Kendall's TV shows on MPBN

Subject: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: gnu
Date: 16 May 09 - 08:21 AM

From the thread re Kendall's new website, Kendall has agreed to allow us to see if MPBN will air and/or release (sell?) his TV programs.

From the other thread... "Kendall, regarding MPBN, if you are keen on the idea, I am sure some of the folks here might be able to organize an effort to investigate the best way to go about it."

Sooooooo, here's a brief start.

Brainstorming session re Kendall's TV shows...

An email petition? To whom... all of the executives/board at MPBN and the national PBS, newspaper editors in Maine, folklore society, arts council/society, storytellers' association....

Okay, I'll stop there and hope others will add to this "brainstorming list". Just remember, it's a list of ideas for future consideration... throw anything on the list, no matter it's merit, for later discussion.

Oh, BTW, nobody is in charge of this effort, except to say that whatever course is taken should have Kendall's full approval.

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: kendall
Date: 16 May 09 - 09:57 AM

They threatened to re run those a few years ago but it never happened.

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: kendall
Date: 16 May 09 - 12:30 PM

Rapaire, the original series was shown a number of times all over the country on public tv channels.

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: KT
Date: 16 May 09 - 12:50 PM

What was the original series called?

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: kendall
Date: 17 May 09 - 07:25 AM

IN THE KITCHEN

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: SINSULL
Date: 17 May 09 - 11:25 AM

I would love to see these. The night with Mrshall Dodge is worth the price of admission alone.
SINS

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: gnu
Date: 17 May 09 - 12:40 PM

Brainstorming session seems to be goind a tad slow, soooo, I'll give it another brief go.

ahhhhhh... errrrrrrr... ohhhh (that one hurt)... ummm.... SINS creates a diversion by letting Seamus, after he has been sparyed by a skunk, loose at MPBN and jac sneaks into the vault and gets the shows. Then, Maeve smuggles them acorss the New Brunswick border in hanging veggie baskets and I make DVD copies for Mudcatters and sell them with the profits going to Mudcat (and a small portion to the Save a Lobster for Kendall Foundation). I simply title the DVD "An Evening of Bodhran with Gnu" and nobody at any Customs Department will ever look at it. Problem solved!

Anybody else got any ideas?

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: gnu
Date: 17 May 09 - 12:54 PM

Oh dear, oh my. That was a terrible typo! No, I mean the "G" in "gnu". My apologies.

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: maeve
Date: 17 May 09 - 02:08 PM

I kind of like that idea, gnu.

maeve

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: gnu
Date: 17 May 09 - 03:16 PM

Well, it actually has merit. Not like the rest of the crazy ideas being throw around in the brainstorming session.

Come on 'Cats. Get with the programmes, eh?

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: SINSULL
Date: 17 May 09 - 04:57 PM

Hate to spoil the fun but couldn't we just ask?

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: jacqui.c
Date: 17 May 09 - 04:57 PM

Great idea gnu - but you get to keep Seamus until the skunk odour has gone.

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: kendall
Date: 17 May 09 - 05:08 PM

Things have changed since I was in Orono, but the Vice president's name is Charles Beck. Address on their web site.

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: gnu
Date: 17 May 09 - 05:21 PM

Yes, it is, Kendall... >;-)

BUT, is that part of the plan? We won't know until the brainstorming session has yielded it's results for discussion and a formation of proper action for...

BRAINSTORM PEOPLE!

I can understand why Canucks are not posting... they are ALL out celebrating the long weekend in honour of Her Majesty, The Queen In Right Of Canada, Betty Too. Maybe we'll get more ideas tomoorow, after the hockey game.

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 May 09 - 09:41 PM

How about if Maine threatens to secede and join Canada if the tapes aren't released?

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: maeve
Date: 18 May 09 - 10:10 AM

I'm gathering some information, gnu. I'll get back here when I get a few answers regarding people who might be in a position to help with this project.

maeve

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: gnu
Date: 18 May 09 - 03:50 PM

I nominate maeve to head up the committee... all in favour, raise you hands... all against... abstentions.... congratulations, maeve!

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: maeve
Date: 18 May 09 - 04:06 PM

I don't do committees, gnu. I gather and share information and talk with people.

I like the idea of asking. :)

maeve

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: gnu
Date: 18 May 09 - 04:11 PM

Since you have so graciously declined the nomination in favour of someone less qualified, I guess we'll have to carry on as before. Unless there is anyone out there who thinks they are even less qualified than me... don't be bashful... anyone want to stick their head up?

