Gary Paul Hermus
@garypaulhermus.bsky.social
Author, essayist, actor, performing songwriter, 3X New Mexico music award winner, NYC Performing Arts HS graduate. see http:// www.garypaulhermus.com for more details. Currently shopping a Speculative Fiction manuscript.
💙📚 #booksky Read the Port Edgerton Chronicles saga yet? Here's Jeremy McIntire, young tech wiz, & the newest volunteer staffer at WPRTlp FM. He learned electronics & radio tech from his father, the head tech at Port Edgerton's Fire Department. Here, he reads his first live PSA.
October 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
💙📚 #booksky Read the Port Edgerton Chronicles saga yet? Here's Jeremy McIntire, young tech wiz, & the newest volunteer staffer at WPRTlp FM. He learned electronics & radio tech from his father, the head tech at Port Edgerton's Fire Department. Here, he reads his first live PSA.
No Kings Day, 10/18/25, Santa Fe NM
October 19, 2025 at 6:44 AM
No Kings Day, 10/18/25, Santa Fe NM
💙📚 #booksky STILL haven't read The Port Edgerton Chronicles, let alone FINDING HOME?! You're missing out! Here's Dr. Marion Jefferson, Assoc. Professor of Archeology at Syracuse University. Not afraid to get her hands dirty, she prepares to examine a find in Shady Grove’s septic pit.
October 1, 2025 at 10:06 PM
💙📚 #booksky STILL haven't read The Port Edgerton Chronicles, let alone FINDING HOME?! You're missing out! Here's Dr. Marion Jefferson, Assoc. Professor of Archeology at Syracuse University. Not afraid to get her hands dirty, she prepares to examine a find in Shady Grove’s septic pit.
💙📚 #booksky Readers of FINDING HOME: The Port Edgerton Chronicles Volume II; here's Eileen Iverson, recruiter & owner of Iverson Resources Agency, who presents very professionally, but is warm and friendly. She's seen reviewing one of the candidates' files for the Shady Grove groundskeeper.
September 24, 2025 at 9:15 AM
💙📚 #booksky Readers of FINDING HOME: The Port Edgerton Chronicles Volume II; here's Eileen Iverson, recruiter & owner of Iverson Resources Agency, who presents very professionally, but is warm and friendly. She's seen reviewing one of the candidates' files for the Shady Grove groundskeeper.
💙📚 #booksky Readers of FINDING HOME: The Port Edgerton Chronicles Volume II, here's the Swensons. Helga, who owns Helga's Dairy, weeps joyfully with husband, Olaf, over their new Wind Turbine, a tribute to the windmill her ancestor built in the 1700s. Their son, Eric, who made it happen, looks on.
September 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
💙📚 #booksky Readers of FINDING HOME: The Port Edgerton Chronicles Volume II, here's the Swensons. Helga, who owns Helga's Dairy, weeps joyfully with husband, Olaf, over their new Wind Turbine, a tribute to the windmill her ancestor built in the 1700s. Their son, Eric, who made it happen, looks on.
The first rendering of a new character from FINDING HOME: The Port Edgerton Chronicles Volume II: Bertha Becker, owner of Bertha's Bake Shop. We see her apologizing to Penelope as she ties up the Bean and Gone Cafe's pies after the shop's truck broke down, making all the deliveries late.
September 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
The first rendering of a new character from FINDING HOME: The Port Edgerton Chronicles Volume II: Bertha Becker, owner of Bertha's Bake Shop. We see her apologizing to Penelope as she ties up the Bean and Gone Cafe's pies after the shop's truck broke down, making all the deliveries late.
💙📚 #booksky Tonight, we top off the cast of characters from The Port Edgerton Chronicles with The Dorfmann twins, Heinrich & Fritz. Even as kids, they always managed to cause trouble. Here, courtesy of their father, they're on the lam, trying to outrun the New York State Police, aka “The Troopers.”
