"Half-Laughing" Articles
When Pop retired and moved back home to Maine in the 70’s, he found himself with the time and opportunity to pursue some things he’d wanted to do for many years. His great love for music became a weekly “Classical Jam Session” that he called the “Pot-Luck Symphony” which he hosted in the music room on Elm Street.
His love for writing was expressed each week in the Camden Herald in a column he called “Half-Laughing”. It was an Art Buchwald style mixed with his own, and a window into his down to earth, common sense, Downeast perspective on life. Though written in the 70’s, there is a contemporary relevance to them…attitudes and outlooks may change, but Truth does not.
I have wanted for some time to share these and have decided to include them in my Website. They offer a unique insight into life, my Dad, and myself, for I share the heritage, perspective and humor that they express so well.
I hope they make you smile.
Art Beveridge
Written for the Camden Herald
by Norwood P. Beveridge
