I am Gerrish -- and this is my 3xperiment . . . .

Season 3

Aug. 15, 2021

TOM BRAULT = PILLARS LX

Tom is a PILLAR -- there is no doubt. With Tom's vim and vigor, guts and gumption we give the Salty Dog Classic it's proper due. We talk about the history of the tourney and about fathers & sons and about Peyton (our young ...
Aug. 6, 2021

SALTY CONVERSATION with LINNY LYNCH = PILLARS LIX

The Salty Dog will turn 16 tomorrow. At the time, I was 23 years old and Linda 21 years young. We sit back in Studio East to talk memories of the DOG. We tells stories and talk history and charity and the beginnings of the...
July 30, 2021

JULIE ZETLIN = PILLAR LVII

Julie is an Olympian!!! Julie represented herself, family, and country in the 2012 Olympics in London. Julie has always loved to dance and that is most likely why rhythmic dance was her Olympic thang!!! Julie is local and h...
July 22, 2021

PILLARS LVI -- PHILIP LECUYER

Philip and I have not had much interaction, but sometimes not much is needed to connect. I have been a gadfly on the St. John's campus ever since graduating from their masters program some 10 years ago. Philip has been a tu...
July 19, 2021

PILLARS LV -- BRET LUBOYESKI!!!

Bret and I have known each other for 11 years. We met at St. John's College in Santa Fe where he was studying the great thinkers of the ancient East and I was attempting those of the West. Bret still lives in Santa Fe with ...
July 1, 2021

PILLARS LIV -- LUKE MCCALEB!!!

Luke is a stud. Luke attended Mater Dei, Gonzaga, Brown. From a boy and before that perhaps from his father, Luke's number one love was football. From MapleWood to MD to Gonzaga -- Luke played football and lacrosse and ex...
June 29, 2021

PILLARS LIII -- JOSE ORTEGA!!!

Jose is a rising senior at Georgetown Prep who is a phenomenal young man who happens to be very good at soccer. Jose recently committed to attend Duke University as a student-athlete, but before that Mater Dei helped Jose fo...
June 25, 2021

PILLARS LII -- ALEX THOMAS!!!

Alex Thomas recently married Maggie Davis who happens to be the sister of my beautiful fiance, Debbie!!! Alex has become a fast friend because we both enjoy literature (we talk Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Melville, Tim O'Brien), Ph...
June 23, 2021

PILLARS LI -- TERRY LINDSAY!!!

Terry went to Mater Dei, Prep, Duke, where he played lacrosse and captained the team -- sounds like a familiar path, but what is more is that at the end of Independence Month he is off to Coronado, CA for the first step towar...
June 17, 2021

PILLARS L -- FATHER JOHN!!!

Monsignor John Ensler has always preferred Father John. He says there have been so many good priests who have not been given this title, and I believe this to be true. But I have also had the thought that is it because Fath...
June 15, 2021

PILLARS XLIX -- ALYSSA CRILLEY!!!

Alyssa sold me my house and has help sell many of my neighbors their homes. Alyssa lives a street over here in the mean-streets of the "Hamlet" -- my home since high school, and has earned herself quite the prominent status ...
June 10, 2021

PILLARS XLVIII -- JOHN RAILEY!!!

John is a Mater Dei Griffin, Georgetown Prep Hoya, and Loyola Greyhound, and he recent has placed the stick and cleats in the closet, but not before helping lead the 'Hounds into the quarterfinals of the NCAA lacrosse tourna...
June 8, 2021

PILLARS XLVII -- MATTY "HP" THOMPSON

Matty Thompson is tearing it up on the lacrosse field of High Point University -- but a little differently than you may think. There is a story about a UNC football player who was about to hang up the cleats mid-career when ...
June 6, 2021

PILLARS XLVI -- WILL "the thrill" GIBLIN

I taught Will Giblin 1st grade PE and 8th grade history -- not in the same year -- and Will says that was the only class he says that he fell asleep in -- not in the PE!!! Other than the nap, Will and I have always got along...
June 2, 2021

PILLARS XLV -- GAIL LYNCH!!!

I have known Gail as long as I have known Henry. I have known Henry as long as he has known Linda. And I have truly known my sister as long as Henry and Linda have been in love -- and that has been a finger-licking long and...
May 30, 2021

PILLARS XLIV -- FENELLA CUNNINGHAM!!!

FENELLA is founder and leading principle of Fenella's Finds -- which is an online, instagram-based consignment marketplace. As FaceBook Marketplace has grown too large, Fenella steps in and offers you a more intimate, genuin...
May 27, 2021

PILLARS XLIII -- MARSHALL MEISEL!!!

Marshall was a great Griffin at MD and he is a senior at the brink of graduation from the school of Eye Street -- GONZAGA!!! Marshall picked up lacrosse quite young, and it was in his seventh grade year that he felt a pull t...
May 25, 2021

PILLARS XLII -- JUSTIN CLARK!!!

Justin came to Mater Dei in 6th grade and he was instantly liked and respected. In competitive arenas, Justin excelled in the classroom and on the athletic fields. He went on to Georgetown Prep where he did just the same -...