A) Archery and Howard Hill ~ 1952?
B) Adamski – flying saucers – get book title
C) Roger St-Armand’s beautiful cousin – she was a knockout, but I never got to meet her through Roger’s intercession.
D) Bicycle trips to Dracut on Willard Rd with George, Roger and Richard were special!
E) Richard’s comment to merchant or salesman at the Lull and Hartford sports store on Prescott St. Richard said: “ These cheaper arrows were made to break, right?” Cousin Richard was pulling this guy’s chain.
F) George told me later that his family had moved from Lawrence to Lowell when he was in 4th grade. Kids at St-Louis de France school hassled him a lot. Outsiders were, maybe, suspect?
G) George’s father used to stuff rags in the inside of the car’s tires since he had no inner tubes.
H) George and his dad plus Roger and his dad would do activities together – father and son good times – but my father and I had no fun activities together. I missed that. Since my dad worked at four jobs, he had no time to enjoy his four children.
I) Roger and his dad went boating on the Merrimack river near the bathhouse and George and his father would, sometimes, take family outings in their family car. We had no car so George’s experience with his family seemed special to me.
J) George and Roger were better woodsman than I was and I noticed that on a trip to out to our favorite fields in Dracut, the snow from a day before had covered the bushes but after a little melting from the sun, the southern exposure of the plants and bushes were bare of the white stuff but not the northern side. So, they could figure out the direction pointing south by this simple observation while I felt like an inadequate lad that had much to learn about the woods and Mother Nature.
K) Where to start on this challenge of “learning the ropes” about the physical world that we all must live in? Maybe, the Saturday morning kids’ science show called: “Watch Mr. Wizard” might get some of my many, many questions answered?
L) Also, why were the nuns at St-Louis de France Elementary School and the Marist Brothers at the College Saint-Joseph on Merrimack Street teaching us so little biology, physics, chemistry and probability theory, which the Augustine monk, Gregor Mendel, had used, one hundred years before, in man’s first attempts at understanding genetics?
M) Once, we captured a little squirrel in those woods and managed to bring him or her home to our house at 179 Ludlam St. The little guy lived with us for a few days, but later died after eating some homemade spaghetti sauce.
N) George (Georges, in French) and I were very interested in any rocket launching because of the Russian successes in that field. This would have been after Sputnik in October, 1957. One American rocket scientist from Massachusetts was already doing test launches in western Massachusetts. This was very exciting for George and me. His name was Robert Goddard from Clark University.
O) George and I had worked together on building a launch rocket but we did not really understand Newton’s second law of mechanics as it applies to a rocket. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing even in high school rocketry. But other adventurous kids and teenagers across the nation were having some initial successful launches usually through joint efforts in a neighborhood rocketry club.
P) F = ma is a hypothesis that we willingly accepted, but the more complete formulation given by: total force, F, on rocket equals the rate of change of the instantaneous momentum of the rocket or F = d/dt(mv) where the mass of the rocket is also a function of the time since its mass is decreasing as propellant is being consumed. So, at any given time, the mass of the vehicle can be expressed as m = mass of rocket body + remaining mass of the fuel, the propellant.
NOTE: At this point, George and I each believed in flying saucers and in tiny intelligent creatures, who drove them across the night skies.
In the early days of the 1950s, George and I filled our fanciful, boyhood imaginings with books on archery and flying saucers plus occasional forays in the worlds of weight-lifting and judo. Cousin Richard Ouellette and Roger St-Armand also shared their developing interest in these topics and in maintaining our two-wheel bicycles in tiptop shape.
Adamski – author :
Flying Saucers Have Landed Kindle Edition
by George Adamski (Author), Desmond Leslie (Author)
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Behind the Flying Saucer Mystery: Ancient Astronauts, The Space Brothers, and The Silence Group [Print Replica] Kindle Edition
by George Adamski (Author)
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Flying Saucers Farewell Hardcover – Import, 1961
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Archery: Howard Hill books:
Archery adventures (Trend book) Unknown Binding – 1955
by Howard Hill (Author)
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HOWARD HILL’S ARCHERY ADVENTURES. HUNTING THE HARD
WAY. TREND BOOK 125. Paperback – 1955
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo8UZneuggE
Cavalcade of Archery by Howard Hill
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSLi3D5Hz7E
Howard Hill Archery Lessons
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFaxJYh2ARo
Adamski ET documentary
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx-_FIo86j0
Adamski flying saucer film
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Note: George and I had a hilarious time making inappropriate statements in the middle of horror movies, Tarzan flicks and cartoons. Also, “Mad magazine” gave us both shabby reasons to reluctantly continue believing that some adults knew what they were doing.