Reflections on Jenny by Steven J. Lawrence This tribute is a brief series of reflections from three friends of Jennifer T. Gardner. All of us who were close to her knew her simply as “Jenny.” My own reflection is brief because I want the video below to be my reflection. […]
“Eric Left Riverton” Documentary Trailer Hits 100K in an hour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaVCqJfCGDk&t=1s This trailer was cobbled together by director and producer Daniel Tripp with input from Matthew Gander who also co-produced this film. They chose to…
Grand Acknowledgment Officially Adopted for Riverton’s Public Lands
Editorial Board Note: For further context, we invite our readers to read our recent feature story "Land Disputes • As Old as the Hills". As…
The True Origins of Riverton • Wetlands and Land Disputes
This is a story about a different type of wildlife. This is a story afraid to go on. In full transparency, I am no historian, I am…
Maine’s Danger • The Precipice Trail
As reported last week, longtime Riverton resident and one-time public personality Arthur "Artie" Aloysius Faraday, 37, was found dead at the bottom of Precipice Trail,…
Shimmering Vagrants Found in Maine
Our world is full, bursting at the seams. The difference between a vagrant and a migrant is that a migrant moves regularly between seasonal habitats. A vagrant…
After Two Decades, “Eric Left Riverton” Finally Arrives
Launched in 1999 and completed in 2005, the ambitious studio project Eric Left Riverton spent nearly two decades on the shelf while its creator, Pragnus Gray, pursued writing, teaching, and graduate school before bringing the record to listeners. The record features a wide cast of collaborators and an accompanying visual film project and, like Eleventh Hour Shine, aims to pay homage to the familiar pop greats. Clockwise, left to right, Album cover, core musicians Lesley Cayton (cello), Pragnus Gray (acoustic guitar), Kraig Ludensky (percussion), and Jagger Potter (electric guitar). Pragnus Gray and Jagger Potter, Kraig Ludensky, David Bennett (electric guitar), Nathan Gibson (trumpet), Pragnus Gray (piano), Benjamin Cooley Hall (violin), Pragnus Gray & T.J. Wenzl (sound engineer). The main image on the…
Tribute to Jennifer T. Gardner • A Major Inspiration for “Eric Left Riverton”
Jennifer T. Gardner (December 1, 1974 - May 19, 2017) offered spiritual, moral,…
U.S. Senate Education Caucus Riles Riverton
The town of Riverton has been riled in recent days due to the…
Land Disputes • As Old as the Hills
Over the past several years, I've been following the land dispute between the…
Eleventh Hour Shine • The story of a rock album, loss, and resilience
The picture on the left was taken during the process of writing the…
“Eric Left Riverton” Documentary Trailer Hits 100K in an hour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaVCqJfCGDk&t=1s This trailer was cobbled together by director and producer Daniel Tripp with…
After Two Decades, “Eric Left Riverton” Finally Arrives
Launched in 1999 and completed in 2005, the ambitious studio project Eric Left Riverton spent…
Eleventh Hour Shine • The story of a rock album, loss, and resilience
The picture on the left was taken during the process of writing the…
Grand Acknowledgment Officially Adopted for Riverton’s Public Lands
Editorial Board Note: For further context, we invite our readers to read our…
“Eric Left Riverton” Documentary Trailer Hits 100K in an hour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaVCqJfCGDk&t=1s This trailer was cobbled together by director and producer Daniel Tripp with…
Citizens of Riverton • Tribute to our Town’s Official Best Friend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y91H4G6UnfE This is first sequence of the project now known as "Eric Left…
Shimmering Vagrants Found in Maine
Our world is full, bursting at the seams. The difference between a vagrant and a migrant…
Local Man Found Dead on Precipice Trail
The body of Arthur "Artie" Faraday, 37, was discovered dead on the dangerous Precipice Trail…
Maine’s Danger • The Precipice Trail
As reported last week, longtime Riverton resident and one-time public personality Arthur "Artie" Aloysius Faraday,…
U.S. Senate Education Caucus Riles Riverton
The town of Riverton has been riled in recent days due to the establishment of the United States Senate Education Caucus. Even in the midst of a school year at the beginning stages of implementing a three-year district-wide phonics program, education professionals across Riverton and its surrounding communities are expressing […]
Land Disputes • As Old as the Hills
Over the past several years, I’ve been following the land dispute between the Rathburgers and the Bobbertons. Like many residents of Riverton and parts of Northern, Central, and Eastern Maine, this dispute has taken up too many of my weekends for far too long, not to mention, a good too […]
Eleventh Hour Shine • The story of a rock album, loss, and resilience
The series originally set out to explore the experience of making a record while trying to work responsibly as the chief steward of the process and eventually grew into a deeper inquiry into the personal resilience that was required of me during this process when some serious life challenges arose. The questions and ideas span several arenas: the practice of making music together, the work of personal growth, and the effort to build healthy community in classrooms, projects, and workplaces.
“Eric Left Riverton” Documentary Trailer Hits 100K in an hour
In a surprising development, the low-resolution trailer for “Eric Left Riverton” reached more than 750,000 unique visitors on YouTube in a single evening. Originally conceived as “Riverton Stories” which set out to cover the work of Eric Berns, the Chief Archivist of the Riverton Historical Society, the project has evolved […]
Citizens of Riverton • Tribute to our Town’s Official Best Friend
In the years that followed his recovery, he hit the ground running, fixing cassette tapes, conserving aged government and personal documents, splicing 8mm, super 8mm, and 16mm film reels—both mint condition and banged up black and white, Kodachrome and Ektachrome, no less!—Bernes, now 81, was able to cobble together one of the largest collections of archival materials in the history of New England conservation.
Eric Left Riverton • an Unfinished Symphony about a Small New England Town
Another sequence from the “Eric Left Riverton” project has been published on a YouTube. Director/Producer Daniel Tripp acknowledges that the “Eric Left Riverton” project was originally set to be a full-length single-viewing documentary film.
The True Origins of Riverton • Wetlands and Land Disputes
This is a story about a different type of wildlife. This is a story afraid to go on. In full transparency, I am no historian, I am a retired geologist who is about to break his own vow never, ever, to write about geology again. In light of recent events with […]
Shayna, the odd girl with crazy dresses and hair and eyes that cross so
A shocking rise of a 90’s style alt rock single to the top of the Canadian charts catapults Pragnus Gray into Riverton’s prom king and Canada’s next big thing. It’s hard to believe that a simple song I wrote for a dear friend while chain-smoking in a cold-floored furniture-less apartment […]
After Two Decades, “Eric Left Riverton” Finally Arrives
Launched in 1999 and completed in 2005, the ambitious studio project Eric Left Riverton spent nearly two decades on the shelf while its creator, Pragnus Gray, pursued writing, teaching, and graduate school before bringing the record to listeners. The record features a wide cast of collaborators and an accompanying visual film project and, like Eleventh Hour Shine, aims to pay homage to the familiar pop greats.