Since I seem to have lost my forum, Mark Thomas' "Racin' Paper", I will apparently enter the 21st Century and start doing my column as a
blog. In certain times of the year, this may not be weekly; but I promise to keep it regular. Many of the site regulars have only been able to
get my columns via this site, anyway, and representing the very newspaper that was given out at Thunder Road gave me no press courtesies.
So, I might as well do it this way and reach some different readers. Let me know what you think. -Bill

     April 30, 2012 - Shirley Wallace, Jay, NY Car Builder and Owner
           May 6, 2012 - C. J. Richards
           May 20, 2012 - Three Brothers Racing at Once
           May 28, 2012 - Pete Corey, the Crescent Hillbilly
           June 2, 2012 - Norm Scarborough: Remarkable Vermont Car Builder
           June 11, 2012 - Clarence "Cornfield" Rock
           June 18, 2012 - Harold "Hardluck" Hanaford [First of 2 on him]
           June 24, 2012 - Triangle Racing Association
          July 1, 2012 - The Schenectady Gazette as a racing paper
           July 9, 2012 - [Harold Hanaford 2]
           July 15, 2012 - [I Thought I Told Ya Not To]
           July 23, 2012 - [Sanford Speedway]
          July 30, 2012 - [Dave Dion]
           August 6, 2012 - [Lakeville Speedway]
          August 11, 2012 - [Victoria Speedway]
          August 20, 2012 - [The Caputo and Drellos Team Cars]
          August 26, 2012 - [Roy "Pappy" Forsyth]
         September 2, 2012 - [Spence Parkhurst, Dave Brooks, and Gene Tetrault]
         September 10, 2012 - [Early American Racing in Quebec]
        September 17, 2012 - [Early Flips and Ken Meahl
        September 24, 2012 - [Durable Coupes like Skip Roots' 3 Window]
         September 30, 2012 - [One Photo Can Tell a Whole Story (about Fairmont Speedway in 1964) ]
       October 08, 2012 - [Glens Falls Racing Community]
         October 14, 2012 - [Chet Hames]
      October 22, 2012 - [Tracks and How Original Their Names Were]
      November 3, 2012 - [Harold Garstang and the Rte 66 Speedway]
      November 10, 2012 - [Art Cody]
      November 17, 2012 - [Strange Stories of Early Racing II]
      November 26, 2012 - [Early Days of Stock Car Racing]
       December 4, 2012 - [Interesting Thunder Road Roster]
      December 10, 2012 - [Exeter, ME Fairgrounds Speedway]
       December 17, 2012 - [How Sad it is To See a Dead Race Track]   
     December 31, 2012 - [2012 Devil's Bowl Champs Remind us of Past Generations]

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     January 14, 2013 - [It Could Only Happen in the Old Days Part 2]
     January 25, 2013 - [Race in Early Racing]
     February 2, 2013 - [T R Waters and the Grand American Division]
     February 11, 2012 - [Difficult Transition Year of 1965]
     February 24, 2013 - [Life in the Old Days - more stories]
    March 3, 2012 - [Race in Earlier Northeastern Racing]
    March 10, 2013 - [C.J. Richards, the Puppetmaster]
    March 25, 2013 - [The Jim Hoyt Wreck at Fonda]
   March 31, 2013 - [Unforgettable Trips to Oxford Plains Speedway]
   April 12, 2013 - [The Great Airborne Ice Races]
   April 28, 2013 - [The Exeter, Maine Fairgrounds]
    May 5, 2013 - [The Northfield, VT Race Track]
    May 13, 2013 - [Racing at the Champlain Valley Fairgrounds]
    June 4, 2013 - [Dick Pennock and his Super 38's ]
    June 10, 2013 - [Every Wreck Picture Got a Story to It]
   June 17, 2013 - [Pete Racine]
   June 22, 2013 - [Late Models' Background at Devil's Bowl]
   July 2, 2013 - [The Whiting Racing Community]
   July 15, 2013 - [Moffitt Park Speedway]
   July 27, 2013 - [Unity Raceway]
   August 10, 2013 - [Butch Jelley]
  August 31, 2013 - [The Oxford Plains Speedway Charger Division]
  September 8, 2013 - [The Long - Lived Car of Bob Hoffer]
  September 17, 2013 - [Malletts Bay Raceway]
  September 21,  2013 - Racer Bill Fredericks]
  September 28, 2013 - [Messin' With Sasquatch (about NASCAR)]
  October 9, 2013 - [Strap in With Biggy]
  October 23, 2013 - [Airborne Park Speedway 1955 Points Finish]
  November 9, 2013 - [Fairmont Speedways "Guest Drivers"]
  November 20, 2013 - [Rainbow Ridge Raceway]
  December 9, 2013 - [Art Cody]
  December 14, 2013 - [Ken Shoemaker]
  December 30, 2013 - [The All Star Stock Car Racing League]

