Chew More Gum Factory - Circa 1920

Sometime in the late '30s early 40's while walking this particular stretch of Rolling Mill Bank Road with my dad, he told me about working for the Chew More Gum Factory as a kid of about 12 to 14 years old at this very spot where the race from the dam farther up the North East Creek flowed here -second photo -under the road to re-merge with the down stream creek.  I think it was located where the cement base is just visible in the first photograph.  His job was to take a metal hammer and beat away at the hard candy encrusted walls of a large tumbler machine that had worked all week tumbling thousands upon thousands of layered candies commonly called 'Jawbreakers'.  His pay had been minimal he said but he could take home bags of the broken away pieces of the hard candy that he had pounded away from the metal walls of the huge tumbler.  Even then, when we walked there, the building was gone and no one else I knew then - or since - remembered that long ago Chew-More Gum factory.  And other water powered businesses that gave the road its' name are long forgotten.   If the road remains unbridged this whole stretch of town road will revert to nature and haunt of homeless people dreaming away their existance.

Rolling Mill Bank Road

Rolling Mill Bank Road in the town of North East where I was born has been closed for a few years now due to the collapse of the old iron  bridge that spanned the North East Creek - bottom photo - and does not seem to be in any way nor form on the way to ever being rebuilt which I guess is a fitting commentary on the present state of town and county priorities (and a general commentary on the state of bridges through-out the U.S. of A, eh?)

Five Minutes

Some number of years ago while perusing Christiana Mall we passed an Oriental man doing instant paintings of about five minutes from blank canvas to scenic oil.  I could not resist and for some small amount of money - I'd hazard $25 - we agreed to have him design and complete one for us. We have had it hanging all these years in our living room - a tribute to assembly-line- like output to one of a kind items.  To me it is art, pure and simple. 

Poison Ivy Giving Lovely Fall Colours

Statuary L'Anse Aux Meadows - The Meeting of Two Worlds

A unique sculpture titled "The Meeting of Two Worlds" in the town of L'Anse Aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada which was unveiled in 2002.

People visiting L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site in Newfoundland, Canada, stop to admire this spectacular bronze sculpture with each person having their own ideas of exactly what it is. The sculpture is named "The Meeting of Two Worlds" and was unveiled on July 5th, 2002 in L'Anse Aux Meadows by Her Excellency the Governor General of Canada, Adrienne Clarkson.
It relays a message about the historic encounters around Newfoundland with the meeting of the European settlers and the Aboriginal people who were the first settlers here.

Designed and created by two sculptors, Luben Boykov, a Newfoundland immigrant and Richard Brixel, a Swedish man, this sculpture adds a uniqueness to the coastal town of L'Anse Aux Meadows.