Even in death, former Maine radio personality and humorist Robert Skoglund of St. George has continued to entertain.
Skoglund, who was best known for his radio show “The humble Farmer,” died on Saturday at the age of 88. Also on that day, his friend Gary Crocker posted a video on Facebook that Skoglund had recorded before his death, calling it “my friend Robert Skoglund’s brief obituary.”
“Hi there, I’m Robert Skoglund, the humble Farmer, and I just died,” Skoglund says, while looking directly into the camera and smiling.
The humorist then dons a towel as a headscarf and pretends to be a woman talking on the phone about his death, saying it wasn’t cancer that killed him, but “public opinion.”
“I heard they’re gonna smoke him,” Skoglund said in the video, while still in character. “Yeah, he always was a ham.”
He ends the video as himself, saying, “I’m the humble Farmer, and I approve this message. Thank you for watching.”
Skoglund’s radio show aired on Maine Public Radio from 1978 to 2007. He was also a musician who played piano, clarinet and bass, and spoke multiple languages. In 2008, he started a “humble Farmer” television show that was broadcast on community access stations around Maine and as far away as Oklahoma and Wisconsin.