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  January 11, 2014 - [Moments Before a Race]
  January 24, 2014 - [Sometimes It Got a Little Crazy Up There] Early trips to race in Canada.
  February 7, 2014 - [There Were Some Real Characters in Early Racing]
  February 14, 2014 - [Remembering Doc Nellis]
  March 3, 2014 - [The Generations of Devil's Bowl Drivers]
  March 19, 2014 - [Bob Whitbeck's Holey Car]
  March 30, 2014 - [Observations on a Photo of Louie Arriving]
  April 13, 2014 - [Quirky Stories of Early Tracks]
  April 25, 2014 - [The History Between Airborne Park Speedway and Vermont]
  May 11, 2014 - [Dim Memories of Riverside, Agawam]
  June 2, 2014 - [Tales of New Hampshire Bullrings]
  June 12, 2014 - [Grovetona]
  July 3, 2014 - [Holey Cars, Batman !]
  July 9, 2014 - [The Governor's Cup]
  July 22, 2014 - [Glenn Andrews, An Early Interstate Driver]
  August 3, 2014 - [A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words II - Bob Bushey]
  August 16, 2014 - [Thoughts on Homer by Me n' Lewie]
  August 26, 2014 - [What About the Number 6 7/8 ?]
  September 19, 2014 - [Pauly and Rex]
  October 8, 2014 - [It Just Gets Curiouser and Curiouser]
  October 21, 2014 - [McGregor Speedway]
  November 2, 2014 - [Saranac Lake Speedway - the Land of Make Believe in More Than One Way]
  November 17, 2014 - [Pico Raceway and Its Big Names]
  December 7, 2014 - [The Ingerson brothers]|
  December 30, 2014 - [It's Who Ya Know]

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  January 12, 2015 - [Henry Caputo]
  January 24, 2015 - [Powder Puff Racing in the Old Days]
  February 5, 2015 - [Charlie Morse]
  February 22, 2014 - [The Grand National Race at Airborne]
  March 6, 2015 - [Just Sit There and Rake it in - Fairmont's 2 Challenging Seasons]
  March 15, 2015 - [Those Amazing Agawam Sedans]
  April 5, 2015 - [NY's Invasion of Stafford Springs]
  April 20, 2015 - [Richie Panch's Rookie Year in Northern NASCAR, 1972]
  May 14, 2015 - [Best Performances in a Forgotten League (All Star League)]
  May 27, 2015 - [Emily Packard: It Takes More Than a Village to Get Her Where She is Now]
  June 9, 2015 - [What the Hell is Going on Here ?]
  July 1, 2015 - [Bob Harrison - the Ultimate Used Car Man]
  July 12, 2015 - [Don Wayman - a True Champion]
  July 26, 2015 - [Mike Osborne, The Yankee Flyer]
  September 10, 2015 - [Oh That Must Be Uncle Al] (Al Romano)
  September 22, 2015 - [Go Get 'Em, Ol' Man !] (Leon Gonyo)
  October 13, 2015 - [Ted Tappett]
  October 31, 2015 - [The Carl Kiekhaefer racing effort]
  November 29, 2015 - [NASCAR's Pony Car Division]
  December 8, 2015 - [A Historic Event at JACKsonville (Wendell Scott/ Jack Anderson)]

