Song of the Saco with John Perrault

The Saco River rises in Crawford Notch, NH and runs—sometimes meanders—136 miles to Saco Bay—where it flows out and around Wood Island Light. (You know, that tiny speck of light Winslow Homer painted from his perch on Prout’s Neck.) Wood Island is just off the tip of East Point at Biddeford Pool, Maine.

This presentation celebrates the Saco and all rivers that are the life blood of this land. A land under enormous stress due to development, pollution, and a warming climate tipping too close to the edge.

Author, poet, songwriter and balladeer, former Portsmouth Poet Laureate John Perrault reads, recites and sings poems and songs—from Wordsworth to Whitman, Dickinson to Dylan, and beyond—plus originals (e.g. “Saco River Song,” “Carbon the Garden,” “Walk by the River”) dedicated to the precious rivers and landscapes—material and spiritual—that water our lives.