“Downtown, Up River: Bangor in the 1970s,” my debut publication with Islandport Press, is available wherever books are sold. Featuring hundreds of archival photos from the late 1960s until the early 1980s, the book details how Bangor, Maine changed in the years of urban renewal, big-box stores and nationwide social upheaval — transforming the landscape of a small Maine city. It was awarded a 2024 Maine Literary Award for Excellence in Publishing.
I write Hard Telling Not Knowing, a weekly column about Maine history and culture, published each Wednesday in the Bangor Daily News. I am also editor of the BDN’s newsletters, including the Morning Update and the Midcoast Update, and I manage its social media presence, including Facebook, Instagram and Bluesky, in addition to other writing and editing assignments.
I am available for freelance work in writing, editing and social media communications. Email me if you’re interested in collaborating.
Recent work
Bangor Daily News:
A midcoast sea captain’s church fair chowder recipe has been famous for decades (November 2024)
You can hike in Maine and Morocco and be in the same mountain range (July 2024)
How Route 9 came to be known as the Airline (May 2024)
She wasn’t an Irish heiress. She was from Bangor, Maine. (March 2024)
50 years ago, Stephen King’s ‘Carrie’ changed literature (March 2024)
Many Americans don’t think Maine is actually a state (August 2023)
This ‘horrible’ parade is a nearly forgotten New England tradition (May 2023)
How a Depression-era ‘Hooverville’ turned into UMaine’s hippie paradise (April 2023)
Why fewer people these days have Maine accents (November 2022)
How Pat’s Pizza developed its unique regional pizza style (September 2022)
This retired eastern Maine UPS driver is trying his hand at standup comedy (June 2022)
Maine’s 1st openly trans person elected to office wants to keep Passamaquoddy culture ‘front and center’ (September 2020)