Local Celebrity Visits Writing Workshop

Gair MacKenzie of WMWV radio station visited participants of the summer's first writing workshop on July 3rd. Gair came to pay tribute to Jim Clemons who ran the workshop to ever greater numbers of enthusiastic writers for four summers and who died on April 6, 2008. Gair became interested in Jim after reading his obituary and learning of all the great things he'd done in his life and the ways in which he helped people in this area over the past five years. Gair came to encourage this year's writers and to tell them some of what he learned about Jim when he was researching a radio piece he did on him. Gair told them about his years as First Petty Officer in the Navy and his volunteer work with Green Mountain Conservation Group doing water testing.