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<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title" itemprop="headline">Memorial Park</h1>
<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2014-11-09T20:30:48" itemprop="datePublished">November <span>9, 2014</span></time>
<p class="p-author author hide" itemprop="author"><span class="byline-author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></span></p>
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<p>The first time I ever heard a loon was canoe camping beside a pond in Baxter State Park, Maine. When you have no idea what <em>that sound</em> is (<em>what that sound is?</em> -L and O), a loon call in the dark is terrifying. </p>
<p>It's a been a long time since then, but I'll never forget that sound. I think about it every time we walk around the pond at Memorial Park. </p>
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<p>The pond at Memorial Park looks nothing like this one, which is the one I camped by in Maine, but memory is a funny thing. For whatever reason the little pond at Memorial Park reminds me of that one in Maine. There is no physical resemblance at all. Baxter is a wild place with few people around. The pond at Memorial Park is the opposite. There's even a fountain in the middle. Still, something about it.</p>
<p>L and O have never heard a loon, never been to Baxter State Park. Yet. </p>
<p>They're happy with the swings and the slides and the ducks. </p>
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<p>Geese they are not such big fans of, but last week the geese weren't around. Just ducks.</p>
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<p>And climbing, you can never climb atop too many rocks.</p>
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