Marshall Dodge was a well-known Maine

Maine

Maine is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost...

 humorist. He and his associate, Bob Bryan, put out several defining albums of Maine humor, starting with Bert & I

Bert & I

Bert & I is the name given to numerous collections of humor stories set in the "Down East" culture of traditional Maine. These stories were made famous and mostly written by the humorist storytelling team of Marshall Dodge and Bob Bryan in the 1950s and 1960s, and in later years through retellings...

, released in 1958. In 1964 he and Noel Parmentel

Noel Parmentel

Noel E. Parmentel, Jr., was a leading figure on the New York political journalism, literary, and cultural scene during the third quarter of the 20th Century....

 published (with accompanying LP record) a long-remembered parody of popular folk songs entitled Folk Songs for Conservatives.

In 1976, he founded the Maine Festival of the Arts at Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College , founded in 1794, is an elite private liberal arts college located in the coastal Maine town of Brunswick, Maine. As of 2011, U.S. News and World Report ranks Bowdoin 6th among liberal arts colleges in the United States. At times, it was ranked as high as 4th in the country. It is...

. In a 1979 interview, Dodge claimed that his real love was philosophy

Philosophy

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, and that he was writing a book on the subject.

He died in a hit-and-run accident in 1982 in Waimea, Hawaii

Waimea, Hawaii

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