August 18, 2025 at 7:23 AM
💙📚 #booksky Tonight, we top off the cast of characters from The Port Edgerton Chronicles with The Dorfmann twins, Heinrich & Fritz. Even as kids, they always managed to cause trouble. Here, courtesy of their father, they're on the lam, trying to outrun the New York State Police, aka “The Troopers.”
💙📚 #booksky For readers of The Port Edgerton Chronicles: Harry Scala. Every open mic night at the Mineshaft Tavern in Madrid, NM, there’s Harry Scala, who can sing every tune Frank Sinatra recorded – badly. He’s roped a folksinger into trying to accompany him on a tune the young man doesn't know.
August 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
💙📚 #booksky For readers of The Port Edgerton Chronicles: Harry Scala. Every open mic night at the Mineshaft Tavern in Madrid, NM, there’s Harry Scala, who can sing every tune Frank Sinatra recorded – badly. He’s roped a folksinger into trying to accompany him on a tune the young man doesn't know.
Hey, Port Edgerton Chronicles fans, there are still some characters from book one you haven't met. Here's Colonel Howard Jefferson, Deputy Superintendent commanding Troop E of the New York State Police. Here he is reading the governor's announcement to the press about the resolution of a dispute.
August 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Hey, Port Edgerton Chronicles fans, there are still some characters from book one you haven't met. Here's Colonel Howard Jefferson, Deputy Superintendent commanding Troop E of the New York State Police. Here he is reading the governor's announcement to the press about the resolution of a dispute.
💙📚 #booksky My favorite from The Port Edgerton Chronicles: Chief Marshal Brendon Jimmerson & William Redwing. When Dr. Standing Bear’s calls, Jimmerson of the Seneca Nation’s Allegheny Marshalls Office & Redwing of the Seneca Tribal Historic Preservation Office & their men face the County Sheriffs.
August 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
💙📚 #booksky My favorite from The Port Edgerton Chronicles: Chief Marshal Brendon Jimmerson & William Redwing. When Dr. Standing Bear’s calls, Jimmerson of the Seneca Nation’s Allegheny Marshalls Office & Redwing of the Seneca Tribal Historic Preservation Office & their men face the County Sheriffs.
💙📚 #booksky Hey Port Edgerton lovers, here's Deputy Sheriff John Hurley. Hurley, assigned primarily but not exclusively to Steuben County’s Marine unit, is stern, but businesslike; it is never personal (unlike Dodson). Here he is interrogating a boater on Lake Wallapauseg.
August 7, 2025 at 7:18 AM
💙📚 #booksky Hey Port Edgerton lovers, here's Deputy Sheriff John Hurley. Hurley, assigned primarily but not exclusively to Steuben County’s Marine unit, is stern, but businesslike; it is never personal (unlike Dodson). Here he is interrogating a boater on Lake Wallapauseg.
💙📚 #booksky In the Port Edgerton Chronicles, you'd rather not meet Deputy Sheriff George Dodson, a man overly impressed with his authority. He's cordoned off the Yacht Club beach & Cemetery Island. He glares at Dr. Jenkins, Dr. Standing Bear, & Edgar Shultz, refusing access to the island.
August 5, 2025 at 10:25 AM
💙📚 #booksky In the Port Edgerton Chronicles, you'd rather not meet Deputy Sheriff George Dodson, a man overly impressed with his authority. He's cordoned off the Yacht Club beach & Cemetery Island. He glares at Dr. Jenkins, Dr. Standing Bear, & Edgar Shultz, refusing access to the island.
💙📚 #booksky Here is Dr. Carl Jenkins. Professor of Archaeology at Cornell University, Carl and Tom Standing Bear regularly evaluate potentially sacred Native American sites. He examines an ancient Seneca encampment as NY State Troopers and Seneca Nation Marshals stand by.
August 4, 2025 at 4:31 AM
💙📚 #booksky Here is Dr. Carl Jenkins. Professor of Archaeology at Cornell University, Carl and Tom Standing Bear regularly evaluate potentially sacred Native American sites. He examines an ancient Seneca encampment as NY State Troopers and Seneca Nation Marshals stand by.
