Peter Imber

I’ve lived in Maine since 2010 with my wife Jo Dondis. She was born here. I’m from away. I grew up in Pennsylvania and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1969. After landing my first job out of college at CBS News and beginning a career in television news I left after two years and went to live on a kibbutz in Israel. I plowed fields, milked cows, got married (the first time) and served in the Israeli army.

I wound my way back to video work in Israel and returned to the United States in 1979 to attend film school at UCLA. In 1983 I was hired as a videotape editor in the Los Angeles Bureau of ABC News and after a few years I became a producer for ABC News broadcasts, including World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and Nightline with Ted Koppel.

I covered the Los Angeles riots in the wake of the Rodney King beating, the O.J. Simpson trial, the Columbine school shooting, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos, wildfires, earthquakes and presidential campaigns. Along the way my work was nominated for National News Emmys four times, winning once and I received a DuPont-Columbia and a National Press Club Award.

In Camden I became a volunteer with the Camden Conference and am a past president of the Conference. I have also taught courses at local senior colleges and have lectured on television news as well as the history of the television sitcom.

Since April 1st I have been composing a daily cartoon and sharing it with friends as well as commentaries and personal stories. I don’t know when I’ll stop but the well hasn’t run dry yet.