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