These interviews were conducted on a busy Pet Adoption Day at the Thursday Hillside Farmers’ Market in Clarks Summit, PA. They are short and informal, but hopefully give you a glimpse of the organizations and people involved.
Artist Erika Bertram
Erika Gibson-Bertram has been creating informal mixed-media face portraits of celebrities for about four or five years. “it started as something I was doing in the morning with my coffee,” she said. “One of my sons asked me to do a portrait of him, and he really liked it.” Her older son had taken a…
Independent Songwriter Gary Carl
Gary Kaschak is well known throughout Northeastern Pennsylvania’s business community as the manager of two of our region’s popular lodging properties, the five-time Platinum Award winning Comfort Inn & Suites Tunkhannock and the three-time Platinum Award winning Comfort Inn & Suites Sayre. Fewer are aware of Gary’s long history as a singer/songwriter and versatile local…