By Bruce Mastracchio Author's Note, 12/12/14: This story was written a few years back, on a dark and windy and snowy night. I know. I know. I'm a little bit ahead of schedule, but I have been stuck inside all day today, with the exception of some heavy shoveling, and,...
The different months and seasons always stood out to me by the colors I associated with them. Winter was white. Christmas was red, green and blue. Spring was green and blue. Summer was bright yellow and light blue. But fall with its hues of orange, maroon and gold has...
By Bruce Mastracchio October's here. And with it orange and black. Wizards and warlocks and witches. And Halloween. Halloween was always a magical, mysterious time here in E.G. back in the ‘40s and ‘50s. The air was crisp. The nights were dark and scary. The Goblins...
By Bruce Mastracchio Dom Iannazzi passed away over a year ago. He wanted to be forgotten immediately. That is hard to do for someone who had such an influence on the people he came into contact with. In particular, his students at East Greenwich High School. I was one...
. . . Or, Things That Go Bump in the Daytime Prologue: No matter what, when something occurs there are many ways to look at it. I used to do an exercise in the classroom, where I had someone come in with a gun and start shooting, then run out. One student slapped a...
Here in Greenwood Cove, athletics took up a good part of our every day. It seemed we always had a ball in our hands. Basically, we did everything by the season. Summer was for baseball. Basketball was in the winter, though we did play hoops all year round. But, fall...
EGHS team picture from !953 with Coach Iannazzi and Coach Carcieri, at Academy Field. Today's story is the second part of a tale about high school football here in EG during the 1950s. I will retreat to my mythical Greenwood Cove for this story to protect whomever...
"When you live in a small town that sometimes feels as if it belongs more to outsiders, you hold on tight to traditions that define local pride. In late November, on Thanksgiving Day, on high school football fields across New England, a unique kind of community...
"Stand By Me" still. Credit: Columbia Pictures Corp.By Bruce MastracchioAs most of you know, if you've been reading my stories over the last 50 years or so, or following the Rems & Mems columns, Picks was one of my closest friends while growing up here in good,...
Clam cakes. Credit: looksandbooks.com By Bruce Mastracchio Before I start on this edition of Mems & Rems I want to remember Mrs. S., a nice lady from the Potowomut area for a nice note she sent and the things she said. I do get a few good comments every now and...
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