MacLean says he doesn't usually think about Polly while he's bowling, but on some days his wife does not leave his mind. She was easy to be around. He scored a 97 on his last game, better than many of the other bowlers in the league, which is for age 60 and up. He shrugs his shoulders. There is a conversational atmosphere about the house's interior - a balance of yesterday's keepsakes and today's necessities.
Rare books sit alongside dinner recipes.
A whole section of the living room bookshelf is reserved for books about art. Leather-bound volumes recall MacLean's father, William Wallace MacLean, who had been superintendent of the first Museum of Fine Arts building in Boston's Copley Square. William MacLean married Ella Wilson of Cherryfield, Maine. They had four children and moved to nearby Newton in 1906, a time when bells on a milkman's horse woke the children at 5 a.m. A few inches to the right, books about Maine bring MacLean back to Stanley's Point.