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Christmas in Tha County
After Grandfather Stevens' death around nineteen thirty, Grandmother remained single for a number of years and when she finally did consent to remarry, she married a man named Warren Peterson, who was twenty years her junior.
Aug 30, 2010 - 6:00:18 PM
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Wiskers & The Cat Show
Hearing the sleepy kitten make a soft snoring sound in her ear, Peyton laughed. "Oh Wiskers, you really are such a sleepy head." She stroked him softly and carried him out the door. She carefully laid him down in a big yellow basket and started off down the street.
May 8, 2010 - 12:10:09 AM
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Wiskers, the Kitten Who Wanted To Go To School
All day, every day, Wiskers lay in the warm sunshine on the top of the chair in the front window. He thought and thought about how he was going to get to go to school.
May 5, 2010 - 12:10:03 AM
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Wiskers, the Computer Kitten
Wiskers had been living with the David family for several years and he felt that he was really part of their family. He did pretty much as he pleased around their house. He went where he wanted when he wanted.
Apr 28, 2010 - 12:35:21 AM
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Wiskers, the Bored Kitten
He looked around the nice, sunny kitchen and resolved to never, ever, be bored again!
Apr 24, 2010 - 12:30:25 AM
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An Ode to Walter James Stevens
A poem by Martha Stevens-David
Apr 17, 2010 - 12:15:17 AM
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Leaving
She'd been visiting the University of Maine in Presque Isle and just as she'd been about to get into her car, her eyes had been drawn to a tiny, bundle of red fur that was huddled against the side of the Administration Building.
Apr 8, 2010 - 12:10:40 AM
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Ashland High School Graduation - 1963
Life takes you where it wants and you simply have no control one way or the other. It doesn't mean that it's bad, that's just the way Life is.
Apr 4, 2010 - 12:10:49 AM
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Charley, The Lazy Goose
His father spoke to him each day about three things that he considered very important in life. They were anticipation, participation and awareness. His father warned Charley that if he did not start exercising right away, he would not be strong enough
Mar 29, 2010 - 11:40:29 PM
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Grammy Stevens
Grandmother Eunice Robinson Stevens was a woman of unimpeachable character. She had an inner strength and outer beauty that didn't come from any cosmetic bottle.
Mar 21, 2010 - 12:15:18 AM
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Discontented Americans
We no longer want the simple things in life. We want bigger cars, larger houses, more money. Two people live in houses that have four bedrooms, three baths, and formal and informal living rooms.
Mar 19, 2010 - 12:20:08 AM
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Spring: A Poem by M. Stevens-David
The Main Spring is not the Maine Spring?
Mar 16, 2010 - 12:30:13 AM
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Poison Ivy
In nineteen-ninety, my husband and I were living in the foothills of south, central Maine and being somewhat discontented with our current living arrangements we'd decided to build a log home and we began searching for an ideal spot on which to build.
Mar 14, 2010 - 4:45:29 AM
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Poem: For My Family - Sept 11, 2001
The day was filled with dust and fear As I stumbled down the stairs. I heard prayers all around me And I joined my voice to theirs...
Mar 9, 2010 - 12:10:38 AM
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The Tomato
I began a ritual that only "dirt in the blood" gardeners would recognize. I eyed each and every vast flower bed with a practiced and critical eye and began digging up, transplanting, dividing and eliminating plants that hadn't done well in a certain spot or hadn't lived up to expectation in one way or another or would simply look better in another place.
Mar 7, 2010 - 12:32:06 AM
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I'll be there - Poem by Martha Stevens-David
'Tuesday Poems' by Martha Stevens-David. Martha is a prolific writer of many styles including Children's stories and poetry.
Mar 2, 2010 - 12:15:40 AM
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The Present
When we'd moved into our lovely, new home, we brought with us a small lawn tractor and after watching me mow the lawn for three and a half hours one bright sunny morning, my husband announced that it was taking me far too long to mow two acres.
Feb 28, 2010 - 4:32:58 AM
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'I Wonder' - Poem by Martha Stevens-David
Third in a Series of 'Tuesday Poems' by Martha Stevens-David. Martha is a prolific writer of many styles including Children's stories and poetry.
Feb 23, 2010 - 12:15:01 AM
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Mr. Smith's Zoo
Mr. Smith was the head keeper of a very large zoo. He was very proud of his job and he was certain that his was the very best zoo in the whole wide world.
Feb 21, 2010 - 12:15:23 AM
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'I Saw God Today' - Poem by Martha Stevens-David
Secondin a Series of 'Tuesday Poems' by Martha Stevens-David. Martha is a prolific writer of many styles including Children's stories and poetry.
Feb 16, 2010 - 11:44:47 AM
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The Valentine Present
"He's never worried about Valentine's Day before in our twenty-odd years of marriage, I wonder what he's thinking about."
Feb 14, 2010 - 12:10:05 AM
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'Columbia - The Seven' - Poem by Martha Stevens-David
First in a Series of 'Tuesday Poems' by Martha Stevens-David. Martha is a prolific writer of many styles including Children's stories and poetry.
Feb 9, 2010 - 12:25:20 AM
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Diary of Death
I am no longer aware of time or anything else except what is on my television screen. I hear and see that the second tower has begun to lean ominously and ABC News is stating that the second tower is going to fall too! Suddenly, the air is filled with news flashes and a new word is beginning to emerge. Terrorists!
Feb 7, 2010 - 12:15:57 AM
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Dippy Doodle Duck
Mama Duck was a very good mother and she never left her nest. Every now and then she'd lift her large, fluffy bottom a little and look at the big egg.
