Introductions

Who am I, and what am I doing here? 

Usually these might be the questions we ask ourselves after a steady flow of Allen's or after an unexpected trauma to the head--or as might often be the case, a combination of both.

In this instance, though, they're likely the first couple questions the initial reader of this site might have about this upstart. 

So real quick: I moved to NoGo, my ancestral home*, in July 2014 with my family after spending the first thirty-one years of life living within the same ZIP code. 

Since moving here, I've spent the last couple years working on becoming a better teacher, jumpstarting a new youth soccer club, and surviving the daily grind that is raising a young family.

What I haven't been doing a lot of since moving to our relatively rural outpost, though, is being an active member of the community. Hence this blog, which will hopefully enable me to build up stronger connections to our neighborhood's people and organizations, while also doing my small part to helping others build those bonds as well.

That's the thought, anyway. We'll see how it goes.

- John C.L. Morgan

* My connection to North Gorham traces back seven generations to the original settler of the area, Uriah Nason, Sr., who established the first homestead in the neighborhood in 1765. Uriah Nason, Sr. and Abigail Knight begat Uriah Nason, Jr.; Uriah Nason, Jr. and Jemima Snow begat Charles Alonzo Nason; Charles Alonzo Nason and Emely Z. Bodge begat Harriet Ellen Nason. Harriet Ellen Nason and John Lenard Labrecque begat John Nason Labrecque, Sr. And yada, yada, yada for three more generations.