It's a very small world Dee.........and I certainly do know where Machiasport is. My sister graduated from University of Maine-Machias and I attended University of Maine-Farmington for two years before transfering to nursing school. I lived in Calais for four years when I was in grade school, but spent most of my childhood in a tiny town called Levant. It's right outside of Bangor. After I married I lived in Bucksport until I moved to Va. Beach in 1989. My family is thick with Indian blood so I spent many summers and vacations up Pembroke and Eastport way. My dad was an engineer that drove the trains through the reservations in Eastport, me and my brothers would go with him when we could.
I will be coming to Maine for the 4th of July next summer, couldn't get there this summer as I spent it with my good buddy called "radiation". I would love to stop and see both you and Packer. Hope all is going well with Packer. My brother and his wife live right outside of Boston and they both tell me that Packer is at a wonderful hospital right now.
Boy, it surely is a small and cozy world. This post has taken me down a memory lane that I haven't traveled for quite some time. Think I'll visit it more often.
Take care Dee,
Minnie

SCC Left Mandible. Jaw replaced with bone from leg. Neck disection, 37 radiation treatments. Recurrence 8-28-07, stage 2, tongue. One third of tongue removed 10-4-07. 5-23-08 chemo started for tumor behind swallowing passage, Our good friend and much loved OCF member Minnie has been lost to the disease (RIP 10-29-08). We will all miss her greatly.