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The Storytellers (Part VII) . . .

March 24, 2016A. Keith CarreiroDowneast Humor, Governor James B. Longley, inspiration, Maine State Commission on the Arts, Marshall Dodge, Robert Bryan, Storytelling, writing

Marshall Dodge on the Maine Coast. Photo permission and courtesy of the Maine Public Broadcasting Network.   I memorized my first “tall tale” when I was eight–years–old.  It was 1958. My Uncle Bob had made a fallout shelter. It was the height of the Cold War. He wasn’t taking any chances. On March 11th of…

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The Storytellers (Part VI) . . .

March 17, 2016A. Keith Carreiro2 commentsFolksinging, Gordon Bok, inspiration, Songs of the Sea, Storytelling, writing

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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The Storytellers (Part V) . . .

March 3, 2016A. Keith Carreiro3 commentsArtistry, Edward D. Ives, Folklore, Fred Gosbee, Gordon Bok, inspiration, Maine Folklife Center, Penobscot Nation, Penobscot River, Performing Arts, Storytelling, UMO

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 Carreiro2 commentsinspiration, Stephen King, Storytelling, writing

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 Carreiro1 commentClassical Guitar, guitar playing, inspiration, Music, Poetry, writing

(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 I) . . .

February 4, 2016A. Keith Carreiro1 commentAmerican Culture, Azorean Culture, Azorean Immigrants, Desafio, Fado, inspiration, Jogu do Pau, Sources of Inspiration, writing

(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 Carreiro2 commentsFinding the Courage to Write, inspiration, Storytelling, Writer's Block, writing

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 Carreiro8 commentsCosts of Genocide, Creativity, inspiration, Neil Bascomb, Poetic Inspiration, Ray Kurzweil, Storytelling, War between Good & Evil, World War Two Generation, writing

(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 Carreiro6 commentsAllied Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps, Creativity, inspiration, Neil Bascomb, Poetic Inspiration, World War Two Generation, writing

(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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Partings . . .

January 6, 2016A. Keith Carreiro5 commentsinspiration, loss of a pet, Maltese, man's best friend, self-publishing, writing

(Lola (2015)– Photo by A. Keith Carreiro) It is not easy to put a beloved dog down. It is not a good day when such an act, no matter how merciful it is to our four–footed companions and family members, has to be made. Little did I know last week when I started this blog…

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