💙📚 #booksky Port Edgerton Chronicles fans, meet Effie Jung, Port Edgerton Hospital's E.R. Admitting Nurse. Her face shows the weight of seeing too much blood, too many cries, too many nights that scarred her deeper than those on the people she checks in. She checks on Jason McIntire while working.
August 3, 2025 at 7:08 AM
💙📚 #booksky Port Edgerton Chronicles fans, meet Effie Jung, Port Edgerton Hospital's E.R. Admitting Nurse. Her face shows the weight of seeing too much blood, too many cries, too many nights that scarred her deeper than those on the people she checks in. She checks on Jason McIntire while working.
Port Edgerton Chronicles fans: it's night on spooky Cemetery Island, & (L to R) Jason McIntire, Virginia Josephson, Johnny Matthews, Allison "Ali" Halley, Horst Holz, & Virginia's sister, Lydia, are having a graduation party away from the crazies. An owl flying overhead has scared them.
August 2, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Port Edgerton Chronicles fans: it's night on spooky Cemetery Island, & (L to R) Jason McIntire, Virginia Josephson, Johnny Matthews, Allison "Ali" Halley, Horst Holz, & Virginia's sister, Lydia, are having a graduation party away from the crazies. An owl flying overhead has scared them.
In The Port Edgerton Chronicles, only Dr. William “Stretch” Zanzinger, PhD, can fix Shady Grove's problem. Called “the Frederick Olmsted of the Western Tier” for his award-winning landscape designs, Stretch teaches landscape architecture at Cornell. He's Peter Vandegelder's fraternity brother.
August 1, 2025 at 7:06 AM
In The Port Edgerton Chronicles, only Dr. William “Stretch” Zanzinger, PhD, can fix Shady Grove's problem. Called “the Frederick Olmsted of the Western Tier” for his award-winning landscape designs, Stretch teaches landscape architecture at Cornell. He's Peter Vandegelder's fraternity brother.
💙📚 #booksky Sigmund “Ziggy” Nowicki is the manager of Port Edgerton's Yacht Club Bait and Tackle Shop, which he runs for Vince and Judy Edgerton. He is also the DJ for WPRTlp FM’s The Big Barn Dance, featuring Appalachian music and bluegrass. That fact may have greater significance in future books.
July 31, 2025 at 8:22 AM
💙📚 #booksky Sigmund “Ziggy” Nowicki is the manager of Port Edgerton's Yacht Club Bait and Tackle Shop, which he runs for Vince and Judy Edgerton. He is also the DJ for WPRTlp FM’s The Big Barn Dance, featuring Appalachian music and bluegrass. That fact may have greater significance in future books.
💙📚 #booksky In The Port Edgerton Chronicles we meet Dr. Alexander Atchison.
Port Edgerton Hospital’s cardiovascular surgeon—and Maureen Atchison’s father—reviews his patient and friend, Brian Shultz’s, chart with disapproval.
Port Edgerton Hospital’s cardiovascular surgeon—and Maureen Atchison’s father—reviews his patient and friend, Brian Shultz’s, chart with disapproval.
July 30, 2025 at 7:30 AM
💙📚 #booksky In The Port Edgerton Chronicles we meet Dr. Alexander Atchison.
Port Edgerton Hospital’s cardiovascular surgeon—and Maureen Atchison’s father—reviews his patient and friend, Brian Shultz’s, chart with disapproval.
Port Edgerton Hospital’s cardiovascular surgeon—and Maureen Atchison’s father—reviews his patient and friend, Brian Shultz’s, chart with disapproval.
💙📚 #booksky Seen in both Port Edgerton books, Phillippe “Phil” Morrissette, who talks as much with his hands as his mouth, met Bob Shuster through their wives. They stayed in touch after Bob & Judy moved to Port Edgerton. When Bob needed a foreman, Phil & Monique moved up to join the Shusters.