Jan 31, 2010 - 12:15:22 AM
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Vengeance is Mine Pt 4
Sometimes, when all of her other patients were sound asleep, she'd slip into Mrs. Stanton's room and stand quietly by the door and look at her. There was something acutely familiar about the way the woman's face looked when in repose and it disturbed Mary Elizabeth that she couldn't figure out what it was that drew her to that particular patient.
Jan 30, 2010 - 12:33:36 AM
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Vengeance is Mine Pt. 3
"Oh, Mary, Mother of God, what are we going to do with her?" Hearing the sadness in her voice, the young Nun reached down and picked up the child. She turned and thrust the baby into the Mother Superior's arms. "I don't know about you but, God wants us to keep her or she wouldn't be here." she said. "And from what I heard, aren't you this child's aunt?"
Jan 29, 2010 - 12:25:39 AM
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Vengeance is Mine Pt. 2
As she felt the size of the fetus, she felt sick to her stomach. "She's not six and a half months gone," she thought to herself, "She's more likely closer to eight months along, if she's a day." The Nun looked up and her eyes met Mother Superiors.
Jan 28, 2010 - 12:10:37 AM
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Vengeance is Mine Pt.1
By ten o'clock that morning, the town was abuzz with the news. The largely Catholic population couldn't believe their ears. Dead babies found out at the old Nunnery! That was unbelievable! It was like saying that a spaceship had landed on Main Street in Fort Kent and the aliens were handing out lollipops!
Jan 27, 2010 - 12:20:54 AM
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Mr. Bunners & the Snowman
Just as he was about to fall asleep, he heard a lot of jibber, jabbering in the air above him. He jumped up and hopped out of his hiding place just in time to see his two friends, Bubber and Flubber Crow as they flew away into the cool fall air.
Jan 25, 2010 - 12:15:45 AM
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The Maine Pine Tree
The little tree didn't really know how he had come to be, he just was. He looked all around him and all he could see was tall, green grass for miles and miles. Why, he really wasn't as tall as the grass and he only had three small branches growing on his trunk.
Jan 21, 2010 - 12:43:45 AM
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To Those I Love: A Poem by M. Stevens-David
I wrote that poem for an 18 year-old girl who had gone into her backyard to take the clothes off her mother's clothesline and a hunter mistook her for a deer and he killed her. So sad. I wrote the poem but never gave it to her parents because I didn't know them. Martha
Jan 10, 2010 - 12:14:42 AM
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The Cardiologist
When we related this story to our friends and relatives, nobody believed us at first, but when we told them that it was the absolute truth, everyone was incredulous! This couldn't have happened, especially at a very fine hospital in a very excellent doctor's office in Lewiston, Maine. But it did, it really did! And oh yes, the only thing I changed in the story was the doctor's name.
Jan 1, 2010 - 12:20:09 AM
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The Christmas Pie
I admired his chef-manship and waited for him to be seated before cutting into my slice. He picked up his fork with a look of a man who has waited for something for a very long time and cut off a piece.
Dec 31, 2009 - 12:14:26 AM
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The Reluctant Repairman
"Yah want to know what's really wrong with these friggin machines? Well they're state of the art that what they are, en they're really too smart fer most people!" With another contemptuous look in my direction, he went stamping down the cellar stairs and out the garage door, hopefully never to be seen again!
Dec 6, 2009 - 12:20:50 AM
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The Fishing Pole
Our Great Uncle Hal had a fishing pole that he treasured beyond anything else. He'd saved his money for a long time and finally, when he had enough, he'd sent all the way down to L. L. Beans in Freeport to get it.
Jul 13, 2009 - 11:03:36 AM
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Potatoes
It was now the end of May and winter still had not shown any inclination of relinquishing her hold on the county. Oh, sure, there had been the odd couple of days, here and there, when the ever-present wind had died a little and the inhabitants of our small Aroostook County, Maine town had dared to hope that there had been a reprieve, but it didn't happen.
Jun 26, 2009 - 12:23:53 PM
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Tha Trash Nazi
Jake kicked the living room door shut with the heel of his scuffed sneaker and threw his jacket into his father's old recliner. His mother, hearing the sound of the old oak door being so harshly treated, stuck her head around the corner of the living room wall and looked intently at her youngest son.
Jun 18, 2009 - 12:26:17 PM
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Stolen Apples
Up over the hill behind our house, on land owned by our nearest neighbor, Les Page, was an old apple orchard that had been planted by his great grandfather. No one had bothered with the orchard for a long time and by the time we were growing up a lot of the trees were already dead or dying. During apple season, us Stevens' kids used to pull commando raids on that apple orchard every chance we got.
Jun 17, 2009 - 11:07:01 AM
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Cowboys & Turkeys
Our Dad, William James Stevens, was born in Castle Hill, in Aroostook County, Maine on January 19, 1915, the oldest son of James William Stevens and Eunice Robinson. Being of Scot and Swedish ancestry, in adulthood, he stood about six feet tall and weighed around one hundred sixty-five pounds. As long as he lived, his weight never did catch-up to his raw-boned frame.
Apr 1, 2009 - 10:37:28 PM
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Revenge Is Sweet
Our nearest neighbors on the Goding Road were the Porter family which was comprised of five children and a mother. It was generally rumored around town that each child had a different father but that didn't matter much to us kids. We were just happy to have some other kids to play or fight with other than our own brothers and sisters.
Mar 27, 2009 - 11:17:27 AM
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