Fitz in NNE

[Larry Meyer]

Fitz (John Fitzgerald) has a nice article out in the summer issue of Natural New England about a paddle on the Aroostook River in his OT Guide. NNE is a great mag. The editor, Greg Walsh, paddles an OT wood-canvas. Young Fitz has become a stalwart of the Norumbega chapter, got 10 canoes now, and rumors that his marriage is on the rocks are entirely untrue.

 

[Fitz]

How to keep it off the rocks

Well, you see, I have an ace in the hole here . The little missus really can't take too much of an issue with the canoe collection, since it was her mother that gave me this blasted case of Canoe Bug! I was a perfectly normal guy and then she left us that little Peterborough Shorty Trapper and I ain't been quite the same since .

She had a habit of playing tricks on the old son-in-law, but this is apparently terminal .

Larry failed to mention he's a regular contributor to Natural New England and he too has a great little piece in this issue on the awaited return of beavers to the Blue Hills Reservation in Boston.

 

[Larry Meyer]

Born and raised in Rangeley and father has an OT Guide and still blames the distaff side! Yeah, tell me another one and pull the other leg.

 

[Fitz]

Not Native.

Well, I have to correct you there. I'm not Native, as in Mainer. Even though I helped my dad dig the outhouse hole at 5 years old, I wasn't born in the Great State of Maine. You can live there a long time and folks will continue to remind you that you are from "Away".

Pa continues to remind me that he took me out of Massachusetts a long time ago, only to see me return...."but Dad, there was this girl..."