Voices: Michael Ball
Michael Ball
Michael Ball is a commercial pilot. He flies for Penobscot Island Air and lives in South Thomaston.
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Watermelon Jim and the smok’n Webly
By Michael Ball - May 16Watermelon Jim was as dark as midnight with gums that blazed bright red, red as the rinds on a ripe summer melon. Jim had worked with horses all ...
Billy Barton and the English Grand National
By Michael Ball - Jan 29Forty-one horses walked from the saddling paddock through a thick gray fog onto the racecourse at Aintree. It was the 27th of March 1928. In a few ...
October High
By Michael Ball - Oct 21It was cold in Vermont for the 12th of October. The temperatures were only in the high 20s. A crisp wind was blowing out of the west and the early ...
East to Cape Breton
By Michael Ball - Jul 07Fog hangs heavy and still over the airport at Knox County. Sometimes when there's a breeze it swirls and seeps into every crack and cranny it can ...
Then and Now
By Michael Ball - Mar 22The snow was so thick I could barely see the road in front of me. Up ahead, a pair of headlights coming in my direction were cutting through the ...
A Memory of Reese
By Michael Ball - Dec 15Clouds and mist filled the valley and hung low over the plateau that rose up between the East Ridge and the mountains to the west. All flying had ...
Primrose and midnight blue
By Michael Ball - Aug 04I grew up in a sea of primrose and midnight blue. These were the colors of Atlanta Hall Farm. These were the colors that proudly sat atop every ...
Flying the mail
By Michael Ball - Apr 07PQ This morning I have flown overseas to two island kingdoms where no passport is required, knowing, in this changing world of e-mail, ...
