Salem, MA...
I just told someone in an email where all my kids live in MA and
forgot about my oldest son (and wife) who live in Salem.
I guess when you have 7 kids you tend to forget (LOL)
We used to look for apartments there, Beverly was much nicer but
more expensive.
Other kids live (one lives with me in VT) Peabody, Salisbury (in the
process of moving to FL (!) Saugus, Wakefield and Metheun.
where I grew up was No.Revere, on the Saugus line- by the marshes,
inlets to the ocean, etc. One thing I miss about living in VT is the
ocean, the smell, cool breeze on a hot summer afternoon, sound of the
gulls, etc.
But when we first left to move to VT (the first time- long story)
we also felt it was so overcrowded and polluted- and you had to be a
millionaire to live anywhere ON the coast (or live in a high rise
Condo on Revere Beach) we weren't missing anything by leaving.
Sometimes I think I can smell the ocean now- even though it's
almost 300 miles away. It's probably a combination of cow manure and
road salt (LOL)
We've looked into Lewiston/Auburn ME (years ago) as a possible
place to move to. Waterville was another one. One negative about it
is we hated that Maine Turnpike! Stephen King even mentioned it in at
least one of his books. It's so long and boring...
I liked the little towns like Biddeford/Saco and that area, too.
Thanks for the welcome and to those who have emailed me, with the
same.
I have to get offline right now (for a bit) so my daughter can do
her online college classes, and I can get at least something done
before another day is over.
It's cool and rainy today, peaceful and nice.
~ Carrie
--- In Disappearance_of_the_Universe@..., "garyrrenard"
<garyrrenard@y...> wrote:
Hey Carrie. Yes, I feel like things are being resolved in a
very
good way too, and I never thought you and I had a problem. Isn't it
interesting you grew up in Revere, Massachusetts? I grew up about
20
miles north of you in Beverly (I was born in Salem, the next town
over.) And you're right, my last name is French, Renard
meaning "fox".
Lewiston, Maine does have a large French population. A lot of
French people moved down from Canada about a hundred and fifty
years
ago and built up the place. But I never had any connection to the
area until I moved up here to Poland Spring (where the water comes
from) about 13 and a half years ago from Massachusetts. It's sunny
as
you say, but it sure is cold in the winter! The experiences
described
in the book started about 10 and a half years ago, about 3 years
after I moved here. I do live in the Lewiston area, but not in
Lewiston itself. Right now I'm in Auburn, still at the same place
that I moved to at the end of 1999, as mentioned in the book. I
never
actually said what town I was in for the book, (I think I had some
delusion about privacy, LOL) but most of it happened on White Oak
Hill in Poland, Maine.
It's great to have you here, and I hope you like the book. Let
me know what you think. Love and peace, Gary.
Hi Gary,
Sorry about last night, I kind of overreacted (I have all fire and
air signs and tend to combust)
But it all worked out, and I feel it's resolved (in a really good
way) with Patrick and Karen.
"All things are lessong God would have us learn", and such.
I don't know about you, I don't think you and I had a problem to
start with (LOL)
btw, are you originally from MA? You mentioned going there and one
of your emails (that Karen used) seems to indicate that. But then I
think your name is french, and Lewiston was a predominately french
area, at least at one time. We used to get the paper from there
(long
ago) and considered it as a place to move to.
For some reason I always think of it as sunny (don't know why, I
haven't seen it all that much)
Just wondering about MA because I grew up in Revere, North(Shore)
of Boston.
~ Carrie
