BBBS names Hudson executive director

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Gwendolyn Hudson

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine announces Gwendolyn Hudson has been named executive director, leading the state’s second largest BBBS youth mentoring organization that serves seven counties and over 700 youth facing adversity in Midcoast, Kennebec Valley, eastern and central Maine.

Hudson has been with BBBS of Mid-Maine for over five years, serving first as community-based director and most recently as human resources director. Her leadership in these capacities brings to the new position important knowledge and experience in youth-based mentoring programming and agency management. Board Chairman Edward W. Gould, Esq., called Hudson “the perfect person to continue the agency’s longstanding, successful mission.”

Hudson is a graduate of the University of Maine where she received an undergraduate degree in Spanish, German and Anthropology and a master’s degree in education. She was a middle school teacher at Chinle Junior High School on the Navajo Reservation, in Arizona, before returning to Maine to teach at Gardiner Regional Middle School and later joining Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine in 2012. She is a 2016 graduate of Midcoast Leadership Academy.

“I’ve had the privilege of working with an outstanding staff and board of directors who, with the support of many community partners, are dedicated to changing kids’ lives for the better,” Hudson said.

Hudson lives in Rockport with her husband, Mark Breton, and daughters Bella and Julia Mae.

Vassalboro Tax rate set at 14.55 mils

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by Mary Grow

Vassalboro selectmen have set the 2017-18 tax rate at 14.55 mils, or $14.55 for each $1,000 of valuation, an increase of 50 cents per $1,000 over the 2016-17 rate.

Town Manager Mary Sabins told board members at their Aug. 10 meeting the 14.55 mil figure is the lowest recommended by assessor Ellery Bane. With selectmen’s approval, she expected Bane to make the figure official on Aug. 15; tax bills would be prepared and mailed as soon as possible thereafter.

By town meeting vote, the first quarterly tax payment is due Sept. 25.

Sabins has arranged to include in residents’ tax bills a notice of Kennebec Explorer bus service now available to Vassalboro and China residents through the Kennebec Valley Community Action Program.

The bus picks up people in the two towns Monday and Thursday mornings and brings them home in late morning and early afternoon. One-way fare is $1.25. Scheduling is done in advance through a toll-free telephone number, 1-800-542-8227 opt. 2.

The other major business Aug. 10 was awarding the contract to survey the new section of the Cross Hill Cemetery. After discussion with Cemetery Committee Chairman Jane Aiudi, selectmen approved Thomas A. Stevens’ bid, conditional on satisfactory review by Sabins and the Cemetery Committee.

Stevens offered various prices depending on the size and type of plot markers. The accepted figure is $5,170.80.

Aiudi commented that all bids were less than the committee had expected to pay. In other business, selectmen reviewed the history of the road section off Pleasant Point Road, on Webber Pond, now called Kilburn Lane and voted unanimously to take no action on a resident’s request to change the name.

They discussed proposed culvert work and paving plans with Road Foreman Eugene Field and encouraged him to proceed as he planned.

The next regular Vassalboro selectmen’s meeting is scheduled for Thursday evening, Sept. 7.

Davidson family receives LakeSmart designation

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The Davidson family

The descendants of the Davidson Family have enjoyed a camp on China Lake for five generations. Their property was purchased in the early 1900s from the original settler, Rufus Jones. Like many properties on China Lake, theirs slopes toward the lake. On the lakeside of their property they maintain a thick lawn at least three inches or more tall that has other natural vegetation growing. They have chosen to only cut that lawn once or twice a year to help protect the lake.

Also, because they have a dog, they make sure to pick up all the pet waste so it will not affect the lake quality. At the lake’s edge, their effective buffer is full of tall trees, native shrubs, ground cover and leaves and pine needles. With the entire buffer, they still enjoy a nice view of the lake.

If you would like a free LakeSmart visit from a volunteer to see what you can do to protect the lake, please contact Marie Michaud at ChinaLakeSmart@gmail.com or 207-2020240.

South China Library aided from exhibit of late Howard Comfort II

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Some of the paintings in the gallery.

Martha Comfort, David Kesel, and Laura Coffin, descendants of Howard Comfort II.

Photos & text courtesy of Geoff Hargadon
A barn in South China was the setting for an artist’s retrospective on August 12. The late Howard Comfort II, scholar, cricketeer, painter, and a part of the South China community for decades, was the subject of an exhibition of his paintings. Over 30 paintings, many from South China and elsewhere in Maine, were borrowed from a number of families as far away as Charlotte and Seattle. Nearly 100 visitors enjoyed refreshments as they passed through the gallery on that Saturday evening, including several of Comfort’s descendants.

