Tag: brick pond

• On a Night Like This

  ‘I remember it was on a night very much like this…’ —Words spoken around 10,000 campfires by a billion storytellers for a million years. I found myself staring at the clouds drifting slowly past the quarter moon.  In these early days of autumn, it should be  a little cooler, but it was a mild evening.…

  patrickjegan

  October 3, 2014

  Blogging, Creativity, Fables & Folklore, Holding onto the Past, Melancholy Thoughts, Memories, Nature, non-fiction, North Country Life, Real Personal History

  autumn, brick pond, campfires, docks, fables, friends, lakes, legends, memory, sparks, spring, story, storytellers, summer, winter

• The Brick Pond

    I grew up in a small town in upstate New York.  The name is Owego, which is derived from a Native American term that means “where the valley widens” or something close to that.  The village has everything that a typical small American town should have.  There is a beautiful cemetery on the hill…

  patrickjegan

  May 7, 2014

  Everyday Events, Holding onto the Past, Memories, Real Personal History

  bonfires, brick pond, childhood girlfriend, hometown, ice skating, owego ny, skating, waterman center, winter