![]() ![]() Not just during school recess at the East Grand Elementary, but traipsing over for the off hours marble games. That her brothers, all the young lads in her same small Maine town would gather somewhere to play marbles. He laughed and asked what did she tell you? I said only that he was Mr. Like most things in life, it boils down to a matter of sheer practice and time put into the endeavor. I asked the seller during property price negotiations back and forth this week about his marble playing prowess. Winning big and often reported Simone the lake property buyer. That’s what he was known for in these parts. Kenny the seller was not and still is not blind, deaf and dumb. He was the small Maine town version of a pin ball wizard except we’re talking marbles. Like Kittens In A Farm Yard Barn Delivery Of New Cats, The Colors Are Varied. When the circle of people is smaller, the connection is stronger. In small Maine towns, people are more aware of the connection to others in it. If you go back far enough in the DNA, someone’s grandmother married your second cousin happens. The connection is second, third tier but still there. ![]() In small Maine towns, your brother or sister often in a class with most of your friend’s family members. In admiration and without spite or malice, the buyer dubbed the seller as one heck of a marble player. She was a Crocker from Danforth Maine and the lake property owner grew up in the same northern most Washington County town. I had not thought of marbles in Maine much until this week when a real estate buyer of a waterfront camp on East Grand told me about the owner. ![]() Marbles made out of wood, clay, stone not the pretty hot molten glass with us for thousands of years. That’s all long long before Maine became a state. Marble games played since the 13th century. Winning, losing, coming out even in marble games is no new trending fad. Marbles in Maine, the glass ones started showing up in the 1890’s.īut marbles made of well, marble… and alabaster around two hundred years before that. ![]()
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