My cash is in the mail for one if those....
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James Ayres wrote:
Thanks, Michael. Now we are four away.
Doc
On Mar 17, 2011, at 4:30 PM, Barker, Michael wrote:
> I sent you 30 today and a dvd of Inside Job
today.
> m
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: James Ayres [mailto:jayres@cvctx.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 05:35 PM
> To: weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org <weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] Virginia's Roses
>
> As of today, I have 5 $30.00 sponsorships left. And will always
> welcome gifts to Camp Shakespeare!
>
> Doc
> On Mar 17, 2011, at 12:23 PM, Maggie Megaw wrote:
>
> >> I'll pipe up here, in case anyone else wants to contribute to the
> >> cause. Doc spent just north of $400--I think it added up to $435--
> >> on the roses, compost, and irrigation supplies. I think with Gail's
> >> rose bush he's half way there.
> >>
> >> Xxxm
> >>
> >> maggie megaw | business affairs, inc | 2415 main street santa monica
> >> ca 90405 | ph 310 954 8440 | fx 310 362 8707
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> [mailto:weeklong-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org
> >> ] On Behalf Of McDonald G.
> >> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 11:40 AM
> >> To: weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> >> Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] Virginia's Roses
> >>
> >> Dear Doc,
> >>
> >> I'd like to send money for the roses. Could you remind me of your
> >> mailing address? I wish I could have been there.
> >>
> >> Love,
> >> Gail
> >> ________________________________________
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> [weeklong-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> >> ] On Behalf Of James Ayres [jayres(a)cvctx.com]
> >> Sent: 16 March 2011 02:22
> >> To: weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> >> Subject: Re: [Weeklong-l] Virginia's Roses
> >>
> >> And that's the way it was.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mar 15, 2011, at 5:00 PM, Clay Stromberger wrote:
> >>
>> >>> Thanks for the note, Doc, and for bringing all the moving parts
>> >>> together so perfectly.
>> >>>
>> >>> This sport, well carried, SHALL be chronicled.
>> >>>
>> >>> Though I also think that as always Doc's concrete and brief
>> >>> chronicle of the time says it very well. But perhaps there are a
>> >>> few other moments to recall and pass along.... so here's a note
to
>> >>> those that we love and to them that love us. We want you all there
>> >>> for the next planting project.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> It was a gloriously cool and sunny verge-of-spring morning, very
>> >>> fitting for such a special person as Virginia Elverson. The birds
>> >>> were talking all at once, as Townes Van Zandt used to sing. I even
>> >>> saw a bright red cardinal in the Barn, perched atop a metal folding
>> >>> chair, when I went in there to change out of my longjohns (it was
>> >>> warming up by then). As Doc said at one point with a grin,
"Some of
>> >>> these folks haven't been out here before when it's
nice." The grass
>> >>> was so soft and lush that Willa, 10, could not resist springing
into
>> >>> a few cartwheels, which inspired Emma, 8, to try the same. Mini-
>> >>> lessons from Willa ensued, but must be continued at a future date,
>> >>> as Emma still hasn't perfected that essential skill of
girlhood.
>> >>>
>> >>> Backing up a bit: Aug, Em and I arrived a bit late to the lovely
>> >>> sight of a whole line of folks working hard along the fence line
>> >>> (first in view: Maggie in her broad gardening hat and shades),
>> >>> enlarging the perfectly round post-holes dug by Doc (how did he do
>> >>> it? Those digger things are heavy. The holes were all perfectly
>> >>> shaped...!). In the classic Winedale tradition, everyone pitched
>> >>> in and figured out what needed to be done and brought their
>> >>> particular gifts to bear as needed. Jeff and Stan were the old
>> >>> gardening hands when it came to such things as setting up the
>> >>> irrigation system Doc envisioned (a long plastic hose running the
>> >>> length of the fence, with little smaller lines plugged in at
>> >>> intervals to run off and drip water at the base of each particular
>> >>> rose) and finding the right mix of mulch and dirt and "root
food".
>> >>> Joy was resplendent in a bright white longsleeved shirt and red
>> >>> bandana as she fussed happily over her digging project. It was
>> >>> great to see Augie and Finlay, fellow "Midsummer" Campers
last
>> >>> summer, working side by side again. Susan and Maggie kicked off
the
>> >>> rose songs spontaneously at some point, shovels in hand (final tune
>> >>> was "Love is a Rose," Linda Rondstadt's cover of the
Neil Young
>> >>> original, which Emma was too shy to sing solo, but Susan convinced
>> >>> her to sing one line with me and then the rest of the crew repeated
>> >>> it while shoveling the leftover compost into the back of Doc's
>> >>> pickup). Finlay and mom Liz looked up the colors of the different
>> >>> roses, and, at Doc's suggestion, lined them up to ensure a
variety
>> >>> of color as you drive or walk or bicycle past later this spring.
>> >>>
>> >>> Part of the fun of digging is the occasional surprise you find.
>> >>> Exhibit #1 was an old horseshoe (muleshoe?) that Will discovered --
>> >>> time for an archeological dig at Winedale? Then Jeff found some
old
>> >>> iron nails in a few other holes and began to wonder if the folks
>> >>> who'd planted the original roses had put these things in there
to
>> >>> add some iron to the soil...? Any of you History Detectives out
>> >>> there have a clue on that one? Not sure where the horseshoe ended
>> >>> up, but I hope it can eventually find a home in the Barn.
