Too Much Text!, or, About Me

Over the last 40 years, I’ve traveled widely through the 48 connected United States, visiting more than 2/3 of the nation’s counties. My articles and photography describing American history and places have appeared in over 65 magazines and newspapers including Air & Space/Smithsonian, American Heritage, American History, The Christian Science Monitor, Country Journal, Historic Traveler, Sports Illustrated, Travel/Holiday, Travel & Leisure, and Yankee.

I first visited Bar Harbor in 1971, and moved there with my wife Susan in 1986. She designed and built much of our house, which might actually be finished one of these days. Our fine son Ezra appeared in October of 1993, and is in far better shape than the house.

Since stopping my travels to become a property owner and doting father in Bar Harbor, I’ve passed his time in a variety of ways, including guiding historic walking tours around town, guiding bus tours through Acadia National Park, doing wedding photography for couples who have eloped to Maine, writing documentation for computer design software, and late-night taxi driving. I have been the book reviewer, a political cartoonist, and occasional writer for Maine arts magazines including Egg, Over Easy, and Face, and now does the same for the one and only Bar Harbor Squash. From 1999 to 2001, until the station was sold, I was heard weekly on the air at 107.7, WMDI-FM, as Down East Maine’s favorite (?) talk show host.

Also in 1999 I began playing music (mostly drums, percussion, pickle buckets, and the boom-bah) with a series of local bands, the first of which was called The Angelic Slugs. Since then I’ve been a part of Pie, Passcatchie, and the drum quartet Sticks, and appeared on stage most recently, playing the boombah, with the 'drunken country' group Beer Guy & the Financial Aid. I also started the late lamented trio Big Deal (killed off by Bar Harbor’s pathetic local noise ordinances) and the duo La Mezcla, the house band for an art gallery (which perished when Max — the actual musician in the group — moved to Florida).

As a more active, younger man, I enjoyed camping, backpacking, and playing baseball and/or basketball (not at the same time). Today, I would prefer to live quietly with my memories. I also likes to lie around reading, and waste time on the Internet.