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: maeve
Date: 18 May 09 - 04:15 PM

I'll help in any way I can, gnu- just keeping it low-key. ;)

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: kendall
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 05:44 AM

Did any of you ever write to MPBN with this idea of a re release?

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: maeve
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 06:16 AM

I had gathered a list of sorts containing people who might be able to help, Kendall. Unfortunately, that information was on the computer that burned up. I could reassmble it if you like.

maeve

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: Crowhugger
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 08:47 AM

Is this particularly about running the shows again on MPBN, or any sort of re-release?

See, I'm thinking DVD sales. My mind's eye is thoroughly enjoying a posse of 'catters extolling Kendall's and the series' virtues on a late-night info-mercial. Down-homey comfortable backdrops, snippets of earnest yet charming remarks about how having the program is (almost) like being right there in the rooms when they were made. I can't be too specific not having seen the series on its first run.

Does someone here know if re-releases of music in this way are profitable ventures? I would think so, since the major production costs are done with, but I don't truly know.

So, I guess this is this where I duck before the verbal rotten tomatoes start to fly. But pleez, it's just brainstorming, so before you reach for that science project in your vegetable keeper and wind up to heave, repeat after me: Any idea is a good idea cuz it might spark something truly brilliant, or it might be truly brilliant when skilfully cut and polished!

~CH.
[under the table now]

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: kendall
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 08:14 PM

This series of humor programs are now 30 years old so not much interest anymore.

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: maeve
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 08:44 PM

Forgive me for disagreeing, Kendall.

maeve

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: gnu
Date: 21 Feb 10 - 04:30 AM

Me too.

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: open mike
Date: 21 Feb 10 - 11:03 AM

i vote for Kendall..this will be an enjoyable show...if it is anything like his book! Hooray! How about a 30 year anniversary re-issue!

Whether they air it, or make dvd copies available....that would even be better, as more of us could get the chance to see it then...

you can ask them here: http://www.mpbn.net/ (i did)

http://www.mpbn.net/About/ContactMPBN/tabid/165/Default.aspx

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: open mike
Date: 21 Feb 10 - 11:09 AM

what i said:
I would like to see a series that was broadcast on your t.v. station 30 years ago.The show was "In the Kitchen" with songs and stories by Kendall Morse. There are many of us who would like to see this. He was nominated for a Grammy this year. This would be great to see on the air, or would it be possible to make into DVD format?
Thank you,
Laurel Paulson-Pierce, Public Broadcasting fan.

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: SINSULL
Date: 21 Feb 10 - 11:50 AM

http://www.mpbn.net/Television/LocalTelevisionPrograms/ADowneastSmileIn/tabid/1006/Default.aspx





My email:
I think it is wonderful that you are airing Marshall Dodge's Maine humor program. He appeared on an episode of "In The Kitchen" with Kendall Morse - a true Maine tale about "Was there frost?". Hilarious and brilliantly done. Thirty plus years and I still remember it clearly. Marshall Dodge goes through every type of wood, its merits and difficulty of use...mesmerizing.
Any chance those shows still exist? Captain Morse recently was nominated for a Grammy. He is in Mass General, as I type, battling throat cancer.
He, I believe, has tapes of performances he and Marshall Dodge gave in local venues as well.
The Portland Press Herald and most of the local papers have covered the Grammy. Timing is perfect to resurrect "In The Kitchen" with the very best of Maine humorists in their element.
Thanks for your attention.
Mary

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: SINSULL
Date: 21 Feb 10 - 12:33 PM

Marshall Dodge's MPBN Series from the 70s. Click on the picture to get to the video. The links don't work properly. The first one has my favorite Maine tale about frost on the ground:

http://video.mpbn.net/searchForm/?q=Downeast+Smiles

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: gnu
Date: 21 Feb 10 - 12:34 PM

SINS... may I copy and paste it? Okay if other Mudcattters do the same?

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: maeve
Date: 21 Feb 10 - 01:10 PM

If Sins or anyone else does agree to the copy/paste, best to use it as a model; rewrite it with your own insights. A hundred distinctly personal emails will have a greater impact than a hundred identical emails, in my experience.

maeve

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: gnu
Date: 21 Feb 10 - 01:40 PM

Ahyup.

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: gnu
Date: 21 Feb 10 - 01:43 PM

Is there a PERSON we can email?

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: maeve
Date: 21 Feb 10 - 02:00 PM

Trustees are listed here: http://www.mpbn.net/About/BoardofTrustees/tabid/130/Default.aspx


maeve

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: gnu
Date: 21 Feb 10 - 02:49 PM

And I sent this...