Comfort lived to the age of 89, and spent many summers with family and friends in South China. His father was a colleague of Rufus Jones while at Haverford College, and it is believed Jones was influential in what has become a five-generation legacy in the town. There were many paintings buildings in South China on view, including Spearon’s General Store and the South China Inn, two buildings that no longer exist.

The exhibit doubled as a fundraiser for the South China Library and its plans to move to Jones Road. Over $2,500 was raised from attendees, with help from a matching grant offered for the occasion.

“We were very pleased with the turnout, to meet new friends, and to see old acquaintances. I am particularly glad we could share this beautiful body of work with the community that could probably appreciate it the most,” said Geoff Hargadon, organizer of the event. “We have long admired Howard Comfort’s work and was excited to be able to see so much of it in one place. But this has also encouraged me to investigate other opportunities in the future that could connect us with South China’s history through the eyes of others.”

Residents visit the gallery.

IF WALLS COULD TALK, Week of August 10, 2017

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Katie Ouilette Wallsby Katie Ouilette

WALLS, this just has to be ‘summer celebration time’ throughout Maine! Faithful readers, you surely have had a lot of reading to do with The Town Line and every newspaper telling about a celebration for something in towns throughout our grand state of Maine.

Yes, thanks, too, to our television stations telling us about each one at some time of the day. Certainly, we can begin with Portland and the Tall Sails Regatta. You know. WALLS, that it was also identified as a ‘learning experience. So Portland can be praised for teaching, as well.

Driving to Central Maine, one could also learn at Skowhegan’s Kneading Conference. That event surely has grown from its start at the parking lot of Federated Church on The Island. Now, the Kneading Conference has its new locale at the Skowhegan Fairgrounds. Yes, WALLS, the, now, Tewksbury Hall, behind the Federated Church, welcomed folks to the pancake breakfast, which was held at that hall on August 5. Now, WALLS, add to all that daytime and evening chicken events hosted by Skowhegan Lions, the widely anticipated lobster dinner by Skowhegan Rotarians, the bed races, animal zoo, bands playing, and Sally’s School of Dance performing, plus the long-awaited parade. Then there was a golf tournament at Lakewood Golf Course.

Oh, WALLS, surely there is much more activity for all ages on the River Fest program that everyone received by way of Skowhegan Area Chamber of Commerce.

But, maybe you who are on the road north, will soon find that Aroostook County is about to celebrate the Maine Potato Festival. Whatever your time or calendar allow, The Town Line says “ENJOY”!

Yes, WALLS, you are so right. Our summer seems to have been short, but certainly, not so short that planning has taken place since last year’s events. Do you faithful readers know how much planning goes into these events? You, WALLS, know very well how many of us have said that, as long as I am ‘fine’ from the shoulders up, I will be o.k., and I still say it. Oh, there’s no question that Lyme Disease has taken its toll, and certainly I’ve visited Skowhegan’s Redington-Fairview General Hospital a couple times, but I can still hear, think right, and talk! Oh, well, I may not play the game, but I can ride in the golf cart and see Lew’s golf ball……and he sure can hit it a long way!

Hmmm, not bad for two old duffers at 90 and 87 years young, respectively! Yup, Skowhegan State Fair will begin and we’ll see you there!

Earn their green belts

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These Huard’s Martial Arts students earned their green belts on August 1. Front row, from left to right, Nawkia Poirier, Dominic Joseph, Ethan Joseph and Garrison Godbout. Back, Adam Fitzgerald, Chris Chen, Carrina Chen, Shae Rodrigue and Kendra Godbout.

Photo by Mark Huard

SCORES & OUTDOORS: Farm raised salmon: Real or Imposters?

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Roland D. HalleeSCORES & OUTDOORS

by Roland D. Hallee

Last week we discussed the plight of the Atlantic salmon and the efforts underway to restore this majestic fish, in its natural form, which had seen declining numbers. One of the reasons cited was the new threat from competitive farmed fish.

Such an operation exists in East Machias at the Peter Gray Hatchery. The hatchery has reported the highest smolt production in the East Machias River since the start of the Peter Gray Parr Project in 2012. This summer has seen similar weather conditions as last year, except that the days and evenings are cooler than normal for July. Despite the dry spell, the “little athletes” in the hatchery are doing well, according to the hatchery’s monthly newsletter.

