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I didn’t know what to expect the first time I visited the Ava Gardner Museum in Smithfield, North Carolina. I had moved to North Carolina from the West Coast only a week before but I knew who Ava Gardner was and I was intrigued that she had been born and raised in rural North Carolina. My grandfather talked about her as his favorite actress and pinup during his pilot days in World War II. I was just sure that the museum would not be much more than a bunch of movie posters hanging on a wall and maybe a costume or two that they had managed to get their hands on. I was unprepared for the hidden jewel I was about to discover.
When you first approach Johnston County, you might take in the large expanse of tobacco fields and hog farms and think it has some scenic pastoral beauty. The word glamorous might elude you unless you were already familiar with its most famous resident Cinderella. In 1941, a small-town North Carolina girl named Ava Gardner ventured into Hollywood. By 1946, she was a breakout success and her name would become synonymous with the sultry glamour of Golden Age Hollywood. Two failed marriages with some of the biggest names in entertainment preceded her initial career success, and at the height of her career she would become embroiled in a shocking scandal for her romance with and eventual marriage to the most famous crooner of all time, Frank Sinatra. Their legendary passion lasted on and off until her death in January 1990 and the notoriety caused by their romance never escaped Ava. She eventually would relocate to Spain and finally to London in order to gain privacy, but she always came home to where her roots were in Smithfield.
Ava Gardner is still listed as the twenty-fifth most popular actress of all time by the American Film Institute, and she continues to have fans all over the world. For casual and dedicated fans alike, Smithfield has become a mecca for Ava Gardner cinephiles. Certainly the most famous person to emerge from the Smithfield area and perhaps all of North Carolina, Gardner is a point of pride for the local community, who nearly all claim some tie or another to her. Not only is the Ava Gardner Museum located in the county seat, but her homestead, the Heritage Trail of significant sites, and even her gravesite are within short driving distance. Yet, as the years pass, a few questions are repeated: How can you keep Ava Gardner relevant to modern audiences? What makes people want to visit? How long will the museum be sustainable? In order to understand the vision of the Ava Gardner Museum, it is important to understand its history and the progress it has made since it first opened its doors in the 1980s.
The museum had the most humble of origins: it was the brainchild of a young Wilson boy named Tom Banks, who never quite got over the enchantment of a quick smooch Ava had given him in jest during her college days at Atlantic Christian College (now Barton College). As a result he accumulated memorabilia over his lifetime, through an apprenticeship on one of Ava’s films, and even a friendship (mostly through writing) with Ava herself. Dr. Tom Banks eventually moved to Florida and married his wife Lorraine, who helped manage his collection. In 1979, Dr. Banks took his collection on a small traveling exhibit to Smithfield for three days. The community seemed receptive to the artifacts. At one point, Dr. Banks considered leaving the vast collection to a large university. Although, it is said that Ava told him that if a museum dedicated to her belonged anywhere, it belonged in her hometown. Dr. Banks purchased one of Ava’s local childhood homes, the Brogden Teacherage, located just outside Smithfield in 1981. The Teacherage was a little more than structure and facade due to a fire and required a serious amount of remodeling. Doris Rollins Cannon, the editor of the local newspaper, the Smithfield Herald, and a museum volunteer who collaborated with the Banks to open the museum, explains in her book Grabtown Girl: Ava Gardner’s North Carolina Childhood and Her Enduring Ties to Home that the museum was not in an ideal location and people would spend hours in the countryside trying to find it. At the time, and because it was run by volunteers, the museum was only open seasonally and for limited hours. Cannon relates how one evening in 1985 Ava and her sisters attempted to visit the museum. When they found it locked, someone suggested they call a volunteer to come open it. Ava declined, saying that she knew what was in there because she had lived it.
Unfortunately, Tom Banks died unexpectedly in 1989. A year later, Lorraine donated the collection to the Town of Smithfield on the condition that they would always provide a home for it. It went on display in 1991 at a South Third Street location in downtown Smithfield. According to various Board members, the building was not an ideal place and was a curator’s absolute nightmare. Testimonials described it as an “attic” with leaky roofs, silverfish, and moths, and to my abject horror, people were even allowed to try on some of Ava’s clothing! Another disaster caused the building to be uninhabitable and the collection took temporary refuge in a church building down the street. In 1996, the museum was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and various fundraising campaigns took place to help the museum find a permanent home.
In 2000, the collection moved to its permanent and current location. The hundred-year-old building has been upgraded and retrofitted into a gallery-style setup, complete with exhibit cases, a library, and even a theater that can seat up to fifty people. The space consists of 6,500 square feet, and the archive holds an estimated 150,000 different artifacts. The museum continues to upgrade as finances permit and is dependent on visitation, purchases, grants, donations, and the generosity of Ava advocates. The museum’s artifact collections hold a staggering amount of photographs, films, paintings and sketches, correspondence, sculpture, clothing and accessories, household items, and even some bric-a-brac. Of course, one of the most unique things about the museum is its collection of Albrecht Pfeiffer paintings, three of which hung in Ava’s London apartment until her death. Pfeiffer was a Dutch artist who fell in love with Ava after seeing her in One Touch of Venus in 1948. Every year from then on, he painted a different portrait of Ava. He adored her, and his paintings are widely regarded as the most well done of Ava ever. Many of them feature whimsical touches, such as a mouse running up her arm, a table with no legs, and even Pfeiffer’s photo in a locket she is holding in the portrait. Although they do not exist in every painting, these “Easter eggs” are a fan favorite for guests who enjoy trying to identify them in a Where’s Waldo? fashion. Sadly, Pfeiffer never got the chance to meet his adored Ava, but after his death, his estate willed the remainder of his Ava paintings to the museum according to his wishes. These paintings are rotated periodically to ensure that return visitors see something new every time they visit.
Film star museums have a notorious reputation for being just a room full of old movie posters and tacky mementos of the bygone era of greatness in Hollywood. The most frequent comments we get from visitors are their astonishment at how well done the museum showcase is and the diversity of artifacts we have on display. Moreover, they are surprised about Ava’s connections to other stars such as Lena Horne, Princess Grace of Monaco, and of course the love of Ava’s life, Frank Sinatra. A short film educates guests before they walk through the remainder of the museum on a self-guided tour, ending in the library where Ava’s personal books and many of the Pfeiffer paintings are hanging. A new exhibit premieres every October, which is also the anniversary of the museum’s opening at the current location in 2000. Past exhibits have included loans from Debbie Reynolds for a Show Boat and Mogambo exhibit. Other exhibits have included artifacts related to Ava’s friendships with Lena Horne and Gregory Peck. The current exhibit is called “Ava’s Closet” and features the largest collection of Ava’s personal clothing and accessories ever put on display. The main case houses evening wear, day wear, and intimate wear. The most stunning showpiece is a unique pink and white tiara that Ava wore to many formal occasions and was recently donated to the museum by Ava’s friend and personal assistant, Carmen Vargas. The museum relies on the generosity of family, friends, and collectors of Ava’s belongings in order to add more artifacts to the collection. Some items have been purchased from private collectors and auctions; however, the museum’s resources as a non-profit museum often make those ventures cost prohibitive.
Ava was once regarded as one of the most famous women in the world and was dubbed “the world’s most beautiful animal” after the tagline from her film The Barefoot Contessa (1954). People often associate her with her three famous husbands: Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra. Her close friendships with Hollywood greats like John Huston, Gregory Peck, Lena Horne, Lana Turner, Howard Hughes, and many others are also points of interest for many visitors. Her hometown roots can be explored further by picking up a copy of the Ava Gardner Heritage Trail and visiting places in the community that were significant in Ava’s life. Ava is laid to rest in the cemetery just one mile down the street from the museum. What is left of her legacy is proudly displayed at the museum under neon lights where some people are lucky to meet members of her family and hear personal stories not written in any books. While some people wonder how a museum can keep a vintage film star relevant to modern audiences, the museum is proof that Ava is still doing pretty well for herself thanks to retro-nostalgia, cinematic studies, and the fact that some things just never go out of style. Tom and Lorraine Banks had a vision of honoring Ava and her accomplishments and together with the help of Doris Cannon and many other volunteers, their love and admiration for Ava Gardner is what makes this museum truly unique and unparalleled. The evolution of the museum’s mission continues to be a remarkable one.
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12 Famous NC Women on our list represent a cross-section of entertainers, pioneers, and politicians. Many of the uninitiated think of the South and North Carolina as home to the provincial and polite, hardly a breeding ground for big thinking, however the Raleigh Durham area and North Carolina are home to some of the brightest and most notable women of our time. This list includes some contemporary notable women and the most famous. Some were born in North Carolina, and some CHOSE North Carolina as their home. If you are choosing North Carolina as your home, contact My NC Homes today to start your home search.
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou was not born in North Carolina but called North Carolina home and her presence was formative in North Carolina, and the United States. She taught and was celebrated at Wake Forest University and lived in Winston-Salem. Angelou was a civil rights activist, actress, prolific writer, and role model, nominated for Grammys, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Gertrude Weil
Born in Goldsboro, Gertrude Weil was a social reform pioneer, one of the most famous suffragettes, and a humanitarian. She was heavily involved in getting women the vote and also in establishing foreign student scholarships at UNC. Weil was also involved in civil rights and promoted interfaith and interracial parks, pools, and held integrated meetings promoting numerous causes, locally and nationally.
Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore was born Julie Anne Smith at Fort Bragg North Carolina and is one of the most well-known actresses of our time. Winner of an academy award, two Golden Globes, and two Emmy Awards, she is also known as one of Time Magazines 100 Most Influential People in the World. The Hunger Games, Magnolia, The Hours, Jurassic Park, and more, she has starred, co-starred, or appeared in dozens of films with some of the most famous directors of all time.
Nina Simone
Eunice Waymon was born in Tyron, North Carolina, and originally aspired to be a concert pianist, but became so much more. Professionally known as, Nina Simone, Waymon was a civil rights activist, and prolific songwriter, performer, and musician, whose music and influence transcended more barriers than musical. She attended Julliard in New York City and started performing in Atlantic City as Nina Simone to disguise herself from her family, who attributed secular music as "the devil's music." Her arrangements fused pop with classical and she recorded over 40 albums in her career.
Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner was born the youngest of 7 children in Grabtown, North Carolina, before becoming an iconic actress, singer, and beauty in the 1950s and 1960s. On a trip to New York City to visit a sister, she had a portrait taken and it was so striking that they put it in their window, someone remarked they should send it to MGM, then did, and MGM signed Gardner, with the provision that she get a speech coach immediately to get rid of the Southern drawl. She went on to perform in dozens of movies with MGM and The American Film Institute recognized Gardner as one of the greatest female screen legends of classic American Cinema in 1999. For true Ava Gardner fans you'll want to visit Smithfield NC about an hour south of Raleigh to tour the Ava Gardner museum.
Myrtle Driver Johnson
Myrtle Driver Johnson was born in Big Cove, North Carolina, and is attributed to keeping the Cherokee language and traditions alive. She is one of the most prominent indigenous advocates in the United States and continues to work to sustain tribal traditions and fight for federal representation and protections. North Carolina transplants may not know that in Western North Carolina the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians are self-governing and autonomous.
Elizabeth Dole
Elizabeth Dole is one of North Carolina’s most famous politicians, serving as the head of the American Red Cross, Secretary of Labor, and North Carolina's First Female Senator. She served under Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H..W. Bush. Dole is the wife of Bob Dole and attended Duke University and Harvard Law School, and was born in Salisbury, North Carolina.
Lilian Exum Clement
Lilian Exum Clement, born in Asheville, North Carolina was one of the first female politicians and was the first woman elected to the North Carolina General Assembly and the first woman to serve in any state legislature in the Southern United States. Encouraged and mentored by Edith Vanderbilt, she was in many ways a renegade in office and introduced bills regarding reproduction, marital rights, and maternity.
Pauli Murray
Pauli Murray was a lawyer, Episcopal Priest, civil rights activist, and Durham Native. One of the first African Americans, and a woman, to attend UNC Graduate School, she was critical to the civil rights movements and one of her papers "States Laws on Race and Color ',was called the "Bible" of the Brown vs Board of Education decision. Murray was also critical of the role men played in the Civil Rights Movement and the first ordained female and African American priests.
Pam Grier
Known as one of the first female action stars, Pam Grier was born in Winston-Salem in 1949 and is a Blaxploitation star and icon who has received Golden Globe Nominations and other critical awards for her work. She starred in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown in a reprisal of the era of Blaxploitation.
Loretta Lynch
Loretta Lynch was born in Greensboro and served as the US Attorney General under President Barack Obama from 2015-2017. Prior to this prestigious public service appointment, Lynch had a highly distinguished legal career. She has overseen the FBI, participated in the Rwandan Genocide Special Investigations, counter-terrorism investigations, and the mortgage crisis and global bank involvement.
Gertrude Elion
Gertrude Trudy Belle Elion was born in New York City to immigrant parents but made her mark in medicine in North Carolina. She watched a grandfather die of cancer and pursued a medical career to great success in North Carolina. Her contributions include anti-malarial drugs, organ transplant drugs, and later groundbreaking work for the HIV virus. She received the Nobel Prize for Medicine. Elion lived and retired right here in Durham.
There's no doubt we've missed numerous other truly notably famous North Carolina women. Who do you think should have made our list?
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Today’s Wall Street Journal blog featured our Immigration08.com election analysis in a post entitled, “More Immigration Losers.”
The byline?
GOP hardliners need to face reality.
Or extinction.
Let’s pick reality for a minute- that would mean owning up to the fact that immigration hasn’t worked as a wedge issue, that GOP immigration rhetoric has alienated the fastest-growing voting bloc in the country, and that deportation-only platforms fall flat with swing voters looking for solutions to the toughest issues facing our nation.
According to the Journal’s blog:
Virginia Republican Congressman Virgil Goode’s narrow loss to Democrat Tom Perriello became official last week, and it caps another bad showing for immigration restrictionists. For the second straight election, incumbent Republicans who attempted to turn illegal immigration into a wedge issue fared poorly.
Anti-immigration hardliners Randy Graf, John Hostettler and J.D. Hayworth were among the Republicans who lost in 2006. Joining them this year were GOP Representatives Thelma Drake (Virginia), Tom Feeney (Florida), Ric Keller (Florida) and Robin Hayes (North Carolina) — all Members of a House anti-immigration caucus that focuses on demonizing the undocumented.
According to a review of election results by America’s Voice, an advocacy group, Republican restrictionists had especially weak showings in “battleground” races.” Nineteen of 21 winners advocated immigration policies beyond enforcement-only,” says the report. “This includes 5 of 5 Senate races and 14 of 16 House races listed in the ‘toss-up,’ ‘leans Republican,’ or ‘leans Democratic’ categories of the Cook Political Report.”
Mr. Goode, a 12-year incumbent, had made a name for himself in Congress as a seal-the-border advocate. Among other things, he has called for mass deportations and amending the Constitution to deny U.S. citizenship to children of illegal aliens.
The pro-immigrant blog Citizen Orange has a good analysis of what made Virgil Goode a hardliner on immigration.
Virgil Goode is essentially arguing for “the right of blood” an
antiquated concept whereby nationality is not determined by place of
birth, but by ancestry. It’s the equivalent of a feudal philosophy
whereby your privileges are passed onto you by your parents. Not only
does it undercut a central tenet of U.S. citizenship, but it also
undercuts the idea that everyone should be born equal.
I go into this explanation, because I don’t think people realize what a
radical affront to the United States people like Virgil Goode are.
These are not people on the lunatic fringe. H.R. 1940 or the “Birthright Citizenship Act of 2007” claims 104 co-sponsors
in the House of Representatives (that’s out of 435 for those that are
counting). This act would strip the children of migrants from their
right to citizenship.
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the laws that are on the books. In reality they are in favor of a
radical reordering of judicial philosophy of the United States as we
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As an afternoon drive-time radio host in Phoenix, J.D. Hayworth did a killer impression of John McCain. He lampooned Arizona’s senior senator as a closet liberal who wants to raise taxes, coddle terrorists, and grant amnesty to illegal immigrants.
But these days the former Republican congressman isn’t taking requests for his John McCain shtick.
“As much as I’d like to do that,” Hayworth explains, “now that I’m back running for elective office, I’ve retired that impersonation from my repertoire.”
But I hear it’s pretty good, I tell him.
“Thank you,” he replies. “But flattery, in this case, is going to prove ineffective.”
“It amounts to a classic political confrontation. McCain has the Washington establishment and we have ‘We the People.’ McCain may have the greenbacks, but we have the grassroots.”
Hayworth, who on Monday announced that he’s running against McCain in the Republican Senate primary in August, insists in a damning-with-faint-praise tone that he has nothing but admiration for the distinguished senator.
“We all respect John and thank him for his service,” Hayworth says. “His place in history is secure. He will remain a widely admired historical figure. But after 28 years in Washington, it’s time to come home. People are just ready for a change.”
It’s a sign of the peculiar political times that the 51-year-old Hayworth—who was voted out of office in 2006 amid the Democratic sweep and the Jack Abramoff scandal—has any chance at all against the 73-year-old McCain, a celebrated Navy war hero who was, most recently, the Republican presidential nominee.
But he does. The climate is unpredictable. The electorate is mad as hell at the powers that be. And while McCain is arguably perceived as a creature of Washington, where he has spent the last three decades, Hayworth is attempting to cast himself as the mavericky outsider—a role he doubtless will play during his appearance at Thursday’s session of the Conservative Political Action Conference, the annual Washington conclave of right-wingers from all over.
“Sure, he’s a very slick communicator, but he has no demonstrated record of accomplishment,” says Brian Rogers, McCain’s campaign press secretary. “He went to college for broadcasting and he was a sportscaster before he was elected to Congress, and he’s obviously been successful at that. But compare that to the life experience of John McCain. I think people are looking for a little bit more than a radio shock jock.”
In recent days, Hayworth has been appearing on national cable news shows to trumpet the campaign, only to be caught up in discussions about whether President Obama is a natural-born citizen and whether the president should be required to produce documents to reassure Americans that identity theft is not in the mix.
When I invite Hayworth to dispose of the “birther” issue once and for all, he parries: “That’s so misconstrued. The only guys who want to talk about it are reporters in Washington and New York…. I don’t have any reason to doubt that [Obama was born in the United States]. What I want to talk about is what Barack Obama has done and more important hasn’t done as president.”
Hayworth—who has promised to term-limit himself to 12 years in the Senate if elected—seems reluctant to accept responsibility for creating the conditions for his 2006 defeat, instead blaming the unpopularity of George W. Bush and unfair attacks in the media. Only after I press him does he finally allow: “I made my share of mistakes.”
Hayworth gave up his radio gig last month after McCain’s lawyers complained to the federal regulatory agencies and his bosses at Clear Channel about his continual on-air sniping, and he plans to do a little consulting on the side to support his wife and three children as the campaign progresses. He has raised only a tiny fraction of the incumbent’s $5 million in the bank. McCain, a powerful four-term senator who won reelection with 77 percent of the vote in 2004, has every institutional advantage, plus the support of nearly every office holder in Arizona and the coveted endorsements of such conservative establishment icons as anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist, Book of Virtues czar Bill Bennett, former Senator Fred Thompson, and McCain’s erstwhile running mate, Sarah Palin. Hayworth has Rush Limbaugh—not as an endorser of his candidacy, at least not yet, but as a longtime McCain detractor.
Hayworth, moreover, has a checkered past: His six terms in the House, during which he took a reported $69,000 from Abramoff and his Indian casino clients, were undistinguished; he was derided in the media as a “buffoon” and a “bully”; and his wife, Mary, was attacked for pocketing around $100,000, for professional services only vaguely defined, from Hayworth’s political action committee.
And yet McCain and his operatives are taking Hayworth seriously—very seriously. They greeted Monday’s announcement ceremony with a press release personally savaging Hayworth, and they are carpet-bombing the airwaves with negative radio ads portraying him as a typical pork-barrel politician who voted for appropriations that contained some pesky earmarks, such as “$90,000 of our tax money to research fruit flies in France,” as one McCain spot claims.
“I think they’re getting a little shrill, and their ads are creating a great deal of backlash,” Hayworth says. “They’re striking the wrong chord and sounding a false note. I don’t see the political advantage of bragging to Politico that they’re going to run a scorched-earth campaign against me. Even Rush Limbaugh was talking about this Tuesday morning. He said, here John McCain is going full tilt after a true conservative. Why didn’t he do something like this with Barack Obama? But,” Hayworth adds, “the political wind is at my back.”
Hayworth says he decided to run after a Rasmussen poll last November showed him in a statistical dead heat with McCain, and conservative Republicans kept emailing and calling, urging him to take the plunge. More recent polls show McCain with a 20-point advantage. Hayworth says that if elected, he’ll fight “Obama and the Democrats, and their cheerleaders in the media,” but so far he’s thin on specific policy ideas of his own. “This is a marathon—and people don’t vote 'til August,” he says. “We’ll be getting into greater detail as we go along.”
As for McCain’s huge cash advantage, “We’ve got plenty of gas money,” Hayworth says. “I think we’re going to be able to wage a very successful campaign. To be effective in Arizona, you’ve got to raise about $2 million. Certainly that’s our goal.”
He adds: “It amounts to a classic political confrontation. McCain has the Washington establishment and we have ‘We the People.’ McCain may have the greenbacks, but we have the grassroots.”
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Living in North Carolina has its advantages – no matter where you call home in the state. From the coastal waters to the mountains, there is something for everyone in the Tar Heel State.
What Does North Carolina Have To Offer?
From delicious barbeque and sweet tea to miles of hiking trails and beautiful beach towns, North Carolina has so much to offer. North Carolina’s beauty is unrivaled, making it the perfect spot to relax and unwind.
In the mountains, enjoy some of the country’s most majestic views. Meanwhile, take a walk on the beach, swim in the crystal clear waters, and experience some of the state’s most amazing sunsets. But there’s much more to the state than just stunning views.
What Else Is There?
North Carolina’s culinary scene is among the best in the nation. From award-winning barbeque to delectable seafood, the food options in the state are nearly limitless. Enjoy a wide selection of brews from North Carolina’s breweries, or grab a glass of local wine – no matter what you’re in the mood for, you’re sure to find it in North Carolina.
What Can I Find In This State?
No matter where you are in the state, there’s a vibrant culture to be explored. From festivals and parades to small-town events and activities, North Carolina’s cultural scene is diverse and rich. You’ll find amazing live music, amazing museums, and some of the most beautiful theatres in the country.
In short, there’s something special about living in North Carolina. Whether you’re here for nature, food, or culture, there’s a wealth of opportunities for you to enjoy in the Tar Heel State. So it should come as no surprise that some of the world’s most beloved celebrities are now choosing to call North Carolina home.
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Less than two years after losing the 2008 presidential election, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is embroiled in a tough Republican primary against former Rep. J.D. Hayworth.
In one recent TV ad, McCain attacks Hayworth for claiming to be an outsider.
The ad shows a limousine driving by a fancy building and then an unflattering black-and-white clip of Hayworth sharing the screen with an airborne corporate jet and floating paper money. "J.D. Hayworth says he's an outsider, but after he was voted out of Congress he became a registered lobbyist," the narrator intones. "Hayworth was paid thousands by a Florida corporation to lobby the very committee he used to serve on."
We decided to check to see if this description is accurate.
First, the add is correct that Hayworth was voted out of office. He lost in the landslide of 2006 to his Democratic challenger, Harry Mitchell.
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Former GOP presidential nominee John McCain is running attack ads again — this time against a fellow Republican who may contest his Senate seat this year.
Hotline’s Reid Wilson has the script for a new radio spot McCain is running against former congressman (and current Arizona radio personality) J.D Hayworth, who has been making moves toward a primary challenge against McCain.
The ad says that Hayworth "sounds conservative on the radio, but J.D. was one of the biggest spenders in Congress.
Saturday’s Senate debate on the health care bill included a few mentions of yours truly, FactCheck.org.
Our work was cited on Dec. 2 by Sen. John McCain, who quoted from our Oct. 20, 2008, article. Three days later our article made the Congressional Record yet again. This time, it was prompted by Sen. John Kerry who said this on the Senate floor, quoting from a Wall Street Journal news story from last year:
Kerry,
This round-up of political tidbits includes an ad pegged to the president’s visit to Allentown, Sarah Palin on Obama’s birth certificate and more chain e-mails.
Working Where in Allentown?
When President Barack Obama traveled to Allentown, Pa., Friday morning to discuss job creation, the Republican National Committee welcomed him with a radio spot questioning the effectiveness of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Unfortunately, by Friday the ad was a day late and a few hundred thousand jobs short.
It’s the battle of the voice mail messages.
First, Sen. John McCain launched a robocall this week, claiming that spending cuts to Medicare in the Senate health care bill would eliminate “vital Medicare coverage for our seniors” and promoting his amendment to strip the bill of all those Medicare cuts. He recorded a similar call for the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Thursday night, the liberal group Americans United for Change launched a counter-call, which tells recipients: "You may have received a political call that tries to frighten seniors —
Last year, Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign proposed cuts to Medicare spending to finance his health care overhaul proposal. This year, Senate Democrats have proposed cuts to Medicare spending to finance their health care overhaul proposal.
Last year, the Obama camp promptly attacked McCain, falsely claiming, as we pointed out, that the Republican was going to reduce benefits and that seniors would "receive fewer services, and get lower quality care." This year (this week, in fact),
We saw more aggressive fact-checking by journalists in this election than ever before. Unfortunately, as a post-election Annenberg Public Policy Center poll confirms, millions of voters were bamboozled anyway.
More than half of U.S. adults (52 percent) said the claim that Sen. Barack Obama’s tax plan would raise taxes on most small businesses is truthful, when in fact only a small percentage would see any increase.
More than two in five (42.3 percent) found truth in the claim that Sen.
With just hours remaining before Election Day, both the Obama-Biden and McCain-Palin campaigns are making their final pitch for your votes. Sen. Barack Obama hopes to hold off a late-inning McCain rally by repeating several unlikely promises, which we examine in another article, “Closing Arguments: Obama.” Meanwhile, hoping to prove the pollsters wrong, John McCain and Sarah Palin flog some new attempts to cast doubt on Obama’s character; one concerns a seven-year-old interview and another, a five-year-old video.
The Obama-Biden campaign has released an ad as part of its “closing argument” to the American people. But we have a few factual objections to raise.
The ad is called “Rearview Mirror” and says that if you “wonder where John McCain would take the economy” just “look behind you,” alluding to the Bush administration. The ad even pictures President Bush’s face in the rearview mirror of a car.
But it touts some misleading claims Obama has dropped along the long campaign trail.
Summary
The presidential campaigns and third-party groups have been bilingual throughout the election, targeting Spanish-speaking voters with some misleading and false ads. Among the recent TV spots:
A McCain-Palin ad tries to paint Obama as a "riesgo" (risk), falsely claiming that his health care plan would require small businesses to cover their employees. But Obama’s plan explicitly exempts small businesses from this requirement, and an adviser has said the threshold "would almost certainly be higher than ten"
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PARKER, Ariz. — He still tells the story about the call he got at 2 a.m. from the woman in Chandler who was upset about changes in her garbage pick up, and the ossified joke concerning two Irish brothers (“The only ethnic group in America you can still joke about”) boozed up at a bar.
Just as he did in 2008, and 2000, and most likely in the tender years of his earliest campaigns here — long before “that one,” maverick, and not-a-maverick — he takes extra time for veterans, freshly scrubbed little kids and older women who wait patiently at the back of a senior center with one of his many books and a camera. He still calls the room “my friends.”
But less than two years after he was defeated by Barack Obama, nothing seems quite the same for Senator John McCain, who has gone from being his party’s candidate for president rallying 1,000 supporters at a Florida football stadium to furiously defending his Senate seat before 60 recession-weary residents in a Hampton Inn in Lake Havasu, Ariz.
Gone are the jovial back-and-forths with veteran biker dudes at state fairs, long bus rides through South Carolina watching the U.S. Open with Senator Lindsey Graham and visions of party dominance in Washington. Gone are his efforts to engage Mr. Obama directly; instead, he portrays himself as taking on the status quo of Mr. Obama’s Washington.
Mr. McCain’s new position is one of defense: he is fending off a primary fight from the right flank of his party in the form of former Representative J. D. Hayworth, as well as withering criticism of his former position on immigration from constituents. He also seems to be engaged in a battle within himself, hewing to the high road, as he has historically done, but at times unleashing the anger he seems to feel about the outcome of the 2008 race.
Mr. Hayworth trails Mr. McCain in polls, fund-raising and endorsements. The Phoenix area is dotted with large billboards for Mr. McCain, and Mr. Hayworth’s campaign remains strikingly upstart.
But between the unusually late primary date of Aug. 24 — which could have an impact on turnout — and the volatility of an energized primary base that has never quite cottoned to Mr. McCain, his team is concerned enough to keep him pressing the flesh all his non-Washington days.
On the trail these days, there is less of the energy generated by a run for the White House. And the candidate often seems to be striking a different tone.
Back in 2008, at a town-hall-style meeting, presidential candidate McCain snatched the microphone away from an older woman who referred to Mr. Obama as a terrorist and protested: “No, no ma’am. He’s a decent family man with whom I happen to have some disagreements.”
The other day, in front of about 100 people at the Parker Community/Senior Center here in western Arizona, a man who identified himself as a Vietnam veteran said, “I want to know what this guy, what’s his name, let me see, Hussein, Barack Hussein Obama, is doing about our health care.”
Senate candidate McCain’s face flashed with brief amusement, and then he gazed toward the scuffed floor and settled into a grimace. “We all want to be respectful of the president of the United States,” he said.
Both remarkably spritely and just this side of cranky, a visibly thinner Mr. McCain zips around Arizona regularly these days, scurrying from public forum to campaign office opening to West Valley business luncheon. The crowds can be loving or volatile.
Speaking without notes on subjects like North Korea, deficit spending, immigration policy and Social Security for 20 minutes at a time, Mr. McCain often reflects the experience and savvy he has come by honestly through years on the stump.
But just as often he squints as if he is bracing for a verbal blow. And he can shift from the animated Mr. McCain of past campaigns — quick with a joke or a warm “Thank you for your service” to a young mother whose husband is on his third tour to Iraq — to being uneasy and defensive about the parochial issues he finds himself hectored about.
“I’m not going to come in here and tell the local government what to do,” Mr. McCain snapped at Darla Tilley, director of the Parker center for the elderly, who pressed him in early June on the lack of nursing homes and assisted-living facilities in her county. A little while later, before leaving for his next stop, Mr. McCain pivoted to contrition. “I hope to be more like you,” he told her.
In an interview later, Ms. Tilley said she had been upset less by the exchange than by the fact that “the senator didn’t really seem to know or understand how many state-funded programs we have lost here.”
If it galls Mr. McCain, a two-time presidential candidate, senior senator and war hero to have to race across this vast state to defend himself against a former radio talk show host who once suggested that same-sex marriage could lead to nuptials with animals, it is not readily apparent.
He never mentions Mr. Hayworth by name and has so far refused to debate him. “I have a day job,” he said in response to one voter who pressed him on this. McCain campaign officials refused numerous requests for interviews.
Most often Mr. McCain is flanked by just an aide or two — the old posse of elected officials and fellow war heroes back home or plotting their own political futures — while he toughs it out at a North Scottsdale library before voters who are not afraid to confront him.
“We all know what happened after 9/11,” said one man in the audience here. “Why didn’t you close this border down? Where were you, Senator?”
The senator sparred at the library with a voter, Richard Martin, who took him to task for 15 minutes over his history of immigration legislation, his distaste for torture and his refusal to debate his opponent. “You won’t have any debates,” Mr. Martin fumed. “You’re afraid of J. D. Hayworth. The people in Arizona deserve debates.”
As several stops with him around his state this month demonstrate, Mr. McCain, whose tirelessness at age 73 is a thing of visual wonder, is often under fire from voters weary of shape- shifting politicians this year.
Nowhere is this more clear than on immigration. Mr. McCain has been dinged for moving significantly from his former position of giving working papers to some illegal immigrants to a border-control-only approach on the issue. But it is crystal clear that this is what his primary constituents want and expect from him.
While border crime has decreased in this state in recent years, the killing of a prominent rancher in the south by what the police suspect was an illegal immigrant set off rage across the state, and helped fuel a tough new state law directed at immigrants.
Repeatedly over three days, Mr. McCain was asked why he had supported “amnesty” for illegal immigrants in the past (“I never supported amnesty,” he says), and how he feels about a proposed state law intended to prevent children of illegal immigrants born in the United States from automatically becoming citizens. (He deflected the question.) One woman suggested she would like to “get a gun” and help border agents herself, a not-uncommon refrain here.
“People in the southern part of the state are not safe in their homes,” Mr. McCain said repeatedly, to the sound of applause.
Yet for all his oratory about Arizona issues, Mr. McCain is also a one-man show of Washington bashing, generally focused on the deficit and the new health care plan.
“My favorite bumper sticker is the one that says, ‘Don’t tell Obama what comes after a trillion,’ ” he said, using a reliable laugh line.
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Hayworth, a former congressman, is mounting a challenge from the right and attacking McCain as overly moderate. Although Hayworth is still lagging in the polls, he could give McCain a serious run for his money.
The video, using clips from the Lion King and Mars Attacks, says Hayworth considers the “most pressing challenges” to be President Obama’s birthplace, interspecies marriage and whether Dracula is real. Also, martians.
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The Dracula thing, if you’re wondering, is a reference to Hayworth’s reaction when the former Arizona attorney general said, “Someone needs to drive a wooden stake through this guy’s heart.”
Hayworth responded humorlessly: “This cavalier death threat that he issued is over the top.”
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Test your knowledge and see just how many famous Iowans you know. The first Iowan in space, the co-inventor of Rice Krispies Treats and a Nobel prize winner — if you don’t know their names, you will now.
Here’s some famous Iowans you ought to know, and some you probably do.
17 prominent Iowans of the past
It would be impossible to compile a list every earth-moving achievement accomplished by those who called Iowa their place of birth, but here are 17 highlights for the history books.
Herbert Hoover
Born: West Branch
Lifetime: 1874-1964
What he's known for: The 31st president of the United States
Less than three decades after Iowa became a state, Herbert Hoover was born in the eastern Iowa town of West Branch, the child of a blacksmith. Before his presidency, Hoover graduated from Stanford and witnessed the Boxer Rebellion in China. He served a single term as president from 1929 to 1933.
Otto Frederick Rohwedder
Born: Davenport
Lifetime: 1880-1960
What he's known for: The commercial bread-slicing machine
It would be inaccurate to say Otto Frederick Rohwedder invented the best thing since sliced bread since, well, Rohwedder effectively did invent sliced bread. In 1928, despite being a jeweler by trade and losing some of his initial plans in a Monmouth factory fire, Rohwedder created a device that sliced and wrapped loaves of bread.
Harry Hopkins
Born: Sioux City
Lifetime: 1890-1946
What he's famous for: Advisor to Franklin D. Roosevelt
Born in Sioux City and a 1912 graduate of Grinnell College, Hopkins grew up to work on remedying the ripple effects of the Great Depression and become an advisor to Franklin D. Roosevelt. After Roosevelt became president in 1933, he named Hopkins the administrator of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and, when the United States entered World War II, Hopkins became a key figure in the efforts of the Allied powers. After surviving stomach cancer, Hopkins died due to liver failure months after receiving the Distinguished Service Medal from President Harry S. Truman.
Grant Wood
Born: Anamosa
Lifetime: 1891-1942
What he's known for: American painter who created "American Gothic"
Grant Wood studied various art forms in France and Germany through the 1920s and went on to display his most recognizable work, "American Gothic," in the Art Institute of Chicago in 1930. Wood went on to teach at the University of Iowa from 1935 to 1940, and during that time he instructed a young Elizabeth Catlett.
W. Edwards Deming
Born: Sioux City
Lifetime: 1900-1993
What he's famous for: Statistician and educator
Sioux City's William Edwards Deming made his way into the field of statistical analysis to achieve better industrial quality control. In the 1950s, Deming's skills helped Japan as the nation economically recovered from the fallout of World War II and became the namesake for The Deming Prize, an annual award given to Japanese corporations with exceptional quality control.
Meredith Willson
Born: Mason City
Lifetime: 1902-1984
What he’s famous for: Composer of “The Music Man”
Robert Meredith Willson was himself a music man from a young age when he began playing flute in the Mason City Municipal Band, setting him on track to begin his musical career. In 1958, Willson's musical "The Music Man," the most widely known of his works, was given a Tony Award for Best Musical.
Leon 'Bix' Beiderbecke
Born: Davenport
Lifetime: 1903-1931
What he's famous for: Jazz musician
Leon Beiderbecke is a Davenport-born musician more widely known under the name "Bix." As a jazz musician, Beiderbecke became known for the quality of his improvisation in his performances. He joined the Jean Goldkette group in Detroit in the latter half of the 1920s, but, only a handful of years later, died after suffering from lobar pneumonia at the age of 28.
Mildred Day
Born: Durham, a hamlet near Knoxville
Lifetime: 1903-1996
What she’s known for: Helping create Rice Krispies Treats
Mildred Day, born Harriet Mildred Ghrist, is an Iowan credited with helping to create Rice Krispies Treats after taking a job in Battle Creek, Michigan, with the Kellogg's cereal company. In that job, she and co-worker Malitta Jensen would develop the recipe for Rice Krispies Treats featured on boxes of the cereal in 1941.
Mildred Wirt Benson
Born: Ladora
Lifetime: 1905-2002
What she's known for: Penned many of the original Nancy Drew books
Mildred Wirt Benson is one of many authors who have taken on the pseudonym "Carolyn Keene" to write some of the earliest Nancy Drew mystery novels published since 1930. The University of Iowa graduate penned not only the first teen sleuth adventure "The Secret of the Old Clock," but was also responsible for 22 of the first 25 Nancy Drew books.
John Wayne
Born: Winterset
Lifetime: 1907-1979
What he's known for: Oscar-winning actor in American Westerns
Born Marion Michael Morrison, the actor and director we know as John Wayne only took up the name with his first starring role in the 1930 film "The Big Trail." His five-decade film career that spanned parts in Westerns and war films eventually led to Wayne's Oscar for the 1969 film "True Grit." Ten years later, the actor passed away after complications from stomach cancer.
Norman Borlaug
Born: Cresco
Lifetime: 1914-2009
What he’s famous for: Nobel Peace Prize-winning agronomist
Borlaug was educated at the University of Minnesota, studying to be a forester and eventually returning to study plant pathology and receive his doctorate. He spent a large portion of his professional life working to solve wheat production problems in Mexico. It was 1970 when Borlaug received the Nobel Peace Prize, recognized for years spent improving food production.
Virginia Christine
Born: Stanton
Lifetime: 1920-1996
What she's famous for: Radio and film actress
Originally named Virginia Kraft, Virginia Christine is perhaps best remembered as Mrs. Olson, a character who appeared in television advertisements for Folgers Coffee. Over the course of her career, she also appeared on television in "The Twilight Zone" and "The Lone Ranger" and in cinema in the 1956 "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," among other projects.
Donna Reed
Born: Dennison
Lifetime: 1921-1986
What she's known for: Oscar-winning actress who starred in "It's a Wonderful Life"
Born an Iowa farm girl, Donna Reed is most recognizable for her role as the leading lady in the 1946 Christmas classic "It's a Wonderful Life." She would later win an Academy Award in 1954 for Best Supporting Actress in the film "From Here to Eternity," and in 1957 launched the "Donna Reed Show." She died of pancreatic cancer just before her 65th birthday in 1986.
Johnny Carson
Born: Corning
Lifetime: 1925-2005
What he's known for: Known as the "king of late night"
Following his birth in Corning, Carson's family moved to Norfolk, Nebraska, while he was still young. After serving in World War II, Carson hosted NBC's "The Tonight Show" from 1962 to 1992 when he handed the reins over to Jay Leno. Carson is credited with creating the template of a guest couch and studio bands still seen in modern late-night talk shows. His 30-year tenure on the show makes him the program's longest-serving host since its creation in 1954 and earned him the reputation as "king of late night."
Cloris Leachman
Born: Des Moines
Lifetime: 1926-2021
What she's known for: Actress who won an Academy Award for her role in “The Last Picture Show”
Cloris Leachman had a vast and varied career that led her to star in multiple television shows from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" to "Malcolm in the Middle," and movies such as "Young Frankenstein" and her Oscar-winning role in "The Last Picture Show." The actress also became the namesake for The Cloris Leachman Excellence in Theater Arts Award, an honor given annually to recognize members of the Des Moines theater community.
R. Walter Cunningham
Born: Creston
Lifetime: 1932-2023
What he's famous for: The first Iowan in space
The idea to propel a human outside of Earth's atmosphere was still the stuff of science fiction when Cunningham, born Ronnie Walter Cunningham, came into the world in 1932. However, in 1968, he became the first Iowan in space aboard Apollo 7 — the first crewed Apollo space mission — on which he was the lunar module pilot. Cunningham died at 90 in 2023.
Halston
Born: Des Moines
Lifetime: 1932-1990
What he's famous for: Fashion designer known for his minimalistic looks.
American fashion designer Roy Halston Frowick went by Halston and created iconic looks for the who's who of the celebrity world. He became famous after designing the pillbox hat Jacqueline Kennedy wore to the 1961 inauguration of her husband, President John F. Kennedy. The designer shifted to womenswear and created streamlined looks for the likes of Greta Garbo, Anjelica Huston, Lauren Bacall, Elizabeth Taylor, Bianca Jagger and Liza Minnelli. He died in 1990 due to complications of AIDS.
29 famous people of the present
Michelle Monaghan
Born: Winthrop, 1976
What she’s known for: Film and television actress in “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” and “True Detective”
After graduating East Buchanan High School in Winthrop, Michelle Monaghan left Iowa to pursue journalism, according to the Chicago Tribune. Her journey would lead her to roles including teacher Kimberly Woods in the early 2000s Fox show “Boston Public,” starring alongside Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer in “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” and Season 1 of HBO’s “True Detective” with Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey.
Ron Livingston
Born: Cedar Rapids, 1967
What he’s known for: Film and television actor in “Band of Brothers” and “Office Space”
Whether you know him as Peter Gibbons in Mike Judge’s cult classic “Office Space,” the unfortunate family man living in a haunted home in “The Conjuring” or Carrie Bradshaw’s ex in “Sex and the City,” Ron Livingston has appeared in dozens of movies and TV shows over his 30-year career. He was nominated for a Golden Globe for his work in the WWII miniseries “Band of Brothers.”
Sharon Needles
Born: Newton, 1981
What she’s known for: Drag performer who appeared in “RuPaul’s Drag Race”
Season 4 winner of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” Sharon Needles, or Aaron Coady, is a drag performer and musician. Needles described that she “fled the cornfields of Iowa” for Pittsburgh, the city that would declare June 12, 2012, as Sharon Needles Day, Out Magazine reported.
David Anthony Higgins
Born: Des Moines, 1961
What he’s know for: Actor who appeared on “Ellen” and “Mike & Molly”
David Anthony Higgins, or “that one guy from ‘Mike & Molly,’ ‘Malcolm in the Middle,’ ‘Big Time Rush,’ and before that, ‘Ellen,’” according to his social media, is an actor best known for his roles in comedy. Higgins tried his hand at pizza-making at the Iowa State Fair in 2017.
Hailey Whitters
Born: Shueyville, 1989
What she’s known for: Country singer-songwriter
Hailey Whitters is a Grammy-nominated country artist behind songs like “Everything She Ain’t” and “Ten Year Town.” She nabbed New Female Artist of the Year at the ACM Awards in 2023 and has opened for country megastars Luke Bryan and Shania Twain.
Mary Beth Peil
Born: Davenport, 1940
What she’s known for: Opera singer and stage, film and TV actress
Mary Beth Peil is a Tony-nominated actress whose career on the stage includes “Anastasia” and “The King and I.” She graduated from Davenport Central High School as part of the class of 1958 and was inducted into the school’s Hall of Honor in 1989. Peil portrayed Evelyn Ryan, the grandmother of Jen, played by actress Michelle Williams, in the young adult drama “Dawson’s Creek.” She also appeared in the CBS legal drama “The Good Wife.”
Adam DeVine
Born: Waterloo, 1983
What he’s known for: Film and television actor
Some of Adam DeVine’s early work included Comedy Central’s “Workaholics” about three friends who work together as telemarketers. He portrayed Bumper, the leader of an antagonistic a capella group in the young adult comedy movies “Pitch Perfect” and “Pitch Perfect 2.” DeVine stars in the Emmy-nominated HBO series “The Righteous Gemstones.”
Tom Arnold
Born: Ottumwa, 1959
What he’s known for: Actor who appeared in “Roseanne” and “True Lies”
The Iowa native who attended the University of Iowa was a writer on the hit TV show “Roseanne” starring comedian and actress Roseanne Barr — later his first wife. He later appeared in James Cameron’s action movie “True Lies” and hosted “The Best Damn Sports Show Period” in the early 2000s. Arnold was open about his difficult childhood growing up in Iowa and reunited with his siblings in Ottumwa in 2020.
Hynden Walch
Born: Davenport, 1971
What she’s known for: Voice actress for film and animated television including “Teen Titans”
Starfire on Cartoon Network’s animated superhero series “Teen Titans.” Princess Bubblegum on the fantasy animated series “Adventure Time.” Penny Sanchez on the Nickelodeon children’s animated series “ChalkZone.” These are just some of the beloved animated characters Hynden Walch has lent her voice to. Born in Davenport, Walch graduated from UCLA and has voiced characters in video games, television and anime.
Ted Kooser
Born: Ames, 1939
What he’s known for: Poet and educator Ted Kooser was the U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004 to 2006. His acclaimed work includes “Delights & Shadows,” in which he was awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. He graduated from Iowa State University with a bachelor’s degree.
Sara Haines
Born: Newton, 1977
What she’s known for: Daytime talk show co-host
Turn on your TV to ABC and expect to see Newton native Sara Haines. “The View” co-host first joined the daytime talk show as a co-host in 2016, though she’d later depart and return to the show. Haines also co-hosted “GMA 3: Strahan, Sara & Keke” on ABC and previously appeared on NBC’s “Today.”
Simon Estes
Born: Centerville, 1938
What he's known for: Internationally recognized opera singer
Born and raised in Centerville, Simon Estes went on to study at the University of Iowa and briefly at Juilliard in New York City. He has become an internationally known opera singer, performing with artists such as Ray Charles, Barry Manilow, Johnny Cash and Whitney Houston. In August 2019, Des Moines Area Community College created the Simon Estes School of Fine Arts to honor the renowned bass baritone.
Mary Beth Hurt
Born: Marshalltown, 1946
What she’s famous for: Film and television actress
According to the book "Cinema of Outsiders: The Rise of American Independent Film" by Emanuel Levy, when Mary Beth Hurt was growing up in Marshalltown, her babysitter was Jean Seberg, another Iowa-born actress from Marshalltown who became an icon of French New Wave cinema with the film "Breathless." Hurt would go on to play Seberg in the docudrama film "From the Journals of Jean Seberg." However, Hurt is more easily recognizable for appearing in the movie "The World According to Garp" with Robin Williams as well as multiple episodes of "Law & Order."
Max Allan Collins
Born: Muscatine, 1948
What he's famous for: A writer of comics, novels, and screenplays
Collins was born Max Allan Collins Jr. in Muscatine, where he continues to live today, writing with such fervor that he's published more than 230 works over the course of his career. These writings include frequent contributions to the "Dick Tracy" comic strip and several entries in his "Quarry" crime fiction series of novels, which has been adapted into a Cinemax series of the same name. His 1998 graphic novel "Road to Perdition" was the basis for the 2002 film featuring Tom Hanks and Daniel Craig.
Fred Grandy
Born: Sioux City, 1948
What he's known for: Actor in "The Love Boat" and politician in the U.S. House of Representatives
Before serving for eight years in Congress, Grandy was familiar to the nation as Gopher on "The Love Boat" and Walter in the 1976 series "Monster Squad." After losing an election for Iowa governor in 1994 to Terry Branstad, he co-hosted the radio program "The Grandy and Andy Show," and has appeared in film and television projects.
Ron Clements
Born: Sioux City, 1953
What he's known for: Animator and director of Disney films
Ron Clements is not the only Disney-film director born in Iowa (the same can be said for his Oscar-winning "Moana" co-director Don Hall, who hails from Glenwood) but he has arguably most impressive resume. Inspired at a young age by the animated film "Pinocchio," Clements helped animate "The Black Cauldron" before going on to co-directing classics such as "The Little Mermaid" and "Aladdin."
Michael Emerson
Born: Cedar Rapids, 1954
What he’s famous for: Film and television actor
Michael Emerson, born in Cedar Rapids, played a recurring character in the television show "Lost," where he first appeared as Benjamin Linus, one of the "the Others" on the island in the show. Since then, Emerson also appeared in the CBS show "Arrow" and the Amazon original series "Mozart in the Jungle." Over the course of his career, he's been nominated for five Emmys and a Golden Globe.
Lara Flynn Boyle
Born: Davenport, 1970
What she's known for: Actress in the television series "Twin Peaks"
Though born in Davenport, Lara Flynn Boyle was primarily raised in Chicago before going on to perform in film and television. She played Donna Hayward in David Lynch's cult classic television show "Twin Peaks." She's also appeared in "Men and Black II" and the ABC series "The Practice." Her most recent film, "Death in Texas," was released in 2020.
Tionne 'T-Boz' Watkins
Born: Des Moines, April 26, 1970
What she's famous for: Member of the hip-hop group TLC
Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins is a founding member of TLC, an R&B group that also included Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes and Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas. The group — most popular through the 1990s and early 2000s for songs such as "Creep" and "No Scrubs" — formed in Atlanta, where Watkins' family moved when she was 9.
N.K. Jemisin
Born: Iowa City, 1972
What she’s known for: Science fiction/fantasy author
Among the most awarded science fiction writers of the modern era, N.K. Jemisin has penned novels such as "The Broken Earth Trilogy" to her recent "Far Sector" comic. Jemisin's recent urban fantasy novel "The City We Became" was nominated for Best Novel at both the Hugo Awards and the Nebula Awards.
Corey Taylor
Born: Des Moines, 1973
What he's known for: Lead vocalist for Slipknot
Though many members of Slipknot, the heavy metal band, have origins in Iowa, specifically Des Moines, Corey Taylor is the face of the band (as much as a group famous for wearing masks can have a face). Taylor is not only one of Slipknot's longest continuous members, he's also published multiple books about his life and time with the band.
Dave Keuning
Born: Pella, 1976
What he's known for: The guitarist with the rock band The Killers
Though born in Pella, it wasn't until Dave Keuning moved to Las Vegas that he placed an ad in the Las Vegas Weekly to form a band. That eventually led him to Brandon Flowers, with whom he co-founded the rock band The Killers. The band is behind the classic song "Mr. Brightside" and more recent hits such as "Caution." In 2021, Keuning released his latest solo outing, "A Mild Case of Everything."
Ashton Kutcher
Born: Cedar Rapids, 1978
What he's known for: Actor from "That '70s Show" and "Jobs"
Ashton Kutcher was too beautiful for the University of Iowa, or, perhaps more accurately, he was handsome enough as a student to stand out in the crowd. When a then-unknown Ashton Kutcher was enrolled at the UI, studying to become a biochemical engineer in the late ’90s, he was approached by a model scout while in Iowa City's The Airliner Bar. He dropped out of college, headed west and it wasn't long before Kutcher hit pay dirt as an actor. Inside of a decade, he appeared in "That ’70s Show" and picked up projects with comedy legends such as Bernie Mac ("The Bernie Mac Show") and Steve Martin ("Cheaper by the Dozen"). Since then, the actor led the 2013 Steve Jobs biopic "Jobs" and has more recently appeared in the Netflix show "The Ranch."
Danai Gurira
Born: Grinnell, 1978
What she's known for: Actress in "The Walking Dead" and "Black Panther"
Born in Grinnell to parents who immigrated from Southern Rhodesia, Danai Gurira has gone on to become a star of television and film. Her most recognizable screen roles are her portrayal of Michonne in "The Walking Dead" franchise and Okoye in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, she's also the playwright behind the 2010 Tony-nominated play "Eclipsed."
Brandon Routh
Born: Des Moines, 1979
What he's known for: Actor portraying Superman across DC properties
Despite being from Iowa and not Smallville, Kansas, Brandon Routh was tagged to play the titular figure of DC's "Superman Returns," which was released in 2006. Since then, the former University of Iowa student has appeared in movies such as "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World" and the television shows like "Chuck." He recently donned the Superman cape again in CW's "Crisis on Infinite Earths" multi-program television event. Many Iowans will also know that Routh grew up playing soccer with his fellow DC superhero, Jason Momoa ("Game of Thrones," "Aquaman") who — while not born in Iowa — was high school friends with Routh when they were kids in Norwalk.
Nate Ruess
Born: Iowa City, 1982
What he's known for: Member of the band Fun
Nate Ruess was born in Iowa City before going on to become the lead singer in the indie rock band Fun, known for hits such as "We Are Young" and "Some Nights." The band won a Grammy in 2013 for Best New Artist. Currently, Ruess is fostering a solo career and released his solo album, "Grand Romantic" in 2015.
Ben Silbermann
Born: Des Moines, 1982
What he's known for: Creator of the website Pinterest
Growing up in Des Moines, Silbermann graduated from Theodore Roosevelt High School before going on to attend Yale. In 2009, he co-founded Pinterest with Evan Sharp. The image-centric, social media website is a place to share mood boards, recipes, crafting ideas and the like and is valued at more than $20 billion.
Jefferson White
Born: Mount Vernon, 1987
What he's famous for: Actor on "Yellowstone"
Jefferson White is another actor on this list who has ventured into "The Twilight Zone," albeit in the 2019 reboot of the classic television program, several decades after Virginia Christine appeared in the original show. White is likely more familiar to audiences as Jimmy Hurdstrom in the show "Yellowstone," where he appears alongside Kevin Costner. White has been in other programs such as "The Americans" and "House of Cards."
Elijah Wood
Born: Cedar Rapids, 1981
What he's known for: Movie, television and video game actor
Undoubtedly most recognizable for his depiction of Frodo Baggins in Peter Jackson's adaptation of "The Lord of the Rings," Elijah Wood is originally from Cedar Rapids, where he grew up and lived until age 7. From there, he began appearing in films including the 2001 release of "The Fellowship of the Ring."
8 fictional characters from Iowa
Iowans really are everywhere, not content to be constrained to the realm of the real. Individuals from the state are also scattered across fiction.
While certain characters, such as Ray Kinsella from "Field of Dreams" or Francesca Johnson from "Bridges of Madison County" are obvious picks as they are part of stories set in the state, the following seven characters all hail from the Hawkeye State.
James Francis Ryan
Born: Paton
What he's known for: The titular character of "Saving Private Ryan"
The critically acclaimed World War II movie directed by Steven Spielberg introduced audiences to a young Matt Damon, who portrayed James Francis Ryan. The soldier, who'd lost his brothers to the war, chose to stay in battle and refused orders to bring him home, remaining with "the only brothers that I have left."
Ron Burgundy
Born: Haggleworth, a fictional Iowa town, Feb. 28, 1938
What he's known for: Newsman of the 1970s from "Anchorman"
You won't find the birth city of Ronald Joseph Aaron Burgundy on a map. Haggleworth, according to Burgundy's autobiography, "Let Me Off At the Top!," is a small coal-mining town where Burgundy spent his early days. Burgundy would go on to become part of San Diego's Channel 4 News Team, as depicted the 2004 film "Anchorman" and its 2013 sequel.
Barry Allen
Born: Fallville
First appearance: January 1940
What he's known for: Member of the Justice League
The character of Barry Allen is perhaps better known as The Flash, "The Fastest Man Alive." The character has more than 80 years of history since appearing in "Flash Comics No. 1," and part of that history includes claiming the fictional Fallville, Iowa, as his place of birth before making the move to the more metropolitan Central City.
The character has appeared in a variety of incarnations across comic books, television and film. Perhaps his most prominent depictions include Grant Gustin's take on the character in the CW's "The Flash" and Ezra Miller's cinematic appearance in "Justice League."
Clint Barton
Born: June 18 in Waverly
What he's known for: Member of the Avengers
First appearance: 1964
Clint Barton, a.k.a. Hawkeye, made his first appearance in the pages of Marvel Comics in 1964 as a rival to Iron Man. The archer would go on to team up with his former enemy in Avengers #16 a year later.
In the world of film, Clint Barton is portrayed by Jeremy Renner, who first appeared on screen in the role during the 2011 film "Thor" before joining the Avengers a year later as a founding member of the superhero group. In 2021, coinciding with the Hawkeye State's 175th anniversary, the avenging archer received a Disney Plus show titled after him.
Walter 'Radar' O'Reilly
Born: Ottumwa
What he's known for: Corporal in the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (M.A.S.H.)
First appearance: 1970
Depicted in both the 1970 film "M.A.S.H." and its subsequent television series of the same name by Gary Burghoff, Walter "Radar" O'Reilly is known as a corporal in the U.S armed forces' Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. Prior to these iterations, the character appeared in the novel by Richard Hooker and W. C. Heinz. Radar's origins stretch even further back than the book through Don Shaffer, the real-life person who served with Hooker and on whom Radar is based. Shaffer served in both the Korean and Vietnam Wars and, like Radar, Shaffer was born in Ottumwa, though, unlike Radar, Shaffer has no ESP to speak of.
Miss Piggy
Born: June 14, Keystone
What she's known for: A recurring cast member with Jim Henson's "The Muppets"
First appearance: 1974
On Oct. 13, 1974, Miss Piggy made her on-screen debut on "Herb Alpert and the TJB" and from there became a star known the world over. When "The Muppet Show" came calling just a few years later, Piggy answered the call and the Keystone-born celebrity has appeared in numerous theatrically released films and television specials over the course of her long career.
James Tiberius Kirk
Born: Riverside, March 22
Lifetime: 2233-2371
What he's known for: Seminal protagonist of the long-running "Star Trek" franchise
Captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise, James T. Kirk led the space fairing vessel on a five-year mission exploring various worlds yet unknown to the United Federation of Planets, founded in 2161. Though suspected dead in 2293, his death actually took place in 2371 on the planet Veridian III, where he was buried by his successor, Captain Jean-Luc Piccard. James T. Kirk was portrayed by actor William Shatner across multiple "Star Trek" television seasons and motion pictures as well as, more recently, actor Chris Pine playing an alternate universe version of the character.
Former Register reporter Isaac Hamlet contributed to this article.
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Some of your favorite television and movie stars are from Michigan and chances are, you never realized it. We’re sure you know the most famous ones like Madonna, Kristen Bell, Kid Rock and others. But there are dozens of other famous faces from this state who we’re betting may surprise you.
Here is a list we compiled of 30 celebrities who were born in Michigan you may not have known were from the Great Lakes State. Of course, there are many other famous faces besides these. But for now, see how many you didn’t know about.
30. David Spade
The actor and comedian was born in Birmingham in Metro Detroit before his family moved to Arizona when he was four years old. The “Saturday Night Live” alumni is best known for his sitcoms “Just Shoot Me” and “Rules of Engagement.” You also know him from his many big screen comedies like “Joe Dirt,” “Tommy Boy,” “Black Sheep” and “Grown Ups.”
29. Ken Jeong
This actor and comedian was born in Detroit in 1969 and raised in North Carolina. He is best known for starring on the TV shows “Community” and “Dr. Ken.” Currently, you can see him as a judge on the hit FOX singing show “The Masked Singer.” You also know Jeong from “The Hangover” series of movies along with “Ride Along 2″ and “Crazy Rich Asians.”
28. John Hughes
This famous filmmaker was born in Lansing in 1950 and grew up in Grosse Pointe in Metro Detroit before his family moved to Chicago when he was in 7th grade. Hughes is known for writing, producing or directing some of the biggest comedy films of the 80s and 90s including “National Lampoon’s Vacation,” “Sixteen Candles,” “Weird Science,” “The Breakfast Club,” “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “Pretty in Pink,” “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” and “Home Alone.” Hughes passed away in 2009.
27. Courtney B. Vance
This actor was born in Detroit in 1960. He went to Detroit Country Day School and graduated college from Harvard. You know him from such movies as “Hamburger Hill,” “The Hunt for Red October,” and his newest film, “Project Power” on Netflix. On the small screen, he’s known for “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” and “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story.”
26. Mary Lynn Rajskub
This actress and comedian was born in Detroit in 1971 and raised in Trenton in Metro Detroit. You may know her as “Chloe” on “24.” She also travels the country performing stand-up comedy.
25. David Alan Grier
This actor and comedian was born in Detroit in 1956. He attended Cass Tech High before graduating from the University of Michigan. You may remember him from the TV comedy sketch show “In Living Color,” He’s also appeared and starred in numerous TV shows and movies like “Amazon Women on The Moon,” “Boomerang,” “Jumanji,” “Coffee and Kareem” and “The Cool Kids.”
24. Elizabeth Berkley
The “Saved By The Bell” actress was born in Farmington Hills in 1972. She graduated from North Farmington High before attending Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills. You also know Berkley from “Showgirls.” She’s currently reprising her role of Jessie Spano on the “Saved By The Bell” reboot on the Peacock streaming network.
23. Verne Troyer
This actor and stuntman was born in Sturgis in 1969. He passed away in 2018. He is a graduate of Centreville High School. You know Troyer from the “Austin Powers” film series.
22. Eric Bischoff
This WCW and WWE legend was born in Detroit in 1955. Bischoff led World Championship Wrestling as its Executive Vice President in the 90s during the famous ratings wars with WWE. He also served as WWE RAW General Manager in the early 2000s.
21. Jerry Bruckheimer
Born in Detroit in 1943, this film and TV producer graduated from Mumford High before moving to Arizona to attend college. Some of his best-known movies include “Top Gun,” “Beverly Hills Cop,” “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “Flashdance,” “Con Air,” “Armageddon,” “Black Hawk Down” and “Bad Boys.”
20. Christie Brinkley
This model and actress was born in Monroe in 1954. Her family later moved to Los Angeles. Brinkley is known for being on the cover of numerous Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues. She also spent more than two decades as the face of CoverGirl. Her first acting role was in the the 1983 film “National Lampoon’s Vacation” as the woman in the red Ferrari.”
19. J.K. Simmons
This award winning actor was born in Grosse Pointe in 1955. His family moved to Ohio when he was 10. You know Simmons from his roles on “Law and Order,” “Oz,” “Spider-Man” and in “Whiplash” where he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
18. Matthew Lillard
This actor was born in Lansing in 1970, but grew up in California. You know him from “Scream,” the live action “Scooby-Doo” series of movies and “Good Girls.”
17. Steven Seagal
This action star was born in Lansing in 1952. His family moved to California when he was five. You know Seagal from such action films as “Under Siege,” “Executive Decision” and “The Patriot.”
16. Richard Kiel
This actor was born in Detroit in 1939. He passed away in 2014. You know him from his roles as Jaws in the “James Bond” movie franchise. You also know him from “The Longest Yard,” “Happy Gilmore” and Cannonball Run 2.”
15. Taylor Lautner
This actor was born in Grand Rapids in 1992. He grew up in nearby Hudsonville. He’s best known for playing Jacob in the “Twilight” series of movies. He also starred in the BBC sitcom “Cuckoo” and in “Scream Queens.”
14. Burt Reynolds
The “Smokey and The Bandit” actor was born in Lansing in 1936. He grew up in Lake City in Northern Michigan. Reynolds passed away in 2018. You also know him from his roles in “Deliverance,” “The Longest Yard,” “Cannonball Run” and “Evening Shade.”
13. Selma Blair
This actress was born in Southfield in 1972. She attended Hillel Day School in Farmington Hills before attending Cranbrook. She went to Kalamazoo College before moving to New York City. You know her from such hit films as “Cruel Intentions,” “Legally Blonde,” “The Sweetest Thing” and “Hellboy.” In recent years, she has been open about her battle with multiple sclerosis.
12. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Winner of 15 major world boxing titles, Mayweather Jr. was born in Grand Rapids in 1977. His family moved to New Jersey in the 80s. Boxing Writers Association of America named him the “Fighter of the Decade” for the 2010s. In 2016, ESPN ranked him as the greatest boxer of the last 25 years, pound for pound. The retired boxer finished with an undefeated 49-0 record.
11. Kate Upton
This model and actress was born in St. Joseph in 1992. Her family moved to Florida seven years later. Upton was the cover model for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue three times in 2012, 2013 and 2017. She also starred in the films “Tower Heist,” “The Other Woman” and “The Layover.” She’s married to former Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander. The couple has one daughter.
10. Paul Feig
This actor, director and writer was born in Mt. Clemens in 1962. He graduated from Chippewa Valley High School in Clinton Twp. Feig starred as Mr. Pool in “Sabrina, The Teenage Witch.” He directed “Freaks and Geeks,” several episodes of “The Office” and “Arrested Development.” He also directed the movie “Bridesmaids” among other films including the recent “Ghostbusters” reboot.
9. Tim Meadows
“The Ladies Man” was born in Highland Park in 1961. Meadows graduated from Pershing High in Detroit and attended Wayne State University. You know the “Saturday Night Live” alumni from “Grown Ups,” “Schooled,” “The Goldbergs,” “Mean Girls” and a lot more movies and TV shows.
8. Dean Cain
“The Man of Steel” was born in Mt. Clemens in 1966. Cain’s family moved to California when he was young. The actor, who has been in dozens of movies and TV shows, is known for playing Superman in TV’s “Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.” Cain graduated from Princeton. The NFL’s Buffalo Bills signed him out of college, but a knee injury ended his career.
7. Keegan-Michael Key
This actor and comedian was born in Southfield in 1971. He graduated from the University of Detroit Mercy in 1993. You know him from his hit sketch series “Key & Peele.” You also know Key from “Pitch Perfect 2,” “Toy Story 4,” “The Lion King” live action film, “Friends From College” and most recently as host of “Game On!”
6. Lee Majors
“The Six Million Dollar Man” was born in Wyandotte in 1939. Along with his starring role as Colonel Steve Austin, you know Majors from “The Fall Guy” and “The Big Valley.”
5. Terry Crews
The “America’s Got Talent” host was born in Flint in 1968. He graduated high school from Flint Southwestern Academy before attending Interlochen. He also attended Western Michigan University where he excelled at football before being drafted by the Rams. You know Crews from “White Chicks,” “Blended,” “The Expendables” and “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.”
4. Ed McMahon
This actor and comedian was born in Detroit in 1923. He passed away in 2009. He was Johnny Carson’s sidekick for 30 years. You also know him as the host of “Star Search” and co-host of “TV’s Bloopers & Practical Jokes.”
3. Sonny Bono
This singer and actor was born in Detroit in 1935. His family moved to California when he was seven. He’s most famous for his duet with wife Cher, “I Got You Babe.” The two also shared the stage on “The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour” for a few years in the early 70s. Bono was also involved in politics. He was the mayor of Palm Springs from 1988 to 1992 and was the Republican congressman for California’s 44th district from 1995 until his death in 1998.
2. John Witherspoon
This actor and comedian was born in Detroit in 1942. He passed away in 2019. You know him from his roles in “Friday,” “Next Friday,” “Little Nicky,” “The Wayans Bros.” and “Amen,” among many other TV shows and movies.
1. Bruce Campbell
This actor and comedian was born in Royal Oak in 1958. He graduated from Groves High School where he met fellow famous Michigander, Sam Raimi. Campbell attended Western Michigan University for a short time before continuing to pursue acting. You know him from the “Evil Dead” series of movies which includes “Army of Darkness.” You also know him from “Xena: Warrior Princess,” “Brisco County Jr.,” “Burn Notice,” “Spider-Man” and starring as Elvis in “Bubba Ho-Tep.”
Of course, there are many other celebrities who are from Michigan that you may or may not know about. This is just 30 of some of the stars who were born in the Great Lakes State.
MORE FROM MLIVE:
30 famous singers and bands you may not know are from Michigan
The most famous person from each of Michigan’s 83 counties
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Born on December 3, 1960, in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Julie Anne Smith, known professionally as Julianne Moore, is an award-winning actress and author of international acclaim. With a career spanning over three decades, her work in film, television, and theatre has earned her numerous accolades and recognition as one of the most talented actresses of her generation. Moore initially embarked on her acting journey with minor television roles before making a significant breakthrough in the soap opera As the World Turns, where she received a Daytime Emmy Award. Her ascension to prominence continued with performances in films such as Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and Far From Heaven, demonstrating a knack for choosing complex, layered characters. Moore's portrayal of an Alzheimer's patient in Still Alice brought her Academy Award recognition, underlining her ability to captivate audiences with nuanced performances. Beyond her acting prowess, Moore is also a successful children's book author. Her literary contributions include Freckleface Strawberry and My Mom is a Foreigner, But Not to Me, both of which have been positively received by critics and readers alike. A vocal advocate for gun control and LGBT rights, Moore uses her platform to amplify societal issues, further establishing her as not just an exceptional artist, but a committed activist as well.
Evan Rachel Wood, an American actress, model, and musician, is recognized for her versatile talent and impactful roles across various mediums. Born on September 7, 1987, in Raleigh, North Carolina, she was introduced to the world of acting at a very young age. Her parents, Ira David Wood III and Sara Lynn Moore, both accomplished actors and directors, provided an enriching environment that fostered her creative growth. By the time she was nine, Wood had already made her mark in the film industry with her debut in the movie Digging to China. Wood's career trajectory took a significant turn when she starred in the critically acclaimed film Thirteen (2003), earning her a Golden Globe nomination. Her performance as a troubled teenager marked her transition from child artist to leading lady, showcasing her ability to handle mature roles with depth and nuance. She continued to impress with her performances in films like Across the Universe (2007) and The Wrestler (2008). Her exploration of complex characters extended to television as well, most notably in the HBO series Westworld, where she played the role of an android named Dolores. Beyond acting, Wood has also displayed her musical prowess. She showcased her singing abilities in the Beatles-inspired film Across the Universe and later formed a band, Rebel and a Basketcase, with musician Zach Villa. Her advocacy for mental health awareness and LGBTQ+ rights has also been noteworthy, using her platform to raise awareness and fight for change.
Jaime Pressly, a multifaceted actress and model from the United States, has made a significant impact in Hollywood with her diverse roles and undeniable talent. Born on July 30, 1977, in Kinston, North Carolina, Pressly's foray into the world of glamour began at an early age when she started training as a gymnast and dancer. Her dedication and hard work quickly paid off as she graced the cover of Teen Magazine at just 14 years old after winning the publication's modeling competition. Pressly's acting career took off in 1997 with her role in the drama series Push. However, it was her portrayal of Joy Turner in the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl that catapulted her to international fame. For this role, she received critical acclaim and numerous accolades, including an Emmy award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2007. Pressly's filmography is vast and varied, encompassing both comedy and drama genres. Some of her notable film roles include Joe Dirt, DOA: Dead or Alive, and I Love You, Man. Aside from her acting career, Pressly is known for her entrepreneurial spirit. She launched her own clothing line, J'aime by Jaime Pressly, which showcased her keen sense of style and business acumen. A dedicated mother, Pressly balances her professional endeavors with her personal life, raising her three children.
Known for his profound influence as an evangelical Christian figure, Billy Graham rose to prominence with his charismatic preaching style and commitment to the gospel. Born on November 7, 1918, in Charlotte, North Carolina, Graham was raised on a dairy farm, where he developed a strong work ethic that would later play a significant role in his ministry. After graduating from Florida Bible Institute and Wheaton College, Graham embarked on a pastoral career and quickly gained recognition for his powerful sermons and magnetic personality. Graham's ministry expanded beyond church walls when he began broadcasting on radio and television, reaching millions of people worldwide. His innovative use of media technology helped him spread his message to a broader audience, transforming him into one of the most influential religious figures of the 20th century. Graham also served as a spiritual advisor to several U.S. presidents, further cementing his status as a key figure in American religious and political life. Throughout his life, Graham remained dedicated to his faith and his mission of spreading the gospel. His crusades, which took place in various parts of the world, attracted large crowds and led many to Christianity. Notably, Graham held steadfast to his principles, refusing to segregate his audiences during a time when racial segregation was prevalent. A prolific author, Graham wrote numerous books, sharing his insights on faith and spirituality. His legacy continues to inspire countless individuals around the globe, marking him as a transformative figure in the realm of religion and spirituality.
Ava Gardner, born on December 24, 1922, in Smithfield, North Carolina, was a force to be reckoned with in the golden era of Hollywood. With her striking beauty and raw talent, she quickly rose to become one of the most iconic actresses of her time. Her journey from a humble upbringing as the youngest of seven children to the glitz and glamour of Hollywood is nothing short of remarkable. Long before her death on January 25, 1990, Gardner left her mark on the film industry. Gardner's career took off when she signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in 1941. She became known for her compelling performances in a string of successful films throughout the 1940s and 50s. Some of her most recognized roles include her Oscar-nominated performance in Mogambo (1953), alongside Clark Gable, and The Night of the Iguana (1964), directed by John Huston. Her acting prowess, combined with her distinctive allure, made her a beloved figure in Hollywood and beyond. Away from the silver screen, Gardner led a colorful life, marked by high-profile relationships and a spirited personality that often challenged societal norms. She was married three times, most notably to Frank Sinatra, with whom she shared a tumultuous bond. Despite the controversies and struggles that often surrounded her personal life, Gardner remained unapologetically herself, living life on her own terms. Her legacy continues to inspire generations of actresses, embodying the timeless appeal of a true Hollywood star.
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After retiring from the sport in 1989, Hayworth made his television debut as a sports commentator for ESPN. Thanks to his charisma and in-depth knowledge of the sport, he quickly became a popular figure in the media world. This media exposure ultimately paved the way for a political career for Hayworth, who was elected as a United States Congressional Representative for Arizona from 1995 to 2007, increasing his celebrity in political circles.
JD Hayworth is an American media personality, known for his career as a journalist, radio host, and politician. Born July 12, 1958 in High Point, North Carolina, he was noted for his charismatic voice and energetic style. After graduating from the University of North Carolina with a degree in communications, Hayworth began his journalism career as a local reporter before moving to national television. He became a household name as co-host of the policy talk show, “Crossfire,” where his combative style and penchant for conservatism captivated viewers. In 1994, JD Hayworth took the next step, entering politics as a U.S. Congressman, representing Arizona.
He was re-elected several times and became a powerful voice for the conservative movement. During his time in the House of Representatives, he took strong positions on immigration, gun rights, and tax issues, earning him a loyal and passionate support base. In 2010, Hayworth unsuccessfully campaigned for the United States Senate and since then has continued his media career as a radio host and political commentator. JD Hayworth remains an influential figure in the American media and political landscape, continuing to raise his voice and defend the conservative principles he holds dear.
I would like to take this opportunity to clarify that “JD Hayworth” can refer to two personalities: John David Hayworth Jr. (born in 1958), an American politician, or Jeri Lynn Mooney, known as JD Hayworth (born in 1960 ), an American radio and television personality. Since I don’t have enough information to determine who you are referring to, I will provide a brief genealogy of both. To begin with, John David Hayworth Jr. was born on July 12, 1958, in High Point, North Carolina.
Unfortunately, I do not have any information regarding his genealogy or family lineage. On the other hand, Jeri Lynn Mooney, known as JD Hayworth, was born on July 15, 1960, in High Point, North Carolina. Again, I do not have detailed information on his genealogy or his ancestors. It is possible that these two personalities are related, but without specific information, it is impossible to confirm. I hope this information will still be useful to you.
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Responding to J.D. Hayworth
Editor:
This is my opinion in response to the piece by J.D. Hayworth titled “Finishing the job for his predecessor.”
I have been an avid political junkie for about three decades. It’s important to study our past to understand how we got to this twisted present where up is down and lies are accepted as truth depending on one’s own version of reality.
Reading Mr. Hayworth’s piece, I fi nd the typical distorted, veiled right-wing projection fantasy regarding President Obama’s intentions and what progressive policies stand for.
Republicans really need to stop demonizing the opposition. Nobody is gunning for the end of democracy. If there is any evidence of that, it’s coming from today’s Republican Party.
When it comes to elections, Republicans were never nice and accepting of anything, Mr. Hayworth. The endless partisan audit we are witnessing now is more than enough proof of that. Also, if anyone has been politicizing the pandemic, it’s the right and its campaign to actually shame people into not wearing a mask or getting vaccinated.
Also, why are Republicans so obsessed with President Obama. It’s like you people lost your minds when he was elected. You blame him for divisiveness when, in actuality, it was the right’s inability to accept him as president. Let’s talk about the Republicans and their polarizing tactics for a moment now.
As your piece aptly demonstrates, the Republican Party has been lying and demonizing Democrats for decades. The reality is Republicans have no choice but to lie. I mean you’re not going to win elections telling working people that your big plan is to just cut taxes on rich people and privatize everything your wealthy constituents see no value in subsidizing.
Then once you raise the national debt due to repeated defi cits as a result of a lack of revenue, you cry conservative mantra against spending and raising taxes. Of course, these cries only show up when the Democrats get elected to clean up the mess.
So, your party lies and pushes propaganda focused on cultural trigger issues and blaming everyone but the wealthy who pull your strings when you’re in offi ce.
Most of us get it. Your brainwashed voters are easily manipulated and triggered but in the minority, and now you seek ways to continue to win. This is born out in the fact that all your recent presidential wins have lost the popular vote.
It appears now your party is seeking ways to obstruct the ability for people to easily vote, gerrymander districts and pass laws to circumvent the will of the voters if need be, all under the guise of voter security and concerns of fraud.
Republicans have been doing this for decades, crying voter fraud and dead people voting. Of course, nothing of substance has ever come to light. It’s more lies to give your party the edge for minority rule. It’s a strategy you’re playing out now in Arizona with that wacky partisan hack audit. It’s a strategy your party conveniently appropriated after Trump screamed “cheaters” because he lost his election.
Trump’s childish sore loser rant went to the limits of treason, culminating in a large group of his brainwashed supporters attempting what amounts to a coup on his behalf. Minority rule is undemocratic, and we live in a democratic republic.
Republicans love to say it’s a republic like it doesn’t involve democracy. It does, though, so that’s another Republican lie, aka talking point, to try to validate their need to rule in the minority. The reality is your party sees the writing on the wall for its demise. This nation is rapidly becoming a diverse majority of Democrat-leaning voters. We understand that your party’s new march to authoritarianism is the only way to maintain power and control.
My question is this: How many of you actually believe the nonsense you push, and how many of you know you’re pedaling lies? Do you include yourself in the opinion that Americans with different political points of view fear the end of the USA as a democratic republic if progressive policies were put in place?
Those are the same policies we had from the 1930s to 1980 that yielded the largest middle class the country ever had, much to the chagrin of the Republicans and their rich benefactors.
If you do share this fear, I feel sorry for you, as you have been conned just like your constituents. This isn’t hard to believe, because I know many who were young adults in the Reagan era and have this distorted view of how this country should be run.
I see these Republicans as the fi rst generation to be conned. Before them, the country knew what Republicans stood for. Before them, the voting public has gone through the great republican depression. Yes, it was actually called that back in the day.
They had your party’s number and knew what your party was about, which is limiting democracy by reducing the middle class to nothing. They and you, for a certain period of your life, benefi ted from the progressive policies Democrats put in place in the
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1930s to return the country to prosperity. Those policies you now claim limit democracy actually grew it to a size your wealthy benefactors grew uncomfortable with. Those voters knew the mess your party made, and for that your party didn’t take the house until the 1990s. Your party had to basically wait for all of those citizens that lived in the era of the depression to die off.
The Republican Party has never passed any significant legislation that benefits working- and middle-class voters. Your party has no ability or desire to govern. Your party likes the way things are run now, where the rich have it all and the rest of the country has to beg and borrow on credit and work multiple jobs to survive.
Wages have stagnated since Reaganomics was implemented. Your party is primarily responsible for the destruction of our manufacturing-based economy and the conversion of the country to a Wall Street-dominated society that generates most of its profits moving money while the middle class toils in low-wage service jobs.
Your rich masters gorge themselves on the wealth your party transfers to them in the form of massive tax breaks, allowing them to play gambling games with their surplus in the financial markets.
Your party has succeeded in removing all the guardrails put in place to keep the wealthy from abusing the workers. Your party has pushed through deregulation of our financial sector, allowing banks to gamble in the markets where they used to be restricted to just providing savings accounts and lending money.
This alone causes violent ups and downs in the market, due to speculators causing booms and busts that you give them a pass on while making the poor working stiffs pay more to bail out the mess.
Your Republican-majority Supreme Court paved the way for the rich to buy off the GOP legislators with their decision that corporations are people and money is speech.
Your party removed the fairness doctrine, allowing your vast right-wing lie machine to broadcast 24/7 and pretend it’s news. So, why do millions vote for your party? A massive media machine that feeds them lies daily, that’s why.
President Obama is actually correct regarding the right and its pension to push disinformation and nonsense. That is because you and yours have fed your voters a load of lies for decades on talk radio, print and television.
Your party’s faux patriotism ideology where you wrap yourself in the American flag and push a narrative that only the conservatives are worthy to be called “Americans” is in exact opposition to what the founders intended the soul of this nation to be.
Progressives see an inclusive nation of everyone working not only for their own benefit but for the benefit of all. Republicans are believers in an exclusive nation that only benefits those who are among the fortunate. Your sad attempt at making the GOP and its voters into victims doesn’t hold water here either.
Your party always plays the victim card. Your comment that Obama is actually telling the GOP to know its place is laughable. Your party was never that timid. Republicans consistently push the bounds of legality, ethics and common decency in the name of strategic victory.
And now your party is pushing anti-vax and anti-mask propaganda, essentially killing your own to make Biden look bad. Your party is made up of monsters who actively seek the destruction of democracy and the implementation of an autocratic ruler to preserve your rapidly fading dominance in a country that becomes more diverse and progressive by the day. My hope is your party is stopped sooner rather than later.
Robert Lukacs Goodyear
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BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ
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One of my crowning achievements as an American is having never watched a single episode of any program involving a Kardashian. I have made a point of this for the past 20 years for three reasons.
One, because I’m not terribly keen on reality most days, I see no reason to watch reality television. Two, Kris and Kim, et. al., have managed to ruin Bruce Jenner and Kanye West, the only humans connected to the Kardashian clan with any discernible talent. Finally — and most importantly — I loathe celebrities.
This is clearly a minority opinion in 2021. At a moment when so many of us seem to take our cultural, political, lifestyle and health care cues from the rich and famous, it feels rebellious to willfully ignore everyone from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to Cardi B.
Understand, please, I’m not saying that celebrities have no right to voice their opinions. They absolutely do. And, in turn, the rest of us have the right to ignore them like a 5-year-old ignoring a plateful of green veggies.
How bad have things gotten?
I flipped on CNN recently to see anchor Jake Tapper seriously ask Dr. Anthony Fauci to comment on a tweet made by pop star Nikki Minaj that “a cousin in Trinidad won’t get the (COVID-19) vaccine cuz his friend got it & became impotent. His testicles became swollen.”
Minaj went on to encourage her 22 million Twitter followers to “pray on it & make sure you’re comfortable with ur decision, not bullied,” when considering being vaccinated.
Said Fauci on the subject of testicular swelling and vaccine-caused reproductive issues: “There’s no evidence that it happens, nor is there any mechanistic reason to imagine that it would happen. So, the answer to your question is no.”
Nuts, am I right?
The most popular podcast in America belongs to stand-up comic Joe Rogan, who has spent time recently (a) flat on his back after testing positive for COVID-19 and (b) describing his use of ivermectin to treat the disease.
While it’s true the drug won the Nobel Prize in 2015, that was for its use treating the world’s poorest populations for parasitic diseases like river blindness and elephantiasis. In animals, veterinary-grade ivermectin is used to deworm livestock. Is it a miracle cure for COVID-19?
No, says the Food and Drug Administration: “Currently available data do not show ivermectin is effective against COVID-19.”
By the way: “Never use medications intended for animals on yourself or other people. Animal ivermectin products are very different from those approved for humans. Use of animal ivermectin for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19 in humans is dangerous.”
BS, calls Rogan: “The pharmaceutical companies are in cahoots to try and make anybody who takes this stuff look crazy. But what’s crazy is look how better I got! I got better pretty quick.”
In fairness, Rogan often tells his flock that he’s not offering medical advice — while seeming to offer medical advice.
But anymore, what celebrity isn’t offering advice? Social media is full of influencers peddling makeup tips, keto diets and sex toys.
The biggest draw in boxing right now isn’t a boxer at all. It’s celebrimoron Jake Paul, who initially “went viral” doing stunt videos on Vine before starring in “Bizaardvark” on the Disney Channel.
And politics? Joe Biden had a cruise ship full of celebs on his side in 2020, including Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Donald Trump — our first celebrity president! — had endorsements from Mike Ditka, Lil Wayne and Roseanne Barr.
My prescription: If you’re voting based on recommendations from The Rock or Roseanne, how about instead you swallow 24 ivermectin tablets and call me in the morning?
David Leibowitz has called the Valley home since 1995. Contact david@leibowitzsolo.com
15 California recall outcome leaves questions
BY J.D. HAYWORTH
West Valley View Columnist
“As Maine goes, so goes the nation!” Politics provided that boast for the Pine Tree State over more than a century.
From 1820 until 1932, the party that won Maine’s gubernatorial election would see its nominee capture the presidency in November — at least that’s the way it went in 22 of 29 election cycles.
Recently, California has enjoyed a similar rep — not as a political bellwether but as a lifestyle trendsetter, especially for the last half of the 20th century.
Postwar prosperity, pleasing weather, plus the production of films and TV put the rest of the nation on notice that California truly was the Golden State.
The rest of the nation did more than take notice. Many Americans took to the road and moved to California; it became our most populous state in 1962.
But the growth had a downside. The traffic, the smog and the crowds led many to leave in the 1970s. In fact, a neighboring state popularized this earthy request: “Don’t ‘Californicate’ Oregon!”
Sloganeering aside, statistics reveal that California’s growth has slowed significantly, most notably in the second decade of the 21st century. The Public Policy Institute of California reports that “in the past year, growth has essentially ground to a halt.” Why? California’s government has killed the Golden Bear.
Leftist policies that excuse illegal immigration, empower criminals and emasculate police have endangered the law abiding and ended any notion of an idyllic middle-class lifestyle.
Add to that wasteful spending, excessive taxation, plus a housing crisis, and it has put real economic pressure on middle-income families.
So, before California’s middle class completely went the way of the Dodo, a grassroots campaign took root. The goal? To drive Gov. Gavin Newsom to political extinction through a recall election.
Initially, the recall effort appeared promising. Not only were 2 million recall petition signatures delivered to the secretary of state’s office by March; 46 candidates qualified for the recall ballot.
However, two major legal provisions helped protect the incumbent. The first was financial. Newsom was free to raise as much money as possible, but his recall challengers were forced to adhere to campaign finance laws that put limits on their spending. Gavin had the greenbacks — a total $58 million by the end of August. The second advantage for Team Newsom? Like the old saying, they could “mail it in.”
“They said, ‘You voted.’ I said, ‘No, I have not…’ So as I left, I did the provisional ballot. I was very angry. … If I voted, how did I vote?”
In San Diego, three recall ballots were sent to the address of Ashli Babbitt, the Air Force veteran shot and killed at the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6. She was in Washington to protest irregularities in the 2020 presidential election.
Sept. 14 in California bears a certain resemblance to Nov. 3, 2020, across America.
While Gavin Newsom’s victory was overwhelming, and in stark contrast to the razor-thin margins in several swing states last November, some observers are left with this overwhelming feeling: Either we institute common-sense election reforms and somehow restore civic virtue or every American election may end up “Californicated.”
J.D. Hayworth represented Arizona in the U.S. House from 1995-2007. He authored and sponsored the Enforcement First Act, legislation that would have mandated enforcement of Federal Immigration Law in the 109th Congress.
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hold on to them,’” Lynne said.
“Now that the State of Arizona Restricted Bank Rolls are being offered up we won’t be surprised if thousands of Arizona residents claim the maximum limit allowed of 4 Bank Rolls per resident before they’re all gone,” said Lynne.
“That’s because after the Bank Rolls were loaded with 15 rarely seen Silver Walking Liberties, each verified to meet a minimum collector grade of very good or above, the dates and mint marks of the U.S. Gov’t issued Silver Walking Liberty Half Dollars sealed away inside the State of Arizona Restricted Bank Rolls have never been searched. But, we do know that some of these coins date clear back to the early 1900’s and are worth up to 100 times their face value, so there is no telling what Arizona residents will find until they sort through all the coins,” Lynne went on to say.
And here’s the best part. If you are a resident of the state of Arizona you cover only the $39 per coin state minimum set by the National Mint and Treasury, that’s fifteen rarely seen U.S. Gov’t issued Silver Walking Liberties worth up to 100 times their face value for just $585 which is a real steal because non state residents must pay $118 per coin which totals $1,770 if any coins remain after the 2-day deadline.
The only thing Arizona residents need to do is call the State Toll-Free Hotlines printed in today’s newspaper publication before the 2-day order deadline ends.
“Rarely seen U.S. Gov’t issued silver coins like these are highly sought after, but we’ve never seen anything like this before. According to The Official Red Book, a Guide Book of United States Coins many Silver Walking Liberty Half Dollars are now worth $40 - $825 each in collector value,” Lynne said. “We’re guessing thousands of Arizona residents will be taking the maximum limit of 4 Bank Rolls because they make such amazing gifts for any occasion for children, parents, grandparents, friends and loved ones,” Lynne continued.
“We know the phones will be ringing off the hook. That’s why hundreds of Hotline Operators are standing by to answer the phones beginning at 8:30 am this morning. We’re going to do our best, but with just 2 days to answer all the calls it won’t be easy. So make sure to tell everyone to keep calling if all lines are busy. We’ll do our best to answer them all.” Lynne said.
The only thing readers of today’s newspaper publication need to do is make sure they are a resident of the state of Arizona and call the National Toll-Free Hotlines before the 2-day deadline ends midnight tomorrow. ■
HOW TO CLAIM THE LAST STATE RESTRICTED BANK ROLLS
FACTS: If you are a Arizona State Resident read the important information below about claiming the State Silver Bank Rolls, then call the State Toll-Free Hotline at 8:30 am:
1-800-979-3771 EXT: RWB2069
Are these Silver Walking Liberties worth more than other half dollars:
How do I get the State Restricted Walking Liberty Silver Bank Rolls:
Yes. These U.S. Gov’t issued Silver Walking Liberties were minted in the early 1900’s and will never be minted again. That makes them extremely collectible. The vast majority of half dollars minted after 1970 have no silver content at all and these Walking Liberties were one of the last silver coins minted for circulation. That’s why many of them now command hundreds in collector value so there’s no telling how much they could be worth in collector value someday.
