A Note About the Author of The Best of Bernie’s Beat: Volume 2, Stories, Interviews & Images of American Courage

Author and The Bridge Weekly newspaper columnist Bernie Marvin of Piermont is an accomplished photojournalist and former US Marine Combat Photographer for Leatherneck Magazine. He has written these stories and interviews (and included a dozen photographs) in his new book, The Best of Bernie’s Beat: Volume 2, Stories, Interviews and Images of American Courage.

His new book highlights the lives and experiences of veterans living in the North Country of New Hampshire and Vermont. This is a strong blend of historic and untold experiences and memoirs from grunts, sailors, airmen, and others familiar with a C-Rat can of ham ‘n claymores or a dose of beef n’ boulders sweetened off with a bar of mushy no-melt tropical chocolate. His material is engaging and historically interesting, presented with a Jarhead’s sense of honor and admiration for his fellow veterans.

Many of Bernie’s stories have been written around his writings during a 15-year stint as the Senior Writer/Photographer at The Bridge Weekly newspaper and interesting life experiences before that. While the public eagerly reads what Bernie has to offer on many fronts, his military stories are known to be some of the most favored among his readers.

Bernie started in his chosen craft of writing stories and shooting photographs as a kid in grade school and before he knew it, he was behind his three twin-lens Rollei cameras in the Middle East shooting and documenting Marine Corps landings there. His work has appeared in Leatherneck Magazine and a host of other nationally published books and newspapers. He has covered a lot of hostile, dangerous assignments there and elsewhere. His life has also included his later experiences as a firefighter. police officer and emergency management director in the small towns of Haverhill and Piermont, New Hampshire. Earlier, he had founded several local community newspapers and is now setting down the opening chapters of his third book, this one on his experiences and challenging tales of four years in the Marine Corps.