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MARIO ANDRETTI RACE EXPERIENCE | COMMUNITY CALENDAR | CROSSWORD
Howard
Burke
Winner of the
AFA’s Medal
of Merit
JANUARY 2013
seniortimesmagazine.com
INSIDE
PAINT IT BLUE
WINTER’S ROSE
Australian Artist Hopes
to Educate People
about Deforestation
Camellia’s Bloom
During the Cold
Months of Winter
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CONTENTS
JANUARY 2013 • VOL. 14 ISSUE 01
ON THE COVER – Ocala resident
Howard L. Burke is the executive vice
president and membership chairman
for the Ocala Air Force Association
chapter, No. 136. For his efforts with the
organization, Burke was awarded the
AFA’s Medal of Merit in November 2012.
PHOTO BY TJ MORRISSEY for LOTUS STUDIOS
departments
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Tapas
Senior Center
Calendar of Events
columns & opinion
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Theatre Listings
Crossword Puzzle
Reading Corner
21
Enjoying Act Three
by Ellis Amburn
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Embracing Life
by Donna Bonnell
features
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Winter’s Rose
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Checking off the
Bucket List
by Richard Dennison
Camellias Bloom During the Cold Months
BY DANA EDWARDS
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The Air Force Association
Keeping America No.1 in Air Power
BY ELLIS AMBURN
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Paint it Blue
Australian Artist Hopes to Educate People about Deforestation
BY AMANDA WILLIAMSON
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FROM THE EDITOR œ ALBERT ISAAC
Happy New Year!
So it’s 2013. How amazing it is to
be living in the 21st Century. And
how amazing it is to witness all of
our technological advances. During
the course of my grandmother’s life,
humankind leaped from the horse-andbuggy into the space age.
When I was a child we had one
black and white television with three
channels. We had one rotary phone
tethered to the wall, one transistor radio,
and one old record player, which gave us
an electrical shock on a regular basis.
Now I carry a device in my pocket
the size of a wallet that plays music and
videos, takes pictures and makes movies,
and can locate the whereabouts of my
family. It is a compass and a flashlight
and a level. You can play games on it.
And you can video chat with people
on the other side of the globe. And it
doesn’t shock me.
Eat your heart out Dick Tracy.
The rate of our technological
advances is increasing exponentially.
I only wish our intelligence and
compassion could follow suit. Imagine
what we could accomplish, with all of
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our resources and smarts, if we weren’t
so busy waging war and pillaging the
planet for material wealth.
But, it’s 2013 and we’re still here. The
world did not come to an end (as some
would have us believe) as predicted by
the Mayan calendar.
I wasn’t worried. For one thing, it was
simply the end of the Mayan calendar —
just as our calendar ends on December
31 — not the end of the world. Plus, the
popular psychic John Edward said, “Don’t
spend all your money.” The world is not
coming to an end. He sees good things
coming. He sees 2013 as a great time to
plan to reinvent yourself, your thought
patterns, to restructure your beliefs, and
become more spiritually aware.
I’m ready for good things, especially
in light of the horrific events that fill
the headlines. I’m hopeful that the
New Year will bring good tidings. And
despite the horrific news, I do believe
most of us are good. It only takes one
lunatic to ruin the lives of innumerable
innocent people.
I’m ready for a fundamental shift
in awareness, and I pray that it comes
sooner than later. I have no idea how
to help make such a thing occur, but I
suspect it should start with me.
So for the New Year, I should strive to
put my money where my mouth is, so to
speak, and work harder at my job and on
my personal relationships. I should be
more forgiving and more grateful. And
I should let the shortcomings of others
inspire me to work on my own.
Cheers! s
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TAPAS œ JANUARY
World’s First
Canned Beer
FIFTY DAYS
OF FRISBEE
The Frisbee was first released by toy company
Wham-O in 1957 after Frederick Morrison sold the
company his plastic flying disc called “Pluto Platter.”
More than 25 years later, Prince George’s Community
College Club in Largo, Md. created the world group marathon
record for Frisbee play after playing for 1,198 hours, which is nearly 50 days.
— WFDF.ORG AND HISTORY.COM
BLINDED BY THE LIGHT
Three physicists at MIT created a new optical
imaging system that records images so
quickly that it can track the movement of
light. This streak camera shoots light particles
through a horizontal, narrow slit (unlike typical
cameras) to create a slow motion video of light
moving across the object in the field of view,
resembling a spotlight.
The camera can only produce videos of
traditional, two-dimensional images for events
repeated millions of times, moving the streak camera slightly each time, making this camera “the
world’s slowest, fastest camera.” With a price tag of $250,000 and its inability to capture movement
of light in everyday life, don’t count on adding this camera to your collection any time soon.
ENERGIZE YOUR LIFE
Second-place winner of the 2010 Greener Gadgets Competition, the Empower
chair offers a comfortable seat and soothing rocking motion that creates
kinetic energy to power your electronic devices. The chair, created by
Ryan Klinger and made from recycled materials, is a portable
sling seat that folds out to a glider-style rocking chair. Designed
for public areas such as airports, cafes and waiting rooms, the
chair’s hinges are connected to a kinetic energy generator and a
lithium ion battery that stores energy every time you swing.
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It was 78 years ago
this month that the first
canned beer, produced
by partnering companies
Gottfried Krueger Brewing
Company and the American
Can Company, made
its debut in America.
According to History.
com, American Can first
attempted to can beer in
1909 but was unsuccessful.
The company then had
to wait for the end of
Prohibition before they
could continue perfecting
canned beer.
After two years of
research, American
Can developed a
pressurized can
that had a coating
to prevent beer from
reacting with the tin.
In 1935, the companies
delivered 2,000 cans of
Krueger’s Finest Beer
and Krueger’s Cream
Ale to “faithful Krueger
drinkers” in Richmond,
Va., where 91 percent of
drinkers approved the
canned beer. This approval
helped Krueger further
their production of canned
beers, leading companies
like Anheuser-Busch, Pabst
and Schlitz to follow in their
footsteps. By the end of
1935, over 200 million cans
of beer had been sold.
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72
Years Old
Faye Dunaway
BORN JANUARY 14, 1941
Dorothy Faye Dunaway was born in Bascom, Fla. to an Army officer
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father
fathe and a homemaker mother, according to biography.com. After
graduating high school in 1958, Dunaway enrolled at the University of
Florida to pursue a degree in education, but later transferred to Boston
University’s School of Fine and Applied Arts. Since graduating in 1962,
Dunaway has taken on theater roles, television roles and several movie
roles that launched her into Hollywood stardom.
Dunaway got her first big break into the Hollywood scene in 1967
when she landed the lead role of bank robber Bonnie Parker in “Bonnie
and Clyde.” A year later she starred in “The Thomas Crown Affair”
alongside Steve McQueen.
As her career progressed, Dunaway began taking on more complex
roles including the troubled wife Evelyn Mulwray in “Chinatown” (1974)
and Joan Crawford in “Mommie Dearest” (1981). She continued movie
roles throughout the ‘90s and since then made several television
appearances including “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” in 2006 and
“Grey’s Anatomy” in 2009.
A FEW OTHER NOTABLE
Birthdays this Month
Neil Diamond
January 24, 1941 (72)
“Being a star is an
agent’s dream, not
an actor’s.”
Luise Rainer
Rip Taylor
January 12, 1910 (103)
January 13, 1934 (79)
David Bowie
Kenny Loggins
January 8, 1947 (66)
January 7, 1948 (65)
82
Years Old
— ROBERT DUVALL
Actor and director Robert Selden Duvall
was born on January 5, 1931 in San
Diego, California. During the late 1950,
Duvall began appearing in theater,
moving into television and film roles
during the early 1960s in such works as
“To Kill a Mockingbird” (1962) (as Boo
Radley) and “Captain Newman, M.D.”
(1963). He landed many of his most
famous roles during the early 1970s.
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SENIOR RECREATION CENTER
A Historical Survey
of American Music
The Foundation for the Promotion of
Music in partnership with the Senior
Recreation Center is offering a free 10week musical journey that will explore
a wide range of genres from psalmody in
New England to Broadway Musicals.
Cheryl Poe, president of the Foundation for the Promotion of Music for the
past three years, said the Foundation has
been around since 1974. The Foundation’s four goals for Gainesville and the
surrounding area are honoring outstanding musicians, recognizing superior
student musicians, encouraging the
study of music and presenting programs
of interest to the community.
Poe said that the State of Florida
Federation of Music Clubs offered a
$1,000 grant to any of the smaller clubs
in the State that would be willing to start
a new program in the community that
would reach additional populations.
“We thought this was a great idea,”
Poe said. “And since the Senior Center
is relatively new, this would be a good
opportunity to find another population
to outreach.”
Recently retired UF Professor David
Kushner helped develop the curriculum,
featuring local live musicians
demonstrating the various genres.
“I think it’s going to be great!” Poe said.
Sessions will be held every Tuesday
afternoon from 1:00-3:00pm beginning
January 22, 2013. Refreshments will be
served. All are welcome! (Your “ID” will
not be checked at the door.)
