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JAIMIE VERNON – WHEN I WAS HERE

Posted in Opinion with tags Arthur Booth, AWOL, Bert Barker, Bob Segarini, Canadian Expeditiary Forces, Canadian Music, cemeteries, cemetery, Corporal Klinger, court martial, David Blanchard Booth, DBAWIS, death, Don't Believe a Word I Say, England, France, ghetto, Gladys Booth Winter Smithson, grave, gravestone, Irish, Irish Potato Famine, Jaimie Vernon, Marjorie Barker, MASH, Northamptonshire, Paul Blart Mall Cop, Pine Hills Cemetery, Richard Herbert Smithson, Robert Winter, Security Guard, Steiner Avenue, The Barkers, The Booths, The Vernons, Toronto, William Barker, World War 1, York, Yorkshire on March 21, 2015 by segarini

March 9th was an auspicious occasion. It was my sixth month as Verm Blart: Cemetery Cop and it would have been the 99th birthday of my maternal grandmother Marjorie Barker. As hard as it is to believe, these two things are connected. Bear with me and I’ll explain.

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JAIMIE VERNON: AT SEVENTEEN

Posted in Opinion with tags Area 51, Canadian Music, cemeteries, Children of the Corn, Dan Clancy, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Franklin Kentucky, Grand Canyon, honeymoon, Jaimie Vernon, Las Vegas, Lighthouse, Los Angeles, Music blog, New Orleans, New York, Sharon Vernon, Skip Prokop, Swamp Tour, wedding anniversary on March 16, 2013 by segarini

As you read this I suspect that I am recovering from what would have been a rather eventful 17^th anniversary with my wife. As an anniversary gift, we were invited out to see Lighthouse in Oshawa by the very charitable Skip Prokop who has led the band since 1969 and is currently the subject of a biography I’m co-writing. As it turns out the current singer, Dan Clancy, has been an acquaintance of Sharon and I as well. He did double duty as a music teacher at Durham College and a judge at the school’s annual songwriting competition for which I volunteered as co-judge for half-a-dozen years as well. He’s also been on a number of recording sessions with artists that once graced my record label.