How much are State Restricted Walking Liberty Silver Bank Rolls worth:
It’s impossible to say, but some of these U.S Gov’t issued Walking Liberties dating back to the early 1900’s are worth up to 100 times the face value and there are 15 in each Bank Roll so you better hurry if you want to get your hands on them. Collector values always fluctuate and there are never any guarantees. But we do know they are the only Arizona State Silver Bank Rolls known to exist and Walking Liberties are highly collectible so anyone lucky enough to get their hands on these Silver Bank Rolls should hold onto them because there’s no telling how much they could be worth in collector value someday.
Why are so many Arizona residents claiming them:
Because they are the only State Restricted Walking Liberty Silver Bank Rolls known to exist and everyone wants their share. Each Bank Roll contains a whopping 15 Silver Walking Liberties dating back to the early 1900’s some worth up to 100 times their face value. Best of all Arizona residents are guaranteed to get them for the state minimum set by the National Mint and Treasury of just $39 per Silver Walking Liberty for the next two days.
Arizona residents are authorized to claim up to the limit of 4 State Restricted Walking Liberty Silver Bank Rolls by calling the State Toll Free Hotline at 1-800-979-3771 Ext. RWB2069 starting at precisely 8:30 am this morning. Everyone who does is getting the only State Restricted Walking Liberty Silver Bank Rolls known to exist. That’s a full Bank Roll containing 15 Silver Walking Liberties from the early 1900’s some worth up to 100 times their face value for just the state minimum set by the National Mint and Treasury of just $39 per Silver Walking Liberty, which is just $585 for the full Bank Rolls and that’s a real steal because non state residents are not permitted to call before 5 pm tomorrow and must pay $1,770 for each Arizona State Restricted Walking Liberty Silver Bank Roll if any remain.
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(CNN) On Monday, November 20, Floridas Supreme Court justices heard the case from lawyers representing both Republicans and Democrats, as well as state and county officials, on whether to include manual recounts in Florida's final election results.
Representative Peter Deutsch is a Democrat representing Florida's 20th Congressional District, which includes parts of Broward and Miami-Dade counties. Before being elected to Congress, Representative Deutsch served in the Florida House of Representatives. Deutsch is a member of the New Democrat Coalition and the House Committee on Commerce.
Representative J.D. Hayworth is a Republican representing Arizona's 6th Congressional District. Representative Hayworth founded and has served as chair of the Constitutional Caucus. Representative Hayworth is a member of the House Ways and Means Committee.
Chat Moderator: Welcome to the Crossfire chat room, Representative Peter Deutsch.
Representative Peter Deutsch: How're you doing? Looking forward to hearing from you.
Chat Moderator: Welcome to the Crossfire chat room, Representative J.D. Hayworth.
Representative J.D. Hayworth: Greetings from Arizona!
Chat Moderator: Congress has delayed reconvening until early next month because of this election situation. What must Congress still accomplish before the end of the session?
Representative Peter Deutsch: The only thing we technically have to do is finish the appropriations bill, but there's a lot left to do, if the political will is there. We can deal with the patients' bill of rights, some tax issues, Medicare issues, so-called Medicare givebacks as well, but there's a question of what will happen.
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Representative J.D. Hayworth: I think, quite simply, we're in a situation where we have to complete the appropriations process. There are some concerns about Medicare, but again, I think we're in a situation where whoever our next president is, it's important to basically set the table for the executive branch and the next Congress.
And so, I wouldn't be surprised if we simply go back, complete the work, perhaps through a continuing resolution that funds the government at the current levels, and possibly a Medicare refinement bill.
Question from Chatter: How did you each appraise today's questions directed to the various lawyers by the Supreme Court justices today?
Representative J.D. Hayworth: I thought that if you were looking simply at the tone of the justices and the frequency of their questions, it seemed to me that there seems to be a bias tilting toward the Gore team -- just based on the proceedings.
Representative Peter Deutsch: I watched, also, gavel to gavel this afternoon, and my first impression is how proud I am to be a Floridian and how proud to be an American. It was an incredible exercise in American democracy. If I were focusing on one line of questioning that kept coming up, I think the justices were consistent in their questions in pointing out that Florida law, both statutory and case law, is set up to have voter intent determined, and that manual recounts are part of the Florida statutes to get a more accurate reflection of voter intent.
And it seemed almost silly, the arguments that Secretary Harris and Governor Bush's attorneys were making, that the Florida statutes' intent was to cut off the will and a fair and accurate assessment of voter intent in Florida.
Representative J.D. Hayworth: There is nothing sillier and sadder than the spectacle of those on the bench attempting to legislate. I pray that is not the result of today's proceedings.
Question from Felix: For both representatives, is there any way that both sides can heal this debate?
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Representative Peter Deutsch: Absolutely. I think that when a fair and accurate count is over, whoever has won, I believe, will have the respect and goodwill of all of the American people. But I think it is critical that we get to that point, and it has also been scary that the Bush campaign has raised the specter of attempting to use extra-legal methods if they are unsuccessful in terms of a fair and accurate count.
Representative J.D. Hayworth: Sadly, that type of response from Peter, with a rhetorical tip of the cap to reconciliation, is eradicated with this type of charge he's making. I think it's absolutely necessary that we respect the rule of law, and I don't want to get into rhetorical vitriol; I simply want to offer my point of view.
I think it is important to understand that Secretary Harris is following the letter of Florida law, that a state court in Florida upheld her ability to do so, and that, in unprecedented fashion, the Florida Supreme Court intervened, and what I fear, if you want to talk about extra legal, is the notion that now the seven justices will become seven imperial legislators and attempt to write new law in their opinion. That is a very dangerous precedent.
Representative Peter Deutsch: I am not raising the specter of the Bush campaign's extralegal activities. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison last night on TV specifically raised the specter of the Florida Legislature, if they're not happy with the court's decision, of sending a competing list of electors to the Congress for our January 6 meeting, for those electors elected by the Florida Legislature to be the correct electors of Florida, irregardless of what the Florida Supreme Court says. The speaker of the Florida House for the past several days has been extensively quoted as saying the exact same thing.
Question from TXDEM: Will both guests commit to supporting the decision made by the Florida Supreme Court?
Representative Peter Deutsch: Absolutely.
Representative J.D. Hayworth: Let me thank the TXDEM -- that I appreciate the effort to try to arbitrarily close the curtain on this based on a court decision. I think it's important to point out that what Peter describes as extralegal, in terms of the Florida Legislature, is not extralegal but, in fact, provided for under previous elections and, more importantly, under the Constitution.
Representative Peter Deutsch: I guess I'm no longer shocked to hear Republicans hearing they're not going to follow the rule of law set out by legal authority, and that they're at this point ready to do anything to assure that George Bush becomes president.
Representative J.D. Hayworth: That's totally false.
Question from Apoliticalgirl: Do you think that this election might make America rethink our electoral system or if any changes might be made?
Representative J.D. Hayworth: Senator-elect Clinton of New York has already said that she will introduce legislation to abolish the Electoral College. I'm not so sure that's a step we should take. But I do believe that we will see efforts to have ballot reforms across the country.
Representative Peter Deutsch: One thing I can be sure of in Broward County where I live is that we will never use this type of voting system again. I would hope that this type of computer card is eliminated throughout America.
Chat Moderator: Regardless of how the Florida Supreme Court rules on the issue of hand counts, should both Gore and Bush let this be the last word, or should they appeal an adverse ruling?
Representative J.D. Hayworth: I believe, as Secretary Baker warned almost a week ago, once you start down the road to litigation, it is very difficult to cut yourself out of that Gordian Knot.
Representative Peter Deutsch: Again, the vice president last Thursday offered a Solomonesque-type proposal, to commit to a fair and accurate count throughout the state and stop all legal proceedings. I dont speak for the Gore campaign, but I would believe that that proposal is still on the table, and I would urge Governor Bush to agree to that proposal.
Representative J.D. Hayworth: Understand that Vice President Gore's proposal is itself extralegal, because Florida law mandated that a statewide recount would have had to taken place by November 10, and he offered that following the November 10 deadline.
Question from Test: Representative Deutsch, don't you think that the voters intent is clear when the rest of the ballot -- other that the presidential vote -- is clearly punched through with no chads hanging, and there is only a dimple marking on the presidential vote? Doesn't that tell you that the "voter" clearly decided not to cast a vote for president? And aren't you, in turn, creating votes for Gore?
Representative Peter Deutsch: The standard that exists throughout the country and Texas statute is a dimpled standard. Having looked at these ballots for hours, when you see a chad that a stylus literally stuck a hole through the chad, and there were other votes on the ballot, I think it's fair to say that voter wanted to push that chad out and it didn't go out. There are times that the machines do not seem to align properly, so you have some precincts where there are literally dozens of dimples. That would seem to infer there was a machine problem in that particular precinct.
Representative J.D. Hayworth: I worry that this entire exercise of recount in predominantly Democratic counties, of constantly changing rules for what is accepted as a vote, makes for something worse than mischief. It makes for county-sanctioned vote fraud, and it should be of concern to every American.
Representative Peter Deutsch: A number of states provide for manual recounts, including Texas and Massachusetts and a number of states. In fact, one of our colleagues, Congressman Delahunt of Massachusetts, is in the Congress due to a manual recount of the same type of ballots using the dimpled standard in Massachusetts.
Question from Mack: Should we pass legislation that all counties go to an all-electronic ballot process?
Representative J.D. Hayworth: I think that's something that will be considered. And -- not to be trite -- but how do you define electronic? One of the things Peter omitted in discussing Texas law is the fact that the state of Texas features optical scan balloting in all but one dozen counties. It's a legitimate concern, but I'm not sure. I think it will require thought, debate and research if we want to standardize or federalize a ballot.
Representative Peter Deutsch: I don't want to become an election-machine expert. I can tell you again that the balloting system in Broward County, which is used in many places throughout the country, is totally flawed, is an ancient technology and needs to be replaced and will be replaced in Broward County and, hopefully, everyplace in America.
Chat Moderator: What issues can the new Congress and new administration focus on that might encourage bipartisan cooperation?
Representative J.D. Hayworth: Ironically, it could be election reform. Dealing with this, because we see it to be a problem on both sides of the aisle, and oftentimes -- as I think Peter will agree -- we come together when we think there is a common problem.
Representative Peter Deutsch: I would add that our disagreements are much smaller than our agreements. There are a lot more bipartisan efforts to improve the lives of people of the U.S. than the rhetoric sometimes during the heat of campaigns. Whoever is elected president, regardless of what happens in Congress, there will be a commitment to working together towards economic security, health security and national security that is universal.
Chat Moderator: Thank you for joining us today, Representative Peter Deutsch.
Representative Peter Deutsch: Hopefully everyone will have a chance to visit Florida on many occasions. In Florida we say there are two kinds of people in the U.S.: Those who live in Florida and those who want to live in Florida.
Chat Moderator: Thank you for joining us today, Representative J.D. Hayworth.
Representative J.D. Hayworth: Thank you, and for purposes of full disclosure, we should point out that Peter recently vacationed in Arizona!
Representative Peter Deutsch joined the Crossfire Chat via telephone from Miami, Florida. Representative J.D. Hayworth joined the Crossfire Chat via telephone from Scottsdale, Arizona. CNN.com provided a typist for Representative Deutsch and Representative Hayworth. The above is an edited transcript of that chat, which took place on Monday, November 20, 2000.
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PHOENIX – In 1994, when first running for Congress, J.D. Hayworth, who today is 51 and trying to wrest from John McCain, 73, the Arizona Republican Party’s Senate nomination, went jogging in Washington wearing a T-shirt given to him by some Arizona loggers. Federal solicitude for the supposedly endangered spotted owl was bedeviling the timber industry, and Hayworth’s shirt read: “If two teenagers can procreate in the back seat of a Volkswagen, why does a spotted owl need 2,000 acres?” Hayworth’s jog intersected President Clinton’s, so Hayworth subsequently told the loggers he had “run your message past the president.” Hayworth’s middle name is not Nuance.
Washed into Washington by the 1994 Republican wave, he was washed out in 2006 by a Democratic wave. Born in North Carolina, he is a burly ex-football player for North Carolina State. Having been a television sportscaster here before entering politics, Hayworth bounced from defeat to a talk radio station. There he put his flair for rhetorical fireworks in the service of his favorite causes, two of which are stopping illegal immigration and deploring the insufficiencies of McCain’s conservatism.
McCain, who has a flair for umbrage, felt some about another Hayworth cause – a possible Hayworth Senate candidacy.
Although Hayworth was not yet a candidate, McCain argued that he was receiving from the station’s owner an illegal “corporate in-kind contribution” of “as much as” $540,000 a week, a figure concocted by pricing Hayworth’s 15 hours per week at the rate advertisers would pay for 1,800 30-second spots. Hayworth spared his station the litigation costs by becoming a candidate.
Hayworth and McCain, who is seeking a fifth term, will gnaw on each other until the August primary, the rules of which are still unclear. Usually, primary turnouts are low, but this shootout will be unusually enticing. Republican primaries have been open to unaffiliated voters, but in January, when Hayworth’s candidacy was still embryonic, the state party opted for a closed primary, on the sound principle that party members – there are 1.12 million registered – should pick those who represent the party.
McCain understandably wants the primary open to non-Republicans: A closed primary would favor Hayworth, many of whose supporters are the sort of high-octane conservatives who will vote in an Arizona August. Two of conservatism’s current pinups – Sarah Palin, on whom McCain conferred celebrity, and Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown – have campaigned here for McCain.
Some Arizona and national Republicans worry that nominating Hayworth would exacerbate the party’s problems with Hispanics, the nation’s largest and fastest-growing minority. Barack Obama won 75 percent of the immigrant Latino vote in 2008. Hayworth counters, “Beware the myth of the monolith.” He says “some of my most passionate support” comes from Hispanics offended by illegal immigrants.
Voters incandescent about illegal immigration might be numerous enough to decide a primary. Some seasoned Arizona Republicans say, however, that such immigration has slowed as America’s economy has slowed. And they say the issue has lost some saliency here, and Arizona’s economy has suffered, as some Hispanics have moved to more hospitable states. Furthermore, Hayworth may not understand Arizona’s complex relationship to its centuries-old Hispanic dimension.
Democrats, having assumed that McCain will be nominated, have not groomed a top-tier opponent for him. They probably will find one if they think Hayworth can be nominated. As for the McCain-Hayworth contest, a wise Arizona Republican officeholder who is too prudent to abandon anonymity says each combustible candidate “has it in his power to lose.”
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One exception was made on this list, for a noteworthy individual who technically is not buried here. Instead, his ashes are spread in a place that was special to him. Other than that, each of the other 12 individuals included on this list is buried somewhere in the state of North Carolina. Final resting sites include the mountains, the Piedmont, and on the coast. Each of these people left their mark and legacy on the world in their time. And they will forever be linked to our great state.
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JD Hayworth is an American celebrity whose origins date back to his career as a professional baseball player before becoming a media personality. Born July 12, 1958, in Highpoint, North Carolina, Hayworth began making a name for himself in the 1980s as a baseball player for the New York Yankees and Cleveland Indians. His powerful on-field presence and outstanding performances earned him national recognition and contributed to his media presence.
After retiring from the sport in 1989, Hayworth made his television debut as a sports commentator for ESPN. Thanks to his charisma and in-depth knowledge of the sport, he quickly became a popular figure in the media world. This media exposure ultimately paved the way for a political career for Hayworth, who was elected as a United States Congressional Representative for Arizona from 1995 to 2007, increasing his celebrity in political circles.
JD Hayworth is an American media personality, known for his career as a journalist, radio host, and politician. Born July 12, 1958 in High Point, North Carolina, he was noted for his charismatic voice and energetic style. After graduating from the University of North Carolina with a degree in communications, Hayworth began his journalism career as a local reporter before moving to national television. He became a household name as co-host of the policy talk show, “Crossfire,” where his combative style and penchant for conservatism captivated viewers. In 1994, JD Hayworth took the next step, entering politics as a U.S. Congressman, representing Arizona.
He was re-elected several times and became a powerful voice for the conservative movement. During his time in the House of Representatives, he took strong positions on immigration, gun rights, and tax issues, earning him a loyal and passionate support base. In 2010, Hayworth unsuccessfully campaigned for the United States Senate and since then has continued his media career as a radio host and political commentator. JD Hayworth remains an influential figure in the American media and political landscape, continuing to raise his voice and defend the conservative principles he holds dear.
I would like to take this opportunity to clarify that “JD Hayworth” can refer to two personalities: John David Hayworth Jr. (born in 1958), an American politician, or Jeri Lynn Mooney, known as JD Hayworth (born in 1960 ), an American radio and television personality. Since I don’t have enough information to determine who you are referring to, I will provide a brief genealogy of both. To begin with, John David Hayworth Jr. was born on July 12, 1958, in High Point, North Carolina.
Unfortunately, I do not have any information regarding his genealogy or family lineage. On the other hand, Jeri Lynn Mooney, known as JD Hayworth, was born on July 15, 1960, in High Point, North Carolina. Again, I do not have detailed information on his genealogy or his ancestors. It is possible that these two personalities are related, but without specific information, it is impossible to confirm. I hope this information will still be useful to you.
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A few honorable mentions include Maya Angelou, James Taylor, and Michael Jordan. While these people weren’t actually ‘born’ in North Carolina, their legacy is felt and known throughout the state.
So, who are some of your favorite famous people from North Carolina? Please let us know in the comments below.
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What are seven fun facts about North Carolina that just might surprise you?
There are many fun facts about North Carolina. Even though you're probably familiar with most of them, there are plenty that just might surprise you. Listed below are some of our favorite North Carolina facts.
1. On March 7, 1914, Babe Ruth hit his first professional home run in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
2. Because of its rich land and hot and moist climate, North Carolina grows more sweet potatoes than any other state.
3. In 1937, Krispy Kreme was founded in the Winston-Salem area of North Carolina. Who doesn't love a Krispy Kreme doughnut? They're the best!
4. With only 25 residents (as of the 2020 Census), Dellview, North Carolina is one of the smallest towns in the United States.
5. In 1954, Putt-Putt golf was created by Don Clayton in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
6. The North Carolina Zoo is the world's largest natural habitat zoo. This sprawling zoo is an absolute must-visit for animal lovers of all ages.
7. In 1799, America's first gold rush took place in North Carolina.
What three celebrities in North Carolina are some of the best athletes of all time?
Who doesn't love a little North Carolina trivia, especially about sports? There are plenty of famous people from North Carolina, including several athletes. Listed below are three of our favorite North Carolina athletes.
1. Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina and won six NBA titles with the Chicago Bulls. He was also a member of the '84 and '92 U.S. Olympic teams.
2. Richard Petty
Richard Petty is from Randleman, North Carolina and is a seven-time Daytona 500 champion.
3. Ray Floyd
Ray Floyd is from Fayetteville, North Carolina and was the only golfer on the PGA Tour and the Senior Tour in the same year, which was 1992.
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In this article, we will be exploring 20 famous singers from North Carolina who have made their mark on the music industry. These artists represent a diverse range of genres, from country and bluegrass to R&B and soul. Some of the names on our list are household names with decades-long careers, while others are up-and-coming talents who are just beginning to make a name for themselves. Whether you’re a lifelong North Carolinian or a music lover from elsewhere in the world, this list is sure to introduce you to some of the state’s most talented and beloved singers.
1. Randy Travis
Randy Travis is a renowned country singer and songwriter from Marshville, North Carolina. He was born on May 4, 1959, and grew up listening to country music on the radio, which eventually inspired him to pursue a career in the genre. Travis began playing guitar at a young age and started performing in local clubs in his late teens.
Travis rose to fame in the 1980s with a string of hit singles, including “On the Other Hand,” “Forever and Ever, Amen,” and “Three Wooden Crosses.” He has won numerous awards throughout his career, including seven Grammy Awards, 10 Academy of Country Music Awards, and 10 American Music Awards. Travis has also been inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
In addition to his success as a singer, Travis has also acted in several movies and television shows, including “The Rainmaker” and “Touched by an Angel.” However, his music remains his primary focus, and he continues to tour and record new material. Despite facing health challenges in recent years, Travis’s legacy as one of the most influential country singers of all time remains secure, and his music continues to inspire new generations of artists.
2. James Taylor
James Taylor is a singer-songwriter and guitarist originally from Boston, Massachusetts but has strong connections to North Carolina. He moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina in the late 1950s with his family and began playing music in local coffeehouses while attending the University of North Carolina. Taylor’s unique style, blending elements of folk, rock, and pop, quickly gained popularity, and he signed a record deal with Apple Records in 1968.
Taylor’s career took off in the early 1970s with the release of his hit song “Fire and Rain,” which earned him a Grammy nomination for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. He continued to produce chart-topping hits, including “You’ve Got a Friend,” “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You),” and “Carolina in My Mind.” Taylor has won multiple Grammy Awards throughout his career, including Best Pop Vocal Performance for “Handy Man” and Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for “Stardust.”
Taylor’s impact on popular music has been enormous, with his soulful, introspective lyrics and laid-back guitar style inspiring countless musicians. He remains a beloved figure in both the folk and rock worlds, and his music continues to resonate with audiences around the world.
3. Ben Folds
Ben Folds is a singer-songwriter and pianist hailing from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was born on September 12, 1966, and grew up playing piano and drums in local bands. In 1994, Folds formed the band Ben Folds Five, which quickly gained a cult following with its unique blend of piano-driven pop and alternative rock.
Ben Folds Five released their self-titled debut album in 1995, which featured the hit single “Brick.” The album was a critical and commercial success, and the band went on to release several more albums, including “Whatever and Ever Amen” and “The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner.” In addition to his work with Ben Folds Five, Folds has also released numerous solo albums, including “Rockin’ the Suburbs” and “Songs for Silverman.”
Folds is known for his witty and poignant lyrics, as well as his dynamic piano playing. He has collaborated with numerous musicians over the years, including Regina Spektor and William Shatner. Folds has also been involved in several side projects, such as the a cappella group The Bens and the supergroup 8in8. His music continues to be a favorite of fans of piano-driven pop and alternative rock, and his influence can be heard in the work of countless contemporary artists.
4. Rhiannon Giddens
Rhiannon Giddens is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Greensboro, North Carolina. She was born on February 21, 1977, and began playing the violin at a young age. Giddens later learned to play several other instruments, including the banjo, guitar, and percussion.
Giddens first gained recognition as a member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, a traditional African-American string band that helped to revive and preserve the music of the Piedmont region of the southeastern United States. The band won a Grammy Award in 2011 for their album “Genuine Negro Jig.” Giddens has also released several solo albums, including “Tomorrow Is My Turn” and “Freedom Highway.”
Giddens is known for her powerful vocals and her ability to blend elements of folk, blues, and traditional African-American music. She has been recognized for her contributions to American music, receiving a MacArthur “Genius Grant” in 2017 and being inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in 2018.
5. J. Cole
J. Cole is a rapper, singer, and songwriter hailing from Fayetteville, North Carolina. He was born on January 28, 1985, and began rapping at a young age. Cole first gained recognition with the release of his mixtapes, which caught the attention of music industry insiders and led to a record deal with Roc Nation in 2009.
Cole’s debut album, “Cole World: The Sideline Story,” was released in 2011 and debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart. He has since released several more successful albums, including “2014 Forest Hills Drive” and “KOD.” Cole is known for his introspective lyrics and his ability to tackle complex social and political issues in his music.
In addition to his music career, Cole is also a philanthropist and community activist. He has used his platform to raise awareness about issues such as police brutality and the need for greater access to education and healthcare. Cole founded the Dreamville Foundation, which works to provide resources and support to underprivileged youth in his hometown of Fayetteville and other communities across the United States.
Cole’s impact on the hip-hop industry has been significant, with his thoughtful and socially conscious lyrics inspiring a new generation of artists. He continues to be one of the most respected and influential figures in contemporary rap music.
6. Petey Pablo
Petey Pablo, born Moses Barrett III, is a rapper and songwriter from Greenville, North Carolina. He was born on July 22, 1973, and grew up in poverty, often turning to music as an escape from his difficult surroundings. In 2001, Pablo burst onto the national music scene with his hit single “Raise Up,” which became an anthem for North Carolina and helped to establish him as a major player in the Southern hip-hop scene.
Pablo’s debut album, “Diary of a Sinner: 1st Entry,” was released later that year and was a critical and commercial success. The album showcased Pablo’s distinctive voice and his ability to blend elements of hip-hop, R&B, and Southern rap. Pablo went on to release several more albums, including “Still Writing in My Diary: 2nd Entry” and “A&R: Anticipated Recordings.”
In addition to his music career, Pablo has also dabbled in acting, appearing in films such as “Drumline” and “Holla If You Hear Me: Black and Gay in the Church.” He has also been involved in various legal troubles over the years, including a stint in prison for weapons charges.
Despite his ups and downs, Pablo remains an important figure in the Southern hip-hop scene and is remembered for his distinctive voice and his contributions to the genre.
7. Shirley Caesar
Shirley Caesar is a gospel singer and songwriter hailing from Durham, North Carolina. Born on October 13, 1938, she began singing in her local church choir at a young age and quickly developed a reputation as a talented and powerful vocalist. Caesar went on to become one of the most renowned gospel singers of all time, with a career spanning several decades.
Caesar has released over 40 albums throughout her career, including “After 40 Years: Still Sweeping Through the City” and “He’s Working It Out for You.” She has won 13 Grammy Awards and multiple Stellar Awards, Dove Awards, and NAACP Image Awards. Caesar is known for her powerful voice and her ability to connect with audiences through her music.
In addition to her music career, Caesar is also a pastor and evangelist. She has used her platform to spread messages of hope, faith, and empowerment, and has been recognized for her contributions to the African-American community. In 2017, Caesar was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Caesar’s impact on the gospel music genre has been significant, with her powerful vocals and inspirational lyrics inspiring generations of listeners. She remains a beloved figure in the music world and a trailblazer for women in gospel music.
8. Fantasia Barrino
Fantasia Barrino, known simply as Fantasia, is a singer and actress from High Point, North Carolina. She rose to fame as the winner of the third season of American Idol in 2004, impressing judges and audiences alike with her soulful voice and dynamic performances. Following her American Idol win, Fantasia went on to release several successful albums, including “Free Yourself” and “The Definition Of…”.
Fantasia is known for her powerful vocals and her ability to infuse soul and gospel influences into her music. She has won several awards throughout her career, including three Billboard Music Awards and a Grammy Award for her single “Bittersweet.”
In addition to her music career, Fantasia has also pursued acting, appearing in several films and television shows. She has also been open about her struggles with mental health and has used her platform to advocate for greater awareness and understanding of mental health issues.
Fantasia’s impact on the music industry has been significant, with her soulful voice and passionate performances inspiring countless fans and fellow musicians. She continues to be an influential figure in the worlds of R&B and gospel music.
9. Scotty McCreery
Scotty McCreery is a country music singer and songwriter from Garner, North Carolina. He rose to fame as the winner of the tenth season of American Idol in 2011, impressing judges and audiences with his deep, rich voice and his natural charm. Following his American Idol win, McCreery released his debut album, “Clear as Day,” which went on to become a certified platinum record.
McCreery’s music is known for its traditional country sound, with influences from classic artists such as George Strait and Conway Twitty. He has released several successful albums throughout his career, including “See You Tonight” and “Seasons Change.” McCreery has also won several awards, including the Academy of Country Music’s New Artist of the Year award in 2011.
In addition to his music career, McCreery is also a devout Christian and has used his platform to share his faith with his fans. He has been involved in several philanthropic efforts, including raising funds for disaster relief efforts and supporting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
McCreery’s impact on the country music industry has been significant, with his traditional sound and relatable lyrics resonating with fans around the world. He continues to be a beloved figure in the country music scene and a role model for aspiring musicians.
10. John Coltrane
John Coltrane was a jazz saxophonist and composer born in Hamlet, North Carolina in 1926. He is considered one of the most influential and innovative jazz musicians of all time, with a career that spanned over two decades. Coltrane’s music was known for its technical virtuosity, innovative harmonic structures, and emotional intensity.
Coltrane began his professional career as a sideman with several big bands, including those led by Dizzy Gillespie and Johnny Hodges. He later became a member of Miles Davis’ quintet, where he developed his distinctive sound and style. Coltrane went on to release several influential albums as a bandleader, including “Giant Steps,” “A Love Supreme,” and “Ascension.”
Coltrane’s influence on jazz and music in general has been enormous, with his innovative approach to improvisation and composition inspiring countless musicians. He was posthumously awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1992 and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007.
Despite passing away at a relatively young age, Coltrane’s legacy continues to inspire and captivate listeners around the world. His music remains a testament to his passion, creativity, and dedication to his craft.
11. Elizabeth Cotten
Elizabeth Cotten was a blues and folk singer and songwriter born in Carrboro, North Carolina in 1893. She is best known for her distinctive style of fingerpicking on the guitar, which she developed as a child by playing her older brother’s guitar upside down and backwards. Cotten’s music was known for its simplicity and authenticity, with her soulful voice and intricate guitar work drawing listeners in.
Despite not achieving mainstream success until later in life, Cotten’s influence on folk and blues music has been significant. She wrote several iconic songs, including “Freight Train,” which has been covered by numerous artists over the years. In 1984, Cotten was awarded a Grammy for her album “Elizabeth Cotten Live!” which was recorded when she was 92 years old.
Cotten’s life and career were marked by perseverance and resilience. She put her music career on hold for several years while raising her family, but eventually returned to performing in the 1950s. She continued to write and perform until her death in 1987.
Cotten’s impact on the music industry continues to be felt today, with her fingerpicking style inspiring countless guitarists and her songs remaining beloved by fans of folk and blues music.
12. Roberta Flack
Roberta Flack is a singer and songwriter born in Black Mountain, North Carolina in 1937. She is best known for her soulful and expressive voice, as well as her ability to blend genres like R&B, pop, and jazz into her music. Flack’s career spans several decades, and she has released numerous successful albums and singles, including “Killing Me Softly With His Song” and “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.”
Flack’s music has earned her multiple Grammy Awards, including Record of the Year for “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and Album of the Year for “The Best of Roberta Flack.” She has also been recognized for her humanitarian efforts, including her work with the Save the Children foundation.
Throughout her career, Flack has used her music to address social and political issues, including racism and poverty. She has collaborated with a variety of other musicians, including Donny Hathaway and Peabo Bryson.
Flack’s impact on the music industry has been significant, with her distinctive voice and style influencing countless artists over the years. She remains a beloved figure in North Carolina and beyond, with her music continuing to inspire and uplift listeners.
13. Anthony Hamilton
Anthony Hamilton is an R&B and soul singer born in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1971. He is known for his powerful and emotive voice, which has earned him numerous accolades throughout his career. Hamilton began his music career in the 1990s as a backup singer for artists like D’Angelo and Tupac Shakur before releasing his debut album, “XTC,” in 1996.
Hamilton’s music often deals with themes of love, heartbreak, and resilience, with his soulful voice and thoughtful lyrics resonating with listeners. He has released several successful albums, including “Comin’ from Where I’m From” and “The Point of It All,” and has collaborated with a variety of other artists over the years.
Hamilton’s impact on the music industry has been significant, with his contributions to the R&B and soul genres earning him critical acclaim and a devoted fanbase. He has been recognized with multiple Grammy nominations and has won several other awards for his music. Hamilton continues to write and perform today, and his music remains beloved by fans around the world.
14. Eric Church
Eric Church is a country music singer and songwriter born in Granite Falls, North Carolina in 1977. He began his music career in the early 2000s and has since become one of the most successful artists in the country genre, known for his distinctive voice and rock-influenced sound. Church’s music often deals with themes of small-town life, hard work, and the struggles and joys of everyday people.
Church has released several successful albums, including “Chief,” which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart and earned him numerous accolades, including the Country Music Association Award for Album of the Year. He has also collaborated with a variety of other artists, including Keith Urban and Luke Bryan.
Church’s impact on the country music industry has been significant, with his innovative approach to the genre earning him critical acclaim and a devoted fanbase. He has been recognized with multiple Grammy nominations and has won several other awards for his music, including the Academy of Country Music Award for Entertainer of the Year in 2020. Church continues to write and perform today, and his music remains a favorite among country music fans.
15. Warren Haynes
Warren Haynes is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist born in Asheville, North Carolina in 1960. He is best known for his work as a member of the bands Gov’t Mule and the Allman Brothers Band, as well as his prolific solo career. Haynes’ music is heavily influenced by blues, rock, and soul, and he is widely regarded as one of the greatest guitarists of his generation.
Haynes’ career in music began in the late 1970s, and he has since worked with a wide range of musicians, including members of the Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan. In addition to his work as a musician, he has also produced and recorded music for other artists and is a sought-after collaborator and guest musician.
Haynes’ impact on the music industry has been significant, with his innovative guitar work and songwriting earning him critical acclaim and a devoted fanbase. He has been recognized with numerous awards throughout his career, including the Jammy Award for Guitarist of the Year and the Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Haynes continues to write, perform, and record music today, and his influence on the world of rock and blues music is undeniable.
16. Doc Watson
Doc Watson was a legendary singer, songwriter, and guitarist born in Deep Gap, North Carolina in 1923. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians in the history of American folk and bluegrass music. Watson’s music is characterized by his virtuosic guitar playing and soulful singing, and he is best known for his interpretations of traditional folk and bluegrass songs.
Watson began his music career in the late 1940s and quickly gained a reputation as a talented and innovative musician. He recorded numerous albums throughout his career and collaborated with a wide range of other musicians, including his son Merle Watson.
Watson’s impact on the music industry has been significant, with his innovative guitar playing and powerful vocals influencing generations of musicians. He has been recognized with numerous awards throughout his career, including several Grammy Awards and the National Medal of Arts. Watson passed away in 2012, but his music continues to inspire and captivate audiences around the world, and he remains a beloved icon of American music.
17. Nina Simone
Nina Simone was a legendary singer, songwriter, and civil rights activist born in Tryon, North Carolina in 1933. She is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, with her unique blend of jazz, blues, and classical music setting her apart from other artists of her time. Simone’s music is characterized by her powerful vocals, soulful piano playing, and socially conscious lyrics.
Simone began her music career in the late 1950s and quickly gained a reputation as a talented and outspoken artist. She recorded numerous albums throughout her career, including the iconic “Mississippi Goddam,” which became an anthem of the civil rights movement.
Simone’s impact on the music industry has been significant, with her innovative approach to music inspiring countless musicians and artists. She has been recognized with numerous awards throughout her career, including induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Simone passed away in 2003, but her music continues to resonate with audiences around the world, and she remains a beloved icon of American music and activism.
18. Chris Daughtry
Chris Daughtry is a singer and songwriter born in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina in 1979. He rose to fame after competing on the fifth season of American Idol in 2006, where he finished in fourth place. Despite not winning the competition, Daughtry’s powerful vocals and rock-inspired sound made him a fan favorite and launched his music career.
After leaving American Idol, Daughtry formed the band Daughtry and released their self-titled debut album in 2006. The album was a huge success, selling over a million copies in its first five weeks and earning multiple Grammy nominations. Daughtry has since released several more albums with the band, including “Leave This Town” and “Cage to Rattle,” and has continued to tour and perform around the world.
Daughtry’s impact on the music industry has been significant, with his unique blend of rock, pop, and alternative music inspiring countless musicians and fans. He has been recognized with numerous awards throughout his career, including several American Music Awards and Billboard Music Awards. Daughtry continues to be a beloved icon of American music, and his powerful vocals and soulful lyrics continue to captivate audiences around the world.
19. Bucky Covington
Bucky Covington is a country singer and songwriter from Rockingham, North Carolina. He rose to fame after competing on the fifth season of American Idol in 2006, where he finished in eighth place. Despite not winning the competition, Covington’s charismatic personality and unique blend of country and rock music made him a fan favorite.
After leaving American Idol, Covington signed a record deal with Lyric Street Records and released his self-titled debut album in 2007. The album was a commercial success, featuring hit singles like “A Different World” and “I’ll Walk.” Covington has since released several more albums, including “Good Guys” and “Happy Man.”
Covington’s impact on the country music industry has been significant, with his powerful vocals and relatable lyrics inspiring countless fans and musicians. He has been recognized with numerous awards throughout his career, including several American Country Awards and Country Music Association Awards. Covington continues to tour and perform around the world, and his infectious energy and love for music have made him a beloved icon of American country music.
20. Clay Aiken
Clay Aiken is a singer, actor, and political activist from Raleigh, North Carolina. He rose to fame as the runner-up on the second season of American Idol in 2003. Aiken’s powerful vocals and charming personality made him a fan favorite and propelled him to stardom. Despite not winning the competition, he went on to release multiple successful albums, including “Measure of a Man” and “A Thousand Different Ways”.
Aside from his music career, Aiken has also pursued acting and appeared in several television shows, including “Scrubs” and “Drop Dead Diva.” He has also been involved in numerous philanthropic efforts, serving as a UNICEF ambassador and founding the National Inclusion Project, which works to ensure that children with disabilities have access to quality recreational programs.
Aiken has been recognized with numerous awards throughout his career, including the Billboard Music Award for Top-selling Single of the Year and the American Music Award for Favorite Adult Contemporary New Artist. He continues to perform and tour, as well as engage in political activism and advocacy for various social causes.
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Congressman David Schweikert (R-AZ) currently scores a 92% on our Legislative Scorecard and was elected as part of the Tea Party wave in 2010. He was able to easily defeat incumbent Democrat Harry Mitchell 52% to 43%.
Rep. Schweikert was born in Los Angeles, California in 1962. He grew up in Scottsdale, AZ with his adoptive parents and siblings, graduating from Saguaro High School in 1980. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in finance and real estate in 1985 and his MBA from Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business in 2005.
In 1990, Rep. Schweikert was elected to the Arizona State House of Representatives. His strong conservative stances led him to be elected Majority Whip after his reelection in 1992. While serving in the State House, he sponsored one of the largest tax cuts in Arizona history. He also worked tirelessly to reduce the size of the state government and cut pork barrel spending.
In 1995, was elected as Chairman of the Arizona State Board of Equalization, where he served until 2004, overseeing billions of dollars from Arizona citizens and businesses. In 2004, he was elected Treasurer of Maricopa County, one of the largest counties in the United States. Rep. Schweikert protected billions of taxpayer dollars and earned over $300 million in investment income without running a deficit, even in tough economic times.
Rep. Schweikert has run for the U.S. House of Representatives three times. In 1994, he lost a primary against J.D. Hayworth, and in 2008 he lost to incumbent Harry Mitchell in the general election. But in 2010, in part due to rejection of the Obama Administration and Congress’ big-government spending, Rep. Schweikert was able to win his third attempt at a House seat.
He currently sits on the Financial Services Committee where he serves as the Vice Chair of the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government-Sponsored Enterprises. He is also a member of the Republican Study Committee.
Rep. Schweikert and his wife, Joyce, currently live in Fountain Hills, AZ with their famous dog, Charlie, who has his own Twitter hashtag (#CharlieTakesDC) and has appeared with the Congressman on ABC’s Top Line program. They also have two cats, who are less famous and apparently camera shy.
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By George F. Will
PHOENIX --- In 1994, when first running for Congress, J.D. Hayworth, who today is 51 and trying to wrest from John McCain, 73, the Arizona Republican Party's Senate nomination, went jogging in Washington wearing a T-shirt given to him by some Arizona loggers. Federal solicitude for the supposedly endangered spotted owl was bedeviling the timber industry, and Hayworth's shirt read: "If two teenagers can procreate in the back seat of a Volkswagen, why does a spotted owl need 2,000 acres?" Hayworth's jog intersected President Clinton's, so Hayworth subsequently told the loggers he had "run your message past the president." Hayworth's middle name is not Nuance.
Washed into Washington by the 1994 Republican wave, he was washed out in 2006 by a Democratic wave. Born in North Carolina, he is a burly ex-football player for North Carolina State. Having been a television sportscaster here before entering politics, Hayworth bounced from defeat to a talk radio station. There he put his flair for rhetorical fireworks in the service of his favorite causes, two of which are stopping illegal immigration and deploring the insufficiencies of McCain's conservatism. Those insufficiencies include, Hayworth says, opposition to the Bush tax cuts, and support for bailouts and for what Hayworth characterizes as "amnesty" for illegal immigrants.
McCain, who has a flair for umbrage, felt some about another Hayworth cause -- a possible Hayworth Senate candidacy. So McCain, whose pugnacity is part of his charm, for those who are charmed, went after Hayworth with tactics that reminded other people why they are not charmed. The co-author of the McCain-Feingold restrictions on political speech asked the Federal Election Commission to silence Hayworth.
Although Hayworth was not yet a candidate, McCain argued that he was receiving from the station's owner an illegal "corporate in-kind contribution" of "as much as" $540,000 a week, a figure concocted by pricing Hayworth's 15 hours per week at the rate advertisers would pay for 1,800 30-second spots. Hayworth spared his station the litigation costs by becoming a candidate.
Hayworth and McCain, who is seeking a fifth term, will gnaw on each other until the August primary, the rules of which are still unclear. Usually, primary turnouts are low, but this shootout will be unusually enticing. Republican primaries have been open to unaffiliated voters, but in January, when Hayworth's candidacy was still embryonic, the state party opted for a closed primary, on the sound principle that party members -- there are 1.12 million registered -- should pick those who represent the party. The U.S. Supreme Court has held that the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of association, which "plainly presupposes a freedom not to associate," broadly protects parties' rights to define their identities by controlling their nominating processes.
McCain understandably wants the primary open to non-Republicans: A closed primary would favor Hayworth, many of whose supporters are the sort of high-octane conservatives who will vote in an Arizona August. Two of conservatism's current pinups -- Sarah Palin, on whom McCain conferred celebrity, and Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown -- have campaigned here for McCain. On the other hand, Dick Armey, who is as close as the tea party movement has to a leader, denies reports that he has endorsed McCain. Arizona Rep. Jeff Flake, perhaps Congress' foremost foe of earmarks, faults Hayworth as insufficiently frugal. Hayworth endorsed and McCain opposed George W. Bush's unfunded $395 billion prescription drug entitlement. Hayworth is supported by Joe Arpaio, Maricopa County's showboating sheriff, a scourge of illegal immigrants.
Some Arizona and national Republicans worry that nominating Hayworth would exacerbate the party's problems with Hispanics, the nation's largest and fastest-growing minority. Barack Obama won 75 percent of the immigrant Latino vote in 2008. Hayworth counters, "Beware the myth of the monolith." He says "some of my most passionate support" comes from Hispanics offended by illegal immigrants.
Voters incandescent about illegal immigration might be numerous enough to decide a primary. Some seasoned Arizona Republicans say, however, that such immigration has slowed as America's economy has slowed. And they say the issue has lost some saliency here, and Arizona's economy has suffered, as some Hispanics have moved to more hospitable states. Furthermore, Hayworth may not understand Arizona's complex relationship to its centuries-old Hispanic dimension.
Democrats, having assumed that McCain will be nominated, have not groomed a top-tier opponent for him. They probably will find one if they think Hayworth can be nominated. As for the McCain-Hayworth contest, a wise Arizona Republican officeholder who is too prudent to abandon anonymity says each combustible candidate "has it in his power to lose."
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Puerto Rico cannot talk about Hollywood without acknowledging Rita Moreno, the first Latina and third American to obtain PEGOT (Peabody, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) status. A Humacao native, Moreno gained widespread fame with the musical “West Side Story” in 1961 and was recently recognized for her role in Netflix’s original series “One Day at a Time”. At 87 years old she continues to thrive, serving as an executive producer in Steven Spielberg's remake of “West Side Story”, a film in which she is also co-starring.
From San Germán came Benicio del Toro, who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the movie “Traffic”. Del Toro gained mainstream attention for his roles in films such as “Snatch”, “Guardians of the Galaxy”, “Star Wars Episode VII”, “Sicario”, and more. Most recently, he starred in the award-winning miniseries “Escape at Dannemora”, alongside Patricia Arquette and directed by Ben Stiller.
Raúl Juliá is a legend in Puerto Rico and a source of great pride. From San Juan, the late actor’s fruitful career began on Broadway in “Two Gentlemen of Verona”, for which he received a Tony nomination. In television he appeared in shows such as “Loving Life” and “Sesame Street” and, among the many films he starred in, he is most remembered for his roles in “Man of La Mancha” and his portrayal of Gomez Adams in “The Addams Family” and “Addams Family Values”.
Some other Hollywood “big names” who hail from Puerto Rico include actress and philanthropist Roselyn Sánchez, Academy Award-nominee Joaquin Phoenix, and veteran actor Luis Guzmán.
Hitting the Mic
Considered the King of Latin Pop, Ricky Martin was born in San Juan and began his music career at age 12 with a local boy band called Menudo. This Grammy Award winner has made a name for himself not only in music, but as an actor, from his famous hits like “Living la Vida Loca” and “She Bangs”, to his roles in TV series such as “Glee”, “American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace”, “The Voice”, and others.
Another global phenomenon is Daddy Yankee, the singer, songwriter, rapper, actor, and record producer who coined the term Reggaetón, to describe the urban music genre emerging from Puerto Rico. Dubbed the “King of Reggaetón”, Daddy Yankee has won over 82 awards since his rise to international fame in 2004.
Other big names in music include Gilberto Santa Rosa, Chayanne, José Feliciano, Luis Fonsi, Wisin y Yandel, and Bad Bunny.
An All-Star Roster
Carolina’s very own Roberto Clemente was the first Latin American and Caribbean player to be accepted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. As a Pittsburgh Pirate, Clemente won four National League batting titles as well as 12 Gold Gloves, an award given to the best fielding player in each position. In 1972 Clemente had his 3,000th base hit on his very last at bat as a player. At the time, only 10 other players had reached this mark. He died in an aviation accident in 1972.
Another Hall of Famer is Iván “Pudge” Rodríguez. From the town of Manatí, Rodríguez went on to play Major League Baseball with the Texas Rangers (on two different occasions), Florida Marlins, Detroit Tigers, New York Yankees, Houston Astros, and Washington Nationals. During his career in the MLB, he won 13 Gold Gloves.
Known for his flamboyant style in and out of the ring, Héctor “Macho” Camacho was a natural-born boxer and entertainer from Bayamón. His quick footwork made him a world champion in three different weight classes and he held the WBC super featherweight title from 1983 to 1984, the WBC lightweight title from 1985 to 1987, and the WBO junior welterweight title twice between 1989 and 1992. After his death in 2012, he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2016. Camacho became a reference in popular culture after appearing on shows like The Wayan Bros, King of the Hill, and in songs by Lil Wayne.
Other outstanding Puerto Rican athletes include baseballers Carlos Beltrán, Roberto Alomar, and Yadier Molina; boxers Miguel Cotto and Felix “Tito” Trinidad; golfer Juan "Chi-Chi" Rodríguez; basketball players José Juan Barea and Carlos Arroyo; tennis player Mónica Puig; hurdler Javier Culson; and many others.
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He was a sportscaster for WFBC-TV (now WYFF-TV), the NBC station in Greenville, South Carolina, from 1981 to 1986, and WLWT-TV in Cincinnati, Ohio from 1986 to 1987. From 1987 to 1994, he was the sports anchor on the news reports of KTSP-TV (later KSAZ-TV), which was then the CBS affiliate in Phoenix.
Hayworth married in 1989. He and his wife Mary have three children.
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[House Hearing, 109 Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] FIRST IN A SERIES OF SUBCOMMITTEE HEARINGS ON PROTECTING AND STRENGTHENING SOCIAL SECURITY ======================================================================= HEARING before the SUBCOMMITTEE ON SOCIAL SECURITY of the COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED NINTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION __________ MAY 17, 2005 __________ Serial No. 109-7 __________ Printed for the use of the Committee on Ways and Means U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 36-659 PDF WASHINGTON DC: 2007 --------------------------------------------------------------------- For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866)512-1800 DC area (202)512-1800 Fax: (202) 512-2250 Mail Stop SSOP, Washington, DC 20402-0001 COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS BILL THOMAS, California, Chairman E. CLAY SHAW, JR., Florida CHARLES B. RANGEL, New York NANCY L. JOHNSON, Connecticut FORTNEY PETE STARK, California WALLY HERGER, California SANDER M. LEVIN, Michigan JIM MCCRERY, Louisiana BENJAMIN L. CARDIN, Maryland DAVE CAMP, Michigan JIM MCDERMOTT, Washington JIM RAMSTAD, Minnesota JOHN LEWIS, Georgia JIM NUSSLE, Iowa RICHARD E. NEAL, Massachusetts SAM JOHNSON, Texas MICHAEL R. MCNULTY, New York PHIL ENGLISH, Pennsylvania WILLIAM J. JEFFERSON, Louisiana J.D. HAYWORTH, Arizona JOHN S. TANNER, Tennessee JERRY WELLER, Illinois XAVIER BECERRA, California KENNY C. HULSHOF, Missouri LLOYD DOGGETT, Texas RON LEWIS, Kentucky EARL POMEROY, North Dakota MARK FOLEY, Florida STEPHANIE TUBBS JONES, Ohio KEVIN BRADY, Texas JOHN B. LARSON, Connecticut THOMAS M. REYNOLDS, New York RAHM EMANUEL, Illinois PAUL RYAN, Wisconsin ERIC CANTOR, Virginia MELISSA A. HART, Pennsylvania CHRIS CHOCOLA, Indiana DEVIN NUNES, California Allison H. Giles, Chief of Staff Janice Mays, Minority Chief Counsel ______ SUBCOMMITTEE ON SOCIAL SECURITY JIM MCCRERY, Louisiana, Chairman E. CLAY SHAW JR., Florida SANDER M. LEVIN, Michigan SAM JOHNSON, Texas EARL POMEROY, North Dakota J.D. HAYWORTH, Arizona XAVIER BECERRA, California KENNY C. HULSHOF, Missouri STEPHANIE TUBBS JONES, Ohio RON LEWIS, Kentucky RICHARD E. NEAL, Massachusetts KEVIN BRADY, Texas PAUL RYAN, Wisconsin Pursuant to clause 2(e)(4) of Rule XI of the Rules of the House, public hearing records of the Committee on Ways and Means are also published in electronic form. The printed hearing record remains the official version. Because electronic submissions are used to prepare both printed and electronic versions of the hearing record, the process of converting between various electronic formats may introduce unintentional errors or omissions. Such occurrences are inherent in the current publication process and should diminish as the process is further refined. C O N T E N T S __________ Page Advisory of May 10, 2005 announcing the hearing.................. 2 WITNESSES Social Security Administration, Hon. Jo Anne B. Barnhart, Commissioner................................................... 6 ______ U.S. Government Accountability Office, Barbara D. Bovbjerg, Director, Education, Workforce, and Income Security; accompanied by Alicia P. Cackley, Assistant Director, Education, Workforce, and Income Security...................... 33 ______ Independent Women's Forum, Carrie L. Lukas....................... 59 Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities, Social Security Task Force, Marty Ford.............................................. 64 Cato Institute's Project on Social Security Choice, Michael Tanner......................................................... 73 Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Maya Rockeymoore, Ph.D.... 77 National Women's Law Center, Nancy Duff Campbell................. 86 SUBMISSIONS FOR THE RECORD Anderson, Donald L., Harpswell, ME, statement.................... 120 Blair, William and Jane, Irvine, CA, statement................... 120 Houston Young Republicans, Houston, TX, William Hickman, statement...................................................... 120 Larsen, Thor Anton, Sacramento, CA, statement.................... 122 National Association of Disability Examiners, Lansing, MI, Martha A. Marshall, statement......................................... 123 Nelson, Alfred Lee, Olathe, KS, statement........................ 126 Political Research, Inc., Dallas, TX, John Clements, statement... 126 Social Security Disability Coalition, Rochester, NY, Linda Fullerton, statement........................................... 127 Thompson, Sandra E., Rocky River, OH, statement.................. 136 FIRST IN A SERIES OF SUBCOMMITTEE HEARINGS ON PROTECTING AND STRENGTHENING SOCIAL SECURITY ---------- TUESDAY, MAY 17, 2005 U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Social Security, Washington, DC. The Subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 2:57 p.m., in room B-318, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Jim McCrery (Chairman of the Subcommittee) presiding. [The advisory announcing the hearing follows:] ADVISORY FROM THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS SUBCOMMITTEE ON SOCIAL SECURITY CONTACT: (202) 225-9263 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 17, 2005 No. SS-1 McCrery Announces First in a Series of Subcommittee Hearings on Protecting and Strengthening Social Security Congressman Jim McCrery (R-LA), Chairman, Subcommittee on Social Security of the Committee on Ways and Means, today announced that the Subcommittee will hold the first in a series of hearings on protecting and strengthening Social Security. This hearing will examine the evolution of the Social Security safety net and its importance to vulnerable populations. The hearing will take place on Tuesday, May 17, 2005, in room B-318 Rayburn House Office Building, beginning at 2:00 p.m. In view of the limited time available to hear witnesses, oral testimony at this hearing will be from invited witnesses only. However, any individual or organization not scheduled for an oral appearance may submit a written statement for consideration by the Committee and for inclusion in the printed record of the hearing. BACKGROUND: The Social Security Act (P.L. 74-271) was signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 14, 1935. Initially, Social Security was focused on the income needs of retired workers age 65 and older. Soon thereafter, protections for other vulnerable populations were added. The Social Security Act Amendments of 1939 (P.L. 76-379) expanded the scope of Social Security beyond protection of the individual worker to protection of the family by authorizing payments to the spouse and minor children of a retired worker or the survivor of the deceased worker. The Social Security Act Amendments of 1956 (P.L. 84-880) created the Social Security Disability Insurance program to provide protection against financial insecurity resulting from a disabled worker's loss of earnings. Social Security continues to play a key role in preserving the economic security of Americans. About one-in-six Americans receives a Social Security benefit. For one-third of the elderly, Social Security is virtually their only source of income. Poverty rates among the elderly fell from 35.2 percent in 1959, to only 10.2 percent in 2003--a reduction of more than two-thirds during the last 44 years. Younger workers and their families receive valuable disability and survivors' insurance protection. In fact, about one-in-three Social Security beneficiaries is not a retired worker. Although Social Security provides an essential safety net for workers and their families, roughly 2 million retirees who paid into Social Security throughout their working lives are collecting benefits that leave them below the poverty line. Moreover, the basic program was designed with circa World War II families in mind--in which the family breadwinner was usually the husband, the wife worked in the home, and marriages were less likely to end in divorce. However, women's workforce participation has more than doubled since the program's inception, and there are more two-earner and single-parent households. Social Security needs to evolve to meet the needs of our ever-changing society. In announcing the hearing, Chairman McCrery stated: ``Over the decades, Social Security has provided a vital income safety net for women, children, individuals with disabilities, and those with low earnings. As the Subcommittee begins its examination of ways to protect and strengthen Social Security, I am pleased to focus first on the history of Social Security's essential safety net, and its importance to those who are most vulnerable.'' 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Good afternoon everyone. I am pleased to chair this first in a series of Subcommittee hearings on protecting and strengthening Social Security. The goal of the hearings is to examine ways to protect Social Security to ensure seniors and near seniors will receive exactly what they have been promised, while strengthening Social Security for younger workers. Thanks to the leadership of President Bush and President Clinton before him, Americans understand Social Security faces financial challenges that must be addressed. The question before this Subcommittee is, of course, how do we address those challenges? Social Security has a long history of providing benefits for families in distress. Only 4 years after Social Security retirement benefits were enacted in 1935, the Congress passed amendments extending benefits to surviving widows and children. In the decades since then, Congress further expanded Social Security's coverage for at-risk Americans, establishing benefits for divorced spouses, adopted children, and those with disabilities. Turning to our topic for today's hearing, how Social Security has evolved over the decades and its importance for the most vulnerable in our society, it is most appropriate that we have Jo Anne Barnhart, the Commissioner of Social Security, as our first witness. The Commissioner has been working on issues involving women, children, and the elderly, not only at the Social Security Administration (SSA), but throughout her career in public service. We also will hear from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and other expert witnesses about how Social Security is especially important to low-wage earners, women, and those with disabilities, and how Social Security has not kept up with changes in society and in the American family. Social Security affects the lives of nearly every American, and the deliberation regarding its future is far too important for partisan politics. I will look forward to working with all my Subcommittee colleagues on this historic opportunity to thoughtfully and carefully consider all options to strengthen and update this essential program. I would ask the Ranking Member, Mr. Levin, if he has any opening remarks? Mr. LEVIN. I do, and thank you, Mr. Chairman. We are pleased that we are having this hearing, and your approach to witnesses means that we should be able to have a meaningful range of views on these issues. As you said, a major focus of the hearing is going to be the impact of Social Security on some of our most vulnerable populations, elderly, widows, children, disabled workers, and the poor. Let me make three points on these matters. First, Social Security has been a major resource for millions to move out of poverty and for millions of others to keep their earlier middle class standard of living, to maintain the independence, to keep living their lives as they had done in earlier years. I assume we are going to hear this from our distinguished Commissioner and others. The facts briefly, 4 in 10 elderly widows rely on Social Security for 90 percent of their income or more; 12 million seniors would fall into poverty without Social Security; 6.4 million children live in households with Social Security income, and over a third of them would be poor without Social Security; and nearly 7 million disabled workers and their families receive Social Security benefits, and more than half would fall into poverty without them. Those groups depend on Social Security's guaranteed benefits. They know they can't outlive it. They know it will keep up with inflation and allow them to maintain their standard of living. It will be there even if they retire or become disabled at a time when the stock market is down. It will protect their families too, even if they haven't had time to accumulate enough funds in an account to cover multiple people over a long period of time. So, Social Security provides dignity as well as income. In all cases the benefits being provided to vulnerable populations were earned, earned by the worker herself or by a spouse or parent. Second, because both the dignity and the independence are so important for vulnerable populations, we have been very concerned about what would be the impact of the President's privatization proposals on these populations. The dangers are clear, even though the Administration has attempted to minimize them with varying statements. Last week, for example, Allan Hubbard, one of the President's top advisers on Social Security, confirmed what we had intuited, the President's plan would apply the middle class benefit cut, which would cut benefits up to 40 percent for future middle class workers, to widows and children too. Also, survivors would be subject to the benefit cut if the wage earner had earned more than $20,000 while working, even if the family was quite poor after his or her passing. Shortly after that, a White House spokesperson cast a long shadow on earlier statements by the President that disabled workers would not face benefit cuts, saying the details would need to be, and I quote, ``worked out through the legislative process,'' end of quote, and refusing to say benefits would not be cut. It is not surprising that the White House plans to cut benefits for everyone, not just retirees, since without these benefit cuts they can't offset the new shortfall created by their private accounts. Both the proposal that the President initially called, in quotes, ``a good blueprint,'' and the sliding scale benefit cuts he endorsed a few weeks ago, propose to cut disability and survivor benefits. The President's privatization proposals to date would dramatically reduce the guaranteed Social Security benefit for over 70 percent of all future beneficiaries, and would increase it little if any for those not being cut. If individuals opted for private accounts, they would be subject to a second cut in their guaranteed benefit, even if those accounts did poorly. When these two benefit cuts are combined, most people would be left with only a tiny fraction of their currently scheduled guaranteed Social Security benefit, and no guarantee that their account will beat the odds and do well. The change would negatively impact all Americans, but reducing guaranteed benefits would be particularly harmful to women, disabled workers, children, and those with modest earnings. Third and last, some will argue that Social Security does not always strike a perfect balance between protecting the vulnerable and paying people benefits based on their contributions. We will hear about some of these issues today, and we should. It would be contradictory to use the Social Security's failure to be perfect in every part of its design as an excuse to replace it with a system that would undermine or destroy its numerous basic strengths, and replace it with many provisions that could create far greater problems of equity and adequacy. It has not been an easy struggle to bring about the improvements already in place in Social Security. For example, when the creation of the Disability Insurance Program was first proposed, all 10 Ways and Means Republicans opposed its creation. Democrats look forward to working on a bipartisan basis to continue perfecting Social Security. We stand firmly that no set of benefit changes to Social Security's guaranteed benefits, however worthy, could offset the harm of beginning to phase out that guaranteed benefit, and replacing a guaranteed benefit with private accounts. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Chairman MCCRERY. Thank you, Mr. Levin. Indeed, this is the legislative process that we are engaged in now and I hope that we will listen to the witnesses today and get the facts, and then discuss those facts on both sides of the aisle and try to improve the Social Security program together. Mr. LEVIN. All for it. Chairman MCCRERY. Thank you for your comments. Our first witness today is the Commissioner of the SSA, the Honorable Jo Anne Barnhart. Commissioner Barnhart? STATEMENT OF THE HONORABLE JO ANNE B. BARNHART, COMMISSIONER, SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION Commissioner BARNHART. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee, I am very happy to be here today to testify about how Social Security has evolved since its inception in 1935. Today, Social Security pays over $493 billion in monthly cash benefits to over 47 million workers and their families to replace, in part, the loss of income due to retirement, disability, or death. By providing these benefits, Social Security helps ensure economic security for millions of Americans. Social Security is the major source of income for most of the elderly population. In fact, over 90 percent of individuals age 65 and over receive Social Security benefits. About two-thirds of these beneficiaries receive most of their income from Social Security, and for over one-fifth of them, Social Security is their only source of income. Throughout its 70-year history, Social Security has undergone numerous changes. Having begun as a retirement program for a limited segment of the working population, today it affords economic protection to the entire family, and at all stages in life. Social Security plays a key role keeping millions of our most vulnerable citizens, the elderly, the disabled and children out of poverty. My written testimony includes an extensive discussion of the changes that have occurred since Social Security began. These changes show that the history of the Social Security program is one of change, but in the interest of time this afternoon I am only going to make a few general observations. From adding family protections, to expanding the program and addressing financial issues, Congress over the years has taken action to strengthen and to preserve Social Security. Today the program is facing new challenges, challenges that are driven by demographics. Baby Boomers are rapidly approaching retirement, families are having fewer children, and people are living longer. As a result, it will not be possible to pay scheduled benefits without making additional changes to our current pay-as-you-go Social Security program. While we are in sound fiscal health in the near term, I believe, as do my fellow trustees, that the future projected shortfalls should be addressed in a timely manner to allow for a gradual phasing in for the necessary changes. The sooner adjustments are made, the less abrupt they will have to be to achieve sustainable solvency. As you know, a sustainable reform of the system requires actuarial balance over the 75-year projection period and stable or rising trust funds at the end of that 75-year period. I again want to thank the Chairman for holding today's hearing. As President Bush said, ``This country has many challenges. We will not deny, we will not ignore, we will not pass along our problems to other Congresses, to other Presidents and other generations. We will confront them with focus and clarity and courage.'' With the President's leadership and that of this Committee, I am certain that we will be able to address the needs of our changing society and provide for a Social Security program that our citizens can count on. I would like to take this opportunity to make clear that current and near retirees can be assured that their scheduled benefits are secure and will be paid. As we look to the future, our actions must signal to younger generations of Americans that we are committed to strengthening the program that protected our parents, our grandparents, and our great grandparents. By doing so, we restore their faith and confidence in the most successful domestic program in our Nation's history. As a nation, we have a proud history of grappling with difficult issues, and we have done this best when we worked together. As the discussions on strengthening the program continue, the SSA will be available to provide assistance to Congress and the analysis of any proposed changes, and of course, we will continue to faithfully serve the American people to the best of our ability. At this time I would like to thank you again for inviting me to testify, and I would be happy to try to answer any questions that any of you may have. [The prepared statement of Commissioner Barnhart follows:] Statement of The Honorable Jo Anne B. Barnhart, Commissioner, Social Security Administration Thank you, Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee. It gives me great pleasure to be invited here today to testify about how Social Security has developed and evolved over time. Since its inception in 1935, Social Security has developed into one of the most successful domestic program in our Nation's history. Let me begin by telling you about what we do and how we do it. Last year, Social Security paid over $493 billion in monthly cash benefits to over 47 million workers and their families to replace, in part, the loss of income due to retirement, disability, or death. By providing these benefits, Social Security helps ensure economic security for millions of Americans. Social Security is the major source of income for most of the elderly population. In fact, over 90 percent of individuals age 65 and over receive Social Security benefits. About two--thirds of these beneficiaries receive most of their income from Social Security. For over one-fifth of them, Social Security is their only source of income. As you know, Social Security involves more than paying cash benefits. In this fiscal year, SSA will: Process almost 6 million claims for benefits; Take applications, secure and evaluate evidence for, and issue 18 million new and replacement Social Security number (SSN) cards; Process 267 million earnings items to maintain workers' lifelong earnings records; Handle approximately 52 million phone calls to our 800- number; and Issue 136 million Social Security Statements. SSA does all this while keeping administrative expenses under 2 percent of total outlays of Social Security and SSI benefits. You can see that Social Security plays a key role keeping millions of our most vulnerable citizens, the elderly and children, out of poverty. We take very seriously our commitment to giving the American people the service they deserve; improving program integrity through sound financial stewardship, ensuring the program's solvency for future generations, and maintaining the quality of staff the Agency needs to provide a high level of service and stewardship. Now I would like to provide some background as to how Social Security began and how it has continued to develop and evolve over time. The Creation of Social Security The Social Security Act 1935 was a response to the economic crisis resulting from the Great Depression. At the height of the Great Depression, many older Americans were living in poverty. The Committee on Economic Security was appointed by President Franklin Roosevelt to confront the crisis. The Committee recommended that the federal government create a national system of unemployment and old-age benefits. Acting on those recommendations, and behind the driving force of President Roosevelt, Congress enacted the Social Security Act, which was signed into law on August 14, 1935. The Act established a federal social insurance program for the aged financed through payroll taxes paid by employees and their employers (2 percent on the first $3,000 in earnings divided equally between employee and employer). The financing was based on the concept of ``pay-as-you-go'' or PAYGO. Under the PAYGO system, Social Security contributions of current workers fund the Social Security benefits of current beneficiaries. Congress selected this method of financing because of the great number of older Americans who were living in poverty at the time of the Great Depression. With the severity of the economic situation at the time, and because most of them would not have been able to find employment and then contribute to the system long enough to be eligible for benefits, Congress decided that this generation of older persons should receive Social Security benefits, despite not having contributed to the system. Thus, most of the first generation of Social Security recipients contributed either very little or not at all to Social Security. The original old-age insurance system created by Title II of the Act provided retirement benefits to insured worker at age 65. The benefit was based on total wages, but a weighted formula was used to provide a greater return on payroll taxes paid in to low-wage earners. At that time, no benefits were provided for spouses and children. If a worker attained age 65 but was ineligible for benefits or died before reaching the age of 65, Social Security provided a lump sum payment to the worker or his/her estate. Collection of payroll taxes began in 1937 and benefit payments were scheduled to commence in 1942. This provided time to buildup the Social Security Trust Fund. Any surplus funds collected were to be invested in U.S. government securities. The Amendments 1930s/1940s: Family Protections Added In 1939, Congress amended the Social Security program to shift its focus from protection of the individual worker to protection of the family. The new legislation provided benefits to aged wives/widows, young children of a retired or deceased worker, young widows caring for a child, and dependent parents of a retired or deceased worker. In addition, in response to public pressure, the amendments allowed initial benefits to be paid beginning in 1940 instead 1942, as originally scheduled. Following the implementation of the 1939 amendments, the system remained essentially unchanged throughout the 1940s. 1950s: Expansion of the Program The 1950 amendments made substantial changes to the scope of the program. This legislation broadened the program to cover many jobs that previously had been excluded, such as farm and domestic workers and, on a voluntary basis, State and local government employees not under a pension plan. This legislation also greatly increased benefit levels. Wage credits were also provided to those in military service. To finance these improvements, the amendments created a revised schedule for gradually increasing tax rates for employers, employees and the self-employed and increased the contribution and benefit base (the maximum amount of earnings subject to payroll tax and used in benefit computations). Four years later, in 1954, another expansion in worker coverage took place. Social Security coverage was extended to farm self-employed workers and to professional self-employed workers (except lawyers, doctors, dentists and other medical groups). In addition, coverage was extended to State and local government employees covered under a pension plan (except firemen and policemen), on a voluntary basis. By the mid-1950s, 20 years after the enactment of Social Security, almost 90 percent of workers were given protection under the program. In addition to this expansion, the 1954 amendments increased benefit levels and raised the contribution and benefit base. In the early 1950s there was a growing recognition that the dangers of economic insecurity due to disability needed to be addressed. As a result, the 1954 amendments began the process of protecting workers from income loss due to disability. Congress enacted a disability ``freeze'' provision on a disabled worker's earnings record. While no cash benefits were payable under the provision, workers who were permanently disabled and met the insured status test at the time they became disabled could have their Social Security eligibility preserved by excluding periods of disability when computing subsequent retirement or survivors' benefits. This provision prevented loss of retirement and survivors' benefits due to disability. Social Security disability cash benefits were authorized under the amendments 1956. The program established a cash program beginning in 1957 for totally disabled workers between the ages of 50-65. The program established the Disability Insurance (DI) trust fund and was financed by an increase in the employee/employer payroll tax. The amendments also provided benefits to a dependent child, over the age of 18, of a retired or deceased worker if the child became disabled before the age of 18. In addition, benefits to female workers and wives were made available at age 62 instead of age 65, but at a reduced level to take into account the longer collection period. At age 62, widows and dependent parents could receive benefits at an unreduced rate. In 1958, the program extended benefits to spouses and children of disabled workers. 1960s: Disability Program Expanded & Medicare Began By the mid-1960s, the OASDI program was essentially the program that exists today. Coverage was nearly universal so that almost all individuals retiring in the years following would be eligible for benefits. Two amendments were passed in the early 1960s. In 1960, the age requirement for disability, which was originally limited to those who were at least 50, was abandoned. In 1961, all retirees were now allowed to collect reduced benefits at age 62 instead of 65. Concerned over the cost of health care for the elderly population, Congress passed ``Medicare'' legislation in 1965. The legislation consisted of two major components. part A was hospital insurance that provided basic protection against hospital costs and other related care. This portion would be financed by an additional payroll tax on employers, employees and the self-employed. part B was supplementary medical insurance that provided coverage for physicians' services and other health care. Enrollment in part B was voluntary and was funded through general revenues and premiums paid by enrollees. Separate trust funds were created for each part of the program. In addition to the Medicare Program, the amendments included an increase in benefits and as well as an increase in the earnings base. Throughout the remainder of the decade, benefit levels continued to increase, as did the earnings base. In addition, in 1967, Social Security began providing monthly cash benefits for disabled widows and disabled dependent widowers; these benefits were available as early as age 50. 1970s/1980s: COLAs Introduced & Long-Term Financing Addressed Throughout the program's history, Congress has maintained the value of Social Security benefits by periodically enacting across-the-board increases in benefits. However, in 1972, Congress decided to link benefits directly to changes in the Consumer price Index (CPI). The first automatic COLA adjustment took effect in June 1975. Prior to this time, Congress voted for increases in benefits directly. In addition, the legislation increased the contribution and benefit base and provided for automatic adjustments in this ceiling. Based on economic projections in the mid-1970's, it was then estimated that initial benefits as a percent of pre-retirement earnings (replacement rates) would increase significantly for future retirees. Initial benefits were rising faster than either wages or prices. In 1977, Congress raised the payroll tax rates and increased the contribution and benefit base. Congress also corrected the most serious flaw in the method for computing the initial benefit level. Congress modified the benefit formula in order to provide that, from generation to generation, comparable workers would receive comparable replacement rates. Unfortunately, constant replacement rates for initial benefits become unsustainable when the worker to beneficiary ratio deteriorates. Today, we know that the ratio is about 3 workers for every beneficiary and is expected to fall to unsustainable levels (about 2:1) around 2030. In the late 1970s and early 1980's, high inflation rates caused a serious and immediate financing crisis for the program. President Ronald Reagan appointed a blue-ribbon panel known as the Greenspan Commission to study the financing issues and recommend legislative changes. As a result of the Commission's findings, Congress made significant changes in the program in April 1983. The major provisions included: Gradual increase in the normal retirement age from age 65 to age 66 by 2009 and 67 by 2027. Expanded coverage to newly hired federal civilian employees and those working in non-profit organizations. Acceleration of scheduled tax increases for employers and employees. Permanent increases in self-employment tax rates. Inclusion of up to half of Social Security benefits in the taxable income of higher income beneficiaries (this money would then be transferred to the Social Security trust funds). The 1983 amendments were designed to achieve solvency for the 75 year projection period by initially building large Trust Fund reserves which could be used to cover costs in the future. As designed, it was clear that near the end of the 75 year period, the trust funds would run cash flow deficits prior to its exhaustion. A sustainable reform of the system requires actuarial balance over the 75 year projection period and stable or rising Trust Fund balances at the end of that period. 1990s and Beyond While a number of amendments have been legislated since 1983, many of these, such as the Social Security Administrative Reform Act 1994 that established the Social Security Administration as an independent agency, have impacted more or how Social Security operates as an agency. There have been few programmatic changes. The 1993 amendments made up to 85 percent of Social Security benefits subject to income tax for individuals whose income, plus one-half of their benefits, exceed $34,000 (single) and $44,000 (couple), with the additional revenue credited to the Health Insurance (HI) trust fund. And in April 2000, legislation was enacted to eliminate the retirement earnings test at the full-benefit retirement age, giving today's retirees the opportunity to supplement their incomes and to continue to contribute to society through work, if they choose, without reducing their Social Security benefits. However, while the actions taken in the 1980's resolved the immediate short-range financing crisis, the issue of long-range solvency arose again in the 1990's. These issues were addressed directly by the bipartisan 1994-96 Advisory Council on Social Security and have been the center of a continuing national debate since then. Throughout this debate, the importance of preserving Social Security for those members of our society who depend upon it--the elderly, women, minorities, and people with disabilities--has always been of primary concern to policymakers. As I stated earlier, Social Security quickly evolved from a program for retired workers to one affording economic protection to the entire family. Over one-third of today's Social Security beneficiaries are not retirees. The program has since developed into one that provides a large measure of economic well-being for millions of Americans. Today, Social Security provides not only retirement benefits but valuable survivorship and disability insurance for workers and their families. As you well know, the Social Security program is gender and race neutral. We treat individuals with identical earnings histories the same in terms of benefits. However, due to demographic trends, certain groups--like women--benefit from various features of the Social Security program. These features include a progressive benefit formula, automatic cost-of-living adjustments and guaranteed benefits for dependants and survivors. Women--who on average live longer, make less money and spend more time out of the workforce raising children than men--find these elements of the program's benefit structure particularly helpful. Social Security has provided a solid floor of financial protection that has allowed the great majority of Americans to retire with the dignity that comes from financial independence, without fear of poverty or reliance on others for nearly 70 years. In addition, it has developed into the most important program to prevent families from falling into poverty upon the sudden and often unexpected loss of income due to the worker's disability or death. As my testimony illustrates, the history of the Social Security program is a history of change. And Social Security will need modifications in the future to address the challenges the program is currently facing. Today, the country's demographics are working against us: Baby Boomers are rapidly approaching retirement, families are having fewer children, and people are living longer. As America ages, it will become more and more difficult to pay promised benefits without making changes. While we are in sound fiscal health in the near term, I believe--as do my fellow trustees--that the future projected shortfalls should be addressed in a timely manner to allow for a gradual phasing in of the necessary changes. The sooner adjustments are made, the smaller and less abrupt they will have to be. Payroll taxes coming into Social Security will cover all currently promised benefits until 2017. In that year, Social Security will need to use the interest earned on the bonds to help pay benefits and then begin redeeming the bonds themselves. These bonds--backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government--will be gone by 2041. Unless changes are made there will only be enough money coming into the system to pay 74% of promised benefits at that time. Ask yourself how your personal life would be affected if all of a sudden you learned that your salary was being cut by 26 percent. For most Americans this sort of reduction would be difficult--if not impossible--to absorb. For the two-thirds of Americans receiving benefits from Social Security who depend on our checks for the majority of their income, it is a drastic measure that we must avoid. Our parents and grandparents could feel assured about the promise of a secure future. I believe that we have an obligation to ensure that Social Security's safety net is also there for our children and grandchildren. As a nation, we have a proud history of grappling with difficult issues, and we have done this best when we work together. Social Security is no exception. Since 1935, Congress has legislated changes as necessary to meet the changing needs of the American people and to ensure that the program was adequately funded to provide for these changes. I am confident that we will do so again. I want to again thank the Chairman for holding today's hearing. As President George W. Bush said, ``This country has many challenges. We will not deny, we will not ignore, we will not pass along our problems to other Congresses, to other presidents, and other generations. We will confront them with focus and clarity and courage.'' With the President's leadership and that of this Committee, I am certain that we will address the needs of our changing society and provide for a Social Security program that our citizens can count on to be there for them. Let me take this opportunity to make clear that current and near-beneficiaries can be assured that their scheduled benefits are secure and will be paid. Our actions must signal to younger generations of Americans that we are committed to strengthening Social Security. By doing so, we restore their faith and confidence in the most successful domestic program in our Nation's history. As the discussions on strengthening the program continues, the Social Security Administration will be available to provide assistance to the Congress in the analysis of any proposed changes and we will continue to faithfully serve the American people to the best of our ability. I want to thank you again for inviting me to testify. I would be happy to answer any of your questions. Chairman MCCRERY. Thank you, Commissioner Barnhart. You stated in your written testimony that if Congress fails to act to strengthen Social Security the trust funds will become exhausted, and at that point there would only be sufficient money coming in through the payroll tax to pay about 74 percent of benefits. Is that according to the Social Security actuaries? Commissioner BARNHART. It is. It is according to our independent Social Security actuary, and as published in the Trustees' Report most recently issued, the one in March of this year. Chairman MCCRERY. Obviously, if a worker faced a 26-percent cut in his salary, that would be a pretty dramatic consequence for him and his family. So, that would be something that we would, I hope, try to avert as a cliff at some date, whether it is 2041 or 2042, or even 2052, as the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says. We would like to avert that cliff from occurring. Whenever that date is--and your actuaries say 2041 now, I believe--doesn't that reduction in benefits get worse following that year? Commissioner BARNHART. In fact, the reduction benefit moves from 26 percent to 32 percent over time. Yes, I think that is the point the Chairman is making. Chairman MCCRERY. Yes, ma'am. Commissioner BARNHART. That 26 percent is the initial reduction that is required in 2041, but over time, as ever increasing numbers of boomers are collecting benefits and people are coming in after them, eventually it would require a 32-percent reduction in benefits by the end of the 75-year period. Chairman MCCRERY. So, initially, there is a 26-percent cut in benefits, but it does not just stay there. So, the system wouldn't be capable of paying 74 percent of the currently promised benefits forever? Commissioner BARNHART. No. Absent any changes, that is absolutely correct, Mr. Chairman. Chairman MCCRERY. Which brings up the question, I think, of how we fund a plan like this. The pay-as-you-go system, while it worked well when we had a lot of workers for every retiree, has changed dramatically because of the demographic changes that you have spoken about, and now we have approximately 3.3 workers for every retiree, and that is going down. In your opinion, and I know you have looked at this in your capacity as Commissioner and in other public service, does it make sense for us to examine perhaps prefunding some of the out-year obligations, and investing that prefunding in real assets to get a higher rate of return and help us with those obligations in the out-years? Commissioner BARNHART. Let me say a couple of things, if I may. The Chairman has made a number of important points. The first is that it is really important that whatever we do, we take action sooner as opposed to later. The fact of the matter is, the sooner action is taken, the greater the range of choices, the longer time people have to adjust to the changes, and the changes can be gradual and phased in, not unlike what happened with the 1983 legislation in terms of increasing the retirement age. In terms of the point about the prefunding, I think clearly this whole situation is due to demographics. We have seen the number of workers to retirees shrink over time, and it is going to go down even further. We are at 3.3 workers per retiree today; eventually, it will go down to two, and then below two. That is the problem as we look ahead at the promised level of benefits. There is no question that if you engage in some sort of prefunding, one of the things you do is reduce the potential burden on future taxpayers. There is no question about that. As you look out over time, many private pension plans rely on prefunding to some degree, not necessarily in total, but most plans do have prefunding to some degree. Chairman MCCRERY. In fact, the government requires it, don't we? Commissioner BARNHART. Yes, in fact, we do. Chairman MCCRERY. Yes. So, it would seem that if it made sense for private pension plans, it might make sense for our pension plan for the Social Security system. As far as I know, there are only two ways to do that, direct government investment into real assets of the Social Security Trust Fund, or personal accounts. Can you think of another way that we could prefund the system? Commissioner BARNHART. Right at this very moment I am at a loss to come up with another way. There may be people who work in the field of insurance and investment that could come up with something, but, no, I can't come up with others at this point. Chairman MCCRERY. Lastly, let us talk about this issue of disability benefits because a lot has been said about--well, the President's plan would not only reduce retirement benefits but would reduce disability benefits. To your knowledge, has the Administration proposed any plan that would cut disability benefits? Commissioner BARNHART. It is my understanding that it is the President's intent that disability and survivors' benefits remain intact, and that the issue really is--whatever the ultimate plan ends up being-looking at the transition from disability into retirement. Chairman MCCRERY. So, you don't know of any Administration plan that would specifically cut disability benefits? Commissioner BARNHART. I don't know of any plan like that, no. Chairman MCCRERY. As the Commissioner of the SSA, don't you think you would know if there were such a plan? Commissioner BARNHART. I think the President has made clear in the statements that he has made publicly that his intent from the very beginning was that the disability and survivor programs must be preserved--that was one of his original six principles. Since then, there have been a number of opportunities and public appearances to address that issue, and it is my understanding that the intent is that the disability and survivors programs be protected. Chairman MCCRERY. Thank you very much. Mr. Levin? Mr. LEVIN. You said disability and survivors? Commissioner BARNHART. Yes. Mr. LEVIN. Do you know what was in Plan Two of the Social Security Commission appointed by the President? Commissioner BARNHART. I am generally familiar with it. I couldn't speak to every single detail, but yes, I am generally familiar. Mr. LEVIN. Do you know that under that plan both survivors and disability benefits would be cut? Commissioner BARNHART. I am aware of that, but as I also recall, if I may say, Mr. Levin, is that the Commission stated in their report that that should not be considered a recommendation on their part to take that action as far as disability. Mr. LEVIN. It was in the Commission Two Plan, was it not? Commissioner BARNHART. It was in the plan, but they did make that point. Mr. LEVIN. That plan was called a good blueprint by the President. I know you are an appointee of the President, but I do think it is important that the record be straight. He called that a good blueprint. Tell me where the Administration has officially said that there would be no cut in survivors' benefits? For example, what the President suggested, the middle class benefit cuts, would that not apply to disability benefits? Commissioner BARNHART. I think that my--again, I can only say what my understanding is, Mr. Levin, and my understanding is that the disability---- Mr. LEVIN. I am talking about survivors. Commissioner BARNHART. My understanding was that it was the intent to protect those programs and those benefits. Mr. LEVIN. I think you are wrong. I think the survivor portion, when the President proposed it, was not taken out from those cuts. Isn't it true if you would exempt both disability and survivor benefit cuts, you would have to have even more cuts for retirees in order to address solvency? Commissioner BARNHART. I think, obviously, it would depend on how one chose to approach---- Mr. LEVIN. Right. If you immunize those portions, it affects the retirement programs, doesn't it? Commissioner BARNHART. Well, depending on how one goes about financing the reforms that one puts in place. Mr. LEVIN. The more you exempt people from those cuts, the more you have to look elsewhere, right? Commissioner BARNHART. Well, I think it is true that in terms of looking at what the total solvency shortfall is, if you look at protecting certain categories of people who are receiving benefits today--and I think that is what you are saying--then you do have to look at making up the difference in the shortfall in other places. However, it would depend on how the Congress and the President ultimately decided to approach the whole solvency issue. Mr. LEVIN. Does Mr. Hubbard work for the President? Commissioner BARNHART. To the best of my knowledge he does, yes. Mr. LEVIN. Did he not say recently that the middle class benefit approach, benefit cut approach put forth by the President would apply to survivors? Commissioner BARNHART. To be honest, Mr. Levin, I couldn't speak to what every single person has---- Mr. LEVIN. He is not a single person. He is an adviser on Social Security. Commissioner BARNHART. I understand, but there are many people that are speaking on the issue around the country, and obviously, I do my best to keep up with what everyone is saying, but I am really not in a position to speak to what every person allegedly said in a particular setting. I apologize, but I am just really not in that position to do so today. Mr. LEVIN. The 26-percent cut that you mentioned, that would be a cut from what was scheduled under wage indexing, correct? So, with the 26-percent cut people would still be receiving more in real dollar terms then than a recipient is receiving now? Commissioner BARNHART. Just to clarify---- Mr. LEVIN. The answer is yes, right? Commissioner BARNHART. I want to make sure I understand what you are saying. The current benefit is waged indexed, and the 26 percent reflects a cut in that wage indexed benefit. So, what you are asking me is, is that more or less than--I just want to make sure I understand. Mr. LEVIN. Than someone today is receiving. In real dollar terms it would be a cut from the projected increase, the scheduled increase under wage indexing, but that amount would be higher than a beneficiary is now receiving. Commissioner BARNHART. My understanding is that all benefits, whether it is price indexing or wage indexing, the benefit still goes up as compared to today. Mr. LEVIN. It goes up much more under wage---- Commissioner BARNHART. In real dollars. Obviously, it goes up much more. Mr. LEVIN. I think the answer to my question is yes. We just---- Commissioner BARNHART. Well, I guess I would say though that depending on how one does the price indexing---- Mr. LEVIN. No. I am talking about right now, wage indexing is there. I am saying if it is not modified, somebody would be receiving more today with this 26 percent cut. It would be a 26 percent cut from the wage indexed benefit, right? Commissioner BARNHART. That is right. That is what the 26 percent cut would be. Mr. LEVIN. Okay. I just wanted to finish by saying we can hear today from everybody about strengthening Social Security. In our judgment you don't strengthen it by replacing it. Thank you. Chairman MCCRERY. Mr. Shaw? Mr. SHAW. Mr. Chairman, I think the questions I had thought to ask are all out the window now that Mr. Levin has completed his comments. As I understand Mr. Levin, in answering his own question, said that the benefits would be a better deal with a 20 some percent cut, which for some reason goes over my head. I don't really understand that, because I think that the workers are---- Mr. LEVIN. I didn't say that. Mr. SHAW. I didn't interrupt you. This would be a severe cut. It would be--it would throw literally tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of our senior citizens into below the poverty line. This is what we have to avert. Mr. Levin also commented in saying that the President said that the second plan that was in the Commission report was a good blueprint. That is in error. The President said that the Commission report was a good blueprint, and there were many plans in there. There were three of them and one of them actually is an add-on. I would like to comment too on what Mr. Levin said in setting out his blueprint, much of which I agree with. He said no decrease in benefits. I don't think we have to decrease benefits, and I am going to work hard to pass a plan that doesn't decrease benefits, and I am not talking about the 27 percent cut not being a cut in benefits, because I certainly do understand that it is. In fact, if you look at H.R. 750, the ``Social Security Guarantee Plus Act of 2005,'' it maintains the existing level of benefits. Mr. Levin also said we must retain the guarantees under Social Security. If you look at H.R. 750, it does guarantee. In fact, the name of the bill is the Social Security Guarantee Plus Plan. Then we have to go back and say, well, how do you maintain these guarantees? Do you maintain them through a promise to borrow? Do you maintain them by increasing taxes, or do you maintain them by now starting to prefund Social Security for younger workers? Commissioner Barnhart, do you understand that those are the choices if we are going to maintain benefits, or can you think of anything to add to---- Commissioner BARNHART. In terms of the---- Mr. SHAW. That I have just given? Commissioner BARNHART. The array of choices that we have? Mr. SHAW. Yes. Commissioner BARNHART. Traditionally, as you look back over time, Congress has made changes in the program and the funding issue has been dealt with through tax increases, changes to benefits, increasing the retirement age, which ultimately is a change in benefits to some extent because it affects when you get them and how much you get at different ages. So, I think generally it is agreed that the options that lie before us as we move ahead to try to deal with the financing shortfall pretty much come down to three areas: to increase taxes, to adjust benefits, or to increase the rate of return that we get on the money going into the system. Mr. SHAW. In your comments you talked about many changes at Social Security, and they have been for the better. The one change that isn't for the better is the demographics, and the question is how many workers are paying into the system now for every retiree? Back in 1935 it was over 40 workers per retiree. The system worked very well. Life expectancy was less than 65. I think it was 62, and the benefits didn't really start until 65, so, the program was very, very solvent. There was no problem. The pay-as-you-go system was a good plan. Now, we are down though to three, a little over three workers per retiree, and we are headed, because of the fact we are living longer and having fewer kids, toward a situation where we are going to have two workers per retiree. That would simply mean in plain terms that if we are going to guarantee the benefits, that means two workers have to care for one beneficiary under Social Security. That is just too heavy a load, particularly for people that go from paycheck the paycheck. Also, the alternative of borrowing, we are looking at a $26 trillion cash shortfall. Now we can talk about it in terms of present dollars, but the actual cash shortfall over the next 75 years is $26 trillion. Our economy cannot sustain that. So, obviously, right now you would never devise a program today for Social Security that is identical to the one that we have currently. You would add something to it. You wouldn't provide for a program where the surpluses are going into the General Fund. You would retain them and invest them in something for the American workers. That is how I see the future of Social Security if we are going to care for the next generation and quit worrying about the next election. That is more important. Saving Social Security is much more important than anybody's reelection in this U.S. Congress. