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Said & Done: Golden moments in secret places

by Paul Seamans March 16, 2018

Men enjoy alcoholic beverages at a general store in 1920. During Prohibition, stores often sold illicit alcohol hidden in other containers.

Times Past: During Prohibition, nothing could stop the alcoholic tide

by Paul Seamans January 20, 2018

“No need for alarm. There was no threat in their midnight call. They were only youngsters playing at hunting and fishing, rendezvousing like old-time woodsmen across the river at the Munn Ferry campground,” says Paul Seamans in today’s memoir.

Times Past: Encounter with Boy Scouts reminder of trials of youth

by Paul Seamans December 23, 2017

Recorder/Paul FranzPaul Seamans formerly of Gill now at Charlene Manner

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Said and Done: Paul Seamans remembers Thanksgiving during the Depression

by Paul Seamans For The RecorderNovember 22, 2017

“We saw him one winter when we had a deer hanging from a tree behind his place. The temperature was 10 or 20 degrees below zero. His deer was frozen solid. When he tapped it with his ax, it sounded the way a big, solid ice cube would sound if you struck one. He chopped off a big part of a rear leg and gave it to us. It was for returning his pipe to him,” Paul Seamans recalls in his memoir.

Times Past: Memories to last a lifetime

by Paul Seamans November 13, 2017

“If the Quabbin occasionally presents hazards, they are new and different. They bring a refreshing element of drama to our hum-drum every days. If the chop builds to the point where we grab gunnels till our knuckles are white, so be it,” said Paul Seamans in today’s Times Past memoir.

TIMES PAST: Forgetting life’s ordinary hazards

by Paul Seamans October 6, 2017

“Spend 100 hours by yourself without interruption — no job, no TV, no books, no chores, nobody to interfere or interrupt. Catch yourself when you’re not concentrating fully in the hunt. What are you thinking about?” says Paul Seamans in today’s memoir.

Times Past: Plenty of time to think

by Paul Seamans September 22, 2017

Paul Seamans and his neighborhood friend had a tradition of going on a Christmastime hunt with the “Old Man” of their community. A tradition capped one winter with an unfortunate fire.

Times Past: ‘We were his family’

by Paul Seamans September 8, 2017

“What the chemistry was that converted some orchardists’ drops into that affecting brew, I shall never know. Whether the old man doctored the barrel before he put a head back on, remains a mystery,” recalls Paul Seamans in today’s memoir.

Times Past: Cider for bone-chilling times

by Paul Seamans August 25, 2017

“When those bees got on our tails, we were in full stride after two jumps. Bees, wasps, hornets, not even the devil himself could have caught us.” — Paul Seamans

Times Past: Don’t shy away from a great adventure

by Paul Seamans For The RecorderAugust 5, 2017