fear and loafing in st pete

the people who made the movie ' beneath the harvest sky ' showed up at one of the stores here in van buren, maine which is just across the st john river from st leonard , new brunswick canada ( their clocks are an hour faster ) the ladies who talked to them from the store were very charming as the acadian ladies usualy are and asked the producers a number of questions after the movie was made one of the ladies' husbands was arrested for allegedly being a conduit for cocaine smuggled between texas and canada the husband was a vietnam vet and got extra years from the judge because he refused to cooperate with police of interest is that the acadians who live on both sides of the st john valley border are said to be from the loire valley in france where mayonaisse was invented and the people of the loire valley were famed for being smugglers between anjou and another province but the border had been put in place here after the acadians settled the region before t...

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st pete and st pete beach are haunted by kerouac and scott and zelda ! ' The iconic literary couple arrived at the Don CeSar in January 1932 and intended to stay there through March, she said. But Zelda broke out in a rash by the end of the first month. “By then, they learned that this was the precursor to her psychotic breakdowns,” Frethem said.  ' " Haslam’s Book Store is also supposedly haunted – by iconic Beat generation writer Jack Kerouac, who spent his final years in St. Petersburg. He died in 1969 at St. Anthony’s Hospital. " https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smuggling_in_pre-revolutionary_France https://www.tbnweekly.com/pinellas_county/article_ee9e6c3c-d7ad-11e8-a267-7f0236acc05b.html