Life

By Joe Talbot

Additional Column Posts (1 - 15 of 15)

• "They's Gold in Them Thar Hills!"

  By Joe Talbot Jr. - Jun 28
  It was 1961 when I arrived at my new assignment, McClellan Air Force Base, in Sacramento, Calif., and the 55th Air Weather Service. I was reasonabl...
  

• Good Times Of Old

  By Joe Talbot Jr. - May 31
  My father, and many other fathers, built the Amphitheatre overlooking Camden Harbor. I often take a right just past the little park so that I can ...
  

• Spring Forward

  By Joe Talbot Jr. - May 17
  I really think we should change the meaning of “Spring Forward.” I always thought this meant “It's springtime now, so let's move the clock ahead ...
  

• Strike Up The Band, continued

  By Joe Talbot Jr. - May 03
  Having just joined the Air Force and subsequently landed in Biloxi, Miss. after completing basic, I soon learned that marching across the base at ...
  

• Have Gun…..Will Travel

  By Joe Talbot - Apr 19
  No, I'm not going to get sucked into the controversy on all the news programs in the media eddy, with everyone shooting off their mouths about how ...
  

• Harlequin Milkshake

  By Joe Talbot - Apr 05
  Saturday mornings, 1955, especially in June, were the beginning of lazy days for many, but for me the bike ride from the Fish Hatchery to downtown ...
  

• Boom!

  By Joe Talbot Jr. - Mar 22
  As defined by Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary the noun “Life” is: "The quality that distinguishes a viable and functioning being, from a ...
  

• When the whistle blows

  By Joe Talbot Jr. - Mar 01
  I took my first breath a long time ago at the Camden Hospital, formerly on Mountain St. My home at the time was across the street from there, and ...
  

• When Someone You Love Is An Addict

  By Joe Talbot Jr. - Jun 14
  I hardly know where to begin. This is such a devastatingly painful subject to talk about, let alone try to do something to relieve that pain. ...
  

• Coming Home

  By Joe Talbot Jr. - May 24
  I left Camden on February 22, 1960 for what I imagined would be the rest of my life. I had dreams of grandeur, just like every other 20-year old. ...
  

• Mother's Rock

  By Joe Talbot Jr. - May 10
  My dad, Joe Talbot Sr., was thought by everyone who knew him to be born with a fly rod in his hand. He was forever a lover of Maine, salmon & ...
  

• Strike Up The Band

  By Joe Talbot Jr. - Apr 26
  During my four years at CHS, I had a genuine love for music. I took private piano lessons for a few years, starting when I was 11. Myrtle Wheeler ...
  

• Nickel Lobsters - Laughing Smelts

  By Joseph Talbot - Apr 12
  Two pounds lobsters, freshly steamed……..5 cents Ten pounds of freshly caught smelts…….”Laughter” The Talbot Stevenson Insurance Agency used to be ...
  

• Snow Birds

  By Joe Talbot Jr. - Mar 26
  As I gaze out my window, I rest between paragraphs, and the snow is nearly level with the bottom of my windowsill. For the third time in 10 days, ...
  

• What does a wagon prank have to do with a moose? Nothing.

  By Joe Talbot, Jr. - Mar 15
  Last fall, as I drove from Belfast toward Lincolnville Center on Route 52, I was keenly aware the “leaf peeping season” had arrived. The trees, oh ...