The Alachua County Senior Recreation
Center is located at 5701 NW 34th Street
in Gainesville. For more information, call
352-265-9040.
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CAMELLIA CHRISTMAS
Winter’s Rose
Camellias Bloom During the Cold Months
by Dana Edwards
W
hile other flowers and
trees lose their leaves
and petals during the
colder months, fragrant camellias burst
through the dull brown colors adding
pinks, whites and reds to the winter lull.
The local Gainesville Camellia
Society hosts its annual camellia show
in January to celebrate the blooms of
the winter flower. This year, the society
will host its show January 5-6 at the
Kanapaha Botanical Gardens.
Camellia enthusiasts can enter their
blooms at 7:30 a.m. for the contest, with
prompt judging at 10 a.m. The general
public can view the prize-winning camellias from 1-5 p.m. on January 5 and
from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. on January 6. Plants
will be sold and all proceeds go to the
Gainesville Camellia Society. The show
aims to educate locals about the care,
culture and appreciation of camellias.
“It’s a big deal for us,” said Nancy Collins, treasurer for the Gainesville Camellia Society. “We have more than 1,000
blooms and people from all over attend.”
Collins said most attendees and
contest entrants are local, but quite a
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few come from different cities in Florida
as well as from other states such as
Georgia and Alabama. She said some of
the attendees go to shows from different
states throughout the year.
Camellias are an easy-to-grow winter
plant with minimal care. With an affinity
With more than 400 named species,
the camellias that grow best in Florida
are the Camellia japonica, Camellia sasanqua and hybrids of these two. Japonica camellias grow larger and more robust
than the sasanqua camellias. Both are
used as landscape shrubs. Some species
“Camellias are often underutilized. They grow
so well when most plants don’t and they are
such carefree, easy-to-grow plants.”
for the colder climates, camellias grow
well in central and northern Florida
away from the sandy beaches. The plant
was introduced to other parts of the
world by the Asian countries. More than
30 varieties of the flower were exported
to Europe in the 18th century, and the
flower was brought to New England
America in 1797. The oldest camellia
japonica plants can be found in cities in
Portugal, Germany and Italy. Though
perfect for America’s southern winters,
camellia varieties have been cultivated
for New England, the Pacific Northwestern and even Canadian winters.
of camellias can grow to the size of a tree
if left to grow without much pruning.
These easy-to-grow flowers require
well-drained soil with an acidic pH. If
these ideal conditions do not exist, it is
best to grow camellias in large containers. However, camellias do well in
most inland areas of North and Central
Florida. The flowers bloom generally
in October through December, though
depending on the species the blooms
can last for a short or long period of time
going into the January through March
timeframe. Species that bloom from
November through January are best in
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PHOTO COURTESY OF COLEEN DEGROFF
Each year, the Gainesville Camellia Society hosts its annual camellia show to celebrate the blooms of the winter flower. After judging, the best blooms
are moved to a convention table, but all of the camellias are left for public viewing.
Florida’s temperamental winters.
“Camellias are often underutilized,”
said Sydney Park Brown, an associate
tion and should be planted at least five
feet apart. To start growing camellias,
Brown suggests starting the growth in
With an immense camellia heritage rooted in the
legacy of Wilmot, Gainesville holds an historic
and geographic appeal for camellia enthusiasts.
professor and extension specialist of
consumer horticultural sciences at the
University of Florida. “They grow so
well when most plants don’t and they
are such carefree, easy- to-grow plants. I
find them very rewarding.”
Brown said all she does when planting
camellias is fertilize a new plant one to
two times a year with light watering and
pruning. Sandy soil is not ideal. Camellias prefer shady areas with air circula-
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the fall so the roots can develop during
the winter. It can take about half a year
for the plants to become established.
Few pests affect camellias, but the
most common bugs include tea scale,
aphids and spider mites. Scales eat the
underside of camellia leaves. It is possible they might not be noticed until a
large amount has developed. Aphids
suck juices from young camellia leaves,
leaving them distorted. The insect also
produces a sticky solution that mold
enjoys, leaving an unpleasant sight to
the leaves. Spider mites are also found
on the underside of the camellia leaves
during hot, dry environments with poor
air circulation and little rainfall.
Diseases that can affect camellias
include leaf spot, dieback, leaf and bud
gall, and root rot. Leaf spots are as large
or small as the fungi causing the issue.
Little damage is left behind on leaves.
Dieback occurs during the spring when
new shoots wilt and die. Leaf and bud
gall appear as thick, enlarged leaves or
buds during cooler springs.
Young leaves of other camellia species
are also processed for tea. The edible oil
from camellia seeds has been used in the
Chinese culture for cooking. The beverage can be consumed hot or cold and
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Wilmot Gardens represents one of the University of Florida’s earliest horticultural efforts, originally developed to honor Royal J. “Roy” Wilmot. Today, Wilmot Gardens is being restored to become a healing and meditation garden for patients, students, faculty and staff and the greater Gainesville community.
has been known to possess properties
that can help vascular function, immune
system strength and inhibit tumor-formation among other benefits, according
to livestrong.com.
Camellias can grow in six recognized
ways: single form, semi-double form,
anemone form, peony form, formal
double form and rose form double, according to Brown’s article “Camellias at a
Glance.” Displays of camellia collections
in Florida are located at Harry P. Leu
Gardens in Orlando, Bok Tower Gardens
in Lake Wales and Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park in Tallahassee.
UF’s roughly four-acre Wilmot Gardens hosts camellias, the favorite plant of
the horticulturalist for which the gardens
are named: Royal J. “Roy” Wilmot. Wilmot classified many of the 3,000 known
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camellia varieties in the 1940s and was an
authority on the flower. He founded the
American Camellia Society in 1946.
The gardens were once the largest
publicly owned collection of camellias
in the country, according to the Wilmot
Gardens website. The so-called UF
“secret garden” by Mowry Road and
Gale Lemerand Drive has been a hidden treasure overgrown with vines and
weeds over the years. Due to an infestation of southern pine beetles in 2006,
80 percent of the Wilmot Gardens pine
trees died. This prevented much-needed
shade for the camellias.
Additionally, hurricane winds
brought down the dead trees, and kudzu
and air potato vines harmed the camellias growing in the gardens. From the
nearly 500 species of camellias and
azaleas growing in the gardens in 1940s,
about 70 specimens remain -– some still
labeled with their metal tags from nearly
60 years earlier.
Currently, the gardens are undergoing
a $40,000 restoration project for a healing and meditation garden for Gainesville locals and Shands patients to enjoy.
UF is currently not conducting research
on camellias, Brown said.
With an immense camellia heritage
rooted in the legacy of Wilmot, Gainesville holds an historic and geographic
appeal for camellia enthusiasts. Those
wishing to more fully appreciate Gainesville’s natural charm for these winter
blossoms are encouraged to try their hand
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COLUMN œ ELLIS AMBURN
Enjoying
Act Three
Lillian Gish
L
illian Gish starred in three of
my favorite movies: “Miss Susie
Slagle’s,” “Duel in the Sun,” and “Night
of the Hunter.”
I saw them all when I was quite young,
decades before Miss Gish and I met.
On that occasion I told her how much
I admired her, after introducing myself
at a cocktail party in the late 1970s in the
East Side Manhattan condo shared by
theatrical lawyer L. Arnold Weissberger
and ICM agent Milton Goldman, two of
my closest friends.
Lillian Gish was
as gracious in person
as she was on screen,
serenely personifying
what Walt Whitman
would call “the grandeur and exquisiteness of old age.”
Her reserved,
rather enigmatic air I
found altogether appealing, though I was disappointed she
didn’t pick up on my cues to talk about
working with Robert Mitchum in “Night
of the Hunter,” or with Jennifer Jones,
Lionel Barrymore, Gregory Peck, and
Butterfly McQueen in “Duel in the Sun.”
Perhaps understandably, she was
more interested in discussing the
memoir she’d published in 1969 about
film director D.W. Griffith and herself.
Together they’d established the “the
grammar of movies,” as she called it.
She met Griffith around 1912 when
she and her teenage sister Dorothy
visited their friend Mary Pickford at
Biograph studios in New York. D.W.
Griffith chased the sisters “all over,” she
said. “We were terrified until we found
out he was D.W. and that was his way of
giving us a screen test.”
Griffith put both Gish sisters under contract, and soon realized that
in Lillian he had found the muse who
would inspire his
masterpieces. In 1915
he made her “the
queen of the silents”
by starring her in the
first feature-length
movie — and first
blockbuster — “The
Birth of a Nation.”
Rumor had it they
were lovers, but she
said, “I don’t fall in
love. Always been too
busy working. To me,
marriage is a business. I don’t see how
any woman could combine career and
marriage. I’m so glad I didn’t try it — I
would have destroyed some poor man.”
The main loves of her life were her
mother and sister. When the girls were
young, their father James Gish abandoned
the family. Afterward, neither Lillian nor
her mother trusted men, but Dorothy, who
went to work at the age of four, would
marry an actor name James Rennie.
