The Pirate & The Only Living Boy In New Hampshire: The 1st Inning from Salem Unbound

By MT Danielson and Ken Sweet

Do you remember your first love? How about the competition you faced for their affection? Two young boys, both forced to uproot and follow their families to a town in southern New Hampshire, develop an unlikely alliance as they attempt to overcome the challenges of settling into their new lives. They also develop an amusing rivalry as they each attempt to woo the gem in Salem's crown, a popular and aloof schoolmate named Audrey. Thus begins a seething enmity that continues to rear its head 20 years later as the friends struggle to put together a book detailing their experiences. Set against the backdrop of the 80's, Salem Unbound is a series of candid and hilarious memoirs about the challenges of growing up; an imaginative and touching childhood saga of love, jealousy, and ultimately, of friendship.

1 Salem, NH by Ken Sweet
2 The Pirate & The Unforgettable Big Thing by MT Danielson
3 Buck Barnes by Ken Sweet
4 The God’s Honest Truth About Bucky Barnes by MT Danielson
5 The Only Living Boy In New Hampshire by MT Danielson

• Language: English
• Publisher: MT Danielson
• Release date: Sep 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9781005892456

MT Danielson

MT Danielson has been writing for many years and is still getting the hang of it. Mr Danielson graduated from Missouri State University with a Major in Creative Writing and Minor in Art. MT Danielson's degree is currently for sale for the cost of his exorbitant school loans.

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The Pirate & The Only Living Boy In New Hampshire

The 1st Inning

From

Salem Unbound

By

Ken Sweet & MT Danielson

Copyright 2008 Ken Sweet & MT Danielson

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Salem Unbound

-Table of Contents-

Contents

Dedications

1 Salem, NH by Ken Sweet

2 The Pirate & The Unforgettable Big Thing by MT Danielson

3 Buck Barnes by Ken Sweet

4 The God’s Honest Truth About Bucky Barnes by MT Danielson

5 The Only Living Boy In New Hampshire by MT Danielson

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-Dedication-

MT Danielson would like to dedicate this book to all the girls he's loved before. Ken Sweet would prefer to dedicate Salem Unbound to his parents, Donald and Donna, who were there, and whose everlasting well of love and support has unfathomable depths.

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-Salem, NH-

By Ken Sweet

My early childhood was a transitory experience. Although I was born in Massachusetts, my family was constantly on the move. We shuffled around the state for years before we finally packed up and shipped out to Fairfax, Virginia. We stuffed our meager belongings into a trailer and hitched it to the back of our battered Impala, migrating south so that my father could work at the questionably titled WANG computer-programming firm. They were scary and exciting times.

Fairfax was a great place to live in the early 80’s. We were very close to Washington, DC, and the city was magnificent then—you could even tour the White House. I remember President Ronald Reagan coming to speak at our school. The children viewed Reagan as a grandfatherly figure, and he was greatly loved.

I excelled in the Virginia school system, my teachers even recommended that I skip the third grade, so I went straight into fourth grade classes. I made a few good friends, including a young Batman fan named Aaron Wiggins and a Kenyan girl in my apartment building named Lela. I also experienced my first crush in Fairfax, on a girl in my class named Rosalind.

I was contented there—it seemed like we had finally chosen a home—so when we suddenly uprooted and moved 500 miles away to New Hampshire, I was less than thrilled. It was late 1984. I was 8 years old and in the fourth grade.

We moved to Salem, a quiet town perched on the Massachusetts border. Salem was large enough to be a city, but it was never terribly exciting. We moved into the Bluff Run Apartments, one of a series of apartment complexes nestled close together. The