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Hiking Acadia with the ghosts of my grandfathers


Hiking Acadia with the ghosts of my grandfathers
James McManus
© Jerry & Marcy Monkman/The Boston Globe
The pink granite ledges of Maine s Mount Desert Island in Acadia National Park.
Hiking solo above Maine’s Cranberry Islands, I remember the summer my grandparents taught me how to play poker. When Grandpa Tom folded to a bet from either Grandma Betsy or Mrs. Paulsen, their pretty friend from up the road in Mahopac, N.Y., he’d say, “She obviously has a full blouse.” If he knocked over chips or spilled some beer, he’d mutter, “This gawdamn dropsy again.” The joke I didn’t get was that dropsy was short for hydropsy, a heart swollen by excess water, but he used it to explain why he dropped things, as if he had the shakes. ....

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