Lillian had her share of suitors, and the-
ater critic George Jean Nathan said, “She
was desired by more discriminating men
than any other woman who ever lived.”
She once made the mistake of getting involved with a man who tried to take over
her business affairs, and had to go to court
to get rid of him. She never married.
Her career faltered in the sound era,
her wistful, virginal appeal at odds with
the hard-edged, peroxided glamour of
the talkies. When she slipped back into
films in her forties, she invariably played
characters twice her age.
She was in her mid-eighties when
I met her at Arnold and Milton’s.
Wearing a neatly tailored navy-blue
suit, she was still blessed with a smooth,
unlined face, and she looked no more
than a well-preserved 60.
One of the performances she was
proudest of was the starring role in Horton Foote’s original TV play “The Trip
to Bountiful.” When it proved a hit, she
asked the playwright to promise he’d
never let any other actress play the part.
He broke his promise when he got a
chance to film “Bountiful” with Geraldine Page, the first lady of the American
theatre. Ms. Page won the best-actress
Academy Award for “Bountiful,” a prize
denied Miss Gish, though she did receive an honorary Oscar in 1971.
In the late 1990s, I met Horton when I
was in Hollywood to write Elizabeth Taylor’s biography. At dinner one night Horton
said, “Lillian and I remained friends.”
Miss Gish was that kind of lady.
Born in 1893, she died in 1993, the
last surviving member of the small
group of pioneers who established
movies as an art form. To date, she
remains the only movie star whose
selling point was purity. s
Involved daily in volunteer community service, Ellis Amburn, a High Springs resident,
is the author of biographies of Roy Orbison,
Elizabeth Taylor, and others. He can be
reached at [email protected].
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AIM HIGH
The Air Force
Association
Keeping America No.1 in Air Power
by Ellis Amburn
T
he Air Force Association,
which has a chapter in Ocala,
is proud that it is older than
the U.S. Air Force itself.
Founded in 1946, the AFA was to
promote the cause of a separate Air
Force, which had always been part
of the U.S. Army. On September 18,
1947, the Air Force at last achieved its
independence and officially became an
autonomous branch of the United States
Armed Forces.
The Ocala AFA chapter, No. 136, has
Howard L. Burke as its executive vice
president and membership chairman,
and he is the 2012 winner of the AFA’s
Medal of Merit.
“It’s for my service to the organization over the past seven or eight years,”
he said in a telephone interview.
Mike Emig, AFA’s Florida president,
presented the medal at Ocala International Airport’s administration building
on November 15. “Only five were presented in our state,” he wrote in a press
release. In addition, Florida was named
the outstanding state in the AFA at the
national convention in Washington, D.C.
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“All active members of the AFA are
to be congratulated for an outstanding
job,” Emig said. “Members make our
organization work. If you care about air
defense you too can join the AFA.”
“The Ocala chapter is named after the
Tuskegee Airmen, the African-American
fighter pilots of World War II,” Burke
explained. “They painted the tails of
their P-58 Mustangs red so American
bomber pilots would know they were
ours. We had four Tuskegee Airmen.
Force, and I’m a retired Vietnam vet.”
Burke entered the service in 1959 at
Dyess AFB, Texas. During the Vietnam
War he was a jet-engine mechanic, servicing such large planes as the B-47, KC
135, and B-52.
According to The Red Tail Report,
Burke “kept B-52s flying from Guam
when the first bombing missions were
launched there in 1965. In Guam he met
Brig. Gen. Jimmy Stewart, who flew a
mission over Vietnam.”
“Fighting men were not ‘in for the duration’ of
the war as they had been in World War I and
World War II but served for fixed tours of duty.”
Now we’re down to one — Steve Lawrence, who lives in Gainesville.”
In the September 2012 Red Tail
Report, Emig praised Burke for helping
him keep membership at 538, recruiting
new prospects, and creating and staffing
informational displays at veterans’ and
civic events.
“I was born in Baltimore, Maryland,”
Burke said. “I had 20 years in the Air
Marc Eliot’s biography “Jimmy Stewart” related, “Stewart volunteered to lead
a B-52 bombing raid out of Guam… after
which he visited every American air base
in South Vietnam and Thailand.”
In 1966, Burke pulled TDY in Thailand as part of Operation Rolling Thunder, destroying North Vietnamese roads
and fuel supplies, according to This Day
in History website. President Lyndon B.
PHOTO COURTESY THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
Fighter ace Francis Gabby Gabreski. In March of
1943, Gabreski became part of the legendary 56th
Fighter Group, which flew an airplane that, in
later versions, became one of the most feared
fighters by the enemy — the P-47 Thunderbolt.
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND
RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
Clarence M. “Bob” Logsdon (shorter man in foreground) and Allen Q.
Nations (directly behind Logsdon)
watch as a B-25 leaves the deck of
Hornet on 18 April, 1942. Nations
perished at the battle of Santa
Cruz Islands when a Japanese
“Val” dive bomber crashed into the
Hornet’s signal bridge. Logsdon
survived and in 2001 related “the
death of the Hornet” in Robert Ballard’s (who found the Titanic) book,
“Graveyards of the Pacific.”
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PHOTO BY LUCY BURKE
RIGHT: Ocala’s Red Tail Memorial Chapter of the Air Force Association
celebrated one of its own when Howard Burke, left, received AFA’s
National Medal of Merit, which was announced in Washington, D.C.
Florida AFA president Mike Emig, right, made the presentation at the
Ocala International Airport in November, praising Burke for his recruiting
efforts and other services benefitting Red Tail Memorial chapter 136,
which exists to keep America the strongest air power in the world.
Johnson personally chose targets for the
643,000 tons of bombs that devastated
North Vietnam between 1965-1968.
“I was a jet-engine supervisor for
KC-135 operations stationed at Takhli
RTAFB in Thailand,” Burke said. Lighter
moments included meeting troop entertainers Arthur Godfrey and Gene Autry.
Returning to the States in 1967, Burke
was soon ordered back to the front. As
Philip Caputo explained in “10,000 Days
of Thunder,” “Fighting men were not ‘in
for the duration’ of the war as they had
been in World War I and World War II but
served for fixed tours of duty of one year.”
In 1968, Burke supported Operation
Arc Light’s B-52 bombardments over
Vietnam, returning in 1969, 1970 and
1972. He was in Guam for Operation
Linebacker, one purpose of which was
to decimate enemy railroad bridges from
Hanoi to the Chinese border.
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Eleven North Vietnamese MIGs and
two U.S. F-4s were downed in air-to-air
combat on Operation Linebacker’s first
day, which included 120 sorties. The No.
1 ace of the war was Capt. Charles B.
DeBellevue, who shot down six MIGs,
Air Force History
On December 17, 1903, Orville and
Wilbur Wright pioneered aviation at
Kitty Hawk, N.C. On August 2, 1909, the
Wright brothers delivered their first
airplane, the Wright Model A Military
“On Dec. 20, 1943, Jimmy led the 445th on a
blistering all-out attack on the German port cities
of Bremen and Kiel. They were met with strong
aerial resistance from the German Luftwaffe.”
according to the Air Force website.
Returning to civilian life, Burke
moved to Florida in 1980 and settled in
Ocala to work for Lockheed Martin. He
and his wife Lucy have seven children
and 13 grandchildren. Burke soon
joined the AFA to maintain his closeness to the Air Force.
Flyer, to the U.S. War Department. It
cost $30,000, cruised at 42 mph, and
could remain aloft an hour.
Christened Signal Corps No. 1, the
plane was assigned to 1st Lt. Benjamin
Delahauf Foulois. Born in 1897, Foulois fought in Army campaigns in the
Philippines and operated the U.S.’s first
PHOTO COURTESY OF UNITED STATES AIR CORPS
According to Air Force Historical Studies Office, in December 1909, Brig. Gen. James Allen summoned 1st Lt. Foulois to his office and informed him
that he was to become the sole flyer of the newly acquired Wright military airplane, designated Signal Corps No. 1. “Take plenty of spare parts,” he
told the young officer, “and teach yourself to fly.”
dirigible balloon. Orville took “Foo-loy”
on his first flight July 30, 1909, covering 10 miles from Fort Myer, Virginia to
Alexandria, Virginia.
In World War I Foulois was named
Chief of Air Services, American Expeditionary Forces, and ultimately Chief
of the Air Corps. Edward V. “Eddie”
Rickenbacker. Rickenbacker shot down
26 German aircraft to become the war’s
No. 1 ace.
Between the two world wars, the Air
Corps’ peacetime hero was senior officer Billy Mitchell, who denounced the
Army’s reluctance to embrace new aerial
technology and was court-martialed in
1925. His courage and persistence, however, paved the way for the Air Force’s
coming of age during World War II.
At the outbreak of hostilities in 1941 the
Air Force had only a few hundred planes;
by the end of the war it boasted 80,000.
