| Marshall Dodge was a philosopher and folklorist totally devoted to the arts.
He first started telling Maine stories in 1953 when he was introduced to the imaginary story of lobster-fisherman, Bert and I. A
t the height of his popularity as America's premier New England humorist Marshall Dodge was killed in a January 1982 hit-and-run accident, while riding a bike in Hawaii.
Bob Bryan, speaking of his friend, recalls that when they first met "we quickly found that we had something in common and that was a love of the stories, the anecdotes, the oral tradition of Maine and New England."
How did they work together? "Informally, totally without direction, spontaneously." |
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