January 6, 2016 - [Rediscovering Steve Danish]
      January 21, 2016 - [Flying Off in Strange Places]
      February 12, 2016 - [Outdoor Roller Derby Anyone ?]
      February 25, 2016 - [Sometimes Racing Folks Hit a Crossroads Between Sports]
      March 9, 2016 - [The Story Behind Those Old Program Ads]
      March 24, 2016 - [The Governors' Cup]
      April 10, 2016 - [The Early Late Model Experiment]
      April 26, 2016 - [They Just Saw Things Differently Then]
      May 23, 2016 - [The Amazin' Camaros of Devil's Bowl]
      June 8, 2016 -  [This One Reads About the Reeds and the Reids]
      July 4, 2016 - [Russ Truelove]
      July 19, 2016 - [Bill Threw A Fit]
      August 14, 2016 - [Ray "Zero" Brown]
      September 20, 2016 - [This One Reads About the Reeds and the Reids]
      October 12, 2016 - [The First Time I Saw Rebel in Joey's car]
      October 27, 2016 - [He's Quite a Jim ! - About Jim Hoyt]
      November 13, 2016 - [Recorded in Amsterdam]
      November 30, 2016 - [Guys Like Dave n' Red]
      December 18, 2016 - [If It Only Still was]

January 10, 2017 - [Those Daring Young Men and Their Flags]
       January 30, 2017 - [Bomoseen Raceway and the Old Fairmont Park Motor Speedway
      February 16, 2017 - [The Other Race in Racing]
      March 4, 2017 - [Harry's Cars]
      March 19, 2017 - Debunking Myths
      April 1, 2017 - We Love Our Stoodies - about Studebakers in racing]
      April 15, 2017 -  [The Northern NY Roadster Circuit
      May 3, 2017 - You See Some of the Damndest Cars
     May 24, 2017 - The Trouble With Empire Raceway
       June 12, 2017 - George Hay
       June 29, 2017 - There Was Still Room for Characters in Racing (Chester T Wood)
       July 13, 2017 - Then Along Came Stumpy - about Don Stumpf invading Fonda Speedway.
       July 28, 2017 - [George's Hornets - About George McRae's AMC's]
      August 19, 2017 - [Flying Off in Strange Places
     September 4, 2017 - [NASCAR's Grand Touring Division]
      September 29, 2017 - [C.J. Richards' 1962 Fair Race Program]
      October 14, 2107 - [Racing in Vermont's North Country]
      October 27, 2017 - [It All Started With a Simple 7]
      November 10, 2017 - [Ted Tappett]
     November 20, 2107 - [Cagle's Coaches ]
      December 6, 2017 - [C.J.'s Support Divisions]
     December 21, 2017 - What A Tangled Web WeWeave

January 1, 2018 -  7th Column Revised]
    January 15, 2018 - Encroachment Upon Race Tracks
    February 1, 2018 - [Big Racing Fires in the Earlier Days]
      February 23, 2018 - [Wily Will in the Frozen North]
      March 13, 2018 - [They Had Some of the Damnedest Race Cars !]
     March 26, 2018 - [For God's Sake, PAY to Get In !]
      April 17, 2018 - [Three Doaner Graduates]
      May 9, 2018 - [Floyd n' Buck]
      May 25, 2018 - Snapshots in the Attic
      June 5, 2018 - [ One Photo is Worth 1,000 Words - revisited]
      June 23, 2018 - [Guys Like Webster]
      July 16, 2018 - [That Couldn't Happen Today]
     July 22, 2018 - [They Were Terrible Times [R. Crouch's 1st VT Win]
      August 8, 2018 - [A Revisit of Column 21 Unexpected Treasure Trove - The Catamount Tower Photos]
     August 30, 2018 - [Oh Julius, You Were Busy for a While !]
     September 19, 2018 - [Early Stock Car "Innovations" ]
     October 11, 2018 - [Victoria Speedway Re-Visited]
    October 30, 2018 - [Granville]
     November 10, 2018 - [Comparing the Grands, mostly about Harvey Tattersall's GA div.]
    November 23, 2018 - [A Chance Meeting of Names & Inevitable Gradual Change] 
    December 8, 2018 - [All That Way Fer Nuthin' !]
    December 19, 2018 - Phantastic Phacebook Photo Phinds
     Late Dec. 2018 - They're Lurking Out There by the Wayside

