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2 days ago | hampshirereview.com | Ted Kalvitis |Far Muse

Occupied with the usual spring rush of getting tractors in shape as well as my mowing gigs, I’m going to have to go all NPR again and submit another “encore presentation.” Curing Carburetor Dope Slap appeared almost exactly a year ago in Vintage Truck Magazine. According to my cataloging system, the article hasn’t previously been used here. If I’m mistaken, I’ll submit to a public dope slap myself. I so do not want to become one of those geezers who keeps telling the same story.

1 month ago | hampshirereview.com | Ted Kalvitis |Far Muse

It was 1969 and I was listening to the news on my dad’s shop radio. I was working in the tool room; otherwise the radio couldn’t be heard over the sounds of production. This manufacturing business, near Somerville, N.J., was still small enough that the workers alternated between research and development and production, with a few part-timers arriving in the evening after their shifts at the nearby Ethicon and Johns Manville factories.

Dec 27, 2023 | hampshirereview.com | Far Muse

Knowing that I chronicle every day that I spend at North River Mills in detail, Charles Hall asked me if he could use my unedited notes from the last festival day for the North River Mills website. I really liked the idea, but when he told me that he needed them in digital format, I didn't see much chance of that actually happening. However, it occurs to me that once any of my work is published in the Review, it becomes available in digitized form.

May 3, 2023 | hampshirereview.com | Far Muse

Apr 13, 2022 | hampshirereview.com | Ted Kalvitis |Far Muse