West Arlington-Sandgate weekend visitors and local notes
Sandgate and West Arlington enjoy a busy weekend as residents host relatives from Florida New Jersey Maine and Wales. Clippings report several trips reunions and a Walker bound gardener injury. Birds nest findings include a robin using tinsel and a flower pot nesting site on a porch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Bedell
Walter Stearns
Arlington Garden Club
Gene Pelham
John Brinkerhoff
Sandgate
Howard Neilson
Julie
Jennifer
Portland
Maine
E.E. Jannickys
Chunks Brook Road
James McCabe
West Arlington
Wales
British Isles
Bicycle Pete pulls city on dog powered bicycle across America
Bicycle Pete, a 64 year old wanderer from Rutland, travels coast to coast on a bicycle pulled by his Siberian husky, named Husky. The dog carries him, reaches about 25 mph, and covers up to 50 miles daily. Pete is an artist and sign painter who has wandered for four decades, visiting all 48 states plus Canada and Alaska.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
Pete
Alaska
Husky
Bicycle Pete
Paris
Vermont
Tra
Mitter
Rugged nomad Pete roams Vermont to Plattsburgh and Syracuse
The passage follows Pete's transition from a rugged lifestyle in Vermont to roaming toward Plattsburgh New York and Syracuse then onward to the western states. He supports himself by carpentry, food gathering, and even snake hunting, keeping Husky my dog fed. The narrative also notes a rare sunset phenomenon at Stratton Mountain fire tower, seen from Searsburg Mount.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vermont
Wilmington
Pete
Plattsburgh
Syracuse
N.Y
Also Mentioned on This Page
West
Arlington
Betty Trachte
Clifford Ferris
Santana
Fla
John McCarthy
Florida
William Harriman
Marie Briggs
Joseph Marchese
Andrew
Joseph
Brooklyn
John Read
Oak Ridge
N.J
Guy Roberts
Springfield
Mass
Tommie Pockette
Harold Hill
Springfield Community Players
the Music Man
Weston Playhouse
By Carlo Wolter
Sayles el
Veling
Canada
Europe
China
Wolter
The
Mountain Towns
Carlo Walter — HO
Searsburg Mt
Stratton Mountain
Javery
South
Bennington
Ernest H. Javery
Alan H. Page
Helena Rubinstein
Eg Drug Store
Bennington, Vt
Woodford Rd
Westinghouse
Central AO V
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