Looks like I'm directing the heavenly choir, but actually they're watching my helicopter fly during a show by the fireside in the lobby of the Grand Summit Hotel at Mount Snow.
This was my 43rd gig at the Grand Summit Hotel at Mount Snow! Awesome!

"Third Thursday" trick or treating
Pittsfield MA
October 15, 2009

 

 

 

 

Bread & Circus's 17th anniversary
Hadley MA
November 2000. 

 

 

 

 

 

Sarah "Sally" Montgomery & Priscilla "Chips" Wahlen's wedding
South Hadley MA
July 23, 2005.

 

 

 

Mountain Road Schoolhouse picnic
Gill Elementary School
Gill MA
June 6, 1998

    The Mountain Road School day care center in Gill MA booked me every year for their end of the year picnic from 1990 until the owner retired in 2005.  Above, I'm holding an alligator toy that when you squeeze the red trigger, the jaws of the alligator open and close. I pulled it out and said, "Does anyone need a little trim?" and was instantly mobbed with kids wanting haircuts! So, I'm giving free trims in this photo.
    Below, at the same event the same year is the amazing color-changing Chameleon Stick doing tricks for the same crowd. (You may have noticed that in the upper photo at the very left is the right arm of the pink sweatshirted girl with braids in the photo below. Everyone else who was sitting in front of her is in the mob scene in the upper one!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Springfield Day Nursery
East Longmeadow MA

 June 1998

 

 

   At the Green River Hot Air Balloon & Music Festival,  I did a lot of "walk-around" that day before doing a show at the end of the festival. This was very early in the day. There weren't very many people there yet, so I spent a lot of time with those who were. This family was intrigued and  followed me around a lot.
    The two girls had been doing acrobatics on the lawn as I approached, so it didn't surprise me at all when they tried to be as tall as me. They were going to put the little boy up on top, but their dad wouldn't let them for some strange reason that they just couldn't fathom.

   Here's the last photo. I'm sitting down. (Finally!)

   This is at the groundbreaking ceremony for River Valley Market in the old quarry site at the top of King St in Northampton MA. Betsy Powell (RVM board of directors president) is standing on the ground. My feet are on the ground, too, but I'm actually sitting on the bucket of a huge front loader parked on the site. It was the perfect height.

   Not only is this the River Valley Market groundbreaking, but this date also marks a professional milestone in my career: I've been stiltwalking for 20 years now!   (Mind if I sit down for a bit?)

River Valley Market groundbreaking
Northampton MA
May 17, 2007