So, that brings us to an article written by Kathleen McKeog­hain, of AlterNet. She claims, “Atlantic salmon, the native salmon that used to inhabit the northern Atlantic Ocean, rivers and seas, is a species now represented by an imposter: farmed salmon.”

She goes on to say that farmed salmon come from hatchery genetic stock and unlike its native ancesotrs, lacks wild genetic variation. The wild fish our ancestors ate is gone. What appears on our dinner plates is a substitute copy, a genetic dilution of a once mighty fish, the adaptive king of the sea, and a significant food for coastal humans since prehistoric times.

According to McKeoghain, the change in genetic stock has been happening for decades, as farmed salmon are released into native waters via restocking progrms (in an attempt to reduce the negative impacts of overfishing of wild salmon) and also unintentionally as a consequence of faulty containment in sea net-cages. The resulting “swamping out” effect — farmed in, wild out – along with several other insidious factors, has driven native salmon to effective extinction.

“When I began to research the scientific literature on native Atlantic salmon, I was stunned to discover that this species, Salmo salar, is essentially extinct,” continues McKeoghain. How can this be?

“The verified statistic is that 99.5 percent of all Atlantic salmon living today, whether farmed or fished from open ocean or rivers, is not what biologists call “wild type” and does not faithfully represent, in a genetic sense, the native fish that once broadly populated waters of our planet’s Holarctic zone, the ecological region that encompasses the majority of habitats found across the Earth’s northern continents.”

The fish we eat today is not the fish that fed our ancestors, or even the fish that fed our forbears of a century ago. Today’s salmon, because of the effects of a force called genetic erosion, is the diluted copy of a fish that once thrived on a wild genome, that tried and true set of original genes which, in the case of salmon, generated a fish capable of magnetic field navigation, survival in fresh and salt water and geochemical detection of spawning micro-habitats.

The earliest salmon came from a diverse group of ocean vertebrates known as the ray-finned fishes and was part of a broad divergence of ocean fishes that adapted over eons to the cold, northern waters of the upper northern hemisphere, around the Arctic Circle. Early Atlantic and Pacific salmonid ancestors branched into separate ocean groups of early species types about 600,000 years ago.

Salmon are anadromous, a migrant from fresh water to salty sea, a fish who returns to its birth river to spawn in the family niche for the next generation, for the continuation of each clan, the many clans for each population, and the many populations for each species.

According to Slow Food, an affiliation of the Lighthouse Foundation, “the stocks of wild Atlantic salmon have been reduced to dangerously low levels. Reasons are overfishing, pollution, environmental changes, aquaculture, habitat deterioration and disturbances of migration routes. In many regions, the species has disappeared completely. Even though wild Atlantic salmon stocks have been drastically depleted, farming represents a poor alternative, given the environmental havoc it causes. Farmed salmon should not be eaten frequently. Farmed salmon flesh contains significant amounts of pollutants.”

McKeoghain concludes by saying, “the salmon has taken a fatal series of genetic blows. Its ‘old growth forest’ was set on fire by a human feeding frenzy that began with overfishing and was fed by industrial aquaculture. The genetic erosion is shocking and steep. Today, 99.5 percent of all native Atlantic salmon has disappeared from the wild, forever.”

Legal Notices, Week of August 10, 2017

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STATE OF MAINE
PROBATE COURT
COURT ST.,
SKOWHEGAN, ME
SOMERSET, ss
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
18-A MRSA sec. 3-801

The following Personal Representatives have been appointed in the estates noted. The first publication date of this notice is August 3, 2017.

If you are a creditor of an estate listed below, you must present your claim within four months of the first publication date of this Notice to Creditors by filing a written statement of your claim on a proper form with the Register of Probate of this Court or by delivering or mailing to the Personal Representative listed below at the address published by his name, a written statement of the claim indicating the basis therefore, the name and address of the claimant and the amount claimed or in such other manner as the law may provide. See 18-A MRSA 3-804.

2017-200 – Estate of WILMA B. STEVENS, late of Canaan, Me deceased. Daniel S. Stevens, 87 Maplewood Drive, Newport, Me 0453-4040 appointed Personal Representative.

2017-201 – Estate of ROBERT BLAINE TIBBETTS, SR., late of Mercer, Me deceased. Heather Tibbetts, 7 Moose Lane, Mercer, Me 04957 appointed Personal Representative.

