Hello, There is NO S in the name of Maureen....TYPO ERROR....Maureen >From: "Maureen Cooley" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [MAWORCES] Dear Old Mendon >Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 20:14:13 -0500 > >DON, Want to know what I had for breakfast this morning?? 2 pieces of 7 >grain light style PEPPERIDGE FARM bread toasted with ORANGE MARMELADE. ONE >EGG POACHED. A GLASS of CRANBERRY JUICE and a water to go.... >Masureen....BUT maybe next year I will not remember what I had to eat >EITHER!!!! > > >>From: "John R. Tremblay" <[email protected]> >>To: "Maureen Cooley" <[email protected]> >>Subject: Re: [MAWORCES] Dear Old Mendon >>Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 10:28:53 -0500 >> >>Hello I would like to say Have been to Roger Williams Park all I rember >>was the Mote with the monkeys on it >>John >>----- Original Message ----- From: "Maureen Cooley" >><[email protected]> >>To: <[email protected]> >>Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 8:41 PM >>Subject: Re: [MAWORCES] Dear Old Mendon >> >> >>>Don, >>>The treasured brass ring....I remember it well. I won it at Mendon >>>several times and ALSO at Rogers William Park in R.I. Actually when I was >>>younger....(YOU had to lean way to the right to get it) I was scared of >>>the HORSES that moved UP and DOWN....I had to sit in a seat that did NOT >>>move....like a deacons bench seat....BUT by the time I went to Rogers and >>>Williams I had graduated to a horse that moved UP and DOWN....ANd the >>>Carrasoul MUSIC was so fine. >>>Maureen >>> >>> >>>>From: Don Barnes <[email protected]> >>>>To: [email protected] >>>>Subject: Re: [MAWORCES] Dear Old Mendon >>>>Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 19:21:18 -0500 >>>> >>>>How I remember old Mendon. >>>> >>>> I have not seen Nipmuck Part since I was ten years old when my family >>>>moved to Georgia with one of the first "Yankee" mills to move south. I >>>>am 81 now so what I remember has been aged for 71 years. >>>> >>>>I remember my first airplane ride from the Mendon Airport. Yes, Mendon >>>>had an airport. Actually an air strip. Well, maybe a grass field just >>>>off the Uxbridge / Mendon road. >>>> >>>>I was five years old at the time because the barmstorm pilot required >>>>that all passengers must be five years old before they could go up in >>>>his open cockpit biplane. The flight schedule was simple - Saturdays >>>>and Sundays on warm dry days. Return trip was to where you took off >>>>from. >>>> >>>>I remember when we climbed into the front cockpit and the pilot got into >>>>the rear seat, that I was afraid that the pilot would not be able to see >>>>when we was going. >>>> >>>>When we go aloft and looked down I asked my father, "Is God up here?". >>>>Or at least that is what he told later. Actually I don't remember saying >>>>anything. >>>> >>>>At Nipmuck Park the thing I remember best was the merry-go-round. It had >>>>a slotted arm that was loaded with metal rings. If you stood on the edge >>>>of the wheel and held on to one of the vertical poles (and you were tall >>>>enough) you could stick your hand and perhaps snag a ring. If the ring >>>>was brass you got the next ride free - a wonderful prize. If the ring >>>>was plain old metal, you were suppose to throw it into a bin that had a >>>>big mesh bag to catch it. Then the rings were loaded back into the arm. >>>>The brass rings were bright and shiny so grabbers and spectators could >>>>see when a winner was in the slot. >>>> >>>>I believe that the streetcars quit running to Mendon in the late >>>>twenty's or early thirties when a flood on the Blackstone River took >>>>out the bridge and tracks that were never replaced. >>>> >>>>Since I remember these things from seventy years ago so well, how come I >>>>can't remember what I had for breakfast this morning. >>>> >>>>Don Barnes - Winston Salem, NC >>>> >>>>P.S. My grandmother was an Albee from Horse Corners >>>> >>>> >>>>==== MAWORCES Mailing List ==== >>>>To UNsub go here: >>>>http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/MA/worcester.html >>>> >>> >>>_________________________________________________________________ >>>Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's >>>FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ >>> >>> >>>==== MAWORCES Mailing List ==== >>>Need to UNsub for vacation or summer?? >>>Forget How to UN sub??? >>>http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/MA/worcester.html >>> >> >> > >_________________________________________________________________ >On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to >get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=Retirement > > >==== MAWORCES Mailing List ==== >Worcester GenWeb has many Resources >Check it out!! >http://www.rootsweb.com/~maworces > _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/