Meet Dan

Here is a little information about me that might be interesting.

Professional: In addition to my work with Yaeger Communications, I have served as CEO and CMO for several organizations including the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation (Waltham, MA), Down East Publishing/Show Division (Camden, ME), Yankee Publishing/Best of New England Vacations (Dublin, NH), Massachusetts Tourism Coalition (Boston), and the Merrimack Valley Convention & Visitors Bureau (Lowell, MA).

Education: I graduated from Gettysburg College with a B.A. in Philosophy/Art/English and received my master’s degree from Harvard with a concentration in Ethics. I have been a Fellow and Guest Lecturer at Brown University, and currently teach a class called Road Trip: The Automobile, Tourist Traps, and Modern America at Tufts University. (See my blog articles on “Road Archaeology” for more on this fascinating subject.)

Writing: My freelance writing credits include World Monitor, Yankee, Museum News, Industry, Boston Business Journal, St. Louis Business Journal, Lynn Item, Swampscott Reporter, and Boston Globe.

Civic: I live in Swampscott, Massachusetts, a (more or less) peaceful seaside town about 15 miles north of Boston. I’ve gotten my brush with local politics during a six-year stint as an elected public official on the Swampscott School Committee, during which time we raised the funds ($56 million) and built the town’s first new high school in 109 years.

Hidden Talents: Cartooning/illustration, piano, fly fishing, cooking, soccer coaching.

Extracurricular Passion: Road archaeology — a term I coined (as far as I know) to describe the study of roadside culture. This started as an informal appreciation of driving two-lane highways in a convertible. Now it’s become a borderline obsession, as I seek to chronicle the story of vanishing roads across America. I’m now teaching on the subject at Tufts University and have several projects in the works that will hopefully result in some solid scholarship. Stay tuned.