Word: kennebunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last time I went home to Maine, I happened to pass by my old high school, Kennebunk High. KHS is a dungeon-like turn of the century building in which 650 students get a claustrophobic secondary education in stagnant, highschool-green classrooms of World War Two vintage. KHS was originally designed to hold approximately 450 students, and for the last 15 years has handily superceded that maximum figure...
...regional set-up gathers in its charges like an overprotective mother hen (or a maternal boa constrictor) from the five surrounding towns: Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, Goose Rocks Beach, Arundel, and Kennebunk Beach. For at least the last ten years the towns have been debating whether or not to build a new school...
...Three weeks after the time of my first encounter with him until he prematurely retired for the season. It seems that the night before the season opener, Mike and a number of other KHS stalwarts had spent the late hours carousing at one of the wilder parties in the Kennebunk's rather mundane history which broke up after the state police busted it. He got in somewhat after curfew, and had a rather oppressive headache throughout the following afternoon--during which we offered up 48 points while tallying...
...next season, as Mike began his comeback, we struck up a friendship and became drinking partners. Eighteen-year-old drinking hadn't yet become legal in Maine, and drinking partnership was a serious affair. During the winter, we would cruise the back roads of Kennebunk, quaffing Colt .45, the completely unique experience. With Mike, it was. Mike took his drinking seriously, but had a morbid funny bone when it came to close calls. One winter night, after upsetting a 16 oz. Colt in my lap by skidding around a corner and ramming a snowbank, Mike looked over and grinned...
This did not resemble the multiple attack that I remembered from last year. In fact, the only thing it did resemble was the offense I ran my sophomore year in high school at Kennebunk (Maine) Hight. We played eight games with that offense. We lost seven games with that offense...