The flying ace of WWII was Pennsylvania’s Lt. Col. Francis S. “Gabby”
Gabreski, who described his 28 kills,
many of them in Spitfire dogfights with
Nazi Luftwaffe, in “Gabby.” After scoring
several double- and triple victories, he
was captured by Germans. Rescued by
U.S. planes, he fought again in Korea,
attacking MIGs in his F-86 Sabre jet and
adding 6.5 victories to his record.
One of the key turning points of
WWII, “Doolittle’s Raid,” was unleashed
in early 1942 by Lt. Col. James H.
“Jimmy” Doolittle, a daredevil racer and
test pilot, who executed the U.S. Navy’s
gutsy plan to bomb Tokyo just months
after Pearl Harbor. His autobiography
“I Could Never Be So Lucky Again” described how 85 volunteer airmen trained
at Florida’s Eglin AFB to launch 16 fully
loaded B-25 Mitchell twin-engine medium bombers from the cramped deck of
the aircraft carrier USS Hornet.
Jimmy Stewart led many WWII
bombing missions, according to Marc
Eliot’s biography, which recounts
the Oscar-winning star’s exploits
as commander of a B-24 Liberator
stationed in England.
“On December 20, 1943, Jimmy led
the 445th on a blistering all-out attack
on the German port cities of Bremen
and Kiel,” Eliot wrote. “They were met
with strong aerial resistance from the
German Luftwaffe.”
Later, Stewart participated in a midnight raid that trashed 50 Nazi aircraft.
On a mission near Paris, his squadron
was attacked by 60 Messerschmitt and
Focke-Wulfs, but he succeeded in getting his crews back to Britain.
He barely survived a crash landing
after his plane was damaged by flak, but
he continued to undertake perilous misJanuary 2013
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PHOTO COURTESY OF UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
Major General James H. Doolittle, a pioneer in American airpower, whose influences in aviation spanned six decades.
sions, including the bombing of Berlin,
until grounded by a nervous breakdown,
known in battle as shellshock. General
Henry H. “Hap” Arnold, then chief of
staff of the Second Air Division, promoted Stewart to lieutenant colonel, and
later Stewart would become a brigadier
general in the Reserve.
A visionary U.S. President, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, hastened the end of the war
in Europe by approving the Air Force’s
strategic bombing raid in February 1945.
Dresden was leveled and 25,000 killed,
thanks to B-17s equipped with new technology including radar-guided bombing
and the Norden bomb sight, according
to the Air Force website.
In the Pacific, low-flying B-29 napalm
bombing raids devised by Gen. Curtis
LeMay wiped out the Japanese economy, not to mention 84,000 civilians and
250,000 buildings in the 1944 test raid
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alone, as stated in the website The Firebombing of Japan.
The final blow came not from Air
Force brass but from the White House.
Both Generals Carl Spaatz and Hap
Arnold were against using the atomic
bomb. The orders to incinerate Hiroshima and Nagasaki were issued by President Harry S. Truman and his Secretary
of War Henry Stimson in 1945, with the
result that 140,000 died in Hiroshima,
74,000 in Nagasaki. The Air Force had
changed human history forever.
General Arnold oversaw the aerial
wars on both fronts. Born in 1886, Arnold was trained by the Wright Brothers
in a biplane. At the end of WWII, pushing for Air Force independence from
the Army, he shrewdly enlisted the help
of such popular heroes as Stewart and
Doolittle to get the Air Force Association off the ground.
Stewart and Doolittle flew to New
York for the AFA conference in January
1946, at which Doolittle announced the
new organization would have nationwide
chapters, publish a magazine, and organize educational programs. In March,
charter members Stewart, Ronald Reagan
and Jack L. Warner put together a coastto-coast radio broadcast to draw public
attention to the upcoming Air Force Day
scheduled for August 1, 1947.
Eventually the AFA would
accumulate 200 chapters in 49 states, as
well as England and foreign countries,
with 117,000 members, 15 percent still
on active duty.
Present-day AFA
Ocala membership ranges in age from
Seniors to college students, including
ROTC cadets from the Arnold Air Society at the University of Florida.
Air Force Evolution
1907: Originally part of the Army’s Aeronautical Division, Signal Corps.
1914: Became the Aviation Section, Signal Corps
1918: Renamed the Division of Military Aeronautics.
1918 to 1926: Became the U.S. Army Air Service.
1926 to 1941: The U.S. Army Air Corps
1941 to 1947: The U.S. Army Air Forces
“We also have two famous U.S.
Congressmen, Cliff Stearns and Rich
Nugent,” Burke noted.
According to its website, the AFA’s
purpose is to make the Air Force the
dominant arm of the U.S. military, and to
“honor airmen and our Air Force heritage.” This message it spreads through
Air Force Magazine; the General Billy
Mitchell Institute for Airpower Studies; and such national conventions as
the Annual Air & Space Conference and
Technology Exposition.
Top issues for 2013, the AFA stated
on its website, are preparing airmen
and taking care of veterans; revitalizing
the aging AF fleet; securing space and
cyberspace; strengthening both nuclear
power and deterrence; and promoting
education, especially science and math.
Above all, the AFA wants to keep the
U.S. Air Force the strongest airpower in
the world, which it has been since World
War II. Its current strength, including
Guard and Reserve, is 680,000, the Air
Force website estimated. Wikipedia
stated that 329,000 of those were on active duty, a figure that Chief of Staff Gen.
Norton Schwartz soon hopes to grow to
350,000, according to Air Force Times.
Hurricane Sandy demonstrated the
need for a cutting-edge Air Force in both
war and peace. The Air Force website
reported that three C-17s and dozens
of aircrews flew around the clock to
deliver 630 tons of relief supplies and 69
vehicles to stricken areas in New York
and New Jersey.
On a smaller scale, Howard Burke recently undertook a project that involved
constructing Vietnam-era aircraft models
to recruit new members and to educate
the public about aerospace power.
“I try to keep in touch with every
member in our chapter and remind
them when their membership is due,”
Burke said. “We need more members to
get involved in our activities.”
Every bit helps when you want to be
the strongest air force on the planet. s
For more information on the Air Force
Association, contact Mike Emig at
352-854-8326 or [email protected].
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COLUMN œ DONNA BONNELL
Embracing
Life
The Significance of Symbols
- Happy New Year!
If you are reading this column, we
are celebrating the New Year — 2013.
There were many hypotheses projecting
the demise of the world on 12-12-12 or
12-21-12. Fortunately, those theories were
incorrect and the numbers were simply
symbols standing for a date in history.
Properly composed text has played a
significant role in my life. Until recently, I
never gave much thought to symbols that
communicate information uninhibited
by language barriers. Languages contain
characters that can be drastically
different in the written form. Above are
Chinese logograms, which are visual
symbols representing words. According
to goodcharacters.com, they mean
“Happy New Year.” Chinese logograms
are not common knowledge in the United
States or other parts of the world.
Universal symbols, however, leave
little room for misinterpretation. Do you
recognize any of the following?
(Clockwise from Top Left: Toilets, First
Aid, Air Transportation, Taxi, Customs
and Restaurants.) Any traveler knows
the global importance of their simplicity.
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A symbol is something that
represents an idea, a process, or a
physical entity. We use symbols every
day, especially when driving. The shape
of a road sign in the distance sends us
an alert. Most all seniors memorized
these common shapes years ago for the
dreaded safe driver’s exam:
Octagon: Stop
Triangle: Yield
Pennant: No Passing Zone
Diamond: Hazard
Vertical Rectangle: Regulatory
Pentagon: School and School Crossing
Round: Railroad Advance Warning
Crossbuck: Railroad crossing.
The objective for the creator of a
symbol is quick communication of
a specific message. British designer,
Gerald Holtom, achieved that goal when
he created what is probably the single
most represented image in the world —
The Peace Sign. It was conceived as a
visual plea to end the atomic arms race
that started with the devastating attack
on Hiroshima during World War II.
Since it first appeared in the 1950s,
the peace symbol has taken on a
multitude of new meanings. Although
all of us baby boomers grew up with the
famous protest symbol, its message in
cross-generational. Our children and
grandchildren may not know its original
meaning, but they know it stands for
good things. Which brings us to the
question: When should we consider a
new symbol, representing a new era?
Some folks believe the time to move
forward is now.
Carl Le Blond, a current creator
of powerful visual content on issues
from HIV/AIDS to climate change,
introduced a new symbol to the world —
The People’s Cube.
The circle is the most common sign,
found in all cultures. Circles represent
unity, wholeness, infinity and the
number one. It has no beginning or end;
no sides or corners.
I cannot think of a better universal
symbol than The Olympic Rings!
According to the International
Olympic Committee, “The five rings
represent the five continents. They
are interlaced to show the universality
of Olympism and the meeting of the
athletes of the whole world during the
Olympic Games.”
His goal was to emphasize people
coming together in an organized way to
build strong global harmony. Le Blond
said, “The people’s cube is on first sight
solid, and immovable from every way
that you look at it. It has the simplicity
and latent strength of a perfect
molecular structure. Though in this
case, the molecules bonding together
are symbolic of people standing together
with their arms locked to form a symbol
of strength and unity.”
