Resumé / BioKen Gidge has been A champion flagpole sitter (see The Guinness Book of World Records 1974)
• The last person married in 1969 and the first person married on an airplane at the same occasion
• The last Santa Claus at Lord and Taylor in Boston (this has got to tell you something)
• , Appeared on To Tell the Truth, and many years later as political pundit for channel 9 NH TV, currently appearing on Channel 96 Nashua Cable - the ART of Politics
• A restaurateur, owner of Barnaby's (nightclub) Mrs. Patent's chicken , Edison's (convenience store and luncheonette)
• A published poet,
• A Business Broker,
• The inventor of Frigididoor/LeDoor - energy saving plastic doors marketed worldwide, Inventor of a boomerang Frisbee
• CEO of Cheers Auto and Trucks Sale
• The Radio Talk Show host of Night Orange- interview politicians, artists, inventors and created mockumentaries and parody news reports.
• Host to the National Inventor's Award presented to the youngest inventors Curtis Lawson 9 and Lewis Barton 14) see Video Showcase Dec 28 1982 presented by President Bush Senior, note: this was the unrecognized spark for the Children's competition - Oddest of the Mind)
• New Hampshire State representative for 3 terms so far
• An artist who discovered a new form of art Gidge 3D
• Owner of the largest community Pollack style painting 56 by 8 feet
56 feet -- by 8 feet.