Peter Colman "Father of the Man" Author

Then there was the 250-pound, ten-point buck (there’s not the slightest possibility of exaggeration in the récit, bien véritable) that Dad shot, dragged through the woods and over the stonewall, across the road from the house. I actually have a picture of that animal to corroborate the story.

I remember a huge black spider! Mom says that I was playing out on the yard, when she saw the large creature crawling toward me. She called my Dad, who raced outside to the rescue (Dad was always ‘rescuing’ me from something). All that I recall from the incident is Dad putting the ugly black behemoth in a clear canning jar on a table on the front porch. He put a twelve-inch ruler in the jar to crush the spider, and the spider started to climb toward his hand…how could such a story be believed unless there were a reliable eye-witness! I can still remember standing there, my eyes level with the edge of the wooden table, watching my father crush that big spider; I distinctly remember that there was a layer of milky liquid in the bottom of the jar…

We left the old house in Dunbarton and moved to Manchester. My Mom’s brother, Jim Rogers, got Dad a job down on Canal Street in one of the old red-brick buildings constructed in the late 19th century for the immigrant workers in the world-famous textile mills which lined the banks of the Merrimack River. Uncle Jim had served in the U.S. Army, helping to coordinate U.S. forces in the European theatre; he was stationed in Paris, where he met his young English bride. Uncle Jim and Auntie Joyce have lived in Manchester since the end of the war, and have been married nearly 60 years; they still live in the same small, light blue bungalow on the top of the hill on Harvey Road, overlooking Grenier Field, which is now the modernized Manchester Airport. Jim and Joyce have maintained the same address and phone number all of these years.





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