John Haigis

"Captain Book" (The reading pirate) "Crabby Mortonson" (A cross between Don Rickels and Walter Brennan)

Raised in radio in Western Massachusetts, my first experience was at the age of six when I sat on my broadcaster father's lap and announced "We will now play the Cherubic Hymn" and later was "Snookey, the Hillside Dairy spokeschild" and did audio production. I was told people liked to close their eyes and listen to my voice. In the army I was an audio man at the Armor School in Fort Knox,KY and a newscaster for AFKN in Seoul Korea. After college and law school, I moved to Pennsylania and became involved in historic preservation and narrated a film about trolleys for the local transportation authority. My wife and I are now a creative team of singer, songwriter, wordsmith, historian, storytellers who write new words to old music, new music to old words and our own words and music. On-the-job training, theatre, law school, presenting engaging programs and 18th and 19th Century musical living history to diverse audiences as Past Times Present At the present time I have a Zoom H-4 Digital Recorder, Audacity, and Blaze Media Pro Music, songwriting, poetry, producing commercials,