2017-202 – Estate of ERVINA B. GOODRIDGE, late of Norridgewock, Me deceased. Merton J. Goodridge, PO Box 194, Norridgewock, Me 04957 appointed Personal Representative.

2017-203 – Estate of FRANK L. TRIPODI, late of Hartland, Me deceased. Donna Tripodi, 30 Seekins Street, Hartland, Me 04943 appointed Personal Representative.

2017-208 – Estate of DAVID MILLER KING, late of St. Albans, Me deceased. Sylvia K. Richards, 179 Hartland Road, St. Albans, Me 04971 appointed Personal Representative.

2017-209 – Estate of MARIE A. CARTER, late of Palmyra, Me deceased. Colleen L. Richardson, PO Box 314, Newport, Me 04953 appointed Personal Representative.

2017-210- Estate of MARION R. REYNOLDS, late of Skowhegan, Me deceased. Donna L. Pomelow, 54 Hilton Hill Road, Skowhegan, Me 04976 appointed Personal Representative.

2017-211 – Estate of PEGGY A. MORGAN, late of Hartland, Me deceased. Dana A. Morgan I, PO Box 368, Hartland, Me 04943 appointed Personal Representative.

2017-214 – Estate of CYR G. THIBEAULT, late of Skowhegan, Me deceased. Christine A. Thibeault, 5 Jonathans Way, Casco, Me 04015 appointed Personal Representative.

2017-215 – Estate of ARLENE L. BOYDEN, late of Fairfield, Me deceased. Gary Boyden, 24 Six Rod Road, Fairfield, Me 04937 appointed Personal Representative.

2017-216 – Estate of SUDIE F. DAVIS, late of Palmyra, Me deceased. Linda M. Burleigh, 292 Badgerboro Road, Palmyra, Me 04965 appointed Personal Representative.

2017-217 – Estate of MARY B. ELIAS, late of Fairfield, Me deceased. Shirley E. Ezzy, PO Box 305, Augusta, Me 04332 appointed Personal Representative.

To be published on August 3, & August 10, 2017
Dated: July 31, 2017
/s/ Victoria Hatch,
Register of Probate
(8/10)

STATE OF MAINE
PROBATE COURT
41 COURT ST.
SOMERSET, ss
SKOWHEGAN, ME
PROBATE NOTICES

TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN ANY OF THE ESTATES LISTED BELOW

Notice is hereby given by the respective petitioners that they have filed petitions for appointment of personal representatives in the following estates. These matters will be heard at 10 a.m. or as soon thereafter as they may be, on August 16, 2017. The requested appointments may be made on or after the hearing date if no sufficient objection be heard. This notice complies with the requirements of 18-A MRSA §3-403 and Probate Rule 4.

2017-159 – Estate of MASON BRIAN-SCOTT STANLEY, minor of Skowhegan, Me. Petition for Change of Name (Minor) filed by Whitney Parlin, 18 Family Circle, Apt. 4, Skowhegan, Maine 04976 requesting the minors name be changed to Mason Brian Parlin for reasons set forth therein.

2017-148 – Estate of KEVIN M. TRUDEAU, late of Pittsfield, Me deceased. Marlene Cullity, 122 Waverly Street, Pittsfield, Me 04967 requesting to be appointed Personal Representative

SPECIAL NOTICE: This notice is especially directed to Robert R. Trudeau who is of address unknown.

2017-172 – Estate of AMELIA RAE MARIE BROWN, minor of Madison, Me. Petition for Change of Name (Minor) filed by Karen Dhuy, 7 Wesserunsett Road, Madison, Me 04950 requesting minor’s name be changed to Amelia Marie Dhuy for reasons set forth therein.

2017-175 – Estate of HEATHER ELIZABETH JOHNSON, adult of Norridgewock, Me. Petition for Change of Name (Adult) filed by Heather Elizabeth Johnson, 711 River Road, Norridgewock, Me 04957 requesting her name be changed to Heather Finnemore Johnson for reasons set forth therein.

2017-176 – Estate of NATHAN LUCAS HERMAN, adult of Fairfield, Me. Petition for Change of Name (Adult) filed by Nathan Lucas Herman, 40 Main Street, Fairfield, Me 04937 requesting his name be changed to Nathan Lucas Saucier for reasons set forth therein.

