In 1988 I was new in Maine, raising my two year old daughter, when at the funky, long gone record store Cumberland Electronics I found a flyer:

Wanted: Volunteers for on air DJs on community station WMPG. We will train.

Me? On the radio? I grew up listening and idolizing Dan Ingram and Cousin Brucie on WABC-AM in New York!

I called and had a three hour training with then-program director Ed Noyse who then asked me “Okay, what day and time would you like to be on?” (boy, are things different now)

 WMPG was only a 50 watt station at the time, so I could only hear the station driving to and from the studios in Gorham .  I created Emotionally Bankrupt & Morally in Debt, a formatless music and interview show that ran for eight years. 

During my time here I’ve been Music Director, Promotion Director, vice chair of the volunteer board, and had a WMPG internship when I became a USM student (class of ‘95).

For ten years I produced The Lorenzo Commentaries that ran on the late, great Steve Hirshon’s morning drive time show. 

I’ve hosted several live Radio Open Mic’s which morphed into present day Podcast Open Mic (which I needed to pause due to health reasons, but hope to resume soon)

What can I say about a place I’ve been involved with for nearly four decades? A place that’s accepted my oddness and idiosyncrasies as an asset. l love WMPG!