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The Storytellers (Part VI) . . .

March 17, 2016A. Keith Carreiro

Painting by Mauritz Frederik Hendrik de Haas (1832–1895), Dutch–American painter. Beating to Windward in the English Channel (1872). Oil on canvas. Image courtesy of Art Collection of New Bedford Free Public Library. (Photo by Janice Hodson, Curator of Art, March 2016.) When I think of the ocean, especially the areas of the Atlantic sweeping away…

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Update . . .

March 10, 2016A. Keith Carreiro

The crocuses are beginning to bloom! A sign promising the fullness of new growth. (Photo by A. Keith Carreiro, March 2016.) I am putting aside my regular blog posting this week to write, instead, about the progress made to date on the Penitent – Part One. While writing the past ten posts, I have been following…

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The Storytellers (Part V) . . .

March 3, 2016A. Keith Carreiro

Edward D. “Sandy” Ives, Director of the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History [NAFOH], taken on stage at the Folksongs in February Festival held in Hauck Auditorium at the University of Maine at Orono on Feb. 11th and 12th, 1977. Photo taken at the end of the Saturday night performance of February 12th.  Gordon Bok…

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The Storytellers (Part IV) . . .

February 25, 2016A. Keith Carreiro

Stephen King (Rock Bottom Remainders (1994). Credit: Tabitha King 1994. Photo permission and Courtesy of Stephen King. While attending the University of Maine at Orono, I met many unique individuals there who left a lasting impact on my life. There was this one young fellow in particular who started writing a regular column in the…

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The Storytellers (Part III) . . .

February 18, 2016A. Keith Carreiro

(My Guitars – Storytellers All: Photo taken February 2016) Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.                                                                                                                                                      —Andrés Segovia (21 February 1893–2 June 1987) Since the start of this New Year, I have been on a weekly reflective journey…

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The Storytellers (Part II) . . .

February 11, 2016A. Keith Carreiro

(Photo (c. 1941) of my Uncle Bob, U.S. Navy Air Corps.) My Uncle Bob Lawton was born and grew up on Sluice Pond, which is part of the Wyoma section of, Lynn, Massachusetts, “Where,” he would always quip, “I could swim, skate, sled, and ski in my backyard.” Uncle Bob was an inveterate storyteller. He…

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The Storytellers (Part I) . . .

February 4, 2016A. Keith Carreiro

(Left to Right: Photo of Dad, Vavo, Nina and Visitors to the Farm, c. 1928.) Although I am an only child, I had the opportunity to be raised by a variety of people in my extended and immediate family. When I became a toddler, my parents worked full-time and that left me in the loving…

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Storytelling . . .

January 28, 2016A. Keith Carreiro

Image above: “The Boyhood of Raleigh by Sir John Everett Millais [1829-1896], oil on canvas, 1870. A seafarer tells the young Sir Walter Raleigh and his brother the story of what happened out at sea.”   Most dictionaries define a story as a narrative account of a real or imagined event or events. Within the…

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Preparing – Part II . . .

January 21, 2016A. Keith Carreiro

(Photo (2010) by A. Keith Carreiro) In looking back at the World War Two era, I wondered if I could write a poem that honored my parent’s generation, especially in terms of describing what they were fighting against. From Bascomb’s novel, I took a quote by Heinrich Himmler in reference to Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962) and…

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Preparing – Part I . . .

January 14, 2016A. Keith Carreiro

(Photo, c. 1944, of my mother and aunt [left to right]: Martha Louise & Francis Elizabeth “Betty” de Sousa.) In my first blog, I wrote about the resolution I made to myself in compiling together and updating all of the poetry I had written to that time (1965-2014). Doing so helped me establish a regular…

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