2017-177 – Estate of DANTE ERIC HERMAN, adult of Fairfield, Me. Petition for Change of Name (Adult) filed by Dante Eric Herman, 40 Main Street, Fairfield, Me 04937 requesting his name be changed to Dante Eric Saucier for reasons set forth therein.

2017-184 – Estate of JAMIE LEE STEDGE, adult of Pittsfield, Me. Petition for Change of Name (Adult) filed by Jamie Lee Stedge, 34 Sibley Pond Road, Pittsfield, Me 04967 requesting her name be changed to Jamie Lee Canders for reasons set forth therein.

2017-188 – Estate of ZABRYNA SKYE. McDONALD, minor of Skowhegan, Me. Petition for Change of Name (Minor) filed by Krystal A. Batista, 126 Middle Road, Apt 1, Skowhegan, Me
04976 requesting minor’s name be changed to Zabryna Skye Batista for reasons set forth therein.

2017-077 – Estate of DAVID ALLEN GARDINER, JR… Petition for Change of Name (Minor) filed by petitioner Matthew Ward, 75 Waterville Road, Skowhegan, Me 04976 requesting that minor’s name be change to Damien Matthew Ward for reasons set forth therein.

Dated: July 31, 2017
/s/ Victoria M. Hatch
Register of Probate
(8/10)

STATE OF MAINE
PROBATE COURT
SOMERSET, SS
NOTICE TO HEIRS
Estate of
SUDIE F. DAVIS
DOCKET NO. 2017-216

It appearing that the following heirs of SUDIE F. DAVIS, as listed in an Application for Informal Probate of Will and Appointment of Personal Representative is of unknown address as listed below:

Charles C. Randall
Sheryl Durkee
Allen Randall
Robin Randall
Holly Boise
Julie Edmundson

THEREFORE, notice is hereby given as heir of the above named estate, pursuant to Maine Rules of Probate Procedure Rule 4(d) (1) (a), and Rule 4 (e) a.

This notice shall be published once a week for two successive weeks in The Town Line, with the first publication date to be August 3, 2017.

Names and address of Personal Representative: Linda M. Burleigh, 292 Badgerboro Road, Palmyra, Me 04965.

Dated: July 31, 2017
/s/ Victoria M.  Hatch
Register of Probate
(8/10)

I’m Just Curious: Gardening tips

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by Debbie Walker

I suppose it’s a little late to be helpful with your gardening this year but hopefully you will cut this out and save it for the next growing season. (Don’t think too seriously.)

This info was printed in another Maine paper, their July/August issue. I cut this out of the paper and trashed the rest. Whoops. I am sorry (but I did add some stuff).

If there is a frost after March 15, it will not cause any damage to your garden (not sure what part of the country we are talking about!)

If there is a frost, when the wind is blowing from the south, it will destroy all of your plants in the garden. (Did you already know this?)

The worst day to plant is on the 31st of any month (especially Dec., Jan., March, so does that mean Feb. is good cause it doesn’t go to the 31st?).

You will experience a wonderful crop if you have early thunderstorms. (Does that include the winter thunderstorms?)

If a pregnant woman plants any type of plant it will grow well. (Is it a hormone thing?)

If you hear a turtledove coo on New Year’s Day, it is a prediction that all crops will be good for the coming year. (I guess for that to happen in Maine you would have to have the happy, contented bird in a cage inside! I don’t think it would coo very long outside!)

Planting seeds at noon means they will grow. (I doubt that one; it just means the person was lazy, not getting to the fields until noon!)

If you put fertilizer on the ground during the light of moon it will not decompose and will do no good. (It will decompose but in the dark you put it in the wrong place and just can’t find it!)

If you see a frost between the time of the new moon and the full moon, your plants will not have to worry about frostbite. (I don’t think the plants will worry about anything.)

Stretch a piece of yarn string over the rows of your plants in early spring. The frost will then collect on the yarn and not hurt your plants. (You might break a leg if you trip on all that string!)

Placing rusty nails or old irons around your plants will help them grow. (Oh sure, and if you step on the rusty nail it will really hurt!)

Okay, so this is all pretty ridiculous but I thought I would pass it along. Of course it was titled “Old Wives’ Tales for Gardening.” Geez, old wives get blamed for so much!

I am just curious what you remember as old wives tales. For comments and questions try dwdaffy@yahoo.com. Sub. line: Old Wives.’ Thanks for reading and don’t forget the online site, tell your friends and families about us.

P.S. I don’t know how you can take any of this serious if you take into consideration that this writer is planting a flowering weeds garden on purpose!