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I yield back. Chairman MCCRERY. Thank you, Mr. Shaw. Mr. Pomeroy. Mr. POMEROY. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Well, I think we have heard a new one today, prefunding. This is an effort that has an ideological objective, privatizing Social Security. It is an objective in search of rationale. So, initially we heard you were not getting enough return on your Social Security, only now to have the President propose a lower return as they change from wage to price index. We heard that the system was in crisis, had to privatize Social Security, it was in crisis, until people looked at the thing being able to pay benefits as scheduled for the next 37 years, and figure we had a little time to work on this. So, that one didn't work. So, now it is prefund, we are going to prefund. Well, that all sounds fine and good too until you realize that prefund means dollars in an account, benefit guarantees reduced, benefit stability reduced. Commissioner, I find your testimony very interesting. I have at times previously extolled your administration of Social Security because I think you are doing a terrific job. Commissioner BARNHART. Thank you. Mr. POMEROY. We have not had a chance to talk about really the philosophical design, and I understand that is really not your core responsibility. You have got to make the trains run on time, get the checks out over there, make the system work. Is that correct? Commissioner BARNHART. That is correct. Mr. POMEROY. Do you view yourself as a premier architect or participant in the great Social Security privatization debate? Commissioner BARNHART. I view myself as a person making sure Social Security is a place where you, all the Members of this Subcommittee, all the Members of Congress, and the President and Members of the Administration can come to to get the facts about the program, to get the facts of the---- Mr. POMEROY. I think you have given us some important facts today. Two-thirds of those who receive a Social Security check, that is most of their income, 20 percent, it is all their income. I heard about a figure of something like one-third, it is 90 percent or better of their income. Would that be about right? Commissioner BARNHART. That is about right, yes, it is. Mr. POMEROY. What is the average Social Security check? Commissioner BARNHART. The average Social Security check right now is somewhere around $955 a month. Mr. POMEROY. In my State, as of last year, I believe you and I spoke about a check that averaged about $834 a month. Commissioner BARNHART. That is for an individual, and for a couple it is somewhere around $1,600, and it goes up, obviously, if you have a couple. Mr. POMEROY. For an individual, the $834, is that right? Commissioner BARNHART. I believe $834 is the disability payment, Mr. Pomeroy, the average disability payment. Mr. POMEROY. A year ago the disability payment was I think $700 and some. Commissioner BARNHART. For '04, the average benefit for a disabled worker is $894, a retired worker is $955. Mr. POMEROY. North Dakota or national? Commissioner BARNHART. That is national. North Dakota may be different, that is very possible. Mr. POMEROY. It is lower, based on the lower---- Commissioner BARNHART. Yes, that is very possible because of the lower earnings perhaps. Mr. POMEROY. --lower statistics. I am just looking at it from the perspective I have. Costs are higher in other places, which offset the higher check. Ms. BARNHART. Right. Mr. POMEROY. I think that if you have people--in fact, it is a high possibility that those depending on Social Security for all their check have a lower than average check because they would have had a lower than average earning history, reflecting their inability to save or have other retirement. That is why they are so dependent upon Social Security. So, as I think about the North Dakota check in the mid to low 800s, I am thinking, if you add volatility to this, with this thing bouncing around depending on where the stock market goes, or if you change the wage replacement value because you no longer have a wage index, you have a price index if you make over $20,000 a year, you definitely raise questions about whether a person will be able to live on that Social Security check. It is my view that volatility or benefit cuts off of the average check raise real questions about the ability of people to live independently, for that some significant portion, about one-third of all recipients, that depend on it for 90 percent or more of their check. Would you agree with that? Commissioner BARNHART. I understand what you are saying, and I think the point that you are making, as I am hearing it, is that Social Security is even more important for the most vulnerable people who are the people in the lowest quintile, or lowest one-third, of earners in the country, because they rely on it for a higher percentage if not all of their income and retirement, correct? Mr. POMEROY. Yes. Commissioner BARNHART. Yes. Mr. POMEROY. That check, if it is either subject to stock market volatility or reduced because you change the index and it no longer accrues at its wage index value, you raise real questions in terms--if that amount, which is averaging in the 800 to $900 range now, is essentially lower for a future generation because we change the formula now, it will be harder for people to live on that independently; is that correct? Commissioner BARNHART. I understand what you are saying, and let me say I agree, that is a view. Let me just add one thing, if I may, and not to be confrontational, but simply to say it in the interest of trying to explore these issues and look at them from all sides of the coin. One of the concerns that I have, as we move forward in discussing the solvency debate and the level of benefits and those kinds of things, is that we make sure that what we are measuring against, in terms of looking at the different ideas, is what the actual payable benefits are today and not the scheduled benefits. Because, as the Chairman pointed out, the payable benefit right now looks like--and as Mr. Levin discussed--is somewhere around 74 percent of what the scheduled benefit is. So, one of my concerns--and when I look at this whole notion of risk, Mr. Pomeroy, one of the things I think we need to take into consideration is that the program today, absent any changes, is not risk free because you can pretty much be guaranteed, based on what our actuaries say, that you are going to have a 26-percent reduction. Mr. POMEROY. I don't think anyone is suggesting we don't do anything, that we take--you talk yourself about how the program has been changed several times in history. Commissioner BARNHART. It has, right, it has. Mr. POMEROY. With 37 years out, we have time to change it. Chairman MCCRERY. Thank the gentleman. Mr. POMEROY. I yield back. [Laughter.] Chairman MCCRERY. Thank you very much, very generous. In fact, we hope to be talking about some ways to avert the 26- percent-cut in benefits, and in fact we have actually proposed concrete things to do that. We are still waiting for you all to do that. Maybe you have something better than prefunding. We would love to hear it. Mr. Hayworth? Mr. HAYWORTH. I thank the Chairman. I listened with interest to the testimony of the Commissioner and the evaluation offered by the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee, and most recently by my friend from North Dakota. Mr. Chairman, my colleagues, I must say that I am, well, not completely astonished because we know that politics and policy are intermingled, but to hear such disparaging of even the exploration of prefunding, especially--and not to case personal aspersions, but knowing that my good friend from North Dakota, the former insurance commissioner, knowing that indeed this entire system was proposed by President Franklin Roosevelt, not only as old-age pensions, but a form of social insurance, if you will, knowing that a dynamic of insurance is prefunding in the real world, knowing that payroll taxes, although we have devolved into a pay-as-you-go system, knowing that in 1935 when you had 40 plus workers for every retiree, one of the basic perceptions of the program is, in fact, prefunding. I was a little curious to hear such venom utilized for the term, but that of course, is politics. We have to work on policy. My friend from Michigan said, as if it was a terrible, evil, devious plan, this observation from a Member of the Administration, quote, ``Details would need to be worked out through the legislative process,'' close quote. My colleagues, that is what we are engaged in, the legislative process to determine what is the best course of action. Good people can disagree, but to suggest that somehow a legitimate observation that, quite frankly, I believe all of us learned in civics class, that the legislative process comes up with an ultimate product that the President can either sign into law or veto, to somehow suggest that that is an assault on survivor's benefits or to at least leave that impression, is disingenuous at best. Again, just for the record, because from time to time there tends to be smoke and mirrors rather than straight chronicling of what in fact has been said, our President has laid out goals for Congress in developing legislation to strengthen this program. Any attempt to quantify the financial effects reflects the views and assumptions of authors and commentators, not those of the President. In the final analysis, it will be this Committee and this Congress that must work together to save and strengthen Social Security. So, enough of the politics. Let us get again to the policy itself. Madam Commissioner, in your testimony you discussed the changes enacted in 1983 to achieve solvency over 75 years. Those changes enacted included raising the retirement age, taxing Social Security benefits, and some other modifications. By design it achieved solvency by building up the Social Security Trust Funds with full knowledge that the program would start running deficits much sooner. In the end, the amendments 1983 simply kicked the can down the road rather than providing a lasting--and by that, in Washington parlance-- three-quarters of a century solution. Would you agree that a durable solution must do more than buildup bigger balances of Treasury IOUs in the trust fund; it must bring Social Security's income and costs in line with each other in the long run? Commissioner BARNHART. I do think you make a really important point about this whole notion of how we look at solvency, and traditionally it has been looked at over a 75- year time period, and the Social Security Commission, I think it was in 1983, the Greenspan Commission, they defined sustainable solvency the way I did in my testimony, which was at the end of the 75-year period you have a situation where the trust funds are stable or rising. I think as we look ahead to the younger generations of Americans aging, we need to keep in mind, in my view, that we owe it to them to try to fix it permanently, to make sure that we are not, as you say, kicking the can down the road every so many years or every so many decades, and having to make adjustments to fix it. One of the reasons I think that is so important is because the younger people in this country. If you talk to them--and I have a 16 and a half year--old, and his friends are over at the house all the time--and I talk to my friends, in their 20s who are just starting to work, and they really have lost confidence in the system. I think it is critically important that we restore confidence in the system. I was reading a long article in one of the national news magazines just the other day, and it was pointing out how Social Security had been important to generations of families over a lifetime, but the most recent generation, the newest generation, the 20-somethings that are working in department stores now, are basically saying, I don't have any faith at all that it will be there when I retire. I think that is the issue that we want to address through sustainable solvency. Mr. HAYWORTH. Thank you, Commissioner Barnhart. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Chairman MCCRERY. Thank you, Mr. Hayworth. Mr. Becerra? Mr. BECERRA. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Commissioner, always good to see you. Thank you very much for trying to answer the questions. Obviously, sometimes it is difficult because this is an issue that is important to everyone. We don't yet have all the concrete details of any particular plan out there to really work off of, so, I know that sometimes when we ask you questions, we are asking you to project. Commissioner BARNHART. I understand. Mr. BECERRA. So, thank you for every attempt that you make to try to answer as best you can. I would like to go back for a second and ask about the trust fund. As the Commissioner it is your responsibility to safeguard the Social Security system which includes the trust fund. Commissioner BARNHART. Right. Mr. BECERRA. Let me just ask you straight out: does the trust fund exist? Commissioner BARNHART. In my view, the trust fund absolutely does exist, because as required by law, when the payroll taxes come in every month, what we don't use to pay benefits in a given month is posted to the trust funds, credited, and then used to purchase government securities. That is required by law. We don't have an option but to do that. Mr. BECERRA. So, we have Treasury certificates that are banked away that reflect the amount of money that is in that trust fund? Commissioner BARNHART. In fact, in the past we have had to cash in those bonds on a number of occasions, and the government has made good. They are backed by the full faith and credit of the government, and that has always been the case. In fact, my understanding is the U.S. Government is one of a few Nations that has never defaulted. Mr. BECERRA. Excellent. That was my impression. So, then what are we to make of President Bush's visit to the place where you held so many of these Treasury certificates? Was it grandstanding to say it is just Monopoly money, or should Americans believe that in fact in 20 years when those trust fund dollars are being redeemed, that they can count on that money being there? Commissioner BARNHART. I think my recollection was that the President referred to them as IOUs, as---- Mr. BECERRA. I said Monopoly money, he said IOUs. Commissioner BARNHART. That is what I remember. [Laughter.] Commissioner BARNHART. I can't remember everything everybody says, but I remember that one. Mr. BECERRA. He did try to leave the impression that these are IOUs that may not be paid? Commissioner BARNHART. I think that---- Mr. BECERRA. Did that not concern you as the Commissioner of Social Security? Commissioner BARNHART. Well, he did call them IOUs. I remember that. Mr. BECERRA. So, is it your sense that that means that he, like every other American who puts money through Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) taxes into the Social Security system and the trust fund, believes that they will be paid? Commissioner BARNHART. I assumed the point that he was trying to make was that in order to pay those bonds when they come due, that it is going to have to be taken out of other parts of the Federal budget. Mr. BECERRA. In other words, we are taking money from the trust fund, using it for other purposes, but at the end, in the future, when we have a call on those securities, those Treasury certificates, the government will have to pay, but just has to find other sources to pay for that? Commissioner BARNHART. In essence we are paying ourselves, yes, right. Mr. BECERRA. So, today, this day, May 17th, the Administration is going to use $400 million in Social Security Trust Fund dollars and spend them on things that have nothing to do with Social Security. At the end of the year, when you total up the year, it will total up to what, about $170 billion in those trust fund dollars, Social Security Trust Fund dollars that the President will have spent on things other than Social Security. If there is some chance that these so-called IOUs will not be paid, wouldn't it be incumbent upon the President to today stop spending at the rate of $400 million a day those Social Security Trust Fund dollars that he is using for non- Social Security purposes? Commissioner BARNHART. Well, again, not to be confrontational, Mr. Becerra, but I do feel compelled to point out that the funds get spent also by the Congress and by programs that--the budget gets approved by the Congress. The appropriation comes from Congress. Mr. BECERRA. Very good point. Commissioner BARNHART. So, I would like to make that point. Let me say, I think that is an important point to make, because there is nothing strange about that. That is the way the system has always worked. It is an issue that comes up all the time when I am interviewed, when I am doing call-in radio shows with people across America. They talk about the fact that Congress and the President are misusing the Social Security money---- Mr. BECERRA. Raiding the trust funds. Commissioner BARNHART. Right, raiding trust funds, and in fact, that was the way the system was designed, and I explain that. Mr. BECERRA. So, one of the things that we all should do is if we are talking about Social Security in trouble, there is a crisis, one of the first things we stop doing is spending Social Security moneys on non Social Security purposes, because the day of reckoning will come when we will need those trust fund dollars, and whether we have the trust fund moneys available or not, we are not going to shortchange Social Security recipients when they retire. So, I think to have an honest debate, you have to be honest in saying that today the Administration is spending $400 million a day in Social Security dollars on non Social Security purposes. Let me ask you this. As the President talks about privatizing Social Security, we just heard recently, last week, that United Airlines has decided that it cannot pay on its pension benefits for its employees to the tune of some $10 billion that now, guess who, the taxpayers will be responsible for, and at the same time those United pensioners in the future will only get some pennies on their dollars. Who knows how much they are going to get. That was because those private pension dollars, those personal accounts that those United employees had in United pension plans, 401(k)s, are no longer there because United gambled with that money. Whether it is United--and we hear that Delta Airlines may be right around the corner, and Northwest Airlines may be around the corner, or we could talk about Enron, which did the same thing to its employees, thousands of employees with these 401(k) plans, or we can talk about the city of San Diego, my State of California, which is on the verge--and Mr. Chairman, I will close with this comment--is on the verge of declaring bankruptcy because it too fiddled with its government employee moneys in these pension 401(k) accounts. Why would you--I don't want to say you--why would anyone want to put our guaranteed Social Security moneys in a plan that could be a gamble, and wouldn't a Commissioner be out there saying, ``Don't you dare touch those moneys that are guaranteed, and have been guaranteed for 70 years?'' Commissioner BARNHART. Well, I think, one of the points that is important to make is that there would be a lot to be worked out in legislation as we move forward, and I think that is one of the reasons when people have talked about personal accounts, they have used the Thrift Savings Plan as an example, because there are certain safeguards built into that. I think, obviously- Mr. BECERRA. Talk to the San Diego employees who today are not guaranteed their benefits. Chairman MCCRERY. The gentleman's time has expired. Commissioner BARNHART. I think the situation you describe obviously didn't have the kind of safeguards that people would, obviously, be interested in having. Chairman MCCRERY. However, on my time, I would like to ask Mr. Becerra a question. Mr. BECERRA. Yes, sir. Chairman MCCRERY. You made the point that we should stop spending those surpluses, and you used a figure that was incorrect. In this year, the cash surplus that is available for us to spend, is about $69 billion. You said we ought to stop spending that. If we were to stop spending that, what would you do with it? Mr. BECERRA. You could pay down the interest on the national debt or the principal on the national debt, which would reduce our payments into the future. You could---- Chairman MCCRERY. How would it reduce our payments into the future? Mr. BECERRA. Well, today we are paying, what is it, over $150 billion in interest simply on the national debt. If you reduce the principal that we owe, that reduces the amount of interest that you have to pay on the Nation's debt, which cumulatively will add up to billions and billions of dollars into the future. Actually, what I am proposing is nothing different from what President Bush first proposed when he came into office when he said he wouldn't have to touch Social Security when he enacted his tax cuts, but instead we find because of the deficits and so forth that he has had to, in essence, use all of the Social Security surplus to pay for the tax cuts. Chairman MCCRERY. So, you are saying we could pay down debt and that would save us interest, wouldn't it? We wouldn't have to pay that interest. Mr. BECERRA. It would. Chairman MCCRERY. The same thing would apply to the trust fund, wouldn't it? If we don't have to pay that interest inside the trust fund it would be easier to make good on those obligations. Mr. BECERRA. Well, the beauty of the Social Security system is that today the system runs a massive surplus so that the reason we have this surplus is because we are collecting more today than we need to pay out, so, there is a pot, a treasure pot that every worker in America is paying today into Social Security, that he and she believes will be there in the future for them. If we were smart, we would use that money wisely to try to reduce our obligations into the future so that way, we have the opportunity and the ability to pay those same American workers who contributed money today come time when they retire. So, Mr. Chairman, I think---- Chairman MCCRERY. I agree with you. President Clinton, in fact, suggested that we save that money, not spend it, and invest it in the stock market, direct government investment, didn't he? Mr. BECERRA. Well, that was part of his proposal to try to shore up Social Security into the long term, right. Chairman MCCRERY. Right. So, that is another thing you could do if we didn't spend it, we could invest in the stock market and try to get interest, compound interest, working for the trust fund instead of against the trust fund, which it is now doing. Mr. BECERRA. Right. The peculiar feature about President Clinton's proposal, which makes it a safeguard, is that rather than let 47 million Americans try to invest that money wisely, you would have one entity, so that when there are good days and you make a good investment, everyone benefits, and when there are bad days, everyone shares the loss, versus having 48 million Americans each trying to figure out if they had a good day or a bad day. Chairman MCCRERY. That is a debatable proposition, and it is one debate that we would love to have. Mr. Hulshof? Mr. HULSHOF. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Am I correct, to my friend from California, that you joined this August body in 1993 after a '92 election? Is it not a fact that in 1993 and in 1994 and in 1995 and '96 and '97, while the gentleman was in the majority during those years, that---- Mr. BECERRA. You have given me about three or 4 years of extra majority that I would have loved to have had. [Laughter.] Mr. HULSHOF. The point is that Congress, during those initial years that the gentleman joined this body, Social Security was borrowed from, was it not; the excess payroll taxes were spent on other government programs, isn't that a fact? Mr. BECERRA. The gentlemen is correct, that in those years President Clinton inherited what was then the largest budget deficit in the history of this Nation, of about $230 billion, and in order to come up with the money, President Clinton did use the Social Security moneys, and Congress allowed him to use those Social Security moneys. When President Bush took office, he came in with the largest budget surpluses in the Nation's history, and he still is using the Social Security surplus moneys as well. That is the difference. Mr. HULSHOF. Commissioner Barnhart, let me confirm this. I think it is in your testimony. The actual disability portion of Social Security, disability, cash benefits were authorized under the amendments 1956, is that true, and the actual cash program began in 1957? Commissioner BARNHART. That is correct, yes. Mr. HULSHOF. The Ranking Member, in his opening statement, made a point--and I am trying to determine the relevance of the point--that at the time the disability insurance program was created, that all 10 Members, Republican Members, voted against the disability insurance program. I have done a quick survey here, Mr. Levin. Not one Member on the Republican side presently serving on the Committee was here in Congress then. Is the gentleman suggesting that somehow those of us on this side of the aisle, as it relates to the disability portion of Social Security, that somehow we don't believe that it should be held in high esteem? Is that the point? The Ranking Member's statement, I am trying to determine the relevance of bringing up the fact that prior Congresses or other parties--would the gentleman wish me to talk about the civil rights debate of the '60s and the prominent Democrats that attempted to filibuster? What is the relevance of what happened in 1957 as it relates to the challenges that we are here to address with Commissioner Barnhart? Mr. LEVIN. Will you yield? Mr. HULSHOF. I will yield, yes, sir. Mr. LEVIN. First of all--and I urge that you go back and look at the history not only in the '50s, the '60s, and that is, the voting records are clear when it came to creation of disability and to other improvements in Social Security after that. Mr. HULSHOF. Let me---- Mr. LEVIN. Let me just finish. Mr. HULSHOF. Okay. Mr. LEVIN. The Democrats overwhelmingly favored, and Republicans in the majority disapproved of those improvements, number one. Number two, we have never proposed to diverting Social Security moneys into private accounts which could well have the impact of affecting disability payments, because if you look--what happens if you have private accounts---- Mr. HULSHOF. Well, I am going to reclaim my time, Mr. Levin. You have had your time and you have made your point. Mr. LEVIN. I surely have made my point. Mr. HULSHOF. The point is--I would say to the gentleman, and, Mr. Chairman, my disappointment runs deeply because when I was first allowed to serve on this Committee under then Chairman Jim Bunning, then under the gentleman from Florida, and had the opportunity to work with Ranking Members Coyne and Canelli and Matsui, as far as the disability program was concerned--and this Member particularly, as it relates to the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act (P.L. 106- 170), where we expanded, Republicans led the effort to expand the disability program, to remove obstacles in the workforce so that people with disabilities can continue, as far as vocational rehabilitation services, as far as maintaining Medicaid or Medicare, health care services. So, again, the point is, here we are today, and you are watching this tennis match, Commissioner, and that is unfortunate because the challenges are real. I would say to my good friend from North ``by gosh'' Dakota, the gentleman shared a stage with me in 1998 in Kansas City, Missouri, and the word ``crisis,'' the first time I recall a prominent occupant of the Oval Office mentioning the word or using the word ``crisis'' as it relates to the demographic challenges of Social Security was when the gentleman and I, along with Senator Santorum and then Senator Bob Kerrey and President Bill Clinton, in the first ever great debate when he announced that there was a crisis facing Social Security, which again I thought was very useful at least to--and we are having the same discussions today as we did in 1998 about the demographic challenges. So, I would, again, Mr. Chairman, I would take the tact that you have taken, and I tip my hat to the gentleman from Florida, Mr. Wexler, and while I am not necessarily in support of his idea, at least now there is an idea on the table about addressing these shortfalls, and I am disappointed that, as the gentleman from Arizona has said, sometimes I think the politics overruns the policy. Thanks for the time. Chairman MCCRERY. Thank you, Mr. Hulshof. Ms. Tubbs Jones? Ms. TUBBS JONES. Good afternoon. How are you? Commissioner BARNHART. Good afternoon, thank you. Fine. Ms. TUBBS JONES. It is so interesting that it is politics when you are talking about the other party and it is policy when you are talking about your own, but we all are political. That is why we've got political parties operating here on the Hill. I am just so pleased to have you back, Commissioner Barnhart. Let us talk about women for a moment since we are so well represented on this Committee. [Laughter.] Chairman MCCRERY. I will second that. Ms. TUBBS JONES. Oh, thank you very much. We are agreeing on something. The fact is that in its inception, Social Security was intended to kind of help out--not in its inception, as it moved along--the woman who was working in the home, not working outside the home, and the payments for that work, was actually through the spouse's earnings. Then as time moved along, some considerations were given to working women. A lot of women to this day say that sometimes their benefit might have been better under their own ticket than under their spouse's ticket, and are--I don't want to say anger--but disappointed that they are not receiving the bigger dollar. Commissioner BARNHART. I think the issue you are pointing out is a really important one, but I believe--just to clarify, if I may. Ms. TUBBS JONES. Please. Commissioner BARNHART. The situation you are describing is that typically with a lower-earning spouse, and generally it is the wife, because women make less than men generally, the couple is entitled to, in the case of a one-earner couple, the male's Social Security and then half as much for the spouse. What happens if you have a two-earner couple, because again, women's salaries are often lower than men, is that even though Social Security is gender neutral and we do calculate the same benefit for a woman as for a man, often her benefit in her own right ends up being less than 50 percent of the higher-earning spouse's benefit. So, therefore, the woman feels like hers didn't really count. Ms. TUBBS JONES. Right. The other thing that we don't have a lot of discussion about, but the fact is that a non-working spouse at a younger age, under a disability or survivor program, is likely to get a greater benefit under the program should her spouse become--with minor children, should her spouse become disabled or die. Commissioner BARNHART. That is because of the total family benefit, you are absolutely correct, when you add up all the-- -- Ms. TUBBS JONES. Right. For many low-income families, the ability to purchase that type of insurance, they don't have the ability to purchase the kind of insurance that Social Security provides either under disability or survivor. Commissioner BARNHART. That is why I think it is important for people to remember that Social Security is not just about retirement. It is disability. It is survivors, and in fact, a little known fact that most people don't focus on, one in three of our people who are receiving benefits are not retirees. Ms. TUBBS JONES. The fact is that the debate about whether or not African-Americans should be--there should be some discussion about increasing the benefit for African-Americans as they retire, really does not take into consideration-- because they die early, does not take in consideration the benefits that they receive under either a disability or survivor program, or their families receive. Commissioner BARNHART. Well, I think it depends on how you look at it, quite frankly--one can say that if you take someone who is in a similar situation but who happened to live 10 or 15 years longer than the particular African American you are talking about, they would have reaped more benefits from the system than the individual you describe by moving on to receive more retirement benefits. Ms. TUBBS JONES. The fact is that an African American family, low-income African American family could not purchase the disability or survivor benefits with dollars that they receive under Social Security. Commissioner BARNHART. I think it would be difficult for anyone to do that, frankly. Ms. TUBBS JONES. Right. What is--let me strike that question and go back. I kind of lost my thought for a moment there. As we move along down this path of discussion of Social Security, it is your position that we should strengthen Social Security. Is that correct? Commissioner BARNHART. I believe we should strengthen Social Security for future generations, make sure that it is there and there is sustainable solvency for the future. Ms. TUBBS JONES. Well, the commercial I like most is where the plumber comes into the lady's house and he says I'm there to fix the sink. Commissioner BARNHART. I have seen it. Ms. TUBBS JONES. He says I have to tear down the house, and the response is, Don't do Social Security like that. If you only need to fix the sink, don't tear down the house to do it. Would you agree with that? Commissioner BARNHART. Well, I have seen that commercial, so, I---- Ms. TUBBS JONES. It is kind of funny, isn't it? Commissioner BARNHART. I know the one that you are talking about. I don't know, those commercials strike a little close to home for me, so, I can't seem to laugh when I see them, particularly with my husband and son sitting there watching them sometimes, and saying, ``Mom, what are you going to do about that?'' So, let me say that I understand the point that you are making. I guess I would say this: I do think that as we consider changes and as we help you consider the changes and what you are going to do as we move forward, hopefully, together and in a bipartisan fashion, I think it is important to make sure that what we are creating and ensuring is a program that is going to be safe and secure in the future. Ms. TUBBS JONES. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Chairman MCCRERY. Thank you, Ms. Tubbs Jones. Mr. Lewis? Mr. LEWIS. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have seen that commercial, by the way, and I remember reading some scripture that says if you build your house on the sand, when the wind and rain and the storms come, that house will be blown away. You build it on a rock, and it will stand. I think the foundation at Social Security---- Ms. TUBBS JONES. God is not going to let us legislate that in Congress. Mr. LEWIS. Excuse me. I think it is my time. If you look at what Social Security has been built on, the demographics just don't work. When you had 40 people paying in to Social Security and one person on retirement, that was wonderful. Now we are down to three and eventually down to two. So, I think we have built it on the sand. It has been a great program. I have an 88-year-old father that depends on Social Security. I also have a daughter and a son that 1 day will have to depend on Social Security, maybe. I keep hearing the full faith and credit of the United States Government and that they will--the full faith and credit of the United States Government will stand behind the Social Security system and will pay the IOUs. Well, IOUs aren't a lot of comfort for my kids. Just saying that the full faith and credit of the United States Government is going to make sure that it is going to be there, when they know and I know that the government will be them, the taxpayer, future generations. My grandkids will have to pay for my children's retirement, their Social Security. So, isn't it correct that the government, the full faith and credit of the government will be the future generation that will have to pay for the Social Security on a pay-as-you-go system? Commissioner BARNHART. That is true. I think that there is an important point that may be getting lost, or maybe not-- maybe it is just being lost for me. That is, when we look at where the trust fund balances are now, they are at about $1.7 trillion. Our actuaries project that if you look at it over the 75-year period, even assuming that the trust fund money is all there and piled on this table today or in a bank and earning interest--and it is earning interest, in fact, in the bonds--we still need an additional $4 trillion today in the bank and earning interest. One of the great misconceptions that exists, and I say this from, again, my public appearances and taking calls from average Americans across the country and going out and talking to them, is that somehow the trust funds alone are enough to do the trick. They simply are not. That is a point that can't be lost in all of this, that it is not a question of only full faith and credit backing the $1.7 trillion in the trust fund, it is that it is over 75 years there is a $4 trillion shortfall, and using the infinite horizon measure, it goes up to $11 trillion. Mr. LEWIS. Yes, we just had testimony a few weeks ago from David Walker, the Controller General of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), and when you look at our overall unfunded liabilities and debt facing the country, our kids and grandkids have a tremendous burden to face if we don't start trying to solve some of these problems now. Social Security is one that we must start to tackle now. As you just mentioned, it is going to add up to trillions and trillions of dollars that we just can't stick in the sand and play politics and, as Clay Shaw said a little while ago, we cannot afford to play politics with this. We have to bring every idea to the table that we can possibly bring, and try to solve it now. The Wizard of Oz isn't going to be out there cranking out dollars to take care of these problems sometime in the near future. David Walker said that by the year 2041, that the money coming into the Federal treasury will only be enough to take care of the interest on the debt. There goes all the entitlements. So, it is time we all get real about these real, real serious problems. Thank you. Chairman MCCRERY. Thank you, Mr. Lewis. Mr. Neal? Mr. NEAL. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. One of the points I just want to touch upon that Mr. Lewis raised about his children and IOUs in the future. If he had minor children and something happened to him today, there is no doubt as to how the Social Security Trust Fund would react, right? Commissioner BARNHART. It would pay survivors' benefits. Mr. NEAL. It would pay survivors' benefits. Incidentally, Commissioner, I know something about survivor benefits and so do my sisters. Very important consideration. I heard a few minutes ago, with astonishment, one of the Members of this Committee say that it was unfair to bring up the history of this program or to bring up the history of actions by Members of Congress. There isn't a Member of this Subcommittee who has not used the words, actions or votes of their opponents during campaigns to make a point about why they should be elected to replace that person. Here is the nub of the problem, Commissioner. When I came to Congress 17 years ago, the Minority Leader, or the Republican leader in the Senate and the Republican leader in the House had both voted against the establishment of Medicare. Recall that Roosevelt's in
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Rev. Edgar Tufts 1870 – 1923
Though he’s best known as the founder of Lees McRae College, Tufts also stands out as an innovative character
who found solutions for Banner Elk’s turn-of-the-century needs, including a hospital, a home for children, and even hydroelectric power.
Isaac Dickson 1831 – 1918
A former slave, this business leader was the first African American to serve on the Asheville School Committee, where he facilitated greater access for black children, and cast the deciding vote to found the city’s public school system.
Owen Meredith Ballou 1766 – 1847
Entrepreneur Owen Meredith Ballou made significant contributions to the industrialization and development of Ashe County. With iron as one of the foundations of the Industrial Revolution, Ballou established several forges, which acted as catalysts for the county’s economic growth.
Gertrude Dills McKee 1885 – 1948
In 1930, McKee of Sylva became the first woman elected to the North Carolina Senate. Known for her oratory skills, she drew upon her teaching background to scold senators she thought were dragging their feet on legislation, including funding for Western Carolina College (later University).
Col. Robert Love 1760 – 1845
After serving in the Revolutionary War, Love retired from the military, was awarded local land grants for his service, and moved to present-day Haywood County. One of the area’s early land speculators, he is regarded as the father of Waynesville for donating much of the property for the town’s square and municipal buildings. His political career included representing the state as it ratified the U.S. Constitution and working to finalize North Carolina’s western border—a move that created the state of Tennessee.
Maggie Axe Wachacha 1892 – 1993
Wachacha learned the skills that would carry her through life at a very young age. Her father taught her to write in the Cherokee syllabary at the age of seven. Her aunt and grandmother began passing on the skills of midwifery and healing by the time she was 10. As an adult, Wachacha served more than 40 years as the clerk for the Cherokee Tribal Council, often walking more than 50 miles from her home in Graham County to town to record the meeting minutes. As a midwife and healer, she is said to have assisted with more than 3,000 births and helped countless others in need of her curative skills. In the mid-80s, Wachacha was named a Beloved Woman by the tribe, a title usually reserved for the widow of the Principal Chief.
Yonaguska approx. 1759 – 1839
A peacetime Cherokee chief, Yonaguska prevented the federal government from moving his people to Western reservations while the head of the tribe. He also became an outspoken force for temperance among his tribesmen after breaking his own addiction to alcohol.
Tench Coxe 1755 – 1824
If your home is on land between Rutherford County and Asheville, chances are your property was once owned by Coxe, the region’s biggest land speculator. After the Revolutionary War, what was largely Cherokee territory—protected by the king of England—opened up to investors. Coxe, a famed industrialist (known for encouraging the development of cotton as a cash crop of the South), columnist, and politician, bought roughly 400,000 acres of Appalachia for about nine cents per acre.
John Andrews Rice 1888 – 1968
During the early ‘30s, Rice left his job at Florida’s Rollins College to start an institution of his own—one that would redefine the rules of higher learning. He created Black Mountain College, an institute equally known for letting students create their own courses of study, as well as attracting some of the greatest minds of the time to serve as faculty, including composer John Cage, inventor Buckminster Fuller, and artist Josef Albers. Though the college only operated from 1933 to 1956, it remains revered as one of America’s great experiments in higher education.
Joyce Dugan b. 1948
A teacher and leader, Joyce Dugan was the only woman to serve as Chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (’95-’99). A reformer, she decentralized the chief’s power and created a division of the government to address cultural issues.
David Lowry Swain 1801 – 1868
This Buncombe County politician served in the state’s House of Commons, where he pushed for the creation of more western counties, and at 31 he served as the state’s youngest governor. Swain eventually left politics to sit on the board of UNC, where he attempted to keep the college open during the Civil War. A Unionist, he helped negotiate the surrender of Raleigh to northern General William Tecumseh Sherman, sparing the city’s destruction in the process.
Will West Long 1870 – 1947
Long served as a Cherokee interpreter and expert resource for anthropologists studying the tribe during the early 20th century. He amassed collections of the tribe’s syllabary in an effort to preserve the language, served as a council member, and represented the Cherokee at regional festivals during a time of increased tourism throughout Western North Carolina.
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North Carolina is the 28th largest and 9th-most populous state in the U.S. Located in the country’s Southern region, its current population is 67.58 percent white and 21.35 percent Black or African American citizens, according to the World Population Review.
One North Carolina city, Fayetteville, has the highest percentage of Black-owned businesses in the U.S., according to a February 2022 LendingTree study.
The town of Princeville in eastern North Carolina was settled in 1865 by former enslaved Africans and was known as Freedom Hill. The town was incorporated in 1885 and 20 years later was renamed for one of its citizens, Turner Prince. It is the only incorporated “all Black” town in North Carolina, according to Soul of America.
Here are the 10 most famous Black Americans who were born or raised in North Carolina.
1. Noble Drew Ali: Born in North Carolina
Noble Drew Ali was a Moorish American who founded the Moorish Science Temple of America. Considered a prophet by his followers, in 1913, he founded the Canaanite Temple in Newark, New Jersey, before relocating to Chicago. He was born on Jan. 8, 1886, in North Carolina.
2. The Members of Jodeci hail from North Carolina
Popular 1990s R&B quartet Jodeci was formed in 1989 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Its members included DeVanté Swing, Mr. Dalvin, K-Ci, and JoJo. Their debut album, “Forever My Lady,” went triple-platinum.
3. J. Cole, Raised in North Carolina
Born Jermaine Lamarr Cole on a military base in Germany, he was raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina. J. Cole has seen become one of hip-hop’s most prominent artists and producers. Cole initially gained recognition as a rapper following the release of his debut mixtape, “The Come Up,” in early 2007.
4. Chris Paul: Born and bred in North Carolina
Considered one of the greatest National Basketball Association point guards of all time, Chris Paul was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to Charles Edward Paul and Robin Jones. He grew up in Lewisville with his older brother, Charles “C.J.” Paul. Currently playing for the Phoenix Suns, Paul has won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award, an NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award, two Olympic gold medals, and led the NBA in assists five times and steals a record six times.
5. Nina Simone: A child of North Carolina
Nina Simone is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. She was born on Feb. 21, 1933, in Tryon, North Carolina. Her father, John Divine Waymon, worked as a barber and dry-cleaner. He was also an entertainer. Her mother, Mary Kate Irvin, was a Methodist preacher. Simone was the sixth of eight children and her family was poor. She began playing piano at the age of three or four. She went on to become what some regard as a musical genius. She was a singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil rights activist, who often used her entertainment platform to promote civil rights.
6. Thomas Sowell, Influential academic
Born in Gastonia, North Carolina, in 1930, the 92-year-old Sowell is an important social theorist and economist. Over the years, he has played a prominent role working as a faculty member of many prestigious universities, such as the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Cornell University. Today, he is a political commentator who is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.
7. John Coltrane, Jazz genius
Jazz saxophone legend John Coltrane was born on September 23, 1926 in Hamlet, North Carolina. He died: July 17, 1967. He won a Pulitzer Prize and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and was canonized by the African Orthodox Church.
8. P.B. Young Sr.: Major player in North Carolina media circles
.Plummer Bernard Young Sr. (July 27, 1884 – Oct. 9, 1962) was a newspaper editor, publisher, community leader, and founder of the Norfolk Journal and Guide. Better known as P. B. Young, he was a newspaper editor, publisher, community leader.
9. Thelonious Monk Born in North Carolina
Thelonious Monk was born on Oct. 10, 1917, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. In 1922, the family moved to Manhattan, New York City. Between about the ages 10 to 12, Monk’s piano teacher was Austrian-born Simon Wolf, a pianist and violinist who studied under Alfred Megerlin, the first violinist and concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic. Monk become one of the world’s most influential jazz pianist and composer. Monk is the second-most-recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington. He died Feb. 17, 1982.
10. Hiram Rhodes Revels, first African American to serve in either house of the U.S. Congress
Hiram Rhodes Revels (Sept. 27, 1827– Jan. 16, 1901) was an Republican politician, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and a college administrator. He was born free in North Carolina, he later lived and worked in Ohio. Elected by the Mississippi legislature to the United States Senate as a Republican to represent Mississippi in 1870 and 1871 during the Reconstruction era, he was the first African American to serve in either house of the U.S. Congress.
In this June 27, 1985, file photo, Nina Simone performs at Avery Fisher Hall in New York. The childhood home of the iconic musician and civil rights activist will be indefinitely preserved in North Carolina. The National Trust for Historic Preservation announced Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020, that its African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, in partnership with World Monuments Fund and Preservation North Carolina, recently secured permanent protection of the singer-songwriter’s childhood home in Tryon. (AP Photo/Rene Perez, File)
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JD Hayworth is an American celebrity whose origins date back to his career as a professional baseball player before becoming a media personality. Born July 12, 1958, in Highpoint, North Carolina, Hayworth began making a name for himself in the 1980s as a baseball player for the New York Yankees and Cleveland Indians. His powerful on-field presence and outstanding performances earned him national recognition and contributed to his media presence.
After retiring from the sport in 1989, Hayworth made his television debut as a sports commentator for ESPN. Thanks to his charisma and in-depth knowledge of the sport, he quickly became a popular figure in the media world. This media exposure ultimately paved the way for a political career for Hayworth, who was elected as a United States Congressional Representative for Arizona from 1995 to 2007, increasing his celebrity in political circles.
JD Hayworth is an American media personality, known for his career as a journalist, radio host, and politician. Born July 12, 1958 in High Point, North Carolina, he was noted for his charismatic voice and energetic style. After graduating from the University of North Carolina with a degree in communications, Hayworth began his journalism career as a local reporter before moving to national television. He became a household name as co-host of the policy talk show, “Crossfire,” where his combative style and penchant for conservatism captivated viewers. In 1994, JD Hayworth took the next step, entering politics as a U.S. Congressman, representing Arizona.
He was re-elected several times and became a powerful voice for the conservative movement. During his time in the House of Representatives, he took strong positions on immigration, gun rights, and tax issues, earning him a loyal and passionate support base. In 2010, Hayworth unsuccessfully campaigned for the United States Senate and since then has continued his media career as a radio host and political commentator. JD Hayworth remains an influential figure in the American media and political landscape, continuing to raise his voice and defend the conservative principles he holds dear.
I would like to take this opportunity to clarify that “JD Hayworth” can refer to two personalities: John David Hayworth Jr. (born in 1958), an American politician, or Jeri Lynn Mooney, known as JD Hayworth (born in 1960 ), an American radio and television personality. Since I don’t have enough information to determine who you are referring to, I will provide a brief genealogy of both. To begin with, John David Hayworth Jr. was born on July 12, 1958, in High Point, North Carolina.
Unfortunately, I do not have any information regarding his genealogy or family lineage. On the other hand, Jeri Lynn Mooney, known as JD Hayworth, was born on July 15, 1960, in High Point, North Carolina. Again, I do not have detailed information on his genealogy or his ancestors. It is possible that these two personalities are related, but without specific information, it is impossible to confirm. I hope this information will still be useful to you.
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PHOENIX — In 1994, when first running for Congress, J.D. Hayworth, who today is 51 and trying to wrest from John McCain, 73, the Arizona Republican Party`s Senate nomination, went jogging in Washington wearing a T-shirt given to him by some Arizona loggers. Federal solicitude for the supposedly endangered spotted owl was bedeviling the timber […]
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PHOENIX — In 1994, when first running for Congress, J.D. Hayworth, who today is 51 and trying to wrest from John McCain, 73, the Arizona Republican Party`s Senate nomination, went jogging in Washington wearing a T-shirt given to him by some Arizona loggers. Federal solicitude for the supposedly endangered spotted owl was bedeviling the timber industry, and Hayworth`s shirt read: “If two teenagers can procreate in the back seat of a Volkswagen, why does a spotted owl need 2,000 acres?” Hayworth`s jog intersected President Clinton`s, so Hayworth subsequently told the loggers he had “run your message past the president.” Hayworth`s middle name is not Nuance.
Washed into Washington by the 1994 Republican wave, he was washed out in 2006 by a Democratic wave. Born in North Carolina, he is a burly ex-football player for North Carolina State. Having been a television sportscaster here before entering politics, Hayworth bounced from defeat to a talk radio station. There he put his flair for rhetorical fireworks in the service of his favorite causes, two of which are stopping illegal immigration and deploring the insufficiencies of McCain`s conservatism. Those insufficiencies include, Hayworth says, opposition to the Bush tax cuts, and support for bailouts and for what Hayworth characterizes as “amnesty” for illegal immigrants.
McCain, who has a flair for umbrage, felt some about another Hayworth cause — a possible Hayworth Senate candidacy. So McCain, whose pugnacity is part of his charm, for those who are charmed, went after Hayworth with tactics that reminded other people why they are not charmed. The co-author of the McCain-Feingold restrictions on political speech asked the Federal Election Commission to silence Hayworth.
Although Hayworth was not yet a candidate, McCain argued that he was receiving from the station`s owner an illegal “corporate in-kind contribution” of “as much as” $540,000 a week, a figure concocted by pricing Hayworth`s 15 hours per week at the rate advertisers would pay for 1,800 30-second spots. Hayworth spared his station the litigation costs by becoming a candidate.
Hayworth and McCain, who is seeking a fifth term, will gnaw on each other until the August primary, the rules of which are still unclear. Usually, primary turnouts are low, but this shootout will be unusually enticing. Republican primaries have been open to unaffiliated voters, but in January, when Hayworth`s candidacy was still embryonic, the state party opted for a closed primary, on the sound principle that party members — there are 1.12 million registered — should pick those who represent the party. The U.S. Supreme Court has held that the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of association, which “plainly presupposes a freedom not to associate,” broadly protects parties` rights to define their identities by controlling their nominating processes.
McCain understandably wants the primary open to non-Republicans: A closed primary would favor Hayworth, many of whose supporters are the sort of high-octane conservatives who will vote in an Arizona August. Two of conservatism`s current pinups — Sarah Palin, on whom McCain conferred celebrity, and Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown — have campaigned here for McCain. On the other hand, Dick Armey, who is as close as the tea party movement has to a leader, denies reports that he has endorsed McCain. Arizona Rep. Jeff Flake, perhaps Congress` foremost foe of earmarks, faults Hayworth as insufficiently frugal. Hayworth endorsed and McCain opposed George W. Bush`s unfunded $395 billion prescription drug entitlement. Hayworth is supported by Joe Arpaio, Maricopa County`s showboating sheriff, a scourge of illegal immigrants.
Some Arizona and national Republicans worry that nominating Hayworth would exacerbate the party`s problems with Hispanics, the nation`s largest and fastest-growing minority. Barack Obama won 75 percent of the immigrant Latino vote in 2008. Hayworth counters, “Beware the myth of the monolith.” He says “some of my most passionate support” comes from Hispanics offended by illegal immigrants.
Voters incandescent about illegal immigration might be numerous enough to decide a primary. Some seasoned Arizona Republicans say, however, that such immigration has slowed as America`s economy has slowed. And they say the issue has lost some saliency here, and Arizona`s economy has suffered, as some Hispanics have moved to more hospitable states. Furthermore, Hayworth may not understand Arizona`s complex relationship to its centuries-old Hispanic dimension.
Democrats, having assumed that McCain will be nominated, have not groomed a top-tier opponent for him. They probably will find one if they think Hayworth can be nominated. As for the McCain-Hayworth contest, a wise Arizona Republican officeholder who is too prudent to abandon anonymity says each combustible candidate “has it in his power to lose.”
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There is some good blood in North Carolina. From sports stars to actors to musicians there has been some incredible talent coming out of our state. But who are the most famous celebrities to come from North Carolina? Our friends at BetCarolina conducted the research to determine which North Carolina celebrities were the most talked about last year. To create this list BetCarolina.com utilized a weighted system between AhRefs.com Keywords Explorer and Google Trends to look at the most searched North Carolina celebrities over the past 12 months. They defined a North Carolina celebrity as an actor/actress, singer/songwriter, dancer, TV personality, comedian, athlete, or social media influencer that resided in North Carolina for at least 10 years during their childhood or teenage years.
So who took the title? Keep reading to find out! The list features several superstar NBA players, a couple of actors and musicians of different genres, and a viral YouTube sensation. Some of these celebrities you may know come from NC. But others came as a surprise to me! You can view BetCarolina’s full article here.
9 Most Famous Celebrities From North Carolina
Melanie Day is a graduate of North Carolina State University. She has worked for Beasley since 2012 in a variety of behind-the-scenes roles in both digital and promotions. Melanie writes about a diverse range of topics some of her favorites include travel, restaurants, Taylor Swift, and college athletics. When not at work you'll find her at a country concert or NC State sporting event.
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[House Hearing, 107 Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] H.R. 103, H.R. 3476 and H.R. 3534 ======================================================================= LEGISLATIVE HEARING before the COMMITTEE ON RESOURCES U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED SEVENTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION __________ April 17, 2002 __________ Serial No. 107-105 __________ Printed for the use of the Committee on Resources Available via the World Wide Web: http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/ house or Committee address: http://resourcescommittee.house.gov U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 78-759 WASHINGTON : 2002 ____________________________________________________________________________ For Sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866) 512-1800; (202) 512-1800 Fax: (202) 512-2250 Mail: Stop SSOP, Washington, DC 20402-0001 COMMITTEE ON RESOURCES JAMES V. HANSEN, Utah, Chairman NICK J. RAHALL II, West Virginia, Ranking Democrat Member Don Young, Alaska, George Miller, California Vice Chairman Edward J. Markey, Massachusetts W.J. ``Billy'' Tauzin, Louisiana Dale E. Kildee, Michigan Jim Saxton, New Jersey Peter A. DeFazio, Oregon Elton Gallegly, California Eni F.H. Faleomavaega, American John J. Duncan, Jr., Tennessee Samoa Joel Hefley, Colorado Neil Abercrombie, Hawaii Wayne T. Gilchrest, Maryland Solomon P. Ortiz, Texas Ken Calvert, California Frank Pallone, Jr., New Jersey Scott McInnis, Colorado Calvin M. Dooley, California Richard W. Pombo, California Robert A. Underwood, Guam Barbara Cubin, Wyoming Adam Smith, Washington George Radanovich, California Donna M. Christensen, Virgin Walter B. Jones, Jr., North Islands Carolina Ron Kind, Wisconsin Mac Thornberry, Texas Jay Inslee, Washington Chris Cannon, Utah Grace F. Napolitano, California John E. Peterson, Pennsylvania Tom Udall, New Mexico Bob Schaffer, Colorado Mark Udall, Colorado Jim Gibbons, Nevada Rush D. Holt, New Jersey Mark E. Souder, Indiana James P. McGovern, Massachusetts Greg Walden, Oregon Anibal Acevedo-Vila, Puerto Rico Michael K. Simpson, Idaho Hilda L. Solis, California Thomas G. Tancredo, Colorado Brad Carson, Oklahoma J.D. Hayworth, Arizona Betty McCollum, Minnesota C.L. ``Butch'' Otter, Idaho Tom Osborne, Nebraska Jeff Flake, Arizona Dennis R. Rehberg, Montana Tim Stewart, Chief of Staff Lisa Pittman, Chief Counsel/Deputy Chief of Staff Steven T. Petersen, Deputy Chief Counsel Michael S. Twinchek, Chief Clerk James H. Zoia, Democrat Staff Director Jeffrey P. Petrich, Democrat Chief Counsel ------ C O N T E N T S ---------- Page Hearing held on April 17, 2002................................... 1 Statement of Members: Carson, Hon. Brad, a Representative in Congress from the State of Oklahoma.......................................... 91 Prepared statement on H.R. 3534.......................... 92 Hansen, Hon. James V., a Representative in Congress from the State of Utah.............................................. 1 Prepared statement on H.R. 103, H.R. 3476, and H.R. 3534. 2 Hayworth, Hon. J.D., a Representative in Congress from the State of Arizona........................................... 6 Prepared statement on H.R. 103........................... 6 Issa, Hon. Darrell, a Representative in Congress from the State of California........................................ 3 Prepared statement on H.R. 3476.......................... 5 Kildee, Hon. Dale, a Representative in Congress from the State of Michigan.......................................... 3 Prepared statement on H.R. 103........................... 57 Prepared statement on H.R. 3476.......................... 3 Prepared statement on H.R. 3534.......................... 96 Pallone, Hon. Frank, Jr., a Representative in Congress from the State of New Jersey, Prepared statement on H.R. 3476... 100 Rahall, Hon. Nick J. II, a Representative in Congress from the State of West Virginia................................. 9 Prepared statement on H.R. 103, H.R. 3476, and H.R. 3534. 9 Watkins, Hon. Wes, a Representative in Congress from the State of Oklahoma.......................................... 94 Prepared statement on H.R. 3534.......................... 95 Statement of Witnesses: Anoatubby, Bill, Governor, The Chickasaw Nation.............. 79 Prepared statement on H.R. 3534.......................... 80 Avery, Jim, Senior Vice President, San Diego Gas & Electric.. 38 Prepared statement on H.R. 3476.......................... 39 Brulte, Hon. Jim, State Senator, The State of California..... 7 Prepared statement on H.R. 3476.......................... 8 Garcia, Joe A., Tribal Councilman, San Juan Pueblo Indians... 57 Prepared statement on H.R. 103........................... 59 George, Keller, President, United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc........................................................ 65 Prepared statement on H.R. 103........................... 68 Macarro, Mark, Chairman, Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians.................................................... 33 Prepared statement on H.R. 3476.......................... 35 Marquez, Deron, Chairman, San Manuel Band of Mission Indians. 60 Prepared statement on H.R. 103........................... 63 Pyle, Gregory, Chief, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma............. 81 Prepared statement on H.R. 3534.......................... 82 Smith, Chad, Principal Chief, The Cherokee Nation............ 85 Prepared statement on H.R. 3534.......................... 87 Smith, Wayne, Deputy Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs, Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior.. 11 Prepared statement on H.R. 103........................... 28 Prepared statement on H.R. 3476.......................... 12 Prepared statement on H.R. 3534.......................... 31 LEGISLATIVE HEARING ON H.R. 3476, TO PROTECT CERTAIN LANDS HELD IN FEE BY THE PECHANGA BAND OF LUISENO MISSION INDIANS FROM CONDEMNATION UNTIL A FINAL DECISION IS MADE BY THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR REGARDING A PENDING FEE TO TRUST APPLICATION FOR THAT LAND, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES; H.R. 103, TO AMEND THE INDIAN GAMING REGULATORY ACT TO PROTECT INDIAN TRIBES FROM COERCED LABOR AGREEMENTS; AND H.R. 3534, TO PROVIDE FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF CERTAIN LAND CLAIMS OF THE CHEROKEE, CHOCTAW, AND CHICKASAW NATIONS TO THE ARKANSAS RIVERBED IN OKLAHOMA ---------- Wednesday, April 17, 2002 U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Resources Washington, DC ---------- The Committee met, pursuant to call, at 10 a.m., in room 1334, Longworth House Office Building, Hon. James V. Hansen (Chairman of the Committee) presiding. STATEMENT OF THE HON. JAMES V. HANSEN, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF UTAH The Chairman. The Committee will come to order. Good morning. It is good to see you all here. I notice there is a group of folks standing. We are not going to use this bottom tier here today. If you want to come up and take it, if you can stand the embarrassment of sitting up there, we would love to have you come up and take it. [Laughter.] The Chairman. We normally like to use 1324 for our hearings. That is the room on the other end, but there is some work being done on it right now, so we all are stuck in this little room. Today's hearing is on three bills of distinct subject matter. The first is H.R. 3476, which protects from condemnation certain fee land belonging to the Pechanga Band-- and I will probably foul up all of these words, so just ignore that, will you?--of the Luiseno Mission Indians, is that close, Darrell?--until the Secretary of the Interior renders a final decision on the tribe's pending fee to trust application. H.R. 3476 was introduced by Congressman Darrell Issa of California. Mr. Issa will be testifying on his bill this morning, and we thank you for being here. The Chairman. The second bill is H.R. 103, introduced by Mr. Hayworth. H.R. 103 amends the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to protect tribes from coerced labor agreements in tribal state gaming compacts. H.R. 103 has generated some controversy, but it raises issues that are important to members on both sides of the aisle. The Chairman. The third bill, H.R. 3534, was introduced by Mr. Carson. H.R. 3534 settles claims asserted by the Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Nations for damages for the United States use or mismanagement of tribal trust resources from the Arkansas riverbed. The legislation extinguishes all the nations' claims to the riverbed lands at issue, and authorizes $41 million in appropriated claim settlement funds to be allocated among the Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Nations. The Chairman. We look forward to some enlightening testimony this morning. I understand that one of our witnesses, California Senator Brulte, may have an unavoidable scheduling conflict requiring his early departure. I hope our other witnesses will not object to the Senator moving up in order and testifying immediately after Mr. Issa. [The prepared statement of Chairman Hansen follows:] Statement of The Honorable James V. Hansen, Chairman, Committee on Resources Today's hearing is on three bills of distinct subject matter. The first is H.R. 3476, which protects from condemnation certain fee land belonging to the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians until the Secretary of the Interior renders a final decision on the tribe's pending fee to trust application. H.R. 3476 was introduced by Congressman Darrell Issa of California. Mr. Issa will be testifying on his bill this morning and we thank him for being here. The second bill is H.R. 103, introduced by Mr. Hayworth. H.R. 103 amends the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to protect tribes from coerced labor agreements in tribal-state gaming compacts. H.R. 103 has generated some controversy, but it raises issues that are important to Members on both sides of the aisle. The third bill, H.R. 3534, was introduced by Mr. Carson. H.R. 3534 settles claims asserted by the Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Nations for damages for the United States' use and mismanagement of tribal trust resources from the Arkansas Riverbed. The legislation extinguishes all of the Nations' claims to the riverbed lands at issue, and authorizes $41 million in appropriated claim settlement funds to be allocated among the Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Nations. We welcome our witnesses and look forward to hearing from you. ______ The Chairman. Excuse me. Mr. Miller, did you have any opening comment you wanted to make? Mr. Miller. No, sir. The Chairman. Mr. Kildee? Mr. Kildee. Are we dealing first with H.R. 3476, Mr. Chairman? The Chairman. Pardon me, sir? Mr. Kildee. Are we dealing first with H.R. 3476? The Chairman. Yes. Mr. Kildee. I would like to make a statement on that, Mr. Chairman. The Chairman. All right. STATEMENT OF THE HON. DALE E. KILDEE, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF MICHIGAN Mr. Kildee. Mr. Chairman, I am in strong support of H.R. 3476, a bill to protect certain lands held in fee by the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians from condemnation proceedings until the Secretary of Interior makes a final decision regarding the pending fee to trust application for that land. Mr. Chairman, since last fall you and I have worked together with Chairman Macarro to find a legislative solution to protect the land in question from condemnation proceedings until the Secretary makes a final decision. Last month the Department of Interior gave notice of its intent to take the land in trust for the Pechanga Band. The Federal administrative process for taking land into trust for tribes should continue without interruption. We therefore should act swiftly to protect that land from the actions of corporations that wish to begin condemnation proceedings on the Pechanga ancestral lands. Mr. Chairman, I look forward to working with you on this and hearing the testimony today. [The prepared statement of Mr. Kildee follows:] Statement of The Honorable Dale E. Kildee, a Representative in Congress from the State of Michigan, on H.R. 3476 Mr. Chairman, I am in strong support of H.R. 3476, a bill to protect certain lands held in fee by the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians from condemnation proceedings until the Secretary of Interior makes a final decision regarding the pending fee to trust application for that land. Mr. Chairman, since last fall, you and I have worked together with Chairman Macarro to find a legislative solution to protect the land in question from condemnation proceedings until the Secretary makes a final decision. Last month, the Department of Interior gave notice of its intent to take the land in trust for the Pechanga Band. The Federal administrative process for taking land into trust for tribes should continue without interruption. We, therefore, should act swiftly to protect that land from the actions of corporations that wish to begin condemnation proceedings on the Pechanga ancestral lands. I look forward to hearing the testimony today. Thank you. ______ The Chairman. I thank the Gentleman. I ask unanimous consent that following his testimony, the Gentleman from California, Mr. Issa, be allowed to sit on the dais and participate in the hearing. Is there objection? Hearing none, so ordered. We are honored to have our colleague from California with us, and we will turn the time to him. STATEMENT OF HON. DARRELL ISSA, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA Mr. Issa. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for convening this hearing. H.R. 3476 will protect 724 acres known as the Great Oak Ranch property from condemnation by San Diego Gas and Electric until, and only until, a final decision is made by Secretary Gale Norton regarding the pending trust application. Mr. Chairman, just as I was sworn into office, the Pechanga Band of Mission Indians purchased the Great Oak Ranch. That is not because of any coincidence of my election, but in fact because they had sought this land for more than 30 years and its owner had sought to retain it, I guess until their death. As soon as this property was available, Pechanga paid the full list price to purchase this land, and did so because it takes land which has previously been missing from reuniting two portions of their tribal and now makes them whole. This is a perfect example of where land should be placed in trust because it makes their reservation contiguous. Unfortunately, the celebration surrounding the purchase of land was short-lived. On March 23, 2001, San Diego Gas & Electric released a map proposing 17 different alignments for a 31-mile stretch of what is now a 500,000-volt line known as the Valley-Rainbow transmission line. Unfortunately, one of the alignments goes through the heart of the Great Oak Ranch property and the city of Temecula. The city of Temecula has objected to this alignment, as have the Pechanga Band of Indians. I think it is best to try to shape if I can for you the nature of this land in trust request. If this were the preferred route that went through the Pechanga Reservation, I certainly would be looking differently upon it. It is not. As a matter of fact, the San Diego Gas & Electric, in meetings directly with me, has said that the preferred route is an alignment which is presently not available to them, because what they would like to do is either be just on Federal property, part of a national forest, or on existing land, land in trust of the Pechanga Indians. Negotiations have been ongoing on that alignment, and I would expect them to continue. So it was with more than a little bit of consternation when I discovered that steadily San Diego Gas & Electric was opposing this land being placed in trust, and intends to appeal the Notice of Decision. When I asked why they would do so, I received no official answer. However, based on earlier discussions, it is very clear that this piece of land represents, appropriate to San Diego Gas & Electric but inappropriate in my opinion, leverage to get a preferred alignment. Additionally, it has come to my attention that one of the alignments, and you may hear about it today, which I call the western alignment, which goes through national forest lands, was never submitted, although another organization wishing to do a water, hydroelectric project, has requested that alignment. When asked why San Diego Gas & Electric did not choose to request that one, they said although it was a good alignment, it was difficult, and the water project would not go through. Today you will also hear from State Senator Brulte, who not only is a State Senator and former State Assemblyman, but who has been working on these issues for his entire tenure in the State House. Mr. Chairman, I would ask that my entire statement be put in the record, and I will abbreviate it in hopes that I be able to join you on the dais and witness if there are any new developments. [The prepared statement of Mr. Issa follows:] Statement of The Honorable Darrell E. Issa, a a Representative in Congress from the State of California, on H.R. 3476 Mr. Chairman, I want to thank you for holding a hearing on H.R. 3476, which will protect a 724-acre parcel of land known as the Great Oak Ranch Property from condemnation by San Diego Gas and Electric until a final decision is made by Secretary Gale Norton regarding their pending trust application. First, I want to give you a brief background on why I introduced this bill. Last April, I was approached by the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians concerning a developing situation involving land they recently purchased for the purpose of making their fragmented reservation whole again. The celebration surrounding the purchase of this property was short-lived. On March 23, 2001, San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) released a map proposing 17 different alignments for a thirty-one mile, 500,000-volt Valley-Rainbow transmission line project. Unfortunately, one alignment goes through the heart of the Great Oak Ranch Property. The City of Temecula has come out in opposition to this alignment and this project, questioning its need and justification. The interesting thing is that the Great Oak Ranch Property alignment selected is not SDG&E's preferred route. The preferred route is intended to go around the periphery of the existing reservation and SDG&E is using a threat of a transmission line through the Great Oak Ranch Property to gain an unfair advantage against the tribe into granting an easement. On March 21, 2002, the Department of Interior registered a Notice of Decision to accept the Great Oak Ranch Property in trust. That same day, a SDG&E spokesperson stated in a local paper that they would plan to appeal this Notice of Decision. If this happens, an appeal could potentially delay the Pechanga Indians' land into trust application for years, with the threat of condemnation hanging over them the entire time. I respect the committee's stance that placing land into trust should be done administratively, based on the application's merits, with the benefit of an environmental assessment and community input. My bill simply allows the Pechanga Indians application to continue through the administrative process and prevent any encumbrance from being placed on the land until a final decision is issued by the Secretary of Interior. The Pechanga reservation has received overwhelming public support regarding their attempts to protect the Great Oak Ranch property from condemnation. The city councils, state legislators, such as State Senator Jim Brulte, who will be testifying shortly, and members of Congress, including Congresswoman Mary Bono and Congressman Ken Calvert, a distinguished member of this committee, have all voiced or written support for this endeavor. Mr. Chairman, I would like to submit for the record a packet of letters in support of Pechanga's land into trust application. Many of these letters are from California State Assembly Members, demonstrating how important this application is to the state. Mr. Chairman, H.R. 3476 is a good bill. It will protect the Pechanga Indians' land from condemnation, while Secretary Norton decides on the application. Having finally connecting the two parcels of the reservation with the Great Oak Ranch Property, the Pechanga Indians shouldn't have to worry about the land being condemned and divided again. Thank you again for the opportunity to testify before for your committee. I stand ready to answer any questions that you may have. ______ The Chairman. Without objection, and all the testimony will be put in in its entirety, if people would like to speak off the cuff. I appreciate the Gentleman. Do we have any questions for our colleague from California? Mr. Miller? Mr. Miller. I have no questions. I am obviously in strong support of the legislation. I thought we were going to get this done last year, and it didn't happen. Hopefully we will have the success this year. Thank you for your testimony, and I look forward to Senator Brulte's testimony. The Chairman. I thank the Gentleman from California. The Gentleman from Arizona, Mr. J.D. Hayworth, has done us an exceptionally good job on these matters, Indian matters, and J.D. happens to be our expert on it. I have a military issue I have to take care of, so I am going to turn the chair over to Mr. Hayworth, who does such an admirable job in this area, and ask our friend from California to please join us on the dais. Mr. Issa. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Chairman. And thanks to all the witnesses. And let me reiterate for you folks standing there, we are not going to use this bottom tier. If you are so inclined, come on up and sit there. If it embarrasses you to death, so be it. We go through that every day. [Laughter.] STATEMENT OF THE HON. J.D. HAYWORTH, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF ARIZONA Mr. Hayworth. [Presiding.] Mr. Chairman, thank you, and I hope the embarrassment does not extend to yielding the gavel to me. We also welcome the Ranking Member of the Full Committee, Mr. Rahall. Thank you for joining us this morning. And for those who join us on the lower dais, I think it lends credence to the notion that this is in fact the people's House. Mr. Issa, of course you are free to come join us here, as well, and we thank you for that. In fact, unanimous consent came earlier. It pays to be on time, Mr. Rahall. Don't start. Now, commensurate with staying on time, we will move now to Panel 2, and that means we call on our friend, Wayne Smith, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. [The prepared statement of Mr. Hayworth follows:] Statement of The Honorable J.D. Hayworth, a Representative in Congress from the State of Arizona, on H.R. 103 H.R. 103 amends the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to prohibit tribal-state gaming compacts from including or being conditioned on any agreement containing any provision relating to labor terms or conditions for employees of tribally owned businesses located on Indian lands. The legislation voids any such provisions that have been entered into before, on, or after the legislation's enactment. In 1998, the California Supreme Court overturned Proposition 5, which confirmed California tribes' right to gaming enterprises. As a result, the United States attorney declared that all tribal gaming in the state would cease unless Tribal-State compacts were signed by October 13, 1999. Faced with the prospect that their most valuable economic assets (which help fund health care facilities, education facilities, and other social and economic endeavors), would be shut down, 61 California tribes were essentially coerced into signing gaming compacts with Governor Gray Davis that carried separate labor agreements. It was made very clear by Governor Davis that a gaming compact would not be signed without a labor agreement. As a matter of Federal law, the National Labor Relations Act does not apply to Indian tribes because they are recognized as sovereign governmental entities under the Constitution. Nevertheless, under the time-sensitive deadline set in California, tribes in that state were forced to cede their sovereignty--their constitutional rights--to the State of California in order to save their enterprises from being shut down. The issue here is not whether tribes should unionize their gaming facilities, but who should make that decision. Should it be up to the sovereign tribal governments, or should it be up to the states or the Federal Government? The U.S. Constitution states that it is the tribes, as sovereign government entities, that have the right to make this decision. Recently, referring to the San Juan Pueblo of New Mexico tribe's right-to-work ordinance, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stated that the ordinance was ``clearly an exercise of sovereign authority over economic transactions on the reservation.'' H.R. 103, the Tribal Sovereignty Protection Act, will ensure that states do not force Indian tribes to unionize their casino employees as a condition of a tribal-state gaming compact made under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. The bill will allow sovereign tribes to have the freedom to determine their own labor policies, rather than be blackmailed by the state and/or Federal Government. ______ Mr. Hayworth. Oh, I beg your pardon. There has been a late change, speaking of time. Forgive me, Wayne. We will bring you up all in due time, but mindful of the schedule that Senator Brulte must keep to return to serve the people in Sacramento and the State of California, we welcome him to the table for his testimony. So, Senator Brulte, welcome, and again, your entire statement will be put into the record and you may summarize in the time for which we recognize you. Welcome. STATEMENT OF HON. JAMES BRULTE, STATE SENATOR, STATE OF CALIFORNIA Mr. Brulte. Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members, and thank you for the opportunity to testify on this legislation today. I am here to support H.R. 3476, and the reason is quite simple. A vast majority of State and local interests support the protection of the Great Oak Ranch and its return to the Pechanga Reservation. This support is demonstrated by a list and a stack of letters that I would like to provide the Committee today. I think the depth and breadth of the support here is a strong indication of the uniqueness of the property in question and the need for this legislation. Later in this hearing Chairman Macarro will provide you a moving and powerful story about this land, a particular tree and its cultural significance. It is a story that he has shared quite effectively throughout Riverside County and the corridors of our State Capitol. It is a story of pictures, one of which is here today, this 1500-year-old tree with its 26-foot diameter trunk. I am here today on behalf of myself and many State legislators and local officials to ask the Committee to take favorable action on the bill introduced by Congressman Issa and cosponsored by Congresswoman Bono, so that our efforts to protect the Great Oak Ranch are successful. H.R. 3476 does not impede California's right to act through its Public Utilities Commission to determine the need for better electrical transmission capability. H.R. 3476 does not take a position on the March 2002 position of the United States Department of Interior to take this land into trust. H.R. 3476 simply calls a time out in the condemnation process until the United States Department of Interior makes a final determination on taking that particular piece of land into trust. Mr. Chairman, thank you for allowing me the opportunity to speak, and particularly for allowing me the opportunity to speak out of order, and I will provide my written testimony to the Committee. [The prepared statement of Mr. Brulte follows:] Testimony of The Honorable James Brulte, Senator, California State Senate--31st District Mr. Chairman and Members, thank you for the opportunity to testify today on this important legislation. I also want to publicly thank our Congressman, Darrell Issa, for his leadership role on this matter. I am here in support of H.R. 3476. My message to you is simple. A vast majority of state and local interests support protection of the Great Oak Ranch and its return to the Pechanga Reservation. This support is demonstrated by this list and the stack of letters I am providing the committee. I do not need to tell members of this committee how unusual it is to have such strong local support for the protection of lands on behalf of a tribe. I think the depth and breadth of the support here is a strong indication of the uniqueness of the property in question and the need for this legislation. Chairman Macarro has presented to you the moving and powerful story of this land, its tree, and its cultural significance. It's a story that he has shared quite effectively throughout Riverside County and in the corridors of our state capitol. It's a story with pictures, one in particular, that he has shared with you today--that 1500-year old tree with its 26-foot diameter trunk. As incredible as that picture is, it still doesn't do the tree justice. The next time you're in our part of the world, I hope you will contact me or Chairman Macarro and arrange a visit so you can stand under the tree and really grasp its grandeur. I am here on behalf of myself and many other state and local officials to ask the committee to take favorable action on the bill introduced by Congressman Issa and co-sponsored by Congresswoman Bono so that our efforts to protect the Great Oak Ranch are successful. It should be no surprise to anyone here today that as a state senator, I am quite partial to the final amendment in the Bill of Rights. The 10th Amendment is the foundation of our Federalist form of government and is what protects the notion that what might be good for Californians isn't always the best solution for Arizonians--and vice versa. I'd be remiss if I did not thank those of you who first looked at this legislation with a skeptical eye and through the prism of the 10th Amendment. However, as demonstrated by the chart on the easel and by my attendance at this hearing today, rest assured that the action taken by you and the Department of Interior is not only appropriate in the eyes of local officials, but, in my opinion, is required. As a legislator, I could give you a very technical overview about Section 625 of the California Public Utilities Code, which has been cited here today. But, in a nutshell, SDG&E's efforts to condemn this property before the CPUC has made a decision on the necessity of the line is why we are here today and why this legislation is necessary. But rather than get into a detailed discussion about Public Utilities Code Section 625, I am submitting a briefing on the issue for the record. The bottom line is that the community supports the protection of the Great Oak Ranch and this legislation. The Issa/Bono bill tracks our state law in the sense it gives the benefit of the doubt to the private property owner and puts the burden of proof on the utility company. This legislation merely protects the status quo with respect to this particular piece of land that the Federal Government has deemed worthy of being taken into Federal trust on behalf of the Pechanga Tribe. Mr. Chairman, I again thank you for the opportunity to testify today and I again urge the Committee's favorable and expeditious action on H.R. 3476. I look forward to answering the committee's questions. ______ Mr. Hayworth. And, Senator, we thank you for that, and we thank the other witnesses and the Full Committee for the accommodation to allow you to appear at this point. If you could, briefly summarize and just reaffirm for the Committee the benefits, in your opinion, that the transfer of the Great Oak Ranch into trust would bring to the surrounding community. Mr. Brulte. Well, this is a historic growth. We have so much land in California. Much of it is being taken into development. This is a piece of land that divides a reservation. It is land that is part of the ancestral home of the Pechanga Indian Nation. It is land that ought to be saved, set apart, and not devastated by any type of development, by any entity whatsoever. Mr. Hayworth. Senator, what are the adverse impacts to the county or State resulting from removal of this land from the tax rolls? Are there any adverse impacts, in your estimation? Mr. Brulte. No, the tax rate on this property isn't that great to begin with, but the State of California is quite capable of dealing with any problem that might be created by that. Mr. Hayworth. It has been argued by some this legislation is a Federal intrusion on the right of a State-regulated utility to condemn land. What is your response to that accusation? Mr. Brulte. Well, the Federal Government is charged with the responsibility of dealing with other sovereign entities, in this case the sovereign Nation of the Pechanga Indians. Our California Public Utilities Commission has not ruled today on whether or not this land should be condemned and taken into action. This simply calls a time out in the process pending a final determination by the Federal Government. Mr. Hayworth. Senator, I thank you for those answers. Any questions from the minority side? The Ranking Member. STATEMENT OF THE HON. NICK J. RAHALL II, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA Mr. Rahall. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have no questions, and certainly no objection to the bill. I just wanted to make a comment here that we have seen Indian sacred sites around the country being damaged or destroyed at quite an alarming rate. In this regard, it is my opinion we do need a nationwide bill to address protection of Indian sacred sites. I do have legislation that would provide that nationwide protection, and we are working very closely with the tribes, because it is their feeling that we need such a Federal law as well. But in this particular instance there is this 1500-year-old tree on land that the Pechanga bought, and it is almost humorous to think that a Federal law may be needed, that we may need to pass a Federal law to buy the tree a little time, as you have just stated, while the BIA decides on the tribe's trust application. We can only imagine what this tree has been through over the hundreds of years it has stood there, and now its fate may be in the hands of the BIA's ability to make a quick decision. This could be the most sacred time of this tree's life. I do commend the Gentleman from California, my good friend, Mr. Issa, for introducing this legislation. Let's just hope and pray that the BIA will work to bring the land into trust status for protection in some sort of expeditious fashion, if that is possible. I yield my time back, Mr. Chairman. Thank you. Statement of The Honorable Nick J. Rahall, II, Ranking Democrat, Committee on Resources, on H.R. 3476, H.R. 103 and H.R. 3534 Mr. Chairman, there are three bills on the schedule this morning and it is my understanding we will be allowed an opening statement on each one. Mr. Miller will address H.R. 103, Mr. Carson his bill, H.R. 3534 and I will speak to H.R. 3476 for the time being. This legislation by my good friend, Darrell Issa, would protect land containing a valuable piece of history and sacred sites of the Pechanga Tribe from possible condemnation. The Tribe has bought land in its ancestral area and has an application pending for it to be brought into trust status and it should be. Indian sacred sites are being damaged and destroyed at an alarming rate all across our nation. I believe we need to pass legislation to address the problem nationwide and am working with tribes on such a bill. In this particular instance, there is a 1,500 year old tree on the land the Pechanga bought. It is almost humorous to think that a Federal law may need to be passed to buy the tree a little time while BIA decides on the tribe's trust application. Imagine what that tree has been through over the hundreds of years it has stood there--and now--its fate may be in the hands of the BIA's ability to make a quick decision, This could be the scariest time of this tree's life. Let us just hope and pray that the BIA will work to bring the land into trust status for protection in an expeditious fashion. As I noted, George Miller will have some comments to make on H.R. 103 when it is brought up for consideration. I would simply observe that the bill an anti-labor, anti-worker, and a not even thinly disguised assault on labor unions. No surprise there `` The surprise is, however, that it has been dressed up to look something like a pro-tribal sovereignty and that is just a bad political ploy. I welcome our witnesses and I thank them for traveling here. ______ Mr. Hayworth. Thank you, Mr. Rahall. Anyone on this side with other questions? The Gentleman from California, Mr. Miller. Mr. Miller. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just want to say, Jim, welcome to the Committee, and thank you for all your work on behalf of these lands. You and Congressman Issa have done a great job in seeking to protect these lands, and work out all the intricacies and the nervousness of the utilities and everyone else. When we think of what is happening in some of the oak forests in northern California that are succumbing to sudden oak disease and we are losing magnificent trees, this may be more important than we thought when we originally started to save this tree and the surrounding environment. So thank you for your effort, and thank you for making the effort to come back and testify on the bill. Mr. Brulte. Thank you, sir. Mr. Hayworth. Our friend from California, Mr. Issa. Mr. Issa. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Senator Brulte, would it be fair to say that the question of whether or not this power line is needed and where the appropriate alignments are to be placed is a State issue, and whether or not this particular one of 17 stated alignments is available is a Federal issue? Would you say that is sort of the balance we are considering here today? Mr. Brulte. Sure, and the California Public Utilities Commission, if and when this bill is passed, will still be charged with the responsibility of determining whether or not the line is needed, and San Diego Gas & Electric will still have condemnation rights everywhere but this land. So I don't think States' rights are being impeded at all. If it were, Senator Burton, my majority party counterpart, and local elected officials numbering in the hundreds, wouldn't be in support of this legislation. Mr. Issa. Senator Brulte, just one last follow-up. Would my observation be correct that there is virtually no support on either side of the aisle in California, in the Senate, the Assembly, or local, in the surrounding areas, for this project at this time, and certainly this alignment? Mr. Brulte. I am not aware of any support for it, Congressman Issa. Mr. Issa. Thank you, Senator. Thank you for being here today. I realize this was quite a detour for you. Mr. Brulte. Well, thank you very much. Mr. Hayworth. Thank you, Mr. Issa. The Gentleman from Michigan, Mr. Kildee. Mr. Kildee. Just briefly, Senator, having served in my State Senate, I am always pleased when I find a representative of one of our sovereign States being sensitive to the concerns of our sovereign native tribes, and I just commend you for your position and commend you for testifying today. Mr. Brulte. Thank you, sir. Mr. Kildee. Thank you very much. Mr. Hayworth. And I thank my friend from Michigan for waxing nostalgic and hopeful all in one great statement. If there are no other questions or comments for our witness, again, Senator Brulte, thank you, and safe travels back to your home State and up to Sacramento. We appreciate you being here. And now a fellow who warmed up for moving front and center is now prepared to do that, and that again is the aforementioned Wayne Smith, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Good morning, Mr. Smith. We apologize for the false start earlier, but we trust you are ready to offer testimony on these three pieces of legislation, and we welcome you. STATEMENT OF WAYNE SMITH, DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY, INDIAN AFFAIRS, BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Mr. Smith. Good morning, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for allowing me to be here. It is always fun to testify before this Committee. As a matter of process, do you want me to testify to all three bills at this time, or just the bill that is being heard at this time? Mr. Hayworth. We would like you to go for it. Maybe I shouldn't use the term ``trifecta'' but all three bills. Mr. Smith. Yes, that is good. I have never done very well at the horse track, so I won't do that. I thought in the interest of time and brevity I will leave some of the background information out of all three of the bills, because there are Gentlemen that will testify after me that are much more knowledgeable about those than I am. So what I would like to do is talk more about either the policies or the law that affects any one of these three bills. In terms of the instant bill, as to the Pechanga Reservation, on March 21st of 2002 the Acting Regional Director of the BIA's Pacific Region issued a Notice of Decision to accept the ranch property into trust status pursuant to the Indian Land Consolidation Act. A copy of that notice is attached to my complete testimony, for all of you gentlemen here today. Under 25 C.F.R. Part 151, unless an acquisition is mandated, the BIA must consider the following factors before determining to take the land into trust. One is the tribe's need for additional land. Two is the purpose for which the land will be used. Three is the impact on the State and its political subdivisions resulting from the removal of the land from the tax rolls. Four is jurisdictional problems, potential conflict on the land which may arise. Five is whether the BIA is equipped to discharge the additional responsibilities resulting from the acquisition of the land. And, six, whether or not contaminants or other hazardous material may be present on the property. The BIA found in its decision that the tribe did have need for the additional land; that the land would be used for religious and cultural preservation purposes; that there would be no adverse impact on the local government's financial situation; that there would be no jurisdictional problems or potential conflicts after the transfer of the title into trust; that we are indeed equipped to administer additional responsibilities resulting from the acquisition; and that there are no contaminants or other hazardous substances present on the property. This decision, however, is not a final decision, a final agency action as defined by the Administrative Procedures Act, and any party who is adversely affected may file an appeal of a Notice of Decision with the Interior Board of Indian Appeals within 30 days of the initial decision. Upon the conclusion of the 30-day period, unless there is an appeal to the IBIA, the Regional Director will publish notice of final agency action pursuant to 25 C.F.R. 151.12(b), to allow for 30-day judicial review. The Department believes that in this case the procedures set out in 25 C.F.R. Part 151 should continue to be followed. We recognize Congress has the plenary power to take the land into trust on behalf of the tribe. However, we remain seriously concerned with congressional intervention once the administrative process has been initiated. This concludes my testimony on this bill. If you would like to ask me some questions, I would be happy, before we move to the next bill, Mr. Chairman. [The prepared statement of Mr. Smith follows:] Statement of Wayne Smith, Deputy Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior, on H.R. 3476 Good morning, Mr. Chairman, Members of the Committee. I would first like to take the opportunity to thank you for the invitation to present testimony today on H.R. 3476, a bill to protect certain land located in Riverside County, California, that is held in fee simple by the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians (``Tribe'') from condemnation until a final decision is made by the Secretary of the Interior on a pending application for trust status of the lands. BACKGROUND The Pechanga Reservation was established by Executive Order on June 27, 1882, in what is now Riverside County, California and currently consists of 4,396 acres of trust lands. In 2001, the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians acquired a parcel of land in fee simple consisting of 697.35 acres of land and known as the Great Oak Ranch (``Ranch''). In June 2001, the Tribe applied to the Department's Bureau of Indian Affairs (``BIA'') to have the land placed into trust status, pursuant to the provisions of 25 CFR, Part 151. The Ranch is contiguous to the Pechanga Indian Reservation and is home to the largest natural-growing, indigenous live oak tree in the United States, estimated to be over 1,500 years old. The tree serves as a spiritual place and has been used by the Tribe for generations for ceremonies. Additionally, there are other cultural resources located within the Ranch property which are of importance to the Tribe. There are seven archaeological sites located on the property, and along with the tree, the tract is eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places. The Tribe's stated purpose for acquiring the ranch is to preserve and protect the cultural resources of the Luiseno people. CURRENT SITUATION On March 21, 2002, the Acting Regional Director of the BIA Pacific Region issued a Notice of Decision to accept the Ranch property into trust status pursuant to the Indian Land Consolidation Act of 1983 (25 U.S.C. 2202 et seq.). A copy of the Notice of Decision is attached. Under 25 CFR, Part 151, unless an acquisition is mandated, the BIA must consider the following factors before determining to take land into trust: 1. Lthe Tribe's need for additional land; 2. Lthe purpose for which the land will be used; 3. Lthe impact on the State and its political subdivisions resulting from the removal of the land from the tax rolls; 4. Ljurisdictional problems and potential conflict of land use which may arise; 5. Lwhether the BIA is equipped to discharge the additional responsibilities resulting from the acquisition of the land; 6. Lwhether or not contaminants or other hazardous materials may be present on the property. The BIA found that the tribe did have the need for additional land; that the land would be used for religious and cultural preservation purposes; that there would be no adverse impact on the local governmental financial situation; that there would be no jurisdictional problems or potential conflicts after the transfer of the title into trust; that BIA is equipped to administer additional responsibilities resulting from the acquisition; and that there were no contaminants or hazardous substances present on the property. This decision is not a final agency action as defined by the Administrative Procedures Act, but any party who is adversely affected may file an appeal of the Notice of Decision with the Interior Board of Indian Appeals (``IBIA'') within thirty days of the initial decision. Upon the conclusion of the thirty day period, unless there is an appeal to the to the IBIA, the Regional Director will publish notice of final agency action pursuant to 25 CFR 151.12(b), to allow 30 days for judicial review. Lands held in trust by the United States for the benefit of Indian tribes enjoy a number of protections that land held in fee simple status do not. Lands held in trust are removed from local tax rolls. Additionally, lands held in trust may not be condemned without agreement of the Indian tribe involved and the lands are exempt from certain zoning laws. The procedure for taking land into trust set out at 25 CFR, Part 151, sets high standards tribes must meet before the Department of Interior determines to take property into trust. It is a fair process which provides for a comment period during which affected parties may provide information to the Bureau of Indian Affairs regarding positive or adverse effects the decision may have, and it provides an opportunity for these parties to appeal a decision which is adverse to their interests. The Department believes that in this case, the procedure set out in 25 CFR, Part 151 should continue to be followed. We recognize Congress has the plenary power to take the land into trust on behalf of a tribe. We remain seriously concerned, however, with congressional intervention once the administrative process has been initiated. This concludes my personal statement. I would be pleased to answer any questions you may have. ______ [Attachments to Mr. Smith's statement follow:] [GRAPHICS NOT AVAILABLE IN TIFF FORMAT] Mr. Hayworth. Questions on H.R. 3476? Anyone have a question? The Gentleman from California. Mr. Issa. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I really just have the one. In making the finding, you laid out the elements. The fact that this rejoins their reservation into a contiguous single reservation, was that a major part of the consideration or at least a part of the consideration? Mr. Smith. It is certainly a part of the consideration, absolutely. Mr. Issa. And is this almost universally, as long as the other elements of not having hazardous waste and so on, one of the cases in which if you are rejoining a reservation that is split, that you almost always come in on the side of rejoining reservations? Is that pretty much a universal stand that the bureau tries to do? Mr. Smith. If all the standards that I read out, that I just read, are followed or found, certainly trying to restore a reservation would be a policy concern, I guess, of this department. Mr. Issa. And, last, in your due diligence you did look at and were made fully aware of San Diego Gas & Electric's position of potentially this being one of 17 alignments? Mr. Smith. Yes. Mr. Issa. So although they undoubtedly will make their point known again here today, this was something that was fully considered and by the action was found not to be a compelling issue that would stop this from being placed in trust? Mr. Smith. I would phrase it more that our responsibility is to the Indian nation, and we looked under these regulations as to what is best for the Indian nation under these regulations. While we were aware of the power lines and so forth, our real concern and the things that we look at are those that I enunciated in my testimony. Mr. Issa. Thank you very much. Mr. Hayworth. Thank you, Mr. Issa. Questions on the minority side? The Gentleman from Michigan, Mr. Kildee. Mr. Kildee. Mr. Smith, generally the criteria you use for taking land into the trust, those criteria do apply to this particular piece of land? Mr. Smith. Absolutely. Mr. Kildee. And do you believe, then, that the BIA should take this particular land into trust? Mr. Smith. Yes. Mr. Kildee. Thank you very much. Mr. Hayworth. Thank you, Mr. Kildee. The Chair has a couple of questions, Mr. Smith. On March 21, 2002, the administration released a Notice of Decision to take the Great Oak Ranch property into trust. Would that notice, in your opinion, would that Notice of Decision negate the need for H.R. 3476? Mr. Smith. We believe that the process that we have in place right now is adequate to sort of protect this piece of property. We would like to see the administrative process go forward, and we think that there is adequate appeal, judicial appeal, for that. I recognize you have plenary powers. I would be very cautious to say that it negates the need for you gentlemen to do anything. Mr. Hayworth. And we thank you for being respectful of the separation of powers. The diplomacy, Wayne, with which you replied to that, is great. Now, a chance to analyze another assertion that is often made, the argument that H.R. 3476 is a Federal intrusion on the right of a State to condemn land. What is your response to that assertion? Mr. Smith. Well, again, we have a process, the fee to trust process, that is actually a Federal process, and certainly that process would preempt, if you will, a State's ability to condemn land. So, again, I would refer to my first answer and say that I think the process we have already is based on the statute and based on regulations, and it certainly is a preemption of some of the State's ability to do things, but it has a complete judicial review and we are more than happy to let that judicial review run. Mr. Hayworth. Thank you, sir. I believe the Gentleman from California, Mr. Miller, had a couple of questions. Mr. Miller. I really had no questions. I just wanted to make sure that we understood--I appreciate there are problems with the testimony, but it is the position, your position, that this land should be taken into trust? Mr. Smith. That is correct. Mr. Miller. Thank you. Mr. Hayworth. Reaffirmed and amplified through testimony again. Thank you, Mr. Miller. Any questions from the majority side? Any others from the minority side? Oh, the Gentleman from Montana. Mr. Rehberg. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It is a pretty simple question. I was just trying to work on these acreages, and one briefing that I have says it is 4,396 acres of trust land and 697.35 of the Great Oak Ranch, and the other briefing says 3,163 acres and 724 acres in the Great Oak Ranch. Which is it? Mr. Smith. From my recollection of what we put down in my testimony, it is 4,396 acres of trust land, with 695.35 as the current Great Oak Ranch that is being put into trust. Mr. Rehberg. OK. Thank you. Mr. Smith. I was just informed by my learned counsel that is correct. Mr. Rehberg. That your numbers are correct? Mr. Smith. Yes. Mr. Rehberg. Our other briefing is incorrect? OK, thank you. Mr. Smith. Again, I hesitate to say you are incorrect. I just say mine are correct. [Laughter.] Mr. Hayworth. The Gentleman from California, Mr. Issa, wanted to make a point. Mr. Issa. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Smith, just one last follow-up. This legislation, H.R. 3476, am I to understand, though, it in no way ties the hands or does anything to limit the execution by the Bureau of Indian Affairs in reaching a final decision. Is that correct? Mr. Smith. Yes. The process that we have in place is going to go forward regardless of this bill. Mr. Issa. OK, because in crafting the bill we wanted to be respectful of your separation of powers and the job that you are already tasked by the Congress to do, and do very well. So hopefully we have constructed this in a way that, although it protects the tribe in the interim, it in no way would limit your final decision, whatever it may be. Mr. Smith. That is correct. Mr. Issa. