On Wednesday, October 20, 2015, The Chris Wolf Show hosted photographer Patrisha McLean talking about her new book “My Island” which features amazing portraits of Maine Island children.

The show was broadcast on WRFR Community Radio, Channel 7 Maine Coast TV, and streamed live on www.mainecoast.tv/streaming.

For those of you familiar with Patrisha’s photography, you’ll know how great her photography of people is. For those of you not familiar with her, you’re in for a sweet treat. She’s able to capture the essence of a person and the moment in a single black and white photo.

Patrisha photographs with a medium format camera and does her own darkroom work. Her prints have a look and depth that digital photograph can’t rival. Her photographs have exhibited in museums and galleries across the country, including the Caldbeck Gallery in Rockland, ME and the Silver Eye Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA. They are also in the permanent collection of the Farnsworth Museum and the Portland Museum of Art.

The show featured a new song by Patrisha’s husband, Don McLean, “Lucky Guy” from the upcoming Botanical Gardens CD and a song by her daughter,Jackie Lee Strack, “The Last Time” accessible through Soundcloud.

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As always, on the Chris Wolf Show, it’s like having his guest into your living room. The conversation will cover a wide range of topics and you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

The rocky coast of Maine and bluegrass music aren’t frequently found in the same sentence, but that’s exactly where you’ll find Miners Creek Bluegrass Band.

Located in the tiny coastal village of Rockport, Maine, Miners Creek is at its core is a family band, consisting of song writing, mother/daughter duo Resa & Emily Randolph and husband/dad/banjo player Whitney Randolph. Jesse McWilliams joins in on mandolin; Peter Proeller on claw hammer banjo; and Jenny Karod on viola/violin.

The band’s sound originates from the bluegrass tradition, but also gleans from the folk revival of the 1960s, latin chords and rhythms, classic rock, Appalachian and old timey tunes, and classical music. With each member of the band bringing their own passion and spin to the final product, they seek to create a new, distinctive take on bluegrass music.

Friday, May 15, PenBayPilot.com and “The Chris Wolf Show” hosted Miners Creek Bluegrass Band of Rockport. This show was streamed live on www.MaineCoast.TV and broadcast on WRFR FM 7-8 a.m.

On Monday, October 19, 2015, The Chris Wolf Show hosted Maine’s internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen.

The show was broadcast on WRFR Community Radio, Channel 7 Maine Coast TV, and streamed live on www.mainecoast.tv/streaming.

Tess Gerritsen took an unusual route to a writing career. A graduate of Stanford University, Tess went on to medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was awarded her M.D.

While on maternity leave from her work as a physician, she began to write fiction. In 1987, her first novel was published. Call After Midnight, a romantic thriller, was followed by eight more romantic suspense novels. She also wrote a screenplay, “Adrift”, which aired as a 1993 CBS Movie of the Week starring Kate Jackson.

Tess’s first medical thriller, Harvest, was released in hardcover in 1996, and it marked her debut on the New York Times bestseller list. Her suspense novels since then have been: Life Support (1997),Bloodstream (1998), Gravity (1999), The Surgeon (2001), The Apprentice (2002), The Sinner (2003), Body Double (2004), Vanish(2005), The Mephisto Club (2006), The Bone Garden (2007), The Keepsake (2008; UK title: Keeping the Dead), Ice Cold(2010; UK title: The Killing Place), The Silent Girl (2011), Last To Die (August 2012), Die Again (January 2015) and Playing With Fire (coming October 27, 2015). Her books have been published in forty countries, and more than 30 million copies have been sold around the world.

Her series of novels featuring homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles inspired the TNT television series “Rizzoli & Isles” starring Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander.

Now retired from medicine, she writes full time. She lives in Maine.

On Wednesday, October 14, 2015, The Chris Wolf Show hosted Bill Packard of Union, Maine. The show was broadcast on WRFR Community Radio, Channel 7 Maine Coast TV, and streamed live on www.mainecoast.tv/streaming, 7:00-8:00 a.m.

Bill is an author, speaker, and business consultant. He writes a very interesting column for penbaypilot.com.

Bill has a special knack of taking the obvious and making it clear, something we many times have difficulty doing. This, of course, has value not only in business, but also in life in general.

This show focused on customer service…something many, many businesses get wrong. And the customers get even.

Bill gives a lot of examples of bad customer service, how to position your businesses towards and implementing good customer service, and the benefits of good customer service to the business and the customer.

The Chris Wolf Show is a joint project of PenBay Pilot, WRFR FM Community Radio and Maine Coast TV Community Television. Check our website www.mainecoast.tv for up to date information on our programming.

Willard Wight is an original. Willard once told a reporter, “I sharpened my teeth on a coal shovel.” Willard learned the value of hard work as a youngster working alongside his grandfather Pearl Glover Willey at the Camden “P. G. Willey” family business founded in 1899.  At that time, PG Willey supplied coal to heat buildings and to fuel the steamboats that came to Camden harbor. Over his many years as part of Camden, Willard showed us how to redefine the possible and in doing so helped make Camden a better community.

On Monday, October 12, 2015, The Chris Wolf Show hosted Willard Wight. The show was broadcast on WRFR Community Radio, Channel 7 Maine Coast TV, and streamed live on www.mainecoast.tv/streaming, 7:00-8:00 a.m.  

Willard has thousands of interesting stories about Camden’s past. This show is very special!

Willard was in college studying boat design when his grandfather died in 1949. He returned home to help his grandmother and mother run the family business.

Not only did the young man help his family manage the family business and navigate the ever changing fuel industry, Willard embarked on a lifetime of community service. He joined the Camden Rotary Club, taking his grandfather’s spot when he was only 20 years old, and remains an active member today.

With a business located on the harbor, Willard couldn’t help but be an avid sailor and an active steward of Camden harbor. He’s been a director of the Camden Yacht Club and served as a member and Chair of the Town’s Harbor Committee for 40 years. Willard was a visionary and realized the importance of the harbor to the local economy and the town’s future. In addition to running the family fuel business, he started renting small sail boats and had a small fleet of daysailers.

In time the PG Willey wharf welcomed some of the largest yachts that came to Maine including those of Malcolm Forbes and Willard’s good friend broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite.

When he saw that Camden needed a community boat launch, Willard worked with a group of business people to form the Camden Launching and Chowder Society. The group got its name because it held fish chowder suppers at the Snow Bowl to raise money for the boat launch. They were successful and later turned Steamboat landing over to the Town.

In the 1970s, lighthouses along the Maine coast were being automated including the Curtis Island light house. In 1973 when Curtis Island was put on the federal government’s surplus property list, the Town acted to acquire the island to make it a public park. In 1976 Willard and his wife Janet became the first volunteer caretakers of Curtis Island.

Willard’s community service and vision stretched far beyond the harbor. He was instrumental in accomplishing something that some people said couldn’t be done. Willard spearheaded the effort to convince the State Legislature to build a road to the summit of Mt. Battie. After nearly a decade of persistence, the road officially opened in June 1965, making it possible for thousands of people to drive to top of Mt. Battie and enjoy the spectacular panoramic view of Camden Harbor and Penobscot Bay.

In 2015, the Town of Camden Annual Report was dedicated to Willard Wight.