Backwoods Funke

Glenn cooking

Etta’s father Glenn told me that Harvard is the kind of place where they teach you to line up and follow commands. He said I should give WHRB 95.3 a break and listen to WMBR 88.1 instead, because the radio shows on MIT are less about conformity and more about finding a new paradigm.

Soon to be firewood

The man is a ham radio operator who lives in three houses attached to one another on a property whose four corners abut a lake (has a rowboat,) a bike trail (has a bicycle,) a neighborhood (chases trespassing kids,) and the town’s central street (has a post office), surrounded by wilderness in Northern Massachusetts. He once lived in a basement in Cambridge.

5 thoughts on “Backwoods Funke”

  1. Essentially, the 3rdarm is the last in a long line of hole-dwellers …. and he does it right.

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