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Hayworth. Thank you, Mr. Issa. Any other questions or comments from the minority side on this particular piece of legislation? If not, then, Mr. Smith, if you would address your perspective and comments on H.R. 103. Mr. Smith. OK. Actually, I will be really brief on this bill. This bill, H.R. 103, is the Tribal Sovereignty Protection Act, whose purpose is to ensure that Indian tribes are not forced to provide access to or otherwise unionize their casino employees as a condition of obtaining Federally approved Tribal-State Class III gaming compacts under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act or IGRA. The bill in its present form amends the Act by adding a subsection which would prohibit the inclusion of provisions pertaining to labor agreements in Class III gaming compacts. It also provides that such provisions in existing compacts shall be severed and considered null and void. This legislation, if enacted, would affect the tribal-State compacting process in different ways from State to State. The Department of Interior is not prepared to speculate at this time on how those effects will change the balance of negotiations between the tribes and the States. The Department is, however, concerned about Section 11(d)(3)(D) of the bill. It would reach back into existing compacts that have already been agreed to by States and tribes and approved by the Department. This would have immediate impacts on existing labor agreements, and could raise a number of unforeseeable contract issues the Department is unprepared to discuss at this time. If you have any questions, I would be happy to answer them. [The prepared statement of Mr. Smith follows:] Statement of Wayne Smith, Deputy Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior, on H.R. 103 Good morning, Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee. I am pleased to be here today to provide testimony on H.R. 103, the ``Tribal Sovereignty Protection Act,'' whose purpose is to ensure that Indian tribes are not forced to provide access to or otherwise unionize their casino employees as a condition of obtaining a Federally approved Tribal-State Class III gaming compact under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA). The bill, in its present form, amends Section 11(d)(3) of IGRA, 25 U.S.C. 2710(d)(3), by adding a subsection which would prohibit the inclusion of provisions pertaining to labor agreements in Class III gaming compacts. It also provides that such provisions in existing compacts shall be severed and considered null and void. This legislation, if enacted, would affect the Tribal-State compacting process in different ways from state to state. The Department of the Interior is not prepared to speculate on how those effects will change the balance of negotiations between the Tribes and the States. The Department is concerned about section 11(d)(3)(D) of the bill because it would reach back into existing compacts that already have been agreed to by States and Tribes and approved by the Department. This would have immediate impacts on existing labor agreements and could raise a number of unforeseeable contract issues that the Department is not prepared to discuss. This concludes my remarks and I will be happy to answer any questions you may have. ______ Mr. Hayworth. Mr. Smith, would lack of preparation prevent you from articulating the administration's view on the role of organized labor in the tribal-State compact process? Mr. Smith. I think that is correct. Mr. Hayworth. So you are really just saying today you don't feel that you can comment, or is there a position, or is it being formulated, or you are just maintaining radio silence? Mr. Smith. Probably the latter. No, I am just kidding. We have no formal position about what part labor might play in the compacts. We do believe, however, the compacts are negotiated between the tribes and the State, and the degree to which either the tribes or the State wish to bring any other parties into or any other concerns into the compact process is theirs. So we are more mindful of the two parties that are at the table negotiating the compact, and so we are very reluctant at this time to say someone else should either have a place or not have a place. Mr. Hayworth. All right, sir. Let's turn for questions or comments to the minority side. The Ranking Member, the Gentleman from West Virginia. Mr. Rahall. Mr. Chairman, I don't have any questions right now. I would just like to ask Mr. Smith if he will be around later, after we have heard the other witnesses on this bill, or if a member of your staff will be around? Mr. Smith. I could certainly--I would be around or somebody could be around, yes. Mr. Rahall. OK. Thank you. Mr. Hayworth. Thank you, Mr. Rahall. The majority side, any questions or comments? The minority, the Gentleman from Michigan. Mr. Kildee. And I will later on be asking some questions on H.R. 103, but not at this time. Mr. Hayworth. OK. I thank you, sir. The Gentleman from Hawaii, Mr. Abercrombie. Mr. Abercrombie. Thank you. Mr. Smith, I want to make sure, are you for or against this bill? I don't mean you personally, but I mean does the administration have a position? Mr. Smith. No, we have no real position on this bill. Mr. Abercrombie. If you have no position, does that mean you are not opposing it? Mr. Smith. That means we are not opposing or supporting it. We do have some concerns with the retroactive application of one provision of the bill. Mr. Abercrombie. Doesn't it hurt your joints to be stretched that far? [Laughter.] Mr. Smith. I don't run the whole department, nor the administration. I am here to give you our position.-- Mr. Abercrombie. There is not a member in here who doesn't understand that. Thank you. Mr. Hayworth. Actually, it is a part of a cultural exchange with our friends from Switzerland, neutrality. [Laughter.] Mr. Hayworth. Other questions or comments at this point on H.R. 103 for Mr. Smith? If not, then, friend, it is time to turn to H.R. 3534. I know Mr. Carson has more than a casual interest in this. Mr. Smith. Hopefully on my third strike. This bill has a long and rather sordid legal history. I will skip over that. It is in my testimony, but the chiefs of the tribes that will come after me are much more knowledgeable than I am about that history. I will let them speak to that. What I would like to speak to is the status of the current negotiations to try to settle this case, and the Department has appointed a team to attempt to negotiate a settlement of the Court of Federal Claims cases that are currently pending. The team is composed of representatives of the BIA, the Solicitor's Office, and the Bureau of Land Management. Representatives of the team have met on numerous occasions with the attorneys of the Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Nations to reach agreement on the support of the Department of Interior for the bill. Such discussions have centered on the valuation of elements of damages claimed by the nations. The parties are working toward an agreement as to the amount that can be recommended to Congress for settlement of the claim. While agreement has not been reached, the parties are making substantial progress on the agreement. At this time it appears there exists substantial disagreement on only one element of damages. That element is the subject of ongoing meetings between the Federal negotiating team and the nations' attorneys. I would like to emphasize here that I believe we are very close to an agreement. The Court of Federal Claims is also interested in the settlement of the pending claims, and has held a series of status conferences to ensure that settlement discussions are proceeding. The next status conference is scheduled for June 19th. We believe the Congress should not proceed in ratifying a settlement until the parties have reached agreement on all issues. We believe that continued discussion by the parties may result in a negotiated settlement between the Department and the Nations. The settlement should achieve two goals: one, resolve the financial elements; and, two, resolve the quiet title issues. In addition, the Federal negotiation team has discussed amending certain parts of the bill. The team will be working with the Committee to clarify the description of lands disclaimed, the transfer of real property interest, particularly in the areas where the navigation system was channelized across fee lands acquired by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and certain other matters, including express waiver of certain future claims. This concludes my prepared statement. I would be happy to answer questions. [The prepared statement of Mr. Smith follows:] Statement of Wayne Smith, Deputy Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior, on H.R. 3534 Good morning, Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee. I am pleased to appear before you today concerning the Department's views on H.R. 3534, the ``Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Nations Claims Settlement Act''. Since the subject of this legislation is pending litigation, I can only provide you with a background and status of the issue. BACKGROUND This case originated in the mid-1960's when the Cherokee, Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations (Nations) filed suit against the State of Oklahoma for a declaratory judgment regarding ownership of the Arkansas Riverbed. The case culminated in a decision by the United States Supreme Court holding that ownership of the Arkansas Riverbed remained in the Nations. See Choctaw Nation v. Oklahoma, 397 U.S. 620 (1970). The Supreme Court did not attempt to designate the particular tracts owned by the United States in trust for the Nations. Thereafter, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, held that the State of Oklahoma had no further interest in the Arkansas Riverbed. Again, there was no ruling as to the ownership of the particular tracts of land. The Court transferred the ownership of certain oil and gas leases executed by the State of Oklahoma to the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) for the benefit of the Nations. See Cherokee and Chickasaw v. Oklahoma, No. 6219-Civil (Judgment filed Jan. 21, 1977) and The Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations v. the Cherokee Nation, No. 73-332-Civil (Judgment filed April 15, 1975). The Nations then sued the United States arguing that the construction of the Kerr-McClelland Navigation System was a taking by the United States of the Tribe's ownership of the riverbed. This case ultimately went to the United States Supreme Court. The Court held that the Nations' interest was subject to the navigation servitude retained by the United States. See United States v. Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, 480 U.S. 700 (1987). The Court stated that the United States has the power to deepen the water or erect structures which it may believe to aid navigation. What is not directly resolved by the 1987 case is the ownership of specific tracts of dry lands owned by the Nations after avulsive changes in the river's course, as discussed by the Supreme Court in the first decision. After the 1970 decision, the United States obtained a study done by Holway and Associates, a private company located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This study outlined the dry land areas that were considered to be owned by the Nations. As a result of the Holway study, the United States began leasing the minerals located in those areas. The BIA determined that there might be problems with the Holway study, and a second study was done by the Bureau of Land Management(BLM). This study, like the Holway study, examined the entire length of the riverbed. In 1989, the Nations filed two lawsuits against the United States in the Court of Federal Claims. See Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma v. United States ; No. 218-89-L (Ct.Fed.Cl.) and Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations v. United States, No. 630-89-L (Ct. Fed. Cl.), seeking damages from the United States for the failure to restore the Nations possession of the tracts claimed. The cases have been pending since that time. Quiet title lawsuits have been filed regarding certain tracts of land along the Arkansas River. The Cherokee Nation quieted title to one tract of land, in Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma v. Mathis, Case No. 87- 193-C (E.D. Okla. Judgment filed Nov. 27, 1989). This judgment quiets title in a single tract of land containing 124.942 acres in Section 9, Township 10 North, Range 24 East, of Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. The United States initiated a quiet title lawsuit covering the claim areas in two sections of the Riverbed. See United States v. Pates Farms, et al., Case No. CIV-97-685-B. This lawsuit sought to quiet title to tracts in Sections 31 and 32, Township 11 North, Range 27 East, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. The case was dismissed by the Court on technical grounds and has not been refiled because of the pending settlement efforts. CURRENT STATUS The Department has appointed a team to attempt to negotiate a settlement of the Court of Federal Claims cases. The team is composed of representatives of the BIA, the Solicitor's Office and BLM. Representatives of the team have met on numerous occasions with the attorneys for the Cherokee, Choctaw and Chickasaw nations to reach agreement on the support of the Department of the Interior for the bill. Such discussions have centered on the valuation of elements of damages claimed by the Nations. The parties are working towards an agreement as to the amounts that can be recommended to Congress for settlement of the claim. While agreement has not been reached, the parties are making substantial progress on the agreement. At this time, it appears that there exists substantial disagreement as to only one element of damages. That element is the subject of ongoing meetings between the Federal negotiation team and the Nation's attorneys. The Court of Federal Claims is also interested in the settlement of the pending claims and has held a series of status conferences to insure that settlement discussions are proceeding. The next status conference is scheduled for June 19. We believe the Congress should not proceed in ratifying a settlement until the parties have reached agreement on all issues. COMMENTS ON H.R. 3534 We believe that continued discussion by the parties may result in a negotiated settlement between the Department and the Nations. The settlement should achieve two goals: (1) resolve financial elements, and (2) resolve quiet title issues. In addition, the Federal negotiation team has discussed amending certain parts of the bill. The team will be working with the Committee to clarify the description of lands disclaimed, the transfer of real property interests, particularly in areas where the Navigation System was channelized across fee lands acquired by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and certain other matters, including an express waiver of certain future claims. This concludes my prepared statement. I regret that I cannot speak more specifically on the proposed legislation due to the litigation of the matter. We look forward to working with the Committee on the settlement legislation once an agreement has been reached by all parties involved. ______ Mr. Hayworth. Thank you, Mr. Smith. The Committee is aware that the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee has concerns about whether this bill will adequately protect its interest. To what extent has the United Keetoowah Band been involved in the development of the settlement agreement? Mr. Smith. I am not really aware of that. I can't answer that. Mr. Hayworth. Could you check on that? Mr. Smith. I can check and get back to you, I think. Sure. Mr. Hayworth. We would appreciate that. Can the administration account for or summarize the values placed on the various elements of H.R. 3534 and how these values arrive at a total of over $41 million? Mr. Smith. We have a chart I would be happy to submit to you, rather than read it on the record, if you want me to, and give you the amounts that the different positions--the amounts that were agreed to. I would be happy to submit that to you. The only thing that is outstanding, Mr. Chairman, is the sand and gravel cost, and that is the one that is still under negotiation. All the rest of them have been agreed to. Mr. Hayworth. Mr. Smith, if the United States is unable to reach a settlement with the three nations on the issues in H.R. 3534, what would be the administration's course of action? Mr. Smith. To continue litigation, but I don't believe that is what is going to happen. The litigation could go on probably 10, 15, 20 more years, and that is just not tenable for either party. Like I testified to, I believe that both the government as well as the nations are very close to settlement, and I think you will hear from the nations that that is indeed the case. Mr. Hayworth. Thank you, sir. I turn to the Ranking Member. Any questions or comments? Mr. Rahall. No, thank you. Mr. Hayworth. Any questions or comments? The Gentleman from Oklahoma, Mr. Carson. Mr. Carson. No real questions for Mr. Smith, other than to thank you for being here today and thank you for the ongoing negotiations, and I think you have answered a couple of questions I had to Mr. Hayworth, and I look forward to talking about the issue more here in a few minutes, as well. Thank you. Mr. Hayworth. I thank the Gentleman from Oklahoma, who was born in Winslow, Arizona. We always appreciate that, the Sixth District of Arizona. For purposes of full disclosure, Mr. Rahall, we had to point that out. The Gentleman from Michigan. Mr. Kildee. I will probably wait until Governor Anoatubby and Chief Smith and Chief Pyle will be testifying, and have some statements and questions at that time. Mr. Smith. Thank you. They are far more knowledgeable than I. Mr. Kildee. Thank you. Mr. Hayworth. Thank you. Any other questions or comments for Wayne? If not, then, Mr. Smith, we thank you, and we appreciate your offer to stick around or have capable folks who work with you to hang around, lend an ear and an opinion as the day continues along. Mr. Smith. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will get someone more capable than I to stick around. Thank you. Mr. Hayworth. Thanks very much. Now, panel three. we will call on Mark Macarro, the Chairman of the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians, and also James P. Avery, the Senior Vice President of San Diego Gas & Electric. Gentlemen, if you would join us front and center, we would appreciate it. Again, gentlemen, we welcome you, and we reaffirm from the Chair that your entire statements will be included in the record of today's proceedings, and we would appreciate a summarization of those statements. Chairman Macarro, when you are prepared to commence, we welcome you and we look forward to your testimony. Thank you, sir. STATEMENT OF MARK MACARRO, CHAIRMAN, PECHANGA BAND OF LUISENO MISSION INDIANS Mr. Macarro. [Greetings in native language.] My name is Mark Macarro. I am the Tribal Chairman for the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians, and I simply said greeting in our Luiseno language. Hello, and it is good to be with all of you here today. Thank you for being here, and hi to all my friends and relations from here, and fellow Indians. Mr. Chairman, I want to thank also Congressman Darrell Issa for introducing this bill, and Congresswoman Bono and Congressman Calvert for cosponsoring this bill on behalf of our people. With all my heart, I ask for your full support of H.R. 3476. Simply, H.R. 3476 would temporarily protect unique and sacred lands called the Great Oak Ranch. While we want the Great Oak protected forever, H.R. 3476 just keeps these special lands from utility line condemnation until a final decision is made by the U.S. Secretary of Interior on our pending fee to trust application. Last May we culminated a 20-year effort to purchase the 697 acres now known as the Great Oak Ranch, to join together the two existing portions of our reservation. Our people have worked long and hard over many years to reacquire these ancestral lands, so we filed an application with Interior through the BIA to have the Great Oak Ranch placed into trust as part of our existing reservation. For the people of Pechanga, returning ancestral lands to our reservation is a duty that transcends easy expression by me here today. For example, in 1875 our last aboriginal village for our people, we were the subject of an eviction through a Federal decree of ejectment. It was a forced eviction that took place in the Temecula Valley. And for 7 years, until the establishment of our reservation in 1882 by executive order, we had no lands. So the rugged, undeveloped landscape of the Great Oak Ranch is rich with spiritual, cultural, and archaeological resources. These lands are where the Pechanga people came into being, and these lands are where the Pechanga people will always be. These lands are likewise important to the entire Temecula community and valley, and home to many irreplaceable resources, both cultural and natural. These ranch lands include the former home of Erle Stanley Gardner, author of the famed Perry Mason novels. And the centerpiece of these lands is its namesake, the Great Oak. Dated by UCLA at more than 1,500 years, it is heralded as the oldest known coastal live oak, Quercus agrifola. It stands majestically at more than 96 feet in height with a massive trunk nearly 20 feet in circumference. Each branch, larger than most live oak trunks, rises to touch the sky and then bends down to touch the earth, creating a natural, serene, cathedralesque sanctuary. It was underneath these great branches that Pechanga members held sacred ceremonies eons ago, and now at the dawn of a new century the Pechanga people are once again gathering under the Great Oak canopy. Just days ago we were notified by the BIA Pacific Regional Office of their intent to take the Great Oak Ranch into trust for the Pechanga people, acknowledging the following, and I quote: ``The sole purpose of the acquisition is the preservation and protection of Luiseno people's natural and cultural resources. The Pechanga Band is committed to protecting and preserving the invaluable and irreplaceable cultural resources of the Pechanga and Luiseno people. The cultural resources located within the Great Oak Ranch provide the Pechanga Band with unique opportunities to protect and preserve such resources on property owned by the Band itself.'' These words from the Federal Government validate the emotion in our hearts about the Great Oak Ranch, and that it should come home to its native family. It is our understanding, however, that this decision by the BIA will be appealed by Sempra Energy so that they can run a massive power line within feet of the Great Oak Ranch itself. And while Interior's Notice of Intent specifically states, I quote, ``Sempra Energy's proposed route across the Great Oak Ranch is only one of several possible routes for a new 500,000- volt power line,'' Sempra has relentlessly pressed for this route. They have indicated to the court, the Department of Interior, and the public that they will appeal the proposed Notice of Decision, and we know these precious lands are vulnerable to their condemnation unless you, who are charged with the protection of America's natural wonders and America's first people, act to preserve the status quo. Just as the Great Oak does not stand alone, the people of Pechanga do not stand alone. Elected local officials, Republicans and Democrats, business and community leaders, the elderly and Boy Scouts, have all stepped forward to stand with this Temecula Valley gem. Our Members of Congress, Mr. Issa, Ms. Bono, Senators Diane Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, and our State legislators, including State Senator and Republican leader Jim Brulte, Assemblyman Dennis Hollingsworth, and our Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamente, have all stepped forward, and we now ask you to step forward. Stand with them, stand with us, and stand with the Great Oak. And Mr. Calvert, I add you to the list, too. Thank you. And I thank the Committee. Thanks. [The prepared statement of Mr. Macarro follows:] Statement of The Honorable Mark Macarro, Chairman, Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians Mr. Chairman, I thank you and the other distinguished members of the Committee for the opportunity to present testimony on behalf of the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians (``Tribe'' or ``Pechanga Band''). I am here today to respectfully ask your support of H.R. 3476 which, if passed into law, would protect the Great Oak Ranch property from condemnation until the Secretary of the Interior makes a final decision regarding our pending fee to trust application for that land. In this testimony, I will describe the efforts that my Tribe has taken to return and protect the Great Oak Ranch as part of the Pechanga Indian Reservation. I will also describe the unique and irreplaceable resources of this land, including the 1500 year old Great Oak, as well as other cultural, religious, archaeological and biological features. I will outline the unanimous local support that we have received for our trust application, and the ongoing efforts of San Diego Gas & Electric Company (``SDG&E'') to impede and threaten the Great Oak Ranch with continuing threats of appeals and condemnation of our property. THE PECHANGA TRIBE'S FEDERAL PETITION TO TAKE THE GREAT OAK RANCH PROPERTY INTO TRUST AS A LEGACY FOR THE TRIBE AND ITS MEMBERS On June 29, 1882, an Executive Order issued by the President of the United States established the Pechanga Indian Reservation (``Pechanga Reservation''), which is located within the ancestral and aboriginal lands of the Tribe. Additional acreage has been added over the years, for a total of 4,396.44 acres. The Pechanga Reservation consists of Federal trust property held for the beneficial use of the Tribe. The Reservation is intended to be a permanent homeland in order to further the Federal policy of Indian self-determination, including economic development and self-sufficiency. On May 15, 2001, the Tribe acquired thirty-one parcels totaling 688.73 acres, and owns the property in fee. This land is located adjacent to the Reservation. These parcels (also referred to as the ``Great Oak Ranch'' property) are located within portions of Sections 28, 29, 32 and 33, Township 8 South, range 2 West, San Bernardino Base Meridian, in Riverside County, California. The property is located approximately 5 miles southeast of Temecula, and is adjacent to the boundary of San Diego County, California. As part of its trust relationship with Indian tribes, the United States may take title to property in trust for Federally-recognized Indian tribes pursuant to the provisions of Section 5 of the Indian Reorganization Act, 48 Stat. 985, Act of June 18, 1934, 25 U.S.C. Section 465, and Section 203 of the Indian Land Consolidation Act of 1983, 25 U.S.C. Section 2201, et seq., as amended. The United States Department of Interior has adopted regulations that specify the procedures and substantive criteria used to process tribal applications to take land into trust for the benefit of Federally-recognized Indian tribes. See 25 Code of Federal Regulations Part 151. On December 31, 2000, the General Council of the Tribe, consisting of all adult members of the tribe, duly adopted Resolution 001231-C. This resolution directed the Tribal Chairman to submit an application to the United States to take the Great Oak Ranch property into trust. This resolution also directly requested that the Secretary approve the application. [See Exhibit A] For the people of Pechanga, returning these lands to our reservation is paramount. The rugged, undeveloped landscape of the Ranch is rich with spiritual, cultural, and archaeological sites. This Ranch is Pechanga's legacy. In June 2001, the Tribe submitted an application to the United States Department of the Interior, pursuant to regulations found at 25 CFR 151 et seq., to take the Great Oak Ranch property into trust by the United States for the benefit of the Tribe. As outlined in the application, the Tribe's intended use of the property involves the continuation of existing agricultural activities, maintenance and use of three existing residences on site, and maintenance and preservation of the existing Luiseno Indian cultural resources found throughout the site. [See Exhibit B] Our property is home to many irreplaceable resources--both cultural and natural. The primary goal in acquiring the parcels of land covered by the trust application is to preserve and protect the ancestral homelands and cultural resources of the Tribe, including many sacred sites, archeological sites, and items. These ranchlands also include the historically significant former home of Erle Stanley Gardner, author of the famed Perry Mason novels. Yet the centerpiece of these lands is its namesake--The Great Oak. The Great Oak is believed to be more than 1500 years old and is heraldedas the oldest known coastal live oak tree. It stands majestically at more than 96 feet in height with a massive trunk nearly 20 feet in circumference. Each branch, larger than most live oak trunks, rise up toward the sky and then come down to land--creating a natural, serene sanctuary. It was underneath these great branches that Pechanga members held sacred ceremonies eons more than a hundred years ago. As we sit at the dawn of a new century, the people of Pechanga are once again gathering under the canopy of the Great Oak. We believe the resources found on the Great Oak Ranch should be preserved and remain within the Ranch. The sole purpose of the acquisition is the preservation and the protection of Luiseno people's natural and cultural resources. The Pechanga Band is committed to protecting and preserving the invaluable and irreplaceable cultural resources of the Pechanga and Luiseno people. The cultural resources located within the Great Oak Ranch provide the Pechanga Band with the unique opportunity to protect and preserve such resources on property owned by the Tribe itself. These words spoken by the Federal Government validate the emotion in our hearts that the Great Oak Ranch should come home to its native family. Once the Great Oak Ranch property is accepted into trust by the United States, it will become part of the Pechanga Reservation. The Tribe will exercise powers of self-government, including civil regulatory jurisdiction, to protect the unique archaeological, biological and cultural resources, as well as the historic and sacred sites on the Great Oak Ranch. THE TRIBE RECEIVES UNANIMOUS LOCAL SUPPORT FOR ITS TRUST APPLICATION The people of Pechanga do not stand alone in their commitment to protect the Great Oak Ranch. From elected officials to business and community leaders, many have stepped forward to ensure the preservation of this Temecula Valley gem. Our Federal representatives in Congress Darrell Issa and Mary Bono; Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein; representatives from the state including State Senator Jim Brulte and Assemblyman Dennis Hollingsworth; and the Save South Riverside County Association, which represents the citizens of Riverside County, and the Temecula Valley Winegrowers Association, a vital part of the Valley's tourism and business sectors. Support for the Great Oak Ranch has transcended traditional geographic and political lines and serves as a symbol for all the people of Temecula Valley. [See Exhibit C] SDG&E'S THREATENED CONDEMNATION ACTION AND FURTHER LITIGATION The Tribe needs legislation to protect the fee-to-trust application process from SDG&E's threatened use of eminent domain powers. The Tribe is concerned that SDG&E continues to threaten the initiation of condemnation proceedings against the Great Oak Ranch property, even though SDG&E has not received a determination from the California Public Utilities Commission that the Valley Rainbow Interconnect Project is necessary or in the public interest. On March 23, 2001, SDG&E filed an Application for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity and its Proponent's Environmental Assessment for the Valley-Rainbow 500-kilovolt (kV) Interconnect Project with the California Public Utilities Commission (``CPUC''). The CPUC application identifies both a preferred and proposed alternative route for the transmission line. The route preferred by SDG&E is along the easternmost and a portion of the southern-most sides of the Pechanga Indian Reservation, adjacent to the Cleveland National Forest. One of SDG&E's seven ``alternative'' routes pass through the Great Oak Ranch property, threatening several archaeological sites and the root system of the Great Oak tree. California public utilities have historically had broad powers of eminent domain. This has been necessary so that utilities could construct necessary improvements to their utility systems. However, as the concept of utility deregulation developed in California, the California Legislature determined that certain limitations would need to be placed upon the utilities' use of this power of eminent domain, in order to prevent the inappropriate use of this power as a competitive tool. In order to prevent the abusive use of this power, the California Legislature enacted Public Utilities Code Section 625. [See Exhibit D] As enacted, the law requires (with certain limited exceptions) public utilities to obtain prior approval by the CPUC before any eminent domain powers may be exercised by a public utility for competitive purposes. The section specifically provides a procedure for the review by the CPUC of condemnation proceedings initiated by public utilities. The public utility must file a petition or complaint, and provide personal notice to the owners of the property that is to be condemned. Before making a finding pursuant to this subdivision, the Commission must conduct a hearing in the local jurisdiction that would be affected by the proposed condemnation. SDG&E has argued that this section does not limit its ability to condemn the Great Oak Ranch. Last year, SDG&E initiated pre- condemnation proceedings in Riverside Superior Court to survey the property of 320 property-owners along a 1,000 foot-wide corridor for its proposed alternative route. In this recent related litigation against 320 landowners, SDG&E argued that the proposed Rainbow-Valley Interconnect Project is not a ``competitive service,'' and therefore a Commission finding under Section 625 (a)(1)(A) is not required. SDG&E has also argued that the Project is required to fulfill a CPUC ordered obligation to serve (that would satisfy the exception to the requirement for a hearing found in (a)(1)(B) of Section 625). Both assertions are, at best, premature, as the CPUC is considering SDG&E's Application for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity at this time. SDG&E, has repeatedly threatened and continues to threaten the initiation of eminent domain proceedings for purposes of a right of way. In a August 7, 2001, letter from Carolyn F. McIntyre, SDG&E Vice- President to California Assemblymember Rod Pacheco, SDG&E took the position that CPUC approval of the project was not a condition precedent to bringing a condemnation action [See Exhibit E]: In response to the legal questions raised in your letter, SDG&E has the legal authority to enter private land to conduct these activities [notify 320 property owners along a 1,000 foot wide transmission line study corridor] before the CPUC approves the project. In Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. Parachini (1972) 29 Cal. App. 3d 159, 166, the court stated that: ``...a certificate from the Public Utilities Commission is not a condition precedent to the acquisition of property by a regulated utility.'' Similarly, in Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. Hay (1977) 68 Cal. App. 3d 905, 912, the court reiterated that ``...in any event, Parachini supports the view that agency approval is not a condition precedent to the commencement of a condemnation proceeding....'' On March 21, 2002, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Pacific Regional Office issued a notice of decision to have the Great Oak Ranch property taken into trust for the Tribe (``Notice of Decision''). [See Exhibit F] The Notice of Decision found that the Tribe established the need for additional land for purposes of exercising governmental jurisdiction and assuring the long-term protection of the Luiseno Mission Indians' cultural resources and in the enhancement of tribal self-determination. The Notice of Decision also found that the Tribe established the need to protect the biological resources of the Great Oak Ranch property, in addition to the Great Oak, elderberry bushes, buckwheat and sage species. The Notice of Decision noted that ``Sempra and its subsidiary, SDG&E, oppose the acquisition because the subject property is a 'possible' route for a new 500,000-volt power line,'' but granted the Tribe's application because the Tribe had made the required showing of need under the regulatory process in 25 CFR Part 151. It is our understanding that this decision by the BIA will be appealed by SDG&E given the possible routing over the Great Oak Ranch for its proposed Valley-Rainbow Interconnect project. [See Exhibit G] After devoting years to secure these lands we are disappointed that our efforts may be further delayed. The latest evidence of SDG&E's intentions were outlined in a March 29, 2002, letter from Steven C. Nelson, Esq. to Michelle Cooke, Administrative Law Judge. In that letter, SDG&E stated its position to oppose the Tribe's trust application by appealing through the administrative process: In these appeals, SDG&E will explain, as it has done so in its other filings at BIA, that SDG&E is not opposed to the land being taken into trust so long as a right-of-way is preserved for the Project. SDG&E also will reiterate that it remains open to further discussions of these issues with the Tribe. SDG&E continues to threaten more litigation and the right to bring a condemnation action against the Tribe for the power to take a right of way corridor over the Great Oak Ranch property. The Tribe needs this legislation to preserve the status quo until its trust application has been fully decided on the merits, and all appeals have been exhausted. CONCLUSION Mr. Chairman and Members of this Committee, thank you for granting me the opportunity to represent the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians today. The Great Oak Ranch represents the return of our homelands and its resources to our people and our community. But most importantly, protection of the Great Oak Ranch allows us to preserve and share Pechanga's history with generations to come. I respectfully request the expeditious passage of H.R. 3476. ______ Mr. Hayworth. Mr. Chairman, we thank you for your testimony and your awareness of the atmospherics with us on the dais. Mr. Avery, welcome. Your testimony, please, sir. STATEMENT OF JAMES P. AVERY, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, SAN DIEGO GAS & ELECTRIC Mr. Avery. Thank you. This is an emotional issue, there is no doubt about it, but in trying to sum up my testimony, SDG&E is trying to preserve reliability that we provide to the people of Southern California. The region of San Diego is an area that is highly constrained. We rely upon two transmission corridors, one that extends to the east over toward Palo Verde nuclear generating plant, one that extends up to the north through the San Onofre nuclear generating facility. Essentially, we are in a bottlenecked area. There are no other routes available. We have identified three potential routes. One of those routes would require us to work or to go through the Pechanga Reservation. In our early discussions with them, they have told us they are opposed to that route. We have identified two other routes. One of those would go through the Great Oak Ranch. We did also have one other route which would require us to condemn homes and businesses. Now, we are in a situation where in moving forward on the Great Oak Ranch, it is not something that we want to in any way interfere with their right to take this land into trust. In fact, we are supportive of that. All we are asking for is that a small piece of this land be set aside until a final determination is made by the Public Utilities Commission that the need is verified and that we can move forward. We have not taken any action to condemn this land, nor will we take any action until the State determines there is a need and tells us to move forward with that. Any action under this bill would essentially circumvent or override the State's authority to move forward with condemnation. Now, as for the tree itself, it is a beautiful tree. I am not going to deny that. It is magnificent. Now, as for where we would locate our line, we are more than willing to work with the Pechanga Reservation and anyone else who can give us the ability to move the line further away. As to what we have proposed, we are roughly a tenth of a mile from the tree. We do not believe we will have any impact on this at all. I think I would also like to point out the fact that essentially we believe this bill is not necessary. We believe that we should be allowed to continue. Allow the Indians to move forward with their request to take this land into trust. As my colleague here has pointed out, we will be appealing the BIA's action to take this into trust, but it is not because we don't think the land should go into trust. All we are asking for is a corridor through this land, and that is it. Thank you. [The prepared statement of Mr. Avery follows:] Statement of James Avery, Senior Vice President, San Diego Gas & Electric, on H.R. 3476 Good afternoon, my name is Jim Avery, Senior Vice President of San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E). I am responsible for managing all aspects of electric transmission for SDG&E, a distribution utility that provides service to 3 million customers through 1.3 million electric meters and 775,000 natural gas meters in San Diego and southern Orange counties. SDG&E is a California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)- regulated subsidiary of Sempra Energy, a San Diego-based Fortune 500 energy services holding company. I appreciate the opportunity to provide testimony on H.R. 3476. SDG&E opposes H.R. 3476. If enacted into law, this legislation would preempt the laws of the State of California by overriding the state's authority to condemn and compensate private landowners for land that is needed for a public purpose. More specifically, H.R. 3476 would exempt a parcel of private land that the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians owns in fee from the operation of state condemnation law until a final decision is reached on the Tribe's request to take the land in question into trust. It would have the practical effect of blocking indefinitely SDG&E's construction of the Valley Rainbow Interconnect, a major new transmission project that will serve as a critical link in the Southern California electricity system, providing increased reliability and access to electricity supplies for customers throughout southern California. H.R. 3476's proposed preemption of state law authorities raises serious Federalism concerns that go beyond the facts of this case. California has only recently been able to end the need for instituting blackouts and bring spiraling prices under control, and has a long way to go before it will completely emerge from a severe energy crisis that threatened the State's economic future and well being. Although the crisis was caused by many factors, a lack of transmission and an insufficient supply was identified as a leading contributor. Constraints on electricity production and transmission in California continue to create uncertainties in the marketplace; passage of H.R. 3476 would send the wrong message to citizens and businesses in California. The bill would hold out a single parcel as being above state law and off-limits for a critical right-of-way that is needed to help resolve California's uncertain electricity situation. In addition to raising serious questions about the relative role of Federal and state authorities in installing needed electricity infrastructure in California and other states, H.R. 3476 represents an unnecessary and unwise overreaction to a land use conflict between the Tribe's desire to convert fee land into trust land and SDG&E's need to obtain a suitable right-of-way for its Valley Rainbow Interconnect project. This bill is the latest in a series of attempts to legislatively circumvent or influence the regular process of administrative review and decision. SDG&E does not oppose the Tribe's request to take the Great Oak Ranch property into trust, so long as a right-of-way corridor is identified and set aside for public use at the same time. The Company has made it clear that it is interested in moving forward with a consensual resolution of its land use conflict with the Tribe; there is no need to preempt a condemnation action that may never arise. The siting of this line would not be an act by SDG&E alone, but would be
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John McCain's latest Web ad has created a little controversy, and now his opponent in the GOP primary for Senate, J.D. Hayworth, is speaking out about it.
In case you missed it, the ad is billed as a J.D. Hayworth campaign ad, where he discusses some of the serious problems facing America today -- ya know, President Obama's secret, Kenyan birth place, man/horse nuptials, and the always-pertinent issue of vampires.
It's hilarious. You can check out the whole video here.
The video was actually produced by the McCain campaign, and Hayworth doesn't seem to find it as funny as we do.
"If it were an entry in a high school video competition, the latest effort from the McCain creative team might merit an honorable mention in the 'Sophomore Snarkiness' division,'" Hayworth says.
Hayworth says he wants to debate McCain on some of the other campaign issues -- namely ones that don't make J.D. look like a jackass -- something he very publicly requested by barging into McCain's campaign headquarters a few months ago.
"As a diversion by the Senator and his staff to avoid serious debate on his record of higher taxes and amnesty, it won't stick," Hayworth says. "Arizona voters deserve a serious discussion of the issues, and John McCain needs to join me in a series of debates. Otherwise, Arizona conservatives will conclude that all of the tactics of distortion and diversion from the McCain camp simply amount to 'Much Ado About Nothing.'"
Hayworth says McCain is stalling on the debates, but we had a chance to ask "The Maverick" about the status of the debates last week; he assured us that he'll debate Hayworth anywhere, anytime.
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It was a Friday evening in Phoenix and 110 in the shade. In the studio of a local independent television station, the compact, cocky, balding, white-haired man who, earlier in the decade, reigned as the nation’s most popular politician, and two years ago was the Republican Party’s unlikely presidential standard-bearer, was trapped in an annoying hour-long debate, sandwiched between two political pip-squeaks who wanted his job. If John McCain found the situation awkward, he didn’t show it. He just smiled tightly and took it—and he gave as good as he got.
McCain ripped into his principal challenger for the Republican nomination for what would be his fifth term in the Senate, the former Arizona congressman and conservative talk-radio personality J. D. Hayworth—dismissing him by saying that “after he was voted out by his constituents, he became a lobbyist, and after that a talk-show host, and then after that an infomercial and late-night star.” McCain was gently solicitous of his other rival, Jim Deakin, a contractor, small-businessman, and, as the debate moderator noted, “a guest lecturer at Scottsdale Community College,” who was making his first run for public office, under the Tea Party banner.
But it fell to Hayworth, a glib galoot who was twice informally ranked among the dumbest members of Congress during his 12 years in the House, to deliver the dead-on zinger that summed up where McCain has found himself in this strange and angry political season, struggling not to win the presidency but simply to hold on to the job which defines him, and which is all he has left. “It’s really sad to see John McCain, who should be revered as a statesman, basically reduced to a political shape-shifter,” Hayworth said.
So it is.
McCain would go on to trounce Hayworth in the August primary, by 24 points, but not before turning himself into an off-putting, almost unrecognizable political creature. In the face of Hayworth’s challenge, McCain flipped his position on repealing the military’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for gay service members; soft-pedaled his backing of climate-change legislation; and abandoned his longtime support for comprehensive immigration reform that would recognize reality and provide an eventual path to citizenship for the 11 million illegal aliens already living in the country. Instead, he offered full-throated backing for the border fence he once mocked—“Complete the danged fence!,” he demanded in an ad—and sought political cover in the form of an endorsement by his former running mate, Sarah Palin, whose selection was surely the single most cynical decision he ever made in nearly 30 years in public life. Last January, after the Supreme Court overturned a key element of the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance bill (its limits on corporate and union contributions), McCain announced that he would not join congressional efforts to find a legislative way around the court’s decision. This spring he went as far as to declare to David Margolick in Newsweek that he had never considered himself a maverick at all, prompting that acid commentator on human foibles Jon Stewart to observe that McCain had not only sold his soul but sold it short.
The boiling anger of the Palin/Tea Party wing of the G.O.P. has undone even some of the most popular Republicans, such as Representative Mike Castle of Delaware, who lost his bid for the Senate nomination there to the neophyte Christine O’Donnell (even Karl Rove denounced O’Donnell as “nutty”), and forced Republicans far more orthodox than McCain to twist themselves into uncomfortable caricatures. In McCain’s case, the gambit worked, though.
Last year, a poll showed Hayworth within a couple of points of McCain in a prospective primary matchup. “The senator owes his victory to the pressure he received from conservatives and Tea Partiers,” the conservative guru Richard Viguerie declared after the primary. “To receive that support, he had to give up his maverick positions that have sometimes given aid and comfort to the liberals. I’m sure Senator McCain knows very well that he would not have won if he had continued his reputation as the Democrats’ favorite Republican.” McCain not only sold his soul, he went through a small fortune, spending $20 million to blow Hayworth out of the water. And far from seeing Hayworth’s challenge as a depressing indignity, McCain seemed to enjoy the opportunity. “A fight not joined is a fight not enjoyed,” as he put it after the Phoenix debate.
“He loves being the underdog, and for a certain period of time he looked like the underdog against J. D. Hayworth,” says Torie Clarke, McCain’s former press secretary, who first went to work for him in the mid-1980s. “On a day-to-day basis, I’ll bet he enjoys it. On a long-term basis, looking back on the last 40 years of his life, I don’t know.” She adds, “I think a fair number of people who’ve worked with him over the years look at him—and what he has to do to win this campaign—and say, ‘Is it really worth it?’ He seems to be sacrificing some of the principles he holds dear. He seems to be making compromises he wouldn’t have made 10 or 15 years ago.”
Only in a brief news conference with the handful of reporters who showed up to cover the debate did McCain give a small, sad, unintended insight into what he—who commanded the attention of the whole country and won the votes of nearly half the electorate just 24 months ago—must be thinking these days. He said he is confident that when they examine his record “the American …the people of Arizona” will make the right choice.
The prevailing question about John McCain this year is: What happened? What happened to that other John McCain, the refreshingly unpredictable figure who stood apart from his colleagues and seemed to promise something better than politics as usual? The question may miss the point. It’s quite possible that nothing at all has changed about John McCain, a ruthless and self-centered survivor who endured five and a half years in captivity in North Vietnam, and who once told Torie Clarke that his favorite animal was the rat, because it is cunning and eats well. It’s possible to see McCain’s entire career as the story of a man who has lived in the moment, who has never stood for any overriding philosophy in any consistent way, and who has been willing to do all that it takes to get whatever it is he wants. He himself said, in the thick of his battle with Hayworth, “I’ve always done whatever’s necessary to win.” Maybe the rest of us just misunderstood.
McCain has always lived for the fight, and he has defined himself most clearly in opposition to an enemy, whether that enemy was the rule-bound leadership of the United States Naval Academy, his North Vietnamese captors, the hometown Arizona press corps that never much liked him, his Republican congressional colleagues, the Reverend Jerry Falwell, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Barack Obama, or J. D. Hayworth. He has always been more of an existential politician than a consequential one, in the sense that his influence has derived not from steady, unswerving pursuit of philosophical goals or legislative achievements but from the series of unpredictable—and sometimes spectacular—fights he has chosen to pick. As his daughter Meghan recently wrote, he has always been more of a craps guy than a strategic poker player. He has never been a party leader, like his old friend Bob Dole, of Kansas, or a wise elder, like his colleague Dick Lugar, of Indiana, or a Republican moderate, like Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, of Maine. He flies solo, first, last, and always, and his paramount cause has always been his own. That is the bracing reality of John McCain. It is the tragedy, too.
There is no doubt that being John McCain 2010 is a colossal comedown for a man who was described just three years ago by The Almanac of American Politics as “the closest thing our politics has to a national hero.” Beginning with his 2000 presidential campaign, which climaxed in his stunning 18-point upset victory over George W. Bush in the New Hampshire primary and cratered just weeks later in bitter defeat in South Carolina, McCain redefined the image of the Happy Warrior in politics for a generation of Americans long unaccustomed to the sight, conducting a freewheeling, subversive seminar on his campaign bus, the Straight Talk Express. He seemed, somehow, above conventional politics, if only because he wasn’t above letting the world know that he thought the game, as it had come to be practiced, was a joke. In defeat, he voted against George W. Bush’s initial tax cuts (because, he said at the time, such cuts would go disproportionately to the rich, and later because he feared there would be no compensating cuts in spending), and he was unsparing in his criticism of the administration’s conduct of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and of its embrace of torture in interrogations of suspected terrorists. Had he shown the slightest interest in his friend John Kerry’s importunings, he might well have been the Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 2004. He went to work with Democrats such as the late Ted Kennedy to bring sanity, and humanity, to the nation’s long-running debate over illegal immigration. And at a time when such a position entailed nothing but political dangers, in his own party and with the electorate at large, he was steadfast in maintaining that the country should commit more troops to Iraq, not withdraw the forces already there.
The public perception of McCain’s heresies grew so pronounced as his 2008 presidential campaign was gearing up that his political guru at the time, John Weaver, told me McCain would call him several times a day, just to ask, “How hard am I making your life?” In 2006, I watched McCain tell a group of sensible, blue-suited Republican businessmen in Milwaukee, who asked about immigration, “By the way, I think the fence is least effective. But I’ll build the goddamned fence if they want it.” His presidential campaign nearly crashed completely in the summer of 2007, when he was so low on money that he flew commercial coach with just an aide or two in tow. But McCain had campaigned diligently for Bush’s 2004 re-election, publicly, if awkwardly, hugging the man he had despised, and then for Republican candidates around the country in the 2006 midterms. Eventually, as his mother had predicted, the Republican Party held its nose and made him its nominee. It’s been downhill ever since.
There is a difference between facing a changed and shrunken external reality (which McCain surely now does) and changing one’s essential nature (which McCain almost certainly has not). He has always had a reckless streak, and he has repeatedly skated by after conduct that would have doomed others less resourceful, resilient, or privileged. As a navy pilot, he crashed three planes before being shot down by a surface-to-air missile over Hanoi. He spent harrowing years in captivity in North Vietnam, and parlayed that fame into a high-profile job as the navy’s liaison to the Senate, and then parlayed that—with the help of his second wife’s family fortune—into a political career in his adopted state of Arizona, first winning a seat in the House of Representatives in 1982, and then taking Barry Goldwater’s Senate seat upon his retirement, in 1986.
For most of the time from his first election until his 2000 presidential campaign he was a reliable conservative Republican: pro-defense, anti-tax, anti-abortion, solid on social issues and the culture wars. But he was never a team player, never popular with his Republican colleagues, with whom he publicly quarreled on the slightest pretext, which made him seem more independent. It could just as easily be that he was more selfish. In high school, McCain’s nicknames included “McNasty,” and for more than two decades, the overriding majority of his Senate colleagues, in both parties, have repaid his angry outbursts against them with active and unrelenting dislike.
After surviving his brush with shame during the Keating Five influence-peddling scandal in 1989, McCain embraced the cause of campaign-finance reform, which endeared him to good-government types and the press but to almost no one else in either party. Like other senators, McCain had taken campaign contributions and favors from savings-and-loan entrepreneur Charles Keating, and had then intervened with government regulators on Keating’s behalf. McCain’s zeal for campaign reform was an act of public atonement—ballsy, yes, but driven as much by Realpolitik as by principle. In the late 1990s, he saw in George W. Bush an unappealing lightweight unready for the presidency and thought, What the hell? Why not me?
McCain’s 2000 campaign is remembered for its come-what-may candor, but even then he tried to have his cake and eat it, too. One day in January 2000, in response to a hypothetical question about what would happen if his then 15-year-old daughter became pregnant, McCain said, “The final decision would be made by Meghan with our advice and counsel.” The response made it seem as if he had embraced the pro-choice position on abortion—anathema to Republican primary voters. He spent the next 24 hours awkwardly backtracking. In the heat of the G.O.P. primary in South Carolina, where the question of whether the state should display the Confederate battle flag had come to be seen as a crucial litmus test of conservative purity, McCain infamously shifted his position to suit the political moment, retreating from his declaration that the flag was “a symbol of racism and slavery” to say instead that he understood both sides in the debate. “The beginning of the end for John McCain was the Confederate flag,” Torie Clarke says. “That did more harm to him with the broader electorate than anything else.”
“In a campaign sense,” one former aide recalls, “his world, the campaign, is what is immediately in his line of sight. So it’s the airplane, it’s the reporters on the plane, it’s the crowd in front of him, and nothing else exists. A modern campaign is going to be a billion-dollar enterprise in the next cycle, and the candidate is the most important part, but there’s so much that lies beneath the surface that’s not visible. McCain doesn’t understand, at a fundamental level, media and communications in the modern age. All of this stuff that’s changed in very rapid fashion—the Twitter, the this, the that, or the other. For him it’s the Sunday shows, and things like that. It’s kind of like, ‘Where’s Johnny Apple?’” (R. W. Apple Jr., the late New York Times correspondent and editor, had been a friend since their days in Vietnam.)
“I think it’s very easy to chart out,” this aide adds. “He is first and foremost a creature of his emotions.” Like his idol Teddy Roosevelt, who so disdained his hand-picked Republican successor, William Howard Taft, that he ran an independent campaign against him and handed the presidency to Democrat Woodrow Wilson, McCain sees all politics as personal, and his principal goal has always been self-preservation.
McCain’s stagy “suspension” of his 2008 campaign to return to Washington to deal with the Wall Street financial crisis is a classic case in point. As related in Jonathan Alter’s book The Promise, at a bipartisan White House meeting—called solely because McCain had asked the Bush administration to hold it—he sat sullen and silent, saying “I’ll just listen” as Obama showed a detailed command of the situation. When he finally spoke, 43 minutes into the meeting, McCain acknowledged that he had not even read the Treasury secretary’s three-page outline of a proposed bank-bailout plan.
His choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate was, of course, the apogee of his hotheaded, cold-blooded self-protectiveness. Denied his own first choice, his friend Joe Lieberman, the Independent-Democrat from Connecticut, he opted instead for the only candidate his advisers thought stood a chance of reinforcing his much-dimmed reputation as a maverick. But in doing so he chose a person so manifestly unqualified for the presidency as to make him look like little more than a hack. “He picked a running mate to prove what an outsider he was,” one former adviser said, “and by comparison he wound up looking like the most conventional person around.” Making Sarah Palin into one of the most influential people in the Republican Party may turn out to be McCain’s most lasting political legacy to his country. Rather than expressing second thoughts or misgivings about his decision, he has dug himself in and defended it.
At one point last summer, J. D. Hayworth said the country was better off with Obama as president than it would have been with an unreliably conservative McCain. McCain took great umbrage, but it’s an interesting thought experiment to imagine what the first two years of a McCain-Palin partnership in the White House might have produced. There would probably have been no stimulus bill, and the country’s economic condition would be no better (and probably worse). General Motors and Chrysler would have been allowed to go bankrupt rather than helped to emerge into a state of healthiness, as they may well be doing. There would have been no significant new regulation of the financial industry. The Bush tax cuts for those Americans with the highest incomes—something McCain had opposed before reversing himself—would have been extended. There would have been only modest health-insurance reform, at best—McCain’s proposals were Republican boilerplate and meant for use in the campaign, never a serious program. Perhaps there would have been greater progress on immigration, though McCain had already abandoned that issue, and it’s easier to imagine his taking the more nativist stance he has since adopted. There would be no Supreme Court justices Kagan and Sotomayor, but there would likely be two more conservative justices, and the days of Roe v. Wade would be numbered. There would be no troop drawdown in Iraq. The United States might well have bombed or blockaded Iran in response to that country’s flawed election last year, or in response to its nuclear program. There would have been serial feuds between aides to the president and vice president, but the fact that Vice President Palin had an independent power base, far larger and more enthusiastic than McCain’s own, would have limited what President McCain could do about it. The “Ground Zero mosque” dispute would probably have arisen anyway, and McCain might have been hard put to do anything but side with the opponents. The Palin-family soap opera would now be daily fodder for the national press rather than mainly the tabloids. Like Obama, President McCain would probably have been asked to give the commencement address at Arizona State University. Unlike Obama, he would probably have been awarded an honorary degree.
In at least one very real way, McCain himself does seem different these days.
McCain is a man who has spent his life making a sport of cheating death. Two years ago, when he asked his chief campaign vetter, A. B. Culvahouse, for his bottom line on the idea of making Palin his vice-presidential nominee, Culvahouse replied, “High risk, high reward.” “You shouldn’t have told me that,” McCain replied. “I’ve been a risktaker all my life.”
But now McCain seems uncharacteristically fearful. In a commencement address at Ohio Wesleyan University in the spring, he spoke to the graduates about the inevitability of life’s disappointments. “For most people, life is long enough and varied enough to overcome occasional mistakes and failures. You might think that I’m now going to advise you not to be afraid to fail. I’m not. Be afraid. Speaking from considerable experience, failing stinks. Just don’t be undone by it.” History is full of notable examples of people who failed to achieve paramount ambitions—who fought the good fight and died disconsolate because some idea they had championed went down to defeat. Woodrow Wilson comes readily to mind. But “failure” for McCain seems not to be failure to achieve a lasting goal but simply the failure to continue being what he is.
It seems safe to say that McCain would be undone by losing his Senate seat. The men in McCain’s family have withered when out of harness. His hard-drinking father and grandfather were both admirals, and when their careers ended, so, essentially, did their lives. McCain’s grandfather John Sidney McCain was relieved of his command just before the end of World War II for his role in inadvertently steering a fleet into a typhoon. “I know how to fight, but now I don’t know whether I know how to relax or not,” he told a friend, then dropped dead of a heart attack at his welcome-home party, four days after the war ended. Due to his failing health, McCain’s father was also retired prematurely, in the middle of the Vietnam War, and the rest of his life was marred by illness and invalidism. McCain has no hobbies, beyond cooking ribs and watching birds at his cabin, in Sedona, Arizona. His wartime injuries make it impossible for him to engage in any exercise more demanding than a vigorous walk. “He’s not going to go off and set up a global education foundation,” Torie Clarke says. I once asked McCain if he missed flying, after his crash and injuries made it effectively impossible for him to continue. “I miss it like I had a great experience and it’s over,” he told me. “It never consumed me. Maybe that’s why I got shot down.” He’s now been in elective office nearly three times as many years as he was an active flier, and there is little doubt that he would miss the Senate much more. The most emotional I ever saw him get in more than 10 years of watching him off and on was when we were talking alone in a chartered jet and he recounted spending the last day of the 1996 campaign with Bob Dole, in Dole’s hometown of Russell, Kansas. Dole had resigned his Senate seat to campaign full-time, and now he was left without either the White House or the job he had always loved best. “It makes me emotional thinking about it,” McCain told me quietly, and I suddenly realized his eyes had filled with tears.
McCain and his wife, Cindy, have been living essentially separate lives for years. She has spent most of her time in Arizona while he has spent the workweek in a Virginia condominium where, he once told me, he sometimes went months at a time without ever entering the living room, simply coming home to the kitchen and bedroom late at night and leaving again early the next morning. In 2008, McCain was deeply stung by a long New York Times article about his working relationship with a lobbyist, Vicki Iseman, and its assertion that certain McCain aides feared the relationship had some years earlier morphed into an affair. To this day, McCain declines to give interviews to the paper, which was once one of his favorite outlets. While associates say the McCains are companionable, one former aide allows, “I’m not going to tell you that they have a conventionally close marriage, but I’m just not going to get into it.”
The Senate is McCain’s whole life, his reason for being. “This is what he does,” one former aide says. “He is a United States senator. This is his ecology. It’s a big job, but it’s a really small world. It’s like a killer whale born in captivity in SeaWorld; it doesn’t know any better. It doesn’t know it’s supposed to be in the Pacific Ocean.”
If the voters of Arizona return him to Washington, McCain’s immediate future will continue to be defined by one overriding reality: dealing with (or, as the case more often may be, working against) the man who defeated him, Barack Obama. They hold each other in what legislators used to describe with faux courtesy as “minimum high regard.”
Last fall, during his review of his strategy for Afghanistan, Obama met with McCain and other members of Congress. It was at a moment when Dick Cheney and other Republicans were accusing Obama of dithering. McCain undertook to lecture him, saying, in the recollection of one Obama adviser who was there, “Mr. President, you’re the commander in chief, and I hope you’re not taking your responsibilities lightly.” Obama replied tersely, “Yes, John, I am commander in chief, and I assure you I am not taking my responsibilities lightly.”
In his re-election campaign in Arizona, McCain has often seemed to be running as much against Obama as against his actual opponents. In July he began airing a campaign commercial featuring Paul Babeu, the sheriff of Pinal County, southeast of Phoenix, and the president of the Arizona Sheriff’s Association, who has endorsed McCain. “President Obama has made protecting our border incredibly difficult,” Babeu says in the ad. “But Arizona has a senator with the courage and character to stand up to a president who is wrong. John McCain. A president versus a senator: doesn’t seem like a fair fight. Unless that senator is John McCain.” In his debates with Hayworth and Deakin, McCain called Obama “an uncertain trumpet” for promising to begin a withdrawal from Afghanistan by the middle of next year, accused the president of “committing generational theft” as a result of new spending, and pronounced himself proud to have led the fight against “Obama-care,” vowing to “repeal and replace” it next year.
Indeed, on nearly every issue—not just his signature ones, such as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—McCain has been among Obama’s most relentless critics. That approach stands in contrast to the kind of support McCain was once willing to offer another young president, Bill Clinton. In 1993, the newly elected Clinton faced a firestorm of criticism for proposing to speak at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, in Washington, in light of his own well-chronicled efforts to avoid the draft. McCain wrote the White House and volunteered to go with Clinton if it would help. McCain’s distaste for Obama is deeply personal. “I think he thinks he’s full of shit,” one former McCain aide says of his boss’s opinion of the president. The relationship got off on the wrong foot in the Senate when McCain believed Obama had reneged on a proposed joint effort on lobbying reform, and McCain fired off a scathing letter, confessing to embarrassment that “after all these years in politics I failed to interpret your previous assurances as typical rhetorical gloss routinely used in politics to make self-interested partisan posturing appear more noble.” McCain’s contempt only deepened when Obama abandoned his pledge to take public financing in the general-election campaign, a move that the Obama high command saw as a pragmatic reflection of reality but one that McCain regarded as a betrayal of principle for which Obama paid no political price. (Yet McCain himself had backed away from his application for public financing in the primaries, for similar reasons of expediency.)
The Obama team is well aware of McCain’s attitude. When the president went to Capitol Hill in May to address the Senate Republicans at their weekly lunch, McCain accused the president of misrepresenting Arizona’s Draconian new immigration law (which McCain had endorsed, and which Obama’s Justice Department was preparing to challenge). “You can tell he can barely fucking stand the fact that he was beaten by Barack Obama,” says one senior White House aide who was present. “Throughout the whole meeting, he would not look at the president, even when he was talking to him.”
Some of McCain’s former aides wish he would pick his shots more carefully. One former adviser, who also worked in the Bush administration, said that McCain has let his personal distaste for Obama get in the way of actually influencing the debate. “Certainly through the Bush administration, McCain was the most credible voice on the conduct and prosecution of the war,” this adviser says. “We knew it would lead the news and people would believe him. If there’s a missed opportunity with the Obama presidency, it’s letting his personal feelings get in the way of trying to shape the policy. When he talked about Iraq or Afghanistan, we listened.” This adviser added, “I think that in some ways he’s sacrificed that to deliver messages that other people could deliver. Anything that [Republican National Committee chairman] Michael Steele could put out in an e-mail quote shouldn’t come out of John McCain’s mouth.”
After one of the primary debates with Hayworth and Deakin, I asked McCain what he made of Hayworth’s shape-shifter charge. “Wel-l-l-l,” he began, stretching the word out as Ronald Reagan used to do, and I thought I saw a wistful look flicker across his face, “I’m proud of my record; I’m proud of the support that I have throughout the state of Arizona, ranging from the sheriffs here, and mayors, Arizona Chamber …the growers …the homebuilders. You know, it’s pretty obvious that they are very satisfied with my performance and, so, I believe that what I have done is stand up for Arizona, no matter whether it’s against my own president or whether it’s against President Obama, or whoever. And again, I’m proud of my record, and I’ll stand on it.”
The sheriffs, the mayors, the Chamber, the growers, the homebuilders: these are the small-bore, self-interested lobbies that are the lifeblood of any run-of-the-mill state legislator, not the constituencies of a man who was nearly president and could still be a statesman. McCain’s influence in the Senate and his claim to significance in national life have always rested on his willingness to anger colleagues of both parties by paying attention to crucial issues that they would rather ignore, and on being a thoughtful contrarian on key party-line votes. He held out the promise that he could represent for a cynical and defeatist age something like what the Republican Arthur Vandenberg became to Harry Truman’s bipartisan postwar foreign policy, or what Everett Dirksen was to Lyndon B. Johnson on civil rights: the guy from the other side of the aisle who made all the difference. It is much harder now to sort out which instances of McCain’s inconvenient truth-telling were more a result of circumstance than they were a consequence of conviction. He has told friends he has no wish to be like his predecessor, Barry Goldwater, whose last election was a narrow victory. But the late-era Goldwater was a mellower, riper figure, whose live-and-let-live libertarian streak came increasingly to the fore. McCain seems to be on the reverse trajectory.
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PHOENIX — In 1994, when first running for Congress, J.D. Hayworth, who today is 51 and trying to wrest from John McCain, 73, the Arizona Republican Party’s Senate nomination, went jogging in Washington wearing a T-shirt given to him by some Arizona loggers. Federal solicitude for the supposedly endangered spotted owl was bedeviling the timber industry, and Hayworth’s shirt read: “If two teenagers can procreate in the back seat of a Volkswagen, why does a spotted owl need 2,000 acres?” Hayworth’s jog intersected President Bill Clinton’s, so Hayworth subsequently told the loggers he had “run your message past the president.” Hayworth’s middle name is not Nuance.
Washed into Washington by the 1994 Republican wave, he was washed out in 2006 by a Democratic wave. Born in North Carolina, he is a burly ex-football player for North Carolina State. Having been a television sportscaster here before entering politics, Hayworth bounced from defeat to a talk radio station. There he put his flair for rhetorical fireworks in the service of his favorite causes, two of which are stopping illegal immigration and deploring the insufficiencies of McCain’s conservatism.
Those insufficiencies include, Hayworth says, opposition to the Bush tax cuts, and support for bailouts and for what Hayworth characterizes as “amnesty” for illegal immigrants.
McCain, who has a flair for umbrage, felt some about another Hayworth cause — a possible Hayworth Senate candidacy. So McCain, whose pugnacity is part of his charm, for those who are charmed, went after Hayworth with tactics that reminded other people why they are not charmed. The co-author of the McCain-Feingold restrictions on political speech asked the Federal Election Commission to silence Hayworth.
Although Hayworth was not yet a candidate, McCain argued that he was receiving from the station’s owner an illegal “corporate in-kind contribution” of “as much as” $540,000 a week, a figure concocted by pricing Hayworth’s 15 hours per week at the rate advertisers would pay for 1,800 30-second spots. Hayworth spared his station the litigation costs by becoming a candidate. Hayworth and McCain will gnaw on each other until the August primary, the rules of which are still unclear.
Usually, primary turnouts are low, but this shootout will be unusually enticing. Republican primaries have been open to unaffiliated voters, but in January, when Hayworth’s candidacy was still embryonic, the state party opted for a closed primary, on the sound principle that party members — there are 1.12 million registered — should pick those who represent the party. The U.S. Supreme Court has held that the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of association, which “plainly presupposes a freedom not to associate,” broadly protects parties’ rights to define their identities by controlling their nominating processes.
McCain understandably wants the primary open to non-Republicans: A closed primary would favor Hayworth, many of whose supporters are the sort of high-octane conservatives who will vote in an Arizona August. Two of conservatism’s current pinups — Sarah Palin, on whom McCain conferred celebrity, and Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown — have campaigned here for McCain.
Arizona Rep. Jeff Flake, perhaps Congress’ foremost foe of earmarks, faults Hayworth as insufficiently frugal. Hayworth endorsed and McCain opposed George W. Bush’s unfunded $395 billion prescription drug entitlement.
Hayworth is supported by Joe Arpaio, Maricopa County’s showboating sheriff, a scourge of illegal immigrants.
Some Arizona and national Republicans worry that nominating Hayworth would exacerbate the party’s problems with Hispanics, the nation’s largest and fastest-growing minority. Barack Obama won 75 percent of the immigrant Latino vote in 2008. Hayworth counters, “Beware the myth of the monolith.”
He says “some of my most passionate support” comes from Hispanics offended by illegal immigrants.
Voters incandescent about illegal immigration might be numerous enough to decide a primary. Some seasoned Arizona Republicans say, however, that such immigration has slowed as America’s economy has slowed. And they say the issue has lost some saliency here, and Arizona’s economy has suffered, as some Hispanics have moved to more hospitable states. Furthermore, Hayworth may not understand Arizona’s complex relationship to its centuries-old Hispanic dimension.
Democrats, having assumed that McCain will be nominated, have not groomed a top-tier opponent for him. They probably will find one if they think Hayworth can be nominated. As for the McCain-Hayworth contest, a wise Arizona Republican officeholder who is too prudent to abandon anonymity says each combustible candidate “has it in his power to lose.”
George Will is a columnist for the Washington Post Writers Group.
His e-mail address is georgewill@washpost.com.
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North Carolina is a state that thrives on college basketball (UNC vs. Duke, anyone?) and is moving closer and closer to legalized mobile on March 11. It's also home to the Carolina Panthers, the Charlotte Hornets and the Carolina Hurricanes.
While there's no shortage of a sports scene in the state, North Carolina also has a lot of famous celebrities. Some of them are beloved, some of them less so.
BetCarolina.com decided to take a hyper-localized approach to see which celebrities raised in the state of North Carolina have been discussed the most in the past year and came up with a Top 10. There are some new names in the mix like singer Luke Combs, some familiar faces such as Michael Jordan and Stephen Curry, and a bunch of other entertainers who have made their mark in recent years.
Methodology: BetCarolina.com utilized a weighted system between AhRefs.com Keywords Explorer and Google Trends to look at the most searched North Carolina celebrities over the past 12 months. Once we found both statistics, they were averaged to determine the Top 10. North Carolina celebrity was defined as a person who resided in North Carolina in their formative childhood and teenage years for over 10 years. Celebrity was broken down to include only actors/actresses, singer/songwriters, TV personalities, comedians, dancers, athletes and social media influencers.
Keep in mind: BetCarolina.com keeps a close eye on all things sports betting in the state, and we will soon be home to the best .
Most Well-Known North Carolina Celebrities
Michael Jordan Still Looms Large
At No. 1 on the list is former Hornets owner Michael Jordan, who starred at UNC in the early 1980s before going on to become the NBA's GOAT (sorry, LeBron James) with the Chicago Bulls. Jordan owned the Hornets since 2010 before becoming a minority investor ahead of the 2023-2024 season after selling to a new group, but that is far from his only endeavor off the court in retirement.
As part of the , he also has fielded a NASCAR Cup Series team since 2021, built his own private golf club in Florida and helped bring Netflix' award-winning "The Last Dance" to life. Jordan has also made several notable philanthropy donations in recent years to social justice causes and the medical field.
While Jordan slightly outpaced No. 2 Stephen Curry in our rankings, his reign could potentially come to an end in the near future as he takes a backseat to the Hornets new majority owners.
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Best of The Rest
Curry, the current Warrior who has won 4 NBA titles, came in at No. 2. The Charlotte native is still remembered fondly for his sharpshooting at Davidson, where he guided the Wildcats to the Elite Eight in 2008. Curry's father Dell is also the second all-time Hornets scoring leader, and still calls Hornets games on Bally Sports South. Safe to say, the Curry family is popular in the Queen City, and Steph's brother Seth is now a Hornet himself.
In the rest of the list, we have actress Hunter Schafer, a scene-stealer on HBO's popular "Euphoria." Additional appearances in this list include rapper DaBaby, former Duke forward Zion Williamson and singer Luke Combs, among others.
And how about some honorable mentions? Falling just outside the top 10 were singer-songwriter Eric Church, actor Ken Jeong, actor Drew Starkey, singer-songwriter Randy Travis and actress Madison Bailey.
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PHOENIX —- In 1994, when first running for Congress, J.D.Hayworth (who today is 51 and trying to wrest from John McCain, 73,the Arizona Republican Party’s Senate nomination) went jogging inWashington wearing a T-shirt given to him by some Arizonaloggers.
Federal solicitude for the supposedly endangered spotted owl wasbedeviling the timber industry, and Hayworth’s shirt read: “If twoteenagers can procreate in the back seat of a Volkswagen, why doesa spotted owl need 2,000 acres?” Hayworth’s jog intersectedPresident Clinton’s, so Hayworth subsequently told the loggers hehad “run your message past the president.” Hayworth’s middle nameis not Nuance.
Washed into Washington by the 1994 Republican wave, he waswashed out in 2006 by a Democratic wave. Born in North Carolina, heis a burly ex-football player for North Carolina State. Having beena television sportscaster in Phoenix before entering politics,Hayworth bounced from defeat to a talk radio station. There he puthis flair for rhetorical fireworks in the service of his favoritecauses, two of which are stopping illegal immigration and deploringthe insufficiencies of McCain’s conservatism.
Those insufficiencies include, Hayworth says, opposition to theBush tax cuts, and support for bailouts and for what Hayworthcharacterizes as “amnesty” for illegal immigrants.
McCain, who has a flair for umbrage, felt some about anotherHayworth cause —- a possible Hayworth Senate candidacy. SoMcCain, whose pugnacity is part of his charm, for those who arecharmed, went after Hayworth with tactics that reminded otherpeople why they are not charmed. The co-author of theMcCain-Feingold restrictions on political speech asked the FederalElection Commission to silence Hayworth.
Although Hayworth was not yet a candidate, McCain argued that hewas receiving from the station’s owner an illegal “corporatein-kind contribution” of “as much as” $540,000 a week, a figureconcocted by pricing Hayworth’s 15 hours per week at the rateadvertisers would pay for 1,800, 30-second spots. Hayworth sparedhis station the litigation costs by becoming a candidate.
Hayworth and McCain, who is seeking a fifth term, will gnaw oneach other until the August primary, the rules of which are stillunclear.
Usually, primary turnouts are low, but this shootout will beunusually enticing. Republican primaries have been open tounaffiliated voters, but in January, when Hayworth’s candidacy wasstill embryonic, the state party opted for a closed primary, on thesound principle that party members —- there are 1.12 millionregistered —- should pick those who represent the party. The U.S.Supreme Court has held that the First Amendment guarantee offreedom of association, which “plainly presupposes a freedom not toassociate,” broadly protects parties’ rights to define theiridentities by controlling their nominating processes.
McCain understandably wants the primary open to non-Republicans:A closed primary would favor Hayworth, many of whose supporters arethe sort of high-octane conservatives who will vote in an ArizonaAugust. Two of conservatism’s current pinups —- Sarah Palin, onwhom McCain conferred celebrity, and Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown—- have campaigned here for McCain. On the other hand, DickArmey, who is as close as the tea party movement has to a leader,denies reports that he has endorsed McCain.
Arizona Rep. Jeff Flake, perhaps Congress’ foremost foe ofearmarks, faults Hayworth as insufficiently frugal. Hayworthendorsed and McCain opposed George W. Bush’s unfunded $395 billionprescription drug entitlement.
Hayworth is supported by Joe Arpaio, Maricopa County’sshowboating sheriff, a scourge of illegal immigrants.
Some Arizona and national Republicans worry that nominatingHayworth would exacerbate the party’s problems with Latinos, thenation’s largest and fastest-growing minority. Barack Obama won 75percent of the immigrant Latino vote in 2008. Hayworth counters,”Beware the myth of the monolith.” He says “some of my mostpassionate support” comes from Latinos offended by illegalimmigrants.
Voters incandescent about illegal immigration might be numerousenough to decide a primary. Some seasoned Arizona Republicans say,however, that such immigration has slowed as America’s economy hasslowed. And they say the issue has lost some saliency, andArizona’s economy has suffered, as some Latinos have moved to morehospitable states. Furthermore, Hayworth may not understandArizona’s complex relationship to its centuries-old Latinodimension.
Democrats, having assumed that McCain will be nominated, havenot groomed a top-tier opponent for him. They probably will findone if they think Hayworth can be nominated.
As for the McCain-Hayworth contest, a wise Arizona Republicanofficeholder who is too prudent to abandon anonymity says eachcombustible candidate “has it in his power to lose.”
GEORGE F. WILL writes for the Washington Post. Comment online atnctimes.com or contact him at georgewill@washpost.com .
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Rep. Schweikert was born in Los Angeles, California in 1962. He grew up in Scottsdale, AZ with his adoptive parents and siblings, graduating from Saguaro High School in 1980. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in finance and real estate in 1985 and his MBA from Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business in 2005.
In 1990, Rep. Schweikert was elected to the Arizona State House of Representatives. His strong conservative stances led him to be elected Majority Whip after his reelection in 1992. While serving in the State House, he sponsored one of the largest tax cuts in Arizona history. He also worked tirelessly to reduce the size of the state government and cut pork barrel spending.
In 1995, was elected as Chairman of the Arizona State Board of Equalization, where he served until 2004, overseeing billions of dollars from Arizona citizens and businesses. In 2004, he was elected Treasurer of Maricopa County, one of the largest counties in the United States. Rep. Schweikert protected billions of taxpayer dollars and earned over $300 million in investment income without running a deficit, even in tough economic times.
Rep. Schweikert has run for the U.S. House of Representatives three times. In 1994, he lost a primary against J.D. Hayworth, and in 2008 he lost to incumbent Harry Mitchell in the general election. But in 2010, in part due to rejection of the Obama Administration and Congress’ big-government spending, Rep. Schweikert was able to win his third attempt at a House seat.
He currently sits on the Financial Services Committee where he serves as the Vice Chair of the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government-Sponsored Enterprises. He is also a member of the Republican Study Committee.
Rep. Schweikert and his wife, Joyce, currently live in Fountain Hills, AZ with their famous dog, Charlie, who has his own Twitter hashtag (#CharlieTakesDC) and has appeared with the Congressman on ABC’s Top Line program. They also have two cats, who are less famous and apparently camera shy.
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Daniel lives with his wife Mindy (aka “Mindy Mango”) and their sons Isaac (12) and Levi (8) in North Carolina. His passion for children’s content stems from childhood heroes like Fred Rogers and Dick Van Dyke, as well as the joy of simply entertaining his own kids. Daniel also has a personal passion for special needs families, as his son Isaac was born with a severe genetic disorder called Fanconi Anemia and has undergone a bone marrow transplant, kidney transplant and various other surgeries. Daniel writes the bulk of the songs for the show and directs/edits half of the videos.
Michael Finster (“Bearhead”)
Michael is a music producer living in North Carolina. In addition to being a main character on the show, he also produces all the music, does the 3D modeling, and directs/edits half of the videos. When he’s not sweating inside of the Bearhead costume or making beats for the show, he can be found sipping on smoothies or snuggling his rescue cat, Marcus.
Matthew Padgett (“Pap Pap”)
Matthew lives with his wife Lauren and 3 kids Lucy (7), Julian (7) and Nora (3) in North Carolina. Matthew was an electrical engineer prior to joining the show full-time, and he still uses his detail-oriented mind to manage the business side of the brand. He also helps write music for the show, including all of the instrumental lullabies.
Dominic Geralds (“Gerald”)
Dom and his wife Natalie live in North Carolina with their dog, Mika. He's a professional drummer and has been recording & touring with various artists and bands for many years. A longtime friend of the Danny Go team, he enjoys filming with them when his touring schedules allows.
Mindy Coleman (“Mindy Mango”)
Mindy lives with her husband Daniel and two sons in North Carolina. She enjoys making things with her hands and has explored various hobbies including pottery, leather footwear, upholstery, gouache painting, sewing and more. She's also responsible for custom dying Danny's teal outfits!
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When Republican Sen. John McCain recently paused for a reporter’s questions in an Arizona parking lot, he blurted out a sentiment that detractors have been using against him throughout his bitter primary battle with former GOP Rep. J.D. Hayworth.
Why, he was asked by a Politics Daily correspondent, are you spending so much money?
Because, the four-term senator replied, "I've always done whatever's necessary to win."
On that, the man who was the Republican Party's 2008 presidential nominee and introduced the nation to surprise running mate Sarah Palin would get little argument.
Though McCain's spending (so far, nearly $20 million to the more conservative Hayworth’s $2.6 million or so) and political gymnastics -- including tacking hard right on immigration, currently Arizona's top issue -- may have prompted derision among some former fans, his strategy has as much as ensured victory next Tuesday.
And in the world of primary politics, ruled by both parties' most extreme voters, at least some are asking: While perhaps dispiriting, is that so wrong?
A Win Now, And Later?
A win Tuesday would likely be followed by a victory for McCain in the fall against whoever emerges as the Democratic nominee.
"In fairness to the senator," says longtime Arizona pollster and political analyst Bruce Merrill, "one can look at it two ways. You can question his values and ethics, and say he’s pandering to the right. Or you can look at it as simply understanding the game you have to play to get elected." Merrill, of Arizona State University, was the pollster for McCain's 1982 House campaign.
In the context of getting re-elected in a state where the GOP base is inflamed by anti-illegal immigrant and Tea Party fervor, and where the party has been moving inexorably rightward, what McCain has done simply makes sense -- past positions be damned, say Arizona strategists.
Recent polls show that he has at least a 20 percentage point lead over Hayworth, a former six-term congressman who in the final days of the race has tried to paint McCain as sympathetic to providing "amnesty" to illegal immigrants.
A devastating ad McCain launched in late June, portraying Hayworth as a "huckster" for promoting "free" grant money in a 2007 infomercial, has been widely credited for increasing the distance between the two in subsequent polls.
The senator also appeared in an ad calling for the building of a fence on the state's border with Mexico. The "complete the danged fence" ad, though mocked by pundits who found it at odds with McCain's more measured immigration stances of the past, played well in the state.
"Frankly, from a crass, tactical standpoint what McCain's done has been right on," says Tempe-based pollster Mike O’Neil. He was among those shaking their heads earlier this year when the longtime senator defied history and denied in a Newsweek interview that he had ever cultivated a "maverick" image.
"I don’t think he's risking a November backlash," O’Neil says. "If he gets the nomination, I don't see him getting beat."
Under-The-Radar Democrats
Though overshadowed by the high-profile McCain-Hayworth race -- among the most expensive Senate contests in the country -- there is, indeed, also a Democratic Senate primary race next Tuesday to determine who will take on the Republican in the fall.
But that contest has been so under the radar, and with a slate that O’Neil describes as "not first tier," that some Arizona politicos were hard-pressed to name all four candidates when interviewed for this story.
They are former Tucson city Vice Mayor Rodney Glassman, who has been leading in the polls and dramatically outraised his opponents; former state Rep. Cathy Eden; political organizer Randy Parraz; and investigative journalist John Dougherty.
A recent Rasmussen Reports telephone survey suggested that Glassman has the potential to defeat Hayworth in the fall but would lose to McCain by a substantial margin. No Democrat has won an Arizona Senate seat since 1988, and the Republican Party is already poised for big midterm gains.
Parraz, expressing hope that his candidacy would motivate the state's Hispanic voters, entered the race after the state's controversial anti-illegal-immigration law was signed by GOP Gov. Jan Brewer in April.
The controversial measure was intended to give law enforcement officers wider latitude to identify and deport illegal immigrants. A federal judge in July blocked some of the measure, ruling that parts of it could result in harassment and that it would undermine federal authority on immigration issues.
The U.S. Justice Department has also sued the state, claiming the law is invalid.
A recent poll shows that 70 percent of Democratic voters in Arizona oppose the new law, the mirror opposite of where Republicans stand. Parraz also helped organize opposition to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, famous for his sweeps of immigrant neighborhoods in search of those here illegally. The Justice Department has been investigating alleged civil rights violations by the well-known sheriff.
Glassman’s money edge and name recognition are expected to give him the win in Tuesday's Democratic primary, though his fall chances remain slim.
Registered Republicans outnumber Democrats in the state, 1.3 million to just over 1 million. The secretary of state's office recently announced that 26,000 new independent voters had recently registered to vote, along with 10,000 new Republicans and just 500 Democrats. Independent voters, who can vote in either primary, now number 953,501.
Much of the surge in registration has been attributed to support for the state's immigration law.
"The likelihood is that whoever gets nominated will be overwhelmed by McCain -- Republicans will hold their noses and vote for him, and his mavericky streak will pick up independents," O'Neil says.
Unless a long-shot, 1976-style scenario unfolds.
DeConcini Redux?
Beat up and bruised after an ugly primary in 1976, Republicans were still expected to win the Senate seat opened by GOP Sen. Paul Fannin’s retirement.
But the party was so damaged that long-shot Democratic candidate Dennis DeConcini, who had served one elected term as Pima County attorney, stunned the political world and captured 54 percent of the fall vote, defeating GOP Rep. Sam Steiger .
DeConcini, now 73, in his first term served with Arizona’s Republican Sen. Barry Goldwater and his second with the venerable conservative’s successor, McCain.
"Like Glassman, DeConcini was young and ran hard, and the Republicans were so split between Steiger and his primary opponent, Congressman John Conlan, that he won," Merrill says.
"With the McCain and Hayworth race getting more bitter by the day, one almost wonders if there's not a possibility that Glassman might have a chance to win this," he says. "Believe me, nobody thought Dennis DeConcini could win." Few Arizonans expect a similar shock this year.
Arizona Disconnect
Merrill suggests that Arizona’s increasingly conservative Legislature is "completely out of kilter with the state's electorate."
In addition to the immigration law, the Legislature has also contemplated measures that would bar gays from adopting children and require President Obama to produce a birth certificate if he wants to be on the presidential ballot in 2012. Legislators have approved a law barring ethnic studies in public schools.
A lifelong Republican, Merrill says he dropped the affiliation two years ago and registered as an independent.
"We live in Colorado during the summer, and I've stopped telling people I'm from Arizona," he says. Why? Because, he says, inevitably, they'll ask: "What the hell's going on down there?"
McCain, never a favorite of the state’s Republican Party, has clearly asked himself the same thing -- and seems to have figured out a formula to win. Just how the former maverick, who turns 74 on Aug. 29, will come down on the issues if re-elected to what could be his final term remains to be seen.
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A Hundred Cups of Coffee, by Miriam Sagan. Tres Chicas Books, Española, N.M. 2019. Available in bookstores and online.
Longtime Santa Fe resident Miriam Sagan is the author of thirty books, including three memoirs, Dirty Laundry: A Hundred Days in a Zen Monastery, Gossip, and Geographic: A Memoir of Time and Space. She’s won numerous awards for her writing.
Miriam’s concept for this slim book was “to drink a hundred cups of coffee and record them, with my thoughts and surroundings.” It took her two years, and as she writes, “many things happened.”
I almost didn’t pick up the book because I’d been put off the concept of daily blog or journal posts after reading the Facebook posts of a new acquaintance. People LOVE her posts, so I was looking for the “there,” but trying to read them nearly drove me mad. They were all sweetness and light. Some people require the happy ending. I’m not one of them, though I do believe in redemption. Which you’ll see when you read my book The Dry Line: A Novel.
Back to Miriam, who embraces the contradictions, the pieces that don’t fit. The shadows. She observes in the moment and lets it be, without judgment. Instead of reading one or two of the “cups” entries per day, as I’d planned, I devoured multiple “cups” at one sitting.
Ramona: You can say so much—in a few words! Do you think this comes from being foremost a poet? And how long have you been writing poetry?
Miriam: Yes, I do think it comes from practicing poetry. I started writing poetry in high school, so let’s call it fifty years. Of course lots of people write poetry as teenagers—for me the trick was to keep at it and develop the craft and an adult voice. I also started keeping a journal in 1972. Journals tend to be short forms and daily. That also influences my approach to prose.
Ramona: In A Hundred Cups, you had me at Cup #7, where you wrote: “I am a bad daughter, and we both know it. Yes, I call my demented mother frequently, I send her cards and flowering plants. I visit every season. But I live thousands of miles away. And we do not like each other. I do not like her, but she started it. She has not liked me since we met, at my birth, sixty-one years ago. I loved her desperately for my first twenty-five years or so. I wanted her to stop saying I was fat, with horrible hair, a failure. I wanted her to stop saying I was a torment to her. Then I learned to get over it.”
How many mother-daughter relationships does this nail? I could’ve written it myself, about my own mother. I so much appreciate your writing so honestly about this matter. Did you write hundreds of journal pages about this before you arrived at “learning to get over it”? Anything else you want to add?
Miriam: I’m glad it seems accrete and relatable. Not hundreds of pages—more like hundreds of hours in therapy! And uncountable hours spent talking to other women, a lifetime of talking, and of listening. In retrospect, some of it does seem generational, or generational in my immigrant family. That is, many mothers my age seem to have better relationships with their own daughters, and less mania for control and criticism.
Ramona: In Cup #32, you write of “the terror of hanging suspended in the instant,” contrasted with “what remains, a husk, the carapace of a cicada, the paper wasp’s nest,” and how our feelings about those things don’t survive with the things themselves. How much does your Buddhist practice inform your writing? (I’m assuming you still practice Zen Buddhism, though your bio in the book doesn’t mention it.)
Miriam: Thank you for noticing and asking this question. My relationship to Buddhism remains somewhat conflicted. On the one hand, encountering its central ideas no doubt saved my life. On the other, I don’t do well in hierarchical, dare I say patriarchal, settings. Some years ago I had the opportunity to work with koans with a woman roshi at a time when I was very immersed in trying to use my writing to perceive things directly. This combination did open my mind, and hopefully it has not shut yet! My relationship to the “moment” comes out of a shared practice of Zen and writing—but the Zen is pretty informal—more domestic than monastic.
Ramona: I’m totally unqualified to review or write about poetry. So I’ll ask you instead to mention your favorite of your poems (and use it here if you like). How many collections of your own poetry have been published?
Miriam: If I add up the full-length volumes and the smaller chapbooks, it is probably upwards of twenty books of poetry.
My favorite poem always tends to be my most recent. It’s not that I’m improving that obviously as I go—just that I like what I feel close to.
Here is one from September, written because my husband had to go back east on a family emergency:
Unseasonable
snow in early autumn
in these mountains
when only a few leaves have turned
you leave a used
face mask
and a paper bag
of tomatoes
behind
how long we’ve lived
together, you and I
how easy—how difficult
to part
in this
unseasonable weather
Ramona: In Cup #34, you say the first draft of a novel is finished. Dated May 16, 2016. Please say more about this work.
Miriam: Ah, I’m always tormented by writing a novel! This one is called Future Tense of River, and is a utopian novel about a low-technological future and a community of potters. Who are menaced by drought, war, and more. About halfway through I realized I was writing about Santa Fe! It is still unpublished. A novella, Shadow on the Minotaur, was started later but is forthcoming from Red Mountain Press next year. My fiction writing is erratic and often tortuous. I’m glad it isn’t my only pursuit!
Ramona: On Cup #44, you write: “Dusty hollyhocks. It was so hot yesterday that my car’s tires went a little flat. I don’t know why I’m so happy. A pink hollyhock petal falls before my eyes.”
This reminded me of a poem by Li Po that I loved when I was in college…
“On the mountain: A conversation
you ask
why I perch
on a jade green mountain?
I laugh
but say nothing
my heart
free
like a peach blossom
in the flowing stream
going by
in the depths
in another world
not among men.”
Are moments like these, in nature, your refuge from the craziness of society?
Miriam: What an exquisite poem! Since the pandemic started, I’ve been reading the classic Chinese poets in translation—book after book. I even took one of those open online classes from Harvard on Chinese thought and poetry. It isn’t coincidence. No one can describe how an individual feels in a time of social chaos like the T’ang poets. Yes, nature is a respite, but nature can also be violent, and in today’s world full of destruction and crisis. I think the key is the level of perception in the poem, and how the sense of self is located “not among men.”
Ramona: How has your life changed now that you’ve retired from directing the creative writing program at Santa Fe Community College? Did you find that young people are passionate about writing?
Miriam: Young and old, people love to write—and benefit so much from expression. At Santa Fe Community College many students were older, but still just starting out. That’s a delicate balance—life experience, but being a novice. The young, I think, are more fearless, but also tortured by the worry of being unoriginal. To settle down, to write what you want to express, to explore—it is a huge adventure. I was lucky to share that with so many people over the years.
Ramona: Do you want to say more about your joint creative project with your daughter? (My daughter created my author website for me, going in a direction I wouldn’t have thought of, but I love it.)
Miriam: Probably the greatest unexpected excitement in my life is working with my daughter, Isabel Winson-Sagan, a multimedia artist. We did numerous projects over the years, but really committed to working together as the creative duo Maternal Mitochondria four years ago when I retired. We went to Japan and were in residence in Kura Studio in Itoshima and created a poetry and suminagashi (Japanese ink marbling) video installation in an old abandoned grain silo. The whole experience was very inspiring, and remains a wellspring.
Right now we’re studying book arts together. You can see our sculptural text pieces, community teaching, and installations at our website: maternalmitochondria.com
I’m so fortunate to have the opportunity to work across disciplines and generations with an incredible woman who is also my daughter! The process isn’t always smooth—it’s good to know who is the leader on a project—but it has really extended my range, helped my thinking, and created amazing pieces.
Editor’s note: On the website Maternal Mitochondria, check out Miriam & Isabel’s latest project, Fairy Houses, inspired by their experience in Japan. Here’s a photo of one of the spirit houses created by Tim Brown. You can visit the installation in person at Santa Fe Skies RV Park.
Loving Pedro Infante, by Denise Chávez. Washington Square Press, 2001. Available in bookstores and online.
A Taco Testimony: Meditations on Family, Food and Culture, by Denise Chávez. Rio Nuevo Publishers, 2020 and 2006. Available in bookstores and online.
“I believe in the power of writing to heal lives and heal the many borders between people, real and imagined,” states Denise Chávez in her author bio in Poets & Writers. “I am a performance writer, novelist and teacher who lives and works on the U.S./México border corridor in southern New Mexico. I am the Director/Bookseller at Casa Camino Real, a bookstore and gallery on the historic Camino Real in Las Cruces, New Mexico. We sell books on Abebooks, www.abebooks.com.”
Chávez is the author of many books, among them The Last of the Menu Girls, The King and Queen of Comezón, and Face of an Angel, for which she won the American Book Award. Her plays have been staged internationally. The winner of numerous other writing awards, she was a founder of the Border Book Festival in Las Cruces.
In this interview she talks about two of her books—a novel and a memoir—as well as her activism on behalf of migrants at the southern border.
About her novel The King and Queen of Comezón, Publisher’s Weekly wrote: “Chávez’s voice is at once zany and knowing. She is la gran mitotera—a big troublemaker, stirring up rollicking mischief with wacky humor delivered in the lyrical tempo of Chicano slang.”
That zany voice comes through clearly also in Loving Pedro Infante, the story of Teresina or Tere, a young Mexican-American woman who lives in a border town and idealizes the Mexican film star Pedro Infante, while suffering through miserable relationships with men in her real life.
Ramona: Loving Pedro Infante is a brilliant novel that I keep finding more and more richness in. Feminism, the Chicana version; Mexican American relationships and cultures; Northern New Mexico versus borderland New Mexico—wow! Not to mention a primer on Pedro Infante’s films! What inspired you to write this book? Were you a fan of Pedro?
Denise: Growing up on the U.S./México border has been a great blessing for me. I am Mexican American, and like all proud Mexicanos and Mexicanas, we love our culture, our food, our music, our way of life. My sister and I would often go to El Paso, our near-by “Big City,” to shop and see movies. I remember going to double and triple features all in one day. My mother, a Spanish teacher, loved movies, and this meant she loved Pedro Infante, the great Mexican film star and singer. My mother, Delfina Rede Faver Chávez, studied at UNAM, the Universidad Autónoma, in Mexico City, and she was enamored of all things Mexicano. As I am. We would go to the Plaza Theatre to see movies in English and then walk down El Paso street to see movies in Spanish. It was a rich and colorful life. I thank my mother for giving me the gift of being Bi-Cultural and Bilingual.
Ramona: The dialog in Loving Pedro Infante is colorful and dynamic, a fusion of Spanish and English unique to the southern border that conveys so much through humor and inuendo. For example, the protagonist, Tere, says she’s desde. What does that mean?
Denise: The way I use the word “desde” is not to be found in dictionaries. One of my father’s caretakers often used the word “desde” to refer to something that was understood by those who were in a conversation without having to get to the nitty gritty of description. A word/mood/ understood. For example, she was so “desde.” Take it and make it what you will. And the speakers understand that she is how she is, without having to navigate the known language. It’s a complex and yet simple way of speaking. Something cultural you grow up with. In English you might say, “hand me that deal.” But what does a “deal” mean? The understood unstated.
Ramona: Did writing A Taco Testimony help you come to terms with your parents? Your culture?
Denise: I am not sure what you mean “coming to terms” with my parents and culture. I wouldn’t put things that way. My mother was my mother and my father was my father. Acceptance. They were not to be changed. I am a proud Mexicana/Chicana/Latina and always have been. They were children who grew up in poverty and struggle and I appreciate all they did for my sisters and me. Their lives were hard but full of joy and love.
Many wrestle with their parents and it’s part of growing up and becoming wiser, but to wish them to be what they weren’t seems illogical. I have accepted them completely and fully. Now that doesn’t mean that I may not have agreed with them or with their ways of being, but I loved them, love them still. I feel very blessed to be my parents’ child.
Ramona: In A Taco Testimony, tacos are the theme that ties together familia, celebrations, comfort, sustenance, and more. You say your family’s tacos were always rolled, not folded. And they were baked in a pan in the oven. In Northern N.M., I think that describes enchiladas, and of course you have to eat them with a fork. Were the rolled tacos of your youth also eaten with a fork? And are “enchiladas” a thing in Las Cruces?