The new symbol looks good. Its
meaning is less obvious than the peace
symbol, which remains a vivid example
of what a symbol should do. I do think
there is a room for something that
symbolizes strength in unity. The more
positive messages we send the better off
Mother Earth and her inhabitants will be.
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THE BLUES
Paint it Blue
Australian Artist Hopes to Educate
People about Deforestation
by Amanda Williamson
S
trange blue trees appeared
recently on the University of
Florida campus.
People pause their daily commute to
class, admire the trees and wonder why
they have suddenly donned the blue
coat: a tribute to the football season,
homage to the coming winter months?
It is in these moments of reflection
that Australian artist Konstantin Dimopoulos knows he has accomplished what
he set out to do.
His project, “Blue Trees,” attempts to
draw attention to the issue of deforestation. Blue Trees started in Melbourne
in 2005, and then included Vancouver,
Sacramento and Seattle. In total, Dimopoulos has transformed trees in nine
cities, and plans to continue on to New
York, Houston and Boston.
“Though we are passionate about our
trees, though we care about our trees,
that passion does not get translated,”
Dimopoulos said. “In order for people to
see the forests, I had to get people to see
the trees.”
Claiming not be an environmentalist,
but an artist, he paints the trees a startling sapphire blue. The coloring naturally washes away after a period of time and
does not harm the trees in the process.
“The reality is that there are no blue
trees. Blue trees don’t exist. They are a
part of my imagination,” Dimopoulos
said, using the color to draw attention
to the trees.
He remembers watching a mother
and daughter walk past a newly colored tree, and the daughter ran from
her mother to hug the tree, shouting,
“Mom, a blue tree!” Dimopoulos said he
believes that was the first time the child
truly saw the tree.
“Art is everything,” Dimopoulos said.
“We can sell the idea of getting people to
smoke, and that will kill them. You can
use art to do the opposite — to do things
that are good for you.”
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010, deforestation shows signs
of decreasing in some countries, but
continues at a high rate in others. Between 2000 and 2010, approximately 35
million acres of forests was converted to
other uses. The world currently contains
9.98 billion acres of forested lands.
When people think of deforestation,
they are usually thinking of the far-off
trees of the Amazon or other old growth
forests, said Dr. Michael Andreu, an
associate professor of Forest Systems
at the University of Florida’s College
of Forest Resources and Conservation.
These untrammeled places tend to be
exploited for their timber by local farmers, instead of large corporations.
The farmers harvest the timber and
usually use the recently exposed soil
to plant crops or raise cattle to support
their families. With lush rainforests
PHOTO BY ALEX WHITESIDE
For the next several months, students, teachers and visitors will see trees painted blue on the UF campus. Australian artist Konstantin Dimopoulos
painted the trees in October to bring attention to the plight of deforestation.
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PHOTOS BY ALEX WHITESIDE
AND AMANDA WILLIAMSON
“It’s striking,” said Chelsea Moehlenbrock, an
exercise physiology major at the University of
Florida. She was admiring the trees with Inna
Dagman. The two noticed the blue branches
sticking up from the opposite side of the Reitz
Union as they approached the building.
blossoming over the land, people tend to
think the soil underneath is fertile, but
Andreu said the dirt is usually very poor.
Because of the poor conditions,
families are forced to move, starting the
process over again.
“This is one giant ecosystem that we
live in,” Andreu said. Because of that,
remote deforestation affects everyone on
the planet, even those within the United
States, through reduced air quality and
biodiversity. As trees are harvested and
the pulp burned, the process releases
carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The
increased levels of carbon dioxide speed
the process of climate change, which
cause sea levels to rise and weather pattern changes.
As forests are destroyed, the animals
that call those habitats home become
displaced and can eventually become
extinct. However, these ecosystems are
still being explored, and new species are
discovered.
“We don’t know what we are losing,”
Andreu said. “There are a whole lot of
genetic resources that we may not have
access to because of deforestation.”
But what about closer to home?
America actually went through a period
of deforestation until about the 1930s.
“As we moved into the 1950s and
beyond, we started to recognize here in
Florida that we couldn’t continue down
that path,” he said. “We knew we had to
manage our forests, and we started to
replant.”
Now, Florida has more forests than it
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“I’m a scientist. We don’t always tell stories well.
We’re good at gathering information. Most of
the people in the world are not scientists, and
they can relate to ideas through art.”
tion process America did centuries ago.
Andreu considers how to manage
forests in a rapidly urbanizing environment. In recent years, city planners have
been trying to include trees and vegetation into the development of a city, a
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trend that has become known as “green
infrastructure.”
It is a big concern, he said, because
of the services forests provide, such as
permeable surfaces that allow rainwater to percolate through the soil and
replenish the aquifer. In areas with large
amounts of homes and concrete, most of
the ground becomes impermeable.
To teach people how forests matter,
Andreu asks his students to create a diary in which they record everything they
do during a 24-hour period and how it
relates to the forest.
If a student reads a newspaper in a
chair by a fire while carving an apple, he
has read a paper made from wood, sat
in a chair that most likely had wooden
parts, burned wood to create a fire,
PHOTOS BY AMANDA WILLIAMSON
Australian Artist Konstantin Dimopoulos (right)
holds a brush coated in blue paint. Dimopoulos
used the bright blue to bring attention to the
trees and deforestation. In order for people to
see the forests, he said, he had to make them
focus on the trees first.
“I know a lot of people who don’t think plants
are important,” said Jade Hilliard, a senior
at UF. “This is showing that these plants are
important.” Hilliard, in the green pants, gathered
with other volunteers to help Konstantin
Dimopoulos paint trees in Turlington Plaza blue.
carved his fruit with a knife that most
likely had a wooden handle and ate food
plucked from a tree.
“I’m constantly touching stuff made out
of wood,” Andreu said. “We all use wood,
and there’s nothing wrong with that.”
Wood is a renewable resource. In
Florida, the average pine tree takes
about 30 to 40 years to reach a prime
harvesting age. However, if people are
not using wood, then they are most
likely using plastics, which are developed from oil.
People must recognize that they use
wood, and that they cannot stop the
forests from being harvested. However,
governments can choose to use sustainable practices, such as replanting trees
that have been removed.
“If we don’t do it here, they are going
to do it elsewhere. Those other places
are not regulated. They are not replanting,” he said. “ We ought to advocate for
local production of our wood resources.”
Andreu believes Dimopoulos’ Blue
Tree exhibit has started a conversation
about deforestation, which is an incredible contribution.
“I’m a scientist. We don’t always tell
stories well. We’re good at gathering information,” he said. “Most of the people
in the world are not scientists, and they
can relate to ideas through art.”
The Blue Tree exhibit comes to UF as
a way to use art to celebrate the Morrill Act or the Land Grant Act, which
provided 30,000 acres of federal land
to each state to create an institution to
teach military tactics, engineering and
agriculture. UF is Florida’s land-grant
institution.
Two years ago, the University of
Florida College of Fine Arts organized
an exhibit that stretched out into the
city comprised of the realistic bronze
statues of Seward Johnson. However,
with this year commemorating the Morrill Act, the Dean of the College of Fine
Arts Lucinda Lavelli said the college
hoped to bring people onto campus to
experience the artwork.
“I don’t expect everyone to like it,” she
said. “But I do think whether you like it or
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READER SUBMITTED œ Richard Dennison
Checking off
the Bucket List
Mario Andretti Racing Experience
W
e Seniors enjoy most
sports but for me motor
racing has always rated
only slightly above Cricket and Dodgeball.
Is car racing even a sport? There’s
no car racing in the Olympics. I mean,
c’mon man … pedal to the metal and turn
left. How hard can it be?
Boy, was I wrong! An estimate of
sport popularity by ESPN ranked
NASCAR number 6 and the IRL
(Indy Racing League) number 12 with
NASCAR ranking first in spectator
attendance. The largest venue in
America for spectators happens to be
the Indianapolis 500 Speedway, which
seats over 257,000 people. Wow! Talk
about a colossal traffic jam at the end
of the race.
A friend turned me on to what is
called the “Mario Andretti Racing Experience.” It’s a pay-per-ride event for
civilians whereby we can actually drive
or ride along in an Indy racing car. Even
the casual sports fan has likely heard of
Mario Andretti. The 72-year-old racing
legend is the only driver ever to win the
racing trifecta of the Indianapolis 500,
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the Daytona 500 and
the Formula One
World Championship. His organization has put together
a team that travels
to speedways all
over America from
Florida to California
where any wannabe
Marios can experience the thrill of doing laps on the track.
I realized I must have been missing
something all these years, so I ventured
out to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway in
Sin City to see what the fuss is all about.
When I told Kim, my Vietnamese wife,
of my plans she began shaking her head
from side to side, constantly muttering
the phrase I’ve heard her say to me so
often in the 46 years we’ve been married:
“Dinky Dow,” which loosely translates to
batty, whacko, crazy person.
The way the experience works is you
make your reservation by phone or online and for $129 you get three laps as a
ride along in an Indy racecar. You can
also do the driving totally by yourself,
but this costs significantly more than
the ride along and also understandably
entails a bit more risk.
