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Portland public safety and public works crews scurry around city Monday night
The scanner has been lit up for hours. The wind is roaring over my house and the rain is hitting the windows like handfuls of pebbles hurled by midnight lovers. Police, fire and public works crews are...
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Rocking “Away in a Manger” with a three camera setup
In addition to making my living as a visual journalist here at the BDN, I am, and always have been, a working musician. I write songs, I sing, I play guitar, banjo, accordion — I’m no Heifetz, but I...
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Motorcycle camping in the blizzard
The roads leading west into New Hampshire were slick last Friday morning. The leading edge of the snowstorm the TV weather folks were calling the impending “Snowpocalypse” or “Deathstorm ’13″ in their...
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35th annual Schooner Fare and Devonsquare reunion show this Sunday
Schooner Fare and others — including Alana MacDonald, Don Campbell, Tom Dhyrberg and The Squid Jiggers — will perform at the 35th annual Devonsquare/Schooner Fare reunion concert Sunday, Feb. 24, in...
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35th Annual Reunion Show postponed
As previously blogged… It’s an annual tradition: Schooner Fare / Devonsquare Reunion Concert featuring Denny Breau, Don Campbell, and the Squid Jiggers at The Landing in Scarborough. It was scheduled...
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Snow day in the city with a parking ban to boot
PORTLAND, MAINE – 02/24/13 – Workmen clear snow from a private parking lot on Myrtle Street Sunday, making way for cars carrying people coming to the Portland Symphony Orchestra’s “A Night at the...
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Sidecar snowpocalypse makeup
I set out, heading west, around 5 p.m. Friday night. It took me ages to wriggle through Portland’s commuter traffic as working stiffs squeezed out of the city, headed for their weekends in the...
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The North Pond Hermit song
(note: this is an updated recording made 4/12/13 made with 100% more cute dogs.) I’m a visual journalist by trade. I try to stick to the facts. I’m also a folk musician with a love of old ballads....
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Listen: North Pond Hermit Song live on WPOR 101.9FM
Click to hear me sing —>The North Pond Hermit on WPOR this morning. Last night, just before dinner, I got a message from WPOR morning host Rachel Flehinger asking if I’d like to come on the air in...
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Download the North Pond Hermit Song
Troy and Hook sing “The North Pond Hermit.” Hello again folks. Thanks so much for the response to “The North Pond Hermit” song. Thanks to WBLM and WPOR for playing it on the air. Special thanks to...
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Worldwide Pinhole Day
Pinhole cameras more than just a piece of photographic past| A hand colored 4×5 contact print of myself I made with a pinhole camera I made with a Christmas cookie tin and a soda can. All cameras,...
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NYC filmmakers interested in the North Pond Hermit
Just a couple of days after the story of the North Pond Hermit broke, I wrote a song about him. A day or two after that, I was contacted by some documentary filmmakers in New York City. They said they...
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Motorcycles do not float
I came to a stop behind Thermos on the dusty trail. He had both of his gloved hands over his head. He was clapping. Just ahead of him, in the middle of a small stream was Keith. His bike was...
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North Pond Hermit Sessions ready for download
Here’s the digital download version of a two-artsist EP by me and and my band — the Half Moon Jug Band — and Stan and Dan who hail from the Belgrade Lakes region of Maine, not too far from North Pond....
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Free shipping on North Pond Hermit CD
It’s here, fresh off the presses, piping-hot and ready to serve. For a limited time, we’re offering FREE SHIPPING on all orders. For just $10 you get six songs from two great acts including the Half...
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Lenore and the chop shop
I spent Sunday morning riding with a lovely, 72-year-old woman named Lenore. She lives here in Portland but she’s spent most of her life in the Bronx. Growing up in the city, she’d never even learned...
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Memere’s notebook speaks again
Rob Sylvain will debut rediscovered Acadian folk songs, from his grandmother’s notebook, tonight at Blue on Congress Street in Portland. Portland musician Rob Sylvain is reviving old Acadian folk...
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Five Songs: from Maine folks
Here are Five Songs on Spotify by Maine artists I think you should hear. If you’re unfamiliar with the streaming music service Spotify, click HERE. 1. Quebecois, by Schooner Fare Almost everyone who...
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Run, Piggy, Run
I’m a little late on this one. A couple of co-workers challenged me to write a song about two escaped Guinea hogs first reported in the BDN by Julia Bayly at the end of last month. In the spring I’d...
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