Denise: There are rolled tacos and folded tacos. Ours were rolled. Although we do have folded and eat folded tacos. Not knowing Southern New Mexico is something you need to correct. Southern New Mexico is totally different from Northern New Mexico, where people tout their descendancy from only the Spanish, excluding the Mexican blood of the ancestors. This is a major struggle in New Mexico: the Spanish culture vs. the Mexican.
As far as tacos go, we rolled ours and we baked them in the oven (if you are doing a larger quantity) or sometimes we put them in a cast iron pan and cooked them on the stove top and added cheese at the last minute. They are very good that way. A little soft, a little hard. You can eat rolled tacos with a fork, but they are better hand-held.
You are confusing enchiladas and tacos! Enchiladas are everybody’s “thing.” Green, red, or Christmas as we say, a mixture of both green and red. As I mentioned earlier, Southern New Mexico is NOT Northern New Mexico.
Ramona: I was especially moved by your account of how difficult your college experience was, and how reconnecting with the foods of your family, tacos in particular, literally saved you. Did you have a hard time because you weren’t supported by the school or by your family? Or because you were determined to forge your own path, in a way that no one else in your family had ever done? Or something else?
Denise: I came from a small town and to move to a big town was hard. Graduate school was very hard, especially as a theatre artist. I was very poor and lived on a small scholarship. I was also working as a waitress the last year of graduate school. The school was intense, fierce, and top-notch. To be a theatre artist is no small thing. To be a Chicana in Texas was also no small thing. Sometimes overtly racist, sometimes not, it was hard to find my role in the world.
Ramona: Tell me about your plan for the anthology We Are Here to Represent. What kind of stories and whose stories are you seeking?
Denise: Since the summer of 2018 I have been distributing books to Refugee, Migrant, and Asylum-seeking families in my hometown of Las Cruces, New Mexico; El Paso, Texas; and Juárez, México. I received a grant last year from New Mexico Writers for a project called We Are Here to Represent, which will be an anthology of stories, poetry, photographs, and artwork depicting the voices of people we worked with whose stories have not been told. We are now in a submission period, collecting stories of people who come from different parts of the U.S. in Border Immersion groups to see what is happening on the border, as well as those who have worked locally and regionally with our families and children on both sides of the border. I know it will be a powerful testimony to the resiliency, beauty, and power of the human spirit.
Ramona: Please update me on your project Libros Para El Viaje. Have border closures and the pandemic affected your efforts to get books into the hands of migrants? What would you like readers of this blog to know about Libros Para El Viaje?
Denise: I have not been to Juarez personally to deliver books since the U.S. border has been closed, although members of other sister organizations travel back and forth on a regular basis. I look forward to visiting our distribution sites soon and working with our children and families. At present, my bookstore, Casa Camino Real, donates books, notebooks, and school supplies on a regular week basis to various shelters in Juarez. There are many, and we rotate our donation schedule. The books have been donated by hundreds of bookstores, organizations, readers as well as the American Booksellers organization, The Children’s Reading Foundation, etc. etc. We have distributed thousands and thousands of books since the summer of 2018. It’s been a labor of love for our Book Stewards and all concerned. And we continue to collect Spanish language books, bibles, Spanish/English dictionaries, and all types of books for babies, children, youth, and adults.
If anyone is interested in our program, please visit this page: https://www.newmexico.org/nmmagazine/articles/post/libros-para-el-viaje/
Please contact me for more information at: comezon09@comcast.net.
Ramona, thank you for this invaluable opportunity to share my thoughts and world with fellow writers. ¡Adelante!
As a horse trainer, Ginger Gaffney spent her days “teaching horses how to feel comfortable in the world of humans.” Then she was offered a task that truly changed her life: work with a small group of recovering addicts on a prison ranch in northern New Mexico. The situation on the ranch was dire: the horses that lived there were out of control, ganging up and attacking residents, trampling them seemingly without provocation. The residents were terrified.
Half Broke is the story of how Gaffney brought these groups—horses and humans, both coming from situations of abuse and trauma—together again. Gaffney’s the master of her material, using finely honed language to show readers all the subtleties of equine and human behavior, subtleties that determine whether one will be trusted, whether one will be a friend or an enemy. This is one of the most astonishing memoirs I’ve ever read, in that it exposes a way of perceiving the world that I hadn’t imagined.
Ramona: How long have you been writing, and why did you decide to get your MFA?
Ginger : I’ve been writing since college, and soon after college I did a 2-year apprenticeship with a small poetry press that published first chapbooks of unpublished poets. After that apprenticeship I considered going back to school but a voice inside me kept saying, “You need to live in order to write.” So, I did that living and built a great life around horses. Then I was asked to help at the re-sentencing ranch I write about in Half Broke. That worked changed my life.
I went on to get my MFA about three years after I started working at the ranch. I was seeking out some way to keep growing. My horse work was wonderful, but there was something missing. My partner, Glenda, always had belief in my writing. She kept encouraging me to write. She is the one who supported me in making that decision.
Ramona: You wrote in Half Broke: “I learned to listen with my eyes.” Would you call this a skill or an instinct? Can anyone learn it?
Ginger: There are many people like me, I believe. We are watchers, not talkers. We “listen” to gestures, to small body movements, wrinkles in the corner of mouths. I don’t think of it as an instinct or a skill, really. It is just what comes naturally to me. And yes, I think it can in part be learned. But mostly, I think it is something people are born into. I don’t think we know everything about how we inherit traits from our DNA, from ancestors we never knew. But I think this approach to listening/communication, I think it comes from something far back inside us. As far back as when we were a bit more like an animal than human.
Ramona: After your experience at the ranch, do you think it is easier for a horse to learn to trust than it is for a human?
Ginger : I think trauma does a number on both horse and human. So, if you are a young colt, in the hands of a gentle and knowledgeable horse owner, trust will come easy for you. And the same thing can be said about a child. But if the situation is not like this, not supportive, not honest, traumatic—many things will remain difficult for a long time for both human and horse.
Ramona: One of the things that struck me about Half Broke is how honest horses are, and how in handling horses you found your place to stand in the world. Do you still find it challenging to deal with the deceptive nature of human relations, in contrast to that of horses? It must be difficult also for the recovering addicts who learn to work with horses but still have to succeed in the world of human relations.
Ginger : Working at the re-sentencing ranch with the residents for over seven years has given me a lot of hope in our human condition. I find I can open up and be myself around people much more easily. I have more confidence in the good inside people. There are still people who can be difficult for me, but I get less and less affected by them. In general, being among a group of people trying their best to be accountable for their actions, who treat each other respectfully, who no longer live out the patterns of their old addictions, I feel like this experience has given me one of the biggest gifts of my life.
When the residents finish their term on the ranch, they go back into the world looking for work and for a safe place to live. What I’ve heard them say frequently is how so many of us here on the outside (those of us who have never been to prison) have no respect for one another. Have no work ethic. Have no gratitude for the lives we have been given. They are shocked at how undisciplined we are. How we don’t hold ourselves accountable to our family, work, and relationships. This kind of fresh witness to of our “normal” world should be listened to.
Ramona: Do you know what the long-term effects of interacting with the horses have been for the residents? Recovery rate? Employment? Having stable relationships?
Ginger : I do know quite a few people who are now finished with their time at the ranch and are living wonderful lives. Some have married, others have stable friendships and relationships. This ranch in particular has a great rate of recovery. Much, much better than the standard 30- to 90-day programs.
You have hit on some key areas with this question. A person who is truly in recovery can have relationships again. People can learn they are trustworthy. They can reunite with family. They are able to hold down a good steady job, and often become a key employee for the company they work for. People who are truly in recovery are some of the most beautiful people to spend time with.
Ramona: How do you stay centered in your writing despite the wrenching problems of the people and horses you work with?
Ginger : That is easy for me. I try to write from the center of my emotional memory. And if I stay there long enough, hope is never very far away. Because even when some devastating things occur—say, we get word someone who has left the ranch overdosed or committed suicide—the thing is we look to each other and we pick each other up. One person, one day at a time. I try to keep my writing that close, too. One person, one horse, our simple daily failures, our simple daily triumphs. For me, that’s the only place I know to write from.
Ramona: After reading Half Broke, I tend to think there’s no such thing as “recovered,” that every day is a recovery day for an addict. Would you agree?
Ginger : I’m not an addict so I can’t fully say. But I know quite a few beautifully recovering people who do talk about how difficult it is day to day. But also how grateful they are now to be sober and clean. I would say, yes, recovery is a verb. It is ongoing, yet as time goes by, it is a blessing to be truly sober, to be alcohol and drug free. There are not too many people who live this way. When you meet one, they just shine.
Ramona: Are you still working with people in recovery?
Ginger: Right now, I am not. I worked at the ranch for seven years. After that I spent two years developing a long-term recovery farm nearby my home for a different organization. I’m back to working horses every day and absolutely loving it. I think I need the break from working in recovery right now. I’m busy working on my next book. It has similar themes. And it is also a book about what recovery can really look like. So it’s good to not be working and at the same time writing about recovery.
Ginger Gaffney’s book Half Broke, is available from independent book stores(on line as well as brick and mortar) also on amazon.
Try to imagine a world with no internet or computers, no telephones or paved roads or electricity. A remote valley in northern New Mexico where only one person owned an automobile. This was the world where Carmen Baca’s father was a teenager-almost-a-man in the 1920s. Her debut novel El Hermano fictionalizes her father’s initiation into the Cofridía, the brotherhood of los Hermanos Penitentes. The book has been selling well in local bookstores and on Amazon since it was published in 2017 by Western Edge Press. Part of that appeal is no doubt curiosity about the secret rituals of the Penitentes, which have been sensationalized over the decades.
What is often overlooked, though—perhaps because the mainstream culture no longer has the vocabulary for thinking about it—is the holism of the brotherhood. In that remote place and time, los Hermanos were all about community—initiating young men into their role as brothers supporting each other and ministering to the welfare of everyone in the village. Life was harsh there, and much was expected of them, but they were supported by the underlying values of mutual respect, piety, and honor.
El Hermano is narrated first-person by José, Baca’s father, at age 15. It opens on Ash Wednesday, when José’s older brother, Miguel, is being initiated as a novicio. Baca herself didn’t witness the secret rituals in the morada, but she grew up surrounded by the culture. Her scenes set in the morada, where young José is alternately spying through a window and participating in community services, are the most intense and evocative descriptions of religious experience I’ve ever encountered. The adolescent José is nearly consumed by his fervent desire to become a novicio himself, but is told he’s still too young.
Carmen Baca taught English and history in high school and college before retiring in 2014. El Hermano was a finalist in the NM-AZ Book Awards. After that, she took a new direction with the novel Las Mujeres Misteriosas (2018, Lulu Press), and Cuentos Del Cañón (2019, Clarendon House Publications), a story anthology.
“After writing El Hermano, my writing turned to more of a magical realism bent because I’m endeavoring to keep our dying traditions alive through literature,” Baca says. “A big part of that is our folk tales, legends, the supernatural, and the paranormal.” Baca also has published 21 short pieces in online literary magazines, women’s blogs, and anthologies. She and her husband live in the country near where she grew up.
Ramona: You wrote that El Hermano comes from your memories of growing up in Cañoncito after WWII, when your parents returned to their ancestral home after serving in other states in the war effort. Did they resume the activities of the Cofridía at that time?
Carmen: The memories I used come from my life during the 1960s through the mid-’80s, when the cofradía was active. I used records my parents left and details I remember they told me about to make it as authentic and true as I could. In addition to memories, I used photos, family documents, and research, of course, to portray 1928. The brotherhood’s records document the years the cofradía was active. It ran from 1850 through 1986 but without my parents when they were away working for the war effort.
Ramona: How do you think life in the community after WWII differed from 1928, the time El Hermano is set in?
Carmen: By the mid-’40s, most of los Hermanos left the rural community of Cañoncito de las Manuelitas in northern New Mexico to reside in Las Vegas, exactly how I depicted in the book. The men held down jobs like school custodians, maintenance workers, auto mechanics—their lives of labor and military service gave them the skills of the trades to support their families. The women found employment, too, like my mother who worked at the local parachute factory and at the state hospital before I was born.
Many of my aunts worked as cooks for one of the school districts in the town. They enjoyed middle- to lower-class status in the poor neighborhoods or those closest to the poor ones. They learned what prejudice was, in some instances. (I’ve written about that, too.) But they also enjoyed the comforts they could afford. They had electricity, and most had indoor plumbing; and they had at least one car or truck per family. The women exchanged ice boxes for refrigerators, wood stoves for gas. They had grocery stores, a public library, parks, and clothing shops within walking distance. It was a different life, but it was a welcome one.
The men still returned to check on their adobe homes in Cañoncito to feed the livestock after work. I remember doing that with my dad. The entire family spent the months of the growing season there every weekend and summers. My mother used to fashion these matching duck-billed bonnets for us as protection from the hot sun on the days we bent over our hoes, weeding the extensive jardín.
The crops from that garden and the meats from the home butchering filled the freezers for the winters. Those spring weekends spent at Cañoncito also included the most busy season for los Hermanos and las Verónicas: Lent. Living through that always took me back into the past, to a time before my life began. Those are the memories I used when I depicted my father at age 15.
So the location where we spent much of our lives changed, but the traditions of the past were continued. Until los Hermanos died out, and my generation and those after mine allowed them to be forgotten.
Ramona: Was there a priest for the community in 1928? How about after WWII?
Carmen: There was no priest here, which is why los Hermanos took care of the spiritual needs of the residents who lived in the valley. They also acted as leaders who performed many services for the community. (There are still communities here in northern New Mexico whose Hermanos do the same, even though some have monthly visiting priests.) There has never been a priest in Cañoncito de las Manuelitas. In the ’60s through the ’80s when I was around, I can recall the times priests were called upon to perform mass here in the little capilla down the road from my house. We had a few funeral and wedding masses here, one for the celebration of Santo Niño, for which the church is named, and an outdoor one at the repres to bless the newly constructed dam for the acequia. (Represa is the actual Spanish word for dam; repres is our regional dialect.)
Ramona: I want to make sure I get this correct: it was the village of Cañoncito?
Carmen: Cañoncito is a rural community with houses along a ten-mile dirt road running through the little canyon for which it’s named. It’s not a village or a town on a map. It’s a beautiful scattering of homes (some of the adobe homes from El Hermano still stand and a few are occupied) with acres of meadows in between and forests on either side. Livestock graze here and there, and wildlife visit as they pass in search of water or food, since we lie in the middle of the mountains they call home.
The school where my father received his education from grades one through eight still stands down the road between my house and the church. I live where the José of the book lived while growing up and after marrying my mother. The book details the two places of worship in Cañoncito at the time: the capilla, the church where we prayed the stations of the cross, and the morada, the prayer house used by los Hermanos. Both structures still stand.
Ramona: José’s experiences during those weeks of Lent seem to me like a formal initiation, in which a boy is schooled in the responsibilities of being an adult, a responsible member of the community. And there’s the spiritual aspect, too, with José undergoing a profound experience of what it means to be a follower of Christ. It’s meant to be challenging, testing him in every way. Do you think our modern society has lost something valuable by not giving young people real initiations?
Carmen: The initiation of brothers still exists today because some of the brotherhoods do. So it’s not completely lost, either here in the Southwest or in many Spanish-speaking countries. However, because so many communities here have no cofradías in their areas, I do think the younger members, male and female, have lost something valuable from their culture. Those who are Catholic have their own versions of this in the church—confirmation. But the communities which no longer have cofradías have allowed a piece of our past to die out, and that’s never a good thing.
Ramona: On p. 63, during the most dramatic moments of the Penitente ritual, the names of their ancestors are called out and prayers are said for their souls. With people moving around so much more nowadays, is this custom still practiced in your part of the world.
Carmen: I have experienced this only a few times at Catholic funeral masses when the priest calls out the names people have told him to remember and then allows people to call out the names of those deserving of a prayer and a moment of remembrance. That tradition seems to have passed on as well.
However, in many of our homes, we still put up our own altars like our parents and grandparents in a corner of the living room or bedroom. Our saints, both retablos and statues, rest between pictures of our loved ones. Because we see them every day, they remain in our minds and hearts. We still light our candles and recite our prayers daily for our loved ones wherever they are.
This is one tradition, at least, that many households still cling to. I can think of another that I don’t think is done anymore: priests coming to the house to pray masses with their parishioners. I can remember up until the ’80s my mother called upon her priest to give a mass in our living room for one occasion or another. Neighbors and relatives came from the same block as well as from the other side of the town to pray in my mom’s living room.
Ramona: Are the Penitente traditions still continuing in northern New Mexico?
Carmen: They are few and far between, not in every rural community and hamlet like in the past. I know of four which exist just twenty miles from where I live, so there are some still active. In fact, after writing El Hermano, I went to pray with the brothers of one of those cofradías on Good Friday of 2017. The initiates still undergo some sort of formal induction, I am told. Since I am female, I can only answer for the one I experienced as a Verónica.
Ramona: El Hermano is obviously a labor of love in the memory of your parents. Why did you feel so strongly moved to write this book?
Carmen: It was after the brotherhood, and by necessity the sisterhood, disbanded in the mid-1980s that the religious artifacts of the morada and the church were distributed among those of us still living.
We met and collected the saints and candleholders, the retablos and the manteles, everything in the church and the prayer house. We had heard that those which were no longer active and which had been abandoned were getting looted, and the religious artifacts were being sold by thieves.
I remember clearly one prima taking a santo, another taking a retablo—each surviving Hermano and Verónica taking a relic to care for in their homes. There were only two Hermanos left of the twelve of my youth which I depicted in El Hermano, five Verónicas and me, the youngest. There were many artifacts still unclaimed, so I was asked to offer them refuge. A wooden box which had been locked for all those years came home with my husband and me.
Discovering what was in that box led me to write El Hermano. There are many books about los Hermanos out there, though none written as a narrative in the first-person perspective of an Hermano, much less the highest ranking one, el Hermano Mayor. I set out to be the one to write it because I could convey the longing to join the brotherhood like no one else. I had experienced it firsthand. I begged my father for decades to allow me to be the first female to join, but he kept to the rules governing the brotherhood, and I was always denied.
The longing the main character feels, the devout desire to become one of the brothers, came from the depths of my emotions. So did the profound and poignant effect of praying with that group of men on my life. I wanted to convey what it was like to those who have never experienced praying with los Hermanos.
When the entire group of twelve knelt in unison on the hardwood floor of the capilla, and my father or his brother recited the Stations of the Cross, the chills rose on my back and stayed there the entire hour of the service. Something about the doleful tones of twelve devout men and the words of both the prayers and the hymns was hauntingly beautiful and touched the soul. I tried my best to convey how special and how awful it was. Deep, heartfelt agony arose in those men’s voices when they recounted such vivid details as the number of lashes on Christ’s back, or the punches to the face the solders gave him, the pricks of the crown of thorns, or the open wound in His side. Every detail of every atrocity Christ underwent comes to life in those prayers with los Hermanos. No religious ceremony does that as effectively to remind us just what He did on our behalf.
At two different book reading events, a couple of present-day brothers asked what right I had to write about them since I had never belonged. When I explained that I wanted to convey them in a different light, out of my utmost and deep respect for them, because of how I felt about their society due to my growing up as the daughter of el Hermano Mayor, they accepted my reasons. I’m pretty sure the tremor in my voice affected their opinions. I’m always close to tears when I speak of los Hermanos’ effect on me spiritually. There are far more Hermanos who read my book and who went out of their way to communicate to me their appreciation of my depiction of the brotherhood. That today’s Hermanos approve means the world to me.
As the last surviving member of my community’s Verónicas, I wanted to convey how important the female society was to the brotherhood. We were the ones who assured their places of worship were clean and ready for Lenten services. We were the ones who made and delivered their food. We accompanied them in every Friday night recitation of the Stations of the Cross, and we participated in their processions and the few rituals they allowed. I still take pride in the small part I played as one of them.
Ramona: In your novel Las Mujeres Misteriosas, I love your concept of having three supernatural beings scheming and manipulating the life of a sensitive young woman, Rosita. Two of the beings are major figures in Hispanic folklore, Santa Muerte and La Llorona, and the third is the ghost of a relative. Not all of them have Rosita’s best interests at heart! How did you come up with this plot idea?
Carmen: I have to chuckle at the question of how I came up with any plot idea after El Hermano. After that book published in 2017, I honestly thought it was going to be my one and only book. After I finished writing El Hermano, I experienced a profound sadness, as though I were saying goodbye to those people in the book, my parents especially. A few months later, I came up with ideas for short stories based off some of the secondary characters.When I discovered I could bring them back in subsequent stories, the inspiration turned into my third book, a short story collection called Cuentos del Cañón. I brought back el Serpiente, but most significantly, la Muerte, and la Lunática, Claudia Cardenas.
Before that book was finished, however, I found a novella contest, and I decided to bring in la Llorona, who I barely mentioned in El Hermano. I wanted to write a story that showed her as the character I had read about. But I took the liberty of giving her limited powers while depicting the “true story” behind her reasons for haunting the waterways of the Southwest. Then, of course, she needed a nemesis, and who better than the two powerful women from my first book. Rosita came into play because I needed la Llorona to have a human plaything. When the novella turned into a novel, it became my second book.
I had always enjoyed mysteries, the supernatural, the paranormal, and even horror, but never did I think I could write one. Truthfully, no one saw that book before it published. No proofreader, no editor, just me—for fun. I had joined so many writing groups where almost every author was self-published, and I wanted to see if I could do that. While I panicked it would be a failure, I was instead thrilled when a few readers said they couldn’t read it because of the nightmares. That’s when I knew I could write a mystery, and I’ve been experimenting ever since.
Coyota in the Kitchen: A Memoir of New and Old Mexico, by Anita Rodriguez (2016: UNM Press), is stuffed with fascinating information. Such as how can you determine the temperature inside an horno oven? (Buy an oven thermometer.) What’s a delicious way to cook a freshly caught rabbit? There’s a recipe that involves cornflakes. How do you prepare chicos? You’ll need two days and garden hose. How does a woman establish herself in the hard-core macho world of adobe construction? The answer is worth a book in itself. Taos resident Anita Rodriguez managed to do it and even earned the grudging respect of her male rivals.
Rodriguez has crossed many borders in her life: both material and nonmaterial. Her recipes and stories can serve as metaphors for those borders: Indian, Hispanic, and gringo borders, the border between the U.S. and Mexico, the border between life and death. And the border is where incompatible worlds clash, and create anew.
I adore this book! Reading it was like being tossed into a simmering cauldron of magical ingredients, a soup that can change you down down down through many layers if you let it.
Ramona: Your family was most unusual: your mother a Southern belle and your father a Mexican pharmacist from Chihuahua. That kind of family situation may not be as unusual today, when people travel and move around much more. Do you think it’s easier now for a “coyota” child to avoid prejudice growing up?
Anita: I think that now there is a great deal more intermarriage, and it is more acceptable, although still charged. When my parents married there were still people living who had seen the American conquest, the cannoning of the Pueblo church, the hangings on the Plaza, and the bitterness was very fresh.
Ramona: As a child, you were acutely aware of these different worlds, yet you felt you didn’t fit into any. Do you think that status gave you unusual insight into the different worlds?
Anita: Absolutely. Lots of people live their entire lives and never realize that there are infinite, utterly authentic other cultural universes and believe that the particular bubble they live in is the “right” one or even the only one. From the cradle I was told I was “neither fish nor fowl,” and it was tremendously formative, and in retrospect a gift, a blessing, a rare opportunity.
Ramona: You wrote you were born just after that “historical crucible” when Anglos from the East invaded New Mexico, championed Indian causes, and either ignored the Hispanics or took their land through both legal and illegal deals, all while inventing tourism. Your mother was actually a tourist who met your father on the Taos Plaza. Now that nearly every corner of New Mexico is dedicated to seeking tourism dollars, do you think tourism has helped or hurt New Mexico’s Hispanic population?
Anita: Well, tourism is just another stage of conquest and colonization, and although the conquered can adjust and find ways to circumvent the harms and even profit marginally, I think that far, far more tourist dollars end up in Indian pockets than in Hispanic ones, precisely because Natives are more profitable to promote, more exotic, etc. Born in the interface between old enemies gave me a ringside seat on cultural confluence and conflict and how racism in New Mexico is selective.
Ramona: Your paternal grandmother was no sweet storyteller. Instead she terrified her grandchildren with lurid tales of La Llorona, the devil, haunted places, her people being scalped by Apaches and Comanches, so much so that you were afraid to visit the outhouse at night. And your maternal grandmother maintained a long list of forbidden topics from her Southern upbringing, including any talk about race. In villages and Pueblos across New Mexico, old grievances fester in the dark. As a child balancing between these worlds, you realized how harmful keeping secrets can be. Do you think our society now still keeps too many secrets, or have we gone too far in the other direction?
Anita: Until all the dirty secrets of our country are told, processed, admitted, and reconciled we will never be at peace but will only repeat the same mistakes again and again. My family just happened to encompass almost all of the country’s atrocities, slavery, genocide, conquest, AND racism. And white people will resist, complain about the discomfort of having to know terrible truths and their fragility will be wounded—but it is the only way—the truth has to be fully told.
Ramona: You wrote that remote Taos was the isolated frontier of mestizaje, where the European root was grafted onto the Indian root. When you were growing up, other children taunted you by calling you “coyota,” meaning the offspring of Hispanic and gringo parents. Would you say this kind of bullying pushed you deeper into your own imagination, forcing you to rely on your courage? Did you have to learn not to be bitter?
Anita: All of those things. My imagination became a refuge, then a tool, a source of inspiration. My isolation became my creative solitude, it honed and polished my courage. And the moral choice to not be bitter, but as the Dalai Lama says, “Lose—but don’t lose the lesson,” has enriched and empowered me. Bitterness is its own punishment, and rejecting it leads to understanding and compassion.
Ramona: Grandma Coyota, the imaginary magical persona you created to counter the teasing of other children, was a figure of power and cunning. She was your “real relative,” who embodied all the amazing qualities of coyotes, and you made up stories about her exploits. Thus you turned a badge of shame into a badge of bravery. I think you should write a children’s book about her! Did you ever tell anyone about Grandma Coyota?
Anita: Grandma Coyota was my secret until I began to write, then she came loping into the studio, flopped down on the floor, farted, and said, “Why do you hang with those two-leggeds anyway? Let's go kill chickens!”
Ramona: You spent a summer traveling around to villages to find enjarradoras, the women who had formerly comprised half of the construction crews who built adobe structures--from houses to churches. These skilled women did construction, maintenance, and repair of adobe walls. You learned that “collective, cooperative building had been woven into Native and Hispanic culture.” These women, now elderly, were so happy that you sought them out and interviewed them. And you started learning how to make a living with these skills in the modern construction business. You met a lot of resistance from the male-dominated culture, but you persisted, and eventually your 15 years of work were recognized by architects and others in the industry. Did your efforts make a lasting difference in the adobe construction business? Is it any easier now for enjarradoras to work in the Southwest?
Anita: I know of no traditional enjarradoras who are practicing today—it is very hard work. And I know of no book that tells the whole story and details all the processes in one place. However, I believe I changed the thinking of the industry and a lot of people regarding the material. My formulas are all over the net, my work is featured in various books, but most important the qualities of mud as a building material are now valued.
Mud is universally available, biodegradable, non-polluting, infinitely sculptural, and it can be adapted to any cultural style. The energy it consumes is human—meaning jobs—and the best thing about it is that when no longer needed, it melts back into the earth from which it comes. None of our industrial building materials have these qualities.
Ramona: You started painting at age 47 and a year later had a show and sold half of it. Many artists struggle for years to make it. What inspired your confidence in yourself? And how did living in Guanajuato affect your painting?
Anita: I started painting at 47 and it’s true I have made a living at it, but my work has never received the blessing of a major gallery—only five percent of the world’s major art collections contain the work of women, and if one can eat from her talent it’s a triumph. Guanajuato enormously enriched my painting; one of the reasons I chose to live there is because it is one of the most paintable cities in the world.
Ramona: How would you describe your painting style? It seems unique to me.
Anita: How would I describe my style? I'll accept the mantle my friend Linda Durham, icon of the Santa Fe art world, gave me and claim at least kinship with magical realism.
Ramona: I’ve seen from your posts on Facebook that you take an active role in community life in Taos, especially working to educate newcomers about the culture of the town. Taos is attracting so many ultrarich people now. Has it become a playground for those who can live behind gates and high walls? Do you see any signs that these people want to be integrated into the community?
Anita: Migrants, whether rich or poor, are never welcome. The destructive impact of gentrification on old communities is well known, and so is the sadistic cruelty and corruption great wealth can cultivate. This extreme degree of income inequality is proving to be unsustainable. But I have known and know good rich people.
Among newcomers to Taos there are a few who are sensitive and educated, they WANT to preserve the same things us indigenous New Mexicans do, and as I write some of them are knocking themselves out with considerable expertise and moving dedication to protect Taos from the coming crisis.
And lastly I think everyone craves community; it’s hardwired into the species. And Pueblo and Chicano people have time-tested, historically based, authentic community. Money can’t buy that—but it can destroy it. We will just have to see how things turn out—all we know is that it won’t be the same.
Images by Elaine Querry
“In 100 years, someone will open The Death of Bernadette Lefthand and still be consumed by the wisdom, the different cultural beliefs between tribes, and struck that love and jealousy are the poles from which evil comes. In my top five favorite reads.”
—Jo-Ann Mapson, author of Blue Rodeo, The Wilder Sister, and Solomon’s Oak
Bernadette is one of those rare books that leave you stunned, wondering what hit you. Because it’s the story of a crime—the brutal murder of a beautiful Navajo powwow dancer—as well as a tale of clashing cultures, of systematic evil, of personal tragedy, it comprises several layers of narration.
“What?” you say. Yes, there are five point-of-view characters, plus an unnamed speaker who steps in with background commentary. This should not work. It breaks all the rules for fiction writing, rules that are pounded into every aspiring fiction writer. Yet somehow, it does work in Bernadette. Which goes to show, a writer who’s truly consumed by their subject can break the rules and get away with it.
When asked how he pulled it off as a first novel, author Ron Querry shrugs (figuratively) and says, in effect, he doesn’t have a clue. He just sat down and wrote it, following his gut.
Winner of the 1993 Border Regional Library Association Southwest Book Award and the 1994 Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association Regional Book Award, Bernadette was reissued in a 25th Anniversary Edition in 2018 by Cinco Puntos Press, El Paso. It’s been published in French, German, and Bulgarian as well.
Ron Querry, a member of the Choctaw Nation, has been living in New Mexico off and on his entire life. As a child he spent summers at his grandparents’ home in Montezuma. After a stint in the Marine Corps, he earned several degrees, eventually getting his PhD at UNM. He’s taught in academia and since 2006 has lived in Las Vegas with his wife, Elaine, a photographer. He’s also the author of the 1998 thriller Bad Medicine.
Here’s our recent interview:
Ramona: Bernadette is written in multiple voices: Gracie and Starr (first person), with additional shorter sections in close personal third person or omniscient point-of-view (Tom George, Bernadette, Emmett Take Horse, and an unnamed narrator). Using multiple points of view is challenging even for very experienced writers, yet you accomplished it in a first novel. Did you have an overall vision of how the different voices would cohere in a plot?
Ron: I had no plan at all for the novel. It was my first ever attempt at such a thing and I simply began writing and I found I was telling the story from the point of view of a young Indian girl—Gracie Lefthand. Gracie is telling us about that terrible day when the tribal police came to her house to tell her father that her older sister, Bernadette, had been killed.
It was only when there came a point in Gracie’s narrative that I realized that I needed to let the reader know something that Gracie would not have known, would not have been able to articulate, that I understood I needed to introduce a second narrator . . . a second voice to tell us what Gracie (16 years old) would not know or would not have the appropriate voice with which to tell.
And this happened again when I discovered that I needed someone else’s point of view, or someone else who would know what others did/could not. I was always surprised at what direction things would go.
I should tell you that if in reading the book you find yourself surprised by some turn, you can be pretty certain that I was surprised as well. I appreciate you saying that this use of multiple narrators or points of view is challenging and that you feel I accomplished it.
My late author friend Chuck Bowden told me once that he was given Bernadette and that he really didn’t favor fiction but that he kept after it because he didn’t think I could possibly maintain a young girl’s voice throughout. I was pleased that he thought I did so.
Ramona: The personas/voices of Gracie and Starr, the former model who employs Bernadette, come across quite convincingly. Do you have a knack for getting inside the heads of your characters?
Ron: I prefer to think that Gracie and Starr got into my head. In any case, because I imagined these characters, I suppose it would be fair to say they are me. I can tell you that I knew the sounds of their voices and what they were thinking at all times. Funny, but what they looked like . . . not so much. Only later would I see someone and think, “That could be Gracie,” or Bernadette, etc. Because I had a real individual in mind for Starr, I always had a picture of her in my head.
Ramona: The voice of Gracie, Bernadette’s grieving younger sister, is especially poignant and consistent throughout. Her description of Bernadette’s last powwow dance is heart-breaking, since she and the reader know already that Bernadette will die. Was this scene hard to write?
Ron: I don’t know . . . I’m sure it must’ve been hard. I know it broke my heart. And when Elaine came home from work that evening and I read to her what I’d written—as was my habit—she wept. And the fact she did so made me think I’d gotten it right.
Ramona: One of the most striking aspects of the novel is how deftly you portray the Navajo and Apache cultures. Do you think the fact that you are Choctaw gave you any insights into the Navajo or Apache culture? Or perhaps an ability to perceive aspects of Navajo or Apache culture that white people aren’t likely to notice?
Ron: The fact that I am Choctaw probably didn’t afford me any particular insight into Navajo or Apache lifeways, other than possibly an awareness that these different tribes or nations are as different as any other nations are or can be from one another.
I’m probably more like Starr is in that respect—that is, I have read and studied the extant materials having to do with the people about whom I write. I have tried very hard to make sure that I don’t make silly mistakes—some readers will always write and point out errors. Or what they perceive to be an error, anyway.
Ramona: You say in your Afterword that you assumed the book would find an audience, but it wouldn’t be Indian, especially not Navajo. Who are the readers of Bernadette? How it has been received over the years in the Navajo community? I’m thinking of a similar example: the mysteries of Tony Hillerman have been popular among Navajo readers. He also wrote about Navajo spiritual beliefs.
Ron: Over the twenty-five-plus years that Bernadette has been available, it has enjoyed popular appeal with all kinds of readers. Navajo and Jicarilla Apache readers, especially, have expressed to me admiration and enjoyment. My comment that I didn’t expect a Navajo audience was based on the fact that the book has to do with witchcraft and other aspects of Navajo lifeways that I anticipated would not appeal to traditional Navajo people. Indeed, I’ve had younger Navajo people tell me that their parents might not be comfortable with the book. I don’t really know.
Ramona: The cover photo of the second edition is perfect. Kudos to Elaine Querry!
Ron Querry: I love that image and the design of the cover. The image is one Elaine took at Taos Pueblo 30-some years ago. She calls it “Dream of Bernadette.”
Ramona: Is Bernadette available in bookstores?
Ron: The book is distributed in those mysterious ways that books get to booksellers. I have nothing to do with that. Of course, Amazon is a huge bookseller, but I’ve seen the book in bookstores and gift shops. I’m always happy to see it, as you can imagine.
Ramona: What about the book’s reception (both editions) has pleased you? What has displeased you?
Ron: I am pleased with the book’s reception in all its various editions in every way. If I’m displeased by anything, it would be the lack of promotion and distribution that I reckon every author feels. I confess that I have a hard time with self-promotion, and that’s clearly not a good thing for writers and other artists.
After nearly thirty years living in a remote New Mexico village, Charlotte Plantz (aka Claudia Clavel) had a prodigious collection of stories to tell. During that time I was a frequent visitor to Mike and Charlotte’s adobe home and heard the stories as they happened.
The initial question of course is how do a couple of Anglo artists from California fit into a traditional Spanish village? Many small social signals are given when people are getting to know each other.
Charlotte laughs when she says her neighbors must have figured she and Mike were okay when they had huge shouting matches in their yard. (This was during their early years there, when money was tight and many survival decisions had to be made as they worked nonstop to make their small adobe house livable.) “They heard us fighting and must have decided we were normal people!” she says.
In the early colonial days, life in these N.M. villages was really hard. Today, some of the problems have changed, but life remains hard. In the modern era, Spanish settlers and Native Americans were no longer waging gun battles over territory, but many small land holders lost their land to unscrupulous Anglos who knew how to work the new U.S. legal system. Poverty, alcohol and drug abuse, and other ills followed.
Charlotte and Mike got to know the village’s families as babies were born, grew up, and had children of their own. While hosting their own grandsons during the summers, Mike and Charlotte offered village kids acceptance and new experiences, such as tasting Romaine lettuce for the first time and swimming in the Blue Hole in Santa Rosa. They hired locals for construction projects at their home, realizing these men had artistic and craft skills that the wider world had overlooked.
For many months, Charlotte agonized over whether to publish Accidental Anthropologists, even though she’d changed all the names. Finally she sat down with some neighbors and read the book aloud to them.
“Have I gone too far?” she asked.
The response from “Perfecto”: “I tell the same kind of stories when our family gathers. I want my children and grandchildren to know this is the way life is here. It’s part of our culture.”
And “Pilar” said: “I could listen to your stories all day. This was better than watching a telenovela.”
(Disclaimer: I edited early versions of both books.)
Accidental Anthropologists was published in 2014 and continues to sell steadily, especially in N.M. bookstores. Why do you think it's so resilient?
Charlotte: The feedback I continue to receive comes from the fact that it is the only book written about a specific time frame that includes Vietnam vets and their relationship with their neighbors in a Spanish Northern New Mexico village.
Ramona: I know you've gotten some unexpected responses from readers far and wide. Do you want to share any?
Charlotte: A number of readers have found their way to my door, in spite of my changing the names of people and places, including my pseudonym as author. A San Diego couple emailed via my publisher to ask about place names. They were connecting mileage to cities and villages, to no avail. We began a correspondence. The couple flew out to meet me and we became friends. The Pfaffs visit twice a year, timed around Las Vegas cultural events.
A recent couple found me via my acupuncturist, who has bought around 30 books to give to clients. By now, I’ve agreed to meet folks who enjoy Accidental Anthropologists because I’m curious to know what they have to say about it.
One of my favorite stories is Chapter 10, “It took a village,” in which you describe how people go up to the cemetery on the hill when they need a break from their problems. Do you think they might be connecting with their ancestors there?
I also loved reading about how you drove in circles around the church as various people approached to find out why you were distraught. Do you want to say anything more about that experience?
Charlotte: The people here stay very connected to those who have passed on. I’m pretty sure parking at the cemetery has that connection. Over the years, Mike and I have experienced the same feeling. We lost all the “drinkers,” and they rest in peace in the little campo santo, so we continue to feel their presence whenever we are near there.
Times have changed in the village. We have lost so many neighbors it’s hard to imagine I would have that same experience (driving around the church). Though those of us who remain still care for one another.
You and Mike faced some pretty scary situations over the years. Do you think fearlessness is necessary in order to be accepted in a different culture?
Charlotte: The biggest change for us came early on, when I stormed the village over an ugly rumor that I was on the “take” from a movie company. I knocked on every door in the village and gave a frantic speech about honesty. From that day forward my neighbors nearly bowed when they met me; I had everyone’s respect for standing up to gossip. The people here have great respect for fearlessness. I continue to wear that like a shawl!
Accidental Anthropologists opened my eyes to how our society judges disadvantaged people so harshly. For example, I saw how easy it is to get on the wrong side of the law enforcement and legal structure if you’re poor. Do you want to say anything about this?
Charlotte: Landing in the middle of a group of Vietnam vets with drug and alcohol problems touched the core of my being. I have always been sympathetic to down-trodden folks so it was natural for me to interact. The “drinkers” made it easy for us, as they respected our privacy and space. They knew we couldn’t enter their world of self-medication, and were grateful for our respect as human beings. They were hard workers and helped us in a number of ways throughout the years. We feel privileged to have been a part of their lives.
Has life in San Ignacio changed for you since Accidental Anthropologists was published? Are you happy you used a pseudonym?
Charlotte: I am happy I used a pseudonym for a couple of reasons: I was so insecure as an “author” I had a hard time writing my name over and over. The minute I changed my name to Claudia, my brain opened up and words flew out of me. My new name gave me distance and allowed me to feel free to write whatever came out of my head.
The other reason the pseudonym worked for me had to do with the village and our neighbors. I did not want to bring attention to San Ignacio or myself. I was pretty sure readers would be checking us out, and that proved to be true. I can’t tell you how many readers have told me they drove around villages trying to figure out where the story took place.
Someone in the real San Ignacio, north of Las Vegas, told a friend that people knocked on doors there asking about the book.
Me and My Magical Life begins with your life before you arrived in San Ignacio. A lot of people throw off the conventional life, but many of them crash and burn. You, on the other hand, discovered your true calling as an artist and have thrived. What was the hardest thing you ever had to do?
Charlotte: The hardest thing was to walk out the door of my old life. If it hadn’t been for my daughters, and Mike and Murray (a close friend), and the Abeyta family, I’m not sure I would have succeeded. Although, survival is a powerful force, so who knows how it might have played out.
Did you wrestle a lot with what to tell and what to leave out of Me and My Magical Life?
Charlotte: I probably have enough untold stories to fill another book. I often wake up with that thought. It was easy to leave out negativity, and sometimes too much information. With both books I automatically wrote a chapter of equal length every time I sat down to write. It was like automatic writing, and self-editing. Very strange!
Writing Me and My Magical Life was a wonderful experience. I felt free to use my own name, and those of my friends and family. I felt like I had things to say of importance: mental health, women’s rights, belief in oneself. I hoped my book would be inspiring and educational. Most of all, I now trust the subconscious part of my brain completely. From that place, all the connections came together.
I’m about to start another book: My Two Felons and a Misdemeanor. This book will tell the stories of our three grandsons and how they got into trouble, and how they found their way out. The three of them are doing well and finding success in their lives. It’s a story worth telling.
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Accidental Anthropologists and Me and My Magical Life are available at Tome on the Range in Las Vegas, N.M., and on Amazon.
Candelora Versace and I have never met, though we have mutual friends in Santa Fe. So I read her debut book, Traveling Light: a novelita, last year with keen interest. Here’s what I commented about it in an Amazon review:
“Unput-downable until the final-page plot twist! Versace gets the details right on Santa Fe culture and ambience as she pulls the reader along with her rich prose. Appealing, though broken, characters pursue mezcal-fueled dreams from New Mexico to Oaxaca, abandoning their pasts like so much loose change. I can't help wondering, though, how things might have turned out had Camelia actually eaten her green chile breakfast at Tortilla Flats. THAT is la medicina.”
Ramona: Where are you from? How did you happen to move to Santa Fe?
Candelora: I was born and raised in Detroit. In my twenties, I bounced around quite a bit: Key West, Ann Arbor, East Village, Brooklyn. In the late ’80s I was in Seattle, and a friend of a friend of a friend mentioned Santa Fe; this was right about the time Santa Fe Style was hitting the mass consciousness, and I was smitten. Eventually some tenuous connections were made, and I packed up my car and drove to New Mexico. To be honest, I thought it would be like Tucson. I was ready for that hot dry air and the wide open spaces of the desert. I was surprised to find myself in the Rocky Mountains. (I have since become an ace googler on everything I ever even think of doing before I even leave the house, but in those days I was just kind of “go with the flow, figure it out when you get there.” I never even cracked a guide book.)
I have always been attracted to fringy, counterculture types of towns, and on first glance Santa Fe felt a lot like Key West had been for me a decade before, minus the palm trees and the ocean.
Ramona: Back of your book cover says you covered SF arts and culture as a freelance journalist. What publications did you write for?
Candelora:For a while there my byline was everywhere; I wrote consistently for several years for the Santa Fe New Mexican, as well as New Mexico Magazine, the Santa Fean, GuestLIfe, Albuquerque Journal, and a bunch of local independent papers and tourism publications, and I collected a few New Mexico and National Press Women awards. I did a lot of arts writing for regional art magazines, the occasional newsletter article for local colleges and art galleries, all kinds of stuff. I also founded and published a book review quarterly, Southwest BookViews, from 2001 to 2005, and did some ghostwriting for a couple of nutrition and wellness books.
Editor’s Note: I was arts and entertainment editor of the SF Reporter around 1987-1990. We probably crossed paths more than once back in the day!
Ramona:In your acknowledgments, you mention you learned to “travel light” from several women friends. What does this phrase mean to you?
Candelora:It feels like my daily quest these days, to lighten up not only from the deeply serious and often despairing and melancholic take I tend to have on life in general, but also to feel less weighted down and sometimes burdened by my attachments to place, to people, to things. I long for the kind of simplicity in living situations that lets you make fast decisions, pivot to new adventures, pack up and go in a moment’s notice. Note I say this as someone who has been in one place now for 30 years.
Ramona:The acknowledgments also allude to the book being a long time in the making. Can you say more about how the book was born and grew?
Candelora:I started noodling around with some ideas about these characters and the locations many many years ago after multiple visits to Oaxaca, both the city and its coastline, which made a big impression on me on a number of levels. The writing, though, was mostly bits and pieces that I dipped into now and then but didn’t have time or focus to really finesse in any way. I was so absorbed in the way the characters and the locations evolved that it took a long time for a plot to gel; I’m just not that interested in classic plot arcs and twists in storytelling, I much prefer figuring out the characters, their motivations, their responses, and letting the story sort of develop organically out of that. Needless to say, it’s kind of a backasswards way to write a novel.
Ramona:What was the hardest part of writing it? The easiest?
Candelora:I went through a bunch of life changes—got married, had a child, started a business, etc.—all in a short period of time, and it took me quite a while to find my footing again with my writing, which had always been part of a very solitary life. I also find 21st century life—9/11, wars, recession, the rapidity of technological changes—to be exceedingly draining. Writing my little stories seemed at the very bottom of the list of daily priorities, even as I tried to carve out time and space (internal and external) for it. It was hard to stay focused on it when my life was so full.
I also realized I lacked a certain kind of technical knowledge about how to get from point A to point B and beyond, so a lot of it was kind of shooting in the dark. The easy part was that no matter how long it was between committed work periods—and sometimes it would be years before I could pull it out of a drawer again—I found that I still loved the characters and the overall cycle of the story, and it became easier to go deeper and to find the authenticity and the truths about what I was trying to do after coming back to it.
Ramona:Your voice as a writer comes through well in Traveling Light. How hard was that to achieve?
Candelora:Thank you. Coming back to it as a work in progress periodically over time was really interesting, because as I matured and changed and worked over time, so did my approach to my writing on the page. I ripped it apart multiple times over the years, and in the last few years before I published it, I really began to feel a gelling of my voice and my self-editing style that was a much cleaner, much more direct, more focused version. I’m very comfortable with my voice as a writer now, appreciating it for being less clever and tortured, perhaps, and more authentic.
Ramona:The characters seem to make it up as they go along, without a clear idea of how to be adults. They have options but they don’t use them in a mature way. Do you think this quality is typical of many people in their early thirties, or just a set of bohemian types? Do you think Santa Fe attracts this type of person?
Candelora:I think it’s maybe reflective of the sort of people who don’t follow the mainstream canon, who live a bit outside the norm and therefore don’t have the underpinnings of some kind of externally imposed structure to keep them on track. It’s probably less about their age than about that bohemian streak or maybe just a lack of maturity regardless of age. And yes, Santa Fe does seem to attract its share of dreamers and schemers and people who have a hard time being realistic.
Ramona:Did you live in San Miguel de Allende? If so, when? Did it influence Traveling Light?
Candelora:No, I’ve never been to San Miguel; I had visited Oaxaca several times in the early 1990s and had some interesting experiences there, which I drew on for the book. But my experience living in Key West in 1979 when I was 20, on a solo extended break from college at Michigan State University, was a major influence on the novel and also on the trajectory my adult life has taken. The idea of walking away from whatever your life has become and into something entirely new is a lifelong fascination for me, and I continue to believe that we all have the power to change our lives in the extreme with that one decision. And I love hearing about people who have created second chapters in their lives, who move across the country or across the globe, who leave stability and predictability in favor of adventure and spontaneity. Of course, you can also see in the book that I make a pretty thorough exploration of the dark side of that decision, its potential consequences and collateral damage.
Ramona:What has the book’s public reception been like?
Candelora:I’ve been thrilled to read really amazing and wonderful reviews, especially on my Amazon page, and many many people have told me particularly how deeply the characters and their situations touched them. Overall it’s been very positive, including the requests for a sequel.
Ramona:Do you have a sense of who your readers are?
Candelora:Hahaha, not at all!
Ramona:Do you think some non-New Mexicans have a tendency to romanticize Santa Fe? (Note: I’ve been accused of this!)
Candelora:The contemporary manufactured image of Santa Fe is explicitly designed for non-New Mexicans to romanticize it. Part of my frustration and challenge with this book was to try to see this mythical, tourism-industry “Santa Fe” with the kind of critical clarity that someone who came here with that romanticized vision in mind might have and over time learned to see beyond the illusion, complete with regrets and self-blame.
Ramona:Are you thinking of writing another novel?
Candelora:Not at this time. The lure of revisiting the characters with a “what happens next” openness is sometimes compelling, but I’m more interested in why people do what they do than in what happens to them, so I’d have to really work on that sequel plot. I do have a couple of other little projects that have been tucked away for a long time and perhaps someday when my life feels less complex I might find my way back to them. All my writing now is mainly about me working out some deep questions about life, using character and story to explore and explain things to myself. So that of course means it’ll happen when it happens and it’ll take as long as it takes. I worked on deadline for a long time and I don’t want to do that anymore, even self-imposed. It’s not a race.
Note: Traveling Light is available in Santa Fe at Collected Works and Op.Cit book stores. Also at any indie book store by asking them to order from IndieBound.org. Readers can also order via GoodReads and Amazon.
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This is to say, she is an expert in social isolation. Twenty-eight years after she wrote the bestselling creativity guide The Artist’s Way — republished in the UK this year — Cameron is facing a public with time on their hands and a nagging feeling that they should change along
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A Georgetown University graduate whose writing for the Washington Post’s Style section led to a life-changing call from a Rolling Stone editor in the 1970s, Julia Cameron says her early career “was an IOU to Washington, D.C.”
Inspired by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s reporting on Watergate, she wrote a feature for Rolling Stone, “Life Without Father,” on E. Howard Hunt’s family. (Hunt planned the Watergate break-in that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.) As Cameron tells City Paper, Hunt’s children were so cooperative that the experience taught her not to predict the story before she wrote it, “but to explore what was actually there” and on her interview subjects’ minds. Her advice to journalists itching to lay down a lede: “Don’t be too certain of your direction before you start. Be open minded.”
This also is wise guidance for your future. No matter how exactingly you plan, or don’t, the universe has a way of blowing plans up. Leaving D.C. in 1974, she moved to Los Angeles and eventually New York, marrying twice and raising a daughter from her first marriage.
In 1992, originally intended as a hymn to healing, came Cameron’s classic book, The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity. At first, she thought she was writing it for herself and a dozen friends. But she began to mail copies to people who requested it, and soon it became apparent that “there was much more of a demand for the book than I had realized,” she says. Today the book has sold more than 5 million copies in 40 languages.
Now living Santa Fe, New Mexico, Cameron is the proud creator of dozens of books, poems, songs, films, and plays. This Saturday, Jan. 7, Cameron joins her editor, Joel Fotino, for an online writing workshop through Politics and Prose that she hopes will give participants a sense of optimism, tenacity, and empowerment. (“I probably sound a little bit like Tony Robbins right now,” she dryly remarks, pivoting from promotion to soul on a dime.) Each ticket includes a copy of her latest book, Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer.
“I wanted to write a book that would encourage people and would give them a sense of hope,” Cameron says. “We have a mythology that tells us that writing is difficult, and I wanted to say, no, it’s life sustaining.”
In Write for Life, out Jan. 10, she suggests that writers need only one quality for success. Not look-at-me brilliance, but honesty. “When I write, I ask myself always, ‘Am I being honest? Am I being authentic? Am I being of service?’ These three questions, answered in the affirmative, yield me a piece of writing that withstands scrutiny,” Cameron writes in her new book. “The same will be true for you.”
The famed primary tool she introduced in The Artist’s Way—the morning pages—comprises three pages of longhand morning writing. “It teaches us to be candid, it teaches us to be brave, it teaches us to be vulnerable, it teaches us to be authentic,” she tells City Paper. “If you have a project that you want to finish, try writing morning pages. And see if that doesn’t lead you forward.”
These days, Cameron is composing yet another new book and finds herself enjoying the writing. “When I get a page, I feel exuberant,” she says. When asked what color that emotion is to her, she says, “Exuberance to me is an effervescent green.”
Thirty years after The Artist’s Way was published, inspiring writers across the world, interviews, podcasts, and profiles with Cameron still spring up across the internet. The final word for City Paper is hers:
“I want to say that I love to write, and that I hope my love of writing is contagious. And if it’s contagious, I hope that it urges people to go forward. And I think if you think you want to write, then you should write. And trying to encourage people to believe in themselves is sort of my message. To trust yourself. Believe in yourself. Believe in your work.”
Julia Cameron’s virtual writing workshop begins at 4 p.m. on Dec. 7 at Politics and Prose. politics-prose.com. $60.
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Best known for his cerebral, often nonlinear, storytelling, acclaimed Academy Award winner writer/director/producer Sir Christopher Nolan CBE was born in London, England. Over the course of more than 25 years of filmmaking, Nolan has gone from low-budget independent films to working on some of the biggest blockbusters ever made and became one of the most celebrated filmmakers of modern cinema.
At 7 years old, Nolan began making short films with his father's Super-8 camera. While studying English Literature at University College London, he shot 16-millimeter films at U.C.L.'s film society, where he learned the guerrilla techniques he would later use to make his first feature, Following (1998), on a budget of around $6,000. The noir thriller was recognized at a number of international film festivals prior to its theatrical release and gained Nolan enough credibility that he was able to gather substantial financing for his next film.
Nolan's second film was Memento (2000), which he directed from his own screenplay based on a short story by his brother Jonathan Nolan. Starring Guy Pearce, the film brought Nolan numerous honors, including Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay. Nolan went on to direct the critically acclaimed psychological thriller, Insomnia - Schlaflos (2002), starring Al Pacino, Robin Williams and Hilary Swank.
The turning point in Nolan's career occurred when he was awarded the chance to revive the Batman franchise in 2005. In Batman Begins (2005), Nolan brought a level of gravitas back to the iconic hero, and his gritty, modern interpretation was greeted with praise from fans and critics alike. Before moving on to a Batman sequel, Nolan directed, co-wrote, and produced the mystery thriller Prestige - Die Meister der Magie (2006), starring Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman as magicians whose obsessive rivalry leads to tragedy and murder.
In 2008, Nolan directed, co-wrote, and produced The Dark Knight (2008). Co-written with by his brother Jonathan, the film went on to gross more than a billion dollars at the worldwide box office. Nolan was nominated for a Directors Guild of America (D.G.A.) Award, Writers Guild of America (W.G.A.) Award and Producers Guild of America (P.G.A.) Award, and the film also received eight Academy Award nominations. The film is widely considered one of the best comic book adaptations of all times, with Heath Ledger's performance as the Joker receiving an extremely high acclaim. Ledger posthumously became the first Academy Award winning performance in a Nolan film.
In 2010, Nolan captivated audiences with the Sci-Fi thriller Inception (2010), starring Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead role, which he directed and produced from his own original screenplay that he worked on for almost a decade. The thought-provoking drama was a worldwide blockbuster, earning more than $800,000,000 and becoming one of the most discussed and debated films of the year, and of all times. Among its many honors, Inception received four Academy Awards and eight nominations, including Best Picture and Best Screenplay. Nolan was recognized by his peers with a W.G.A. Award accolade, as well as D.G.A. and P.G.A. Awards nominations for his work on the film.
As one of the best-reviewed and highest-grossing movies of 2012, The Dark Knight Rises (2012) concluded Nolan's Batman trilogy. Due to his success rebooting the Batman character, Warner Bros. enlisted Nolan to produce their revamped Superman movie Man of Steel (2013), which opened in the summer of 2013. In 2014, Nolan directed, wrote, and produced the Science-Fiction epic Interstellar (2014), starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain. Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. released the film on November 5, 2014, to positive reviews and strong box-office results, grossing over $670 million dollars worldwide.
In July 2017, Nolan released his acclaimed War epic Dunkirk (2017), that earned him his first Best Director nomination at the Academy Awards, as well as winning an additional 3 Oscars. In 2020 he released his mind-bending Sci-Fi espionage thriller Tenet (2020) starring John David Washington in the lead role. Released during the COVID-19 pandemic, the movie grossed relatively less than Nolan's previous blockbusters, though it did do good numbers compared to other movies in that period of time. Hailed as Nolan's most complex film yet, the film was one of Nolan's less-acclaimed films at the time, yet slowly built a fan-base following in later years.
In July 2023, Nolan released his highly acclaimed biographic drama Oppenheimer (2023) starring Nolan's frequent collaborator Cillian Murphy- in the lead role for the first time in a Nolan film. The movie was a cultural phenomenon that on top of grossing almost 1 billion dollars at the Worldwide Box office, also swept the 2023/2024 award-season and gave Nolan his first Oscars, BAFTAs, Golden Globes, D.G.A. and P.G.A. Awards, as well as a handful of regional critics-circles awards and a W.G.A. nomination. Cillian's performance as quantum physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was highly acclaimed as well, and became the first lead performance in a Nolan film to win the Academy Award.
During 2023, Nolan also received a fellowship from the British Film Institute (BFI). In March 2024, it was announced that Nolan is to be knighted by King Charles III and from now on will go by the title 'Sir Christopher Nolan'.
Nolan resides in Los Angeles, California with his wife, Academy Award winner producer Dame Emma Thomas, and their children. Sir Nolan and Dame Thomas also have their own production company, Syncopy.
English film actor, director and author Andy Serkis is known for his performance capture roles comprising motion capture acting, animation and voice work for such computer-generated characters as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001-2003) and Der Hobbit: Eine unerwartete Reise (2012), the eponymous King Kong in the 2005 film, Caesar in Planet der Affen: Prevolution (2011) and Planet der Affen: Revolution (2014), Captain Haddock / Sir Francis Haddock in Steven Spielberg's Die Abenteuer von Tim und Struppi - Das Geheimnis der Einhorn (2011) and Supreme Leader Snoke in Star Wars - Episode VII: Das Erwachen der Macht (2015). Serkis earned a Golden Globe Award nomination for his portrayal of serial killer Ian Brady in the British television film Die Moormörderin von Manchester (2006), and was nominated for a BAFTA Award for his portrayal of new wave and punk rock musician Ian Dury in the biopic Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010). In 2015, he had a small role in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015). Serkis has his own motion capture workshop, The Imaginarium Studios in London, which he will use for his directorial debut, Mogli: Legende des Dschungels (2018).
Andrew Clement G. Serkis was born April 20, 1964, in Ruislip Manor, West London, England. He has three sisters and a brother. His father, Clement Serkis, an ethnic Armenian whose original family surname was Serkissian, was a medical doctor working abroad, in Iraq; the Serkis family spent time around the Middle East, and for the first ten years of his life, Andy traveled between Baghdad and London. His mother, Lylie (Weech), who is British-born, was busy working as a special education teacher of handicapped children, so Andy and his four siblings were raised with au pairs in the house. Young Serkis wanted to be an artist; he was fond of painting and drawing, and visualized himself working behind the scenes. He attended St. Benedict's School, a Roman Catholic School for boys at the Benedictine Abbey in London. Serkis studied visual arts at Lancaster University in the north-west of England. There, he became involved in mechanical aspects of the theatre and did stage design and set building for theatrical productions. Then, Serkis was asked to play a role in a student production, and made his stage debut in Barrie Keeffe's play, "Gotcha"; thereafter, he switched from stage design to acting, which was a real calling that transformed his life.
Instead of going to an acting college, Serkis, in 1985, began his professional acting career at the Duke's Playhouse in Lancaster, where he was given an Equity card and performed in fourteen plays, one after another, as an apprentice of Jonathan Petherbridge. After that, he worked in touring theatre companies, doing it for no money, fueled by a sense of enthusiasm, moving to a new town every week. He has thus appeared in a host of popular plays and on almost every renowned British stage. In 1989, he appeared in a stage production of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth", so beginning his long association with the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, where he would return many times, to appear in "She Stoops to Conquer", "Your Home in the West" and the "True Nature of Love", among other plays. In the 1990s, Serkis began to make his mark on the London stage, appearing at the Royal Court Theatre as "The Fool" in "King Lear", making his interpretation of "The Fool" as the woman that "Lear", a widower, could relate to - a man, in drag, as a Victorian musician. He also appeared as "Potts" in the hit play, "Mojo", playing in front of full houses and earning huge critical success. In 1987, Serkis made his debut on television, and he acted in several major British TV miniseries throughout the 1990s.
In 1999, Andy Serkis landed the prize role of "Gollum" in Peter Jackson's epic film trilogy based on J.R.R. Tolkien's saga, "The Lord of the Rings". He spent four years in the part and received awards and nominations for his performance as "Gollum", a computer-generated character in Der Herr der Ringe: Die Rückkehr des Königs (2003), which won 11 Oscars. "Gollum" was the collaborative team's effort around Serkis's work in performance capture - an art form based on CGI-assisted acting. Serkis's work was an interactive performance in a skin-tight CGI suit with markers allowing cameras to track and register 3D position for each marker. Serkis' every nuance was picked up by several cameras positioned at precisely calculated angles to allow for the software to see enough information to process the image. The images of Serkis' performances were translated into the digital format by animators at Weta Digital studio in New Zealand. There, his image was key-frame animated and then edited into the movie, Serkis did have one scene in "The Return of the King" showing how he originally had the ring, killing another hobbit to posses it after they found it during a fishing trip. He drew from his three cats clearing fur balls out of their throats to develop the constricted voice he produced for "Gollum" and "Sméagol", and it was also enhanced by sound editing in post-production.
Serkis spent almost two years in New Zealand and away from his family, and much of 2002 and 2003 in post-production studios for large periods of time, due to complexity of the creative process of bringing the character of "Gollum" to the screen. Serkis had to shoot two versions for every scene; one version was with him on camera, acting with (chiefly) Elijah Wood and Sean Astin, which served both to show Wood and Astin the moves so that they could precisely interact with the movements of "Gollum", and to provide the CGI artists the subtleties of Gollum's physical movements and facial expressions for their manual finishing of the animated images. In the other version, he'd go the voice off-camera, as Wood and Astin repeated their movements as though "Gollum" were there with them; that take would be the basis for inserting the CGI Gollum used in the released movie. In post-production, Serkis was doing motion-capture wearing a skintight motion capture suit with CGI gear while acting as a virtual puppeteer redoing every single scene in the studio. Additional CGI rotomation was done by animators using the human eye instead of the computer to capture the subtleties of Serkis' performance. Serkis also used this art form in his performance as "Kong" in King Kong (2005), which won him a Toronto Film Critics Association Award (2005) for his unprecedented work helping to realize the main character in "King Kong", and a Visual Effects Society Award (2006) for Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Motion Picture.
Apart from his line of CGI-driven characters, Serkis continued with traditional acting in several leading and supporting roles, such as his appearances as "Richard Kneeland" opposite Jennifer Garner in 30 über Nacht (2004), and "Alley" opposite David Bowie in Prestige - Die Meister der Magie (2006), among other film performances. On television, he starred as 'Vincent Van Gogh' in the sixth episode of Simon Schama's Power of Art (2006), the BBC2 series about artists. Serkis is billed as "Capricorn" in the upcoming adventure film, Tintenherz (2008). At the same time, he continued the development of performance capture while expanding his career into computer games. He starred as "King Bothan" in the martial arts drama, Heavenly Sword (2007), a Playstation 3 title, for which he provided a basis for his in-game face and also acts as a dramatic director on the project.
Andy Serkis married actress and singer Lorraine Ashbourne, and the couple have three children: daughter Ruby Serkis (born in 1998), and two sons Sonny Serkis (born in 2000) and Louis Ashbourne Serkis (born on 19 June 2004), who is now also a movie star. Away from acting, Andy Serkis is an accomplished amateur painter. Since his school years at Lancaster, being so close to the Lake District, Serkis developed his other passion in life: mountaineering. He is a pescetarian. Serkis has been active in charitable causes, such as The Hope Foundation, which provides essential life-saving medical aid for children suffering from Leukemia and children from countries devastated by war. In October 2006, he was a presenter at the first annual British Academy Video Games Awards at the Roundhouse, London. Andy Serkis lives with his family in North London, England.
Brian Helgeland was born in Providence, Rhode Island and raised in New Bedford Massachusetts. A born worker, Helgeland has endeavored to achieve in the following fields: snow shoveler, scrap newspaper collector, dishwasher, nursing home janitor, drug store clerk and unreliable nightshift gas station attendant. Facing unemployment after receiving a degree in English, Helgeland fell back on generations of family tradition and took a site as a 'half-share man' on the fishing vessel Mondego II, working the dredges of a deep sea scalloper over 100 miles offshore for two weeks at a time. Fish School. North Atlantic University. After a year at sea, a chance meeting with a book entitled "A Guide To Film School" changed everything. Ignorant as to the existence of such venerable institutions, he applied to several and was accepted by one. Giving up his now 'full-share man' berth on the fishing vessel Concordia, Helgeland headed west in 1985. After getting his break with several low budget horror films, he made his mark with several spec script sales, the flashiest being "The Ticking Man" which he co-wrote with Manny Coto. Two other specs sales to Warner Bros landed him an exclusive writing deal at what was then the greatest movie studio on earth. That deal resulted in seven produced films starting with two for director (and longtime mentor) Richard Donner and ending with two films for Clint Eastwood. In between came the much lauded "LA Confidential" for which Helgeland won an Academy Award finally living up to his grandmother's nickname for him of 'Golden Boy'.
Helgeland's directing career began when Donner gave him an episode of "Tales From The Crypt" to direct. Tired of Helgeland's relentless script note complaints, Donner was eager for him to see how things looked at the trigger end of the gun instead of the barrel. Next up as writer/director was "Payback" which Mel Gibson committed to after leafing through a rough draft version of the script on a Warners ADR stage. Although the director's cut was eventually released, the experience was bittersweet as Paramount demanded a happier ending which Helgeland refused to direct. With the rug pulled out from under him, Helgeland regained momentum with the spec script for "A Knight's Tale". He envisioned the rags to riches story of a peasant determined to prove himself a knight, as a version of his own humble beginnings before moving to Hollywood, but also as the tale of a lowly screenwriter who wants to become a noble director. Columbia Pictures bought the script in a bidding war and mere months later Helgeland found himself in the Czech Republic with Heath Ledger, Paul Bettany and the gang conjuring the story of William Thatcher - aka Sir Ulrich von Lichtenstein - in what would become his most fan favorite film.
As solely a screenwriter, the great-never-late Tony Scott is the director he felt closest to sensibility-wise, in that both of them believed that any single moment in a film can be ordinary and absurd and funny and tragic all at the same time. They worked on several projects together - produced and unproduced. "Man On Fire" was their crowning achievement. Helgeland also directed and wrote the film "42" with Chadwick Boseman and "Legend" with Tom Hardy. Both were biopics. His most recent film is "Finestkind" with Ben Foster, Toby Wallace and Jenna Ortega. It is full of truth about people he once knew, but crammed with lies about what they got up to. As he likes to say about writing: "It's okay to lie if you reach a higher truth doing so." Helgeland is an admirer of John Huston, Richard Brooks, Walter Hill, Frank Pierson, Curtis Hanson and all screenwriters who knighted themselves into the director's chair.
Alejandro González Iñárritu (ih-nyar-ee-too), born August 15th, 1963, is a Mexican film director.
González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and by the Directors Guild of America for Best Director. He is also the first Mexican-born director to have won the Prix de la mise en scene or best director award at Cannes (2006), the second one being Carlos Reygadas in 2012. His six feature films, 'Amores Perros' (2000), '21 Grams' (2003), 'Babel' (2006), 'Biutiful' (2010), 'Birdman' (2014) and 'The Revenant' (2015), have gained critical acclaim world-wide including two Academy Award nominations.
Alejandro González Iñárritu was born in Mexico City.
Crossing the Atlantic Ocean on a cargo ship at the ages of seventeen and nineteen years, González Iñárritu worked his way across Europe and Africa. He himself has noted that these early travels as a young man have had a great influence on him as a film-maker. The setting of his films have often been in the places he visited during this period.
After his travels, González Iñárritu returned to Mexico City and majored in communications at Universidad Iberoamericana. In 1984, he started his career as a radio host at the Mexican radio station WFM, a rock and eclectic music station. In 1988, he became the director of the station. Over the next five years, González Iñárritu spent his time interviewing rock stars, transmitting live concerts, and making WFM the number one radio station in Mexico. From 1987 to 1989, he composed music for six Mexican feature films. He has stated that he believes music has had a bigger influence on him as an artist than film itself.
In the nineties, González Iñárritu created Z films with Raul Olvera in Mexico. Under Z Films, he started writing, producing and directing short films and advertisements. Making the final transition into T.V Film directing, he studied under well-known Polish theatre director Ludwik Margules, as well as Judith Weston in Los Angeles.
In 1995, González Iñárritu wrote and directed his first T.V pilot for Z Films, called Detras del dinero, -"Behind the Money", starring Miguel Bosé. Z Films went on to be one of the biggest and strongest film production companies in Mexico, launching seven young directors in the feature film arena. In 1999, González Iñárritu directed his first feature film Amores perros, written by Guillermo Arriaga. Amores perros explored Mexican society in Mexico City told via three intertwining stories. In 2000, Amores perros premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Critics Weeks Grand Prize. It also introduced audiences for the first time to Gael García Bernal. Amores perros went on to be nominated for Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards.
After the success of Amores Perros, González Iñárritu and Guillermo Arriaga revisited the intersecting story structure of Amores perros in González Iñárritu's second film, 21 Grams. The film starred Benicio del Toro, Naomi Watts and Sean Penn, and was presented at the Venice Film Festival, winning the Volpi Cup for actor Sean Penn. At the 2004 Academy Awards, Del Toro and Watts received nominations for their performances.
In 2005 González Iñárritu embarked on his third film, Babel, set in 4 countries on 3 continents, and in 4 different languages. Babel consists of four stories set in Morocco, Mexico, the United States, and Japan. The film stars Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Adriana Barraza. The majority of the rest of the cast, however, was made up of non-professional actors and some new actors, such as Rinko Kikuchi. It was presented at Cannes 2006, where González Iñárritu earned the Best Director Prize (Prix de la mise en scène). Babel was released in November 2006 and received seven nominations at the 79th Annual Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director nominated for a DGA award and for an Academy Award. Babel went on to win Best Motion Picture in the drama category at the Golden Globe Awards on January 15, 2007. Gustavo Santaolalla won the Academy Award that year for Best Original Score. After Babel, Alejandro and his writing partner Guillermo Arriaga professionally parted ways, following González Iñárritu barring Arriaga from the set during filming (Arriaga told the LA Times in 2009 "It had to come to an end, but I still respect González Iñárritu").
In 2008 and 2009, González Iñárritu directed and produced Biutiful, starring Javier Bardem, written by González Iñárritu, Armando Bo, and Nicolas Giacobone. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festial on May 17, 2010. Bardem went on to win Best Actor (shared with Elio Germano for La nostra vita) at Cannes. Biutiful is González Iñárritu's first film in his native Spanish since his debut feature Amores perros. For the second time in his career his film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards. It was also nominated for the 2011 Golden Globes in the category of Best Foreign Film, for the 2011 BAFTA awards in the category of Best Film Not in the English Language and Best Actor. Javier Bardem's performance was also nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor.
In 2014, González Iñárritu directed Birdman, starring Michael Keaton, Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Emma Stone, Zach Galifianakis, and Andrea Riseborough. The film is Iñárritu's first comedy. Birdman is about an actor who played an iconic superhero, and who tries to revive his career by doing a play based on the Raymond Carver short story What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. The film was released on October 17, 2014.
In April 2014, it was announced that González Iñárritu's next film as a director will be The Revenant, which he co-wrote with Mark L. Smith. It is based on the novel of same name by Michael Punke. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy and Will Poulter with shooting began in September 2014, for a December 25, 2015 release.The Revenant is being filmed in Alberta and B.C. with production scheduled to wrap in February 2015. The film will be a 19th Century period piece, and is described as a "gritty thriller" about a fur trapper who seeks revenge against a group of men who robbed and abandoned him after he was mauled by a grizzly bear.
From 2001 to 2011, González Iñárritu directed several short films.
In 2001, he directed an 11 minute film segment for 11.09.01- which is composed of several short films that explore the effects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks from different points of view around the world.
In 2007, he made ANNA which screened at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival inside Chacun son cinéma. It was part of the 60th anniversary of the film festival and it was a series of shorts by 33 world-renown film directors.
In 2012, he made the experimental short film Naran Ja: One Act Orange Dance - inspired by L.A Dance Project's premiere performance. The short features excerpts of the new choreography Benjamin Millepied crafted for Moving Parts. The story takes place in a secluded, dusty space and centers around LADP dancer Julia Eichten.
In 2001/2002, González Iñárritu directed "Powder Keg", an episode for the BMW film series The Hire, starring Clive Owen as the driver.
In 2010, González Iñárritu directed Write the Future, a football-themed commercial for Nike ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, which went on to win Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions advertising festival.
In 2012, he directed Procter and Gamble's "Best Job" commercial spot for the 2012 Olympic Ceremonies. It went on to win the Best Primetime Commercial Emmy at Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
Writer, director, and producer Nicolas Winding Refn was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1970 to Anders Refn, a film director, and editor, and Vibeke Winding (née Tuxen), a cinematographer. At the age of 8, NWR moved to New York with his parents, where he would stay for the rest of his youth. The grandeur and grit of 1980s Manhattan left a deep impression on the young NWR, who then only spoke Danish. Calling the city home ever since, he would devote his career to exploring the filmic legacy of this iconic cityscape, developing a distinctive, neo-noir cinematic style.
In 1987, NWR returned to Copenhagen to complete his high school education, but upon graduation, he swiftly returned to New York, where he attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. NWR's college years were cut short when NWR threw a desk at a classroom wall and was expelled from the Academy. Instead, he applied to the directing program at the distinguished Danish Film School and was immediately accepted. However, this education was also to be short-lived, as NWR dropped out a month before the start of the semester.
During these educational bouts, NWR experimented passionately with the short film format, writing, directing, and starring in his own productions. In 1993, an obscure Danish cable TV channel offered to air his short film Pusher, which led to the offer of a lifetime. NWR was given 3.2 million kroner (roughly USD 306,000) to transform the short into a feature. At 24 years old, NWR used the funding to write and direct the feature film Pusher (1996), a brutal portrayal of the criminal underworld of Copenhagen. Notorious, violent, and uncompromising in its social themes, Pusher won NWR instant national and international critical acclaim and remains a cult title amongst film aficionados. The success of his debut opened doors and spurred him to push the boundaries of filmmaking further, resulting in the similarly gritty Bleeder (1999), which portrayed a network of Copenhagen's working-class denizens living and working at the edge of the law. Highly stylized and focused on introverted emotional reactions to epic situations, this film was a turning point for shaping NWR's future career. Bleeder was selected for the 1999 Venice International Film Festival and won the prestigious FIPRESCI Prize in Sarajevo.
NWR's third feature, the much-anticipated Fear X - Im Angesicht der Angst (2003), was his first foray into English-language movies. Starring the award-winning actor John Turturro, Fear X premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The film was highly divisive to critics, and its release was a massive financial disaster that left NWR broke and in debt. In dire desperation and needing to pay off his debt, NWR returned to Denmark to revisit his first feature film, the successful Pusher. NWR was reluctant to return to his past success but decided he could make commercially viable and artistically pleasing films in the Pusher franchise. Over the short course of two years, NWR managed to write, direct, and produce the two sequels, Pusher II (2004) and Pusher III (2005). The films' box office performance validated the success of the internationally renowned Pusher trilogy. In 2005, the Toronto Film Festival held a Pusher retrospective showing all three features, cementing its worldwide phenomenon. Around this time, while still looking for financial stability following his Fear X experience, NWR took a quick gig directing an episode of the iconic UK television mystery series Agatha Christie's Agatha Christie's Marple (2004).
With such critical acclaim from the newly released Pusher II and Pusher III, NWR's reputation as a writer, director, and producer was solidly reaffirmed in the film industry. NWR and his wife, Liv Corfixen, were the subjects of an acclaimed documentary, Gambler (2006), which premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in 2005. In addition, NWR received two lifetime-achievement awards: one from the Taipei International Film Festival in 2006 and the second from the Valencia International Film Festival in 2007. Gambler won the Emerging Master Award from the Philadelphia International Film Festival 2005.
Longtime UK based distributor and friend of NWR, Rupert Preston, urged him to accept an offer to write and direct Bronson (2008), an ultra-violent and stylistically surreal film following the real-life landmarks and self-entrapment of Charles Bronson, Britain's most notorious criminal. Even before the film was released, Bronson made waves inside and outside the film industry. The 2009 Sundance Film Festival selected the film for its World Cinema Dramatic Competition, and Bronson soon became the talk of the festival. With such a prestigious premiere, Bronson was chosen for other major international film festivals and reaped substantial box-office results. But even with such a buzz surrounding the film, no one could predict how the British press would bite at Bronson's bit. The content was close to the knuckle, the subject matter controversial, but NWR's take on this was even more inspired, leading him to be labeled by the British media as the next great auteur of European cinema. The film won Best Film at the 2009 Sydney Film Festival. Tom Hardy also won a Best Actor award at the 2009 British Independent Film Awards for his portrayal of Charles Bronson.
Following the highly successful Bronson, NWR embarked on another English-language, and his first digitally shot, feature film, Walhalla Rising (2009), inspired by a story his mother would read to him at the age of five, about a father and son who embark on a trip to the moon. He creatively embraced not recalling the ending of this story, solidifying his longtime fascination with the unknown. The film, starring frequent collaborator Mads Mikkelsen, premiered at the 2009 Venice Film Festival and led the world media to coin his distinctive filmic style as "Refn-esque."
In 2011, NWR directed the American neo-noir crime drama Drive (2011), starring rising Hollywood star Ryan Gosling. It premiered in competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, where it received a standing ovation, with NWR winning the award for Best Director. The film was praised for its direction, cinematography, actors' performances, visuals, action sequences, and musical score. However, some critics were appalled by its graphic violence, finding it potentially detrimental to the film's box office success. Nonetheless, the film was still a commercial success, grossing $81 million against a production budget of $15 million. Several critics listed Drive as one of the best films of 2011, including the National Board of Review. Its honors include a nomination for Best Sound Editing at the 84th Academy Awards. Shortly after the massive success of Drive, Nicolas signed a two-picture deal, which led to the feature films Only God Forgives (2013) and The Neon Demon (2016).
The incredibly anticipated follow-up to Drive, Only God Forgives (2013), was a crime thriller set in Bangkok starring Ryan Gosling (now a top name in Hollywood) and cinematic veteran Kristin Scott Thomas, premiering in competition at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. It was shot on location in Thailand and was dedicated to Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky, a longtime friend of Nicolas. The film competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. The film won the Grand Prize at the Sydney Film Festival. Nicolas's experience making the Only God Forgives was documented by his wife, Liv Corfixen, in the film My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn (2014). Corfixen's documentary, in turn, premiered at Fantastic Fest in Austin, TX, and at Beyond Fest in Los Angeles, CA, to positive reviews.
In November of 2014, NWR, alongside co-producers Gaumont Film Company and Wild Bunch, announced that his next film would be titled The Neon Demon (2016). The Neon Demon would be filmed in Los Angeles, CA, in early 2015. The film featured a cast of some of Hollywood's greatest names, including Elle Fanning, Karl Glusman, Keanu Reeves, Christina Hendricks, Abbey Lee, Jena Malone, and Bella Heathcote. On April 14, 2016, it was announced that the film would compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, marking it as the third consecutive film directed by NWR that had competed for the Palme d'Or. After The Neon Demon, Nicolas decided to take a turn and explored the path of the long-form narrative streaming series, starting with Too Old to Die Young (2019) and ending with Copenhagen Cowboy (2022).
In 2019, Nicolas created his first television series, Too Old to Die Young (2019), which premiered on Amazon Prime 2019. The thirteen-and-a-half-hour, ten-episode streaming neo-noir series was written by NWR and legendary comic book author Ed Brubaker, with NWR directing all ten episodes. The series starred Miles Teller alongside William Baldwin, Jena Malone, John Hawkes, Cristina Rodlo, Augusto Aguilera, Nell Tiger Free, Babs Olusanmokun, and Callie Hernandez, as well as Hart Bochner. The series features NWR's fourth collaboration with composer Cliff Martinez, whose original score for Drive had become an instant classic. Episodes four and five of the series premiered out of competition at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival on May 18. The full series was released on Amazon Prime Video on June 14 of the same year.
NWR followed up Too Old to Die Young with yet another limited streaming series, Copenhagen Cowboy (2022), produced by Netflix. The series follows enigmatic young heroine, Miu (Angela Bundalovic), who after a lifetime of servitude and on the verge of a new beginning, traverses the ominous landscape of Copenhagen's criminal netherworld. Searching for justice and enacting vengeance, she encounters her nemesis, Rakel, (Lola Corfixen) as they embark on an odyssey where the two young women discover they are not alone, they are many. It was shot in NWR's native Copenhagen, where he hadn't filmed since completing his Pusher trilogy. NWR created and directed all six episodes. The six-episode supernatural noir-thriller first premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2022. The series was released on the Netflix platform on January 5, 2023. A documentary entitled Copenhagen Cowboy: Nightcall with Nicolas Winding Refn (2023) and directed by Nicklas Kold Nagel, was released on Netflix detailing the limited series production.
After Copenhagen Cowboy, NWR was contacted by Prada to create an installation as a backdrop for their SS23 women's collection fashion show in addition to directing a 30-minute short film, Touch of Crude (2022). The short film follows three different women, played by NWR's wife, Liv Corfixen, and daughters, Lola Corfixen and Lizzielou Corfixen, who discover a mysterious entity and unearth its enigmatic secret. The film marked the first collaboration with Prada, which simultaneously premiered at the León Film Festival in 2023.
Guy Ritchie was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK on September 10, 1968. After watching Butch Cassidy und Sundance Kid (1969) as a child, Guy realized that what he wanted to do was make films. He never attended film school, saying that the work of film school graduates was boring and unwatchable. At 15 years old, he dropped out of school and in 1995, got a job as a runner, ultimately starting his film career. He quickly progressed and was directing music promos for bands and commercials by 1995.
The profits that he made from directing these promos was invested into writing and making the film The Hard Case (1995), a 20-minute short film that is also the prequel to his debut feature Bube Dame König grAS (1998). Sting's wife, Trudie Styler, saw The Hard Case (1995) and invested in the feature film. Once completed, 10 British distributors turned the film down before it eventually was released in the UK in 1998 and in the US in 1999; the film put Ritchie on the map as one of the hottest rising filmmakers of the time, and launched the careers of actors Jason Statham, Jason Flemyng, and Vinnie Jones, among others.
Bube Dame König grAS (1998) was followed by Snatch: Schweine und Diamanten (2000), this time with a bigger budget and a few more familiar faces such as Brad Pitt, Dennis Farina, Benicio Del Toro alongside returning actors Jason Statham, Vinnie Jones and Jason Flemyng. At the end of 2000, Ritchie married the pop superstar Madonna in Scotland, and proceeded to work with his famous wife on a variety of film and video projects, including the short Star (2001), made for BMW and co-starring Clive Owen, and the controversial video "What It Feels Like for a Girl," which was called out for its violence. In 2002, the couple embarked on a remake of the 1974 Lina Wertmüller film Stürmische Liebe - Swept away (2002); the new film was a critical and commercial flop, winning five Razzie Awards. Ritchie followed up with the Vegas heist film Revolver (2005), which was panned, but won favor with the crime thriller RocknRolla (2008), which featured a game, energetic cast and brought American attention to rising stars Gerard Butler and Tom Hardy.
The next year saw the release of Sherlock Holmes (2009), starring Robert Downey Jr. in the title role and Jude Law as his cohort Dr. Watson. The film received mostly good reviews but, more important for Ritchie's career, was a solid blockbuster hit that grossed more than $520 million dollars worldwide and spawned a sequel, Sherlock Holmes - Spiel im Schatten (2011). Ritchie is tentatively scheduled to direct an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.
Ritchie has two sons with Madonna: Rocco, born in 2000, and an adopted son, David, born in 2005. In late 2008, the couple confirmed reports that they were splitting up, and agreed to a divorce settlement that was finalized in December of that year. In September 2011, Ritchie's girlfriend, model Jacqui Ainsley, gave birth to a son, Rafael, and in July 2012 the couple announced they were expecting their second child.
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The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, established in 1954, operates one of the oldest artist residency programs in the country.
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The Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico
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Supporting the Arts Since 1954
The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico (HWF) is a private, 501(c)(3) non-profit, educational and charitable organization committed to supporting the arts.
Founded in 1954, the HWF manages one of the oldest artist residency programs in the USA. The Foundation’s mission is to “Support the artist and the creative process” and serves as a haven for visual artists, literary artists and music composers.
The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation is located on fifteen acres in the heart of Taos, New Mexico, a multicultural community renowned for its popularity with artists.
Artist Residency Program
The Foundation offers three months of rent-free and utility-paid housing to people who specialize in the creative arts. Our eleven artist casitas, or guest houses, are fully furnished and provide residents with a peaceful setting in which to pursue their creative endeavors.
The Foundation accepts applications from painters, poets, sculptors, writers, playwrights, screenwriters, composers, photographers, and filmmakers of national and international origin.
Applications are reviewed by a selection committee consisting of professionals who specialize in the artistic discipline of the applicant. Numerous jurors serve on committees for each: visual arts, music composers, writers, poets, playwrights, and filmmakers. Jurors, who know nothing about the artist's demographics, score in five categories based purely on the merit of the applicant's creative work samples.
Artists in residence have no imposed expectations, quotas, or requirements during their stay on the HWF campus. The HWF’s residency program provides artists with the time and space to create, which in turn enriches the artistic community and culture locally and abroad.
Touching Artist Lives
For 70 years the HWF has committed to perpetuating Helene's legacy of supporting artists by providing charitable assistance to thousands of artists from all over the world. When artists come to Taos to create in one of our adobe casitas they bring creativity and artistic influence, perpetuating Taos' rich history as an art community. After their residency, they take a little piece of Taos back to where they're from.
Past grantees have included painter Agnes Martin, Pulitzer Prize winning writer N. Scott Momaday, award-winning composer Andrea Clearfield, painter and independent filmmaker Cynthia Madansky, amongst many others.
Agnes Martin
Painter, 1954
Kai-sa
Painter, 1955
N. Scott Momaday
Writer, 1987
William Malpede
Composer, 2015
Cynthia Madansky
Visual Arts, 2017
Agnes Martin
painter
I feel very much honored in being chosen to receive assistance from the Wurlitzer Foundation. Till now I had never sought nor received any real recognition for my work. I did not realize how encouraging it could be. Your kindness has been a positive moral uplift. Your action in this has become the most encouraging event for art in this country that I have ever witnessed. I hope to do worthily. Thank you for all your considerations. [1956]
Xandra Clark
playwright
Since my time in Taos, the Foundation and its environs have remained seared in my mind and are continually a part of my reflections and work process. In fact, "Taos!” has become a way to remind myself to slow down when I get into the chaotic hustle of New York creative life. I have completed the script I was working on when there, and I've stayed in close touch with several fellow residents. The relationships fo...
Earl Stroh
painter
I feel deeply grateful for all that the Foundation has done for me over the years and am very sure that my development as an artist would no be nearly so advanced if it had not been for the many opportunities and great aid offered my by your help. [from a letter dated September 3rd, 1962]
Kathleen Edwards
visual arts
My time at the foundation has been an enormous and deeply appreciated gift. Quiet, undistracted focus in the studio allowed my work to grow like a pot-bound tree placed into the ground.
Caitlin McGill
writer
My time in Taos was unparalleled--peaceful, productive, restful. Grateful for this community!
Susan Lloyd
writer
Thank you for providing a space of tranquility and inspiration during my various sojourns there. It has always been a relief to arrive at one of the Wurlitzer casitas where I know I can concentrate on my writing and photography free of distractions--so rare and so necessary if one is to get serious about one's work.
Rob Scheps
classical
The Wurlitzer Foundation is a hidden gem. The program is fantastic; Taos is amazing, and I composed a lot of good music there that I still perform. Michael Knight was a great residency director, and I learned a lot about New Mexico being there.
Lucy Bledsoe
writer
An amazing residency. Wonderful.
Ellen Koment
painter
Now a working artist in Santa Fe for over twenty years, I thank Wurlitzer Foundation for introducing me to this most beautiful part of the world. My association with the foundation as well as the other artists has been life changing. I have been working primarily in Encaustic for the last twenty five years, and throughout this time the magnificent New Mexico landscape, as well as the Santa Fe art world have been i...
Nathan Kelly
classical
Wurlitzer in the winter was a magical place. Its quiet solitude gives an artist the space and inspiration needed to create, reflect, and dream. I can't wait to return.
Kathleen Heideman
poet
Remembering my terrific residency with the Wurlitzer Foundation, luminous sunset memories of Taos flood the mind — the arms-flung-wide light over Taos. I recall peace and clarity of thought, the sense that each studio-casita was a small hive in which wild-buzzing creative ideas were distilled into honey. Best of all, I arrived with storage boxes of handwritten drafts and left with manuscripts and clarity! It was...
Mildred Tolbert
photographer
[2-16-1973] This period here at the foundation is a unique experience for me - that is, it is the first time in my adult life that I have not felt responsible for myself and/or others, and the fact that I received this grant has had great psychological impetus for me.
Dorothy Englander
painter
What a magical and life-altering experience I had, from mid April-mid July 2008. My work is still influenced by those days. Fellowship with so many creative people has led to life-long friendships. Sending the foundation my deepest appreciation, Dorothy Englander
Susan Zimmerman
visual arts
“Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.” Agnes De Mille, dancer Coming to Taos was the first of many leaps in the dark during my residency as I wandered down many a different road exploring my art. The beautiful light of Taos that ...
Anna Badkhen
writer
I am grateful for the quiet thinking time the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico afforded me in spring of 2019. The semi-seclusion and the near-monastic infrastructure provided a marvelous excuse to focus on nothing but word for the almost three months of the residency. It gladdens me to imagine the artists who will create in this space in the future--perhaps at the very same desk overlooking the very same ...
