Stories from Stell

By Stell Shevis

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• First Selectman of Belmont

  By Stell Shevis - Jun 02
  Once a year a town meeting was held in Belmont and we first went to it in the beginning out of curiosity, as we had never been to such an occasion....
  

• Green bananas

  By Stell Shevis - Apr 07
  Once upon a time I used to keep my green bananas in the clothes dryer. Because it was cool and dark in there, I thought it would keep them from ...
  

• Hurricane honeymoon, part 2

  By Stell Shevis - Feb 11
  When the weather became much colder, we couldn't keep that huge space warm, even with a roaring fire in the big fireplace. One night we took the ...
  

• The one-room schoolhouse

  By Stell Shevis - Jan 07
  The one-room schoolhouse had neither plumbing nor electricity. There was a privy out in back. On dark days, one of the older boys was sent to a ...
  

• Shevis tags a deer

  By Stell Shevis - Nov 05
  It was mid-afternoon of the first day of hunting season when a friend came banging at our door. "Hey Shevis, I got something for ya, and you gotta ...
  

• Coming to Maine

  By Stell Shevis - Sep 05
  Searching the Sunday papers in 1944 we learned that property in Maine was the most reasonable, so in October Shevis took a bus to Camden to look ...
  

• Angels

  By Stell Shevis - May 05
  Angels come in any guise... Angels tall, Angels small... Angels any size at all. Angels dark, Angels fair... Angels show up anywhere. Just have ...
  
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  Neither snow nor rain...

  By Stell Shevis - Mar 03
  The Jeep station wagon was given to us by my dad after we moved to Maine — his idea of a more suitable vehicle for the rough country roads we now ...
  

• Hurricane Honeymoon, part 1

  By Stell Shevis - Feb 04
  We were married in a simple ceremony at the Unitarian Church in Watertown, Mass. on May 29, 1938. My parents, my sister Marian, and his brother ...
  

• 4,000 books

  By Stell Shevis - Nov 19
  It was probably Bill Clayter, the mailman, who told us this story. The new Rockport library was planning to dump a big lot of old books to make ...
  

• The whole place has gone mad

  By Stell Shevis - Oct 01
  "Stell, let's get out of here. I think we've made a terrible mistake," Shevis said to his wife after the couple had traveled to Camden from New ...