.

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On 4/16/09 at 9:22 AM, chersully2000 wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

No, not Florida....

I was speaking of the trees and flowers my friend saw in New York when she was there last wk , not in Florida! I doubt it looks that nice in Florida in the springtime. I have been to Florida in the winters, many years ago.

A children's book on the adventures of the Raccoons in Central Park would be a winner as far as I am concerned......something to think about maybe later.

No, I did not mean truly a "friend" above. Of course not.

It is nice and sunny here today.

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On 4/16/09 at 9:46 AM, Mainelyme wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

, chersully2000

It looks to be a beautiful day here, also.

Spring is coming--Tra la Tra la."

Mainelyme

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On 4/16/09 at 4:14 PM, chersully2000 wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Yes, it surely does. Hope it is a good one.

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On 4/16/09 at 9:14 PM, chersully2000 wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

I am wondering how my friend who was just in New York reacted to all the people walking around talking on their cell phones!! It had been many years since she was in NYC.

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On 4/19/09 at 1:45 PM, Mainelyme wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

chersully2000

People in New York walk down the street talking to someone in Brooklyn and they wouldn't say hello to a decent looking person who's standing in front of them.

25,016 words on my 9th movie script already.

At least 15,000 more to go..

Just wait until the pictures get screened.

The human right's messages will make for an entirely different world!

Mainelyme

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On 4/19/09 at 2:04 PM, chersully2000 wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Mainelyme:

Continued good luck with your movie scripts.

Yeah, times have changed in NYC like everywhere else. So much technology for communication; yet, so many gaps and breakdowns in communication at the same time. Very strange....

Nice day in Maine; a bit cool, but pretty nice.

Have to decide between chili or fish for later this evening.

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On 4/19/09 at 4:23 PM, Mainelyme wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

chersully2000

Chili sounds good

About what time will it be ready?

Mainelyme

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On 4/19/09 at 4:49 PM, chersully2000 wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Yes, it would be good....the chili.

Fish instead....chili later this week, it appears.

That is no Christian (no way) on that other post page. Not a way in the world.

Can you imagine a Christian saying,"Do you want to take the gloves off?"

I have never in my life seen anything like it. How does he think anyone will take his Christianity seriously? But then....it does not seem that too many do. I have known many Christians in my lifetime. Very nice people....almost all. Nothing like that....nothing.

Best to just ignore it.

Have a good night.

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On 4/19/09 at 10:24 PM, chersully2000 wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Where is the new Wayne Reilly column?

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