REVIEWS: Music: Robert Farnon, Thomas Tallis & Vinyl

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Peter CatesREVIEW POTPOURRI

by Peter Cates

Robert Farnon

Robert Farnon Concert
London, LPB 126, ten inch vinyl mono LP, recorded 1949.

Canadian-born, composer/conductor Robert Farnon (1917-2005) recorded numerous albums of the most imaginative mood music arrangements, a quality of work equalled, in my experience, only by Percy Faith, Paul Weston, Nelson Riddle, and Andre Kostelanetz. The above disc contains five of the man’s own compositions – Rudolf Friml’s classic Donkey Serenade, Vincent Youman’s captivating The Carioca and the Viennese operetta composer, Robert Stolz’s intriguing Persian Nocturne.

My special favorite here was Farnon’s wistful How Beautiful is Night; judging from the number of yts presenting this song, it seems to have been very popular. One of the posts is a 1971 rare 45 featuring Tony Bennett, with Farnon conducting, that is recommended listening.

My own copy of the record has the stamp of the long gone Waterville store, A.W. Larsen’s, where I bought a number of records as a beginning collector back in the early-to-mid ‘60s and remember the owner, Al Larsen, as a very nice and helpful gentleman.

Thomas Tallis

Lamentation of Jeremiah
William Byrd: Mass for 3 Voices; Pro Cantione Antiqua, conducted by Bruno Turner; Archiv 2533 113, 12-inch vinyl stereo LP, recorded 1972.

The Pro Cantione Antiqua is a vocal group consisting of nine men, ranging from bass to a very high countertenor. It was founded in 1968, specializing in 15th and 16th century music written for the male voice by English and European composers and have performed in concerts and on recordings umpteen times.

Both of the above works by Thomas Tallis (1505-1585) and his pupil/colleague William Byrd (1543-1623) are eloquent examples of what is known as Tudor church music, sung most movingly on this recording. Since the two men lived out most of their working lives under the Tudor monarchy, they experienced the ominously shifting winds of the Protestant Reformation and had to toe the line on English versus Latin texts – Henry VIII’s blood-laden move of spiritual obeisance from the Church of Rome to his own creation of the Church of England; and his own eldest daughter, Bloody Mary, with her terroristic return to Rome. Only with Elizabeth’s accession to the throne in 1558 and her granting of favor to Tallis, Byrd and other gifted composers were they able to breathe reasonably freely.

An interesting postscript. The conductor Bruno Turner made millions in the wallpapering business after World War II due to the inevitable construction boom, courtesy of the German Luftwaffe.

Vinyl

The Wacky World of Record Collecting
produced by Allen Zweig; released 2000, approximately 2 hours.

Since I own a record collection consisting of over 50,000 items, I was definitely interested in viewing this documentary. I was especially hoping for collectors to share their own specific interest areas, state the specific qualities of a performer or genre that moved them and provide some interesting records to check out.

This would not be the case! Instead Zweig indulges one main obsession rooted in his own habits as a collector – why has he spent so much money, time and energy accumulating thousands of records instead of getting a life, so to speak. He talks about wanting to find a wife, get married and maybe at least having a daughter so he can put together a bicycle for her enjoyment. He is even honest enough to state that he would happily give up all of his records for a family.

Then he does a series of interviews with other collectors – a better term for most of them would be hoarders. One very seemingly calm individual speaks of his desire to own a record of every song written, regardless of language.

Another has gathered every different US release of all Elvis Presley recordings. Using the G.I. Blues album as an example- he would have bought the single 45s, 45 extended play albums (two songs per side), mono LP, stereo LP, four track tape, eight track tape, reel to reel tape, cassette, any anthology containing at least one song from the release, compact disc, video cassette of the movie, laser disc, DVD, Blue ray and any other edition with a different cover, liner notes and photographs. As for releases in foreign countries, he is practical with his money and wants to use common sense. Therefore it would have to contain, again, a different cover, notes, photos and mastering.

Still another hardly plays any records because he lacks the will to move from his chair. Finally, one individual decided one day to get rid of his collection but refused to sell or give it away because he was horrified at the thought of others hearing and owning his records. Instead, he personally threw every record into a dumpster. Afterwards, he felt more relaxed than he had in years.

I should state here that there are “normal’ individuals who have similarly-sized collections (Of course, I am not trying to imply anything with regard to myself – LOL!) .

All in all, the film was both interesting but at times perturbing, to put it politely!