Several of us have known Dennis for over 20 years. It is hard to
describe everything that makes up a person on a webpage, but here is
some information about Dennis anyway.
Independent filmmakers Richard Searls and Molly O'Neill have produced a
17 minute tape of excerpts from an interview with Dennis in prison on
22 March 2004. If all goes well, they plan to produce a quality,
independent film.
The 36 Megabyte video clip can be viewed with Apple's Quicktime (which
works on PCs or Macs) or other video viewing software. The file
is large, so this option is realistically only available for those
with broadband Internet connections. Click
here for video. Quicktime can be downloaded here.
If you want to see the entire video and want to see the VHS version,
contact Trial and Error about borrowing a copy. If you would like
just the audio from the clip, click here for the audio from the video clip. If you just
want to see Dennis' words, click here for the transcript
of the video.
From
Madawaska friend, Steve Young: "He ended up at Western Washington
University in Bellingham, Washington and majored in French literature."
Dennis was living in Bellingham and I was in Nova Scotia so I wrote
Dennis about moving to the West and Dennis set me up with a place to
stay where my job, in return for room and board, was feeding horses on
a ranch. Dennis did that before me"
"Dennis was living with Nancy at that time and met her in Washington.
When Dennis was in Washington, he had a business mowing lawns and huge
list of clients. They were thrilled to have him. While I was in
Washington, I did lawn some lawn work for him. When leaving Washington
to return to Maine, Dennis sold the business to someone else (basically
a list of customers)"
"Dennis liked bicycling and bicycle touring of British Columbia. One
time, I spent some part of the summer of 1982 in British Columbia in a
tent. Nancy and Dennis and Nancy's sister, Becky, drove up to B.C. and
visited with me. I was picking apples and pears in the Okinagan Valley,
between coast and Rockies." (all paragraphs above from telephone
interview with Steve, February 2003)
"Toured throughout the North West inthe Summer of 1980 - Washington,
Oregon, British Columbia. Great time!" (letter from Dennis Dechaine, 22
February 2003)
