I met Don Turner went i was assigned to VP-23, CAC 2. He was the second Mech under Tom Poplin, who was the Plane Captain. Don was a great guy and easy to get along with and we made my first deployment in Oct, 1966 to Sigonella, Sicily. I remember one patrol we had been […]
Big Charles
Big Charles I always said that one of my favorite rides is the Forgotten Coast. It is a very scenic ride and you get to travel through a lot of historic areas. As you leave Panama City Beach, you head across the Hathaway Bridge. Watch you speed of 45mph as it is a regular hangout […]
Great Ride to Port St. Joe
Monday was a beautiful day and a great day to ride my trike. Weather was great mid 70’s and the sun was shining so about 10am I headed to Blountstown, Fl. for lunch. Went to Parramore’s Too for a seafood lunch. Parramore’s Too is a great restaurant and I recommend the seafood platter, as it […]
Russell Alexander
Thank you for your years of serice Russ and RIP. PHIPPSBURG- Russell Alexander, 82, of Sebasco Road, died September 13, 2016 at Midcoast Hospital in Brunswick. Russell was born on January 16, 1934 to minister and fisherman Henry and Estella (McKenney) Alexander of Phippsburg. Russell began working at the age of 13 as a deck […]
Portland, Maine
Portland, Me. Native Americans originally called the Portland peninsula Machigonne. The first European settler was Capt. Christopher Levett, an English naval captain granted 6,000 acres (2,400 ha) in 1623 to found a settlement in Casco Bay. A member of the Council for New England and agent for Ferdinando Gorges, Levett built a stone house where […]
Cape Elizabeth, Maine
Cape Elizabeth Richmond Island was visited about 1605 by Samuel de Champlain and was the site of a trading post in 1628. John Smith explored and mapped New England in 1615, and gave names to places mainly based on the names used by Native Americans. When Smith presented his map to King Charles I, he […]
continuing North to Old Orchard Beach
Old Orchard Beach, Me. The Old Orchard Beach area began appearing in historical records around 1653. The area was first officially settled in 1657 by Thomas Rogers who had arrived in the Goose Fare Brook area in 1636, and who dubbed it “The Garden by the Sea”. The town takes its name from Rogers’ abandoned […]
Continuing up the Coast to Saco, Maine
Saco, Me. This was territory of the Abenaki tribe whose fortified village was located up the Sokokis Trail at Pequawket (now Fryeburg). The township was granted in 1630 by the Plymouth Company to Thomas Lewis and Richard Bonython, and extended 4 miles (6.4 km) along the sea, by 8 miles (13 km) inland. It was […]
The Copper Pot
On the way south to Panama city Beach, fl. i stopped to eat lunch in Mount Airy, Nc at a place called the copper Pot. If you are traveling in that area and get a chance to have lunch, you won’t be disappointed. Their coleslaw is the best. and the service is great and after […]
BIddeford, Maine
Biddeford Abenaki Indians, whose main village was upriver at Pequawket (now Fryeburg), once hunted and fished in the area. The first European to settle at Biddeford was physician Richard Vines in the winter of 1616-1617 at Winter Harbor, as he called Biddeford Pool. This 1616 landing by a European predates the Mayflower landing in Plymouth, […]