Yeah, look at the picture on this New Zealand web page. Same guy. He hasn't changed. --- What I mean is, he looks the same. You can see that even back when we were kids he was serious about his art. I haven't seen him for 45 years and I'd like to find out what he's been up to, outside of writing books. The web page you are now looking at might do it. Thanks for your help.

http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/authors/harlow/index.asp

When a man gets old, from time to time he wonders whatever happend to so and so. There was Bill King from New Orleans, the best man to ever join the Coast Guard, and Billy Smith from Nebraska. Billy Smith told me how to stop biting my fingernails: Buy a nail clipper and every day clip off anything long enough to be bitten. Before long, they even out. It has been over 50 years since I bit my nails. Joe Cole was from Detroit and we had some times.

And then there was Richard Elo who lived nearby when I was 5 or 6. Years later, when I went to the summer music camp at UNH, I met another crowd. John Carajanis and Elizabeth Anderson from Malverne. And Mike Harlow and Margaret Ebner from Thomaston Connecticut. I can't find John, but the Internet did bring up a poet in New Zealand named Michael Harlow who looks just like the Mike Harlow I knew in 1953. I see that he is a poet, so we still have a lot in common --- neither one of us spent too much time working for a living.

I just read that Michael Harlow was the 2004 Randell Cottage Writers Trust Resident, whatever that might be,

and I'd like to talk with him. Find out what he's been doing. The last time I remember seeing him, he'd come up to Maine to visit just in time to go to court with me in Bangor. I had been arrested for driving a Model T frame through Bangor. The picture appeared in the Bangor Daily News, because it did look quite spectacular. I was teaching in Lee at the time --- 1963-64 -- and had bought the Model T in Lee (without a body) for $5, had registered it as a tractor, and was driving it home. The state police officer who stopped me was young. He couldn't file any charges against me and didn't. His only evidence that I had committed a crime was the Bangor Daily News photograph of me sitting on a Model T frame in Bangor.

Anyway, I'm sure Mike remembers that. I don't know if he ever wrote a poem about it or not. Let me know if you can tell me where he is or how I might contact him. Thanks for listening, Robert Karl Skoglund, The humble Farmer

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