So, wishing to check another item off
my bucket list, I arrived as scheduled.
You begin by signing in at the concession
stand where you can purchase an array
of souvenirs and get your picture taken.
You also sign a waiver that gives them
the right to take your firstborn if you
damage their beautiful car.
Then it’s off to the pit area to be
fitted for a helmet while waiting your
turn. As I approached my magnificent
PHOTOS COURTESY OF RICHARD DENNISON
Last October, Richard Dennison had the opportunity to strap into the backseat of a racecar at the
Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Participants of the Mario Andretti Racing Experience are given the
option of driving a full-size Indy racecar or – like Dennison – enjoy a ride along in a two-seat Indy
Car with top speeds reaching up to 180 mph. Once suited up he was fitted for his helmet and, with
a thumbs up, Dennison was off to the races.
mechanical beast (notice how I’ve
suddenly changed my attitude about car
racing) I sucked in my gut, threw back
my shoulders and walked with a distinct
swagger past two female concession
workers, hoping that their adoring gaze
would follow me all the way to the car
and I could allow them to revel in my
glory. Unfortunately, neither one paid
the slightest attention to me.
Was I ready for this? You bet. After
all, I’d seen the really good car-racing
movies: “Le Mans” with Steve McQueen,
“Grand Prix” with James Garner,
“Winning” with Paul Newman. What
did they have that I didn’t (excluding
fame, fortune and, in Paul’s case, a great
salad dressing)?
As I climbed into the specially fitted
two-seater Indy car, three attendants
assisted in buckling my oversize rear
end to the seat. In my case this was like
giving a cat dressed like Hannibal Lecter
a bath. Then they snapped in a faux
steering wheel that is intended to give
you the sense you are driving the car
yourself but also served as a placeholder
for my death-grip hands.
Finally we were off. The mixture of
burning rubber, howling wind and a
screaming engine in an open cockpit a
few inches off the ground while going
as fast as 180 mph was absolutely
exhilarating.
Would I recommend the experience
to my friends? For sure! There was just
one problem. On the way out of town I
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CALENDAR
UPCOMING EVENTS IN ALACHUA & MARION
THE CHAMPIONSHIP SEASONS
Times Vary
GAINESVILLE - The Thomas Center, 302 NE Sixth
Ave. Featuring more than 50 of the paper’s finest
photographs documenting the University of
Florida’s three National Championship football
seasons. Taken by the Gainesville Sun’s team
of photojournalists, the work on display will
convey the vast range of human emotion from
the 1996, 2006 and 2008 football seasons.
352-393-8532. www.gvlculturalaffairs.org.
CELEBRATE DESIGN
Through January 5
Times Vary
GAINESVILLE - Thomas Center, 302 NE Sixth
Ave. A selection of projects from the local
AIA (American Institute of Architects) chapter
and the national AIA organization. AIA is
professional association seeking to further
the profession and public awareness. 352393-8532. www.gvlculturalaffairs.org.
THE MODERN IMPULSE
Through January 6
Times Vary
GAINESVILLE - Harn Museum, Southwest
34th Street and Hull Road. More than 135
photographs, books, illustrated magazines and
films drawn from four regions that were among
the era’s most prominent centers of photographic
innovation — France and the Czech Republic
in Europe, and New York and California in
the U.S. 352-392-9826. www.harn.ufl.edu.
NEW YEAR’S KICKOFF EXPO
AND FASHION SHOW
Saturday, January 5
1:30pm - 10:00pm
OCALA - Citizen’s Circle. Features 40-foot
runway setup to accommodate six categories of
fashion. Food and beverages provided during
the fashion show for VIP sponsors, catered
from Mojo’s Grill. VIP tickets are available.
For vendor booth, call 352-732-4442.
BACKPACK WITH A RANGER
Saturday, January 5
10:00am
MICANOPY - Paynes Prairie State Park. Join a
Ranger on a group overnight hike for a total
of 6.5 miles. Journey along biologically and
historically unique areas and learn about
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the Prairie’s relationship to people of the
past and future. Walk begins and ends at
La Chua trailhead. Not recommended for
children under 10. No pets. $10 per person.
Make a reservation: 352-466-4100. www.
floridastateparks.org/paynesprairie.
ART CLASSES WITH
PATRICIA WOLFE
Saturday, January 5
10:00am
GAINESVILLE - Headquarters Library, 401
E. University Ave. Learn basics of 2-D art
techniques with local artist and teacher
Patricia Wolfe. 352-334-3939. www.aclib.us.
GAINESVILLE CAMELLIA SHOW
Jan. 5 - Jan. 6
Times Vary
GAINESVILLE - Kanapaha Botanical Gardens,
4700 SW 58th Drive. The 37th annual show
features blooms from southeastern growers.
Camellia plants available for purchase. Show
entries from 7:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. on Jan. 5.
Judging at 11 a.m. Open to the public on Jan. 5,
from 1 - 5 p.m., and Jan. 6, from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
352-595-3365. www.americancamellias.org.
REV. MARITA GRAVES
Sunday, January 6
11:00am
GAINESVILLE - Unity of Gainesville, 8801 NW
39th Ave. Rev. Marita Graves, New Thought
minister and teacher, will be a guest speaker.
Potluck lunch is served after the service. 352373-1030. www.unityofgainesvillefla.org.
BASICS OF ALZHEIMER’S
Wednesday, January 9
11:00am - Noon
OCALA - Marion Woods, 1661 SE St. An
Alzheimer’s Association free educational
workshop discussing dementia versus normal
aging, risk factors, warning signs, community
resources, and much more. Call 800-2723900 to reserve a seat. www.alz.org/cnfl.
HOME BUYERS COURSE
5:30pm - 8:00pm
OCALA - Marion County Extension Service,
2232 NE Jacksonville Road. Four-class course
pertaining to particular topics in the home
buying process. Certificate of completion
will be awarded upon attendance of all four
classes. Satisfies requirements set forth by HUD,
S.H.I.P., Habitat for Humanity and other funders.
Deadline for registration is Jan. 2. Classes:
Jan. 9, 16, 23 and 30. $15. 352-671-8400.
SENIOR CARE OPTIONS
Thursday, January 10
2:30pm - 4:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Senior Recreation Center, 5701
NW 34th St. Home health, assisted living,
long-term care and hospice care will be
discussed with a panel of expert caregivers
who work together to help clients maintain
the desired and appropriate level of care.
352-265-9040. eldercare.ufandshands.org.
ICONS, MYTH AND LEGENDS
EXHIBIT RECEPTION
5:00pm - 7:30pm
OCALA - Freedom Public Library, 5870 SW 95th
St. Meet artist John Massey and enjoy the exhibit
of his paintings. Light refreshments served.
352-438-2580. www.marioncountyfl.org.
GAINESVILLE’S HISTORIC
EVERGREEN CEMETERY: THIS
WONDROUS PLACE
Jan. 11 - March 23
Times Vary
GAINESVILLE - The Thomas Center, 302 NE Sixth
Ave. Rare photographs, documents, multimedia exhibits and the work of Gainesville’s
leading artists will tell the story of the 156-yearold, 53-acre Evergreen Cemetery, one of
Gainesville’s most historic and beautiful sites.
352-334-ARTS. www.gvlculturalaffairs.org.
BAMBOO WORKSHOP
Saturday, January 12
1:30pm - 4:30pm
GAINESVILLE - Kanapaha Botanical Gardens,
4700 SW 58th Drive. This workshop includes an
introduction to Kanapaha’s bamboo collection
and information on the cultivation, propagation
and landscape utilization of bamboo species
in North Florida. $10 for individuals, $7 for
members. 352-372-4981. www.kanapaha.org.
ELVIS LIVES
7:30pm
GAINESVILLE - Phillips Center, UF. Multimedia and live musical journey across Elvis’
life. Featuring finalists from Elvis Presley
Enterprises’ worldwide Ultimate Elvis Tribute
Artist Contest, as well as a tribute to AnnMargret. 352-392-ARTS. performingarts.ufl.edu.
LIONS CLUB PROM &
WEDDING EXPO
1:00pm - 4:00pm
HIGH SPRINGS - Fellowship Church, 16916
NW US Highway 441. Help make every girls
prom dream come true. Raffling two new
wedding dresses and veils, bridal party hair
service, gift baskets and more. Must be
present to win prizes. Drawings every 30
min. Featuring Cinderella’s Corner: previously
worn prom and wedding dresses, shoes and
other items for special occasions. Donate a
dress at All Creations Salon. 386-454-4521.
DUDLEY FARM HISTORIC
PARK TOUR
10:00am - 11:00am
NEWBERRY - Dudley Farm, 18730 W. Newberry
Road. Discover an authentic working farm
owned by the Dudleys from post Civil War to
mid-1940s. Follow a park staff or docent in
period clothing as they talk about the homestead
consisting of 18 restored buildings, farm animals,
gardens and local history. $5 per vehicle.
352-472-1142. www.friendsofdudleyfarm.org.
