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  • With a small production staff, you perform triage all the time – hold off on taping the Chronicle host segment...

    Migrations – er, Crossroads

    Posted on May 9, 2011 | No Comments
    With a small production staff, you perform triage all the time – hold off on taping the Chronicle host segment...

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  • A long flight to Boston, a slow drive to Portland, ME., where I walked the wet streets late at night looking for a bite to eat, thinking of the New England sea coast towns of The Perfect Storm. A friend had recommended a bed & breakfast, an old Victorian, where I got the least expensive third floor room and listened to the rain on the roof for a fitful night’s sleep. Up in the morning for the drive to Kennebunkport, a wealthy, and somewhat touristy, little coastal town near which President George H.W. Bush and his family – and the Secret Service – spend a portion of the year in a family compound surrounded on three sides by ocean.

    President George H.W. Bush

    Posted on July 8, 2009 | No Comments
    A long flight to Boston, a slow drive to Portland, ME., where I walked the wet streets late at night looking for a bite to eat, thinking of the New England sea coast towns of The Perfect Storm. A friend had recommended a bed & breakfast, an old Victorian, where I got the least expensive third floor room and listened to the rain on the roof for a fitful night’s sleep. Up in the morning for the drive to Kennebunkport, a wealthy, and somewhat touristy, little coastal town near which President George H.W. Bush and his family – and the Secret Service – spend a portion of the year in a family compound surrounded on three sides by ocean.

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  • In early October of 2008, Wyoming PBS videographer Thompson Coles and myself are in Meeteetse and Kirwin shooting and interviewing people for what would become the documentary "Risky Business: the Ghost Town of Kirwin". Our trip is cut short, however, by an early snow storm. We leave without some important "B-roll" footage of the spectacular scenery of the upper Wood River valley where Kirwin is located.

    Up to Kirwin Again…

    Posted on October 30, 2008 | No Comments
    In early October of 2008, Wyoming PBS videographer Thompson Coles and myself are in Meeteetse and Kirwin shooting and interviewing people for what would become the documentary "Risky Business: the Ghost Town of Kirwin". Our trip is cut short, however, by an early snow storm. We leave without some important "B-roll" footage of the spectacular scenery of the upper Wood River valley where Kirwin is located.

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  • The Kennedy brothers of the Camelot generation were not alike: brash Joe had the presumptive air of an aristocratic first son, imperious and unafraid; John, for all the romance that later accrued to him, was as much a bootlegger's son as a scholarly dreamer, and schemed ruthlessly for a place in history; Bobby was the wounded poet, ambivalent about his quest but obligated to pursue it; and then there was Teddy, who began as the chubby-cheeked family pet, and for many years seemed unable to grow up, lost in the long shadows of his mythologized dead brethren.

    A Visit with Senator Ted Kennedy

    Posted on May 21, 2008 | No Comments
    The Kennedy brothers of the Camelot generation were not alike: brash Joe had the presumptive air of an aristocratic first son, imperious and unafraid; John, for all the romance that later accrued to him, was as much a bootlegger's son as a scholarly dreamer, and schemed ruthlessly for a place in history; Bobby was the wounded poet, ambivalent about his quest but obligated to pursue it; and then there was Teddy, who began as the chubby-cheeked family pet, and for many years seemed unable to grow up, lost in the long shadows of his mythologized dead brethren.

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