Sunday, March 19, 2006
You just roll around Denver all day...
Maybe I'll just quote pop songs for the next few entries...I couldn't help thinking of Warren Zevon when I flew in to Denver tonight, since I might end up dead in the water here. A nasty late winter storm has shut down I-70 tonight, so I guess I'm going to have to wait and see what I can do in the morning. I was planning on getting on the road really early, but that doesn't look like an option.
I've got a big ugly Jeep 4x4...what an awful car. I learned how to drive in a 67 Jeep Commando, and that thing was better designed than the 4x4. My only consolation is that it will get me through to Norcatur if the roads are anywhere near decent.
Leaving WV this morning I was thinking about home a lot. The west end of the Salt Lake valley, which is heavy into mining and industry, was what I kept thinking about when I was tooling around Montgomery and up into the holler with Wanda and her granddaughter on Saturday. The downtown made me think of State Street in SLC, and how it was hollowed out. Perhaps that is one of the other intriguing things about Cornerstone: the more you travel in a Cornerstone mode (meeting the people, meeting the people through the plays), the more every place is like home.
I've got a big ugly Jeep 4x4...what an awful car. I learned how to drive in a 67 Jeep Commando, and that thing was better designed than the 4x4. My only consolation is that it will get me through to Norcatur if the roads are anywhere near decent.
Leaving WV this morning I was thinking about home a lot. The west end of the Salt Lake valley, which is heavy into mining and industry, was what I kept thinking about when I was tooling around Montgomery and up into the holler with Wanda and her granddaughter on Saturday. The downtown made me think of State Street in SLC, and how it was hollowed out. Perhaps that is one of the other intriguing things about Cornerstone: the more you travel in a Cornerstone mode (meeting the people, meeting the people through the plays), the more every place is like home.
Saturday, March 18, 2006
Almost Heaven.
Well, I know it's the cliche, but being in West Virginia right on the edge of spring is almost heaven. The hills are full of bare branches, and the jagged slate walls along the side of the country roads are wet with runoff, but in the hollows and the flats all those cherry and pear and dogwood trees are popping with blossoms. Still, I guess "heaven" would be sometime right about the end of September or beginning of October.
I had a great day talking to four of Cornerstone's community partners, starting with Wanda and Jamie, and then including Dyann Similie and Jesse Johnson. I've got the pictures and the video, but alas can't upload any at the moment.
I heard a great part of the story that I haven't so far: the many plays that happened AFTER Cornerstone headed west. It's an issue that a lot of people in the Cornerstone I know (the one that's taken root in LA) are concerned about: nice to know it worked here.
I had a great day talking to four of Cornerstone's community partners, starting with Wanda and Jamie, and then including Dyann Similie and Jesse Johnson. I've got the pictures and the video, but alas can't upload any at the moment.
I heard a great part of the story that I haven't so far: the many plays that happened AFTER Cornerstone headed west. It's an issue that a lot of people in the Cornerstone I know (the one that's taken root in LA) are concerned about: nice to know it worked here.
Friday, March 17, 2006
On the Road...
I've gotten to Charleston after a day that made me pine for air travel of yore. Man they have gotten good at packing us in and picking us clean...ah well.
I've got a day in Montgomery tommorrow and I'm lined up to interview Wanda (Daniels) Folden, her daughter Jamie, and a couple of other people...still working out details for Jesse Johnson and Dyann Simile. What a great name: that's probably got to be my first question.
Sunday is a travel day (flying to Denver), then Monday I'm meeting Ron Temple at the Cardinal Cafe in Norcatur. Apparently he's going to hook me up with a few folks. And then Tuesday early I'm back in Denver for a flight home.
It's strange to go back to a past I know so much about but have so little experience with. A little eerie, I'd say. I've had that experience talking to people on some of the docs I have done, like all the jazz men and women I talked to around Lionel Hampton, or the vets I talkd to about Tet or the Viet Cong, or the designers I talked to who made all those movies come alive. Memory is an interesting place to be a tourist in....
I've got a day in Montgomery tommorrow and I'm lined up to interview Wanda (Daniels) Folden, her daughter Jamie, and a couple of other people...still working out details for Jesse Johnson and Dyann Simile. What a great name: that's probably got to be my first question.
Sunday is a travel day (flying to Denver), then Monday I'm meeting Ron Temple at the Cardinal Cafe in Norcatur. Apparently he's going to hook me up with a few folks. And then Tuesday early I'm back in Denver for a flight home.
It's strange to go back to a past I know so much about but have so little experience with. A little eerie, I'd say. I've had that experience talking to people on some of the docs I have done, like all the jazz men and women I talked to around Lionel Hampton, or the vets I talkd to about Tet or the Viet Cong, or the designers I talked to who made all those movies come alive. Memory is an interesting place to be a tourist in....
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Travel Plans Set
OK...I've got an itinerary, and alas I will not be in Port Gibson...three locations just got to be too many. At this point it's...
March 17 ... fly to West Virginia
March 18 in Montgomery, WV
March 19 ... fly to Denver
March 20 in Norcatur, KS
March 21 return to LA
March 17 ... fly to West Virginia
March 18 in Montgomery, WV
March 19 ... fly to Denver
March 20 in Norcatur, KS
March 21 return to LA