July 29, 2025 at 8:17 AM
💙📚 #booksky Seen in both Port Edgerton books, Phillippe “Phil” Morrissette, who talks as much with his hands as his mouth, met Bob Shuster through their wives. They stayed in touch after Bob & Judy moved to Port Edgerton. When Bob needed a foreman, Phil & Monique moved up to join the Shusters.
💙📚 #booksky Shady Grove is key in both Port Edgerton books. Emil Gastineau, Bob Shuster’s paint crew foreman, creates its logo. The oldest of the Gastineaus, in his youth, he abandoned the family winemaking tradition to study art in Paris. He now uses his talents for things like the resort’s sign.
July 28, 2025 at 6:03 AM
💙📚 #booksky Shady Grove is key in both Port Edgerton books. Emil Gastineau, Bob Shuster’s paint crew foreman, creates its logo. The oldest of the Gastineaus, in his youth, he abandoned the family winemaking tradition to study art in Paris. He now uses his talents for things like the resort’s sign.
💙📚 #booksky One of the less-than-likable characters in The Port Edgerton Chronicles is Lars Dorfmann. Slothful deliveryman for Sevensen’s Sawmill, he was the school bully and the bane of the young Peter Vandegelder. At the Blizzard Party, he drunkenly berates Penelope for siding with Peter.
July 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
💙📚 #booksky One of the less-than-likable characters in The Port Edgerton Chronicles is Lars Dorfmann. Slothful deliveryman for Sevensen’s Sawmill, he was the school bully and the bane of the young Peter Vandegelder. At the Blizzard Party, he drunkenly berates Penelope for siding with Peter.
💙📚 #booksky Here's Port Edgerton Chronicle's Blizzard Party at Huffmeister's, where we find Lisa Von Amsterdam & Richard Kyle, the checkout clerks at the Port Edgerton Library. She works the Children’s Reading Room; he works the Adult Reading Room. Lisa is dismayed by the news from Richard.
July 25, 2025 at 3:30 AM
💙📚 #booksky Here's Port Edgerton Chronicle's Blizzard Party at Huffmeister's, where we find Lisa Von Amsterdam & Richard Kyle, the checkout clerks at the Port Edgerton Library. She works the Children’s Reading Room; he works the Adult Reading Room. Lisa is dismayed by the news from Richard.
💙📚 #booksky In The Port Edgerton Chronicles, famed Danish artist, Skanda, meets Henri Bergeron, owner of Today’s Man. A former Quebecer, he married a Port Edgerton vintner's daughter, whom he met in a Montreal college. They moved to Port Edgerton for her to run the business end of the family winery.
July 24, 2025 at 4:21 AM
💙📚 #booksky In The Port Edgerton Chronicles, famed Danish artist, Skanda, meets Henri Bergeron, owner of Today’s Man. A former Quebecer, he married a Port Edgerton vintner's daughter, whom he met in a Montreal college. They moved to Port Edgerton for her to run the business end of the family winery.
💙📚#booksky We meet him in both The Port Edgerton Chronicles & in Finding Home; it's Gavin Ferguson, Jake's son and Alana's younger brother. He too works at the Service Center. We see him undoing the tow chains from a gunmetal blue Jaguar XKE, whose driver ran into some trouble while driving nearby.
July 23, 2025 at 4:34 AM
💙📚#booksky We meet him in both The Port Edgerton Chronicles & in Finding Home; it's Gavin Ferguson, Jake's son and Alana's younger brother. He too works at the Service Center. We see him undoing the tow chains from a gunmetal blue Jaguar XKE, whose driver ran into some trouble while driving nearby.
💙📚 #booksky Port Edgerton's only gas station counts on Jake Ferguson's daughter, Alana, to handle its paperwork and bookkeeping, including any extra documents a customer might need. Pleasant, funny, and observant, we see her greeting Penelope, who is picking up her International Harvester Scout.
July 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
💙📚 #booksky Port Edgerton's only gas station counts on Jake Ferguson's daughter, Alana, to handle its paperwork and bookkeeping, including any extra documents a customer might need. Pleasant, funny, and observant, we see her greeting Penelope, who is picking up her International Harvester Scout.