START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT
1:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Millhopper Library, 3145 NW
43rd St. Let Santiago Villamil, MPT, CSCS
and the Alachua County Library District help
provide simple guidelines and resources that
can help you reach health-related goals for
the New Year. 352-334-1272. www.aclib.us.
PHOTOGRAPHING
FLORIDA BIRDS
3:00pm
DUNNELLON - Dunnellon Library, 20351
Robinson Road. Want to improve photography
skills? Nature photographer Pete Gumaskas
shares his tips for photographing birds and
other wildlife found in the local area. 352438-2520. www.marioncountyfl.org.
GAINESVILLE STREET RODS
CAR SHOW
6:00pm - 9:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Springhill Commons, 9200 NW
39th Ave. Founded more than 20 years ago
by a group of automobile lovers who meet
to show and tell “all that will listen” about
their street rods and/or classic cars. 352658-1477. www.gainesvillestreetrods.com.
Hoggetowne Medieval Faire
Jan. 26 - Jan. 27, Feb. 1 - Feb. 3
10:00am - 6:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Alachua County Fairgrounds, 3100 NE 39th Ave. Cheer for jousting
knights as they battle for their ladies’ honor, and enjoy eight stages of entertainment,
including gypsy dancing, human chess games and magic acts. Wander the streets of
Hoggetowne where a medieval marketplace awaits with hundreds of talented artisans
selling medieval wares. 352-334-ARTS. www.gvlculturalaffairs.org.
Museum Nights:
Crouching Gator,
Hidden Dragon
6:00pm - 9:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Harn Museum, Hull Road and
d
Southwest 34th Street. A night of Chinese art
rt and
culture (and maybe a little Kung Fu!). An engaging
gaging
evening of art, music, performance, calligraphy,
phy,
activities and free food. 352-392-9826, ext. 2116.
www.harn.ufl.edu.
OSO SOUNDART: TUBA!
Sunday, January 13
3:00pm
OCALA - Appleton Museum of Art, 4333 E. Silver
Springs Blvd. Ever wondered about the refined
art of the tuba? Come hear OSO principal tubist,
Hugh Rankin, in an afternoon of solo tuba. $15.
352-351-1606. www.appletonmuseum.org.
YAPPIE HOUR
Sunday, January 13
2:00pm - 4:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Gator Tales Sports Bar, 5112 NW
34th St. Bring your dog on a leash and come
enjoy wings with a veterinarian from Newberry
Animal Hospital. Enjoy chicken wings while they
discuss the pet topic of the month. 352-2220965. www.newberryanimalhospital.com.
DR. PAULA KOGER
Sunday, January 13
11:00am
GAINESVILLE - Unity of Gainesville, 8801 NW 39th
Ave. Guest speaker Paula Koger, BSN, MA, DOM,
presents “The Shift into Light Medicine,” and offer
information about the use of energy and light that
will optimize the consciousness and awareness of
people as “The Light of the World.” Love offering
accepted. www.wealthofhealthcenter.com.
352-373-1030. www.unityofgainesvillefla.org.
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SERVICES FOR SENIORS SERIES:
YOUR MONEY
Sunday, January 13
2:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Tower Road Library, 3020 SW
75th St. The Gainesville Alliance of Professionals
Helping Seniors will offer monthly informational
sessions for Seniors, addressing issues that
affect them. 352-333-3840. www.aclib.us.
JUST THE FACTS, NO POLITICS
Monday, January 14
Back to the Future Gala
6:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Library Headquarters, 401
E. University Ave. Patricia Dilley, Esq., will
discuss The Patient Protection Affordable
Care Act: Just the Facts, No Politics. This
presentation will provide free legal information
and suggestions for additional resources.
Free. 352-334-3909. www.aclib.us.
Tuesday, January 22
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
7:00pm - 11:00pm
2:30pm - 4:00pm
NW 34th St. Barbara Oberlander, Ph.D., SFC
professor and historical expert will describe
the life and times of Eleanor Roosevelt as wife,
First Lady and delegate to the United Nations.
GAINESVILLE - Museum of Natural History, Hull Road and SW 34th Street. Turn time
circuits on and travel “Back to the Future” with the Florida Museum. You won’t need
1.21 gigawatts to enjoy the evening; just show up in your best 1950s or 1980s threads
and have a blast. 352-846-2000. www.flmnh.ufl.edu/passport.
Tuesday, January 15
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COMPUTERS FOR BEGINNERS
MEDICARE AND ALMOST ALL
INSURANCE PLANS ACCEPTED
10:30am
OCALA - Headquarters Library, 2720 E. Silver
Springs Blvd. Finding It!, an introduction
to the Internet. Learn about computers
and databases in these classes for adults.
Space is limited. 352-671-8551.
WHAT CAN RATS TELL US
ABOUT HEALTHY LIVING?
2:30pm - 4:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Senior Recreation Center,
5701 NW 34th St. UF’s Institute on Aging,
brings programs to PrimeTime Institute about
local research of interest to Seniors. 352265-9040. eldercare.ufandshands.org.
MLK WREATH CEREMONY
Noon - 1:00pm
OCALA - MLK Park, 500 SW 16th Ave. A wreath
ceremony honoring the life and legacy of Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. Free. 352-209-2973.
MLK PRAYER BREAKFAST
9:00am
OCALA - Ed Croskey Recreation Center, 1510
NW Fourth St. A prayer breakfast honoring the
life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. $10
per person. 352-207-6036 or 352-351-0824.
MOTIONHOUSE - SCATTERED
7:30pm
GAINESVILLE - Phillips Center, UF. Founded in
1988, Motionhouse is one of the leading dance
theatre companies in the United Kingdom.
Scattered combines the company’s trademark,
highly physical routines and mesmerizing
imagery in a unique interaction between film
and live performance. The production delves
into the majesty and savagery of water as
seven dancers plunge into an ocean, wrestle
a raging tide and slide on an avalanche to
a frozen landscape of arctic beauty. 352392-ARTS. performingarts.ufl.edu.
LIVE WORLD MUSIC
Sunday, January 20
3:00pm
ARCHER - Archer Road Library, 13266 State
Route 45. Four Shillings Short perform original
and traditional music with a repertoire ranging
from the Celtic lands to the Americas, and
from Medieval and Renaissance Europe to
India, performing on an array of more than 30
instruments. 352-495-3367. www.aclib.us.
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MLK ECUMENICAL SERVICES
Sunday, January 20
7:00pm
OCALA - Shores Baptist Worship Center,
414 Silver Road. A worship service honoring
the life and legacy of the Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. Free. 352-732-0097.
performed by Jeannette Rizzi, directed by
Rod Menzies. Blindsided is a personal journey
through Jeannette’s early life in Alachua,
Florida, where she struggles to overcome
the shocking suicide of her beloved friend,
Katie. 352-375-4477. www.thehipp.org.
GARDENING THE EASY WAY
SPECTICAST: FRANZ LEHAR’S
DIE LUSTIGE WITWE
Sunday, January 20
3:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Phillips Center, UF. Commonly
referred to as the “The Queen of Operettas,”
Die Lustige Witwe centers on a wealthy widow
and her countrymen’s efforts to match her with
the right husband to keep her riches in the
principality. With familiar music, including “You’ll
Find Me at Maxim’s” and “The Merry Widow
Waltz,” this energetic, humorous staging bursts
with color and sensuality. English subtitles.
352-392-ARTS. performingarts.ufl.edu.
NONPROFIT EXPO 2013
Sunday, January 20
1:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Hilton UF, 1714 SW 34th St. Take
this opportunity to generate awareness in the
community for nonprofit organizations: Educate
the community about the mission, services
and events. info@ncncf. 352-381-7067.
COMMUNITY
EMPOWERMENT HEALTH
Sunday, January 20
2:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Millhopper Branch Library, 3145
NW 43rd St. Join Community Empowerment
Health Coach Marlon Miller in an interactive
discussion about eating for energy. Take this
opportunity to care for the temple that is
one’s body. 352-334-1272. www.aclib.us.
MOMIX Botanica
Thursday,
January 24
7:30pm
PHILLIPS CENTER - UF. MOMIX
returns to the Phillips Center to
present Botanica, displaying dance at
its most organic and inventive. With
costumes, projections, custom-made
props, puppetry and a score ranging
from birdsong to Vivaldi. 352-392ARTS. performingarts.ufl.edu.
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MLK MARCH &
DAY IN THE PARK
Tuesday, January 22
2:30pm - 4:00pm
NW 34th St. Learn to successfully garden in small
spaces and containers with less bending. Grow
veggies, herbs and flowers the new “rack” easy
way. 352-265-9040. eldercare.ufandshands.org.
LIVING WITH HEARING LOSS
1:00pm - 2:30pm
NW 34th St. A series of four free classes for
people with hearing loss, and their family
and friends, held on Jan. 23, Jan. 30, Feb.
6 and Feb. 13. Register at 352-294-5151
or [email protected]. eldercare.
ufandshands.org/senior-recreation-center.