   January 10, 2019 - It Used to Cost Less Then 
  January 24, 2019 - Victoria Speedway Re-Visited
  February 7, 2019 - Don't Spare the Horses ! 
  February 24, 2019 - He Ran Away and Hid
  March 20, 2019 - Julius Mestyan
 April 9, 2019 - Right at That Moment
 April 18, 2019 - Where to Go on Off Nights [Empire Raceway's NASCAR Experience]
 April 28, 2019 - Treasures in the Attic [Found Photos]
 May 16, 2019 - Finally Returning to Al Fini
 May 28, 2019 - Wily Will in the Frozen North [Will Cagle]
 June 30, 2019 - You'd Think There Would Be a Connection [Catamount and the dragstrip in the same town]
 July 16, 2019 - Column 15 Revisited [Mystery Visitors to Some of My Tracks]
 July 29, 2019 - Oil Wars [The Battle to Control the Oil Market in Racing]
August 15, 2019 - For Gods Sake, Fella PAY To Get In !
8th Column - Repaired and Added to  [Ernie Barcomb and Ernie Gahan]
August 26, 2019 - There's a Lot More to the Story of Smokey Stover.
September 16, 2019 - A Chance Meeting of Names and Gradual Change
September 27, 2019 - Three Canadian Cars
October 20, 2019 - Former Vic Wolfe Cars
October 28, 2019 - The Story Behind Ken Meahl's Visit to Vermont
November 20, 2019 - Amazing Cheshire Fairgrounds.
December3, 2019 -That Must Have Been Quite a Town ! [About the racing history of Whiting, VT
December 18, 2019 - Those Remarkable Hudson Men

January 10. 2020 - The Insane 1973 Schedule of Northern NASCAR
January 26, 2020 - A High Water Mark of Sorts [The Late Model MidAtlantic Series]
February 9, 2020 - Ken Squier Observations on Don MacTavish
February 23, 2020 - Getting There Could Be Half the Battle
March 10, 2020 - Days of Innocence [Earliest Days of Catamount]
April 1, 2020 - Thoughts While Waiting for COVID-19  [Ac tually It's About Red Knoblauch]
April 27, 2020 -  Comparing the Two Grands
May 14, 2020 -  An expansion and upgrade of a previous article on Butch Jelley.
May 26, 2020 - Those Brave Six Banger Pioneers
June 7, 2020 -    Foolish Fred or Dare Devil ? [Devil's Bowl's Dare Devil class]
June 26, 2020 - The Unbeatable [Lennie Wood]
July 16, 2020 - A Chance Meeting of Names and Gradual Changes
August 3, 2020 - Getting Northeastern Stuff From Paul.
August 20, 2020 - What's With All Those Fractions ?! [Cars With Fractions in the Numbers]
September 21, 2020 - You'd Think There Would be Some Connection, After All [About Milton's dragstrip and Catamount Stadium]
October 22, 2020    -  A Tale of Two Richies  [Richie Panch and Richie Turner]
November 11, 2020 - How 'Bout That Crescent Hillbilly !? [About Pete Corey]
November 21, 2020 - Quite a Photo ! [About Fairmont Speedway's inaugural show]
November 25, 2020 - Column 15A Revisited [Mystery cars and drivers at Fairmont Speedway]
December 12, 2020  - The Early Days of NASCAR
December 31, 2020 - Another Picture Worth 1,000 Words [Ed Ryan and Stateline Speedway]

