Happy 100th Birthday, National Park Service. How fitting that on the centennial of the National Park Service, Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument was declared official by the President of the United States. I was so pleased to have The Cryer select one of my images of Mt.Katahdin and the surrounding area for the September […]
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The Platform, she said, was Chocolate
The platform, she said, was chocolate. And much of the marketing centered around fair trade cocoa and real chocolate chips. I was sold. I got the whole concept in the first presentation. The hot chocolate mix was OK. What chocoholic could find fault with a product that had melting chocolate chips at it’s core? Even […]
Magical Marketing of an Epic Eggplant
The Magical Marketing of an Eggplant of Mythical Proportion Yes, folks, this is truly an eggplant love story that started many decades ago when I first met my then future father in law. He was a meat and potatoes kind of man. When I first started dating his eldest daughter, I was quickly under suspicion […]
NextGen Community Impact
In conversations with the founder of Carii about how to build value in business in this fast changing digital age, I came up with the comment Next Generation platforms for social are needed that cater to the needs of Business & Community to deliver impact. There is just plain too much darn noise out here. […]
A Chance Meeting with author Walter Mosley
The best thing I did the other night was to decide to join Malia Lazu at Emerson’s Paramont theater for an intimate book reading and signing by Walter Mosley. Future Boston Alliance co-organized the event as well as Mosley’s eleven day “Obsessive Residency” with ArtsEmerson. I knew Malia as co-founder of Future Boston Alliance but […]
Entrepreneurial Road Show – The B&M Connection
Entrepreneurial Road Show To some, new tech and entrepreneurship can only be found –or at least financed – in the big startup hotbeds of Silicon Valley – or maybe New York, if you’re a New Yorker – or Kendall Square if you’re from MIT or Harvard. But that didn’t stop a music festival called South […]
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Exploring Bath Maine- Tsugaru Japan Sister Cities Program
The relationship between the two cities – Bath Maine and Tsugaru Japan came about because of a shipwreck of Maine sailors rescued by the village that is now part of Tsugaru, Japan. Exchange programs run throughout the year. The full picture story can be found in the September 2015 issue of THE CRYER. […]
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Play4TheCure Day in Photos Keith Spiro
Play4TheCure New Hampshire http://keithspirophoto.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Play4TheCure-New-Hampshire/G000084evEwpr_qY/I0000UW80feJIqkk One of the more gratifying assignments has been working with The National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) and their signature fundraising program #Play4TheCure. New Hampshire with its first in the nation primary was also the first state to sign up as an entire sport league to Play4TheCure. The New Hampshire […]
The Boston & Maine Connection – Running Away from a Cure
This is a transcription of the original article published in The CRYER on June 1, 2015. You can see the original published article here. The Boston & Maine Connection – Running Away from a Cure? Shocking news to many of us, but not to the scientific community, is the future outcome of the growing gap […]
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Exploring the Mid Coast of the Rio Negro, Amazonas, Brazil
My photo spread from the Project Piaba 2015 Expedition made the front page of the April issue of the CRYER. The Mid Coast of Maine and the Mid Coast of the Rio Negro, in the state of Amazonas Brazil, contain two very different fishing communities. One borders the vast Atlantic Ocean, the other is immersed […]
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