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We all reach a certain age where we can remember exactly what we did, said, and felt on any particular day thirty or so years ago, but forget where we parked the car last night. This occurred to me at the age mark of 57, and not being one to look a gift horse in the mouth, I am going to ride this wagon till the damn wheels fall off. How many times has each of us been told that we should write a book after relaying this or that odd thing that occurred in our lives? I just did.

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Publié par	Austin Macauley Publishers
Date de parution	30 octobre 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781645368403
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	6 Mo

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Just a Collection of Recollections About Stuff That Really and Truly Happened As I Recall
James Louis Hagerty
Austin Macauley Publishers
2020-10-30
Just a Collection of Recollections About Stuff That Really and Truly Happened As I Recall About the Author Dedication Copyright Information © 1) As a Kid Mascot on Bridge Job 2) Aunt Theresa and Three Little Baker’s Dinner Theater 3) Aunt Theresa 4) Tom and Jim’s Trip to Ocean City, MD 5) Consider the Lilies of the Field 6) Driving and Smoking When I Was Ten 7) Waking from a Coma on Easter Morning 8) Eating Poison Ivy 9) Father Marty 10) Freeing Overheated Dog from Summer-Heated Sportscar 11) Attending Jerry Lewis Black Tie Affair with a Dirty T-shirt 12) Giving a Ride to an Illegal Alien Late One Cold Night 13) Flush State Car Keys down the Toilet in Cambridge 14) See Something Leaking from Wing on KLM Flight from Amsterdam 15) Cast of Les Miserable Dedicate Show to Leslie’s Lost Friend 16) My Two Run-Ins with the Carroll County Sheriff in One Year 17) The Start of Mom’s Trip in England 18) Move from Hell. Move to Carroll County 19) My First and Only Tattoo When I Was 8 20) My Guardian Angel(s) Must Be Ragged Out 21) My Mom’s Secret but Gentle Plan to Introduce Me to Work 22) My Radio Career 23) Breaking into the Maryland National Guard Base – Stealing 24) Entire Family Using Our Secret and Crappy Swimming Hole 25) Philmont Scout Ranch Trip 26) Phone Service in 1969 – “Those Are for the Future, Honey” 27) Playing Santa for SHA Adopt-a-Family Effort 28) Preakness Muddy Brawler 29) Pudd’nhead Wilson – Film Made Harper’s Ferry / Ken Howard 30) Real Reality Versus Virtual Reality 31) Sharing My Special, Secret, Refuge Place When I Was a Kid 32) Snow Duty at SHA 33) The Night Saigon Fell During My Night-Hike to Airport 34) The People You Meet, Panhandlers and Street Salespeople 35) The Extraordinary Adventures of My Little S-10 Pickup 36) Earthquake in Memphis, Face Saving for Mom to Come Home 37) Working, Unbeknownst, with Tommy Lee Jones 38) Tom, Saint of Patience 39) Trouble Maker on Patapsco Avenue in Baltimore 40) Uncle Bob and Englebert Humperdinck 41) I Get by with a Little Help from My (Newfound) Friends 42) Wrong Rumor About Martin Sheen Filling in for James Dean 43) Aunt Theresa Comes to My Show 44) Halloween Harbor Cruise ‘Blisterman’ Is Born 45) Instant Karma / Intervening Fate Prevents Bad Behavior 46) My Very Own Real Ghost Story 47) Road Trip to Europe 48) Security Mishap at LAX Airport 49) The Beautiful Young Bank Teller and My Freudian Slip 50) The Local Politician, Activism and Disillusionment 51) Time Travel at an Eight-Year-Old’s Birthday Sleepover 52) What We Did for Fun as Kids in the Country and City 53) Trees and Me 54) Lesson That Made Me Think and Be Ashamed from Joe 55) A True Gentlemen and a Great Model of a Boss 56) More Than Just a Bike 57) Easter Eggs and Engineless Go-Karts 58) Thumper Our Little Brown Angel Sent from Heaven 59) Charlie Cotel 60) Pumpkin Theater – ‘The Prince That Wouldn’t Talk’ 61) Dr. Bombay / Dr. Hannibal Lector 62) Mentoring Nate 63) Sister Coppertone 64) The Time Two British Marines and I Made the Queen’s Day 65) Say What? The Way Kids Hear Things Sometimes 66) Gluttony and the Grand Canyon Thermals Ride 67) Desktop Christmas Decorations of Questionable Repute 68) My Cabbie Angel 69) The Best Teacher Ever – Mrs. Ruth Kanes 70) Mrs. “O” 71) Doctors Are Only Human Too 72) Gifts: Christmas, Birthday, and More Important Ones 73) Bernie’s Never-Ending Search for the Next Adventure 74) The Better Angels of Uncle Bill’s Nature Come Just in Time 75) My Lifelong Troublesome Hair 76) Addiction and Nun Putting Me in My Green Tights 77) Come Again? 