MY MAINE TRIP

I just went on an awesome trip to York Beach, Maine. I was there with all of my Havey family (Like cousins and grandparents). On my first  day we flew to Boston, Massachusetts. My Uncle Jay picked us from the airport. He and my Aunt Siobhan (Irish, I originally spelled it  like it sounds, "Shavan") were throwing a big party at their house near Boston in Glouchester. We stayed at a B&B in an old house called the Sally Webster Inn about 15 minutes from Jay's house in Rockport which was a seatown. I saw Nannie at their house too.We said goodbye and went to Salem before our "Maine spot".  Salem is known for being the place where they burned people they thought were witches. The museum we went to there was very interesting because they told us the history of witches in depth. We then went to our house in Maine which Grandee and Pepe got which was very nice. In York Beach in "Short Sands" there's a very cool arcade there called the Fun-O-Rama very near the cold beach (the water is freezing!). My favorite things to do at the arcade were skeeball and the gypsy woman (was like Zoltar in the movie "Big") . I got the rare 100 points while playing skeeball 4 times during my visit and it was awesome. I went to a place called Goldenrod's there which had salt water taffy, fudge and other types of candy. I loved the beach there but the water was very cold (#sickbro). One day I was at the beach for two hours and I was almost frozen when I got out of the ocean, my hands were tingly. I still loved bodysurfing though. At the house there was a dock on the river/bay and a big backyard and a fire pit where we made s'mores. We rented kayaks there and did it almost two times a day. There was a restraunt near by that we really liked called Cape Neddick Lobster pound.We took a day trip to a place called Oqunquick where we took a nice hike that went high above the cliffs and we also went to the beach. A really fun thing we did was an amusement park called York's Wild Kingdom. My favorite thing there was the go-karts. I got a tempoary.tattoo of a shark there, I really liked the family time there because I rarely see them. I really liked seeing my cousins, my Aunts, my Aunt Allison's fiancé and grandparents. A beautiful thing we did there was seeing Nubble Lighthouse and having ice cream nearby. On the way back our flight was delayed so we explored Boston where we saw graves of some historic people like Paul Revere. I really liked it and I encourage you to go to the coast of Maine.

MY SLEEPOVER AT FOLEY's

I had a big sleepover on Saturday. It was at my friends Foley house. For dinner,We had pizza and ice cream cones for dessert. We watched awesome movies called the Blues Brothers(jazz themed) and Strange Brew(beer themed).Afterwards, we settled into bed and listened to stand up of Bill Cosby.I didn't get good sleep so me and Foley woke up at 5:45 am. We first started our day watching the brilliant comedy piece by Mel Brooks "Blazing Saddles".Then we played an awesome game called Beat The Parents. I needed fresh air so we went outside to walk his two dogs Arrow and Lucy. I had a wonderful experience and I thank Foley and his parents for inviting me.

I will blog soon about my D.C TRIP

THE HISTORY OF DUTCHMAN'S CURVE

I just went to Camp Widjiwagen last week and I really want to blog about it. but it will take a while, so I will save that for tomorrow. But, I'm gonna tell you about something awesome I did today. 

Our friend Betsey Thorpe, who wrote a book, "The Day The Whistles Cried" was hosting a tour of the "Dutchman's Curve" at Richland Creek Greenland. It was about an event that happened 100 years ago (exactly on Monday) when two trains crashed into each other on July 9th, 1918. 

I learned several facts and here they are: 1) Near the same place where it happened 4 kids were scalped by a Native American because their families were taking over their land. 2) More Africans Americans died in the train wreck than white people because they were in the area closest to the front of the train behind the locomotive (the dangerous section). If it was modern day the death's (101) would have been more evenly divided. 3) I asked why they called it Duchman's Curve and our friend David Ewing who was there said that the people who built the railroad/bridge were from Germany and said in their German language that they were from "Deutschland" so the Nashvillian's thought they were Dutch and called it "Dutchman's Curve". It was really dangerous on that curve because the two trains couldn't see each other coming and collided head-on. It was the deadliest train crash in U.S history and it happened right here in Nashville. 

My Grandbobby actually in the 1970's or 80's interviewed survivors who were little when it happened (and old when he interviewed them) and it's very interesting. He put some of the interviews in a song he wrote with friend Rafe Vanhoy that is incredible called "The Great Nashville Railroad Disater" which G-Bob recorded and was also recorded by David Allan Coe. Hre's the link to Grandbobby's version of the song https://youtu.be/7ZauKqf3N7c  Betsey played it at her dinner event last night and some people cried because they heard the emotion in the recordings of the real people involved who were included in it. Grandbobby is donating the recordings to the Nashville Public  Library so people can hear that history.

I'd like to give thanks to Betsey Thorpe, Paul Clements (who led our tour and told us lots of interesting history about the area) and David Ewing.

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