Meanwhile
>> >>> Willa and Emma set the record for finding the most grubs -- eight,
I
>> >>> believe (six of them alive!), which they named "Harry,"
and then
>> >>> "Harry II," "Harry III".... an little
unconscious touch of
>> >>> Shakespeare in the morning.
>> >>>
>> >>> Elroy, the jovial groundskeeper with the musical drawl and the
bushy
>> >>> grey mustache under his glasses, was a huge help, zipping around in
>> >>> the white Winedale pickup and providing us with tools and a
>> >>> wheelbarrow.
>> >>>
>> >>> This was the kind of work that allowed for catching up with your
>> >>> neighbor the next rose-bush over. I found out that high school
>> >>> senior Noah Sgovio, whom most of you will remember from his always-
>> >>> wonderful "I do much wonder..." speech this summer, is
headed off to
>> >>> UT in August as a philosophy major and theater minor. Perfect for
>> >>> one of the best Hamlets ever to lecture Horatio in the Barn. Will
>> >>> and Augie riffed in fine teenage-boy form on the word
"clod" while
>> >>> piling excess dirt on the little red wagon.
>> >>>
>> >>> At some point we finally looked up and saw the work was done, and
it
>> >>> was good, and the water was dripping. So Doc and Maggie headed for
>> >>> Mercantile for sandwiches (Maggie's treat) and after some
chatting I
>> >>> suggested a hike to MacGregor House. A group of us headed that way
>> >>> and soon came upon one of those I-wish-I-had-my-camera images:
Jeff
>> >>> and Susan sitting in the two memorial benches under the stately
>> >>> pines, the bright green meadow beyond them. Jeff had his jaunty
>> >>> straw riverboat-gambler hat on, and had his right arm looped over
>> >>> the back of Henry Wilkinson's bench on the left as they talked;
>> >>> Susan sat in the beautiful new bench on the right. Ah, I realized,
>> >>> the bench for Lizz that Matt told us about. An "On Golden
Pond"
>> >>> moment (yes, we are heading into those golden years...). We all
>> >>> stood around and talked about how to arrange all of our future
>> >>> memorial benches. Susan wanted a circle that extended into the
>> >>> meadow; Jeff pointed out how this might make mowing difficult.
>> >>> Susan countered with the idea of a trail extending into the meadow
>> >>> to sort of anchor the benches; Joy suggested a labyrinth in the
>> >>> center (vetoed). We then segued inevitably into a discussion
about
>> >>> the Winedale Retirement Complex and then set out for MacGregor.
>> >>>
>> >>> We wondered how we'd know when Doc and Maggie were back -- well,
of
>> >>> course, we heard a distant pealing as Doc rang the bell by the
>> >>> Barn. I raced Augie back (still can beat him, ha ha! -- though not
>> >>> much longer...) -- and then followed my second camera-pang moment,
>> >>> as I looked back and saw, like something out of a film (my Michael
>> >>> Barker influence kicking in), the players of the day heading my way
>> >>> across the broad green meadow, at varying distances, singly or in
>> >>> pairs, gesturing (Jeff to Joy I think) or skipping (Emma) or
>> >>> strolling and laughing.... but all set against that green in the
>> >>> sunlight, so peaceful and beautiful, no one in a hurry. I just had
>> >>> to stare at it for a moment. Not sure a photo could capture that,
>> >>> really.
>> >>>
>> >>> We wrapped the day up with lunch at the picnic tables and yes, at
>> >>> Stan's smiling insistence, a four-person (one line each) reading
of
>> >>> the Stein poem sent by Mary.
>> >>>
>> >>> What did I miss, fellow early-rosers?
>> >>>
>> >>> Augie told me afterwards back at home, in his classic Augie way of
>> >>> making little pronouncements out of the blue, "Dad, you know,
it
>> >>> felt good to be out at Winedale, working on planting the roses....
>> >>> I'm not sure why, it just felt good to be doing that."
>> >>>
>> >>> Yep. You said it, buddy.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> cheers,
>> >>>
>> >>> cs
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On Mar 15, 2011, at 6:42 PM, James Ayres wrote:
>> >>>
>>> >>>> We planted 14 roses for Virginia this morning. Look for
Clayton's
>>> >>>> chronicle of the event. Thanks to Kirsten, Joy, Maggie,
Susan,
>>> >>>> Clayton and son Augie and daughter Emma, Jeff and son Will,
Noah
>>> >>>> Sgovio and Finlay Scanlon (Camp Shakespeare kids), Willa and
Liz
>>> >>>> (Finlay's sister and mom), we completed the task with
rose songs
>>> >>>> and a
>>> >>>> reading of Mary's rose poem.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> We set up a "Rose for Virginia" sponsorship to
defray the costs of
>>> >>>> the
>>> >>>> antique roses, the compost, and the watering system we put
in
>>> >>>> place.
>>> >>>> Should any of you wish to sponsor a rose for Virginia,
please send
>>> >>>> me
>>> >>>> a check for $30.00. We planted 14 roses. And have already
6
>>> >>>> sponsorships.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> We had great weather and great fun.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Doc
>>> >>>>
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>> >>> Clayton Stromberger
>> >>> Outreach Coordinator, UT Shakespeare at Winedale
>> >>> College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin
>> >>>
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<http://www.shakespeare-winedale.org>
>> >>> cell: 512-363-6864
>> >>> UT Sh. at W. office: 512-471-4726
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
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