78) My Achilles Heel 79) “You Got to Have Heart,” Gaffs Going Up on Lines and Booze 80) Jesse James, Jr. 81) The Fire Pit 82) That’s Show Business 83) To See Things a Bit Differently 84) Our Continuing Fur Family Menagerie 85) Boring Civil Service 86) Remorse and Regret 87) My Parking Garage Rooftop Orchestrated Wine and Cheese Parties 88) ‘Lewis and Clark’ and I Explore Creepy Spots out of Summer Boredom 89) My Lucky Friendship with Both a Child Prodigy and WWII Bomber Pilot 90) My Trip to the White House on Business 91) Touché – Illegal Septic System at SHA Hanover, MD – Clean Up 92) Hen Holidays 93) Read the Signs – It Helps 94) The Runaway 95) The Gators Do Mardi Gras 96) Country Living 97) A Bridge (Allowed to Go) Too Far 98) To Be a Sport and Play a Sport 99) Our Very Own ‘Mr. Belvedere’ 100) Even a Blind Squirrel Will Trip over an Acorn Now and Then 101) Becoming Legal and a Fan of the Muppets at the Same Time 102) The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round 103) A Pleasant Tale of Payback? 104) Christmas Cheer 105) Hearing Aids 106) A Dog’s Purpose 107) Moving Unmentionables 108) A Sign of the (Our) Times 109) Chicago Intrepid Tourist 110) While Not Instant, Timeless Karma 111) Alice All Grown Up 112) God Only Gives You What You Can Handle 113) They Make Colored Duct Tape Now 114) Towson State Couple 115) The Joe’s and Gettysburg Ghost Hunting 116) Knocking Over the Apple Cart 117) The Many Mis-Loves of My Life 118) How I Learned to Cuss in Earnest 119). Perhaps I Do Need a Keeper as My Mother Would Say
About the Author
James Louis Hagerty is a retired highway engineer with the state of Maryland. Born and raised in Baltimore, he now resides in rural Maryland on the edges of Mayberry, which is what he believes to be the geographic center for the entire Mid-Atlantic region of the eastern seaboard of the United States; forty miles to Baltimore and the same to Washington DC, as well as to Harrisburg, PA; only a mere twenty miles to Camp David to the southwest and twenty miles to Gettysburg and Pennsylvania to the northwest. While his household has greatly fluctuated in number over the last 38 years, he now lives with his brother Michael, a Bombay cat, and three mutt dogs.
Dedication
To my family and friends, who populated my life and made for these stories.
To my Aunt Doris, for whom these stories were recorded to trigger the memory loss caused by her stroke, giving her endless pleasure on her early morning reads and rereads of them. To my best friend, Chris Wolf, the most patient and kind sounding board, albeit involuntary, ever. And finally, to my best pal, Patty Kerrigan, who is the best model of a raconteur, given her 96 years thus far of a colorful life well-lived, her Irish gift of gab, and her indomitable generous spirit.
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Hagerty, James Louis
Just a Collection of Recollections About Stuff That Really and
Truly Happened as I Recall
ISBN 9781643786360 (Paperback)
ISBN 9781643786377 (Hardback)
ISBN 9781645368403 (ePub e-book)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2020908965
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1) As a Kid Mascot on Bridge Job
It was, to say the least, a stressful time, being separated from my real family and healing from an auto accident. As providence would have it though, a nice distraction complete with new friends was on the way. While at the school bus stop on the porch of the old, kind, couple Mr. and Mrs. Gwynne, we saw all kinds of activity with big trucks and workers in front of us, on the Harford Road Bridge near Harley Mill Road.
By the time we had got home from school that day, the bridge was closed down and the road on top was being removed. I lived in the country with all kinds of distractions, but this was pure glory for me who had pretty much focused solely on building things even before I could walk as my mother told me. By the next week, just in time for summer vacation, on the road people moved in a large trailer, right next to the bridge. On the first day of summer, I could hear the clanking of setting up a crane on the bridge from my bedroom window.
Fishing, swimming and just hanging around, took a back seat to my continued presence at the bridge. I was fascinated with the field office trailer sitting on the closed section of the road, complete with telephones, electricity and even a toilet inside. The crew quickly got to know me once they realized, I didn’t go too far away when they chased me – always watching from the nearby woods. I got to know everyone’s name and what they did. One day, I made it…The boss of the job called me in the trailer with the guys at lunch and they gave me a sandwich and a coke. Soon, they let me hang in the trailer, especially when it was hot as it was air-conditioned something that wasn’t around in many homes then. I had my own desk and would color and remove staples from stuff if need be. The boss, who I learned work for the government, even started teaching me from the plans about the bridge. I had become their mascot, whether it was okay with the roadway department or not. I’d e