Wednesday, July 19, 2017












it was a place you grew up in or attended

pleasantly shabby with a disarming beauty, it shared an etheral charm on summer evenings

it was anyones and everyones founded by yankee doodle himself

but like any small new england village this town had secrets




every good writer has a conflicted relationship with the place they grew up "




memory chimes store


i reached for the cutty sark expecting to tip it over

it wasnt there

the ground was painted with dollar store mouthwash bottles prone and empty like marlowes dead soldiers




we didn't open this agency for the money

truth is the coin we were searching

but the coins liked to purchase a fine whiskey


time to report i wrote in the clouds



                      


2 years after harold s mom graduated, the williamstown theater festival put on a production of the golden boy starring a then as yet unknown actor named dylan mcdermott who would play pick up basketball with us almost every day

he asked my name one time so i asked his

he said very clearly " dylan [ something ] "

he said it like i should remember it and i did

except for the remembering part

thought he said " macgillivary " he looked very similar to peter macgillivary who had just become a successful photographer with the north adams transcript and the williamstown advocate

he also mentioned he was with the wtf so in 2012 I googled to see if dylan was dylan m and voila

                                     dylan mcdermott wiki

paul newman s wife joanne woodward was directing the golden boy that year and they built a house out on hancock road almost across from where i was working as a laborer with dave who was doing carpentry for bob who was putting an addition on his farm house

you can just barely see the solar panel on the addition





bob had connected the solar panel to a water heater which not only heated a hot tub inside the sunporch addition, but also heated the floor of the sunporch by pumping solar hot water through pvc pipes lain in the cement floor



the newman s house looked pretty normal except for a really nice segmented arc window over what I had thought was the front door at the time it was 2 houses west of 720 hancock road on the south side





                                       paul newman wiki


                                       joanne woodward wiki


a mention in 1999  ny daily news:

" Gwyneth Paltrow has some fan club, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward and Meryl Streep headed up to Williamstown, Mass., yesterday to see her in a production of "As You Like It."

pappa charlie s originally was the a&w rootbeer stand next to a&p on route 2 ( where you could order baklava if you wanted ) charlie s son mike nikitas, who began the naming of sandwiches, ran the sandwich shop on spring street called mike s deli which became pappa charlies  as this 1994 ny times article mentions :

" Gwyneth Paltrow also declines the Blythe Danner Special. Ms. Paltrow is her 21-year-old daughter -- taller, thinner and blonder, and without that voice. Ms. Paltrow's name has been on the list of rising young movie stars since her small but scene-stealing performance last year as Ginnie, a grifter, in "Flesh and Bone." Her name has yet to go up on the sandwich board at Pappa Charlie's with those of other actors at Williamstown, though that may change soon. "

baklava


gwyneth paltrow has egg plant in it and comes with a side salad:


                                                                                                                                  




                                       gwyneth paltrow wiki

chris martin wrote fix you after gwyneth s father passed away





born in 1972, gweneth began acting at the wtf in 1981 when she was 9 years old

her version of bette davis eyes from the movie duets ( about traveling karaoke champions ) reached #3 in australia

bette davis attended crestalban boarding school in lanesboro mass, 15 miles south of williamstown, when she was 7 until she turned 13


bette davis wiki


today crestalban site is ...



robin williams, who reportedly built a summer home in pittsfield, mass, made the movie the fisher king about a shock jock who causes a mass shooting and a homeless schizophrenic searching for the holy grail in 1991...4 years before his friend and juliard roommate christopher reeve became a quadrapilegic




christopher reeve looking out on greylock from his home in williamstown


fisher king wiki






' Cutty Sark was also featured in The Cleveland Show (2011) in an episode titled "Die Semi-Hard." '


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutty_Sark_(whisky)



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the humid night air sipped from the atlantic as i rested my feet on the present waiting for the pieces to fall into place in the hopper of inductive reasoning

she was a girl with a past racking up credits like a pool shark running the table

she spoke of the williamstown theater festival like it was yesterday but she had met her friend and suits costar gabriel macht there 20 years ago as the ageless beauty wowed her way through stage and screen





                               sarah rafferty





                                      gabriel macht wiki




they weren't talking much but i knew there was a way to find out....

what secrets did they take with them and where did they hide their booze ?

mr perry belonged to so many organizations its a secret itself how he kept them all organised



                                                                   matthew perry wiki





                                                                     sigourney weaver




Richard Chamberlain DF-ST-83-03559.jpg


         richard chamberlain wiki



                                                              elizabeth banks wiki




                                     harolderic 












back to point guard





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