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From: "Maureen Cooley" <>
Subject: Re: [MAWORCES] Dear Old Mendon
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 20:59:56 -0500
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Don, Mendon Airport is still there right off Route 16 on the way to
UXBRIDGE....Also Hopedale has its own airport...I remember taking a ride or
two through there when I was growing up...
Actually my children and I was forced to move to OKLA....In the 70's and
Someone there let me take over the controls and learn how to fly a 2
seater...We flew all around OKLA. and TEXAS...I had to run the controls and
keep the (wings) at a steady level...We practiced taking off and landing
about 30 times. I would NOT do it now BUT it was fun way back then....
Maureen

>From: "Maureen Cooley" <>
>To:
>Subject: Re: [MAWORCES] Dear Old Mendon
>Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 20:41:34 -0500
>
>Don,
>The treasured brass ring....I remember it well. I won it at Mendon several
>times and ALSO at Rogers William Park in R.I. Actually when I was
>younger....(YOU had to lean way to the right to get it) I was scared of the
>HORSES that moved UP and DOWN....I had to sit in a seat that did NOT
>move....like a deacons bench seat....BUT by the time I went to Rogers and
>Williams I had graduated to a horse that moved UP and DOWN....ANd the
>Carrasoul MUSIC was so fine.
>Maureen
>
>
>>From: Don Barnes <>
>>To:
>>Subject: Re: [MAWORCES] Dear Old Mendon
>>Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 19:21:18 -0500
>>
>>How I remember old Mendon.
>>
>> I have not seen Nipmuck Part since I was ten years old when my family
>>moved to Georgia with one of the first "Yankee" mills to move south. I am
>>81 now so what I remember has been aged for 71 years.
>>
>>I remember my first airplane ride from the Mendon Airport. Yes, Mendon had
>>an airport. Actually an air strip. Well, maybe a grass field just off the
>>Uxbridge / Mendon road.
>>
>>I was five years old at the time because the barmstorm pilot required that
>>all passengers must be five years old before they could go up in his open
>>cockpit biplane. The flight schedule was simple - Saturdays and Sundays
>>on warm dry days. Return trip was to where you took off from.
>>
>>I remember when we climbed into the front cockpit and the pilot got into
>>the rear seat, that I was afraid that the pilot would not be able to see
>>when we was going.
>>
>>When we go aloft and looked down I asked my father, "Is God up here?". Or
>>at least that is what he told later. Actually I don't remember saying
>>anything.
>>
>>At Nipmuck Park the thing I remember best was the merry-go-round. It had a
>>slotted arm that was loaded with metal rings. If you stood on the edge of
>>the wheel and held on to one of the vertical poles (and you were tall
>>enough) you could stick your hand and perhaps snag a ring. If the ring
>>was brass you got the next ride free - a wonderful prize. If the ring
>>was plain old metal, you were suppose to throw it into a bin that had a
>>big mesh bag to catch it. Then the rings were loaded back into the arm.
>>The brass rings were bright and shiny so grabbers and spectators could see
>>when a winner was in the slot.
>>
>>I believe that the streetcars quit running to Mendon in the late twenty's
>>or early thirties when a flood on the Blackstone River took out the
>>bridge and tracks that were never replaced.
>>
>>Since I remember these things from seventy years ago so well, how come I
>>can't remember what I had for breakfast this morning.
>>
>>Don Barnes - Winston Salem, NC
>>
>>P.S. My grandmother was an Albee from Horse Corners
>>
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