HEBRON — Harold Brooks is changing his beer tent at the Redneck “Blank” Pig Roast and Music Fest to a veterans tent for a barbecue and fundraiser. The founder and organizer of the four-day festival has also replaced his traditional Confederate battle flag with a red, white and blue flag for the eighth annual event […]
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Redneck ‘Blank’ to help vets this year
HEBRON —Harold Brooks is changing his Redneck beer tent into a veterans tent. The founder and organizer of the Redneck “Blank” Pig Roast and Music Fest has not only changed out the beer tent, but he has replaced his traditional Rebel flag with a red, white and blue flag as he prepares for the 8th […]
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Minot couple buys Evergreen Valley Ski Resort
STONEHAM – The former Evergreen Valley Ski Resort has been sold. Harold Brooks of Hebron confirmed Monday that the 260-acre property was sold to his sister Tina Gilliuan and her husband, Ray, of Minot. According to the Oxford County Registry of Deeds, it was purchased from Bob Bahre and his wife, Sandra, of Paris, on […]
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Harold Brooks sets sight on Stoneham
Harold Brooks sits in the driver’s seat of a former Army truck he used in the Zombie Invasion Farm Ride on his property in Hebron in 2015. STONEHAM — Harold Brooks likes to dream big. The 50-year-old grandfather, contractor, entrepreneur, businessman and organizer of multiple mass-gathering events, including the Redneck Blank, Pig Roast and Music […]
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Haunted hayrides ride the line between scary and safety
Last fall, Peter Ricker debuted Nightmare on the Ridge at Wallingford’s Fruit House in Auburn, a haunted hayride frightfest with chain saws, cackling women and ample ooze and splatter. Ricker has ditched Nightmare’s tractors and wagons. This season — the first after a Maine teenager was killed in a hayride crash in a nearby town […]
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Redneck Blank organizer to host zombie-invasion ride
HEBRON — Harold Brooks, organizer of the Redneck Blank Pig Roast and Music Festival that has drawn some 2,000 people to his 200-acre farm in Hebron for the past five years, is now bringing something a little different — and a lot scarier — to his farm. During the month of October, running every Friday […]
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‘Redneck Blank’ hops foreclosure
HEBRON — Not even foreclosure can stop the rednecks. Days after half of his land was taken in foreclosure, Harold Brooks — organizer, construction worker and a man who dreamt up the largest gathering of rednecks in Maine — said he intends to pay his property tax bill to keep the Redneck Blank alive. Formerly […]
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Punishing thunderstorm sets off third year of Redneck ‘Blank’ in Hebron
HEBRON — A ferocious thunderstorm turned the sprawling grounds of the Redneck “Blank” Pig Roast and Music Festival into a flooded morass Friday. As sunshine broke through the storm clouds, hundreds emerged from their campsites and the main stage sound system started blaring Don McLean’s “American Pie” across the farm of Harold Brooks. Some drivers took […]