Alexander Lumans
writer
My time at the Wurlitzer Foundation proved to be absolutely necessary to my development as a writer. The residency guided me toward transformations in my current project as well as in my perspective on the creative process. I will be living on the fumes of my singular experience in Taos for a long time to come.”
Tim Houghton
poet
Wurlitzer is awesome. It's the only place where I want to work.
Linda Lightsey Rice
writer
I have been so fortunate to be a resident artist at the Wurlitzer Foundation on several occasions, and these residencies have had a profound impact on my creative life. I completed portions of my second novel here in Taos, and many friendships formed at the Wurlitzer have influenced how I see my own work as well as the role of the artist in general. The near-pastoral setting of the artist casitas, the foundation's...
Veronique Maria
filmmaker
From the moment I first heard about the Helene Wurlitzer Residency in Taos and made my application I found myself engaged in an extraordinary and unexpected life changing experience. It has had deep and profound effect on me, my attitude to life and my art practice. I decided to use the three month period to explore 'who am I as a creative woman, when I don't have a project, genre, or any other structure to guid...
John Repp
poet
Living and working for more than two months in Taos transformed my way of writing. I've secured seven other residencies, but none matched the Wurlitzer residency for peace, quiet, soulfulness, and authentic productivity.
Lauren Davies
photographer
The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation provides an amazing residency experience with a combination of quiet artistic solitude mixed with the stimulation of an impressive interdisciplinary cohort of visual artists, writers, musicians and composers. Add in my adobe casita studio surrounded by open fields within historic Taos, New Mexico and this experience provided me with a truly magical and creative summer residency.
Eleanor Guilliatt
painter
I brought away from Taos a new and delicious sense of abject dedication which is largely due to John Anton and Mrs. Wurlitzer; and it is for this new dimension of understanding that I am writing to thank you. I brought chaos to Taos and took directed wildness away. This is what I needed, and it is what the Foundation environment and Taos gave me.
Pilar Hanson
visual arts
My time at the HWF residency was extraordinary and productive. There were periods of total immersion in my work alongside the enjoyable exchanges with the other residents.
Meredith Wilder
songwriter
The summer of 2017 was an invaluable experience, to be surrounded by the beauty of the desert and the energy of the other artists in residence. Once I set up my recording gear and sat down at the grand piano with the sole purpose of writing new music, creativity started filling every corner of the casita. There is something magical about Taos and Helene Wurlitzer's legacy and I would recommend this to every artist...
Lorna Ritz
painter
I had to get special permission from the Pueblo Chief; turns out he was watching me from day one, awed that I could stay so still for all those hours each day standing at my easel. I ended up giving him a drawing of Taos Mountain which is his religion, which then became mine the more I drew it. I had been pulling my easel and drawing board all throughout the landscape searching for composition, (on a bright hot p...
Mashuq Deen
playwright
The friends I made at Wurlitzer have lasted longer than from any other residency. And it's true what they say about the mountain, it does call you back.
Michio Takayama
painter
Since we came to Taos in April of this year, we have been spending our most happy time in accumulating ideas for our work. During our stay in Taos I would like to make a new phase of my career. Now I am learning everything from the beautiful "Nature" in Taos. This beauty of Taos is probably impossible to capture in a short time... I have been overwhelmed with the beauty and majesty of New Mexico.
Lauren Mantecon
visual arts
My time in residency was productive in a non-traditional way. The atmosphere, support and space became a refuge after an extremely turbulent time in my life. The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation became my entrance to New Mexico which has since become my home; as seeds planted for the next chapter to my art making career. I was able to not only reflect but make work in what I considered a sanctuary of " place".
Susan Richards
painter
A wonderful experience in all categories. New friends, beautiful adventures and the start on a new path in my work.
Allie ('Blue') Armstrong
songwriter
My time at the Wurlitzer Foundation was paramount to the recording of my first album. Here I was able to unplug, rest, meditate, and find the energy that manifested into the completion of 5 compositions. The residency had an incredible warmth thanks to Nic Knight and his family, and to the beautiful residents whom I shared a term with. I'm so grateful to the Foundation for allowing me the space and time to create....
Cristina De Gennaro
visual arts
My time at the Wurlitzer Foundation was truly transformative. I am deeply grateful for being given the opportunity to have lived and worked in such a beautiful place with such creative people.
Raegan Payne
playwright
The time I spent at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation was full of healing and progress. Taos is an easy place to fall in love with, and I left Taos with not only a place in which I can forever seek sanctuary, but also a group of lifelong friends. The residency is an invaluable experience and a gift to artists around the world.
Samyak Shertok
poet
I think of my time at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation as a dream: enchantment, haunting, and reverie all in one. Driving alone through the Rio Grande National Forest in the dark, I had an uncanny encounter with an elk family, in which the papa or mama elk stared at me until all the baby elks were safely on the other side of the road. That set the tone of wondering and wandering for my entire residency. Besides the...
Claudia Tremblay
painter
My residency at The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation was life changing! Uninterrupted time to create offers space for a magical and underestimated freedom. Thanks to a serene setting and gracious hosting, any artist can zero in on their true mission. I’m infinitely thankful for this opportunity and hope that the following artists have a similar experience.
Andrea Scrima
writer
I don’t think I can overstate the vital importance of the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation residency program. My three months in Taos have had a profound effect on my writing process; they were miraculous and transformative. As writers, artists, and musicians, the majority of us are struggling to make a living and juggling a number of roles simultaneously, all the stuff of life that competes with the “actual” wor...
Michael Pearson
writer
Taos is a place filled with magic, and the Wurlitzer Foundation makes that magic real for artists of all kinds. From the first moment I entered the town, saw the fiery sky and the holy mountains, felt the history and the cultures, I knew I was home.
Virginia Barrett
poet
I feel very blessed to have twice been a Wurlitzer Foundation Fellow (1997, 2017). My first stay imprinted Taos, and the surrounding landscape, indelibly on my creative psyche. When I returned twenty years later, the feeling only deepened, and has led me into a series of poems focused on the area. I now intend to spend a good deal of my time here; Taos continues to inspire.
Robert (Bob) Ray
painter
Painting must communicate!
Lex Williford
writer
If it had not been for Wurlitzer, I may not have written all the flash fiction in my award-winning chapbook, Superman on the Roof, part of a novel in flash fiction, short fiction and novellas, which I'll be working on during my stay at Wurlitzer Summer of 2021. I’m grateful for the time and solitude Wurlitzer has allowed me to continue my work.
Ayden Graham
songwriter
My time at the HWF was nothing short of transformational. It was utter madness inside my head, wrapped within the peaceful eye of the storm, my cozy casita #3. I wrangled with my demons, flirted with the muse, tickled the ivories, cooked delicious meals, and stayed up way too late practicing violin arpeggios. During my time I finessed my looper pedal board, recorded demos, catalogued unfinished songs, finished...
Erik Jackson
playwright
My time at the Wurlitzer Foundation was absolutely transformational. The location is idyllic, the support is absolute, and inspiration is everywhere. I loved being able to set my own schedule and to socialize as much or as little as I desired. The wonderful casitas are close enough to the town when you need to run errands, stock up on groceries, get coffee or a bite—but they have the feeling of being off the bea...
Eileen Tabios
writer
I am appreciative of and grateful for my time at The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation.
Shirley Tipping
visual arts
My time at the HWF allowed me to re-focus and re-channel my energies into my photographic and writing practices. Amidst the magic and beauty of New Mexico, surrounded by fellow artists, given the gift of time, and away from domestic distractions, I left feeling re-balanced.
Rita Ciresi
writer
It was a great privilege to spend two months in Taos as a fellow at the Wurlitzer Foundation. I finished a novel and generated the first draft of another while in residence. I am so grateful to the Foundation!
William Malpede
filmscoring
My residency at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos was one of the most profound and life-changing experiences of my life to date. I would encourage every artist to apply for the Residency. The solitude, and the gift of time to reflect, work, and soul search combined with the special energy of Taos provides a truly unique experience!
Susan Smereka
visual arts
Time, space, place and people - this convergence at HWF was life-altering. The freedom I experienced allowed my work to change in ways I didn't anticipate. Connections to other artists - now friends, has been an added bonus.
Rafaël Leloup
filmscoring
HWF is an amazing oasis where time stops and allows one to focus solely on their work for a few months. With so little distractions, such an amazing environment, gorgeous views, and clear air, I was able to finish many personal projects that were always set aside when in my regular workplace. I wish a similar experience to all future residents. Thanks to everyone at the Foundation!
Jory Mickelson
poet
My time at the Wurlitzer foundation was transformational. The residency allowed me the time and space to take an accumulation of my writing and shape it into a manuscript. I am so grateful for my stay and the ability to step away from my regular life and enter deeply into the life of my writing. Meeting and getting to know the other residents was wonderful. Also the opportunity to explore my surroundings--Norther...
Carol Luc
painter
My six weeks in Taos at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation were incredibly transformative. I "worked like a fiend" and enjoyed every moment, learning so much about the foundation, the city, the culture, the landscape and the region. I can close my eyes and feel it all over again. I met wonderful people, ate great food, planned a party. When I went home I had a new body of work. Thank you so much, HWF, for giving me t...
Tanya Husain Palit
songwriter
My winter at the Wurlitzer Foundation was deeply transformational. Having time and space for creative reflection and learning about the indigenous history of this area has forever changed me and my perspective as a settler on this land. I am so grateful to the Foundation and to the Pueblo people, their ancestors and descendants.
George Scott MacLeod
painter
I am grateful to have had the opportunity to attend the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico twice as young artist. The residencies gave me the focused time I needed to develop my skills and shape my ideas. I carry the incredible residency experiences, memories and colleagues with me. It was a life changing experience which I reflect on with great fondness. Thank you HWF and staff for making it all such a def...
David Cote
playwright
The three months I spent at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in fall 2022 was a period of gentle introspection and steady, satisfying work. I won’t lie; past residencies lasted only three or four weeks, and the extended period offered by Wurlitzer was both exciting and intimidating. I had been to New Mexico about fifteen years earlier as a tourist, and now felt challenged to melt into the place, at least temporar...
Kareem Tayyar
poet
Simply put, the summer I spent as a Wurlitzer Fellow was one of the very best experiences of my life. Taos is a magical place, and those three months filled me with a happiness I have carried with me ever since.
Robert Kostka
painter
[1975] The Foundation continues to be an important aspect of my work... I always seem to develop new ideas, new themes and approaches while I'm here. Perhaps just as important, I discard the old ones as well. I am grateful to the Foundation for all it has contributed to my personal growth.
Cheryl Durden
writer
I enjoyed a 5-month writing residency at The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico - 1/97 through 6/97. This was, I believe, the first winter that the foundation's homes were open to residents. I didn't understand it at the time, but my stay at HWF was the perfect transition stop; it became the crossroads of my life and key to making the decision to leave the corporate world and connect more fully with ...
Jack Ortiz
writer
At the HWF I felt a strong creative energy, on the grounds and in my lovely casita. There I was able to start from scratch a novel, the first long project I truly believe in. Shoutout to the staff who were so warm and welcoming.
N. Scott Momaday
writer
This is to greet you warmly and to thank you sincerely for your generous assistance. I do indeed very much appreciate the accommodations you made available to me. Not only were they comfortable; they were exactly appropriate to my purpose, and I got a lot of work done. To tell you the truth, I miss the rituals of getting out of my Taos bed and opening the curtains on that splendid view of snow falling in the tre...
Larry Calcagno
painter
...There were lots of people at the opening and both shows look good! - But I'm exhausted and am looking forward to just painting and some peace and quiet again. I shall busy myself preparing for an April show... I am grateful for the opportunities in my work that the Foundation has made possible. [from 1973 letter to H.A.S.]
Kathleen Kelly
poet
Serenity. Productivity. Generosity... Apt descriptors of the three months I lived and wrote as a poet-resident at Casita #10S. Pink-kissed mornings inspired aubades, the magpies’ constant chatter influenced the aural sensibility of my new work, and the ever-pervasive pinyon distilled an acute sense of olfactory responsibility in my verse... This time—seemingly enchanted and surreal yet nonetheless real--create...
Ryan Matthews
writer
I was looking for a period of solitude, to escape the weight of the last two years and thoroughly examine my artistic practice. I needed to focus on the puzzles of the work all day, every day. At the Wurlitzer Foundation, free of responsibilities and distractions, but surrounded by the like minded - I had the space to finally pursue risks in my writing and embrace creative challenges.
Louise Minks
painter
I really became embedded in the Taos area while I was at the Wurlitzer and especially so because my project was about the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. I relished my days of exploring the region,hours of research in the public library and becoming comfortable with a town full of cultural material so different from my Midwestern and New England experience. I became so attached to New Mexico that I determined to "find a ...
Clemonce Heard
poet
Where I met my soul poet. Enchanting to say the least.
Frank Avella
playwright
In many respects, my residency at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation saved my life. This is not hyperbole. I wasn't even certain I would be able to accept the residency. My mamma had fallen very ill. She died a few days before I was scheduled to leave. I was beyond devastated. The day after the memorial, my husband packed me up into my Jeep and insisted I take the trek to Taos. And what a trek. I drove into TWO typho...
Debra Kaye
music composition
I am ever-grateful for the opportunity to be at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. The respect and confirmation for my work early in my career, helped me honor myself as an artist. The gift of unfettered time in such a beautiful place and the sense of community with the other residents, fed my creativity. The experience continues to inspire my artistic life with a sense of openness to this day.
John Anton
writer
For me, spending another summer in Taos in Mrs. Wurlitzer's company meant the reaffirmation in my faith in culture.
Barbara Claus
visual arts
When I was invited to attend the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation residency, in 2008, it was a crucial period in my artistic path. I so needed time to reconnect with studio practice and it gave me a great opportunity to trust myself, experiment different things and find new confidence in my work. I also enjoyed very much the casita, the natural environment, cycling, going to the farmer’s market, visiting museums, art...
Andrea Clearfield
classical
I have no words to express how wonderful and productive and connected this time has been. I was utterly inspired! Thank you for everything! With much gratitude and appreciation.
Vineetha Mokkil
writer
The residency at the Wurlitzer is a gift I'll always treasure. The magic of Taos continues to influence my life and work. After having spent a very productive three months there, I'm convinced no other place or community on earth cherishes creative spirits with such kindness and generosity.
Yulia Pinkusevich
painter
The Wurlitzer was an important residency and moment in my life who's impact has lasted for over a decade.
Ferdinand Rosa
painter
A truly inspirational moment in my life! Thank you Helene Wurlitzer for your ongoing gift to the Arts in America.
(Laurie) Franciszka Voeltz
poet
When director Michael Knight told my fellow residents and I that our time at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation was to be used in whatever way best serves work and our selves (whether that meant sleeping for three months or writing every day for ten hours a day or anywhere in between), I took it to heart. It was precisely that kind of non-pressure, generous support and trust that allowed me to push through some major...
Kenneth Fuchs
classical
I had the most extraordinary experience as a fellow at HWF during the summer of 1988. I fell in love with the Land of Enchantment and have returned to New Mexico many times since. I am pleased to tell you that my fifth Naxos recording with the London Symphony Orchestra won the 2018 GRAMMY Award in the most coveted category, Best Classical Compendium
Jean-Marc Felzenszwalbe
painter
Taos light, talking with Henry Sauerwein will allways stay in my memory as an inspiring moment.
Fred Smith
painter
I was honored and delighted to be awarded the Wurlitzer Residency. Having visited New Mexico over many years, by living and painting in Taos for three months, I was inspired and stimulated by the land, the people, the arts community, and the comradery of my fellow resident artists.
Colleen Morton Busch
writer
My stay in HWF was a long time ago, just after I’d returned from living in Beijing. I needed a place to lay down the foundations of a manuscript about my experience in China. HWF gave me the gift of time and space, and the bonus of being surrounded by beauty and artistic fellowship. I set that manuscript aside to work on other projects, but recently, I rescued it from a drawer and knew exactly what I needed to d...
Anjana Appachana
writer
Being at Wurlitzer was like a long meditation. It allowed me to reach another level of consciousness and to live and work in this space for over three months. From here flowed my writing, and oh, how it flowed.
Howard Sherman
visual arts
Wonderful gift of space and time to focus on my work.
Jessamine Chan
writer
My three months at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation were the happiest, most fulfilling, and most productive of my life. I’ve been home for seven months now, and every single day I think, with great longing, about Taos, my casita, my desk, the view from my window, the mountains, and the walk through town. I miss the sense of time expanding and I miss the light. You’ll see the most beautiful sunsets in Taos, and ...
Maria Anderson
writer
My stay at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation was incredible. The time and space given to us there was a great gift. Three months really gives you the time to delve deeply into projects, and I was able to begin a novel I've been thinking about for some time. I also revised short stories for my collection. Back at home in Bozeman, Montana, I'm still daydreaming of my desk in my casita, of long runs on the trails near ...
Steven Schneider
poet
My residency at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation was truly transformative and inspirational. I was able to use my time in Casita Number 3 to finish the manuscript for my book The Magic of Mariachi. The executive director at that time, Michael Knight, was extremely helpful and supportive. Moreover, I came to know and love Taos, which has a very special place in my heart. Saludos and Kudos to the Wurlitzer Foundation!
Leon Syfrit
photographer
The moment I arrived, I knew my time here would live within me far beyond my physical departure.
Jean Francis
visual arts
In 2013 I was awarded a 3 month fellowship at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos. This was a profound experience for me as an artist. Time to spend away from my life in Canada, pursue and concentrate on the work, experience another environment and it just allowed time. The wonderful support and kindness from Michael Knight is a memory that stays with me. I am grateful for the time.
Dienke Nauta
visual arts
The work period at the Wurlitzer has had a huge impact on me and my work. It gave me back my work flow and it has brought me a more playful and organic approach. I can't live without creating. The fact that I was able to create without the pressure of an upcoming show or having to work my night job, gave me such a breather. Art is Spirit. I saw that in one of Helene Wurlitzer's rooms of the main house, where the D...
Devreaux Baker
poet
I feel fortunate to be in residence at the Wurlitzer for many reasons. Not only does it afford me the time to work undisturbed but it also allows me the space in which to be continually inspired by the work of a diverse range of artists, musicians and writers who make up the town of Taos. What greater gift for an artist than to have the solitude to create in a landscape that continually inspires.
Paula Schmidt West
writer
I will be grateful all my life for the gift of time provided to me by the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and for the profound kindness of Nic Knight and my fellow artists in residence. This is a special place to grow.
Jane Isakson
painter
From September through December 2018 I had the pleasure to participate in the Helene Wurlitzer Artist Residency. This was an amazing opportunity to think and experiment and find clarity of focus as I embark upon creating a new body of work. The landscape and community and fellow artist residents made for a supportive and simulating environment. I can only describe my time there as magical.
Natacha Sels
writer
These three months of legitimate leave were grandiose. I finally tasted the state of serendipity, this opening that allows to discover what we do not seek! The first residency allowed me to reconnect with my child's soul and to understand that the game is a royal road to creativity and trust. And during the second, I was able to work with concentration on a novel that will soon be published here in France.
Ling-lin Ku
sculptor
The moment I arrived in Taos I knew I was in love with this place. My time at HWF was like a sweet dream full of tree leaves, magic light, and crispy air. It was my honor to have this time and solitude to focus on my work and myself. I came back home refreshed with new inspirations and friendships.
Robin Cole
visual arts
My time with the Wurlitzer Foundation was transformative in so many ways. There, during my uninterrupted working hours, I developed a new mixed media drawing technique that I still use and teach, and continued to explore oil painting--relatively new to me at that time, but now my primary medium. The peace and beauty of the landscape and the amazing intellectual and personal company of the other residents were a so...
Charles Hamm
classical
In addition to the work I managed to get done this summer and the ideas I was exposed to, I feel enormously refreshed. I feel optimistic about the coming year and capable of getting even more done.
Judith Arcana
poet
My first stay was a kind of paradise -- and my second stay was another kind of paradise. Whenever I think of those weeks and months, I am awash in gratitude.
Lourdes Bernard
painter
This residency had a profound impact on me and my work. The Wurlitzer Foundation's mission is a gift of time to artists and I will always be grateful for the space and support this fellowship generously offers. The setting is historic and the landscape is breathtaking. I was there during the winter and it helped me to fall in love with winter....the stillness and quiet coaxed new ways of making work and re-ignite...
Leah Grams Johnson
songwriter
That summer in New Mexico, I grieved the distance between who I was, and I thought I’d be, at that point in my life. It was the most powerful and transformative three months I’ve ever experienced— guiding me back to the raw wilderness of my own intuition, as an artist and as a woman.
Nicole Schmölzer
painter
I keep thinking about my two Wurlitzer experiences and they are still very much alive. So many years later, the memories are not only still nourishing, but I feel deeply grateful to Helene for having had such a great vision and for still finding the right people who are able to continue her legacy in such a unique and understanding dedication to her will and to the creative people. A real gift.
Robert C Ellis
painter
My Wurlitzer Foundation grant has given me the time and freedom to study myself and my painting. It has given me time for concentrated creativity, time to select the best from my experiences both past and present.
Andrew Porter
writer
I absolutely loved my time at The Wurlitzer Foundation. I can't think of a more inspiring or supportive environment in the country.
Tana Wojczuk
writer
This experience entirely changed my life. It was my first residency, I was leaving an abusive relationship and finally trying to write full time. I've since been writing and teaching writing and my first book comes out this July! Thank you.
Carolyn Gage
playwright
This residency gave me time... three months of time. I was not only able to move forward with new work, but I also had the luxury to finish up those dozens of projects that had been "hanging fire" for years. Invaluable!
Leandro Vesco
writer
One of the best moments of my life, I spent in the Casitas of the Foundation, writing, and then walking and talking with so many friends! Greetings to everyone from Buenos Aires, especially Michael Knight, whom I always remember.
Arnito Fillion
music composition
This residency time at HWF was such a great experience. The campus provides such a perfect surrounding for creating in peace, with a very positive philosophy and deep concern about each artist well-being. Certainly one of the most productive time of my life !
Aaron Brown
painter
I would highly recommend the Wurlitzer Foundation residency to any artist. Helene Wurlitzer knew exactly what she was doing when she structured the program to provide maximum creative freedom, with minimal expectation. The time spent at my casita and with my fellow residents was pleasant, positive and productive. I'm very grateful for the experience.
Tom Cho
writer
Definitely among the top artist residencies that I have done. The setting is near-perfect: a town that is rich in arts and culture, with access to much natural beauty. Each artist lives in their own casita and has twelve weeks of uninterrupted time to devote to their process. Delving into the foundation's long and fruitful history of nurturing artists made me all the more humbled to be part of this residency progr...
Melisa Tien
playwright
More and more, I believe that people are the defining feature of experience—more so than place, infrastructure, or resources; perhaps in an abstract and deeper sense, people *are* the place, infrastructure, and resources. This has certainly borne out in my time with the artists here at Wurlitzer, some of whom I imagine I'll break bread with for many years to come. The beauty of the artistic cohort became evident...
John Balaban
poet
My Wurlitzer stay was tonic. I wrote a novel and a book of poetry while there, during one long winter and, again, during another fall. Strangely enough, despite the isolation and its freedom to concentrate, I made more lifelong friends in the town of Taos than anywhere else I've lived. And the dramatic land and people around Taos were life-affecting.
Ron Strickland
writer
I remember my time at Wurlitzer with great fondness. New energy infused my work. Insights from that period continue to enliven my recent writing.
Laura Bennett
photographer
My time at the Helene Wurlitzer residency enabled me to work in a wonderful environment. The casita provided such a lovely warmth, and I experienced the first snow as well. There were times I felt complete, at peace and totally focused on my work. I created handmade books, cyanotype prints and shot 15 rolls of color film and 12 rolls of black and white. I brought my 8x10 camera and my medium format Hasselblad, a...
Roger Aplon
writer
It's very subtle, quick and profound. I'm speaking of the magical transformation, both personally and artistically, that takes place when you arrive in Taos and enter your private casita. This phenomenon has been spoken about and written about by artists of all stripes who have had the pleasure and the honor of being invited to The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation\'s unique settlement. The individual experiences range...
Peggy Diggs
visual arts
Of the residencies I've had, the Wurlitzer was ideally designed. To have my own house, my own studio, and a group of equally independent colleagues made for a situation where I could work intensively in isolation, do things with others when the mood hit, and focus focus focus. Those choices were so important to me. The good length of time, 3 months, also enabled that period of settling in to happen and then a soli...
Jeffrey Salloway
writer
What a privilege to join an elite group of artists, immersed in expression, sharing in fellowship!
Millee Tibbs
photographer
My time at the Wurlitzer Foundation has been one of my most productive residencies and rewarding artistic experiences. Northern New Mexico is an absolutely enchanting place that I hope to return to again and again.
C. Robert Jones
playwright
My three months in Taos at the Foundation were an incredible experience--giving me time to focus entirely on writing I LIKE IT HERE! which was published shortly thereafter. Casita # 8 was charming, a lovely little home. I'm especially grateful for the TLC of Michael and Tonie Knight who were sensational to all of us during our stay.
Anne Sanow
writer
Arriving in Taos during the quiet stillness of winter set the tone for a contemplative, productive writing season for me. The Wurlitzer Foundation provided a lovely place to make progress on a long-term project and to become acquainted with the town, the mountains, and the history all around me. It's true that there is something magical in this place.
Fiona Sze-Lorrain
poet
I think of my time in Taos with such gratitude, fondness, and joy: the quiet and mountains and friendships . . . I am much grateful to the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation for bringing this special place and its kind soul(s) into my life. Merci beaucoup.
Maggie Graber
poet
I've been fortunate to come to Taos for two residencies (winter/springs 2015, 2019) and each one was was so affirming and surprising in what it opened up in me and my work. After my second residency, I stayed in northern New Mexico for six more months, because I knew I wasn't going to be ready to leave at the end of the residency. Forever thankful to the Wurlitzer Foundation for believing in my work and providing ...
Theo Chandler
contemporary
My stay at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation was immensely transformative. With the time to write and reflect, I was able to come away from the residency with clearer goals for myself as an artist, as well as a more secure sense of my compositional abilities. I have not seen another program that offers such extended residencies - 2.5 months - and this amount of time was critical for my growth, allowing me to get tot...
Karen Kevorkian
poet
I love the solitude of the casitas. I came to love the town and the state and found much to think about. I return to Taos as often as I can.
Gonzalo Rodríguez Gómez
painter
I will always be grateful to the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Thanks to this opportunity I was fortunate to work in a dream studio for two and a half months, as well as enjoy the culture of Taos and the company of excellent people and incredible artists.
Loraine Veeck
painter
With the beautiful surroundings of Taos New Mexico as inspiration, I found my stay as a resident in Casita #1 very productive. Nic Knight and the staff at Wurlitzer were very supportive of my needs, and my residency will stand out as a wonderful memory in the years to come.
Shiuan Chang
contemporary
The stay at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation was transcendental. Three months of solitude, where I had to face many aspects of fear I could avoid due to the velocity of life. I listen to the fear, and the fear makes me stronger. I'll always be grateful to the foundation.
Matthew Rigney
writer
The three months I spent at the Wurlitzer Foundation were essential to my development as a writer. The residency gave me abundant time and a space in which to work, and as any artist knows, these are precious beyond value. I also connected with a community of other artists and made an important friendship that still endures. The residency showed me what the life-as-writer feels like absent all the complicating fac...
Lane Abernathy
contemporary
My time at the Wurlitzer foundation was not only personally and artistically transformational, but the most creative period of my career. It's simply impossible to put into words the experience of living on the campus, surrounded by the sublime beauty of Taos and northern New Mexico. Following the footsteps of some of the world's greatest artists to Taos, with the support and generosity of everyone at the Wurlitze...
Hee Sook Kim
visual arts
The residency in the Wurlitzer Foundation has transformed my artistic path every time I was in. The time was just inspiring and atmosphere was magical. I always enthusiastically recommend the residency to my fellow artists. The surrounding with Taos mountain is surreal.
Rachel Kaufman
poet
The Helene Wurlitzer residency was a time of blissful quiet, of solitude and meaningful companionship, of meadow writing and casita stories. I'm so grateful for this gift of stillness, enough stillness to finish a poetry manuscript and begin a new one. Thank you to Nic, Michael, Marcos, & Mitch for their care.
Jean Fineberg
contemporary
My time in Taos at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation was magical. The mountains, the people, and the air itself were infused with the engaging history of Taos, which I felt that wherever I went. I loved our resident planned Friday night hangouts. I value the discussions of our artistic practices, especially those in other disciplines. I think we all felt closer to each other and to all our art forms. Nic Knight wa...
Nell Cohen
classical
During my residency at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, I came into a different pace of living and of creativity. Arriving from bustling New York City, I discovered Taos's unmistakeable ease. This place encouraged a spaciousness and clarity of thought in my composing process. Sitting on the porch of my cozy casita, enjoying the scent of petrichor and cottonwoods after one of Taos's summer afternoon rainstorms, I s...
Andrea Fuhrman
painter
The stars. The quiet. The black widow spiders by the window outside. The large tables, paint and collage material, while I listen to the Native American radio station. The newspaper that lists arts events, exhibitions, openings. The sky and enormous billowing clouds. The altitude, drinking water, and more water. The 50 year old adobe dust, and my sneezes! The great natural bread at the grocery store. Friendly inte...
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Using the tools you have as a photographer—your equipment, imagination, and post processing options—this unique workshop provides a safe space for you to step outside your comfort zone, confront your fears, and gain a deeper understanding of your role and purpose as an artist. This transformative process ultimately provides a deeper understanding of yourself, your story, and your life’s path.
Through evocative writing exercises and photography prompts, Manuela guides you to explore creative vision, process, and practice. While discovering how to find inspiration and new ideas, you begin to uncover a deeper understanding of what it means to create original images and the importance of developing your vision.
Our mornings are spent in the classroom providing feedback for each other’s work, listening, writing, and sharing insights. In the afternoons, we spend time creating new images on location in and around Santa Fe. We experiment with self-portraiture and also photograph models. There is also time to take individual photo walks practicing mindful observation.
Manuela’s workshop is perfect for photographers who desire to dive deeper, grow in their confidence as an artist, and strengthen the belief that their work matters and makes a difference in this world. Journey to New Mexico and partake in the creative spirit that resides deep within the land.
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New Mexico - Politics, Economy, Culture: New Mexico’s constitution was adopted in 1911. In most instances it can be amended by a majority vote of the legislature and by a majority vote of the electorate. The state legislature is composed of the 42 members of the Senate, elected to four-year terms, and the 70 members of the House of Representatives, elected to two-year terms. Public referendums may be held on major issues. The governor heads the executive branch of government and generally has more authority than his or her counterpart in most states. Aside from having the powers of pardon, reprieve, and veto, the governor appoints
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New Mexico’s constitution was adopted in 1911. In most instances it can be amended by a majority vote of the legislature and by a majority vote of the electorate. The state legislature is composed of the 42 members of the Senate, elected to four-year terms, and the 70 members of the House of Representatives, elected to two-year terms. Public referendums may be held on major issues.
The governor heads the executive branch of government and generally has more authority than his or her counterpart in most states. Aside from having the powers of pardon, reprieve, and veto, the governor appoints most of the state boards, departments, agencies, and commissions. Like the lieutenant governor and other executive officials, the governor is elected for one four-year term. Officials are ineligible for state elective positions for four years thereafter, with the exception of the lieutenant governor, who may run for governor.
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The judicial branch of New Mexico’s government consists of the Supreme Court, the highest court in the state, and a Court of Appeals. There are five Supreme Court justices, who are elected for eight years, with overlapping terms. Judges of the state’s judicial districts are elected for six years and serve ex officio in juvenile courts.
Most of New Mexico’s 33 counties are administered by an elected board of commissioners. Other county elective officers include assessor, clerk, sheriff, surveyor, treasurer, and probate judge. In the territorial era, citizens usually favoured the Republican Party, but the Democratic Party has tended to dominate New Mexico’s politics since statehood. At the national level, the state voted for Republican presidential candidates in each election from 1968 to 1988, but it has since been considered a “swing” state; its congressional delegation is divided between the two parties. Bill Richardson, who was elected New Mexico’s governor in 2002 and again in 2006, has been prominent in national politics and is one of several Hispanic governors who have served the state. Each of New Mexico’s sovereign Native American groups elects a tribal council, which administers tribal affairs and represents the tribe in negotiations with the federal and state governments.
Education
A public school system was established in 1891, and today the educational standards in the urban centres are comparable to or superior to those in other Western states. Many rural and small-town schools remain substandard, however, and are hampered by inadequate financial support. Legalized segregation for Hispanic students and other ethnic minorities ended in the 1950s, but de facto segregation often remains, primarily in elementary schools.
The state’s largest institution of higher education is the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, established in 1889. Other state-supported institutions include New Mexico State University (1888) in Las Cruces, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (1889) in Socorro, Eastern New Mexico University (1934; formerly Portales University) in Portales, and Western New Mexico University (1893) in Silver City. Northern New Mexico Community College at El Rito, originally established in 1909 to train Spanish speakers to become teachers, has branches at Española and Santa Fe. The state universities have established branch campuses, while some cities have organized junior colleges. There are also several private colleges. A facility of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory is about 50 miles (80 km) west of Socorro. There, large radio telescopes are used to study astronomical objects.
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Recent repeated excursions to New Mexico (if only in my mind and photo archives) resurrected thoughts of another essay long wanting to be written. If you remember the listing of literary luminaries who enjoyed Mabel Dodge Luhan’s hospitality and patronage from my post If These Walls Could Talk, Willa Cather’s name was among them. Willa…
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Recent repeated excursions to New Mexico (if only in my mind and photo archives) resurrected thoughts of another essay long wanting to be written. If you remember the listing of literary luminaries who enjoyed Mabel Dodge Luhan’s hospitality and patronage from my post If These Walls Could Talk, Willa Cather’s name was among them.
Willa Cather (1873-1947) was one of America’s best-known and most widely read writers in the first half of the 20th century and joined the pantheon of Pulitzer prize-winning authors in 1923 for her WWI novel, One of Ours. My husband and I set out on a literary pilgrimage to Willa Cather’s childhood home in Red Cloud, Nebraska, in the autumn of 2015, and I summarized my impressions in a previous post, A Visit to Catherland.
During that trip I became the proud owner of Willa Cather’s fictional creations and subsequently read one volume after the other. Apart from One of Ours, My Ántonia, one of her so-called prairie novels, might be most familiar as it has been required reading for generations of America’s students. She will be forever connected in the public’s mind with Nebraska’s Great Plains, but several stories play in different settings—New Mexico among them, which she explored multiple times and whose natural and cultural landscapes intrigued her.
In Willa Cather Living: A Personal Record, by Edith Lewis, Willa’s companion of over 40 years, Edith relays an episode that says much about both Mabel Dodge Luhan and Willa Cather (to whom she always refers formally):
On one of Willa Cather’s returns to Santa Fé from her journeys about the country, Mabel Luhan called on her and asked her to visit her at her hacienda in Taos. With one or two exceptions, Willa Cather never visited anyone; and at this time especially she wanted to be absolutely free to follow her own devices. But Mabel Luhan was very persistent, in a quiet persuasive way. She offered Willa Cather one of her guest houses to stay in…and promised that she should never be bothered by anyone….Willa Cather finally agreed to come for two or three days….Although Willa Cather had intended to make a very brief visit, we stayed for more than two weeks.
Her two visits to Mabel Luhan—for she stayed with her a second time the following summer—were very rewarding to Willa Cather. Mabel Luhan—essentially an artist herself—knew the conditions that contribute to an artist’s work, and was able to create them. She had, too, a large, ungrudging generosity toward people she admired; one felt that she enjoyed helping them toward their aim and seeing them realize their desires.
Tony Luhan, Mabel’s husband, captivated many visitors who stayed with the couple and Willa Cather was no exception. Edith describes his influence as follows:
Willa Cather was very much impressed with Tony Luhan, and felt an instant liking and admiration for him. He was a splendid figure, over six feet tall, with a noble head and dignified carriage; there was a great simplicity and kindness in his voice and manner….from Tony, Willa Cather learned many things about the country and the people that she could not have learned otherwise. He talked very little, but what he said was always illuminating and curiously poetic. Although Eusabio in “Death Comes for the Archbishop” is a Navajo…, I think his character was essentially drawn from Tony Luhan.
Incidentally, Willa Cather and Edith Lewis also stayed with the Lawrences on their ranch north of Taos during one of those trips (click here for my post D.H. Lawrence in New Mexico).
During her repeated sojourns in New Mexico, Willa Cather absorbed everything she could about the land and its people and turned it into grist for her creative mill. When I first saw the book title of Death Comes to the Archbishop, thoughts of a murder-mystery came unbidden, even though I should have known better, based on what I had already learned about the author. And while the titular archbishop does not suffer murder, the narrative delves into the mysterious world of faith and religion by following the peregrinations of a Catholic priest in New Mexico in the 19th century.
The lives of numerous Native tribes at home in the Americas were upended with the arrival of the Spanish, who occupied vast expanses of land and claimed it for the Spanish Crown after the 1521 conquest of the Aztec Empire, thereby establishing New Spain. New Mexico was one of New Spain’s kingdoms and when Mexico became independent from Spain in 1821, New Mexico lay in the territory of that new nation. After the 1846-1848 Mexican-American War, it was ceded to the United States. 1850 saw the creation of the US Territory of New Mexico, and on January 6, 1912, New Mexico became the 47th US state.
With the Spanish Conquistadors came Catholicism and about 34% of New Mexico’s adult population still identifies as Catholic today. Willa Cather, who grew up Baptist and later became Episcopalian, was fascinated by Catholicism and its influence in New Mexico. In Death Comes to the Archbishop, she fictionalizes the life of Jean-Baptiste Lamy (1814-1888), a French-born Roman Catholic priest and eventual Archbishop of Santa Fe, who becomes Jean Marie Latour in her novel.
After the 1927 publication of Death Comes for the Archbishop, the author explained her motivations for writing it to her admiring audience:
I had all my life wanted to do something in the style of legend, which is absolutely the reverse of dramatic treatment. Since I first saw the Puvis de Chavannes frescoes of the life of St Genevieve in my student days, I have wished that I could try something like that in prose; something without accent, with none of the artificial elements of composition. In The Golden Legend [a medieval collection of hagiographies] the martyrdoms of the saints are no more dwelt on than are the trivial incidents of their lives; it is as though all human experiences, measured against one supreme spiritual experience, were of about the same importance. The essence of such writing is not to hold the note—not to use an incident for all there is in it—but to touch and pass on.
It is in this spirit of slight detachment that in Death Comes to the Archbishop, New Mexico’s geography, flora, fauna, and humanity are presented through the eyes of a Catholic priest who comes here from a different world. And even though his responsibility is to convert nonbelievers, and to bring religion and ritual back to those Catholics who lived without the ministrations of priests for decades, if not centuries on account of their geographical isolation, the fictional Latour does not belong to the group of “fire and brimstone” clerics and is depicted as a rather sympathetic figure who is interested as much in nature, culture, and human accomplishments as in religion. While some Catholic priests are portrayed as selfish and exploitative of their flock, one looks in vain for criticism of the Church as a whole, or its role in the often forced conversion of America’s Indigenous groups who had practiced their own beliefs and traditions for centuries, if not millennia.
In order to illustrate this book’s (beautiful-to-my-ears) style, and to cover a range of topics, I chose several rather longish quotes:
The traveler dismounted, drew from his pocket a much worn book, and baring his head, knelt at the foot of the cruciform tree. …A young priest, at his devotions; and a priest in a thousand, one knew at a glance. His bowed head was not that of an ordinary man, —it was built for the seat of a fine intelligence. His brow was open, generous, reflective, his features handsome and somewhat severe. There was a singular elegance about the hands….Everything showed him to be a man of gentle birth—brave, sensitive, courteous. His manners, even when he was alone in the desert, were distinguished. He had a kind of courtesy toward himself, toward his beasts, toward the juniper tree before which he knelt, and the God whom he was addressing.
In all his travels the Bishop had seen no country like this. From the flat red sea of sand rose great rock mesas, generally Gothic in outline, resembling vast cathedrals. They were not crowded together in disorder, but placed in wide spaces, long vistas between….The sandy soil of the plain had a light sprinkling of junipers, and was splotched with masses of blooming rabbit brush, —that olive-coloured plant that grows in high waves like a tossing sea, at this season covered with a thatch of bloom, yellow as gorse, or orange like marigolds.
The two priests rode side by side into Los Ranchos de Taos….The inhabitants were all gathered in the square before the church. When the Bishop dismounted to enter church, the women threw their shawls on the dusty pathway for him to walk upon and as he passed through the kneeling congregation, men and women snatched for his hand to kiss the Episcopal ring. In his own country all this would have been highly distasteful for Jean Marie Latour. Here, these demonstrations seemed a part of the high colour that was in landscape and gardens, in the flaming cactus and the gaudily decorated altars, —in the agonized Christs and dolorous Virgins and the very human figures of the saints. He had already learned that with this people religion was necessarily theatrical.
In the working of silver or drilling of turquoise the Indians had exhaustless patience; upon their blankets and belts and ceremonial robes they lavished their skills and pains. But their conception of decoration did not extend to the landscape. They seemed to have none of the European’s desire to “master” nature, to arrange and re-create. They spent their ingenuity in the other direction; in accommodating themselves to the scene in which they found themselves. This was not so much from indolence, the Bishop thought, as from an inherited caution and respect….The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.
Bishop Latour had one very keen worldly ambition; to build in Santa Fé a cathedral which would be worthy of a setting naturally beautiful. As he cherished this wish and meditated upon it, he came to feel that such a building might be a continuation of himself and his purpose, a physical body full of his aspirations after he had passed from the scene.
The narrative ends with the death of the aged Archbishop Latour of natural causes, after the completion of his dream church in the center of Santa Fe (minus the steeples on the two towers, which have remained unfinished). This corresponds to the real life of Archbishop Lamy, who was responsible for the construction of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in Santa Fe, starting in 1869, and where he was buried in 1888 following his death of pneumonia at the age of 73.
Built in a Romanesque Revival style by French architects and Italian stonemasons, the edifice is strikingly different from New Mexico’s predominantly adobe-style churches. The cathedral was built at the site of a previous church with roots dating back as far as 1610. The original structure was replaced in 1630, but was destroyed during the Pueblo Revolt in 1680. In 1714, a new church was erected only to be replaced by Lamy’s cathedral, with the exception of a small preserved chapel. This is dedicated to La Conquistadora (Our Lady of Peace), a sculpture brought to this continent from Spain in 1625 and thought to be the oldest representation of the Virgin Mary in the United States.
Willa Cather’s visit to this Cathedral served as one of her inspirations to write Death Comes to the Archbishop. Having read her “legend” inspired us to visit what has become one of Santa Fe’s best-known landmarks.
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The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, California, has acquired the archive of the artist, writer, curator, and scholar Harmony Hammond. The donation includes correspondence, photographs, original source material for her art, professional papers, publication drafts, editioned prints, original artwork, files, and a slide registry devoted to lesbian artists.
The Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have been awarded a $506,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to establish a new Summer Institute for Technical Studies in Art. The program, designed for graduate students from art-history programs across North America who are interested in broadening their experience with object-focused technical inquiry, methodologies, and instruction, will begin in June 2017.
The Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have received a $1 million gift from a Harvard Business School alumnus, Ken Hakuta, to establish the Hakuta Family Endowment Fund, enabling the creation of the Nam June Paik Fellowship at the Harvard Art Museums. Hakuta is the nephew of the pioneering artist Nam June Paik.
John Cabot University in Rome, Italy, has inaugurated a new MA program in art history to begin in fall 2017. Accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, the degree is the first US-accredited master’s degree in the history of art based entirely in Rome. The program can be completed in approximately fifteen months of full-time study.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia has received a generous $500,000 gift from Julie Jensen Bryan and Robert Bryan to name the PAFA Printmaking Shop. This transformative commitment ensures that printmaking will remain one of the school’s core artistic disciplines.
The Princeton University Art Museum in Princeton, New Jersey, has posted to its website more than five thousand images and related photographic material by the seminal American modernist Minor White. The two-year digitization and cataloging project, funded in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, provides online access for the first time to the most significant photographic content of the Minor White Archive, which includes finished prints, artist’s proof cards, and bibliographic history.
The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, has surpassed its campaign goals for both financial gifts and significant art gifts, amassing a combined total of $105 million with more than one year remaining in the campaign. The $65 million cash goal was exceeded by $3 million, funds supporting the Renwick Gallery renovation, an education center for the museum’s National Historic Landmark building, and the museum’s endowments. The campaign will continue through 2017 with a focus on additional artworks and endowments to support curatorial, technology, and education initiatives.
Tatiana Flores, associate professor in the Department of Art History at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, with a joint appointment in the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies, has won a 2016 award from the Arts Writers Grant Program, coordinated by Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Her grant will support a book, titled Art and Visual Culture under Chávez.
Marina Kassianidou, an artist and writer based in Boulder, Colorado, has received a $25,000 award from the Joan Mitchell Foundation’s 2016 Painters and Sculptors Grant Program.
Beili Liu, an artist based in Austin, Texas, has accepted a $25,000 grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation through the 2016 Painters and Sculptors Grant Program.
Christina Michelon, a doctoral candidate in art history at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, has received a $8,500 project grant via the 2016–17 Craft Research Fund, supervised by the Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design. The funds will support a dissertation focused on print’s relationship to domestic craft and interior design from 1830 to 1890.
Anya Montiel, a PhD student in American studies at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, has accepted a $4,500 project grant from the Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design through the 2016–17 Craft Research Fund. The funds will support dissertation research on government-funded basketry, pottery, and woodworking craft workshops in the 1960s and 1970s among the Florida Seminole, Mississippi Choctaw, and North Carolina Cherokee.
Klaus Ottmann, deputy director for curatorial and academic affairs at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, has been conferred the insignia of chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by Bénédicte de Montlaur, cultural counselor of the French Embassy in New York, on behalf of the French government.
Betsy Redelman, a student pursuing an MFA in craft studies at the Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland, has received a $3,705 graduate research grant from the Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design through the 2016–17 Craft Research Fund. The award will support thesis research on the neglected history of indigenous women potters in San Marcos Tlapaola, a small pueblo in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Margaret Samu, a freelance art historian based in New York, has been awarded the 2016 Mary Zirin Prize for independent scholarship from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies.
Maureen G. Shanahan, professor of history of art for the School of Art, Design, and Art History at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, has received a Fulbright Award for research in France from March to June 2017. The grant, entitled “World War I and the Colonial Legacy: Sites of Memory, Traces of Forgetting,” will support two projects: planning for a conference on the representation of the colonial subject during and after WWI; and archival research on a monograph, tentatively entitled Silence, Surveillance, and Psychiatry: Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault and the French Colonial Subject (1914–34).
Andrew Uroskie, director of graduate studies for the MA/PhD program in art history and criticism at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York, has won a 2016 award from the Arts Writers Grant Program, administered by Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The grant will support his book, titled The Kinetic Imaginary: Robert Breer and the Animation of Postwar Art.
Laura A. L. Wellen, a writer and curator based in Houston, Texas, has earned a 2016 award from the Arts Writers Grant Program, coordinated by Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The grant will support a blog called Piedrín.
Soyoung Yoon, program director and assistant professor of art history and visual studies in the Department of the Arts at the New School’s Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts in New York, has received a 2016 awards via the Arts Writers Grant Program, supervised by Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The funds will support an article titled “The Evidence of Things Not Heard: On Mendi + Keith Obadike’s Numbers Station.”
The Archives of American Art, part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, has received a three-year grant of up to $900,000 from the Walton Family Foundation to support the ongoing digitization of the archives’ collection, enabling the organization to double its current rate. The Archives of American Art is obliged to match the grant, to be given in three installments.
The Archives of American Art, part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, has announced a long-term partnership with the Terra Foundation for American Art to support the digitization of the archives’ collections. Terra has made a $4.5 million commitment, $4 million of which is a challenge grant to be matched by the Smithsonian, to seed an endowment for ongoing digitization. The remaining $500,000 will provide operating support for the current digitization program.
California State University, Long Beach, has received a grant from the Graham Foundation to support an exhibition, Robert Irwin: Site Determined, at the University Art Museum.
The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, California, has acquired the archive of the artist, writer, curator, and scholar Harmony Hammond. The donation includes correspondence, photographs, original source material for her art, professional papers, publication drafts, editioned prints, original artwork, files, and a slide registry devoted to lesbian artists.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has reaffirmed its long-term cooperative partnership with the Ministry of Culture of the Government of India by renewing a Memorandum of Understanding for five additional years.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has been named the world’s top museum in TravelAdvisor’s Travelers’ Choice Awards, based on the quality and quantity of reviews and ratings over a twelve-month period, for the second year in a row.
The Museum of Modern Art in New York has received a grant from the Graham Foundation to support an exhibition, Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive, scheduled for June 12–October 1, 2017.
Parsons School of Design in New York has opened the Parsons Making Center at the New School, a hub for a network of making spaces that provide university students with state-of-the-art tools to design projects in a range of disciplines.
Princeton University Art Museum in Princeton, New Jersey, has received a $150,000 Museums for America grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to support the ongoing Collections Discovery Initiative, designed to ensure that Princeton’s Asian art collection can be shared with the broadest possible audiences, especially with scholars and researchers. The grant will allow the museum to enhance and standardize the cataloguing of its Asian art holdings, develop rich educational materials, and restructure its Asian art microsite into an in-depth sustainable resource with an innovative new interface.
The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, has launched Renwick Gallery WONDER 360, an immersive 360-degree virtual-reality app for Apple and Android mobile devices. The app allows audiences to explore the entirety of the museum’s 2015–16 exhibition WONDER, presented at its Renwick Gallery, in 3D; it also expands the visitor experience through emerging technologies and is the first virtual-reality mobile app the Smithsonian has offered.
The Society of Architectural Historians, based in Chicago, Illinois, has received a grant from the Graham Foundation to support a public program, a half-day seminar on “Making and Re-Making Glasgow: Heritage and Sustainability,” at its upcoming conference in Scotland.
The University of Houston in Texas has created a new College of the Arts, comprising the School of Art, the Moores School of Music, the School of Theatre and Dance, the Blaffer Art Museum, the Cynthia Mitchell Woods Center for the Arts, the Center for Arts Leadership, and the Graduate Program for Arts Management.
The Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library in Winterthur, Delaware, has received a $110,759 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for a project on preventive care for metal objects, which Winterthur deems its highest conservation treatment priority.
Devon Baker, a PhD student in art history at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been awarded a 2016–17 Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She will conduct research for her dissertation, which explores print culture in Renaissance Lombardy, using printmaking to examine larger themes of mobility, north-south exchange, and transmateriality.
Amy Beecher, an artist based in New York and Providence, Rhode Island, has received a fall 2016 fellowship from the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, in the interdisciplinary artist category.
Daniella Berman, a doctoral candidate at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, has been awarded a 2016–17 Theodore Rousseau Fellowship by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to work on her dissertation, which considers the unfinished history paintings of the French Revolution and identifies an emergent aesthetic of “unfinishedness” developed by artists in response to the shifting sociopolitical landscape.
Douglas Brine, associate professor of art history at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, has accepted a 2016–17 J. Clawson Mills Scholarship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to undertake research and writing for his book project, “The Art of Brass in the Burgundian Netherlands: Makers, Markets, Patrons, Products.”
Emily Casey, a PhD candidate in art history at the University of Delaware in Newark, has been given a Sylvan C. Coleman and Pam Coleman Memorial Fund Fellowship for 2016–17 by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She will examine representations of oceanic space in American art and material culture to show how colonial and early national identities were constructed in relation to these.
Joshua Cohen, assistant professor at City College, City University of New York, has received a 2016–17 Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to complete a book that tracks modernist appropriations of African sculpture by European and African artists between 1905 and 1980.
Joelle Dietrick, assistant professor of art and digital studies at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina, has accepted a Pollock-Krasner Foundation award to support her studio production during the 2016–17 academic year before she goes to Hamburg, Germany, for her Fulbright Global Award (April–July 2017). As part of the Fulbright, Dietrick will travel to Santiago, Chile, and Hong Kong, China, during the next two winter breaks.
Brad Hostetler, who earned a PhD in art history last year at Florida State University in Tallahassee, has been awarded a 2016–17 Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to complete revisions for a book project, “Enshrining Sacred Matter: The Form, Function, and Meaning of Reliquaries in Byzantium, 843–1204.”
Amy Huang, a doctoral candidate in the history of art and architecture at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and an adjunct lecturer for Boston University in Massachusetts, has received a 2016–17 Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She will research visual modes of remembrance in Chinese paintings through seventeenth-century Nanjing and investigate how memory operated through texts, images, and historic sites.
Frances Jacobus-Parker, a PhD student in art and archaeology at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, has been given a Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship for 2016–17 by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where he will work on the first comprehensive study of the oeuvre of the pivotal American artist Vija Celmins.
Samuel Johnson, who earned his PhD in the history of art and architecture at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2015, has been awarded a Leonard A. Lauder Fellowship by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In 2016–17 Johnson will study the effects of the papiers collés of Georges Braques and Pablo Picasso on the photographs of El Lissitzky, László Moholy-Nagy, and Man Ray.
Anna Jozefacka, an adjunct professor at Hunter College, City University of New York, has been awarded a 2016–17 Leonard A. Lauder Fellowship by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to conduct research on Cubism’s relationship to the evolution of modern architectural and interior design in the first three decades of the twentieth century.
Julia McHugh, a doctoral student in art history at the University of California, Los Angeles, has accepted a Douglass Foundation Fellowship in American Art for 2016–17 from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to work on her dissertation, which examines the ways in which patrons used tapestries and other textiles to adorn interiors, both domestic and sacred, in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Peru.
Patricia Miranda, an artist, curator, educator, and founder of MAPSpace, a gallery in Port Chester, New York, has completed an October 2016 residency at I-Park Residency in East Haddam, Connecticut.
Jiha Moon, an artist who lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia, has received a 2016 Artadia Award.
Elyse Nelson, a PhD candidate in the history of art at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, has been given a Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. During 2016–17 she will work on a dissertation that explores the Italian neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova’s renewed relationship with his British patrons after Napoleon’s defeat in 1814.
Giulia Paoletti, a core lecturer at Columbia University in New York, has been awarded a 2016–17 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowship by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to research and assist with the development and preparation for a planned reinstallation and renovation of the African art galleries.
John Richardson, professor of art and chair of the James Pearson Duffy Department of Art and Art History at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, has received the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Mid America College Art Association.
Miriam Said, a doctoral student in the history of art at the University of California, Berkeley, has accepted a 2016–17 Frances Markoe Fellowship by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to explore material-based mechanisms of ritual affect as it was manifested in and between the Near East and Greece in the first millennium BC.
John A. Tyson, a recent recipient of a PhD in art history from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, has joined the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, as a 2016–17 participant in the fellowship and internships program. He will assist the Department of Modern Art with research for the upcoming Rachel Whiteread retrospective and lead tours in the newly reinstalled East Building permanent and special exhibition galleries.
Aaron Wile, a PhD candidate in the history of art and architecture at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has accepted a Chester Dale Fellowship from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. During 2016–17 he will complete his dissertation, “Painting, Authority, and Experience at the Twighlight of the Grand Siècle, 1690–1721,” and begin transforming it into a book manuscript, consulting materials at the museum.
Katharine Wright, who earned her PhD in art history at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, in 2015, has been awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Research/Collections Specialist Fellowship for 2016–17 by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to catalogue the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art’s collection of American modernism.
Tara Zanardi, an associate professor at Hunter College, City University of New York, has accepted a 2016–17 Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to research the Porcelain Room at the Royal Palace in Aranjuez, a tour-de-force in its implementation and display of porcelain, the interior exemplifies Charles III’s innovative artistic and political strategies at court.
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With a new novel out, celebrated New Mexico crime writer Michael McGarrity talks about his work, his state, and his love for the American West.
As a former social worker and decorated cop, Michael McGarrity writes crime novels that ring truer than most, with authentic, flawed characters who are gripped by a constant emotional undercurrent, and the stress of the job, lack of sleep, and the cycles of gritty hope and despair burn like a low-grade fever.
The books also ring true for their Western settings and authentic observations about life — and death — in New Mexico. A longtime resident of Santa Fe, McGarrity routinely sets his stories in his home state. The hero in 14 of his books is Kevin Kerney, a brave and resolute police officer of unfailing integrity who toughs out his injuries to solve violent crime cases across New Mexico. The setting gives McGarrity the opportunity to eloquently describe a variety of stunning Western landscapes. It also allows for commentary on the loss of the American West to those who do not respect the land and instead sprawl across it.
Cowboys & Indians recently sat down with McGarrity to talk about his writing career, the retirement of Kevin Kerney, a new novel, and the author’s love of the American West.
C&I: People see places like New Mexico as wild and untamed, but that definition is changing as more people leave the cities for open space. What is happening to the American West?
Michael McGarrity: People tend to have a misconception about the West. They believe it still exists, when in fact much of the land is so developed that it is hard to recognize it as the West. They believe in what they think is a Western culture, when really it is more of a Western mythology — you can put on the cowboy costume but still be all-hat-and-no-cattle. Maybe that’s okay. My wife says life is a costume party. Unfortunately, she’s probably right.
C&I: Your novels often reference the demise of the American West, brought on by a newer population that does not respect its history.
McGarrity: Most people in the West live in a bifurcated world of reality and mythology. They embrace a worldview that isn’t urban, but it really is. Very few live outside the 21st-century concrete jungle. But the land of cactus and mesas, mountains and plains, valleys and river gorges — these are the places where true Westerners work the land to maintain their livelihoods. They stay connected to it and honor this heritage. But they often feel under attack from the ever-advancing suburbia and city dwellers’ misguided viewpoints about how to manage and use the land.
Authentic Westerners — pilgrims or natives — understand how their family histories are connected to the land and carry a deep appreciation of the people and cultures that are part of the West. It is a real place — not a movie set or a playground, or a beautiful backdrop for their lifestyles — with thousands of years of habitation and history, culture and art, tradition and spiritualism.
C&I: Speaking of authenticity, you spent your boyhood growing up in the country. Tell us a bit about your Western roots.
McGarrity: I have lived in New Mexico for 65 years. My mother was a rancher, a Montana cowgirl.
I grew up rural until my teenage years. Mom practiced tough love before it had a label. I was taught honesty and respect, to work hard, and to do as I was told. My mother’s family lost the ranch during the Great Depression, and they scattered to new places to begin again. The loss forever stayed with them, and it was just too painful to discuss.
C&I: Native Americans and their cultures are key parts of your books. How do you make sure your representation is accurate?
McGarrity: I rely on primary resources. For Head Wounds, I studied primary source materials on the Kickapoo Nation, particularly a University of Oklahoma Press publication, The Kickapoos: Lords of the Middle Border by Arrell M. Gibson.
The Kickapoo originated in the Upper Midwest but were driven westward, with one band of the tribe settling in northern Mexico, where they lived virtually forgotten for 150 years. The Kickapoo are uniquely compatible to the Apache in certain ways. Both have a strong tendency to turn inward, away from the prevailing culture of today, and try to maintain their culture and traditions in the face of the modern world.
Another key resource was Living Life’s Circle by Claire Farrer, who lived with the Mescalero Apache on their reservation in southern New Mexico for 15 years in the 1970s. Her work guided my description of the Apache ceremony in Head Wounds that celebrates the passing of the newly dead to the afterlife.
I also research the land, how it appears on the horizon, up close, far away in the distance, how it looks at sunset, in the fall, by moonlight. I study where my characters live and watch how colors and shadows shift as the sun moves or sets. I try to capture the drama and mystery of the land so it feels like the reader is actually touching it.
C&I: It might surprise people that, as a writer of fiction, you read a lot of nonfiction books. What sorts of nonfiction do you enjoy?
McGarrity: I especially like the personal and family stories that tend to be overlooked in larger-scale narrative nonfiction but that can be even more revealing. For example, Robert M. Utley’s Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865 gave me the idea for a secret stash of Army goods stolen by the Apache, which became a pivotal plot point in my first novel, Tularosa. Other favorites are Don Lohbeck’s Patrick J. Hurley, the life of the 19th-century Oklahoman who was Hoover’s Secretary of War, and Don Höglund’s Nobody’s Horses: The Dramatic Rescue of the Wild Herd of White Sands.
I do not read a lot of mystery. I have written 17 books about one New Mexican family, which are known both as crime novels and historical fiction, but as a whole they constitute one family’s saga over more than a century. I tend to stay away from mysteries because I do not want other writers’ voices in my head when I am working.
I do not have cable or satellite TV, therefore I have not watched Longmire, Yellowstone, or Deadwood. My favorite films are Dances With Wolves, Little Big Man, and Tom Horn, which was Steve McQueen’s last western movie.
C&I: How did you get started as a writer?
McGarrity: After I got out of the U.S. Army I was accepted at the University of New Mexico. I was surprised because I had always been told that I wasn’t very bright. As an undergraduate, I needed an easy three-credit course and took a short story creative writing class, knocked out three stories, got a good grade, and thought maybe I could be good at it someday. However, as I worked my way through college, I put that idea on the back burner.
Years later, after I received my master’s in clinical social work, I began writing journal articles, grant applications, and reports. I took a summer off to start working on a novel, but it wasn’t easy. I had to learn a whole new craft. It took me 14 years to see my first novel, Tularosa, in print. Even though I had to go back to work during the time I was writing it, I realized that if I was to become a serious writer, I had to either keep trying or fold my hand and give up. Luckily the decision was easy: I am married to an absolutely wonderful woman who told me to go for it, and I did.
McGarrity's Five Favorite Westerns
We asked Michael McGarrity for his top 10 favorite westerns. He said, “How about five?” We’ll take it! Herewith, from the famed New Mexico crime writer, three books he loves and two movies he says are standouts that are often overlooked.
Pasó Por Aquí. by Eugene Manlove Rhodes. “A great story. Rhodes was the real deal and most popular western writer of the early 20th century. He defined the genre. Don’t know of anybody who has filled his boots. Read the book to find out more.” The story, one of his most anthologized, was filmed in 1948 as Four Faces West, starring Joel McCrea in the lead role and Charles Bickford as Pat Garrett.
Lonesome Dove. by Larry McMurtry. “Jump ahead to the late 20th century and we have McMurtry’s classic. What a wild romp, even with his tendency to overwrite. No synopsis needed.”
Hondo. by Louis L’Amour. “The man was a born storyteller who didn’t waste words, and he sure wrote a lot of them. A L’Amour classic. John Wayne made the movie. The book is better.”
Hombre. “Starring Paul Newman and one of my favorite villains, Richard Boone. Written by Elmore ‘Dutch’ Leonard, who went on to forge a brilliant career as a crime novelist. A stock western, with a strong message about racial prejudice that carries throughout the film. And it’s Newman. What’s not to like?”
Open Range. “Starring Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall. Costner at his best not being Costner. A gunslinger escaping his hidden past is reluctantly forced to return to violence and finds love in return. A western with some real touches of romance. Amazing.”
— C&I Editors
C&I: How do your firsthand experiences in social work and law enforcement enrich your books?
McGarrity: As a clinician and cop, I learned all the skill sets I needed to conduct successful interviews and interrogations and also had many opportunities to use my knowledge of psychopathology. That, along with all the necessary real-world tools required to operate as a police officer and investigator, have informed my stories since the very beginning. The most gratifying compliments I receive come from lawyers, prosecutors, judges, and law enforcement professionals who tell me that I got it right.
C&I: You took a 10-year break (2006 to 2016) from Kevin Kerney to write the sweeping three-volume American West Trilogy Hard Country, Backlands, and The Last Ranch , which explores the history of the Kerney family from 1875 through World War II. What compelled you to pursue this decade-long quest?
McGarrity: Kerney is a mixture of modern cowboy and lawman, two strong Western traits that have an undeniable pull on me. As my protagonist’s backstory in the Kevin Kerney novels evolved, I became increasingly interested in exploring his antecedents, particularly because of his strong ranching history. The trilogy is the beginning of the Kerney family saga in New Mexico, and it was a story I absolutely had to write.
Vestiges of frontier life still exist on ranches throughout the West. Hard work, love of the land, fierce independence, strong family ties, loyalty to friends, and a helping hand to those in need are all attributes still prevalent among the families who by choice continue to farm and ranch. Let’s hope they endure and prosper.
C&I: You have told the world that you are finished writing about your main character, Kevin Kerney. What led to that decision?
McGarrity: With the Kerney novels, I had a template: what the characters did, how they acted, and the locations they experienced. I had all the supporting characters I could use when needed. I began relying on my past body of work too heavily. I ended the series because I was eager for a challenge to do something new and different. I also wanted to conclude the series on my terms. I did not want to be one of those writers whose writing chops start to diminish as their plots and characters become redundant and formulaic.
C&I: Tell us about your new novel, The Long Ago, due out July 4. The action moves from New Mexico to Montana.
McGarrity: The Long Ago is set in the 1960s with a scope that sweeps from Montana grasslands and mountains to the California cities and its rural inland valleys and high country. Much of the book draws on my own experiences during that era of turmoil. It is a story of a brother and sister, Montana born and raised, each separately trying to escape their troubled pasts and start anew. When the brother returns from the Army, he discovers his sister has vanished and starts to search for her. This book is actually a new and different type of Kerney spinoff: this time a history of Kevin Kerney’s wife’s family. It is a story about consequences and the impacts they have on their lives.
C&I: When you aren’t writing, how do you spend your spare time?
McGarrity: I read, go on dates with my bride of 60 years, play with my dog, and poke around hidden corners of New Mexico sniffing out inspiration and story ideas. I especially enjoy working on my small plot of paradise — a few acres outside Santa Fe — landscaping with native plants, trees, and grasses that are drought-tolerant.
C&I: You once described New Mexico as one of the most sun-scorched but beautiful places on Earth. Do you still feel that way?
McGarrity: I sometimes find myself at parties in Santa Fe, mingling with the rich and famous. They often talk about the lovely time they had in Vienna or Hong Kong. They live here, but they travel often to see fantastic places around the world. For me, it is far more interesting to see all of what New Mexico has to offer, its rich history and landscapes, historic villages, ghost towns, Native culture, and architecture. I have seen far more of New Mexico than I have of the world. I was once asked if I’d ever been to Paris, and I said, “Not yet, but I have been to [Wild West ghost town and Billy the Kid hangout] White Oaks, New Mexico.” I still have not been to Paris.
The Hillerman-McGarrity Writing Scholarship
Michael McGarrity and his good friend and fellow novelist Tony Hillerman established the Hillerman-McGarrity Creative Writing Scholarship at the University of New Mexico. "I met Tony when I was student at the university, and later, when I became a published novelist, he was extremely supportive," McGarrity says. "Later on, I approached him with a suggestion to start a creative writing scholarship in his name. He said he wouldn't do it unless it was in both of our names. It has been a huge honor to be associated with him in this way."
Endowed to foster growth of creative writing in New Mexico and awarded to graduate and undergraduate writers who have made the state their home or integrated the Southwest thematically into their work, the scholarship supports as many as four creative writing students annually. McGarrity also helped establish the Richard Bradford Memorial Creative Writing Scholarship at Santa Fe Community College and the N. Scott Momaday Creative Writing Scholarship at the Institute of American Indian Art.
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SANTA FE, N.M. — On any given day, someone somewhere is likely leading an Artist’s Way group, gamely knocking back the exercises of “The Artist’s Way” book, the quasi-spiritual manual for “creative recovery,” as its author Julia Cameron puts it, that has been a lodestar to blocked writers and other artistic hopefuls for more than a quarter of a century. There have been Artist’s Way clusters in the Australian outback and the Panamanian jungle; in Brazil, Russia, the United Kingdom and Japan; and also, as a cursory scan of Artist’s Way Meetups reveals, in Des Moines and Toronto. It has been taught in prisons and sober communities, at spiritual retreats and New Age centers, from Esalen to Sedona, from the Omega Institute to the Open Center, where Ms. Cameron will appear in late March, as she does most years. Adherents of “The Artist’s Way” include the authors Patricia Cornwell and Sarah Ban Breathnach. Pete Townshend, Alicia Keys and Helmut Newton have all noted its influence on their work.
So has Tim Ferriss, the hyperactive productivity guru behind “The Four Hour Workweek,” though to save time he didn’t actually read the book, “which was recommended to me by many megaselling authors,” he writes. He just did the “Morning Pages,” one of the book’s central exercises. It requires you write three pages, by hand, first thing in the morning, about whatever comes to mind. (Fortunes would seem to have been made on the journals printed to support this effort.) The book’s other main dictum is the “Artist’s Date” — two hours of alone time each week to be spent at a gallery, say, or any place where a new experience might be possible.
Elizabeth Gilbert, who has “done” the book three times, said there would be no “Eat, Pray, Love,” without “The Artist’s Way.” Without it, there might be no adult coloring books, no journaling fever. “Creativity” would not have its own publishing niche or have become a ubiquitous buzzword — the “fat-free” of the self-help world — and business pundits would not deploy it as a specious organizing principle.
The book’s enduring success — over 4 million copies have been sold since its publication in 1992 — have made its author, a shy Midwesterner who had a bit of early fame in the 1970s for practicing lively New Journalism at the Washington Post and Rolling Stone, among other publications, and for being married, briefly, to Martin Scorsese, with whom she has a daughter, Domenica — an unlikely celebrity. With its gentle affirmations, inspirational quotes, fill-in-the-blank lists and tasks — write yourself a thank-you letter, describe yourself at 80, for example — “The Artist’s Way” proposes an egalitarian view of creativity: Everyone’s got it.
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AWP Conference, February 29- March 4, Chicago
Spalding MFA faculty, students, and alumni are set to attend the annual conference of AWP, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, to be held February 29 to March 4 at the Hilton Chicago and Palmer House Hilton, both in downtown Chicago.
MFAers are invited to visit the Spalding MFA/Louisville Review table during the Bookfair (Table M3 in the Southeast Hall, Hilton Chicago Lower Level), held 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Sena Naslund, Kathleen Driskell, Kenny Cook, Molly Peacock, Jeanie Thompson, Crystal Wilkinson Dianne Aprile, and other faculty members are to attend and, in some cases, present on panels. Numerous Spalding alumni and current students plan to attend as well. Among the alums presenting on panels are Dan Nowak, Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, and Christopher Klim.
At 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 3, WordFarm Press hosts a reception in honor of the book launch of Until Everything Is Continuous Again: American Poets on the Recent Work of W. S. Merwin, edited by Jonathan Weinert (Fall 2005) and Kevin Prufer. The book features contributions by Spalding faculty members Debra Kang Dean and Jeanie Thompson. The book grew out of a joint interview of Merwin by Thompson and Weinert when Merwin was the MFA Program’s featured author at the Fall 2006 residency. Thompson emcees the evening. “We’ll each probably read one of our favorite Merwin poems and speak briefly about why we felt this book was necessary and important to an understanding of W.S. Merwin in the canon of American poetry and also to the process of contemporary poetry writing,” Thompson said. “All of the contributors have been influenced in their own poetry by W.S. Merwin’s craft. So in a way, it is an homage to him.” WordFarm Press was co-founded by Marci Johnson (Spring 2005), who serves as poetry editor.
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Spring 2012 Residency Program Book in Common Is Hush
The MFA Program’s Book in Common area for the Spring 2012 residency is Writing for Children and Young Adults, and the program director has selected the young adult novel Hush, by award-winning young-adult author Jacqueline Woodson, who has been named the inaugural Diana M. Raab Distinguished Writer in Residence for Spalding University’s brief-residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program. The subject matter of the novel, told from the perspective of the daughter of a police officer whose conscience leads him to testify against a fellow officer, is in keeping with the Spalding University-wide emphasis on social justice.
All students and faculty, regardless of their area of concentration, read Hush and prepare comments to add to the plenary discussion led by Program Director Sena Jeter Naslund, which takes place May 18, the first Friday of residency. Later in the residency, on Thursday, May 24, Woodson visits to present a talk on her work to the MFA students, faculty, and community at large. The next morning, she attends a closed Q & A session for the MFA students and faculty. After both presentations, MFA students and faculty may have their books signed.
Students entering ENG620 in the Spring 2012 semester are required to write a 2-4 page short critical essay on Hush and email it as an attachment to mfadropbox@spalding.edu by February 28; these essays are forwarded to the MFA Program’s expository writing coaches, who conduct one-hour small expository workshops during the spring residency for ENG620 students. (Current ENG610 students who are required to complete this assignment have been notified by email in January; those who have questions about this assignment should email Kathleen Driskell, kdriskell@spalding.edu.) All students adjust their semester’s reading lists in order to add Hush to their cumulative bibliographies.
Woodson has written more than two dozen books for children and young adults, including picture books and novels for middle-grade and young-adult audiences. Her titles include Miracle’s Boys, which won the Coretta Scott King Award in 2001, and Newbery Honor titles After Tupac & D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way. She has also been awarded three Coretta Scott King Honors, a Margaret A. Edwards Award, and an ALAN Award—both for Lifetime Achievement in YA Literature. Her books have twice been nominated for the National Book Award. Woodson lives with her family in Brooklyn.
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Spring 2012 Residency: Film Production Seminar
Students in all areas of concentration are eligible to participate in the Film Production Seminar (FPS) offered during the Spring 2012 residency in Louisville; however, space is limited and will be filled taking seniority into account. ENG610 is a prerequisite for this workshop.
Students participating in this seminar are not assigned to other workshops during residency, as this seminar is scheduled at the same time as Workshop. After completing the workshop seminar, students are mentored by faculty in their major areas of concentration for the independent study portion of the semester.
For their workshop submissions, FPS members present three two-page scripts to be considered for filming. In the first workshop, students discuss the scripts and, with the workshop leader’s guidance, choose one of the three to produce. Rehearsals, filming, and editing take place during the remaining workshop hours. Outside of the workshop, film production students attend other residency sessions, including plenary and craft lectures and panels, student and faculty readings, etc.
Before the residency, participants submit their three two-page scripts, which must use an indoor setting and employ not more than three actors, to mfadropbox@spalding.edu. While the two pages may be excerpted from current work, they should form a certain unity or completeness: each short script should have a beginning, middle, and an end. Students may wish to reshape some of their original scenes from their own writing into scripts to fit these requirements.
The screenwriting faculty and the program directors regard this activity as an enriching, optional experience for students in any area of concentration and are excited about this curriculum enhancement for our students. Interested students contact Ellyn Lichvar at elichvar@spalding.edu by February 10. Students who have met the ENG610 prerequisite will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Paris Residency and Summer Semester
In July, the MFA Program travels to Paris for its Summer 2012 residency. The trip marks a return to the location of the first residency abroad in 2007. Classes and workshops will be held, as they were in 2007, at Reid Hall, the picturesque courtyard campus of Columbia University’s Paris branch near the Jardins du Luxembourg.
Faculty for the trip are Julie Brickman and John Pipkin (fiction), Jeanie Thompson (poetry), Elaine Orr (creative nonfiction), Susan Campbell Bartoletti (writing for children and young adults), and Sam Zalutsky (screenwriting and playwriting). Kathleen Driskell will lead a teaching workshop as part of the ENG660 Teaching Practicum semester.
Students, faculty, and alumni stay at three-star hotels in the heart of the city. In addition to a full slate of workshops, lectures, panel discussions, conferences, and readings, the curriculum includes visits to four of Paris’s iconic museums—the Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay, the Pompidou Center, and the Rodin Museum—as well as a guided tour of the palace and gardens of Versailles. The Program Book in Common for summer is The Great Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough. Other books in common will be announced later.
For current students and alumni, the deadline to enroll for the Paris trip is February 1. Students must register for their course via WebAdvisor, then sign up with travel company EF Tours online or by phone. The 13-day tour package costs $4,216 for students flying from Louisville (price may be different for those flying from other airports) and includes airfare, hotel (shared room), ground transportation, EF Tours enrollment fee, comprehensive insurance policy, breakfasts, opening and closing dinners, guided tour of Versailles, museum tickets, and metro passes. The price for alumni and guests is $4,666 and includes all items listed above. Tuition costs are the same as residencies in Louisville.
For itinerary and enrollment, visit http://www.efcollegestudytours.com/1123785, or call 877-485-4184.
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Teaching Workshop/Practicum offered in Paris Summer Residency
Students interested in taking the Teaching Practicum in Summer 2012 should contact Kathleen Driskell (kdriskell@spalding.edu) by February 28. Students must have finished ENG610 and ENG620. Summer 2012 graduating students may take ENG660 as a additional semester. Alums may take the teaching practicum as a post-graduate semester, if space allows. Students sign up to take only one workshop.
ENG660 is a 16-hour course. During residency, students meet in a cross-genre teaching workshop and lead discussions on submitted Worksheets. Students attend lectures outside their major areas of concentration in order to gain a wider view of the other genres they may be called upon to teach in introductory-level courses. Students not only benefit from lecture content, they also comment on the teaching methods used during those lectures. The number of residency reports required remains the same as for students enrolled in the other courses.
During the semester, students develop syllabi, lesson plans, teaching diaries, and annotated bibliographies on pedagogical and classroom texts and submit those to the mentor in four course packets. Each student develops a workshop assignment and delivers that curriculum online to other students in ENG660. Each student must also arrange her or his own teaching practicum: In the past, students have taught in university settings, continuing education settings, non-credit courses, and online. Students have also convened beginning writers from their communities to meet as a class in local libraries, work environments, and community centers. Other teaching options may fit the practicum requirement.
The course is limited to six students and will be filled on a first come, first served basis (though students must meet the prerequisites).
The Teaching Workshop is reserved for those interested in enrolling in ENG660 for the entire practicum semester; however, if there are spaces unfilled (limit 6), MFA students may take the teaching workshop during the Summer 2012 residency and then continue to be mentored in their major area, such as fiction or poetry, for the remainder of the semester. Students interested in the teaching practicum or the teaching workshop, should email Kathleen Driskell as soon as possible, but before February 28 at kdriskell@spalding.edu.
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Fall 2011 Residency: Anniversary, Poems, Paintings, a Comic Opera
The MFA Program celebrated its 10th anniversary with a birthday party and announcement of the Diana M. Raab Distinguished Writer in Residence fund, a gift of alumna Diana Raab (Fall 2003). A panel of alumni spoke about the effect their Spalding experience has had on their lives as writers.
The Fall 2011 MFA residency took place November 11-20 with an emphasis on poetry. Before coming to residency, students and faculty read Gregory Orr’s collection The Caged Owl: New and Collected Poems. The opening-night welcome session included a discussion of the book, led by Program Director Sena Jeter Naslund. Later in the week, Orr gave a public reading and presentation, followed by a wide-ranging Q&A session for MFA faculty and students the next morning.
As part of the poetry emphasis, Sena delivered a lecture on poems about paintings and art objects. A faculty panel also commented on ekphrastic poetry. Students traveled to the Speed Art Museum for inspiration for the cross-genre assignment, in which all students, regardless of area of concentration, wrote an ekphrastic poem. At a follow-up session, some students read the results of the exercise aloud to the student body.
The Program also attended a full dress rehearsal of The Marriage of Figaro, the opera by Mozart, performed by the Kentucky Opera. Before the performance, opera educator Kimcherie Lloyd gave a presentation providing context for the opera and familiarizing students with the plot, characters and some of the music.
In addition to the traditional residency workshops, two workshops took on unique formats. A creative-nonfiction workshop led by Dianne Aprile and Roy Hoffman focused on the special topic of literary journalism. And a fiction workshop led by Rachel Harper and Eleanor Morse was dedicated to workshopping chapters from novel.
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Spring 2012 Homecoming
The MFA Alumni Association is putting together a package of events for Homecoming, May 24-27, the final weekend of spring residency. Events kick off Thursday afternoon with a panel by alums who have published in the area of writing for children and young adults. The featured author presentation by Jacqueline Woodson follows. Woodson, who writes frequently about issues of race and social justice, will read from and discuss her YA novel, Hush.
Friday’s events include a lecture for alumni by Richard Goodman, a session on publishing by Red Hen Press publisher Kate Gale, and the Celebration of Recently Published Books by Alumni, followed by a reception and the SPLoveFest bookfair. To nominate yourself for the Celebration of Recently Published Books by Alumni, contact Bonnie Johnson (Fall 2004) at bonnieomer@aol.com or Tom Pierce (Fall 2005) at tapierce@insightbb.com. To reserve a table at SPLoveFest to display your book, literary journal, visual art, or other literary or artistic project, contact Renee Culver (Fall 2006) at SPLoveFest@gmail.com.
The MFA Program is giving a free drink ticket to any Alumni Celebration attendee who wears Spalding MFA apparel or carries Spalding MFA gear (water bottle, tote bag, etc.) at the event.
Saturday features an Un-Conference—a set of spontaneous sessions in which alums bring topics to discuss, vote to see which topics generate the most interest, and then wade right in for two one-hour sessions of lively conversation. Teneice Delgado (Fall 2006), one of the Un-Conference organizers, describes it thus: “Think: complete and total opposite of AWP. No panels. No invited guests. Everyone is a panelist; all participate.” Two one-hour time slots, each featuring a choice of two discussion sessions, allow participants to choose the topics that interest them most.
Delgado continues, “For those of you unfamiliar with an Un-Conference, it is a very organic process that results in a broader expression of ideas and community built through collaboration. Erin Keane (Spring 2004) and Teneice Delgado will be on hand to facilitate the process. There is no pre-registration and sessions will not be decided until the scheduling time. However, you can use the MFA alumni Facebook page to discuss possible topics and to let us know if you are attending. Please do not plan out sessions beforehand, as this defeats the purpose of an un-conference. Just show up with your topic and an open mind!”
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Spring 2012 Residency Books in Common
In addition to the Program Book in Common, Jacqueline Woodson’s Hush, students also read a Faculty Book/Script in Common in their area of concentration. The Faculty Books/Scripts in Common are:
Fiction: K.L. Cook, Love Songs for the Quarantined
Poetry: Kathleen Driskell, Seed Across Snow
Creative Nonfiction: Roy Hoffman, Alabama Afternoons: Profiles and Conversations
Writing for Children and Young Adults: Ellie Bryant, The Black Bonnet
Playwriting/Screenwriting:Kira Obolensky, Raskol (posted on BB under SEMESTERS/SPRING 2012)
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Check Out the MFA Blog
MFA faculty and alumni are now blogging at blog.spalding.edu/mfainwriting. New posts are added weekly. The comment feature is now available.
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Facebook Fanpage Now Posting Contest and Other Information
The MFA Program has begun posting announcements regarding contests, calls for submissions, and grants on the MFA Facebook Fanpage. If you have not already joined, please join the fanpage at http://www.facebook.com/spaldingmfa to access this information.
MFAers are invited to share their writerly news on the MFA fanpage. Send news about readings, blog entries, pictures, or other items of interest to mfafacebook@spalding.edu.
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Faculty Advisory Committee(FAC) for Fall Semester 2011
FAC members are announced by the MFA Office at the beginning of each semester. The Program Directors consult with the FAC about recommendations for admissions and about programmatic and administrative development and changes. Both faculty and students are invited to make suggestions to the FAC for exploration by the Program Director and larger faculty. However, students and faculty should directly and immediately consult the Associate Program Director about any issues concerning specific individuals' performance in the program.
Kirby Gann, fiction
Debra Kang Dean, poetry
Dianne Aprile, creative nonfiction
Joyce McDonald, writing for children and young adults
Helena Kriel, playwriting/screenwriting
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MFA Alumni Association
The website for the MFA Alumni Association is http://www.spaldingmfaalum.com. If you have questions or are interested in working with this group, send Terry Price an email at terry@terryprice.net. Check out the Spalding MFA Alumni Facebook page.
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Life of a Writer
Jerriod Avant has two poems, “Control” and “A Poet’s Night” that were anthologized in Accents Publishing’s Bigger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems. He also has a poem, “On Wingedness,” appearing in the spring issue of The Louisville Review. Also this spring, Jerriod has a poem, “A Midnight Cool,” appearing in the Spring 2012 issue of PLUCK!: Journal of Affrilachian Arts and Culture and another poem, “Dancing With Justice: GDC ID 0000657378,” appearing in the Prison Industrial Complex Issue of the Tidal Basin Review.
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Jessica Caudill, a second-semester student, is happy to announce that her fiction piece titled “The Motherly Epistles” was accepted by The Writing Disorder for publication. The piece appears in the Summer 2012 issue. The Writing Disorder is an online literary journal and can be found at http://www.thewritingdisorder.com.
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Shannon Cavanaugh, entering fourth semester in Spring 2012, announces that The Awakenings Review of Wheaton, Illinois, is publishing three of her poems in its Summer 2012 edition. Poems include “To My Thief,” “Exposed” and “Lonely Am I.” Recently Shannon was featured in the Sunday edition of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for her short story “The Stranger with the Gold Buttons.” Her story leads the anthology of Mysteries of the Ozarks, Vol. IV, which High Hill Press published in October 2011.?Also, she was interviewed about her short story and writing on KUAF 91.3 FM, an NPR affiliate radio station owned by the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.
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Carolyn Flynn, fourth-year fiction student, is teaming up with Spalding MFA alumni association president Terry Price to offer a contemplative, mentored writing retreat at Penuel Ridge Retreat Center on April 19-22 near Ashland City, Tennessee. She celebrated her birthday on Winter Solstice by touring the labyrinth by the pond in the woods—a perfect way for a writer to honor a birthday, in her opinion. Find out more at carolynflynn.com or terryprice.net.
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Alice Jennings, second-semester poetry student, read her poems at the Oaxaca Lending Library on January 25 in Oaxaca, Mexico.
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Mary Knight, who recently completed her third semester in W4CYA, facilitated two six-week classes titled “Awakening the Creative Spirit,” based on Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way. The workshop series was offered in Mary’s hometown ofLexington, Kentucky, and served more than thirty-five participants. Two stories excerpted from Mary’s unpublished memoir appear in Chicken Soup for the Soul collections this spring.
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Amy M. Miller, a second-semester student in creative nonfiction, had her essay “Chipattis” published in the second issue of Under The Gum Tree (http://underthegumtree.com/), an online literary journal published out of Sacramento, California, publication date January 4. Amy also has begun writing a monthly column called “Mama Likes . . . ” for the Louisville alternative newspaper, The Paper.
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Rick Neumayer has two short stories coming out soon. “Robin’s Installation” will appear in Bartleby Snopes in March, and “Where It Rains” will be published in Eunoia Review in late April.
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First semester creative nonfiction student Ruth Stark announces the October publication of her book, How to Work in Someone Else’s Country, by University of Washington Press. The Kindle e-Edition was released on New Year’s Day. Her short CNF piece “The Taxi Driver” was published in the Fall 2011 online edition of Sisyphus Magazine, http://www.hippocketpress.org/sisyphus.
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Faculty and Staff
In November, Ellie Bryant won a $1,000 first-place award for a brief essay on love in a contest sponsored by the National Education Association. She also was the featured writer at November’s Celebration of Expressive Arts in Vermont, a forum for regional writers, artists, and musicians.
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K.L. Cook, fiction faculty, announces that his short story, “Love Song for the Quarantined,” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by The Louisville Review. Another story, “Filament,” was selected for inclusion in the 2012 Best American Mystery Stories. Both stories are available in his recent collection, Love Songs for the Quarantined.
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In October, Debra Kang Dean was a presenter on a panel for The Colors of Nature: Culture, Nature, Identity, and the Natural World at the Wisconsin Book Festival in Madison. Her essay “In the Valley of Its Saying,” which appeared in the anthology, was solicited for reprint in the spring 2011 issue of Phatitude (Vol. 3, No. 1) titled “Spring Has Returned: A Season of Renewal.” Another essay, “A Time of Memories Incorrect but Powerful: Reading the Rain in the Trees,” is forthcoming in Until Everything Is Continuous Again: American Poets on the Recent Work of W. S. Merwin, ed. by Kevin Prufer and Jonathan Weinert. She also served as the poetry judge for the IUS Writing Contests at Indiana University Southeast, New Albany.
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Robert Finch was interviewed by producer Steve Paulson for a special edition on nature writing that was nationally broadcast on November 3, on Wisconsin Public Radio’s program To the Best of our Knowledge. The link for the program is http://ttbook.org/book/nature-writing. Text from Bob’s work is being used in a newly commissioned choral work by Boston-based composer William Cutter, celebrating the 300th anniversary of the town of Chatham, Massachusetts. The work receives its world premiere by the Chatham Chorale on May 19-20, at Chatham High School.
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Richard Goodman’s essay, “In the Beginning: Creating Dynamic, Meaningful and Compelling Openings to Your Work” has been accepted for publication by The Writer’s Chronicle.
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Among Roy Hoffman’s recent features for the Mobile Press-Register carried on the national wire have been “Love Letters From Sea,” December 25, about an elderly widow’s treasure of letters from her Merchant Marine husband, http://blog.al.com/live/2011/12/reading_again_the_thousands_of.html, and “Tent People Find a Home,” 12/27/11, http://blog.al.com/live/2011/12/homeless_couple_who_lived_in_m.html, the second of a two-part story about a homeless couple who lived in midtown woods. Roy’s Alabama Afternoons was reviewed in the Anniston Star on Jan. 13, http://annistonstar.com/bookmark/17102686-Book-review-Alabama-Afternoons, and May 15 in the Tuscaloosa News, http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20110515/news/110519932
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Silas House’s short story “Recruiters,” originally published in the Silas House Issue of The Anthology of Appalachian Writing, has been turned into a limited-edition, handmade book by Larkspur Press, with illustrations by Arwen Donahue.
In February 2012, Same Sun Here, written by Silas House and faculty member Neela Vaswani, is set to be published. The book has already received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly and has been selected as an “Okra Pick” by the Southern Independent Booksellers Association, identifying it as one of the ten books booksellers are most excited about for the Spring 2012 season. The book—and its authors—are being featured at the American Booksellers Association’s Winter Institute in New Orleans and at the Midwinter Conference in Dallas. House plans a ten-city tour for the book.
Also in February, Silas’ third play, “This Is My Heart For You,” premieres at Berea College. Silas was recently awarded the Lee Smith Award for Contributions to the Appalachian Region and has been chosen as the 2012 recipient of the Mary Frances Hobson Lecture and Prize for Distinguished Achievement in Arts and Letters.
In August, Silas was named Director of Appalachian Studies and the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center at Berea College. Silas was recently one of the featured performers in a concert for Kentuckians for the Commonwealth with writer Jason Howard and musicians Ben Sollee, Daniel Martin Moore, and Jim James (of My Morning Jacket). The event raised more than $30,000 for the fight against mountaintop removal.
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Robin Lippincott’s most recent novel, In the Meantime, originally published in hardcover by Toby Press, has been re-published by AmazonEncore, both in paperback and also in a Kindle edition. His first novel, Mr. Dalloway (Sarabande), is also now available as an e-book.
