SULLIVAN HARBOR – Curtis Skolfield Robinson, 60, passed away suddenly Dec. 17, 2011, at his home. Curt was born Nov. 7, 1951, son of the late Samuel and Peggy Robinson, also of Sullivan; and grandson of Dr. Daniel Arthur Robinson, who helped start Eastern Maine Medical Center, Bangor.
In 1972 Curt graduated from Ohio State University with degrees in American literature and creative writing. From there his inner nomad took him on voyages across the world from the Sahara Desert to Woodstock Music Festival. 1974 found him in New York City, where he started his career as a marketing director for HBO, paving the way for a promotion to director of sales/marketing with the nation’s largest cable company, Tele-Communications Inc., Denver. In 1984 Curt and his family moved to Phoenix to work for Dimension Cable before starting Thistle Productions, a marketing/production company. 1992 brought the family to Sullivan, with hopes of a Northeast upstart for Thistle Productions. In Sullivan, Robinson wrote a multitude of works, simultaneously publishing his own crossword puzzles. The Beach Boys said it best, “God only knows what I’d be without you,” for Curt instilled in his kids his love of music and literature. Our memories of Curt will always show him blaring Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon” on the many road trips we took, as well as the woods we walked, the dogs we loved and the pools we swam – the world he showed us. Curt was an intellectual, a freethinker and an innovator, but above all he was dad to Kyle, Ali and Hart Robinson.
A celebration of Curt’s life, and his father, Sam’s as well, will be held later this year at the family’s home in Sullivan Harbor.
“Never do anything in life for only one reason, except love.”
– CS Robinson
“Though it is now dark, the wind still blows and roars
in the wood. The waves still dash, and some creatures
lull the rest with their notes.
The repose is never complete.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“And to all the good people that have traveled with you, here’s to the hearts and the hands of a man, that come with the dust and are gone with the wind I’m leaving
tomorrow but could leave
today, somewhere down the road someday, very last
thing that I’d want to do,
Is to say I’ve been hittin’
some hard traveling too.”
– Bob Dylan