Minnie, we live in Machiasport, so you must know where that is, since you pass through Machias on your way to Eastport..........small world.......huh ?.....Love, Dee

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

Minnie, it sure is a small world, Packer is a wanna be Indian, and we both have a deep respect for Native American spirituality, worlds are small and things are weird..........Last oct, Packer had another emergency surgery, I put myself in camp crazy..........happened to be in with the nephew of an Indian who Frank had met when he was in the hospital, we talked the hospital staff into letting us do ceremony outside, on the day of surgery, and I knew that whatever happened would be the right thing. Would love to have you visit..........Love, Dee

You're on Dee, I'll see you the first of July, 2004..........expect to meet lots of new friends, I have a huge family.
My childhood did not involve much of the indian culture, my father just didn't want that. I had waist lenght black hair, always kept in braids, so was called "pocohontas" non stop and "minnie-ha-ha". My brothers and I have the Penobscott indian green eyes. My sister married an Indian that grew up on the Eastport reservation, his father was Governor of the indian nation in the 90's. Maybe we can all go to the 4th of July celebration in Eastport, it's alot of fun, good small town fun. My kids thought it would be silly but ended up loving every minute of it. You won't find that kind of fun here in Va. beach. I would move back to Maine yesterday if my oldest daughter and mother of my two grandaughters had not already made her life here. I just can't bring myself to leave her here. Take care,
Minnie