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Jody Lisberger recently had an essay published in Wagadu, Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies v.9, 2011, Special Issue: Gender Equity in Higher Education http://appweb.cortland.edu/ojs/index.php/Wagadu/issue/view/44: “The Politics of Data: Gender bias and border mentality in the EEOC Job Category Compliance Chart and how transnational gender mainstreaming can offer best practices for change.”
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Eleanor Morse recently heard that Penguin has accepted her novel, White Dog Fell from the Sky. Viking brings out the hardcover edition, and Penguin the paperback. Kathryn Court, president of Penguin Group USA, is the editor. White Dog also sold in England and is set to be published through Fig Tree/Penguin, with Juliet Annan as editor. No publication date is set.
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Sena Jeter Naslund has completed a draft of her new double novel The Fountain of St. James Court and Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman.
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Lesléa Newman’s poem, “Baby Dyke’s Pantoum” has been accepted for publication in Paradise Found: A Walking Tour of Northampton in Poetry and Art, forthcoming from Leveller’s Press.
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Elaine Neil Orr’s novel The Writing Box has been accepted for publication by Penguin-Berkley. Elaine has two new memoirs in recent issues of literary journals, “Wife’s Fantasy at Mid-Life,” Prime Number, 13.3 (http://www.primenumbermagazine.com/Issue13_PrimeDecimals3.html) and “Driving the Peugeot.” Blackbird, http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v10n2/nonfiction/orr_e/index.shtml.
She is also a contributing editor of “Writing out of Limbo: The International Childhood Experience of Global Nomads and Third Culture Kids,” an anthology of memoir and interdisciplinary essays. Elaine’s contribution, a hybrid of memoir and scholarly essay, is titled “The Stranger Self: A Pattern in Narrative.” Find it at http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Writing-out-of-Limbo--The-International-Childhood-Experience-of-Global-Nomads-and-Third-Culture-Kids1-4438-3360-6.htm.
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Molly Peacock’s collage biography and meditation on late-life creativity (with some memoir thrown in) The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life’s Work at 72, was reviewed in The New York Times, The LA Times, Chicago Tribune, More, Vogue.com, Good Housekeeping, and many more print sources in 2011. But what might also interest Spalding students, faculty, and alumni is that she arranged for The Paper Garden to go on a blog tour through TLC Book Tours, a virtual book tour site. This blog tour brought fascinating reviews from bloggers in Canada, the U.S., the U.K., and Australia, giving another level of life to the redoubtable Mrs. Delany, 18th-century inventor of collage.
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Screenwriting faculty mentor Brad Riddell has received a shared “written by” credit on Crooked Arrows (www.crookedarrows.com), a film he rewrote from page one for independent producers. Crooked Arrows is a sports movie but also a heart-rending family drama that takes place on a Native American reservation, centering on the sport of lacrosse. Brandon Routh (Superman) and Gil Birmingham (Twilight) star, along with talented newcomer Chelsea Ricketts and a team of Native American boys who win you over with their charm, heart, and world-class lacrosse skill. As an independent release, the movie needs the grassroots support of all its friends! Please like the Crooked Arrows Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/crookedarrows), follow @crookedarrows on Twitter, and share this link for the brand new trailer: http://youtu.be/UOqSi-_cXeE. Crooked Arrows releases in theaters in April.
Brad also began his first semester as an assistant professor at SUNY Oswego in the Creative Writing department this past fall. As a member of the Kentucky Film Commission, he organized and moderated the Kentucky Film Educators Summit panel, featuring none other than our own Sena Jeter Naslund, as well as Jack Epps Jr., chair of the screenwriting program at the University of Southern California (http://kyfilmedusummit.wordpress.com/). Brad was thrilled to be invited by Spalding creative nonfiction mentor Nancy McCabe to give a talk on the life and business of screenwriting at The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, then speak to one of her classes.
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Jeanie Thompson announces that since October, she has been serving as an Alabama State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship Recipient in Literature. During her one-year term she reads from her work throughout Alabama, including appearances at the Alabama Writers’ Symposium and the Alabama Book Festival later this spring.
Jeanie participated in the Auburn Writers Conference at Auburn University in October, where she gave a poetry writing workshop, read from her work in progress, and taught two creative writing classes for young writers through the Auburn City Schools.
Jeanie was a finalist in the Still: a Journal poetry competition in October for her poem, “What Helen Keller Saw and What She Said,” and she appeared on the Accents Radio program at the University of Kentucky in November. Her essay on the poetic craft of W.S. Merwin is forthcoming in Until Everything is Continuous Again, edited by Jonathan Weinert and Kevin Prufer. The book launches at AWP.
Jeanie was a guest presenter for the Hertha Heller Forum at the Huntsville Madison County Public Library, Huntsville, Alabama, in January, discussing the award-winning Writing Our Stories program, now in its 15th year through a partnership between the Alabama Writers’ Forum and the Alabama Department of Youth Services. For more information, see www.writersforum.org.
The Alabama Center for the Book (ACFTB) and the Alabama Writers’ Forum jointly announced that Jeanie Thompson is the first honorary Writer-in-Residence at the University of Alabama Libraries for Spring 2012. In this pilot arrangement, Jeanie consults with the ACFTB on ways to build liaisons with other literary arts entities across Alabama.
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In October 2011, Neela Vaswani was a Visiting Writer at Georgia College. She attended the American Book Awards ceremony at UC Berkeley, where her mixed-genre book, You Have Given Me a Country, was a 2011 winner. In November, she curated the Storylines Project at the New York Public Library, an adult literacy and ESL event that serves 800 students in the NYPL’s citywide Centers for Reading and Writing program. This year’s guest author was Ashley Bryan. See www.ncvfoundation.org for photos and winning writers. Later in the month, Neela taught a Brandeis University study group that focused on her work and recorded her half of the audiobook for the Young Adult novel, Same Sun Here (co-written with faculty member Silas House). She spoke at the embassy in Mumbai, India, and visited family during December.
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Luke Wallin co-edited with Charles Entrekin the Fall 2011 issue of Sisyphus, at http://www.hippocketpress.org/sisyphus/. The theme is “Health and Hunger in America.”
Luke wrote and, with producer Steve Williams, recorded the song “Broken Ripples,” for a new short film written and directed by Skye Wallin. Luke is currently consulting on a documentary film in the planning stages.
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Katy Yocom has happily accepted an offer of representation from literary agent Lisa Gallagher, with Sanford J. Greenburger Associates. Lisa, who was a guest speaker at the Spring 2011 residency and homecoming, will be seeking a home for Katy’s novel, Tiger Woman.
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Sam Zalutsky’s film You Belong to Me screened at the Q Fest Pune, in Pune, Maharashtra, India, in December. For more information, go to: https://www.facebook.com/TheQfestPune. In October, the Barrow Group presented a reading of Sam’s play, 40 Weeks, as part of its reading series at its studios in New York City. Sam was recently awarded a residency at the MacDowell Colony. He will spend three weeks in March there, working on a new script set on the Oregon Coast.
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Alumni
Priscilla Atkins (Spring 2008) has poems published in various journals. In The Louisville Review (Spring 2011), look for “Sky in a Jar” and “The Suicide Trees.” In Water~Stone Review (2011), look for “The Café of Our Departure.” In Orange Coast (2010), look for “Hard Nails.” Online publications include “Boxes and Bells” and “Seven Months Later” in Juked (http://www.juked.com) and “Sidewalk Champagne,” in All Rights Reserved
(http://www.allrightsreserved.ca/wp-content/uploads/ARR-Rejuvenation.pdf). “Teacher Education 101: Lesson Plan, with Sponge Activity” appeared in Vallum (2010).
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Tay Berryhill (Spring 2009) is co-winner of Trajectory journal’s short story contest. Her story, “Flowers for the Dead,” is published in the Fall 2011 issue (http://www.trajectoryjournal.com). Tay attended the 2011 Midsouth Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators Conference in Nashville. In October, she participated as a mentee at the Rutgers University Council on Children’s Literature One-On-One Conference.
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Roy Burkhead (Spring 2004) recently started 2nd & Church, a literary journal by, for, and about writers and readers throughout Tennessee. The journal’s primary audience is Nashville and middle Tennessee, and its secondary audiences stretch as far west as Memphis and as far east as Knoxville and Chattanooga. Its goal is to be inclusive of many different types of writers and writing: creative nonfiction, technical writing, literary fiction, poetry, translation, and commercial fiction. The Q1 issue comes out in mid-February 2012 and contains the column “A Non-Resident’s Love of Literary Nashville” by Charlotte Rains Dixon (Fall 2003) and an excerpt from Terry Price’s (Spring 2006) novel-in-progress, An Angel’s Share. 2nd & Church is considering submissions for its Q2, Q3, and Q4 issues for pieces in line with its audiences and mission. Submission guidelines are available online: http://www.2ndandchurch.com/.
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Amy Watkins Copeland (Spring 2006) read with other Full Sail University faculty on January 5 at Urban ReThink in Orlando, Florida. Art students at Full Sail illustrated faculty work, and the illustrations were projected during the readings. Amy also has poems in Motes Books’ new anthology of writing about work, All the Live Long Day, and Accents Publishing’s anthology of short poems, Bigger Than They Appear.
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Lafayette Wattles’ (alter-ego of Dave DeGolyer, Fall 2006) poem “brotherly love” will appear in a forthcoming issue of Cicada, the print magazine for teens by Carus Publishing. His poem “Proximity” appears in the March 2012 issue of the online journal The Dirty Napkin.
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Darlyn Finch (Summer 2009) was honored to be invited to participate in “Transformations, A Creative Convergence of Poets and Artists,” (http://411.fit.edu/transformations/) sponsored by the Florida Institute of Technology. Dr. Edmund Skellings, poet laureate of Florida, is honorary chair of the project, which involves twelve pairs of collaborators. Darlyn’s partner was Melbourne painter Jerry Hooper. (http://www.jerryhooper.com/) The exhibition of the created works is installed at the Brevard Art Museum April 17-June 6.
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Barry George (Fall 2009) announces that his essay, “Shiki the Tanka Poet,” published in the February 2012 issue of The Writer’s Chronicle. The essay is a revision of his Spalding ECE, written under the guidance of mentor Maureen Morehead.
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Joe Gisondi (Spring 2010) wrote “Distance Junkies,” a cover story on ultramarathoners for EIU Alumni magazine’s Winter 2011 edition. He also wrote “Elements of lead writing worth emulating and common pitfalls to avoid” for the National Sports Journalism Institute’s website. In addition, he completed an essay on Tiger Woods for a still-untitled book to be published by McFarland in 2012.
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Tara Goldstein (Fall 2006) has just published a book with Peter Lang called Staging Harriet’s House: Writing and Producing Research-Informed Theatre. The book describes the production of Tara’s play, “Harriet’s House,” a play about transnational adoption in a same-sex family. Staging Harriet’s House engages with such topics as the purpose of research-informed theatre, writing and workshopping research-informed theatre and advice on producing research-informed theatre for the stage. The book includes the script that was performed in the 2010 Toronto Pride Festival production of the play, as well as a selected bibliography on research-informed theatre. It can be ordered at customerservice@plang.com.
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Colleen S. Harris (Fall 2009) has received notification that three of the sonnets from her collection-in-progress, Some Assembly Required, have been accepted for publication in the anthology Sonnets in the New Millennium. Colleen has also been invited to be the poetry guest editor for issue XVI of The Enchanting Verses Literary Review. Her co-edited collection, Women on Poetry: Writing, Revising, Publishing and Teaching, which boasts a foreword by Molly Peacock and chapters by Spalding MFA alum Rosemary Royston (Fall 2009) was published in January by McFarland. Colleen has been offered the opportunity to teach an upper-level undergraduate seminar in creative nonfiction at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in Fall 2012 and was asked by the Women’s Studies department to design an upper-level literature course titled Modern Women Poets and Mythology after the success of her freshman seminar of the same title in Fall 2011. That new class is likely to be offered by the University and crosslisted between the Womens Studies and Classics departments in Spring 2013.
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Patty Houston’s (Fall 2008) short story “Don’t. Stop.” has been accepted for publication by The Coachella Review and is available online.
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Robert L. Kaiser (Spring 2010) gave two presentations on creative nonfiction writing October 27, at the 90th Annual ACP/CMA National College Media Convention in Orlando, Florida. The first session, “The Undertaker Takes His Coffee Black (And Drives a Hearse with 71,000 Miles on It),” explored the use of detail in journalistic writing. The second session, “The Pointy-Toed Kicker,” was about story endings. Both sessions drew standing-room-only crowds and rave reviews on Twitter.
Rob, an assistant professor of journalism at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, is the director of the journalism program at Canisius and the faculty adviser to the student newspaper, The Griffin. In November, Rob presented a paper on teaching writing at the International Lilly Conference on College Teaching at Miami University in Ohio. And his essay “Jimmy Dean’s Last Song” is set for publication in The Louisville Review.
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Russ Kesler’s (Spring 2009) recent book, As If, was reviewed in the online publication First Draft, published by the Alabama Writers’ Forum: http://www.writersforum.org/first_draft/review_archives.html/article/2011/10/25/as-if
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René R Ketterer’s (Fall 2007) guest editorial “Preparing for marriage” was published in the January 22 edition of The Catholic Moment.
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Roland Mann (Spring 2011) recently was a speaker at the Southern Expressions Authors Conference held in Ocean Spings, Mississippi. Roland also has started a new job as an instructor in the Creative Writing for Entertainment MFA program at Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida.
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Richard Newman (Fall 2004) has poems forthcoming in Boulevard, Briar Cliff Review, Natural Bridge, Poems & Plays, and U City Review. His poem “Bless Their Hearts” appeared on Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry the week of Thanksgiving.
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Loreen Niewenhuis (Spring 2007) wrapped up her book tour for A 1,000-Mile Walk on the Beach, her book about her hike around Lake Michigan, recently. She had appearances in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Michigan. She gave lectures at libraries and REI stores, gave readings at bookstores, and—most frighteningly—spoke to more than 100 elementary schoolkids. Loreen is glad for the break now as she is beginning to train for her next 1,000-mile hike, one that will allow her to touch all five Great Lakes. That new adventure begins in April.
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Rebecca J. Norris (Fall 2006) has a story published in Guide Magazine, November 2011 issue. She also sold a story to Highlights for Children, forthcoming in 2012. Another story is set to appear in March 2012 in Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Magic of Mothers and Daughters.
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Terry Price (Spring 2006) announces that an excerpt from his novel-in-progress, An Angel’s Share,will appear in the debut issue of 2nd & Church. Terry also is teaming up with fourth-year fiction student Carolyn Flynn offer a contemplative, mentored writing retreat at Penuel Ridge Retreat Center on April 19-22 near Ashland City, Tennessee. Find out more at terryprice.net.
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Diana Raab (Fall 2003) just released an anthology she compiled and edited with James Brown, titled Writers on the Edge: 22 writers speak about addiction and dependency (Modern History Press) with a foreword by Jerry Stahl and submissions from esteemed writers such as Molly Peacock, Chase Twichell, and Scott Russell Sanders. A book signing is set for 4 p.m. February 25 at Book Soup in Los Angeles.
On February 16, she leads a teleseminar called “Journaling as a Springboard for a Writer’s Life” for the International Association of Journal Writers. She had two essays published in The Huffington Post, “The Power of Personal Stories” and “The Loss of Loved Ones.” For all her articles on Huffington Post’s boomer vertical, check out this link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diana-m-raab. Diana also did a poetry reading for Rattle Magazine in Santa Monica, California, on January 15.
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Rosemary Royston (Fall 2009) has had her poem “Dictum” nominated for a Pushcart Prize by New Southerner. Rosemary’s poem may be read here:
http://www.newsoutherner.com/2011/11/12/congratulations-to-our-pushcart-prize-nominees/
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Matt Ryan’s(Fall 2006) Read This or You’re Dead to Me, a collection of prose poems, flash fictions and words is available for order. He prefers that you order it straight from his publisher, but as long as you order it, you will not be dead to him. Here’s the coolest place to get it: http://www.hopepubs.com/Ryan/Ryan-Books.html
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Pamela Steele (Spring 2004) has just seen the release of her first novel, Greasewood Creek (Counterpoint). The novel was nominated for a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award and has received positive reviews from Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and Elle Magazine. She is currently on book tour.
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Vickie Weaver (Fall 2005) was one of seventy-five featured Indiana authors at the Ninth Annual Holiday Author Fair in December. Vickie reports that the fair, held in the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center in Indianapolis, was a classy event.
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Corrections
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Personals
Our heartfelt sympathy to Hal Crenshaw (Fall 2011) on the death of his mother, Billie Burgin Crenshaw, on October 26.
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The entire Spalding MFA community is saddened by the death of MFA student Bob Keith on November 24.
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René R Ketterer (Fall 2007) was married to Rick Irvine on February 11 at St. Thomas Aquinas in West Lafayette, Indiana. The couple will remain in Lafayette.
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Classifieds
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Reminders and Notes
Financial Aid: The MFA Program offers scholarships to students entering their first semester in the program. Returning students who desire financial assistance other than student loans should apply for graduate assistantships. Applications for scholarships and assistantships should be directed to the MFA Office (mfa@spalding.edu). Information for assistantships is on Blackboard under SEMESTERS/ [your semester]/ DOCUMENTS: GENERAL INTEREST.
Federal student loans are available to all eligible graduate students and are available for the fall, spring, or summer semesters. For help with financial aid questions, call Vickie Montgomery at (800) 896-8941, ext. 2731 or email vmontgomery@spalding.edu. Students may enter or update their FAFSA information online at www.fafsa.ed.gov.
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All Fall 2011 students: Fill out the FAFSA for the 11-12 school year, using 2010 tax information.
All Summer/Spring Stretch 2012 students: Fill out the FAFSA for the 2012-13 school year, using 2011 tax information. Students who enroll in the summer semester who may enroll in the Spring 2013 semester should check with Vickie Montgomery about loan disbursements for two semesters instead of one.
Classifieds in the newsletter: Submissions of writing-related advertisements, such as calls for submission, services for writers, etc., may be made to mfanewsletter@spalding.edu
Online information: Newsletters are archived online at spalding.edu/mfanewsletter.
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Life of a Writer pieces should be written as a paragraph in third person. If you are an alum, please alum include your graduation semester, such as Jake Doe (Fall 2003). Spell out month and state names. Include title(s) of the work, publishers, date of publication, and complete web site addresses when appropriate. Send to mfanewsletter@spalding.edu.
Examples of kinds of activities that might be included in the Life of a Writer column are publishing in journals or magazines or in book form, winning awards or other prizes, giving a public reading, visiting a classroom to talk about writing, judging a writing competition, attending a writers conference, serving on a panel about writing, or volunteering in a project about writing or literacy.
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RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — Rudolfo Anaya, a writer who helped launch the 1970s Chicano Literature Movement with his novel "Bless Me, Ultima," a book celebrated by Latinos, has died at 82.
Anaya's niece, Belinda Henry, said the celebrated author died Sunday at his Albuquerque, New Mexico, home after suffering from a long illness.
Literary critics say Anaya's World War II-era novel about a young Mexican-American boy's relationship with an older curandera, or healer, influenced a generation of Latino writers because of its imagery and cultural references that were rare at the time of its 1972 publication.
In a 2013 interview on C-SPAN, Anaya said the idea of the novel came after he had a vision of a woman at the doorway of a room where he was writing.
"She said, 'You'll never get it right unless you put me in it'," Anaya said. "I said, 'Who are you?' She said, 'Ultima' ... And there it was."
The book's release coincided with the growing and militant Chicano movement that stressed cultural pride over assimilation. It also came as Mexican-American college students were demanding more literature by Latino authors.
From activists circles to community centers, the novel was shared along with Tomas Rivera's novel "... and the Earth Did Not Devour Him" and later the poetry of Lorna Dee Cervantes.
"I was completely transported the first time I picked up 'Bless Me, Ultima'," said novelist and poet Rigoberto Gonzalez, who was mentored by Anaya. "He was somehow able to capture the backdrop of our community and make us proud."
Anaya would go on to write a number of novels, including a mystery series featuring Mexican-American detective Sonny Baca.
Anaya used his fame to start a creative writing program at the University of New Mexico and opened up a retreat in Jemez Spring, New Mexico, for aspiring Latino writers.
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Despite the popularity of "Bless Me, Ultima" on college campuses throughout the years, the novel was banned in some Arizona schools after a campaign by some conservatives who said the book promoted the overthrow of the federal government. Latino literary critics called those claims outrageous and launched a counter campaign to get Anaya's work and others by Latino authors into Arizona for community libraries near schools where the book was banned.
Anaya hosted a group of book smugglers lead by Houston, Texas, novelist Tony Diaz at his Albuquerque home in 2012. He donated some of his own books and gave activists traveling on a bus his blessing.
The novel was made into a feature film in 2013. The National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque announced in 2016 it was working to make "Bless Me, Ultima" into an opera.
Born in the small central New Mexico railroad town of Pastura, Anaya came from a Hispanic family with deep roots in a region once colonized by Spain. He was one of seven siblings and the only male in his family to attend primary school. Years later he would say Spanish-speaking oral storytellers of his youth remained an influence in his writing as an adult.
Anaya graduated from Albuquerque High School and later abandoned his studies to become an accountant after enrolling in a liberal arts program at the University of New Mexico. While working on a master's degree, he met and married Patricia Lawless, a guidance counselor from Lyons, Indiana.
"I already had a couple of drafts of 'Bless Me, Ultima'," Anaya said in an interview with the Albuquerque Journal in 2010. "And again she just saw that there was something of literary importance there and encouraged me to keep going, to keep writing."
Lawless died in 2010.
In September 2016, Anaya was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama. Frail and in poor health, Anaya agreed to make the trip to Washington at the last moment and accepted his medal while in a wheelchair.
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham called Anaya one of the state's greatest artists and a seminal figure in literature.
"Through his indelible stories, Rudolfo Anaya, perhaps better than any other author, truly captured what it means to be a New Mexican, what it means to be born here, grow up here and live here," she said in a statement.
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Last night as I drifted to sleep, I began thinking of free-writing, and how Julia Cameron and Natalie Goldberg both promote freewriting to anyone who wants to write well. Author of the best-selling Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron is known for what she calls,”morning pages.” This is Cameron’s prescription for becoming a better writer, and all that’s required is writing 3 pages in longhand first thing upon waking. Another notable writing teacher, Natalie Goldberg, author of the best-selling Writing Down the Bones and many other wonderful books on the craft of writing, also promotes free-writing each and every day, and while…
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Last night as I drifted to sleep, I began thinking of free-writing, and how Julia Cameron and Natalie Goldberg both promote freewriting to anyone who wants to write well.
Author of the best-selling Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron is known for what she calls,”morning pages.” This is Cameron’s prescription for becoming a better writer, and all that’s required is writing 3 pages in longhand first thing upon waking.
Another notable writing teacher, Natalie Goldberg, author of the best-selling Writing Down the Bones and many other wonderful books on the craft of writing, also promotes free-writing each and every day, and while she calls it, “writing practice,” instead of, “morning pages,” it is the same idea.
Just because morning pages/writing practice is simple, doesn’t mean it’s not profound. Running around a track is not profound, is it? Barring obvious physical limitations, anyone can put one foot in front of another. So the actual act of free-writing is not what makes it helpful. It’s that – like any sport – you need to practice in order to get better.
Somehow, this fact gets overlooked when it comes to writing. No one would expect someone to win a marathon without having spent hours and hours running. Why is it, then, that we often expect people to whip out a wonderful piece of writing without having practiced?
This is why I prefer the term “writing practice,” for free-writing. For one thing, if you call it, “writing practice,” it doesn’t require you to do it at any particular time of day. Secondly, it reminds you that writing, like any discipline (painting, yoga, boxing, fox hunting, curling, running), is a skill you can get better at if you practice. Good writing is dependent upon good writing muscles, which – like any other muscle – need to be flexed every day, or else it atrophies.
Sure, you’ll get the flu, or your talkative neighbor will corral you by the driveway as you try to retreat to your house. Stuff happens. But it’s pretty simple with writing. If you don’t write often, you won’t write well.
I love Julia Cameron and Natalie Goldberg, but here is what made me laugh out loud as I was falling asleep last night. Both of them – Cameron and Goldberg – lived in Taos, New Mexico while having these great epiphanies that led to each of them writing wonderful books about creativity and how to be a better writer.
And – get this – both of them used to look out at Taos Mountain as they did their free-writing. [Insert Twilight Zone theme here.] It’s like Taos Mountain was their muse.
So here I am living in ultra-flat Texas, which left me wondering, and made me giggle in my near-sleep last night: Where’s my mountain, baby?
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Think of this as part 2 of the reviews of some non-poetry books. If you’re one of the authors, feel free to drop your BOOK LINK or website and/or blog links in the comments! That’s because I am too lazy to pull together that information . . . . But if you put book link in the comments, I’ll try to add it to the post. How bout that?
HISTORICAL NOVEL ABOUT WOMAN IN 1920S VERMONT
Elizabeth Gauffreau’s novel Telling Sonny puts a few turbulent months in one woman’s life under the microscope. In doing so, the story captures subtle twists and turns in protagonist Faby Gauthier’s personality, character, and outlook on life. This psychological exploration is most akin to the excavations into the psyche as written by Henry James, but without his complicated sentences and repetitions. Instead, the reader’s attention is less focused on the psychology than on the details of the protagonist, Faby Gauthier’s, experience at home and on the road traveling with her new husband, a vaudeville dancer. Gauffreau manages to recreate a lost world of 1920s small-town New England, Atlantic City, the vaudeville circuit, and rail travel. She obviously painstakingly researched the novel, polishing every detail of each scene until it shines with clarity. Gauffreau’s writing style successfully marries the direct nature of contemporary writing with a more graceful syntax that befits the time period, as well as Faby’s upbringing. When I finished the book, I wanted to talk to other readers about the book, especially my thoughts about Faby and Louis, both micro (such as their choices) and macro (relating to history and sociology). So, please, read it and talk to me about it!
Telling Sonny is on sale right now at Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1364146
I did read Elizabeth Gauffreau’s novel some time ago, but wanted to post it here since it is on sale and is a personal favorite, plus I don’t believe I ever posted a review of the book on this blog. I’m eagerly awaiting Liz’s next novel . . . .
HISTORICAL NOVEL ABOUT JEWISH PIONEERS TO SANTA FE
Santa Fe Love Song, by Amy Bess Cohen, reads like a valentine from Cohen to her great-great grandparents Bernard and Frances (Nussbaum) Seligmann. The story of Bernard, a young immigrant from a small town in Germany to Philadelphia and Santa Fe, though fictionalized, gives a wonderful account of what it would have been like for a German Jewish young man to travel across the ocean by himself, get a job, learn English, and within a matter of months, move across the country to New Mexico via the grueling Santa Fe Trail to meet up with his brother. It’s fascinating to read about Bernard’s acclimation to living out west just before, during, and after the Civil War.
The story is of Bernard’s development as an important pioneer of Santa Fe, and his search for a Jewish wife to bring to a place where there were very few Jews, no Kosher foods, and no synagogue. When he traveled back to Philadelphia to look for a wife, he fell in love with Frances, but would she move to Santa Fe with him? And, if so, would she stay? The story is engaging and the suspense level is well-moderated. When the book ended, I didn’t want to leave the lives of the family of Bernard and Frances. I hope there will be a sequel.
Although the reader first meets Bernard when he is nineteen, he ages throughout the course of the novel, so in this one respect Santa Fe Love Song does not fit the definition of young adult literature. The main character is not a preteen or teen. Nevertheless, half the texts recommended for secondary school students have adult protagonists. The themes and the way mature subjects are handled mean that this book would be suitable for older children, teens, and adults.
Cohen wrote the book, in part, for her own grandchildren to learn about their heritage and the strength of the people who came before them. In keeping with that focus, her grandsons, Nathaniel Jack Fischer and Remy Brandon Fischer, illustrated the book with charming and detailed drawings. They really add to the overall experience of reading this lovely book.
Perhaps the book’s greatest importance lies in how it goes beyond the more often recorded history of Jewish immigrants enriching the eastern American cities where they tended to congregate in the mid to late 1800s and early 1900s. Instead, Santa Fe Love Song has a Jewish protagonist who quickly learns how to ride a horse, shoot a gun, and hold his own against the rough and tumble forces of the early American west.
MENNONITE MEMOIR
Marian Longenecker Beaman’s memoir Mennonite Daughter: The Story of a Plain Girl is a fascinating excursion into Marian’s life as a child and young woman who grew up in a Mennonite farm household in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. This is the first time I have been shown what plain and fancy mean to the Mennonites. Marian was brought up plain, wearing no jewelry or makeup and hiding her hair under a cap. Most of the women did not drive, but the families did have cars that the men drove. (I grew up in Michigan, and many of the Michigan/Indiana Mennonites still ride in buggies like the Amish). Secretly, Marian was drawn to what is fancy, symbolized by her dream of wearing red shoes. While Marian does eventually make a move to the fancy world, she stays true to her Christian upbringing. The book is uplifting and inspirational but doesn’t shy away from the negative in the form of her father whose inability to demonstrate affection and harsh punishments of Marian is heart-breaking. You won’t be disappointed by this story of a different time (largely the 50s and early 60s) and a family rooted in a tradition quite different from most Americans.
P.S. This is not part of my review, but I will mention that I wish that Marian Beaman had set the Mennonites in context with the overwhelmingly majority Amish of the region. You might want to look that up before starting the book. She does, though, make some comparisons with Orthodox Jewish traditions. Also: I love the cover with the red shoes! The book can be purchased here: https://marianbeaman.com/
MYSTERY WITH A HISTORICAL AND ART WORLD TWIST
Attribution is not only a fun and riveting read, but it’s a smart one, too. I learned so much about art history (and art politics) along the way. The protagonist, Cate, a doctoral student finds a mystery painting. She decides to seek attribution for the painting. Her search takes her from her New York university to Spain where she meets a romantic descendant of an old aristrocratic family. The further Cate gets into the mess she’s created, the more questions and dangers arise about the painting and the characters who revolve around that painting.
I have a feeling that the author, Linda Moore, spent a long time researching and writing this book, but I am ready for the sequel as I did not want the book to end!
NOVEL OF ADVENTURE IN INDIA, FOCUS ON TOPIC OF ADOPTION
Elaine Pinkerton’s novel The Hand of Ganesh took me on a journey to India with such great detail that I felt as if I accompanied Clara and Dottie/Arundati on their quest to find Dottie’s birth mother. The young women also visited India to carry out the wishes of others for the stone hand of Ganesh that had been in Dottie’s adoptive family. The omniscient novel focuses mainly on Clara, an American (and Native American) adoptee whose story was first told in Pinkerton’s novel All the Wrong Places. Clara, who has already searched for her birth mother, acts as a sort of guide for Dottie who was born in India, but she knows very little about her origins. She is the ideal viewpoint for the novel because she is an outsider to India and shares what she learned with the reader. Suspense lies both in the larger issue—will Dottie find the mother of the child Arundati—and in a more subtle question—how do foreigners know who to trust in a country they do not know or understand? Read The Hand of Ganesh for its engaging storyline, meticulous depiction of southern India, and adoptee themes. Read The Hand of Ganesh and you will be eager to plan a trip to India.
I’ve enjoyed more books than this, but whew, I’m tired just remembering them all. Hope you find something that appeals to you here! And note that Anneli Purchase writes some stellar novels. Here’s my review on this blog of my favorite, Julia’s Violinist: https://writersite.org/2021/12/20/my-review-of-julias-violinist-by-anneli-purchase-and-note-from-the-author/ Another author of note is Joy Neale Kidney whose Leora historical series makes for an entertaining, educational, and sometimes heartbreaking experience. I have read all three books. Here is the first one I read and the review I posted here: https://writersite.org/2020/01/27/book-review-leoras-letters-or-how-i-learned-empathy-for-americans-during-wwii/
Warning: crabby writer here.
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There are so many wonderful examples to the contrary. But they remain the minority.
What am I talking about?
Trustworthiness in humans. The coronabub (coronavirus hubbub) has made this clear to me. First there are the accounts you hear on TV and read online. Some experts say just go about your business, but wash your hands a lot. Other reports say that those 60+ and/or with compromised immune systems (also heart or lung disease, etc.) should stay in their own homes and eschew even family events. Still other reports predict gloom and doom.
Because I am in the 60+ group and have had some lung issues in the past as an adult (also as a kid I was a magnet for every respiratory disease around), I am trying to pretend I am a crocodile that people want to stay away from (see photo below). I plan to be careful when I am out. But other people are not that careful. They still go to events where hundreds or thousands of people are attending. Even my own husband is not that careful when it comes to sanitizing and still doesn’t understand the concept of soap as necessity. He believes that big companies sold us on the idea of soap for them to reap the profits. So how does me being careful keep me safe if others I come in contact with are not careful?
The gardener calls me Howey Anne, after Howard Hughes and his infamous germaphobia. I would say that is a little extreme because I am not that paranoid. You have to consider the source. Person who thinks soap is unimportant thinks I am a germaphobe. Get it?
But I don’t like germs. I blame Oprah for an episode she filmed a long time ago about the germs in hotel rooms and your own shower head. ICK.
This coronavirus thing is causing me a lot of anxiety. I suppose it isn’t mentally healthy for me to be trying to keep my hands away from my face (an impossible task) and to be thinking about germs all the time.
I offer no comfort. Sorry if that’s what you need right now.
The gardener and I just got back from Guanacaste, Costa Rica. The first night we were there, the maid service left a tiny bottle of hand sanitizer in my room. I clung to it for the rest of the trip as if it were the last canteen of water in an unpopulated Sahara in a 1930s movie. It allowed me to fly home through two airplanes and four airports.
The trip was not the best, to tell you the truth. Coronavirus was only part of it. The worst was that the resort had accidentally cancelled our reservation back in September, but our travel agent never knew it. I am too tired from thinking about germs to tell you much about the trip, but the animals were fabulous, the Costa Ricans were nice, and the rest of it was not so great.
Then there was the driver who tried to scam us to the tune of $149 in Houston, the Houston hotel whose shuttle was out of commission but they neglected to tell us, and the bank that ripped our mortgage check and sent it back saying it was “torn in the mail” (LIE), thus dinging our credit. I mean, I could probably come up with a really long list like this. People just suck sometimes.
There are all the sad stories I read on Facebook about animals abandoned, neglected, and abused by humans. It never gets better.
The person who knowingly took his/her coronavirus ass to an event with hundreds of people.
I heard some people are stealing masks from hospitals. WTF!
Who would ever trust a human?
But without trust, where are we? We cannot live alone. It is impossible to be completely self-sufficient. What we do impacts others as well as ourselves. We can’t make it different. But we can try to do our best. In the worst of times, we need to be the best we can be.
Don’t brazen it out and go to major events and then drag your germs to other, more vulnerable people. Imagine being stuck in a nursing home right now–you can’t leave, but once coronavirus enters your facility, you would feel targeted. So be kind and think of other people.
OK, pretty sure my readers didn’t need that, but you might want to remind others!
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As far as photos of Costa Rica go, I have started (slowly) posting some on my Instagram account: catpoems. Check them out if you’re interested!
Also, University of Chicago-based Memoryhouse Magazine has published my Whitman tribute poem, “Out of the Cradle.” It refers to “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking,” and the last two words are used as the initial letters for the lines of the poem. This issue, called “Rattle,” is a good one. You can find it here.
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I hope when I check back in here next Monday for my next post, the coronabub has burst, and all is back to normal.
It’s so hard to travel–whether for business or pleasure–when you have celiac and have to be completely gluten free. The gardener has a pretty bad case of celiac, so he has to be vigilant. Unfortunately, travel and being vigilant don’t mix very well.
A lot of people comment to me that it’s so easy to find gluten free in restaurants today. Well, it’s easy to find restaurants that say they offer gluten free options. But are they really gluten free? Judging by how the gardener reacts, many times they are not.
Then I found an article in the newest issue of Gluten-Free Living called “One-third of labeled gluten-free restaurant food contains gluten” by Van Waffle. (Yup, that’s the byline!)
The title kind of gives away the gist of the article. SO DEPRESSING. And I am so not surprised. Time and again, we have to correct servers about items on the menu. An entree labeled gluten free, but made with regular soy sauce. GONG. Chicken noodle soup listed as gluten free. GONG. French fries made in a fryer that cooks glutenous food. GONG. It goes on and on. Then they lie, too.
The other day I picked up burgers and fries at our favorite local place that has a dedicated fryer, meaning it only fries gluten-free food in it. As usual, the gardener’s burger and fries were in a box. I opened it and looked at it. The lettuce, onion, and tomato were missing. When they gave it to me I said, “This is gluten free, for sure?” Oh yes, yes. Actually I asked two different people! But I had a funny feeling. Our burger place is a brewery, and it’s dark by the bar where you pick up take-out.
When I got to the car I noticed that the box did not say GF on it as it usually did. So I went back in. This time I was very insistent, and the woman who checked it said it wasn’t gluten free. They would make a new one. “They can’t just take it off that bun and put it on another one, you know.” She knew that.
While I waited I wondered why I had given them a nice tip. Three different people had “helped” me, and nobody seemed to care if my husband got sick from their food or not.
What we are doing wrong, for the most part, with gluten free food in restaurants is not taking precautions starting from the menu planning and kitchen design.
One of the places we traveled to this summer was Quebec. There were three restaurants with distinctive ways of handling the situation. As a side note, this issue of Gluten-Free Living has an article about GF food in Quebec!
Ottavio in Gatineau is a very casual Italian restaurant. They don’t serve alcohol, so we picked up some wine at the gas station across the street. The wine was good! but I digress. Ottavio has two separate kitchens–one for gluten and one for no gluten. They also serve the gluten free food on red dishes (P.F. Chang’s also uses separate plates which has got to be so helpful to servers and makes the diner feel more secure). The food was good, and the gardener did not get sick.
Arepera in Montreal is an extremely casual Venezuelan restaurant that is gluten-free! The food was good, and there was no stress at all. The gardener can’t eat beans either (just one of many food intolerances that have developed as part of celiac disease), but there was plenty of food to eat.
Bistro Le Veravin in Quebec City is supposedly 99% gluten-free. Personally, I think they ought to be 100% because it would make it easier, and I am guessing it is more like 90% gluten free. But the food was delicious, and the gardener did not get sick. He had a wonderful selection of food to choose from. I had the poutine au canard (duck confit poutine) because poutine you see.
So separate kitchens is a wonderful idea for providing gluten-free food for diners. But being 100% gluten free is the best because then the celiac can totally relax and enjoy instead of paying attention to everything so that a mistake doesn’t happen.
Back to poutine: this was a breakfast poutine in Ontario. Wowsa. So good. Sadly, not gluten-free.
Next week we are going to try a gluten-free restaurant that is a little closer to home. Fingers crossed!
Are you familiar with Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way? I really like the idea of Artist Dates, where the writer or artist goes on a weekly expedition to explore something inspiring or enchanting. I like to try to do that as often as I can. (It’s been pointed out to me that Artist Dates should be SOLO, but when I have an opportunity like this, I take it as-is).
While my uncle was visiting, the gardener and I took him to the Teotihuacan exhibit at the Phoenix Art Museum. Between 100 BCE and 650 CE, Teotihuacan was the largest city in the Americas. In some ways it was like many pre-Columbian exhibits and in other ways it seemed brand new to me. I can’t quite explain it. I also thought it was fascinating that there were so many “feline” shapes in the art. (Love my cats!) Let me mention that my uncle won two scholarships to the Art Institute in Chicago when he was a kid. He was able to attend the first time, but the second time he had a serious illness and had to stay home for a full year. He had to go to work very young and was never able to pursue a career as an artist, although he certainly had the talent.
It was really fascinating to see how much art was designed to replicate teeth!
The earrings or “ear plugs” the statues wear are the same as those worn by the Aztecs, so that style was around for many centuries (it still is, I guess).
The plaques on the walls described the city in some detail. I found the pyramids to once again remind me so much of Egyptian pyramids. Maybe I’ve heard too many episodes of the ancient alien shows that the gardener likes to watch . . . .
On the way in and out of the gallery, we were met with two beauties. One was the Carlos Amorales piece “Black Cloud,” a swarm of black moths and butterflies.
The other was this dandelion sculpture created by (I think) Josiah McElheny:
I’m a huge fan of big contemporary installations like these as they really set the tone and show me that humankind is still creating amazing art.
A few days after we visited the museum, we took Uncle Frank to California for a few days. I’ll write about that part of the trip later. Mebbe next week, I hope.
BUT a few days after my uncle left for Arkansas, I had the real pleasure of meeting Theresa Barker. She blogs at Theresa Barker Lab Notes. We had a fun time comparing notes on our families and exchanging a few of our favorite poems and discussing them. What a blast! She is as nice and smart in person as in blogland.
I’ve been feeling very depleted and tired lately, so much so that creating new work seems impossible. However, I pulled out a lot of unfinished poems. By unfinished, I mean that they were too complete, too mediocre, and had been filed away. I am going through and revising these poems. Maybe I will find something good in some of them!
Last week I told you about the great restaurant we found in the Ozarks, along the White River bank. But we did more than go to that restaurant. We kept my uncle going every day! It had been decades since we had been to northern Arkansas. When we last visited, there were so many ancient Ozark-style log cabins tucked into the woods on the side of the road that the flavor of the land was everywhere you looked. If you don’t know what those are, they are small slightly rectangular box cabins with a peaked roof and a front porch with roof (imagine a wooden rocking chair and Pa with a corncob pipe just about now). Typically, the cover to the porch is a different pitch than the main roof–and best yet, the roof is generally tin. There aren’t very many left, but the remains of the ones being slowly claimed by the forest can be seen. Also, some have been refurbished with aluminum siding. Some new houses are built in the same style, to reflect the traditional architecture.
The reason I don’t have photos for you is that most of my Arkansas photos are crap, having been taken through a car window. It was too hot and humid to keep rolling the window down–and the so-called highways (NO freeways at all) are winding and long. It’s way out in the country, y’all. Anyway, the gardener drove, and it exhausted him so I didn’t want to distract him by rolling the window up and down–or asking to stop where we could have been run over IF someone else had driven there just then (that’s a big IF).
This part of Arkansas must be well within the Bible Belt. In Mountain Home (population 12,448), the Wednesday newspaper had a listing of churches in the immediate area.
I counted FORTY-ONE Baptist churches. There are also a lot of other denominations, including LDS, Jehovah’s Witness, and even Bahai! There is no synagogue, and I don’t think there is a mosque. Also, there are only two Catholic churches–one in town and one in a nearby town. The one in town is my uncle’s church. You might wonder then how my uncle ended up in Arkansas. He was born and lived in Chicago. After a horrible crime touched his life (story coming tomorrow in thefamilykalamazoo.com) he moved his family to rural Illinois–and eventually to Arkansas. He wasn’t alone–there is a whole “expat” group of Chicagoans who live there. They like being away from the hubbub–and a lot of them like to fish. That–and some Californians who have escaped the west coast–probably makes up the majority of people who attend the Catholic churches.
Let me mention that my favorite church names are the cowboy churches. Notice that this listing shows Bar None Cowboy Church. We flew into Tulsa, OK, and drove to Mountain Home. On the way, we saw other cowboy churches, like the Cowboy Gatherin’ Church in Inola, OK, and Crooked Creek Cowboy Church in Harrison. Apparently “cowboy churches” are a thing and are scattered across the country. Who knew? Well, I sure didn’t.
Speaking of Harrison. It’s only 48.4 miles from Mountain Home, but there’s a big difference. Mountain Home, as I said, has attracted people from Chicago and California and is close to reknowned trout fishing near the Bull Shoals dam which links Bull Shoals Lake with the White River. People think of pretty Ozark country when Mountain Home is mentioned. Harrison’s reputation comes from being known as the most racist city in the country. I got that from Wikipedia. So who knows the accuracy. Apparently, between 1905 and 1909 white citizens threw out all the African-Americans who lived there and established their city as a “sundown town.” That means just what it sounds like: no non-white people in town after dark. You think things have changed?
The city has been dubbed “the most racist city in America” because of its high presence of white supremacist organizations. Kingdom Identity Ministries, a white supremacist organization, was founded in 1982 in Harrison. Thomas Robb, national director of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, maintains his office near Harrison in the outlying town of Zinc and uses a Harrison mailing address for the organization. Combined with the history of the 1905 and 1909 banishment of unemployed railroad workers and all other African-American residents, this incidental connection to the KKK has given the town a negative image.
The article goes on to say that there are people who are trying to combat that image by speaking up against racism. Of course, all this just made me want to visit. The writer in me, you know. But that’s an easy call as a white woman. As the white mother of Asians, I would not have suggested we visit if they were with us.
When we got to town, I saw the pretty historic theatre where events are still held.
Love the neon sign!
Harrison is quite a pretty small town, and there wasn’t much to hint at a dangerous undercurrent of racism. Then we stopped at an antique shop for the gardener.
My eye was drawn to certain things. I started to feel uncomfortable.
I realize people collect Mammy this and that. Raised in Kalamazoo by my northern relatives, I will never feel comfortable with this stuff. In fact, in Arkansas, I had to keep reminding myself it used to be a slave state. I’ve never lived in a state where slave-holding was legal.
And then there was this little section.
Don’t you love the juxtaposition of items? The Rise and Fall swastika, desperation, a book called Rifles and Shotguns, Rhett Butler, and the fragility of that ruffled porcelain atop the stack. I figured we’d been in town long enough. Time to go!
Next day we visited my cousin’s home in the mountains. He is an orchid farmer by trade, and they live way out in the middle of nowhere (yup, it’s probably even called that). He always loved cacti and orchids, and it’s kind of cool that he’s made a living all these years doing what he loves.
He’s got such cute grandchildren, too. So much fun playing with them!
One day we visited Mystic Caverns. I guess northern Arkansas has a lot of underground caves. Many have probably not even been discovered yet.
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Close to Mountain Home is a tiny town called Norfork. There you can find the Jacob Wolf House Historic Site.
The site includes the main house, which was the territorial courthouse, built 1825, as well as some outbuildings. Seeing how the men “roughed” it even inside the courthouse really made me think of what the settlers went through. During the day, court was in session, and at night, the men spread out their bedrolls where they had been sitting in court earlier.
As we left Arkansas, the gardener and I stopped at the Osage Clayworks because the area has been known for pottery for quite some time. They had some good buys on “seconds,” and I bought my daughter a garlic thingie to use for her rings on her dresser.
The Photography of Justin Hamm
If you like seeing small towns and the fading past of America, you need to check out the photography of poet and photographer Justin Hamm. He’s also the editor of the museum of americana. I love Justin’s photos. Rustic images of old cars, barns, that kind of thing. Gorgeous. Click here for his Instagram. Here are the photos on his website. Look at this photograph of an old Ozark barn, care of Justin. He’s been in the Ozarks recently so I am watching for all those shots I imagined but couldn’t pull off.
The Art of Len Cowgill
On the subject of beautiful American art, I want to tell you a little update on the work of Len Cowgill.
Many, many years ago, when Len, the gardener, and I were all very young, Len gave us a series of three pieces as a gift. This was before he knew about archival materials, and over the years in the hot sun of California, the drawings faded. Here is one of them–see HOW faded.
Upon hearing about the fading, Len kindly offered to repair all these drawings. Look out great they turned out! In the first one, he changed the static brick wall to Allen Ginsberg’s poem “America” and then followed the theme for the rest of them.
I’m so blessed to have such thought-provoking and breathtaking art in my life. Thanks to Len and thanks to Justin both for sticking with your passions and making the world more beautiful.
Dashing in here to tell you that Mom is on the way back home to Michigan. We had a good visit, and I am exhausted.
Near the beginning of our visit, the gardener and I took Mom on a cruise on the Desert Belle on Saguaro Lake.
We saw some landscape typical of the area. You can only get a view like this from the lake or by hiking fairly far.
Swimmers are not allowed at this lake, but it would be fun to boat, jetski, etc. The problem is, if you go in the summer, they only allow a certain number of “vehicles” on the water, so if you’re not there by 5 or 6AM you might have to wait for hours for your turn!
We also took Mom to California to see son and ND (new daughter). We thought we’d take them out to dinner because their wild little dog Theo and the two cats are pretty chaotic in their condo. But when we got there, my son said, “Oh, by the way, there’s another dog here.”
“What?!” That was me being astonished.
“Um, yeah, we’re fostering him.” Son was walking ahead of me into the building so I couldn’t see his face.
“Fostering???!!!!” I’m sure I looked disbelieving and he could hear it in my voice because he caved right away.
“OK, Mom, we had to keep him. He’s the one I told you about.”
And then it came back to me that my son had called a couple of months ago and asked if I could take a 16-year-old dog who had nowhere to go. The owner was Taking Him to the Pound! Any 16-year-old dog shows up at the pound, and he won’t last an hour before the shelter does away with him.
Now, I am a pushover with animals, but I do know how to draw the line (kinda) because the parade of animals in need of homes is endless. So I asked the gardener, he said no, and then I “had” to say no. I figured my son would watch over the situation and somebody would work it out if I didn’t hear any begging.
I didn’t hear any begging because son took him home to ND who was not pleased until first son and then ND fell in love with the little guy. His name is Gary, and he’s a Jack Russell terrier. They didn’t tell us for two months because last fall I’d said (with my lack of tact), “Good thing you guys are looking for a house because you can’t have any more animals in here” (they live on the 3rd floor so are looking for a house).
Of course, the gardener and I fell in love with Gary right away. And, yes, my son and I are a LOT alike.
My mother got a kick out of seeing son’s lego collection. It’s pretty amazing. I know what he’s getting for his birthday this summer!
He loves toys and puzzles like his mama ;). We’re going to hunt through the storage space this summer for his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle collection. Love those guys!
Back in Arizona Mom and I spent a lot of time scrapbooking together. Luckily, I had enough photos that were of interest to her for scrapbooking–and I have a lot of supplies.
These are pages I was working on for my daughter. I’m really behind, but I’ve made a scrapbook for each year of her four years at the University of Oklahoma (Boomer Sooner).
As you might expect, Perry was a little overactive for my Mom being here, but in general, he was a good boy, even when he had to be put in my office. He held still for a few pix.
I know I promised to write every day in 2018, but it was impossible with Mom here. I start back up TODAY. #amwriting
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Another especially busy week in the Los Ángeles Literary community. This week also features both in-person and virtual reading, open mics, workshops and book clubs. Local Writers reading this week are: Victoria Chang, Judy Kronenfeld, Cynthia Guardado, Andy Sanchez, Jose Hernandez Diaz, Danel Romo and Gabrielle Civil, among others.
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NOTE: There Are Both Online and Virtual Events Listed Here
Luncheon with Emma Straub: Book Launch of This Time Tomorrow at Slay Italian Kitchen – In-Person Event
Pages hosts a luncheon to celebrate the publication of Emma Straub’s’ new book, This Time Tomorrow at Slay’s Italian Kitchen. The author will be in conversation with Janelle Brown, author of I’ll Be You.
On the eve of her 40th birthday, Alice’s life isn’t terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn’t exactly the one she expected. She’s happy with her apartment, her romantic status, her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But her father is ailing, and it feels to her as if something is missing. When she wakes up the next morning she finds herself back in 1996, reliving her 16th birthday. But it isn’t just her adolescent body that shocks her, or seeing her high school crush, it’s her dad: the vital, charming, 40-something version of her father with whom she is reunited. Now armed with a new perspective on her own life and his, some past events take on new meaning. Is there anything that she would change if she could?
NOTE: See site for tickets, guidelines, and details.
Where: Pages Bookstore at Slay Italian Kitchen
Date: Monday the 23rd
Time: 11:30 am- 1 pm
Address: 1001 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/emma-straub-slay
Book Club Bonanza: Let’s Celebrate Asian Pacific Voices via Central Library, LAPL – Online Teen Event
Teens may join our The Big Read online to celebrate and discuss the books The Best We Could Do, by Thi Bui and Flamer, by Mike Curato, to celebrate Asian Pacific voices in YA literature..
Watch past episodes on YouTube for more book recommendations.
NOTE: See site for RSVP & event details.
Where: Central Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 23rd
Time: 4:30 pm
Address: LAPL – Online (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-club-bonanza-lets-celebrate-asian-pacific-voices
Vroman’s Local Author Day: Beverley Whitaker Rodgers & Shawn Brown-Blumfield at Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Event
Local authors Beverley Whitaker Rodgers & Shawln Brown-Blumfield will present their new books: Reflections from Box 150 and The purpose Driven School, respectively.
Beverley Whitaker Rodgers’ book, Reflections from Box 150: Chronicles of a Childhood Growing Up in the U.S. Horticultural Field Station near Torrey Pines, La Jolla, California, captures a bygone era through short stories and vignettes from the 1930s to 1952. Beverley’s father, Dr. Thomas W. Whitaker, became an accomplished ethnobotanist, experimenting with growing vegetation in the dry, Southern California terrain, specializing in iceberg lettuce and Cucurbits (melons and gourds). He instilled in Beverley an inherent interest in agriculture. Her mother instilled in Beverley an insatiable interest in history. These stories are told with humor, wit and historical accuracy, weaving narratives that will hold the reader’s attention, passing on tales of a more innocent time.
Shawn Brown-Blumfield’s book, The Purpose Driven School, is a guide to creating vitality in schools—allowing our educational institutions to have purposeful existence and to thrive long-term. With chapters on vision, hiring practices, leadership, the achievement gap, distance learning, and more, This book will help educational leaders build great schools that contribute to a better America.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Vroman’s
Date: Monday the 23rd
Time: 6 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91011
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/local-author-day-5-23
In-Store Book Talk: Bryonn Rolly Bain, with Dean Pedro Noguera, & Rebel Speak: A Justice Movement Mixtape at Chevalier’s Bookstore – In-Person Event
Author Bryonn Rollt Bain, in conversation with Dean Pedro Noguera, will present and discuss his new book, Rebel Speak: A Justice Movement Mixtape.
This book is a literary mixtape of transformative dialogues on justice with a cast of visionary rebel activists, organizers, artists, culture workers, thought leaders, and movement builders.
Rebel Speak sounds the alarm for a global movement to end systemic injustice led by people doing the day-to-day rebel work in the prison capital of the world. Prison activist, artist, scholar, and author Bain brings us transformative oral history ciphers, rooted in the tradition of call-and-response, to lay bare the struggle and sacrifice on the front lines of the fight to abolish the prison industrial complex.
With raw insight and radical introspection, Rebel Speak embodies the growing call for “credible messengers” on prisons, policing, racial justice, abolitionist politics, and transformative organizing. Reimagining the role of the writer and scholar as a DJ and MC, the author moves the crowd with this unforgettable mix of those working within the belly of the beast to change the world.
Bryonn Rolly Bain. is a prison activist, artist, scholar, and author of four books including The Ugly Side of Beautiful: Rethinking Race and Prison in America. Learn more about his critically acclaimed hip hop theater and spoken word multimedia production, Lyrics from Lockdown, and his Emmy Award-winning work on LA Stories, at http://www.bryonn.com.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Monday the 23rd
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: 133 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-bryonn-bains-rebel-speak-a-justice-movement-mixtape-tickets-331252474067
At Skylight: Kelly Lytle Hernandez, with Marissa Lopez, & Bad Mexicans at Skylight Bookstore – In-Person Event
Kelly Lytle Hernandez, in conversation with Marissa Lopez, will present and discuss her new book, Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire and Revolution in the Borderlands, a groundbreaking narrative of revolution in the borderlands.
Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Led by a brilliant but ill-tempered radical named Ricardo Flores Magón, the magonistas were a motley band of journalists, miners, migrant workers, and more, who organized thousands of Mexican workers—and American dissidents—to their cause. Determined to oust Mexico’s dictator, Porfirio Díaz, who encouraged the plunder of his country by U.S. imperialists such as Guggenheim and Rockefeller, the rebels had to outrun and outsmart the swarm of U. S. authorities vested in protecting the Diaz regime. The U.S. Departments of War, State, Treasury, and Justice as well as police, sheriffs, and spies, hunted the magonistas across the country. Capturing Ricardo Flores Magón was one of the FBI’s first cases.
Long ignored by textbooks, the magonistas threatened to undo the rise of Anglo-American power, on both sides of the border, and inspired a revolution that gave birth to the Mexican-American population, making the magonistas’ story integral to modern American life.
Kelly Lytle Hernández is The Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History at UCLA. One of the nation’s leading scholars of race, immigration, and mass incarceration, she is the author of Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (University of California Press 2010) and City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles (University of North Carolina Press, 2017). She reframes our understanding of U.S. history in her groundbreaking book, Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands (W.W. Norton, May 2022). In 2019, Professor Lytle Hernández was named a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow for her historical and contemporary work.
Marissa López is Associate Graduate Dean and Professor of English and Chicana/o Studies at UCLA, researching Chicanx literature from the 19th century to the present with an emphasis on 19th century Mexican California. She has written two books: Chicano Nations (NYU 2011) is about nationalism and Chicanx literature from the early-1800s to post-9/11; Racial Immanence (NYU 2019) explores uses of the body and affect in Chicanx cultural production. She recently completed a year-long residency at the Los Angeles Public Library as a Scholars & Society fellow with the American Council of Learned Societies.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchase, and details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Monday the 23rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-kelly-lytle-hern%C3%A1ndez-conversation-marissa-l%C3%B3pez
Monday Night Fiction Workshop at Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online Event
This free Monday Night Fiction Workshop led by Raquel Baker is a community writing workshop in which participants are asked to bring copies of 2-3 pages of fiction to read, and to use for critique and discussion. Registration is required.
Raquel Baker earned a PhD in English Literary Studies from the University of Iowa and an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. She is currently Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Studies and Transnational Literatures at CSU Channel Islands. She has published poetry and non-fiction, and done readings with the Ventura Poetry Project.
Where: Beyond Baroque – Online event (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Monday the 23rd
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/monday-night-fiction-workshop-tickets-342741046697
Keep Calm + Write On: Braintrust Workshop with Kris Kaila via The Poetry Lab – Online Event
What happens when we put our “self” on the back burner, and our identity becomes tangled with outside expectations. Finding time to do something for our soul can be a balancing act in our busy lives. Let’s invest some time together to take a small journey of self-discovery through reading and writing. Looking at poems like “Healing” by Nayo Jones, “Ode to the Thrift Store” by Ariana Brown, and “The Fat Girl” by Rheonna Nicole we will ask ourselves about self-love, compassion, recovery and discovery. This will be a space to be seen and heard. Please join us!
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and details.
Where: The Poetry Lab
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: The Poetry Lab – Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.thepoetrylab.com/upcoming-events/2022/braintrust/may-24
Words & Ideas: Marie Yovanovich, with Angela Stent, & Lessons from the Edge via Skirball Cultural Center – Online Event
Author and former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovich, in discussion will Angela Stent, will discuss her book, Lessons from the Edge.
The author recounts her nonpartisan experience in the Foreign Service, rising to the top ranks, and serving in hot spots of the world. The story of her time in Ukraine—and being sent home—is harrowing. Recall her steady and undaunted testimony in the first impeachment trial, as she faced intimidation and subsequent betrayal as well as what it tells us about American diplomacy writ large. .
NOTE: See site for tickets and details.
Where: Skirball Cultural Center & Writers Bloc
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Skirball Online event (see site)
Website: http://www.skirball.org/programs/words-and-ideas/former-us-ambassador-ukraine-marie-yovanovitch-lessons-edge
Emma Straub, with Antoine Wilson, & This Time Tomorrow at Diesel Bookstore – In-Person Event
Author Emma Straub, in discussion will Antoine Wilson (Mouth to Mouth, Panorama City, The Interloper), will discuss her new novel, This Time Tomorrow.
On the eve of her 40th birthday, Alice’s life isn’t terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn’t exactly the one she expected. She’s happy with her apartment, her romantic status, her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But her father is ailing, and it feels to her as if something is missing. When she wakes up the next morning she finds herself back in 1996, reliving her 16th birthday. But it isn’t just her adolescent body that shocks her, or seeing her high school crush, it’s her dad: the vital, charming, 40-something version of her father with whom she is reunited. Now armed with a new perspective on her own life and his, some past events take on new meaning. Is there anything that she would change if she could?
NOTE: See site for guidelines and details.
Where: Diesel Bookstore, in the Courtyard
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Suite 33, Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: https://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/emma-straub-this-time-tomorrow
Lynne Cox & Book Launch of Tales of Ak: The Water Rescue Dog at Pages Bookstore – In-Person Event
Pages welcomes back author and celebrated open water swimmer Lynne Cox, who will discuss her new book, Tales of Al: The Water Rescue Dog.
In this book, Lynne Cox tells the story of her adventures in Italy’s picturesque Lake Idroscalo, where she witnesses the training of one of the spectacular dogs at SICS, the famed school that taught hundreds of dog owners how to train their dogs for rescue operations.
NOTE: See site for tickets, guidelines, and details.
Where: Pages Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 1001 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website:https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/lynne-cox
Candice Iloh, with Asha Grant, & Book Launch of Break This House at Salt Eaters Bookstore – In-Person Event
Salt Eaters Bookstore welcomes National Book Award Finalist and Printz Award Honoree Candice Iloh, in conversation with Asha Grant, to celebrate their book launch of the YA novel, Break This House.
This will be the first (!!) in-person book launch at Salt Eaters, and there will be tea, coffee, and light refreshments form the Sip and Sonder family included with ticket purchase, and books will be available for purchase and pre-order.
We also announced new extended hours of operation at Salt Eaters, Wednesday – Saturday.
NOTE: See site for tickets, guidelines, and details.
Where: Salt Eaters Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 6:30 pm (doors); 7pm (start)
Address: 302 E. Queens St., Inglewood, CA 90301
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/break-this-house-book-launch-and-author-chat-candice-iloh-asha-grant-tickets-333630326287
AAPI Book Club & Victoria Chang’s Dear Memory: Letter on Writing, Silence, and Grief via Bel Canto Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
AAPI Book Club will discuss Victoria Chang’s book, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief.
In this book, author and poet Victoria Chang offers a collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations, and the understanding of a process of shaping and being shaped, a model for what it looks like to find ourselves in our stories.
NOTE: See site for book purchase, guidelines, and details.
Where: Bel Canto Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://bookshop.org/books/dear-memory-letters-on-writing-silence-and-grief/9781571313928
Shawn Levy & In on the Joke: The Original Queens of Standup Comedy, at Book Soup – In-Person Event
Join us to hear Shawn Levy present and discuss her book, In on the Joke: The Original Queens of Standup Comedy.
This book is the story of a group of unforgettable women who knocked down the doors of stand-up comedy so other women could get a shot. It spans decades and genres, and tells of women who refused to be typed, and faced own indifference, puzzlement, and hostility to persevere and succeed. Meticulously researched and irresistibly drawn, this group portrait has lots of laughs along the way.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchase, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/shawn-levy-discusses-joke-original-queens-standup-comedy
Non-Fiction Book Club & Crying in H Mart at Pages Bookstore – In-Person Event
Pages Non-Fiction Book Club will discuss this month’s selection, Crying in H Mart, by Michelle Zauner, facilitated by Mark Polak.
In this book, a powerful memoir about growing up Korean American, about family food, and grief, and endurance, the author tells her story of growing up in Eugene Oregon, struggling with her mother’s high expectations of her, getting through a painful adolescence, and bonding with her mother in her grandmother’s tiny apartment in Seoul. After finally forging a new life and career, it was her mother’s terminal cancer diagnosis that forced a final reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts her mother had given her.
NOTE: See site for book purchase, guidelines, and details.
Where: Pages Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 1001 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/non-fiction-book-club-3
Christina Lauren, in Conversation with Alisha Rai, Discusses Something Wilder – In-Person Event
The writing duo of Christian Hobbs and Lauren Billings is behind the pen name of Christina Lauren, author of the new novel, Something Wilder. They will be in conversation with Alisha Rai.
Growing up the daughter of notorious treasure hunter and absentee father Duke Wilder left Lily without much patience for the profession – or money in the bank. But Lily is resourceful and uses Duke’s hand-drawn maps to guide tourists on fake treasure hunts through the red rock canyons of Utah. When a specific trip goes terribly wrong, she finds a chance to right the wrongs of Duke’s past and her own on the adventure of a lifetime.
NOTE: See site for guidelines, and details.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/Christina-Lauren-discusses-Something-Wilder
The Artist’s Way Workshop (6 weeks) with Judith Martin-Shaw at Village Well Bookstore – In-Person Event
Fans of Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way will enjoy participating in this six-week version of the workshop, led by Judith Martin-Shaw.
Judith Martin-Straw has years of experience teaching the Artist’s Way and recommends it to everyone. She is a poet, short story writer and journalist, the publisher of Culver City Crossroads local news, and sits on the advisory board of the Culver Arts Foundation. She’s been teaching yoga and meditation for decades, and taught classes at the Culver-Palms YMCA from 2002 to 2019.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, costs, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Village Well Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 9900 Culver Blvd., #1B, Culver City, CA 90232
Website: https://shop.villagewell.com/events/17620
Tuesdays at the Virtual Cobalt: Poets Series Presents: Open Reading & John Wesick – Virtual Zoom Event
The Virtual Cobalt Poets Series, presented by Rick Lupert via Zoom, will feature an Open Reading and guest host Jon Wesick.
Jon Wesick is a regional editor of the San Diego Poetry Annual. He’s published hundreds of poems and stories in journals such as the Atlanta Review, Berkeley Fiction Review, New Verse News, Paterson Literary Review, Pearl, Pirene’s Fountain, Slipstream, Space and Time, and Tales of the Talisman. The editors of Knot Magazine nominated his stories “The Visitor” and “A Story for the Rest of Us” for Pushcart Prizes. His poem “Meditation Instruction” won the Editor’s Choice Award in the 2016 Spirit First Contest. Another poem “Bread and Circuses” won second place in the 2007 African American Writers and Artists Contest. “Richard Feynman’s Commute” shared third place in the 2017 Rhysling Award’s short poem category. Jon is the author of the poetry collections Words of Power, Dances of Freedom and A Foreigner Wherever I Go as well as several novels and short story collections. His most recent novel is The Prague Deception.
NOTE: Details and Zoom link at event link.
Where: Cobalt Poets – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/cale ndar.html
Da Poetry Lounge IG Live Open MIc Night – IG Live Event
Every Tuesday (except for 3rd Tuesdays and special events) Da Poetry Lounge holds open mic nights. At an open mic, all are welcome to share their poetry or sit in the audience.
See sites for details.
Where: DA Poetry Lounge
Date: Tuesday the 24th (Check to Verify details).
Time: 9 pm – 11 pm
Address: IG Live (see site)
Website: https://www.instagram.com/dapoetrylounge_com/
SOM Tuesdays Open Mic at Di Piazza’s Pizza, Long Beach – In-Person Event
SOM Open Mic Tuesdays at Di Piazza’s are back! Come and share music, comedy, and poetry with us.
Where: Di Piazza’s Pizza (Check to verify)
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 9 pm – 12 am
Address: 5205 E. Pacific Coast Hwy., Long Beach, CA
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1253012645206168/1253012711872828/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22surface%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22permalink%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D
Mystery Book Club & Snow, by John Banville at Once Upon a Time Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join us for our monthly Mystery Book Club discussion when we meet to discuss Snow, by John Banville.
John Banville’s Snow is the story of a family and the secrets in the family which resurface when a parish priest is found murdered in their ancestral home.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchases, and event details.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore – in the circle in front of Star Café
Date: Wednesday 25th
Time: 9 am
Address: 2207 Honolulu Ave., Montrose, CA 91020
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/mystery-book-group-snow-john-banville
Quest Book Club & After Dark, by Haruki Murakami, at The Book Jewel Bookstore – In-Person Event
Quest Book Club meets on every last Wednesday of the month at The Book Jewel Bookstore and participants read a variety of literature, alternating between fiction and nonfiction.
May’s book selection for discussion is After Dark, by Haruki Murakami
NOTE: See site for guidelines, book purchase, and details.
Where: The Book Jewel
Date: Wednesday the 25th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 6259 W. 87th St., Los Angeles, CA 90045
Website: https://www.facebook.com/BookJewelBookstore/
Korean American Authors Talk YA for AANHPI Heritage Month at Book Soup – In-Person Event
Join us to hear 4 Korean American YA authors talk AANHPI Heritage, YA literature, and present their new books. Featuring authors:
Kat Cho Kat Cho (she/her) used to hide books under the bathroom sink and then sneak in there to read after bedtime. Her parents pretended not to know. This helped when she decided to write a dinosaur time-travel novel at the tender age of nine. Sadly, that book was not published. She currently lives and works in NYC and spends her free time trying to figure out what kind of puppy to adopt. Kat is the international bestselling author of Wicked Fox and Vicious Spirits (Putnam/Peguin). As well as the webcomic, Free Hexel, and the YA romcom, Once Upon a K-Prom (Disney).
Stephan Lee is a journalist, author, and multi-fandom K-pop stan. He currently works as Senior Editor at Bustle after a five-year stretch covering books and movies at Entertainment Weekly. At EW, he traveled to Seoul for three weeks to write a feature about Korean entertainment’s world domination, interviewing K-pop idols, filmmakers, and drama writers. He earned an MFA in Creative Writing at The New School. His debut novel is K-POP CONFIDENTIAL.
Grace K. Shim grew up in Tulsa Oklahoma as one of two Korean-Americans at her high school (her sister was the other one). Today, Grace writes books with Korean-American protagonists that she wished she had read about as a teen. When she’s not plotting (the writing kind, not the world domination kind), you can find her wearing a Korean sheet mask, baking French macarons, and unintentionally killing house plants & succulents. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband and three kids. She is the author of The Noh Family.
Susan Lee has built a career as a Human Resources executive at successful startups such as Spotify and Warby Parker. Her biggest job takeaway: we are all, for the most part, ridiculous. And she channels this into her writing of light-hearted, quirky novels about the oftentimes hilarious human condition. Susan is a 2018 PitchWars alum, a 2019 & 2020 PitchWars mentor, a 2019 Romance Writers of America Golden Heart® winner, and an avid K-pop and K-drama fan. Her bias is V/Taehyung, which for those in the know, explains it all. She is the author of Seoulmates.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines and event details.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Wednesday 25th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/korean-american-authors
Mothers/Madres Write Workshop with Rosalilia M. Mendoza via LA Poet Society – Online Zoom Event
Join us for a Mothers/Madres Who Write Workshop led by Rosalilia M. Mendoza to share our personal stories and transform Arte. Our time is sacred, and our voice beautiful as we collectively dedicate space to t he writing poetry, testimonio, short story, or anything you want to share as a mother/caregiver.
Rosalilia M. Mendoza has volunteered, helped organize several arts and music programs, and taught music for youth and families at Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural and bookstore. Born and raised in the northeastern valley, after she graduated from the master’s program in Counseling Psychology and Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian studies from WI, Madison, Rosalilia had a strong desire to return to her community to create, transform, and build using the arts for healing and growth.
NOTE: See Site for link and details.
Where: LAPS – Zoom Online: Zoom: 838 8376 8977
Date: Wednesday the 25th
Time: 6 pm
Address: LAPS Online Event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/LosAngelesPoetSociety/
David Yoon, with John Cho, & City of Orange, at Vroman’s – In-Person Event
Join us to hear David Yoon, in conversation with actor and author John Cho, discuss his new book, City of Orange.
A man wakes up in an unknown landscape, injured and alone. He used to live in a place called California, but how did he wind up here with a head wound and a bottle of pill sin his pocket? His confusions have only begun…
Harrowing and haunting, but also humorous in the face of the unfathomable, David Yoon’s new novel is about reassembling the things that make us who we are, and finding the way home again.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines and event details.
Where: Vroman’s, outside on the Paseo
Date: Wednesday 25th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/david-yoon-in-conversation-with-john-cho-discusses-city-of-orange
Gal Beckerman & The Quiet Before at Page Against the Machine Bookstore – In-Person Event
Author and senior editor for books at The Atlantic Gal Beckerman will discuss his new book, The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas.
From pen-to-paper days of letter writing and petition signing in the 17th and 18th centuries, through artistic manifestos and Riot Grrrl zines of the 20th century to present day Twitter revolutionaries and Black Lives Matter hashtags, this book takes us on a creative and incisive historical tour of how social movements were built, and why some stalled and others gained traction.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Page Against the Machine (PATM) Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 25th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 2714 E. 4th St., Long Beach, CA 90814
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1024854644810686/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22surface%22%3A%22page%22%7D]%7D
At Skylight: Anna Carey, with Tahereh Mafi, & This Is Not the Real World at Skylight Bookstore – In-Person Event
Author Anna Carey, in conversation with Tahereh Mafi, will discuss her book, This Is Not the Real World (Quirk Books).
Nineties nostalgia takes a dark turn in this thrilling sequel to This is Not the Jess Show.
Months after Jess escaped from the set of Stuck in the ‘90s, the nostalgic reality show she believed was her real life, the teen star is getting to know the outside world for the first time. But she can’t outrun her fictional life forever– or the media empire that owns it. After Like-Life productions tracks her down, she teams up with an underground network fighting to uncover their schemes. But now the plan is for her to take down the company form the inside, which might just cost her everything.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 25th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-anna-carey-presents-this-is-not-the-real-world
Lynne Cox & Tales of Al: The Water Rescue Dog at Village Well Bookstore – In-Person Event
Lynne Cox, swimming champion and best-selling author of Swimming to Antarctica, will discuss her new book, Tales of Al: The Water Rescue Dog.
In this book, Lynne Cox tells the story of her adventures in Italy’s picturesque Lake Idroscalo, where she witnesses the training of one of the spectacular dogs at SICS, the famed school that taught hundreds of dog owners how to train their dogs for rescue operations.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchase, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Village Well Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 25th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 9900 Culver Blvd., #1B, Culver City, CA 90232
Website: https://shop.villagewell.com/events/16913
Anansi Virtual Writers Workshop at The World Stage – In-Person Event
The Anansi Writers Workshop was founded in 1990 by Kamau Daáood, Akilah Oliver, Nafis Nabawi and Anthony Lyons. In 1993, Michael Datcher initiated the development of a three-part format for the workshop. Our tradition of a community workshop began in the late 1960s at the Watts Writers’ Workshop, where World Stage co-founder Kamau Daáood started his writing career. For general information and booking, contact V. Kali, the Anansi Writers Workshop Coordinator, at vkaliflowers@gmail.com.
• 7:30p.m.–8:30p.m. — Formal workshop;
• 8:30p.m.–9:00p.m. — Featured reader;
• 9:05p.m.–10:00p.m. — Open mic
Suggested: $5.00 Donation via PayPal: The World Stage Gallery.
NOTE: See site for further details, and any change in the schedule. Contact kaliflowers@gmial.com or call (323) 293-2451
Where: The World Stage (Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 25th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: 4321 Dengan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: https://www.theworldstage.org/events.html
Wednesday Night Poetry Workshop via Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
Join Beyond Baroque’s longest running free poetry workshop via Zoom online as we welcome new and seasoned poets to share their work and provide feedback. Facilitators are rotated quarterly, and the current facilitator is Jose Hernandez Diaz.
Jose Hernandez Diaz is a 2017 NEA Poetry Fellow. He is the author of The Fire Eater (Texas Review Press, 2020). His work appears in The American Poetry Review, Boulevard, Colorado Review, Huizache, Iowa Review, Poetry, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, and in The Best American Nonrequired Reading Anthology 2011. He teaches creative writing online and edits for Frontier Poetry.
NOTE: See site for further details, tickets and information.
Where: Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 26th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wednesday-night-poetry-workshop-tickets-345010685247
Poetry Reading & Open Mic by Two Idiots Peddling Poetry & The George Floyd Anthology at The Ugly Mug – In-Person Event
Join Ben Trigg and Two Idiots Peddling Poetry at the Ugly Mug on Wednesday Night.
The format is to welcome a featured poet for a reading, and an Open Mic reading. Tonight’s featured event is the George Floyd Anthology. See comments for details:
“The tragic and unnecessary death of George Floyd has allowed poets, and artists to memorialize him and other Black men and women who’ve been victims of police brutality. This is our job: we language things to grow, and grow up from that moment, that incident. It’s how we transcend the sorrow and the unbelievability of injustice against us.”
—Shonda Buchanan Poet / Publisher Black Indian
“A little over 100 years ago, Countee Cullen wrote his stirring poem, “If We Must Die,” which served as a signifier to speak against injustices facing African Americans. Itwas a healing poem. Thus, the Harlem Renaissance was born as a mechanism to address racism while sharing beauty and grace. In similar fashion, the words found in this tome spark the imagination, expressing frustration, pain, action, change, hope. In this anthology, these words fight back and dignify George Floyd’s legacy. Flip to any poem and let the healing begin. Flip to any poem to find Floyd’s urgency calling out towards you.”
— F. Douglas Brown
Teacher / Poet
See site for details and/or to verify.
$4 cover fee, cash only. Masks are required unless eating or drinking.
NOTE: See site for further details, guidelines & information.
Where: The Ugly Mug, Orange
Date: Wednesday the 25th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: 261 N. Glassell St., Orange, CA 92866
Website: Facebook
Drawn + Quarterly Live: Rumi Hara, with Rina Ayuyang, & The Peanutbutter Sisters: And Other American Stories – Online Event
Author Rumi Hara, in conversation with Rina Ayuyang, will present and discuss The Peanutbutter Sisters: And Other American Stories.
Following her uncategorizable debut, Nori, Rumi Hara weaves a new immigrant story in a surreal Americana, complete with a balance of contradictions, science fiction, and slice of life tales from the Queens-Brooklyn border of New York.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 26th
Time: 9 am
Address: Skylight Livestream Online (see site)
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/drawn-quarterly-live-presents-rumi-hara-conversation-rina-ayuyang
Cover to Cover Book Club & The Dutch House by Anne Patchett via Mid–Valley Regional Library, LAPL – Online Event
Please join us for our Cover to Cover Book Club discussion of May’s selection, The Dutch House, by Anne Patchett.
In this novel, a brother and sister who grew up in a mansion known as the Dutch House share and recount their lives and changes over five decades, and the central role of the home in their sense of self and in their imaginations.
Please e-mail npholana @lapl.org for the Zoom login information.
NOTE: See site for link and event details.
Where: Mid-Valley Regional Library, LAPL – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 26th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website:https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/cover-cove- book-club-2
LA Times Book Club: Letter to a Stranger with Pico Iyer, Maggie Shipstead, Michelle Tea & Colleen Kinder via Los Angeles Times – Online Livestream Event
Please join the LA Times Book Club event to discuss this month’s selection, Letters to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us, with authors Pico Iyer, Maggie Shipstead, Michelle Teain conversation with editor Collen Kinder, and Times travel writer Christopher Reynolds.
This book is a new collection of travel stories that guide readers across the globe and through the mysteries of human connection. Kinder organized the collection around such themes as Gratitude, Wonder, Chemistry, Remorse and Farewell.
Colleen Kinder is the cofounder of Off Assignment, a nonprofit reading series that grew into an online magazine, and she started ”Letters to a Stranger” as a regular column. She teaches at the Yale summer Session in France and has published her work in numerous journals.
Pico Iyer is the author of 15 books translated into 23 languages,including Autumn Light and A Beginner’s Guide to Japan, both published in 2019. He has contributed to and written for the Los Angeles Times for more than a quarter century.
Maggie Shipstead is the author of Great Circle, Astonish Me, and Seating Arrangements, which won the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction. Her work has appeared in numerous journals.
Michelle Tea‘s collection of essays, Against Memoir, is the recipient of the 2019 PEN/Diamonsiein Spielvogel Award fpr the Art of the Essay. She is the author of more than a dozen books in in various genres, including Valencia, which won the Lambda Award for Best Lterary Fiction, and most recently the Astro Baby children’s astrology series.
NOTE: See site for link, RSVP, and event details.
Where: Los Angeles Times – Online Event
Date: Thursday 26th
Time: 6 pm
Address: LA Times – Online (see site)
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/la-times-may-book-club-letter-to-a-stranger-tickets-329194889777
Three Idiots Shouting Poetry Presents Judy Kronenfeld!
Join Ben Trigg and Three Idiots Shouting Poetry at the virtual Ugly Mug on Thursday night to welcome featured poet Judy Kronenfeld.
Groaning and Singing is Judy Kronenfeld’s fifth full-length collection of poetry. Her four previous collections include Bird Flying through the Banquet (FutureCycle, 2017), Shimmer (WordTech, 2012), and Light Lowering in Diminished Sevenths, (2nd ed. Antrim House, 2012), winner of the Litchfield Review poetry book prize for 2007. Her poems have appeared in Cider Press Review, Cimarron Review, Ghost Town, New Ohio Review, One (Jacar Press), Rattle, Slant, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Verdad, Your Daily Poem and other journals, and in over three dozen anthologies. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in Under the Sun, Hippocampus, and other magazines, and her more occasional short fiction in Literary Mama, The Loch Raven Review, and elsewhere. Judy is Lecturer Emerita, Department of Creative Writing, UC Riverside, and an Associate Editor of Poemeleon.
NOTE: See site for further details, guidelines & information.
Where: The Ugly Mug, Orange
Date: Thursday the 26th
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/Two-Idiot-Peddling_poetry/ or https://www.facebook.com/events/1713147419027283
Rick Reilly & So Help Me Golf: Why We Love Golf, at Pages Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join us to hear author and journalist Rick Reilly present and discuss his new book, So Help Me golf: Why We Love Golf.
In this book the author channels his insatiable curiosity, sense of humor, and vast knowledge of the game into a treasure trove of original pieces about what the game of golf has meant to him and others. Mixed with stories of personal experiences, as well as those of the greats in the game, he creates an interwoven homage to lives lived and games played.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchase, and event details.
Where: Pages Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 269h
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/rick-reilly-why-we-love-golf
Book Talk: Natalie Owusu & Aftershocks at UC Irvine – In-Person Event
Join us to hear author Natalie Owusu present a book talk and discussion of her new book, Aftershocks, winner of the 2019 Whiting Award.
In this memoir Owusu tells a powerful story of a life upended. When Natalie was 7 years old and living in Rome with her father, stepmother and younger sister, two events occurred on one day that changed things forever. She describes what it meant to be rooted and rootless in a multiple mixed-race family, and to have not one mother but two: a birth mother who left the family when she was only two, and a stepmother who could be possessive and cruel.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchase, and event details.
Where: UC Irvine School of Humanities – Center for Armenian Studies
Date: Thursday the 269h
Time: 6:30 pm – 8 pm
Address: 4000 Humanities Gateway, Irvine, CA 92797
Website: https://hq.humanities.uci.edu/SOH/calendar/event_details.php?eid=9577
Selma Blair, with Megan Mullally, & Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up, at Book Soup off-site at First Congregational Church of Los Angeles – In-Person Event
Join us to hear actress and author Selma Blair, in conversation with actor and comedian Megan Mullallly, to hear them present and discuss her book, Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up.
Following Selma Blair’s family reputation as being a “mean baby,” she went on to become a celebrated actress and model, but was prone to suffering great bouts of darkness, and secretly drank to escape her fears and problems. In this book she lays bare her addiction to alcohol, her devotion ot her complicated mother, and the moments she flirted with death. Finally there was the surprising salvation of a multiple sclerosis diagnosis. This is a deeply human memoir and a true literary achievement.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchase, and event details.
Where: Book Soup at First Congregational Church
Date: Thursday the 269h
Time: 6:30 pm (doors) & Event at 7 pm
Address: 540 S. Commonwealth Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90020
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/book-soup-presents-selma-blair
Alexandra Shapiro, with Lauren Brill, & Presumed Guilty at Chevalier’s Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join us to hear author Alexandra Shapiro, in conversation with litigator Lauren Brill, to hear them present and discuss her book, Presumed Guilty: A Novel.
On March 14, 2012 hedge fund manager Emma Simpson dashed off a routine e-mail which comes back to aunt her and change her world a year later when it becomes a focal point in a criminal investigation by ambitious federal prosecutors. This book follows her journey as the atrge tof a white collar criminal prosecution, and how she had to fight to prove her innocence , protect her family, and preserve her reputation.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchase, and event details.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 269h
Time: 7 pm
Address: 133 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-alexandra-shapiros-presumed-guilty-w-laura-brill-tickets-332061383537
Obed Silva, with Greg Boyle, & The Death of My Father the Pope, at Vroman’s Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join us to hear Obed Silva, in conversation with author and founder of Home Boy Industries, Fr. Greg Boyle, to hear them present and discuss his book, The Death of My Father the Pope.
Weaving between preparations for his father’s funeral and memories of life on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border, the author chronicles his father’s lifelong battle with alcoholism, and the havoc it wreaked on his family. Told with cynicism, anger, and a classical frame of reference, he channels the heartbreaks of mourning and resentment, frustration and addiction in the power of language and memoir.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchase, and event details.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 269h
Time: 7 pm
Address: 694 E. Colorado Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 91101
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/obed-silva-in-conversation-with-greg-boyle-discusses-the-death-of-my-father-the-pope
At Skylight: Steve Toltz, with Steve Hely, & Here Goes Nothing – In-Person Event
Author Steve Toltz, in conversation with Steve Hely will present and discuss Here Goes Nothing (Melville House).
Here Goes Nothing is a wildly inventive, savagely funny and topical novel about love, mortality and the afterlife, from the author of The Booker-shortlisted author of A Fraction of the Whole.
Angus is a reformed ne’er-do-well looking forward to the birth of his first child when he’s murdered by a man who is in love with his pregnant wife Gracie. Having never believed in God, heaven or hell, Angus finds himself in the afterlife – a place that provides more questions than answers. As a worldwide pandemic finally reaches the shores of Australia, the afterlife starts to get very crowded and Angus finds a way to reconnect with his wife Gracie and maybe even seek revenge on his murderer.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 26th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-steve-toltz-conversation-steve-hely
Identity Beyond Culture: Latinx Poets & Writers of The World Stage Press at Village Well Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join World Stage Press authors for special reading of poetry and prose to highlight the voices of the Latinx community!
In 2013, Hiram Sims and Conney Williams were inspired to grow the mission of the World Stage and create a full time press dedicated as a place for the community to access its own stories. World Stage Press continues to pay homage to its history and roots by identifying, supporting, and promoting creatives within the community by providing resources and a platform for community based literature. The Press does so through education (Community Literature Initiative), publication (World Stage Press), and preservation (The Sims Library).
This event is a reading by some of the amazing poets who have emerged through the efforts and support of World Stage Press, including::
Lisbeth Coiman is a bilingual writer, educator, cultural commentator md rezandera from venezuela. As a bilingual poet, Coiman strives to magnify the voices of the struggle in Venezuela, those who migrate out of despair, and those who stay behind to fight a thousand battles for freedom. She is the author of the collection, Uprising/Alzamiento (Finishing Line Press, 2021), and the memoir I Ask the Blue Heron.
Cynthia Guardado is a Salvadorian-American poet and Professor of English at Fullerton College. She is the managing editor of LiveWire, a literary arts magazine at Fullerton College. Her debut poetry collection, ENDEAVOR was published in 2017 by World Stage Press. Her second collection Cenizas will be released later this year from the Univerity of Arizona Press.
Alex Petunia is a nurse and poet who has worn a kaleidoscope of hats, like drumming in an all-girl rock band, hippo-ing in a space ship, and road tripping with the moon and her poetry. Her writing invites you to hug a tree, frolic barefoot in with the Earth and share a breath with yourself. She is the author of Tending My wild, a collection about running away on all fours back to a forgotten self.
Poet Astrid is a Salvadoran-American poet and journalist based in Los Angeles. She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from California State University, Dominguez Hills. Here, she was captain of the slam poetry team and president of the poetry club, F.L.O.W. Astrid has since become a beacon in L.A.’s writing community, shining through with her annual showcase Talk That Sh!t while having highly esteemed featured performances at Take the Mic, Unplugd LA, Sela Arts Festival, and LitFest Pasadena just to name a few. She is the author of Through the Soil in My Skin.
Carolina Rivera Escamilla Carolina Rivera Escamilla — educator, writer, theater actor, and documentarian — lives in Los Angeles, California. Born in El Salvador, she went into exile in Canada in the mid 1980s. She is the author of the collection …after… and A Day of Life, Un dia en la vida, and director and producer of the documentary, “Manlio Argueta, Poets and Volcanoes.”
Andy Sanchez (they/he), is a trans masculine poet born in Mexico City, México. He migrated to the U.S. at the age of 5 and grew up in Southern California and Las Vegas, NV. Andrés moved to Los Angeles, California 7 years ago. It was here that he began to get involved with the poetry community. His book, This Body was published by World Stage in December 2020.
NOTE: See site for guidelines and event details.
Where: Village Well Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 26th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 9900 Culver Blvd., #1B., Culver City, CA 90232
Website: https://shop.villagewell.com/events/17095
TNM: HUMAN ZOOM-IN with Shari Foos via The Narrative Method – Online Zoom Event
Please join Shari Foos every Thursday for The Narrative Method: Human Zoom-In to expand perspectives through storytelling and real connections.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, event details.
Where: Shari Foos TNM Workshop – Online Zoom event
Date: Thursday the 26th
Time: 7 pm – 8:15 pm
Address: Online via Zoom (see site)
Website: Facebook
Fos–Thursday & FOST Artistic Collective Present: Freedom of Speech Open Mic with Sabor y Cultura Café – In-Person & Online IG Event
Please help FOS’s in-person venue Sabor y Cultura with the link in the bio. Open Mic is currently only on IG Live at 8 pm, with sign-ups open on Wednesday at 3pm.
NOTE: See site for cost, event details.
Where: Freedom of Speech (FOS) Open Mic – In-Person & Online IG event
Date: Thursday the 26th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: 665 N. Heliotrope Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: https://www.instagram.com/fos_thursdays/
NoHo Book Club & The Book of Salt by Monique Truong via North Hollywood Regional Library, LAPL – Online Kids Event
Please join us for our NoHo Book Club discussion of May’s selection, The Book of Salt, by Monique Truong.
In this debut novel, the author presents a narrative through the eyes if Binh, a Vietnamese cook,
Please e-mail nohlwd @lapl.org for the Zoom login information.
NOTE: See site for link and event details.
Where: North Hollywood Regional Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Date: Friday the 27th
Time: 10 am
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website:https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/noho- book-club
Don Chaon, with Alissa Nutting, & Sleepwalk at Book Soup – In-Person Event
Join us to hear author Don Chaon present and discuss his new book, Sleepwalk.
Sleepwalk’s hero, Will Bear, is a man with so many aliases that he thinks of himself as the Barely Blur. AT age 50 he’s been living off the grid for half his life and spends his time hopscotching across state lines in his beloved camper van, running shady and often dangerous errands for a powerful and ruthless operation. Out of the blue he gets a call on a burner phone from a twenty-year-old woman claiming to be his daughter and asking for help. In this setting the author examines the connections that bind us, no matter where we’ve been and where we are going.
