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PublishedJune 23, 2019
J.P. Devine: Life is a drag
The recent confrontation in downtown Waterville over a drag queen story hour for children drew metaphorical spears and rattles, the latest in a fabulous tradition of performances, J.P. Devine writes.
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PublishedJune 16, 2019
J.P. Devine: Home is the sailor
A tribute to the old man, the officer of the day, 'your father,' Pop.
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PublishedJune 9, 2019
J.P. Devine: In search of his Mainah identity
How I got here, how I left, how I came back, and how I finally stayed.
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PublishedJune 2, 2019
J.P. Devine: And then he was gone
A memoir of the assassination of Bobby Kennedy, who for a brief moment in time and on this night stood in the silver light, poised to step into history.
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PublishedMay 26, 2019
On the Edge: Remembering an heirloom for Memorial Day
It wasn't much of a soccer ball, J.P. Devine writes, grass-stained and bruised, but it had been passed on from cousin to cousin and from brother to brother and bore the imprint of memory and association.
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PublishedMay 19, 2019
J.P. Devine: May Day 1952, the Movie
J.P. Devine writes about an occupier's view of a Japanese riot, or how best to avoid the animosity of a mob and embrace the discretion of a big guy.
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PublishedMay 12, 2019
J.P. Devine: The woman I’m calling today
No matter where he happened to be in his travels, J.P. Devine always had a bucketful of change to dump into a pay phone to call his mother on Mother's Day.
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PublishedMay 5, 2019
J.P. Devine: Everyone’s job is a temp job
And it may only last from day to day or hour to hour, but the memories can last a lifetime, J.P. Devine writes.
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PublishedApril 28, 2019
J.P. Devine: The world of ‘stuff’ where guys are supposed to have an edge
"Guy stuff" is items you find in a hardware store that, until recently, J.P had the advantage of, with help from his street friends.
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PublishedApril 21, 2019
J.P. Devine: An Easter morning only the stones remember
There are mornings that stick to our eyes like the pennies the old Irish put on the eyes of the dead, J.P. Devine writes.
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