ROCKLAND — This Friday, May 6, radio station WRFR, 93.3 FM, and Rockland's Old School will host Ed Glaser, former Rockland Harbormaster. Glaser will participate in a broadcast interview from 4 to 5 p.m. on the Rockland Metro show, and then join an Old School dinner symposium beginning at 5:30 p.m. The question for the symposium will be "is a sense of community entirely organic, or can it be 'artificially' encouraged?".

Ed Glaser was born in New York and summered with his grandparents in Martinsville. While in high school, he worked backstage at the Newport Folk Festival and met all of his idols. He went to Bates College in Lewiston and took a year off and worked for a short time with Thos Moser building furniture in New Gloucester, and with Lance Lee at the Apprenticeshop in Bath. After College, he came to Rockland and worked as crew on the schooner Isaac H. Evans, and worked at the North End Shipyard rebuilding the schooner Lewis R. French. He spent the next few years crewing on schooners and working on boats till he left and went to work as a house carpenter for a few years. He worked on the building of the schooner Heritage and sailed on the Clearwater in New York till he bought the schooner Isaac Evans and ran her for 16 years. He spent about six years on the William McLoon delivering petroleum products to the local Maine Islands and left to serve as Harbormaster for the city of Rockland for the last 12 years. He's back to being a boat carpenter for a while, and still looking for his next adventure, and taking suggestions.

WRFR's Rockland Metro show each week invites a guest to bring a unique perspective on life in and around Rockland. Guests on the show are invited also to participate as special guests at an Old School dinner symposium following the show.

Dinner symposia at the Old School are free and open to the public. Participation in each symposium is limited to twelve, so participants must reserve their place in advance. Participants must also be ready to help. The dinner is prepared and served — and the dishes washed — in collaboration by the participants. To reserve a place at the table for this Friday's dinner symposium with Ed Glaser, interested persons are invited to contact Joe Steinberger at joe@interhuman.org

Further information about WRFR visit wrfr.org and for the Old School, visit oldschoolrockland.org.