NOTE: See site for book purchase, guidelines, and details.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Friday the 27th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website:https://www.booksoup.com/event/dan-chaon-conversation-alissa-nutting-discusses-sleepwalk
A Celebration of New Works by Writers Kevin Ridgeway, Jose Hernandez and Mathieu Cailer at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center – Online Event
Join Beyond Baroque for an in-person reading of new works by L.A. poets and writers Kevin Ridgeway, Jose Hernandez Diaz, and Matthieu Carlier.
Kevin Ridgeway is the author of 21 books, including Too Young to Know.
Jose Hernandez Diaz is the author the chapbook, The Fire Eaters,
Matthieu Carlier is the author ofHeaven and Other Zip Codes: A Novel.
Check site later for corrected and complete information.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center
Date: Friday 27th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 681 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90291
Website: http://www.beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mathieu-cailler-kevin-ridgeway-zara-lisbon-jose-hernandez-diaz-tickets-334729534047?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
Mystery Book Club: Ghostman by Roger Hobbs via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Please join us for our Mystery Book Club discussion of Ghostman, (A Jack White Novel) by Roger Hobbs.
In this first novel in the Jack White series, two crooks rob a casino, but now they’re on the run with a bundle loaded with explosives.
Please e-mail wwood@lapl.org for the Zoom login information.
NOTE: See site for link and event details.
Where: Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 11 am
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website:https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/mystery-book-club-3
AAPI Big Read: Intergenerational Trauma with Stacey Ma Dubois & Yen Sau via Central Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Please join us for a discussion of Intergenerational Trauma withStacey Ma Dubois & Yen Sau as they talk about how it has impacted Asian American refugees. This event is part of our series of events for AAPI Month and the Big Read selection of the graphic novel, The Best We Could Do, by author Thi Bui.
Stacy Ma Dubois is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with a Master’s from Columbia University School of Social Work. She has worked in the mental health field for the past 16 years and is dedicated to mental health awareness, suicide prevention and integrated behavioral health care. She is also a mother of 3 children, an immigrant to the US at a young age, and passionate about individuals having a strong cultural awareness and ownership of their cultural background while living in the US.
Yen Sau is a wife, mother, and social worker. She was born in Vietnam and immigrated to the U.S in 1993. She has high hopes that mental health will not be a taboo subject within the Asian-American community and that we can live in a world where kindness is the norm.
Please register in advance for this meeting.
NOTE: See site for link and event details.
Where: Central Library, LAPL – Online Event
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 1 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website:https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/big-read-intergenerational-trauma
Kate Sweeney, with Amy Spaulding, in Conversation via Wil & Ariel Durant Branch Library, LAPL – Online Teen Event
Please join us for a discussion between YA author, Kate Sweeney and Amy Spalding on Kate’s first novel, Catch the Light. Kate and Amy will discuss their writing processes, publishing and promoting their books out into the world.
Kate Sweeney was born in Athens, GA, and has since lived in many places, including Los Angeles, CA, New York, NY, Cambridge, NY, and Salt Lake City, UT. She began writing when she was sixteen. Her father, a novelist, and screenwriter had died five years prior. Through writing, she found a way of bringing his voice back to her ears. For the past ten years, she has resided in the Bay Area where she spends her time making music with her bands, Magic Magic Roses and July, teaching literacy, and working with her husband at the family art-framing business.
Amy Spalding is the author of several novels, including the bestselling We Used to Be Friends and The Summer of Jordi Perez (and the Best Burger in Los Angeles), which was named a best book of 2018 by NPR, the Boston Globe, Kirkus, and more. She grew up in St. Louis and now lives in Los Angeles with two cats.
Please register in advance for this meeting.
NOTE: See site for link and event details.
Where: Central Library, LAPL – Online Teen Event
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 1 pm – 2 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/kate-sweeney-conversation-amy-spaulding
Fourth Saturdays Poetry Event: Daniel Romo & Elena Karina Byrne at Claremont Library, Pomona – In-Person Event
Please join the Friends of the Claremont Library for Fourth Sundays Poetry (formerly Fourth Sundays Poetry) to hear poets Daniel Romo and Elena Karina Byrne share, discuss, and read their work.
Danel Romo is the author of Moonlighting as an Avalanche (Tebot Bach, 2021), Apologies in Reverse (FutureCycle Press, 2019), When Kerosene’s Involved (Mojave River Press, 2014), and Romancing Gravity (Silver Birch Press, 2013). His writing and photography can be found in The Los Angeles Review, PANK, The Good Men Project, Yemassee, and elsewhere. He received an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte, and he lives and teaches in Long Beach, CA. More at danieljromo.com.
Elena Karina Byrne works as a private editor, a freelance lecturer, Programming Consultant & Poetry Stage Manager for The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, and Literary Programs Director for the historic Ruskin Art Club. A Pushcart Prize and Best American recipient, her books include If This Makes You Nervous (Omnidawn, 2021), No Don’t (What Books Press, 2020), Squander (Omnidawn, 2016), MASQUE (Tupelo Press, 2008), and The Flammable Bird, (Zoo Press, 2002). Her poems, reviews, essays, and interviews can be found in Poetry, The Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Plume, LARB, Reel Verse: Poems About the Movies, BOMB, and elsewhere. She’s writing screenplays while completing her collection of “interrupted” essays entitled Voyeur Hour.
Please RSVP in advance for this meeting.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Claremont Helen Resnick Library
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Address: 208 N. Harvard Ave., Claremont, CA
Website: https://happeningnext.com/event/fourth-saturdays-elena-karina-byrne-andamp-daniel-romo-eid3a08pe2g20
Toni Bentley, with Leslie Zemeckis, & Serenade at Diesel Bookstore – In-Person Event
Author Toni Bentley, in conversation with author Leslie Zemeckis, will present and discuss her book: Serenade: A Balanchine Story.
At age seventeen, Toni Bentley was chosen by Balanchine, then in his final years, to join the New York City Ballet. From backstage and onstage, she carries us through both the serendipitous history and physical intricacies and demands of Serenade: its dazzling opening, with seventeen women in a double-diamond pattern; its radical, even jazzy, use of the highly refined language that is ballet; its place in the choreographer’s own dramatic story of immigration to the United States from Soviet Russia; its profound influence on the art form internationally.
Bentley takes us inside the rarefied, intense, and thrilling world Balanchine created through his lifelong devotion to celebrating and expanding female beauty and strength—a world that, inevitably, passed upon his death.
Toni Bentley danced with George Balanchine’s New York City Ballet for ten years. She is the author of five books, all named “Notable” by the New York Times, which include Winter Season: A Dancer’s Journal, Holding On to the Air (the autobiography of Suzanne Farrell, co-authored with Farrell), Costumes by Karinska, Sisters of Salome, and The Surrender: An Erotic Memoir. Bentley is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, and her work has appeared in Best American Essays, as well as in many periodicals, among them the New York Times Book Review, Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, Playboy, The Daily Beast, Vogue, and Vanity Fair.
Leslie Zemeckis is a best-selling author, actress, and award-winning documentarian. She is the author of three best-sellers, Behind the Burly Q, Goddess of Love Incarnate; the Life of Stripteuse Lili St. Cyr. and Feuding Fan Dancers. Zemeckis is the founder of the program “Stories Matter,” female storytellers mentoring underserved future female storytellers. She is the founder and curator of the ENTITY Magazine book club. She is currently at work on her fourth book.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Diesel Bookstore – in the Courtyard
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 225 26th St., #33., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website:https://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/toni-bentley-serenade
Saturday Afternoon Poetry & Print & Internet Publishing Workshop with Linda Ravenswood & Spectrum Poetry Readings – Off-Site In-Person Event & Via Zoom
Join us at Saturday Afternoon Poetry off-site for a Poetry Publishing Workshop with poet and writer Linda Ravenswood, and a Poetry Publication Reading hosted by SPECTRUM poets.
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Rosebud Coffee & via ZOOM portal online
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: 2302 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA (and via Zoom link)
Website: http://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
At Skylight: UC Riverside MFA Program Group Reading at Skylight Bookstore – In-Person Event
Please join us to hear students in the UC Riverside MFA writing program read from their work. Readers include”
Esther Banegas Gatica, Charlie Belusa, Nicholas Domich, Emily Doyle, Sara Fowler, Soleil Garneau, Lily Hart, Sarah Helms, Ryan Klachko, Gennyvera Pacheco, Rachael McLaughlin, Hannah Roberts, Eileen Waggoner, and Daniel Williamson.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-uc-riverside-mfa-program-reading
The Deja Vu: Live Performance by Gabrielle Civil at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center – In-Person Event
Join Beyond Baroque for a Deja-Vu Live Performance by Gabrielle Civil, with flashbacks and premonitions: black dreams & black time. Incorporating reading and storytelling, movement and moving images, the déjà vu–live will blur boundaries between the page and the stage, embodying memory, grief, and love; then and now.
Gabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist, poet, and writer, originally from Detroit, MI. She has premiered over fifty performance art works around the world, most recently Jupiter for the Salt Lake City Performance Art Festival (2021) and Vigil for Northern Spark (2021). Her performance memoirs include Swallow the Fish (2017), Experiments in Joy (2019), (ghost gestures) (2021), and the déjà vu (2022). A 2019 Rema Hort Mann LA Emerging Artist, she teaches at the California Institute of the Arts. The aim of her work is to open up space.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center
Date: Saturday 28th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 681 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90291
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-deja-vulive-a-performance-by-gabrielle-civil-tickets-334923002717
At Skylight: Tree House & Punk Rock Marthas Present: John Parra & Growing an Artist at Skylight Bookstore – In-Person Kids Event
Join us to celebrate John Parra’s new children’s book, Growing an Artist: The Story of a Landscaper and His Son.
Award-winning artist John Parra will read from and discuss his stunning and deceptively simple picture book based on his childhood experiences between a father and son, hard work, and the links between nature, art, and creativity.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 29th
Time: 11 am
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-treehouse-and-punk-rock-marthas-present-john-parra-author-growing-artist
Burning Issues Book Club & Disability Visibility at Bel Canto Bookstore – Online Event
Join us to discuss our selection for May, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, edited by Alice Wong.
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent–but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people.
NOTE: See Site for further details.
Where: Bel Canto Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 29th
Time: 12 pm
Address: Bel Canto Online (see site)
Website: https://bookshop.org/books/disability-visibility-first-person-stories-from-the-twenty-first-century/9781984899422
Always Running Book Festival at LA Poet Society Location in Pacoima – In-Person Event
Join us for the first ever Always Running Book Festival, inspired by Luis J. Rodriguez’s memoir, Always Running. We will celebrate the power of literacy and resilience! Luis Javier Rodriguez is a legacy to be celebrated and we are so excited to put this festival together to honor him..
NOTE: See Site for guidelines and details.
Where: LAPS Location in Pacoima
Date: Sunday the 29th
Time: 12 pm – 5 pm
Address: 10335 Laurel Canyon Blvd., Pacoima, CA 91331
Website: https://www.facebook.com/LosAngelesPoetSociety/
Matt Roberts & More Humans of Long Beach at Gatsby’s Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join us to hear Matt Roberts present his and discuss his new book, More Humans of Long Beach.
Matt Roberts’ extraordinary book celebrates the eclectic people who make Long Beach the greatest city of all time.
NOTE: See Site for guidelines and details.
Where: Gatsby’s Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 29th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 5535 E. Spring St., Long Beach, CA 90808
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“There There,” Tommy Orange’s polyphonic debut novel, takes its title from Gertrude Stein’s cutting line about Oakland, Calif: “There is no there there.”
Mr. Orange, who grew up in Oakland and is a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, uses that concave, twisty riddle as his novel’s recurring anthem, a shorthand to describe the disorienting experience of living in America as a self-described “urban Indian.”
For native people, Mr. Orange writes, cities and towns themselves represent the absence of a homeland — a lost world of “buried ancestral land, glass and concrete and wire and steel, unreturnable covered memory. There is no there there.”
Mr. Orange, 36, seems at home with those sorts of paradoxes and contradictions. He grew up straddling two worlds, never quite feeling like he belonged. His father, who spoke Cheyenne as his first language, was a Native American Church ceremony leader. His white mother, a wandering hippie and spiritual seeker, later converted to evangelical Christianity and denounced his father’s religious practices as demonic. Mr. Orange wasn’t sure what to believe — as a boy, he used to worry about the coming apocalypse and spending eternity in hellfire.
With the highly anticipated “There There,” which Knopf will publish next week, Mr. Orange has written a new kind of Native American epic, one that reflects his ambivalence and the complexity of his upbringing. “There’s been a lot of reservation literature written,” he said. “I wanted to have my characters struggle in the way that I struggled, and the way that I see other native people struggle, with identity and with authenticity.”
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How comfortable are you with writing imperfectly—even journaling a “brain dump”? How in touch are you with your inner artist?
Many people feel it’s impossible to reach their creative potential—often because they struggle to find inspiration or experience creative blocks. Luckily, The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron says that overcoming these obstacles and maximizing your creative potential is possible, and anyone can do it.
Continue reading for an overview of The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity.
Overview of The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron asserts that creativity is a spiritual force that everyone has access to. However, to channel this force into your art, you must first learn how to tap into it. The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity is Cameron’s 12-week program on accessing this creative force and using it to maximize your creativity and achieve your artistic destiny.
Cameron is a teacher, artist, poet, playwright, filmmaker, composer, and journalist. The publication of The Artist’s Way in 1992 marked a turning point in her career, giving her international recognition as a “creativity guru” and an expert on creative unblocking. Cameron’s teachings are based on her experiences of overcoming creative blocks like alcoholism and self-doubt and maximizing her creativity through spirituality. In 2022, Cameron published Seeking Wisdom—a follow-up to The Artist’s Way—that condenses her 12-week program into six weeks and focuses more closely on the role of spirituality and divinity in creativity.
We’ve organized Cameron’s 12-week program into two parts. In Part 1, we’ll discuss how to access the creative force by forming an intimate connection with yourself. In Part 2, we’ll explain how to foster a positive mindset conducive to creating art and resisting forms of negativity that block your creativity.
Part 1: Connect to Your Inner Artist
Cameron argues that human beings are creative by nature and that there’s a divine creative force that flows through all of us. This creative force is Cameron’s concept of “God.” She elaborates that you’re not required to call this force “God” or to associate it or yourself with any religion; however, to maximize your creative potential and attain your artistic destiny, you must believe in and learn how to tap into this force so it can flow through you and into your art. (Cameron refers to “art” as anything you use creativity to produce—art could be poetry, painting, philosophy, coding, developing new chemical compounds, and so on.)
The first step in tapping into the creative force, Cameron explains, is gaining an intimate connection to your inner artist—your deeper creative self that contains your seemingly crazy ideas, raw emotions, dreams, desires, and so on. This inner artist is a conduit for the creative force. The more intimate you are with this self, the more creative and artistically guided you’ll be.
We’ll discuss Cameron’s advice for uncovering and connecting to your inner artist.
Step #1: Write Morning Pages
One of Cameron’s primary methods for reaching your inner artist is to write morning pages—three full pages written every morning right after waking up. These pages can be about anything—last night’s dreams, your plans for the day, or things you’re excited or worried about. Don’t worry about making these coherent or well-written—just consider them a “brain dump.”
Cameron explains that morning pages help you connect with your inner artist in numerous ways. First, they clear your head of negative thoughts, concerns, and extraneous information that impact your mood or focus during the day. Worrying and overthinking often block out your less logical but more creative inner artist, so clearing this clutter right after waking up makes it easier to hear the voice of your inner artist throughout the day.
Further, Cameron argues that brain dumping through morning pages often uncovers hidden yet meaningful feelings and ideas that may otherwise remain unsurfaced. For example, you might recognize a pattern in your life that will inspire your art. Or, you may realize you’re deeply unhappy about an ongoing situation that must change to improve your well-being.
Step #2: Go on Solo Adventures
Cameron recommends taking yourself on at least one fun solo adventure (or “artist date”) a week. For example, you can visit a new place, take yourself to lunch at a cool restaurant, or paint in the park. These solo excursions are the perfect opportunity for you to gain inspiration and reflect on some of the deeper thoughts, feelings, and ideas you may have uncovered in your morning pages.
Further, Cameron explains that solitude is crucial to connect with your inner artist—this is the time when your creative self recharges. Without time alone, you’ll grow farther from your inner artist and, according to Cameron, become disgruntled with yourself and others.
Step #3: Uncover the Lost Parts of Your Inner Artist
Cameron explains that many elements of your inner artist—ideas, desires, dreams—often get killed off by your self-doubt and the doubts of friends, family, and society. However, these suppressed components are often the springboard for reaching your artistic destiny, or in other words, creating the art that you were destined to create.
To reacquaint yourself with the lost parts of your inner artist, Cameron recommends first reflecting on your childhood dreams and desires. Then, reflect on any of your recent or current dreams, desires, or ideas that you’ve convinced yourself not to explore—for money reasons, time reasons, practicality reasons, and so on.
For example, maybe you were interested in video production as a child but didn’t pursue it because you were told it doesn’t make good money—explore it now. Or, maybe you want to write a poetry book but think you’re not good enough—start now.
Step #4: Understand Your Inner Artist’s Emotions and Intuition
Cameron explains that, as you grow closer to your inner artist, you’ll experience a stronger sense of emotion and intuition. This can be overwhelming; therefore, you must understand and interpret these experiences to channel them into creativity and art.
According to Cameron, anger is the most common emotional experience that you must interpret and channel. She explains that anger indicates your likes, dislikes, and desires and signifies that you must take action. For example, let’s say you’re angry that your roommate moved your in-progress painting onto the floor so she could use your desk. Your anger is telling you that you need to speak up about your boundaries—tell your roommate not to touch your things without asking you.
Cameron adds that as you get closer to your inner artist and your creative intuition strengthens, experiences of synchronicity will begin to occur more frequently. Synchronicity is an instance where things seem to fall perfectly into place, external factors align in your favor, or meaningful patterns emerge. Cameron believes that these experiences are a form of divine intervention—some higher force is providing you with opportunities and hints that will progress you toward your artistic destiny. For example, perhaps you’ve been wanting to start dancing and end up meeting a dance instructor at the shop. Or you keep hearing about and seeing copies of a certain book about sculpting—maybe you’re meant to read it.
When these instances happen, Cameron says you must take advantage of them and trust your intuition. Many people convince themselves that synchronicities are coincidences, or that they’re unworthy of taking advantage of these synchronicities (they’ll fail or let themselves down in some way). Fight this urge, trust your intuition, follow the path that’s being opened for you, and Cameron says that you’ll end up exactly where you need to be.
Step #5: Engage With Your Inner Artist in Small Ways
Cameron recommends finding small ways to spark your creativity and engage with your inner artist that you can integrate into your daily life. One of the best ways to do so, she explains, is through movement—for example, doing yoga or going for a stroll. According to Cameron, moving your body gives you a break from hyper fixating on your thoughts by bringing your attention to the external environment. When you stop actively thinking and let your mind wander, you give more control to your inner artist. This helps you become more in tune with your feelings and makes you more likely to notice beauty and synchronicities around you.
Part 2: Foster a Positive Mindset
Cameron explains that many people struggle to maximize their creativity and reach their artistic potential because they engage in forms of negativity that block their connection to the creative force—for example, negative people, self-doubt, and perfectionism. To maximize your connection to the creative force and achieve your artistic destiny, you must remove these blocks and foster a mindset of positivity, abundance, and faith instead. We’ll discuss Cameron’s advice for doing so.
Step #1: Foster a Sense of Positive Belief
Cameron argues that belief is a cornerstone in maximizing your creative potential and achieving your artistic destiny. Belief encompasses a belief in your abilities and potential, as well as a conviction that you’re deserving of your dreams and desires, the universe is conspiring in your favor, and the universe will provide what you need when you need it.
According to Cameron, fostering this sense of belief is important for a few reasons. First, belief deepens your connection to the creative force, which naturally increases your creativity. Second, belief gives you the confidence to take strides toward your goals. And, finally—because taking strides toward your goals will result in synchronicities—the universe will reflect your efforts by providing opportunities that propel you toward your artistic destiny.
Cameron gives a few tips to foster belief.
Tip #1: Trust the Process
Cameron explains that impatience and fear of uncertainty often lead people to prematurely pursue half-baked ideas or half-hearted projects. She elaborates that truly great ideas take time to gestate—if you force them into fruition prematurely, you’ll sabotage their potential. As such, you must trust yourself and the universe—when it’s time to execute on an idea, you’ll know. Take things step by step and follow your intuition.
Tip #2: Embrace and Detach
Cameron explains that elements like money and luck come and go. Attachment to these things leads to dependence and diminishes your sense of belief. Instead, embrace life’s ebbs and flows—be grateful for gains and resilient to losses, and trust that you’ll receive what’s needed when necessary. Don’t make decisions solely based on gaining things like wealth or recognition. Instead, trust your intuition and prioritize personal happiness—for example, accept a lower-paying job or wear an “ugly sweater,” irrespective of others’ perceptions, because they bring you joy.
Tip #3: Nourish Yourself
Cameron explains that self-care is crucial for maintaining a positive mindset, which by default increases your sense of belief. If you feel emotionally neglected, restricted, or ill, or if you aren’t taking care of your physical health, you’ll struggle to maintain a positive outlook. As such, Cameron emphasizes the importance of nourishing yourself.
Eat well, and take care of your body, Cameron advises. Listen to your emotions and release them—for example, if you’re sad about a missed opportunity, allow yourself to be sad, forgive yourself, and move on. Treat rather than restrict yourself—buy the candle you’ve been eyeing or have a piece of cake once in a while.
Step #2: Overcome Negative Thoughts and Behaviors
The second step in fostering an artist’s mindset is overcoming negative thoughts and behaviors that block your connection to the creative force. Cameron discusses three major blocks that prevent people from reaching their artistic destiny: perfectionism, limiting beliefs, and addictions. Let’s talk about these blocks and how to overcome them.
Block #1: Perfectionism
Cameron explains that many artists hold themselves back due to their obsession with perfection. Perfectionism blocks people from achieving their artistic destiny, first and foremost, because art is subjective—“perfect” art simply doesn’t exist. As such, striving for perfection will simply cause you to hyperfixate on unimportant details and prevent you from finishing projects. Further, the fear of failing to achieve perfection prevents many artists from even taking a first step toward their goals.
Cameron makes two recommendations for overcoming perfectionism. First, rather than striving for perfection, identify and strive for “good enough.” Second, allow yourself to create bad art. Cameron elaborates that no artist creates the ideal final product on their first try—before you create good art, you have to be willing to create bad art.
Block #2: Limiting Beliefs
Cameron says many artists block themselves with limiting beliefs—for example, they believe they’re not good enough or are too old, or they focus on regrets or future uncertainties. Whenever you find an excuse or reason for not taking action to achieve your artistic destiny, you’re engaging in some form of limiting belief. To help you overcome this block, Cameron makes a few recommendations.
First, Cameron advises that you ground yourself—pay attention to the beauty of your surroundings, the present moment, and what you can be grateful for. Grounding yourself will help you avoid giving attention to thoughts about the past or future that may discourage you from taking positive action.
Second, writes Cameron, seek out information that disproves your limiting belief. For example, if you think only rich people can produce the type of art you want to focus on, look up stories about successful artists who struggled financially.
Finally, Cameron recommends using positive affirmations to override your limiting beliefs. To do so, notice when a limiting belief crops up, create an opposing positive affirmation, and write it down 10 times in a row. For example, if you want to start a mural but notice your mind telling you “you’ll never finish, you’re not dedicated enough,” form a positive affirmation like “I’m a passionate artist, and I’m dedicated to completing a mural that will inspire others.”
Block #3: Addiction
Cameron explains that many people become blocked by addictions that comfort them—the most common ones being substances (drugs, alcohol, and food) and work. When you notice the urge to comfort yourself with a substance, Cameron says to resist and then let yourself feel the anxiety that ensues. Then, get excited—anxiety is the by-product of resistance, so congratulate yourself for resisting and making progress.
Cameron says that if you find that your self-worth is connected to the time you spend working or that work prevents you from spending time doing things that make you happy, you’re likely addicted to overwork. To overcome this, pay attention to how many hours you spend working and create stricter end times for your work day. This creates more time for enjoyment—whether that be spending time with friends or simply relaxing at home.
Step #3: Surround Yourself With the Right People
Finally, Cameron explains that the people you surround yourself with have a major impact on your ability to connect to the creative force. Seek out positive people who help foster your artist’s mindset and strengthen your connection to creativity.
Equally as important, Cameron says to distance yourself from negative people who encourage limiting beliefs that block creativity: people who provide you with useless criticism, doubt you, are experiencing creative blocks themselves, are hypocrites, create chaos, and encourage or revel in drama.
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In December 1863, little more than a year after Roger Fenton retired from photography and sold his equipment, Julia Margaret Cameron received her first camera. It was a gift from her daughter and son-in-law, given with the words “It may amuse you, Mother, to try to photograph during your solitude at Freshwater.” Cameron was forty-eight, a mother of six, and a deeply religious, well read, somewhat eccentric friend of many of Victorian England’s greatest minds: the painter G. F. Watts; the poets Robert Browning, Henry Taylor, and Alfred Lord Tennyson, her neighbor at Freshwater on the Isle of Wight; the scientists Charles Darwin and Sir John Herschel; and the historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle. In the decade that followed the gift, the camera became far more than an amusement to her: “From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour,” she wrote, “and it has become to me as a living thing, with voice and memory and creative vigour.” Her mesmerizing portraits and figure studies on literary and biblical themes were unprecedented in her time and remain among the most highly admired of Victorian photographs.
The gift of the camera in December 1863 came at a moment when her husband Charles was in Ceylon attending to the family’s coffee plantations, when their sons were grown or away at boarding school, and when their only daughter, Julia, had married and moved away. Photography became Cameron’s link to the writers, artists, and scientists who were her spiritual and artistic advisors, friends, neighbors, and intellectual correspondents. “I began with no knowledge of the art,” she wrote. “I did not know where to place my dark box, how to focus my sitter, and my first picture I effaced to my consternation by rubbing my hand over the filmy side of the glass.” No matter. She was indefatigable in her efforts to master the difficult steps in producing negatives with wet collodion on glass plates. Although she may have taken up photography as an amateur and sought to apply it to the noble noncommercial aims of art, she immediately viewed her activity as a professional one, vigorously copyrighting, exhibiting, publishing, and marketing her photographs. Within eighteen months she had sold eighty prints to the Victoria and Albert Museum, established a studio in two of its rooms, and made arrangements with the West End printseller Colnaghi’s to publish and sell her photographs.
Cameron had no interest in establishing a commercial studio, however, and never made commissioned portraits. Instead, she enlisted friends, family, and household staff in her activities, often costuming them as if for an amateur theatrical, aiming to capture the qualities of innocence, virtue, wisdom, piety, or passion that made them modern embodiments of classical, religious, and literary figures. A parlor maid was transformed into the Madonna, her husband into Merlin, a neighbor’s child into the infant Christ or, with swan’s wings attached, into Cupid or an angel from Raphael’s Sistine Madonna. Her artistic goals for photography, informed by the outward appearance and spiritual content of fifteenth-century Italian painting, were wholly original in her medium. She aimed for neither the finish and formalized poses common in the commercial portrait studios, nor for the elaborate narratives of other Victorian “high art” photographers such as H. P. Robinson and O. G. Rejlander. Her aspirations were, she said, “to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art by combining the real and the Ideal and sacrificing nothing of the Truth by all possible devotion to poetry and beauty.” As she wrote to Herschel, “I believe in other than mere conventional topographic photography—map-making and skeleton rendering of feature and form.”
Even allowing for slight movement as a positive attribute, posing for Cameron was no easy task. One of her models—or “victims” as Tennyson called them—left a vivid description of a photographic session with Cameron: “The studio, I remember, was very untidy and very uncomfortable. Mrs. Cameron put a crown on my head and posed me as the heroic queen. … The exposure began. A minute went over and I felt as if I must scream, another minute and the sensation was as if my eyes were coming out of my head; a third, and the back of my neck appeared to be afflicted with palsy; a fourth, and the crown, which was too large, began to slip down my forehead; a fifth—but here I utterly broke down, for Mr. Cameron, who was very aged, and had unconquerable fits of hilarity which always came in the wrong places, began to laugh audibly, and this was too much for my self-possession, and I was obliged to join the dear old gentleman.”
Her photographs were not universally admired, especially by fellow photographers. The Photographic Journal, reviewing her submissions to the annual exhibition of the Photographic Society of Scotland in 1865, reported with a condescension that infuriated her: “Mrs. Cameron exhibits her series of out-of-focus portraits of celebrities. We must give this lady credit for daring originality, but at the expense of all other photographic qualities. A true artist would employ all the resources at his disposal, in whatever branch of art he might practise. In these pictures, all that is good in photography has been neglected and the shortcomings of the art are prominently exhibited. We are sorry to have to speak thus severely on the works of a lady, but we feel compelled to do so in the interest of the art.” The Illustrated London News countered, describing her portraits as “the nearest approach to art, or rather the most bold and successful applications of the principles of fine-art to photography.” The Photographic Journal rebutted: “Slovenly manipulation may serve to cover want of precision in intention, but such a lack and such a mode of masking it are unworthy of commendation.” Wilhelm Vogel reported the stir that her photographs provoked the following year in Berlin, where they won Cameron the gold medal: “Those large unsharp heads, spotty backgrounds, and deep opaque shadows looked more like bungling pupils’ work than masterpieces. And for this reason many photographers could hardly restrain their laughter, and mocked at the fact that such photographs had been given a place of honour. … But, little as these pictures moved the photographers who only looked for sharpness and technical qualities in general, all the more interested were the artists … [who] praised their artistic value, which is so outstanding that technical shortcomings hardly count.” Cameron dismissed the condemnation of the photographic establishment, writing later that it would have dispirited her “had I not valued that criticism at its worth,” basking instead in the positive judgment of artists and friends.
Seen with historical perspective, it is clear that Cameron possessed an extraordinary ability to imbue her photographs with a powerful spiritual content, the quality that separates them from the products of commercial portrait studios of her time. In a dozen years of work, effectively ended by the Camerons’ departure for Ceylon in 1875, the artist produced perhaps 900 images—a gallery of vivid portraits and a mirror of the Victorian soul.
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Praise for Writing on Empty
“Natalie Goldberg is a sensualist. She lives life deeply; sight and sound, taste and smell. She takes the reader on a felt journey, exploring the odd corners of her mind and their own. Writing on Empty reveals a life richly led—it invites the reader within us all to explore and expand their particular human experience.”
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“At some point or another, nearly all writers suffer a spell when the aquifer of inspiration runs dry. With Writing On Empty, Natalie Goldberg has written a sagacious and at times surprisingly funny memoir about her own dry spell—a chronicle that will also serve as an elegant instruction manual for others on how to write through the inevitable desolate patches to rekindle the banked fires of creativity.”
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Acclaimed American poet, author and activist Maya Angelou was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1928. Often referred to as a spokesman for African Americans and women through her many works, her gift of words connected all people who were “committed to raising the moral standards of living in the United States.” [1]
“I want to write so that the reader … can say, ‘You know, that’s the truth. I wasn’t there, and I wasn’t a six-foot black girl, but that’s the truth.’ ” [2]
Influenced by Black authors like Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Lawrence Dunbar, her love of language developed at a young age. Her most famous work I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was published in 1969 and became the first in seven autobiographies of Angelou’s life.
A prolific poet, her words often depict Black beauty, the strength of women and the human spirit, and the demand for social justice. Her first collection of poems Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘fore I Diiie was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1972, the same year she became the first Black woman to have a screenplay produced. Writing for adults and children, Angelou was one of several African American women at the time who explored the Black female autobiographical tradition. Other female authors and contemporaries include Paule Marshall who published the novel Brown Girl, Brownstones and Illinois Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks, many of whose poems lyricize the urban poor.
Learn More about Maya Angelou
James Baldwin
Though he spent most of his life living abroad to escape the racial prejudice in the United States, James Baldwin is the quintessential American writer. Best known for his reflections on his experience as an openly gay Black man in white America, his novels, essays and poetry make him a social critic who shared the pain and struggle of Black Americans.
Born in Harlem in 1924, Baldwin caught the attention of fellow writer Richard Wright who helped him secure a grant in order to support himself as a writer. He left to live in Paris at age 24 and went on to write Go Tell it on the Mountain which was published in 1953, a novel unlike anything written to date. Speaking with passion and depth about the Black struggle in America, it has become an American classic. Baldwin would continue to write novels, poetry and essays with a refreshingly unique perspective for the rest of his life. In 1956, Giovanni’s Room raised the issues of race and homosexuality at a time when it was taboo. And during the Civil Rights Movement, he published three of his most important collections of essays, “Notes of a Native Son” (1955), “Nobody Knows My Name” (1961) and “The Fire Next Time” (1963).
James Baldwin provided inspiration for later generations of artists to speak out about the gay experience in Black America like Staceyann Chin and Nick Burd.
Amiri Baraka
Born in 1934, poet, writer and political activist Amiri Baraka used his writing as a weapon against racism and became one of the most widely published African American writers. Known for his social criticism and incendiary style, Baraka explored the anger of Black Americans and advocated scientific socialism. Often confrontational and designed to awaken audiences to the political needs of Black Americans, Baraka was a prominent voice in American literature.
Inciting controversy throughout his career, he was accused of fostering hate while at the same time being lauded for speaking out against oppression. Often focusing on Black Liberation and White Racism, he spent most of his life fighting for the rights of African Americans. With a writing career that spanned nearly fifty years, Baraka is respected as one of the leading revolutionary cultural and political leaders, especially in his hometown of Newark, NJ. His representations of race and wisdom have made him an influential part of the Black Arts Movement along with Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez and Maya Angelou. Together they have gone on to inspire younger generations like Terrence Hayes.
Octavia Butler
In a genre known for being traditionally white and male, Octavia Butler broke new ground in science fiction as an African American woman. Born in California in 1947, Butler was an avid reader despite having dyslexia, was a storyteller by 4, and began writing at the age of 10. Drawn to science fiction because of its boundless possibilities for imagination, she was quickly frustrated by the lack of people she could identify with so she decided to create her own.
Butler took the science fiction world by storm. Her evocative novels featuring race, sex, power and humanity were highly praised and attracted audience beyond their genre. They would eventually be translated into multiple languages and sell more than a million copies. One of her best-known novels Kindred, published in 1979, tells the story of a Black woman who must travel back in time in order to save her own life by saving a white, slaveholding ancestor. Over her career, she won two Hugo Awards, two Nebula Awards and in 1995 she became the first science fiction writer to win the MacArthur fellowship. The self-described “outsider’s” legacy inspired future generations of women including Valjeanne Jeffers, Nnedi Okorafor and even singer/songwriter Janelle Monáe.
W.E.B. Du Bois
As an activist, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian and prolific writer, W.E.B. Du Bois was one of the most influential African American thought leaders of the 20th century. Growing up in Massachusetts as part of the Black elite, it wasn’t until attending Fisk University in Tennessee that issues of racial prejudice came to his attention. He studied Black America and wrote some of the earliest scientific studies on Black communities, calling for an end to racism. His thesis, The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870 remains an authoritative work on the subject.
The horrific lynching of Sam Hose in 1899 prompted Du Bois to begin writing The Souls of Black Folk. Calling for organized action and an end to segregation, Jim Crow laws, and political disenfranchisement in America, the prophetic work was not well received at the time of its publication. Du Bois eventually went on to help to establish the NAACP where he became editor of its newspaper the Crisis, and a well-known spokesman for the cause. Many of his essays from Crisis were published in book form under the title The Emerging Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois: Essays and Editorials from "The Crisis."
In addition to The Souls of Black Folk and the articles and editorials for the Crisis, Du Bois wrote several books. While these attracted less attention than his scholarly works, the also focused on the Black race covering the topics of miscegenation and economic disparities in the South. Most respected for his scholarly writing, Du Bois’ concepts such as the psychology of colonization explored by Frantz Fanon continued being researched years later.
Ralph Ellison
Born Ralph Waldo Ellison after the famous journalist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ellison was known for pursuing universal truths through his writing. A literary critic, writer, and scholar, Ellison taught at a variety of colleges and spent two years overseas as a Fellow of the American Academy. In an effort to transcend the starkly defined racial categories of the 1950s, he was sometimes criticized for choosing white society over his African American identity. Identifying as an artist first, Ellison rejected the notion that one should stand for a particular ideology, refuting both Black and white stereotypes in his collection of political, social and critical essays titled Shadow and Act.
However, it was Ellison’s first novel that established his place as an important literary figure in America. Published in 1952, the first lines of Invisible Man struck a chord with hundreds of thousands of readers, “I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me . . ." Considered one of the most important works of fiction in the 20th century, Ellison was heavily influenced by Zora Neale Hurston and is often cited as an influence with many writers such as ZZ Packer and Toni Morrison.
Alex Haley
Alex Haley’s writing on the struggle of African Americans inspired nationwide interest in genealogy and popularized Black history. Best known for The Autobiography of Malcolm X and the novel Roots, Haley began his writing career freelancing and struggled to make ends meet. Eating canned sardines for weeks at a time, his big break came when Playboy magazine assigned him to interview Miles Davis. Proving to be such a success, the magazine contracted Haley to do a series of interviews with prominent African Americans. Known as “The Playboy Interviews,” Haley would eventually meet Malcolm X and ask permission to write his biography. The Autobiography of Malcolm X would soon become an international bestseller and Haley became a literary success.
Embarking on a new ambitious project, Haley was determined to trace his ancestor’s journey from Africa to America as slaves, and tell the story of their rise to freedom. After a decade of research and travel to West Africa, the epic novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family was published in 1976. The book was a national sensation and won the Pulitzer Prize, eventually becoming a television miniseries that would shatter television viewing records when 130 million viewers tuned in. If you enjoy reading Alex Haley, consider reading Jesmyn Ward and Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Langston Hughes
A primary contributor of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes was one of the first to use jazz rhythms in his works, becoming an early innovator of the literary art form jazz poetry. While many American poets during the 1920s were writing esoteric poetry to a dwindling audience, Hughes addressed people using language, themes, attitudes and ideas that they could relate to.
Influenced by Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg and Walt Whitman, his poetry caught the attention of novelist, critic and prolific photographer Carl Van Vechten. With Van Vechten’s help, his first collection of poetry was published in 1926. Establishing Hughes’s poetic style and commitment to Black themes and heritage, The Weary Blues had popular appeal. When his first novel Not Without Laughter was published in 1930, it won the Harmon gold medal for literature.
A prolific writer known for his colorful portrayals of Black life from the 1920s-1960s, Hughes wrote plays, short stories, poetry, several books, and contributed the lyrics to a Broadway musical. In addition to his extensive body of work, he inspired other artists and highlighted the power of art as a catalyst for change. Seen as a voice for their own experience, writers during the Harlem Renaissance often dedicated their work to Hughes. The play A Raisin in the Sun by playwright Lorraine Hansberry was named for a line from a Langston Hughes poem.
Zora Neale Hurston
In 1925 as the Harlem Renaissance gained momentum, Zora Neale Hurston headed to New York City. By the time of its height in the 1930s, Hurston was a preeminent Black female writer in the United States. It’s said that her apartment was a popular spot for social gatherings with the well-known artists of the time like Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes.
Of Hurston’s more than 50 published novels, short stories, plays and essays, she wrote her most famous work Their Eyes Were Watching God in 1937. Unlike the style of contemporaries Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison, Hurston did not write explicitly about Black people in the context of white America. She focused on the culture and traditions of African Americans through the poetry of their speech.
Despite her earlier literary success, Hurston would suffer later in her career. Having difficulty getting published, she died poor and alone. Years later, Alice Walker would help revive interest in Hurston’s work with her essay, “In Search of Zora Neale Hurston," published in Ms. magazine in 1975. This essay, alongside her edits of notable works like “I Love Myself When I am Laughing and Then Again When I am Looking Mean and Impressive,” brought Hurston to the attention of a new generation of readers.
Richard Wright
Born in Mississippi in 1908, Richard Wright is best known for his novels Native Son and Black Boy, that mirrored his own struggle with poverty and coming of age journey. A staunch critic of his literary contemporary Zora Neale Hurston, Wright’s work was overtly political, focusing on the struggle of Blacks in America for equality and economic advancement.
Wright’s dreams of becoming a writer took off when he gained employment through the Federal Writers Project and received critical attention for a collection of short stories called Uncle Tom’s Children. The fame that came with the 1940 publication of Native Son (not to be confused with James Baldwin’s titular essay: “Notes of a Native Son,” which criticized Wright’s work) made him a household name. It became the first book by an African American writer to be selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club.
His novel Black Boy was a personal account of growing up in the South and eventual move to Chicago where he became a writer and joined the Communist Party. While the book was a great success, Wright had become disillusioned with white America and the Communist Party, and moved to Paris. He spent the rest of his life living as an expatriate and he continued to write novels.
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Julia Cameron has had a remarkable career, which in turn has given remarkable help to others. She is best known for her hugely successful books on creativity, including The Artist’s Way, which has sold more than two million copies worldwide, and her follow-up best-sellers The Vein of Gold, Walking in this World, and The Right to Write.
A poet, playwright, fiction writer, essayist, and theologian, Cameron has extensive credits in film, television, and theater. As a filmmaker, Cameron collaborated with her former husband, Martin Scorsese, on three films. As a playwright, her work has graced such stages as Princeton’s McCarter Theatre and The Denver Center for the Performing Arts. As an award-winning journalist, her work has appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, the Washington Post, and other publications. She was also a contributing editor to American Film magazine for many years and writer in residence in film at Northwestern University.
Julia Cameron is not only an active artist and journalist, she is also an active teacher, leading workshops internationally that have inspired thousands of people to pursue their creative dreams. As she writes in The Artist’s Way: “While there is no quick fix for instant, pain-free creativity, creative recovery (or discovery) is a teachable, trackable spiritual process. Each of us is complex and highly individual, yet there are common, recognizable denominators to the creative recovery process.” She has taught The Artist’s Way workshops in such venues as the Smithsonian, the New York Times, Omega, Esalen, and Wisdom House.
Other books in Julia Cameron’s extensive bibliography include: The Creative Life: True Tales of Inspiration;Heart Steps: Prayers and Declarations for a Creative Life; Blessings: Prayers and Declarations for a Heartful Life; Transitions: Prayers and Declarations for a Changing Life; The Complete Artist’s Way, a trilogy containing “further adventures along the trail;” and Floor Sample, a memoir.
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Iwas still half asleep when I heard the story on an early morning TV show one day in April. It was so odd I wondered later if I had dreamed it. But it was true: government authorities in Chechnya had imposed a ban on any music deemed too fast or too slow to comply with the ‘Chechen mentality’. Taylor Swift is a no-no – too fast. The Russian national anthem – too slow. There would seem to be a political subtext here, along the lines of ‘One’s just as bad as the other,’ but let it pass.
Where would Arthur Russell fit on the Chechnya index? Breathless dance tracks like ‘Is It All over My Face’, ‘Go Bang!’ and ‘Kiss Me Again’ are definitely way too allegro. But his album World of Echo, from 1986, is so languid it could only dream of one day being called ‘too slow’. Somnolent, smeary, subatomic, the first couple of times you hear it you may wonder, as with my early morning news report, if it wasn’t just a dream. Russell was a one-man index of all the tempos modern music might use or try out. He played in rock bands. He wrote and played experimental modern classical music. He was an open-hearted singer-songwriter. He made music for every possible mood: something to play during the snoozy afternoon, a 12-inch to light up the dancefloor later on, and some sonic mist for your early morning chill-out. He even recorded two versions of some songs, one for the club and one for hi-fi or headphones: a vibrant oil painting followed by its preparatory sketch. Listening to the ethereal World of Echo in my office at home recently, I popped downstairs and was amazed to hear a big bass boom pulsing through the floor like a dub track. As if Russell’s music were itself a house where there are no dividing walls and everything can’t help but leak through.
Cruise all the different Arthur Russells on YouTube and the comments range from an approving SICK! and TUNE! for his dance classics to people confessing they cried uncontrollably over a song from his posthumously released ‘demos’ album Love Is Overtaking Me. It’s as if Neil Young had made not just the lilting Harvest Moon and the frazzled Tonight’s the Night, but also Dead or Alive’s ‘You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)’ and Steve Reich’s Music for Eighteen Musicians into the bargain. What can they possibly have in common, these wildly different figures, the nature boy and the urban genie?
Charles Arthur Russell Jr was born in Oskaloosa, Iowa in May 1951, and died in New York in April 1992 from complications related to Aids. His father, Chuck, a former naval officer, was the town mayor. It’s easy to picture something down-home and folksy, but the family lived in a modernist house designed by an uncle who had studied with Frank Lloyd Wright. Russell was named for his father, with whom he seems to have had a fractious but intensely close relationship; an ex-girlfriend remembers being surprised that even in his early twenties Russell still routinely referred to Charles Sr as ‘Daddy’. Something else that catches the eye, given where things were headed, is that his mother, Emily, played the cello. Russell was no Glenn Gould-style prodigy, but he does seem to have wilfully set his own course from very early on. ‘He was ahead of his age in the things he cared about,’ according to his sister Kate, ‘and that led to all kinds of trouble academically and emotionally.’ In a letter to a friend from 1966, reproduced in Richard King’s new oral biography, Travels over Feeling, the 15-year-old Russell is already referring to Walt Whitman, John Cage and Allen Ginsberg (prefiguring later, more explicit involvements with queer sexuality, paganism and utopian politics). There is also an Alan Watts name-drop and a lot of talk about Buddhism.
It isn’t easy, reading the early pages of Travels over Feeling, to hang on to the timeline of Russell’s steep developmental itinerary. Some of this blurriness is characteristic of the man, but some is the result of a lack of editorial focus. (There’s an unfortunate typo on the very first page, which locates the recent revival of interest in Russell in ‘the early years of the 20th century, a decade or so after his death’.) Everything seems to be happening simultaneously, in different locales. We see Russell in a series of settings, like a montage from a PBS documentary without a voiceover. Standing in a cornfield. Sitting on the deck of a boat. Astride a hay bale in San Rafael. Playing guitar for an audience of bark and moss. Playing cello on the edge of a lake in Minnesota.
In 1968 Russell moved from Iowa to San Francisco, city of bays, bridges and hills. At this early stage he comes across as a somewhat sulky, ascetic figure. He bought his clothes from thrift stores and had zero interest in popular music. His letters were chatty, but in person he wasn’t one for small talk and could be hard work. He was laser-focused on his music (he had already heard Cage and Morton Feldman) and felt a deep spiritual yearning. By 1969 he had become one of the walking wounded of Haight-Ashbury: sleeping in crash pads, selling underground newspapers, arrested for marijuana possession. He appeared to be one step away from some grimy hippie abyss, but like the Fool in the Tarot pack reared away just in time. He entered a Buddhist commune, and seemingly a Sufi commune too. Both at the same time? One after the other? It’s unclear. He enrolled in the Ali Akbar Khan College of Music and studied the North Indian classical tradition: strange new tunings and mind-expanding microtones. The discipline of repetition, the rigour of improvisation. Quiet that intrusive ego! You don’t ‘make’ music, you prepare to let it arrive. The first public performance of two of his own modern classical pieces took place in March 1973, in Berkeley. Arriving in New York in June that same year, he enrolled at the Manhattan School of Music, where he learned counterpoint and compositional theory. Everything was set to go bang.
There was a time when young people with a dream or an angle could still afford to live in big cities like London and New York. But the world that incubated Russell, and drew out all the snaking tendrils of his offbeat eclecticism, is long gone. Lofts once inhabited by breadline artists, musicians and filmmakers are now the sole preserve of billionaires. The cross-pollination that allowed Russell to switch between different musical idioms didn’t just appear one day out of nowhere, but emerged in very specific economic conditions. Russell’s friend and fellow musician Peter Gordon recalls the mutual support that sustained their circle of friends in late-1970s New York: ‘We used to joke that the same $50 got passed back and forth between us. There was no dividing line between money and the community.’ New York had a (pre-digital, pre-Aids) lineage that included La Monte Young, Andy Warhol, Patti Smith and a lot of loft-based jazz. A fertile and fluid exchange between discrete communities: high, low, queer, druggy, artsy, radical, hedonist. There’s a lovely moment, recorded in Travels over Feeling, where Gordon and Russell go to Union Square Park to buy ‘loose joints’ and hear one of Russell’s latest club bangers thundering out of the boomboxes of the skater kids and dealer-delinquents assembled there. Avant-garde composition and Indian raga practice, beat-making and urban cruising: wherever Russell went he seemed to be at the heart of this magical crossover of circles and scenes.
One place where this crossover logic was always embraced was the Loft, run by David Mancuso. On any given night, the playlist might include club hits like Taana Gardner’s ‘Heartbeat’, the Peech Boys’ ‘Don’t Make Me Wait’ or Fingers Inc’s ‘Mystery of Love’; but you’d also likely hear Marianne Faithfull and Yoko Ono, the Steve Miller Band and cuts from Joe Gibbs’s African Dub All-Mighty: Chapter 3. The Loft was conceived as a private party rather than an all-comers’ nightclub; it was ‘invitation only’, not through any high-life snobbery but from a need to protect itself against the drunkenness and prejudice of potential interlopers. The first ever Loft party, called ‘Love Saves the Day’, was held in February 1970 at 645-647 Broadway, Mancuso’s own home. He had a wide circle of friends and was, like Russell, a product of the hippie era. He had seen Nina Simone and Timothy Leary at the Fillmore East, and had run or attended rent parties all over New York, from Harlem to Staten Island. Mancuso’s sound designer Alex Rosner remembers an inspirational ‘mix of sexual orientation … a mix of races, mix of economic groups. A real mix.’
The Loft had all the necessary accoutrements: a big bright mirror ball, lots of drugs, and one of the best sound systems in the city. It also laid on free water, fresh organic food and bowls of fruit. ‘It was like a birthday party for kids,’ remembers one regular attendee in the 2008 documentary Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell. In an era when gay men routinely faced night-time harassment, this was a genuine ‘safe space’. The Loft cultivated an egalitarian atmosphere where nobody was seen as hipper or more valuable than anyone else. The entrance fee was low, and donations were made to charities like the Gay Men’s Health Crisis. It put the community above personal profit. (This would not be the direction DJ culture would subsequently take.) All of which helps explain why Russell’s track ‘Go Bang!’ (recorded under the nom de boom Dinosaur L) wasn’t just another hot pick at the Loft, but the very encapsulation of its communal ethos: ‘I want to see/all of my friends at once.’ It hymns Dionysian ignition, but the tone is piercingly wistful. Who knows what trials tomorrow may bring, let’s all love one another now.
Russell’s own Buddhist ethos pokes through in a line from ‘Go Bang!’: ‘Thank you for asking the question/To uproot the cause of confusion.’ This is surely the sort of benediction you might address to your Zen roshi. Russell was someone who rarely danced, but worked the recording studio like it was a place of worship – what David Toop, in his remarkable new book, Two-Headed Doctor, calls the ‘creation of provisional sacred spaces’. Music that induces both communal warmth and wild abandon. You could drop in a whole thesis here on the crucial role of the 12-inch single in the late 1970s. It was an expansive idiom in itself, allowing DJs to stretch time into a never-ending night: a circular trance where the ‘I’ and the ‘we’ undertake a sweat-soaked merger, unloosening the guy ropes of ego. What do disco music, Sufic improvisation and avant-garde composition have in common? All reach, through repetition, for the same state of No Mind. Boundaries dissolving inside the bright flame of a dervish music. Spokes around a spinning wheel.
On the ear-opening compilation David Mancuso Presents the Loft Vol. 2, ‘Go Bang!’ is programmed between the Salsoul Orchestra and – one of my own personal Desert Island Discs – ‘Set Fire to Me (Latin Jazzbo Version)’ by Willie Colon; as well as propulsive beats and a wild trombone solo, they share a mood of near-transcendent moment and release. Disco as a form of secular gospel: singer dizzy and pleading, chorus providing a soft cloak of redemption. Saturday night/Sunday morning dance tracks like this had a pervasive sense of loss built in. They honoured recent victories, and anticipated all the mourning to come.
Russell recorded World of Echo alone over a long period leading up to its release in September 1986, shortly after which he tested positive for HIV. It’s a song suite of winded chamber music: stoned-sounding but sober, domestic but otherworldly, something between a séance and a diary. World of Echo is sitting-room dub music, folk song with tape delay. Russell plays his cello like a percussion instrument or bass guitar, generating a series of booms and squeaks and whistles. He makes a virtue of his home studio limitations, producing a feeling of sinuous, wraparound intimacy: a musical Impressionism where background and foreground merge in a dappled, smeary haze. These songs don’t feel ‘written’ in any conventional way; they are like pollen on the breeze. Words as vibrations, passing places, silvered keys to unlock the heart.
Russell said that he enjoyed the ‘musical effect of words as sounds, but where the meaning is not totally withdrawn’. There are scattered references in Travels over Feeling to the influence exerted on the apprentice songwriter Russell by poets such as Ginsberg, Robert Bly and Ezra Pound; William Carlos Williams and Robert Creeley in particular inspired the ‘idea of using simple language to convey something very beautiful’. Russell also spoke about how he wanted his home-studio ‘echo system’ to kindle song ‘from the point of view of instrumental music, in the hope of liquefying a raw material where concert music and popular song can criss-cross’. Echoes recognise no boundary, cannot be made to fall in line. ‘As I considered echo,’ Russell said, ‘it seemed that in it, concepts of time and space were expressed sonically.’ You are here now in this moment in this room, but your song hovers over a childhood tree house, a tractor in a field, a swimming hole, a world. Your own private Iowa.
Russell’s work evokes a genuine love in people, more than mere fanboy genuflection. Richard King’s devotion is obvious. He was granted access to the collection of Russell’s papers held at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The custodian of the archive is Steve Knutson, who also set up his own label, Audika Records, to release all things Russell. Travels over Feeling is big, chunky, colourful – like a deluxe CD box set, or what we used to call a coffee-table book. As well as new interviews King conducted with people who knew Russell in the various stages of his too-short life, it features reproductions of correspondence, flyers, photos, scores, album sleeves, studio logs. Halfway between a definitive resource and a lucky dip. If all the voices that sing inside Travels over Feeling don’t finally gel, perhaps that’s only fitting: not a precisely etched Arthur Russell, but a scattered chorus of echoes. King’s scene-setting can be a bit bloodless: ‘In the late 1970s two clubs had opened in Manhattan that reflected the interdisciplinary and interpersonal social energy of the city.’ This is accurate, but lacks heat. The title also seems a bit vague to me. Given the nature of the project – all these fond yammerings of co-workers, lovers, mates and mentors – I would have thought the perfect title was hiding in plain sight in those lyrics to ‘Go Bang!’: ‘I Want to See All of My Friends at Once.’
There’s a risk of fetishism in such acts of curation – the spilled confetti of life tidied up and displayed in a spotless vitrine. Unbiddable lives made over into secular shrines. One of the nice things about Travels over Feeling is that its artefacts all belong to a recent but now distant world of tactile communication: pens, paper, postcards, foxed music scores, hastily scribbled notes pinned to the doors of flats. Life before the mobile phone and its treacherous wand power. A lot of letters from Russell are reproduced in Travels over Feeling, but deciphering many of them is more or less impossible; you do wonder what purpose they serve, or if one telling leaf mightn’t have worked just as well as several pages in a row. I’m not sure what the tiny corner of an envelope Russell once addressed to his parents is meant to signify. Some of the items on display are identified, some aren’t, and there’s no helpful index. Some biographical details clash or smudge. The text says he moved to New York in ‘late 1972 or early 1973’ when a few pages before he is in Berkeley in March 1973 for his first ever public performance. One moment he has zero interest in rock music, the next he’s starting a group with someone he has just met at a Modern Lovers concert. Friends say he was immature, yet in 1974, just arrived in New York aged 23, he became musical director of the Kitchen, a ‘video, arts and music space synonymous with the New Music movement’. While you could argue that with Arthur Russell things don’t always cohere, if you’re going to stake so much on the curatorial approach, it should be watertight.
But there is a logic to King’s collagist approach, if only because Russell had so many sides and facets. He blurred his own identity in a series of wry pseudonyms and impish signatures: Loose Joints, Dinosaur L, Gulf Stream, Indian Ocean, In the Corn Belt, Killer Whale. Some of the most alluring items reproduced here are flyers, concert bills, and most of all the sleeves of Russell’s records from the late 1970s and early 1980s. This was a time when vinyl wasn’t an overpriced luxury, but a mainstay of daily life – you caressed these objects with your eyes before you played them. There are some lovely DIY designs here, replete with Russell’s tiny personal watermarks, but my own favourite is probably the sleeve for Dinosaur L’s ‘Go Bang #5/Clean on Your Bean #1’ 12-inch on Sleeping Bag Records from 1982: a friendly UFO hovers over a pastoral hillside and a vacated sleeping bag. The spirit animal hiding behind the DINOSAUR L legend on the label is, naturally, a koala bear.
There are a handful of songs on Love Is Overtaking Me which seem to hold a special place in a lot of people’s hearts. Here is an underground seam of gold – rough, lilting songs which cry out to be covered. You only need to hear them once or twice and the hooks stay in: ‘Close My Eyes’, ‘I Couldn’t Say It to Your Face’ (with its poignant parting wave: ‘But I won’t be around any more …’), ‘Nobody Wants a Lonely Heart’. And ‘This Time Dad You’re Wrong’, which is surely the song Brian Wilson never quite got round to writing. Listening once again to ‘Close My Eyes’ (‘Who knows what grows in the morning light’) I thought back to the utopian tradition of Cage, Ginsberg and Whitman that Russell loved and honoured. Wide open spaces and a cupboard-sized studio. A non-dancer who made some of the best dance tracks ever. A cello player in a cornfield. The cello is there in the portrait on the cover of Travels over Feeling. It’s pretty much the one constant in his life, from beginning to end: foundation, alter ego, companion.
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by Federal Writers' Project
The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states.
During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authorsmany of ...
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During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authorsmany of whom would later become celebrated literary figureswere commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor.
The WPA Guide to New Mexico certainly shows how this Southwest state earned its nickname the Colorful State.” The blended influence of Native American, Spanish, and Anglo-American cultures account for the Land of Enchantment’s distinct flavor, thoroughly captured in the guide’s stunning photography as well as in its many essays on art, folklore, and language.
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Bart van Es, The Cut Out Girl (Fig Tree, 2018)
Mrs TD heard this non-fiction book being discussed enthusiastically on the BBC Radio 4 programme A Good Read. Our excellent Cornwall Libraries provided this hardback copy within days of my reserving it.
We recently travelled through the Netherlands, which brought back memories of visiting Amsterdam over the years: the Anne Frank House, the Jewish Museum and quarter. I thought I knew a fair bit about the murderous treatment of Jewish people under the German occupation, and the ways some Dutch residents risked their lives to harbour some of them in their own homes. This book changed this perception.
Bart van Es was born in the Netherlands and is a professor of English literature at Oxford University. The Cut Out Girl is his account of tracing the role played by his Dutch grandparents (and many others) in hiding a young Jewish girl during WWII. She’s only eight years old when her parents make the agonising decision to send her to live with a family of strangers before they are sent to the death camps. Van Es tracks her down – she’s now a woman in her eighties, living in Amsterdam – and gets to know and interview her during several visits to her home.
At first Lien (short for Hesseline) is a little reluctant to divulge the emotional side of her story to her ‘nephew’ (as he’s pleased to be called when she introduces him to a visitor: after all, she isn’t a blood relative, even though she came to call the van Es adults – Bart’s grandparents who sheltered — her as mother and father). He uses his academic research skills to fill out the details in the basic narrative she gives him.
Much of this factual part is reasonably familiar and predictable to those of us brought up on stories like Anne Frank’s. After staying in Dordrecht (which we visited on our recent trip) with the van Es family, Lien was moved several times as her hiding places were compromised. She had to stay for weeks and months on end confined to the house, often in a secret concealed room, not even able to look out of a window for fear of being discovered or betrayed. No school, no friends.
Not surprisingly, deprived of almost all contact with other people, she became anxious, emotionally volatile and vulnerable. And now we come to the part of the book that I hadn’t expected, and this is its most powerful and shocking element. Some of those who risked everything to shelter her did not treat her kindly. In one house she was made to fill the role of a housemaid, and shown little or no affection. She experienced even worse treatment in other houses.
We hear about Lien’s life after the war, until the time the author got to know her and elicit her story. She was clearly psychologically damaged by the terrible times she’d lived through. All of her family were murdered by the Nazis. It was only in the previous few years, just before Bart van Es tracked her down, that she’d managed to achieve some kind of peace.
The other key feature of Lien’s sad life was that she had become estranged from the van Es ‘parents’ who had harboured her – hence one sense of the ambiguous title of the book. Lien was ‘cut out’ from her foster family, as well as from her own. The reason for this rift is only revealed towards the end of the book, and it’s another indication of how much more complicated the situation was in the relations between the persecuted Jewish population in wartime Holland and the rest of the Dutch people – and it’s a poignant indication of how deeply flawed we human beings are – even when we seem to be acting nobly.
This is a deeply moving, often disturbing account of what happened in Holland during the war. I hadn’t realised that the Dutch Jewish population suffered so terribly: their wartime death rate of 80% was more than double that in any other western country, including France, Belgium, Italy, or even Austria and Germany. Of 18,000 Jews who lived in Lien’s home town of the Hague in 1940, only 2,000 survived. I shared van Es’s response to these facts: ‘For me, brought up on the myth of Dutch resistance, this comes as a shock,’ he writes. There were various demographic and social reasons for this, but it was also a result of the ‘active participation of Dutch citizens – who did the work of informing on neighbours, arrest, imprisonment and deportation.’ The Dutch authorities delivered 107,000 ‘full Jews’ to their German masters. These people were then sent to the death camps in the east.
Another important feature emerges. When he first arrives to interview Lien, he’s aware that a group of youngsters of ‘north African appearance’ are eyeing him with suspicion. He’s aware that his presence, and the nature of what he’s investigating, are not received with as positive a response as that of the white European Dutch. He points out that since the seventies the Netherlands has been a ‘country of immigration’. One fifth of its population were born outside its borders, or are descendants of these immigrants. Integration has been only ‘moderately successful’.
These are sobering insights. Van Es refers to the far-right politician Geert Wilders’ party getting 15% of the vote in local elections at the time of this book’s publication in 2018. Just last month his anti-Islam PVV party, with its extreme policies on immigration, and advocacy of banning the Qu’ran and mosques, became the largest party in the national elections. Wilders looks likely to lead the next Dutch government. This in a country often seen as an exemplar of liberal views and tolerance of diversity.
My own government seems intent on going down a similar route of ‘taking back control’ of its borders (as they mendaciously boasted during the Brexit campaign), as it redoubles its inhumane (and probably illegal) efforts to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, which it disingenuously insists is a safe and reasonable place for desperate people, many of them persecuted and endangered in their home countries, to be dumped so that we don’t have to see them in our towns and villages. I’m in despair at the ways in which democratic institutions are being rejected, and the world seems to be headed towards the kind of environment that enabled the Nazis to perpetrate the horrors of WWII on people like Lien.
J. Slauerhoff, Adrift in the Middle Kingdom. Translated from the Dutch by David McKay. Handheld Press (Bath, England), 2019: Handheld Classic, 9. Introduction by Arie Pos and Wendy Gan. 19341
I posted on another Dutch classic, Max Havelaar, by Multatuli, back in May. Its co-translator, David McKay, offered review copies of his newest translation – today’s subject – via the GoodReads/NYRB Classics online group discussion, and he kindly arranged for this small westcountry imprint to send me a copy.
Jan Jacob Slauerhoff (1898-1936) served as a ship’s doctor in south-east Asia, experience on which he drew for Adrift in the Middle Kingdom. This is its first English translation. The narrator is an Ulsterman called Cameron, a radio operator on cargo ships plying between Indonesia and other Asian ports and China. The cargo often includes contraband, including opium, which brings him and his ship into abrasive, dangerous contact with criminal smugglers and dealers.
They also transport exhausted migrant workers, their health shattered by working in slave-like conditions in the plantations of Java, returning home for whatever short time remains of their lives. They’ve hoarded what little capital they might have scraped together in the long years of toil.
Unlike some other novels by westerners at this period, the picture given of the inhabitants of these oriental countries is not patronisingly exotic and romanticised. This is largely the sinister, darker side of the far east, a place of seedy opium dens and sordid dockside brothels and bars catering for the sailors and merchants intent on indulging their sensual appetites after long suffering and voyages, or lucrative deals (‘whooping and shouting to drown out your own despair, your shame and your transgressions, for the sake of mere survival’, as Cameron wearily characterises it).
But most of the indigenous inhabitants endure a life of hardship and deprivation. The treatment they receive from westerners as well as their own people is often heartless and exploitative.
Here is Cameron’s sardonic view of Taihai, China’s ‘largest port’:
where out of three million people at least two don’t know if tomorrow they’ll eat or die.
We also see the unnaturally opulent side, especially the French concession, occupied by the western entrepreneurs and colonialists, and also some wealthy Chinese who are essentially gangsters or drug lords and gun-runners. It was a zone notorious for its hedonism and criminality, according to the writers of the useful Introductions to this edition.
At that decadent, multinational port of Taihai (a thinly disguised version of Shanghai) Cameron jumps ship, intent on losing himself in the ‘middle kingdom’, a literal translation of the ancient Chinese name for their country. His quest can be seen as an oriental equivalent of Marlow’s journey into the Congo’s heart of darkness, but Cameron resembles not so much stolid, judgemental European Marlow as a less demonic Kurtz figure, attracted by this alternative culture as superior to or more enlightened than the atrophied, stultifying version offered by the west.
Cameron is an intriguing figure. He’s Melville’s Ishmael in reverse. He’s grown to hate the life of a seaman, and seems to be suffering from a Sartrean identity crisis. In this sense the novel is a strange amalgam of Buddhist fantasy-allegory – a quest for spiritual enlightenment – and an existential quest for some kind of authenticity in a meaningless world, an escape from ennui and terror.
The quest takes Cameron, after a relatively fulfilling time with a simple but starving watchmaker’s family, on a long trip across the forbidding hinterland of China at the bidding of an obese, amoral boss of a crime syndicate. Their cargo is modern European guns and munitions, carried in a bizarre camel train to the distant city of Chungking. Along the way Cameron had fallen in (and out) with a range of marginal, corrupt characters, symbolically representative of Russian, French and other decadent European cultures.
At Chungking, a traditional Chinese city whose rulers detest and resist modern western influence, the clash between western industrial capitalism and militarism with Zen Buddhism comes to its climax. It’s expressed in terms of a modernist European alienation narrative, and comes to its hallucinatory, mystical conclusion in a kind of Chinese-Elysian poppyfield of earthly-heavenly delights. Cameron desperately seeks to join the enigmatic, alluring figure of Buddhist Tibetan monk Wan Chen, beckoning him from a shifting, distant mountain peak.
This possibly sounds a bit of a dog’s dinner, but it somehow works. The novel’s tone and style reminded me weirdly of the prose and poetry of the 19C French Symbolists and decadents, and the Beats – who discovered the attractions of drug-enhanced mystical escape a couple of decades later. But the tendency towards self-indulgent egotism by the likes of Kerouac is tempered by a moral seriousness more reminiscent of Kafka and Camus.
After succumbing to the mystery infection a few weeks ago, I’ve now had a problem with a torn retina, so have not been able to write or read much all week. So thanks to LibriVox I’m listening to an audio version of Northanger Abbey, which is huge fun – just what I needed. Meanwhile, here’s another update on recent reading while recuperating before the eye problem:
Edith Wharton (1862-1937), A Son at the Front (1923). Library of America eBook Classic (downloaded free from their website some while ago). This is very different from the New York society novels I’ve posted about previously: The House of Mirth (1905); The Age of Innocence (1920); The Children (1928); and the two companion pieces not set in high society New York, both about thwarted, painful love: bleak, wintry Ethan Frome (1911), and the ‘hot Ethan’, Summer (1917). A Son at the Front is clearly born out of the author’s selfless work during WWI supporting refugees and others in need. The grateful nation of France made her Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Her experiences on the home front and travelling to the front lines clearly influence the narrative. What’s so unusual about it is the singularly unsympathetic nature of its protagonist, the vitriolic Paris-based American artist John Campton. He and his wife Julia had divorced years before the novel opens, days before the outbreak of war. Julia had married a wealthy financier, and Campton is disgruntled and jealous that his poverty until recent times when he’d finally become successful has prevented him from spoiling the lad as the stepfather’s millions had enabled him to. His and Julia’s beloved son, having been born, by accident, in France, is called up for military service. His sense of duty impels him to participate.
Most of the novel relates Campton’s increasingly desperate efforts to use his influence as a successful society portraitist to extricate his son from the front. He has to compromise his artistic and personal ethics to further his career in a corrupt wartime world behind the lines, and in order to further his campaign to protect his son. This adds to his rancour, and makes him more spiteful and selfish than usual. Most interesting is the way his spiky relationship with Julia softens, as they find common cause. This is complicated by his irrational detestation of her self-effacing husband, sensitive to Campton’s jealousy (he has much more clout with top politicians and military) and capacity to save his stepson.
This is not yet another grim war novel, then; it relates with stark frankness Campton’s slow discovery of a warmer, more human and sympathetic version of himself that the personal catastrophes he experiences bring about. The home front is shown to be less than completely noble, and the ineptitude and corruption of those who wield political, financial and military power is revealed in ways not usually found in other ‘war novels’.
Multatuli, Max Havelaar, or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company. NYRB Classics, 2019. First published in Dutch 1860. Translated by Ina Rilke and David McKay. Introduction by Pramoedya Ananta Toer provides useful context. The author’s real name was Eduard Douwes Dekker, a former colonial officer in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia); his pseudonym is Latin for ‘I have suffered much’ – appropriate for this narrative of the exploitation of the native Indonesians at the corrupt, exploitative hands of the European colonisers. But it’s not just a bromide against imperialist oppression; the outrage and moral indignation is wrapped up in an extraordinary Tristram Shandy kind of satire. The first and liveliest part of the novel is narrated by a sanctimonious, avaricious, stupid prig called Batavus Drystubble, whose chief aims in life are to further his career in an Amsterdam coffee house, and to pose as a pious, efficient functionary. His account reveals him to be a pompous hypocrite and fool. He comes into possession of the manuscript which forms the bulk of the novel, relating how Havelaar’s experiences as a colonial official in mid-19C Indonesia cause him to write an exposé of the criminal abuses, corruption and greed of the colonisers, who treat the locals appallingly: they endure slavery, extortion, cruel punishments and even death to maintain the lucrative trade in coffee, indigo, pepper and other luxuries coveted by their duplicitous overlords.
It’s an extraordinary novel, combining hilarious satire with incisive criticism of the injustices exposed. Like Sterne, the author employs a wide range of digressions and narrative modes, from lists and letters to redacted versions of the ‘found MS’, with disclaimers from the appalled Drystubble at what he considers to be its ‘fake news’ content. Ch. 19 is a heartbreaking account of one representative young man’s sufferings under the brutal Dutch regime, which corrupts the indigenous leaders and makes them complicit in the colonists’ systematic exploitation of their people. There’s an enormous, pseudo-serious apparatus of footnotes provided by the author at the end, where his genuine anger reveals itself unmitigated by the satiric pose in the body of the novel.
There are some passages which labour the moral point at excessive length, and some of the digressions weaken the flow – but it’s at times a gut-wrenching critique of inhumanity in the pursuit of wealth.
Chloe Aridjis, Sea Monsters. Chatto and Windus, 2019. I was disappointed by this novel, which is inferior to its two predessors by this interesting and usually reliable author. It’s a whimsical account of a 17-year-old’s flight from her privileged Mexico City life with loving parents to indulge a passion for a fickle Goth boyfriend whose sullen charisma she mistakes for the real thing. There’s some lovely imagery and prose that’s more sustained in the earlier novels, and an interesting interlude early on in the flat where William Burroughs conducted his ill-fated William Tell experiment.
In radio and podcast interviews Aridjis has said the plot is based on events in her own life, which probably explains why it reads like a self-indulgent adolescent’s fantasy. I felt for the poor parents as she languished moodily on a gorgeous tropical beach, lusting after new, more glamorously seedy male idols (boyfriend has lost interest in her, not surprisingly) without a thought for the pain she was inflicting back home.
Links to previous Aridjis posts – Asunder and Book of Clouds.
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After a lifetime of spurning “self-help books,” I bought a copy of Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way and joined a local support group to help me navigate a new spiritually-charged creative path. This book has been a go-to guidebook to discovering the life of an artist for twenty-five years, but only recently did I feel ready to tackle it.
At the first group meeting, we began by introducing ourselves. It turned out that most of us pursue various forms of writing. One woman identified herself as a painter, and I said, “My mother-in-law was a painter.” I could have bitten off my tongue because who cares? Why did it matter that my mother-in-law was a painter? An hour later, as I listened to the others talking about the artistic paths that led them to this first meeting, I experienced a rare epiphany.
Cameron’s system rests on two major repetitive activities—morning pages, which are essentially journal pages, and artist dates, where the artist performs a viewpoint-shifting solo activity. In addition, the artist performs a variety of tasks each week. In the first week, Cameron urges the reader to “list three old champions” of her “creative self-worth.” These people have provided affirmations to the reader’s creative spirit.
I struggled to answer the question, although certainly the poet and teacher who encouraged me to put together my first poetry book deserves a space on that list. The literature professor who used to read and comment on my short stories, although creative writing wasn’t her field and the stories not written for her classes. The well-known poet who wrote me when I was first submitting poetry to say that my poems were cogent and real. The truth is that when I pulled out that treasure from my files, I realized he was trying to sell me his summer workshop.
How had I developed a resilient creative life when the affirmations had been so limited? I hadn’t felt much support at home for my creativity, although my parents had never mocked my attempts and had even provided art, piano, and ballet lessons (the two latter subjects chosen by my mother, not by me). What I realized in a burst of “knowing” was that specific inspiration, and not affirmations, had allowed me to reach a point in my life where I can say the previously verboten words: I am a poet. I am a writer.
My mother-in-law was a painter who fully lived her life as an artist. Everyone she met knew she was an artist. Being a painter was never a second or, worse yet, secret identity. She exuded confidence in her art, never comparing herself with other artists. She invited others into her world by envisioning them through her artistic lens and sharing what she saw. She sketched at the coffee shop and while she waited in the mechanic’s office for her car. In-progress canvases and an easel took up the backseat of that car, an old Opel that smelled like oil paint when one climbed into the passenger seat. My mother-in-law showed me how to accept my artistic identity and to embrace it. As I looked around at the people in my group, I wanted to share this epiphany, but more understanding was still materializing in my mind.
Not only had my mother-in-law provided the inspiration to live the life of an artist, but my daughter had inspired me to come to my art with all my heart and efforts. A brilliant dancer from a very young age, she often heard people mention how she “danced her heart out,” and that is how it seemed to the audience. But she always found more heart to give. As she matured, she displayed the vocal and acting talents to match her dancing. As a teen, she worked hours every day, developing her skills. By her senior year of high school, she was a leader in dance, drama, and choir departments. She was accepted to a top-notch university musical theatre program and completed the four year BFA program. Throughout this time, she also auditioned for and performed in professional shows. After graduation, she continued auditioning and performing.
Only by going through this process or closely watching someone who is doing so can one realize the difficulties and hardships of the audition-perform cycle. Submitting poems to journals and watching them come bouncing back is nothing compared with the very personal rejection often served to one’s face at an audition. Scheduling conflicts popped up between auditions, between shows, with doctor visits, and survival jobs contributing to high-level daily stress. In the midst of all these issues, my daughter, like many performers, continued to train as she could fit it in. After all, artists need to keep learning and sharpening their skills. I watched my daughter go through this with grit and industriousness for so many years that when I decided to go back to my writing, I unconsciously modeled myself as a hard-working artist on her lifestyle.
I never needed to look far afield for affirmations. I found inspiration in my own family and integrated the lessons of my mother-in-law and my daughter into my outlook and my artist’s life. I owe an enormous debt to these two dazzling artists. I wish my mother-in-law was still around for me to thank her, but I am blessed to be able to thank her granddaughter.
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Listen to this episode from Good Life Project on Spotify. In 1992, after years of teaching workshops on creative unblocking, Julia Cameron self-published The Artist's Way, which became a global phenomenon that sold millions of copies, was translated into 40 languages, and anchors companion workshops that have brought creativity into the mainstream conversation. Along the way, Julia has authored more than 40 books, plays and screenplays, written for Rolling Stone, The Washington Post and The New York Times, and collaborated with legends of television and movies, including Martin Scorsese, who would, for a time, become her partner in life as well. A few years back, I had a great opportunity to sit down with Julia in her home in Santa Fe, New Mexico for a beautifully honest and open, deep-dive conversation that ranged from her upbringing to her entrée into the writing life, her years-long struggle with addiction and awakening from it, her time in Hollywood, swept up in the world of movies, and her fierce commitment to her craft and to helping others find their creative voices and let them out. So excited to share this Best Of conversation with you.You can find Julia at: Website | InstagramIf you LOVED this episode:You’ll also love the conversations we had with Chase Jarvis about the creative calling.My new book Sparked.-------------Have you discovered your Sparketype yet? Take the Sparketype Assessment™ now. IT’S FREE (https://sparketype.com/) and takes about 7-minutes to complete. At a minimum, it’ll open your eyes in a big way. It also just might change your life.If you enjoyed the show, please share it with a friend. Thank you to our super cool brand partners. If you like the show, please support them - they help make the podcast possible. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Julia Margaret Cameron was a mighty talent with a mighty heart; her photographs typically have a soft focus whilst her mind and eye have an acute sharpness, the combination of which created a pioneering quality in her work that still endures today. Unlike other early practitioners of the medium, Cameron did not seek technical perfection in her work as a means to "capture" or document reality. She appreciated the scientific processes behind her pursuit but privileged instead the creation of an otherworldly sense of beauty using props, allegory, and slight blurriness. As such, Cameron was intensely aware that she was an 'artist', trying ultimately to expose the emotional internal lives of her sitters. At the time, her experimental style was better received by the Pre-Raphaelite painters than by fellow Victorian photographers. Surrounded by impressive figures, mostly men, Cameron photographed them accordingly with great respect but rejected hierarchy and gave equal attention and importance to passing strangers, children, and nursing mothers.
Accomplishments
Cameron has become an influential mother-figure for subsequent generations of modern and contemporary photographers with particular interest in making images born out of heightened levels of communication. Following the creation of spaces of trust, consent, and reciprocity it is arguably possible to make more sensitive and revealing portraits, particularly of children. Such was also the endeavor of Diane Arbus, Dorothea Lange, and Sally Mann.
The notion of showing something of the reflective inner life of the sitter - an interest in the unconscious, the dream, and the imagination as the vehicles through which to explore identity - are the founding principles of Surrealism. Photographers Duane Michals and Francesca Woodman inherit Cameron's use of soft focus, shadow, and the trace as devices to highlight the more magical and ethereal aspects of human existence.
Cameron upheld a long-term relationship with Sir Henry Cole, the director/curator of the South Kensington Gallery (now the V&A museum), and was even given a studio space in the gallery from 1868 qualifying her as the gallery's first artist in residence. She was at the epicentre of an intellectual and artistic movement (connected to the Pre-Raphaelites) and this was unusual for a British woman at the time.
Due to her interest in experimenting with special characteristics particular to the medium (for example long exposure and soft focus), Cameron's oeuvre supports key theoretical debates surrounding the relationship between photography and time. Her photographs are now interestingly discussed in the context of the Belgian professor, Thierry de Duve's essay, 'Time Exposure and Snapshot', Walter Benjamin's concept of 'aura', and Roland Barthes' poetic discussions on the "punctum" of an image.
Important Art by Julia Margaret Cameron
Biography of Julia Margaret Cameron
Childhood
Julia Margaret Cameron was born in 1815 in Calcutta, India. She was the second of seven sisters, born into a wealthy, highly cultured, and well-educated family. Her father James Pattle was a well-respected official working for the East India Company. Her mother, Adeline Pattle was the daughter of French Royalists. As such, Cameron and her sisters spent their youth between India, Versailles, and England. All of the Pattle sisters were known for being vivacious and witty aesthetes, often noticed and commented upon for their unusual beauty and candor.
Education and Early Training
Cameron was educated mostly in France from 1818 to 1834. Her education was well rounded and classical, but not focused on fine art. In 1836 she was recovering from an illness in the Cape of Good Hope. It was there that she encountered two key influences in her personal and artistic development; Sir John Herschel the renowned astronomer and photo chemist, and Charles Hay Cameron, her future husband and a determined liberal reformer whose essay, On the Sublime and Beautiful (1835) had a great impact on her basic aesthetic theories.
Mature Period
In 1838 Julia Pattle married Charles Cameron in Calcutta, and the couple went on to have six children together (five biological and one adopted). The family conducted vibrant social gatherings with artists and intellectuals and they were keen philanthropists. At this time, Cameron was still not a photographer - she was, however corresponding with Herschel regularly about all the newest advancements in photographic practice. In 1841, her dear and important friend even sent her some "Talbotypes", early examples of photographs by Henry Fox Talbot.
In 1848, the family moved to England, first to Tunbridge Wells in Kent, then to London two years later where Cameron became involved with the Little Holland House group. This was a Salon run by Cameron's sister, Sarah Prinsep, and the setting that introduced Cameron to the aesthetic hub of London, and especially to her life long friend, the painter George Frederic Watts. The second centre of artistic inspiration for Cameron became the Isle of Wight, where the family moved to in 1860 having purchased a home neighbouring that of poet's Alfred Lord Tennyson, who too became Cameron's great friend and artistic colleague.
Dimbola Lodge, the family home on The Isle of Wight was also where Cameron was given her first sliding box camera as a Christmas present from her daughter, Julia, in 1863. Cameron eagerly transformed her chicken coop into a photography studio, and an old coal shed into her darkroom, quickly setting out to fulfill the practices that Herschel had introduced to her nearly twenty years earlier. Her experiments with portraiture, biblical scenes, Arthurian tableaus, and classical painterly subjects were largely carried out on the Isle of Wight with her friends, family, and passers by acting as her models - or as Tennyson humorously called them, due to her determined and unflinching vision, "her victims".
Late Period
From her "first success" capturing the young Annie in 1864, Cameron worked quickly and diligently preparing photographs with new equipment. She said herself after making the portrait of Annie, "at last came endless success! May I not call them so", revealing her own self-confidence in a long awaited and undoubtedly important developing body of work.
She exhibited widely. Her work was included at the Universal Exposition in Paris of 1867, she had a solo show at the German Gallery in London in 1868, then in the Netherlands in 1869, and again at the Universal Exposition in 1873 receiving a notable award for "Good Taste" in her "artistic studies". The 1870s saw a maturing of the artist's signature soft focus style, more elaborate tableau stage set ups, and rigorous self-reflection. By 1873 Cameron had started to sell her photographs. She was very aware that she was making 'art', and as such acted as a shrewd business woman, registering all of her pictures with a copyright agency.
Cameron also found time to write Annals of My Glass House, a biographical account of her career which she did not entirely complete and which remained unpublished until 1889. Having had so much time to contemplate her career before it actually became fully fledged, when in the midst of her prolific decade of making photographs Cameron assuredly knew that her work was good - she wrote to the director of the South Kensington Museum, Sir Henry Cole that her new prints "should electrify with delight and startle the world. I hope it is no vain imagination." This was the gallery with which she exhibited most frequently and even had a portrait studio where Cameron could take her sitters.
She moved to Ceylon in 1875 to be closer to her sons, and sadly died there the following year having contracted a perilous chill. Prints of her Arthurian legend subjects were exhibited the very same year at the Photographic Society in London, UK demonstrating her full success and influential name in the new world of photography.
The Legacy of Julia Margaret Cameron
The experimental nature of Cameron's practice caught the attention of the Modernists, and in particular The Bloomsbury Group. Cameron was directly related to Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, because their mother, Julia Jackson (Cameron's famous model) was the daughter of Cameron's sister, Maria. In 1926, the Hogarth Press, which was set up by Woolf and her husband Leonard Woolf, published Julia Margaret Cameron: Victorian Photographs of Famous Men and Fair Women. Virginia Woolf contributed an introductory essay, as did Roger Fry, an influential Bloomsbury Group artist and art critic, and these were followed in the book by a series of plates illustrating Cameron's portraits and costumed tableaux. At the time, the press were publishing other revolutionary material including Woolf's own novels and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922). In 1939, Woolf proudly gave a signed copy of Victorian Photographs of Famous Men and Fair Women to the successful French photographer Gisèle Freund.
Cameron embraced the ambiguity around her portraits and cultivated it intentionally, making her a forerunner to the Pictorialist photographers, particularly Gertrude Kasiber and Heinrich Kühn, and also an inspiration to Surrealist photography thereafter. The blurry quality of Cameron's images, initially achieved by accident, began an ongoing debate on the nature of the medium of photography, and its ability, or not, to "see" the spiritual aspect of a person. The artist experienced gender-based criticism in her own lifetime when other photographers would say that she simply could not "master" photographic techniques and that this was probably because she was a woman. The point was that Cameron had no intention of mastering anything, she did not want to have authority over others. She said herself, "What is focus and who has the right to say what focus is the legitimate focus? From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour." Her gentle and inclusive approach to creation became an inspiration for subsequent generations of women artists to follow.
Indeed, she has provided huge influence to artists interested in creating a space of reciprocity in order to achieve the best photograph. Cameron was well renowned for asking strangers to model for her and Diane Arbus continued this same tradition. Recognizing that it is necessary for trust to be present in order to photograph children, mothers and babies, and other vulnerable figures, Cameron is a forerunner for sensitive photographers working with these subjects. For artist Imogen Cunningham, there has been and still is "no one better" than Cameron at portraying human likeness through the medium of photography.
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Sunderland Recovery College course member
Julie Cameron was a journalist working for OUI magazine when she interviewed Martin Scorsese in 1976. The interview led to marriage, a daughter ( Domenica) and divorce, all within a year! You can find out more about Julia here https://juliacameronlive.com/
Alone, with an infant, Julia tumbled into drink and drug addiction, both of which affected her ability to write. In a drastic step to pull herself out of her despair, Julia travelled in New Mexico with Domenica. It was whilst in New Mexico that Julia began to write what she would later call her 'morning pages.' These were three sides of handwritten stream of consciousness writing which are completed before anything else every morning. Julia has stated that the morning pages were the key tool that turned her life around.
Eventually, Julia would write about her experiences in the best selling The Artist's Way (1993), where she described her morning pages as helping her to clear the clutter from her mind and free her up to pursue her day in the same way as a morning shower clears sleep away from your body and sets you up for the day. For further discussion about morning pages visit http://agilelifestyle.net/morning-pages
In her book Walking in this World (2002) Julia pointsout that ‘there’s no pretending in morning pages … as I write, the light dawns – just as the sun comes up over the mountains – and more is revealed.’ Through this process Julia gets her ‘moments of insight, her glimpses into the why behind the what that I am living… they keep my consciousness scrubbed clean’ (p3). In talking about Julia's idea of morning pages with course members the thought of completing three sides of free form writing was deemed very daunting. Even so, one course member confirmed that 'I am not a morning person, but I have started writing in the mornings and when I'm having a bad time I write more. It is helping me.'
Julia goes on to confirm that when she wakes in the morning she reaches for her pen and morning pages journal. By doing this she 'dips her soul into her current life, noting what makes her agitated, what makes her irritable, what finds her excited, what feels like drudgery … it is a ritual, a way to start the day and a way to come clean before myself and God’ (p3). Julia sometimes describes the process of writing her morning pages as a form of meditation.
Morning pages, however, were only one tool in Julia's recovery box. She also advocates what she termed artist's dates by which she means a once a week hour slot where she explored the world in any way she felt. In the Artist's Way (1993) Julia commented that, ‘grounded in a sense of adventure and autonomy, the artist’s date is a once weekly, hour-long solo expedition to explore something festive or interesting to your creative consciousness’ (p9). Julia concludes by stating that if ‘morning pages are assigned work, then the artist’s date is assigned play.’
Ultimately, the artist's date is a process through which we can re-connect with ourselves and rediscover our creative inspiration. In my journaling courses over the years course members have found the idea of an artist's date very self-indigent and feel hesitant about scheduling them. Julia would argue that they are essential. One course member confirmed that 'journaling was helping her to put herself first, that she had now had more than three positive experiences for the first time ... it is something by me, for me.'' Equally, however, this course member does not like being on her own, so any artist's date she puts in her diary she will need to be accompanied. I don't think that being accompanied would diminish the benefits of an artist's date, what is important is that this course member does something inspirational and motivating that she chooses.
The third tool Julia identified is her weekly walk which she advises should be for 20 minutes. Julia credited walking with assisting her recovery. 'A day at a time, a walk at a time, even a simple step at a time, my sad and tangled life began to sort itself out. I say sort itself because all I did was walk through it. I have been walking ever since’ (p11).
In her book The Vein of Gold (1996) Julia developed her idea of a weekly walk by advocating walking more and dividing the weekly walks into three types (pp50-51). First of all she advocates a daily walk of around 20 minutes as a means to encourage flow in your life, flow derived from movement. Secondly, she advises making one of the daily walks longer for around an hour so that you give yourself more time to process the challenges of the week and seek clarity. A third approach to walking each week Julia suggests should be prayerful and that during this walk we express gratitude for everything in our lives that brings us joy.
In talking about these three tools with my Sunderland Recovery College course members they expressed understandable concern about going out walking alone. On their own initiative they decided that they wanted to try the walks, but arranged to meet each other and go out together. They chose a coastal walk between Roker and Seaburn on Sunderland sea front (see photograph above of the location) and found themselves caught up in a beach rescue only to discover it was a drill!
The course members, who have only just got to know each other, found that they shared a mutual understanding and offered support whilst out on their walk. The walk was relaxed, not rushed or completed to a timetable, and where they all felt at ease with each other and gelled well together. They have arranged to meet again for a second walk.
Julia's three tools for recovery are designed to help recover the creative spirit. Do not let this emphasis on 'artists' and 'creativity' put you off, the process is important in itself. Equally, Julia was brought up a Christian and in her writing she talks about her spiritual path, but this does not need to be restricted to any one form of spirituality, but instead to be part of a human being's wider experience of the wonder of the world and our place in it.
Megan Rutell was a self-confessed morning page sceptic, but once she had tried them out, her views changed. You can find out what she discovered by following this link
https://pageflutter.com/morning-pages/
Julia Cameron
'Journaling with Steve has helped me gain more than three consecutive positive experiences for the very first time.'
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