Ronn Cabaniol ’68
Ronn Cabaniol ’68, a former English major who taught American lit and drama for 35 years, has recently published his first novel on Amazon’s Kindle: Journey from Blue: the Life and Times of a Baby Boomer, and his days at KSC in the 60s have a big part in it. The story “is a memoir that I wrote in the third person giving the main characters fictional names,” Cabaniol explained. “Almost everything in the novel is true, probably about 95 percent. Besides my wonderfully adventurous four years at KSC from 1964 to 1968, there are other parts of the novel about Keene when we moved back for a year in 1985 when I was a reporter at WKNE and published a short story with Yankee Mag called “The Monadnock Roar,” which can be found on the magazine’s website under “Classics.” We also lived in Peterborough in 1976 and several notable New Hampshire celebs play a part there. If you go into the Keene State archives, you should find that I drew a popular cartoon in the school paper for many years called “Roscoe.”
Cabaniol has already followed his first novel with a second, Forgotten Angels, which is set around Buzzards Bay and is also available for Kindle.
