It certainly was interesting. I half expected to take off circle around and end up back on the ground in the same place. There was a lot of head scratching and chatting going on at the time, but in the end, they sent me in the right direction.
As for Manchester, ME, I used that PO often as I was the treasurer of the Cobbosseecontee Yacht Club and the club used a POB there for our mail. It worked out well as my office was in Augusta so I went by on my to and from my home in Winthrop.

:wave: 123Cookie,
I'm not from Maine, but I've been to Augustah... ur, GA that is. There's a nice golf course there. ;)

BTW, there's probably a Maine Club in TV. There's a club for people from everywhere!

Used to teach almost beside that golf course - at Aiken Tech College - same road about 3 miles back towards Aiken, Sc. -- very familar with area - lived in Aiken for 6 yrs. - wife work for sub-contractor for SRS out of Augusta - EXR , belive was the name of it -- that was back in mid 90s.

oh yeah on Bolley's Hot dogs, college Ave, Waterville, - spent a good many lunch breaks there. - outstanding taste - nothing like it any where else!!!
I also was a teacher - taught 28 yrs at WJHS there in Waterville - then on to teaching college for another 6 yrs in SC. I still have a son and daughter and familes in Maine -- Son is the executive chef for Regency Hotel in Portland Maine - Daughter is a Medical Transcriptionist at Skowhegan Hospital.

Hello,
I have also 30 yrs at PNS!
Don't recognize you from your nickname,

Mark Jacques

PNS? -- lost me here -

Woodbury
 

We just bought a patio Villa up in Woodbury. We're from Bangor coming down in Oct for a bit then renting the house out for a few years

Finally joined, after following TOTV closely for at least 2 yrs, being unable to resist after noting so many others with Maine ties. I'm another native "Mainiac", born in Bar Harbor, graduated B.H.H.S. in 65, Orono in 69. Still co-own the home in Bar Harbor in which I grew up, so will be spending much summer time there after my wife (born/raised in Newark, NJ) & I hopefully buy a house in TV during our lifestyle visit 9/8-9/14, coming from Montgomery Village, MD. Looking forward to meeting other "Mainiacs" after we're settled in.

My wife is from Bath. We have lived in Portland, Scarboro, Rockland and for 20 years before coming here we lived in Wiscasset.

Ay-uhh! I was born in Cumberland Ctr. and spent most of my life in the greater Portland area....got tired of the long, gray cold days from November to April or May. House in Westbrook sold in 3 hours and the next thing I knew I was in a Penske truck, heading south on the Maine Turnpike! That was in August of 1998.

We go back to Maine every summer...still have some family there and hubby has to get his fill of lobstah and other cold-water seafood.

The lifestyle here is just as fabulous as it was when we moved here...16,000 residents, one town square that wasn't done and 5 executive golf courses! You will love living here! Welcome!

Whether or not the last posting was meant for me, thanks! I'm reminded of what a small world it is, tho TV being a bigger & bigger part of it. While in Bar Harbor most of last summer I joined a golfer, originally from Portland, who coincidentally rents in TV over the winter! Also, fyi, all independent of each other, a former co-worker of my wife's here in Md & her hubby several yrs ago, a former co-worker & still friend of mine in Md last yr, & recently my wife's brother & his wife all bought in TV. Almost forgot, a former co-worker of my wife (from 35 yrs ago!) & her hubby are planning on buying in 2014 in TV. BTW, IMHO, all of the aforementioned are really good people that I'm sure have/will continue to make TV a great place to live. We're more & more looking forward to sharing this next chapter in our lives in TV with our friends & family!

Hi Cookie,
My wife, Lorri, and I are from Alfred, Maine. We grew up in Limington & Limerick. All are in southern Maine. We are moving to TV the first week in Nov; have a house in Belvedere, off cr 466. Wife retiring Nov 1. I retired Apr 1. She's a legal secretary and I'm a retired deputy sheriff and investigator for the district attorney's office. Our Maine house is for sale, been on the market since July. Will be "snowbirds" if the Maine house does not sell soon, otherwise we plan on staying at TV all year. By the way, I'm also retired from the Maine Air National Guard, who are also called "Mainiacs"
Ralph & Lorri

PNS = Portsmouth Naval Shipyard

ok gotcha --- I worked summers while in college at BIW -- only difference - BIW built surface warfare ships -- Have been to PNS several times --

BIW - Bath Iron Works, Bath Maine.

My wife and I are both from Biddeford Me. After we got married we moved to Waterboro Me and she worked in Special Ed in SAD57. I worked in South Portland for 36 yrs. Have been full time in the Village of St James for 2 yrs.

I'm headin' back today for a few days, will have a lobsta for ya!

ayaah, sounds like a plan!!!

will be on the road to my vacation house in Denmark, me in a little bit! :)

spent last nite in sturbridge, ma - not much seems to have changed in many years!

ahhhhhh foliage season and the Fryeburg fayah! ;)!

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I'm also from Southern Maine. Born there and lived in Maine for 46 years before moving here. I was born and grew up in Portland but went to HS in Scarborough and lived in Limington for 10 years. I last lived in Fryeburg for another 10 years and coached at the HS there. I'm also called a Maniac down here and can't seem to get rid of that Maine accent. I have a lot of friends in the Limerick/Limington area still today.

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ah, the Fryburg fair -- last one of the fair season and perhaps the best!!! - I have not lived in maine for last 20 plus years and still have the down-easter accent.
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Cookie

I lived a mile from the Fair and considered it a pain in the neck. Hated driving around the traffic which was unreal. People came from all over to attend this fair. It lasts 8 days and by the end tens of thousands have come and gone.

Ever eat at 22 milk street in Portland (Old Port) - part of the Regency Hotel - my son is there Executive Chief - had been there for 20 yrs. --in charge of all eateries in there. Fryburg - the FAIR town. I grew up in a little town called Richmond inland a few miles from Bath, on the Kennebec.

Maine!!
 

OK, you are all making me homesick! Born in Bath, Maine; like the Marines will always be a Mainer, and forced, by parents, to move to NH, another beautiful state, at age 16. Lived also in Richmond (actually Bowdoinham) and Berwick, ME. Mmmmm, memories: smells of woodsmoke and crunchy fall leaves, low tide, sun on beach sand, lilacs and forsythia in the spring, wild strawberries and blueberries, learning to scull on the Kennebec, ice cream at Brown's in Cape Neddick......................sigh.

I grew up in Richmond -and Bowdodinham - went to a one room school house in Bowdoinham for 1st four years of school then moved to Pleasant st. in Richmond in mid 50s and graduated from RHS back in 63. -- our paths may have crossed --what was your maiden name? - Cookie

Saco...Ferry Rd...on the way to Camp Ellis...across the street from the Baptist church was my great grandparents farm....lived in Saco for 33.5 years out of 60...live in Sanibel now...love it!