APPLETON FIELD TRIP
2:30pm - 4:00pm
OCALA - Appleton Art Museum, 4333 E. Silver
Springs Blvd. See the museum’s collection of
European, Asian, African, Contemporary and
pre-Columbian art and artifacts. Sponsored by
the Gainesville Senior Recreation Center. $3.
Must provide own transportation or arrange
carpool. Sign up by Jan. 15. Lunch menu at
www.horseandhoundrestaurant.com/our-menu.
STEVE WILSON &
WILSONIAN’S GRAIN
Friday, January 25
7:00am - 2:00pm
OCALA - MLK Park, 500 SW 16th Ave. Music,
dance, speeches and vendors, honoring the life
and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Rides will
be provided free to downtown Ocala starting at
7 a.m. Line up begins at 8 a.m., and the march
begins at 9 a.m. The day in the park begins at
10 a.m. Free. 352-208-0819 or 352-875-4118
7:30pm
GAINESVILLE - University Auditorium, UF. The
quartet has been featured on NPR Live from the
Kennedy Center and headlined at the 2011 Detroit
Jazz Festival. Wilson’s multifaceted artistry is
frequently recognized — he was nominated by
the Jazz Journalists Association as best alto sax
player in 2008, and for best soprano sax player
in 2010. 352-392-ARTS. performingarts.ufl.edu.
BLINDSIDED
BIG FUN ON THE BAYOU
Monday, January 21
Monday, January 21
7:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Hippodrome Theatre, 25 SE
Second Place. Ask Flash Productions announces
a special preview presentation of Blindsided,
an inspiring new solo show, written and
6:00pm - 11:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Phillips Center, UF. The annual
event is UFPA’s largest fundraiser and helps
fund all of its programs, including outreach.
Signature cocktails and a gourmet dinner
provided by Blue Water Bay, and decorations
supplied by Keith Watson Productions. Music,
dancing and a silent auction will make for a
memorable evening with a Bayou theme. Tickets:
$200 each. 352-273-2480. bit.ly/PXapel.
OCALA CAMELLIA SHOW
2:00pm - 5:00pm
OCALA - The Pioneer Garden Club of Ocala,
4331 E. Silver Springs Blvd. This two-day event
features camellias of all sizes, shapes and
colors. Judged exhibits of japonicas, reticulatas,
hybrids and species. This show is geared toward
educating the public about the care, culture and
appreciation of camellias, both in the greenhouse
and in the landscape. Free. 352-595-3365.
SOUPER FUN SUNDAY
Sunday, January 27
1:00pm - 3:30pm
GAINESVILLE - St. Francis Catholic High School,
4100 NW 115th Terrace. Souper Fun Sunday is
Gainesville’s premier soup tasting competition
featuring soups from more than 30 local
restaurants and caterers, local celebrity judges,
and an awards ceremony for Best Soups,
People’s Choice and Best Decorated Table. www.
souperfunsunday.com. [email protected].
VILDE FRANG, VIOLIN
Monday, January 28
7:30pm
GAINESVILLE - Squitieri Studio Theatre, UF.
Recognized for her outstanding musical
expression and virtuosity, Vilde Frang is steadily
climbing the ranks as one of the leading violinists
of her generation. Her concerto debut as EMI
Classics’ Young Artist of the Year 2010 garnered
critical acclaim, and she received the Edison
Klassiek Award, a Classic BRIT Award for best
newcomer and was named 2011’s newcomer
of the year at the 2011 ECHO Klassik Awards.
352-392-ARTS. performingarts.ufl.edu.
E-BOOKS FOR THE LIBRARY
Tuesday, January 29
5:30pm
HAWTHORNE - Hawthorne Library, 6640 SE 221st
St. Have a new Kindle, Nook or other e-Reader,
and want to check out library e-Books for free?
Come learn how: bring a laptop AND the device
to get set up. 352-481-2920. www.aclib.us.
WHO GETS GRANDMA’S
YELLOW PIE PLATE?
10:30am - Noon
BELLEVIEW - Belleview Public Library,
13145 County Highway 484. A class to help
ease the emotional process of passing on
cherished family possessions. Sometimes
the passing on of these items is as emotional
as transferring titled properties. Free.
Register by Jan. 23. 352-438-2500.
TAKE CHARGE OF DIABETES
9:00am - 11:00am
OCALA - Marion County Growth Management
Training Room, 2710 E. Silver SPrings Blvd.
This series of classes is a program focuses
on self-management education, which is
a key step in improving quality of life for
adults with Type 2 diabetes. Class dates are
Jan. 31 - March 21; May 2 and June 6. $45
per person. 21 and up. 352-671-8400.
If you would like us to
publicize an event in
Alachua or Marion counties,
send information by the 13th
day of the month prior.
All submissions will be reviewed and
every effort will be made to run qualified
submissions if page space is available.
352-373-9178 (fax)
[email protected]
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THEATRE
Acrosstown Repertory Theatre.....................619 S. Main Street, Gainesville
Curtis M. Phillips Center ........................................... 315 Hull Road, Gainesville
Gainesville Community Playhouse ....... 4039 N.W. 16th Blvd., Gainesville
Hippodrome State Theatre................................. 25 SE 2nd Place, Gainesville
UF Constans Theatre ................................................. Museum Road, Gainesville
Insomniac Theatre Company ............................E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala
Ocala Civic Theatre ..................................4337 East Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala
Living the Gospel
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UF CONSTANS THEATRE
The Star Spangled Girl
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A Servant to Two Masters
Jan. 25 - Feb. 3
A comedy in which two young men, who
publish a radical newspaper, encounter and fall
madly and ridiculously in love with a flag-waving super patriot Olympic swimmer who moves
in next door to them.
This timeless comedy is a farcical masterpiece
with its roots in the slapstick commedia dell’
arte. The plight of poor Truffaldino, who is
determined that he can serve two demanding
masters and yet woo lovely Smeraldina, still
manages to delight audiences today.
PHILLIPS CENTER
INSOMNIAC THEATRE
You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up
Jan. 8 - Jan. 12
This 80-minute tour de force offers a hilarious
glimpse into a relationship seemingly doomed
by opposing personalities from the start. The
couple’s delightfully crazy lifestyle manages to
keep their relationship intact, up-ending every
idea about living “happily ever after.” Squitieri
Studio Theatre.
GVILLE COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE
Chasing Manet
Jan. 25 - Feb. 10
Italian American
Reconciliation
Jan. 4 - Jan. 20
Huey Maximilian Bonfigliano has a problem:
While he is safely divorced from his shrewish
first wife, Janice, who shot his dog and even
took a bead on him, he feels he cannot regain
his “manhood” until he woos and wins her one
more time. He enlists the aid of his lifelong
buddy, Aldo Scalicki, a confirmed bachelor who
tries, without apparent success, to convince
Huey that he would be better off sticking with
his new lady friend, Teresa.
Inside the confining walls of Mount Airy Nursing
Home, a rebellious painter from a distinguished
family and an ebullient Jewish woman with
a huge adoring family form an unlikely bond
as the two plot an escape to Paris aboard the
QE2. But can they possibly pull it off amidst the
chaos of their surroundings?
OCALA CIVIC THEATRE
HIPPODROME STATE THEATRE
Ripped from the pages of an imaginary
tabloid, this is a series of bizarre but hysterical vignettes. Wannabe prom queens lament
the crown that was never theirs. Divas duel
for glory in Motown and Nashville. Desperate
housewife Wanda hallucinates a throwdown
with the villain from her favorite soap opera.
Bewildered bookworm Jolene tries to make
sense of her life on a surreal game show called
“Wise Up Or Die.” Frustrated mother Marge
morphs into Rambi — a mutant hybrid of Bambi
and Rambo — and goes berserk with a machine
gun in a cartoon fairytale forest.
Venus in Fur
Jan. 9 - Feb. 3
Meet Vanda, an unusually talented young
actress determined to land the lead in a new
play based on the classic erotic novel, Venus in
Furs. Vanda’s emotionally charged audition for
the gifted but demanding playwright Thomas
becomes an electrifying game of cat and
mouse that blurs the lines between fantasy and
reality, seduction and power, and love and sex.
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BOOK REVIEW BY
TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER
The Trial of
Fallen Angels
JAMES KIMMEL, JR.
c.2012, Amy Einhorn Books
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the people they had somehow, meaningfully, been tied to in life, which allowed
a horrifying lack of unbiased representation. Justice for the dead was swift and
absolute, and it often came before the
trial was completed.
Grappling with these inconsistencies
and unfair rules, Brek received her first
client. She didn’t seem to know him
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And then, she remembered…
There’s a lot to like about “The Trial
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Fallen Angels” by James Kimmel, Jr., the
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She didn’t know why she was sitting
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“What I loved about this book most,
a mother.
though, was its complexity: Shemaya
But reminiscis a place for learning, understanding,
ing on Nana’s front
porch wasn’t why
condemning, and forgiveness. What
Brek had come to
you see is what you want to see... which
Shemaya Station.
is both horrifying and comforting”
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In death, she’d be a lawyer, too.
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Luas explained to her that, when they which is both horrifying and comforting
died, everyone came through Shemaya
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Station and was given representation.
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