The Last Chance String Band 1977-1981


Paul Mangion, Charlie Nolan, Ryan Thomson, Jim Marks

I set my camera on a tripod and set the 30 second timer to scramble into position to catch the picture above. It was taken at Jim's house on Great Bay, in Greenland, New Hampshire. The Westchester County Department of Parks, Recreation, and Conservation in White Plains, New York, liked this picture so much, that they "borrowed" (stole it?) to use as their official fiddle festival poster for several years after the one year they hired us to perform there, even though we weren't asked to be performers at their festival for those years. It was embarassing for me to encounter friends who said, "they made your picture into their festival poster and when we went to see you, you weren't there!"




Ryan, Charlie, and Paul playing old time music at the New Hampshire Farm Museum