January 13, 2021 -     Wearers of Many Hats - Drivers who raced in multiple divisions
January 27, 2021 -     Back and Forth We Go - The Relationship Between Airborne and Devil's Bowl
February 20, 2021-    And There Were Two of Them - The 1961 NASCAR Points Tie Between Wimble and Nephew
March 1, 2021      -   One Picture is Worth 1,000 Words IV - A Piece About Catamount
April 20, 2021      -   The Eastern Bandits
May17, 2021        -    Da Champ - He Was a Piece of Work, But Accomplished.
June 1, 2021        -    Cars That Shook Up Their Corner of the Racing World
June 16, 2021      -    Amazin' Ernie Gahan
June 25, 2021      -    Car Owners You'd Only Find in the Old Days.
July 18, 2021       -   The Story Behind the Mysterious Ken Meahl Visit to Otter Creek Speedway.
August 4, 2021   -    The 1961 Lebanon Valley at the Vermont State Fair in Rutland.
August 25, 2021 -     Racing Nicknames and their Givers
Septemb.22, 2021-   Dick Britain's Photos Tell a Story
October 3, 2021   -    Little Guys With Extra Stories
October 21, 2021 -   That Must Have Been Quite a School !
November 14, 2021- The Devil's Bowl Mafia.
November 26, 2021- They Whooped it Up a Bit More Than the Locals Could Abide
December 11, 2021 - Fonda's Historic First Feature
December 29, 2021 - SCOA - A Pipe Dream

January 14, 2022 -   The Guy To Beat
January 25, 2022 -   Travels With Bob n' Val
February 4, 2022 -   That Pivotal Year of 1965
February 14, 2022-  As If Driving Wasn't bad Enough [About Early Flagging]
March 1, 2022     -   The 1961 Lebanon Valley Show at the Rutland Fair
March 14, 2022  -     Little Did Cavalcade Know
March 27, 2022 -     Thoughts About Cam Gagliardi and Gil Cramer
April 17, 2022 -       The Jolly One [About Ollie Palmer]
May 3, 2022 -          Little Did Cavalcade Know
May 25, 2022 -        NASCAR's Rule on the Pre-1936 Bodies
June 7, 2022 -         What Is SCODA ?
June 26, 2022 -        Oh, THAT Stateline Speedway !
July 10, 2022 -        Another Award For Ol' Zero [About Ray Brown]
Aug. 6, 2022 -        The Unbelievable 1961 Season
Aug 22, 2022-         SCOA - A Pipe Dream
Sep.14, 2022 -         Racin' in Places They Maybe Shouldn't
Sep. 30, 2022 -       A Suddenly Found Cavalcade Page
Oct. 14, 2022 -       C. J. Sure Had The Knack
Nov. 20, 2022-       Snakebite Speedways [Tracks With Bad Luck]
Dec. 9, 2022 -        Marvelous Moments in Catamount History
Dec. 22, 2022-       That Was Quite the Hurricane Roster !

Jan. 8, 2023 -        There Was a Ton of Guys Like Wooster
Jan. 19, 2023-       Alexander's Rag Time Band [Linda and Alex Alexander]
Feb. 1, 2023 -        Stuff About Baumie [George Baumgardner]
Feb. 23, 2023-      A Tip of the Hat To An Amazing Race Facility [Leb. Valley]
March 11, 2023 -  You Can Learn A Lot From An Obscure Clipping
March 28, 2023 -  The Stock Car Ban - A Helluva Try
April 14, 2023 -    Commentary on my "What the Hell" Notes [Kinda about gas stations]
April 26, 2023 -    In Today's Racing World, Try To Match These Stories
May 16, 2023 -     Snakebite Speedways [Tracks With Lots of Bad Luck]
June 1, 2023 -      A Man Called Otto [About Otto Harwi]

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