Bob Bergeron

Dec 8, 2024 | thebollard.com | Chris Busby |Katy Finch |Bob Bergeron |Samuel James

Adventures of a Used-Record Dealer Something happened to me decades ago that, to this day, helps keep me optimistic about humanity. Some say everything happens for a reason. I present my tale here to the gentle reader to make of it what they will. I run a small used-and-new record store in Maine that I opened in the ’80s. The business and this incident are loosely connected.

Dec 8, 2024 | thebollard.com | Chris Busby |Katy Finch |Bob Bergeron |Samuel James

How DIY Psyops Can Save Our World “I’m a spy / In the house of love / I know the dream / That you’re dreamin’ of / I know the word / That you long to hear / I know your deepest secret fear” — The Doors, “The Spy” This past summer I was listening to the podcast version of “God’s favorite radio show*,” This Is Hell!, a public-affairs program out of Chicago, when it dawned on me: the way we, the schlubs of the earth, can save the world! Host Chuck Mertz was interviewing Reuters reporter Chris...

Dec 8, 2024 | thebollard.com | Katy Finch |Bob Bergeron |Chris Busby |Samuel James

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Oct 13, 2024 | thebollard.com | Al Diamon |Samuel James |Katy Finch |Bob Bergeron

Pink slimeLet’s suppose — for quirky, possibly psychotic reasons —you wanted to know how much money was spent in Franklin County on women’s collegiate football in 2023. Only one Maine media outlet has dared to reveal this shocking statistic. Not the Portland Press Herald. Not the Bangor Daily News. Not a single one of the state’s TV stations. According to a website by something called Metric Media, the answer is zero dollars. And it was zero the year before.

Oct 13, 2024 | thebollard.com | Samuel James |Al Diamon |Katy Finch |Bob Bergeron

Will’s GutMaine’s Bailey Island is part of the town of Harpswell, and it’s known for a lot of things. Carl Jung gave his first American lecture at the Bailey Island Library Hall in 1936. Bailey Island is also the home of the only cribstone bridge in the world, a cobwork design built in 1928 to withstand rough tides. The bridge connects Bailey Island to neighboring Orr’s Island over a body of water called Will’s Gut.