I wish to find the email address of a contact at MPBN... an actual person that I, and a lot of other people can send an email to regarding Kendall Morse's TV show "In The Kitchen".

I know you have received emails regarding this TV show. My concern is that these emails get to the right person. There are a lot of us.

Thank you for your time and effort in this regard.

Sincerely,

Gary Owens, M.Sc.Eng, P.Eng.

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: maeve
Date: 21 Feb 10 - 04:24 PM

Nicely done, gnu.

m

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: open mike
Date: 21 Feb 10 - 10:55 PM

I would like to recommend that we emphasize a request for these shows to be transferred to DVD....it would be nice for them to air in Maine,
but many of us still would not get to see them...but perhaps if we were to promise to buy a certain number of copies they would find it worth their while to do the digitising and DVD making...i hope, i hope, i hope...

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 02:52 AM

I'd sure like to see some of those Kendall Morse TV programs.

In the meantime, you can find some Marshall Dodge recordings here (click) - some for free, and some for purchase.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 08:13 AM

Feel free to use my email as a model if you like. I agree that individual requests have more impact. Nicely done, gnu. I didn't realize mid all that beer that you were a scholar.




CELLAR!

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: olddude
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 08:24 AM

well, i will call uncle louie, he will make them an offer, they can't refuse lol

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: olddude
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 10:11 AM

Point them also my friends to Kendall's website
http://www.captainkendallmorse.com

I also added the term "Grammy Nominated Artist" on it ...

There they can hear some of his music also

Dan

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 10:59 AM

Good idea, Dan.

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: open mike
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 11:09 AM

let's flood them with requests...
good idea to add the web site
to any correspondence...
Cap'n Ken doll

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: open mike
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 11:24 AM

Another option is the MPBN's "Video on Demand" option..
if you look there NOW, there is a video available,
"So You Think You Know Maine...Celebrity Edition"
that DOES include Kendall Morse..here:
http://video.mpbn.net/video/1350149548/

Perhaps the best way for it to readch the most people
and maybe the easiest thing for the t.v. station to do
is to make it avaialbe in streaming...then we could each
pick it up...on our computers...

i recommend we offer to donate to the station....
to help them decide to do this..one way or another..

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: open mike
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 12:34 PM

O.K. here is the news direct from the MPBN network ..

here is the best place to direct our requests...
(for either re-broadcast, DVD production/distribution
or Streaming with "T.V. On Demand"

Charles Beck, V.P. for Radio & Television

[e-mail]

63 Texas Ave.
Bangor, Maine 04401
Fax: [phone]

here is Charles Beck's bio...
http://www.mpbn.net/About/OnAirStaff/CharlesBeck/tabid/607/Default.aspx

Go for it!!

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: open mike
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 02:53 PM

how come http://www.captainkendallmorse.com/
does not show up when i google captain kendall morse?

any way i hope thru our efforts we can find a way to add
his t.v. episodes on his web site...either for sale or to
view..or a way to get these thru MPBN web site or offices...

please send letters, e-mails, and calls to Charles Beck.

see above for text of letters sent from Myself, Gnu, Sinsull
and add one of your own!

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: open mike
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 04:14 PM

Kendall spoke of a storytelling festival on the show where he appeared
as a panelist on the "You Know About Maine" show (see link above)

so, as Gnu suggested (also above) perhaps the story telling enthusiasts would like to join in a campaign to request public t.v. to
bring back Kendall's shows...here is a link which mostly mentions story
teller john mcDonald...but which might be a way to research the story telling festival and any story telling associations which might exist.
http://journal.maine.com/lore/storytellers/

also check out these folks...http://moosetellers.ning.com/
Maine Organization Of Storytelling Enthusiasts (M.O.O.S.E.)
now there is a MOOSE lodge i would like to know more about!!

here is a time mag. article about maine storytellers.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,949260,00.html

here is the golden raven--http://www.watier.org/Ron/goldenraven.htm

i think that as far as the Maine Public Broadcasting is concerned,
requests for kendall's programs might carry more weight, if they
come from people in thier viewing area. (who might be potential
donors and supporters of their stations) so i have tried to find
some local organizations (storytelling) who might "pitch" this to
their members, to join our campaign to bring back kendall's show.

Will someone please follow thru and contact these story groups?
thanks!

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: maeve
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 04:18 PM

I would do most anything for our Kendall, but at the moment I'm not much good for anything requiring clear thought or organization. I'll help where possible though.

maeve

Subject: RE: Kendall's TV shows on MPBN
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 04:36 PM

I'll buy a Kendall Doll. Do the accessories come with it or do I have to buy the cap and pipe separately?