Jackson,
This Lord of the Flies talk is making me nervous.
michael
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Hell, in '71, there was cannibalism! Well, not really, but we, well, we got pretty
hungry sometimes and it was, you know, a long time to supper I remember once, and all we
had was bread and mush, and gitlins, everyday, gitlins, okay, actually, we ate pretty
good....but still, it got damn scary let me tell you. The sun was an angry god that year,
my friends. Sticker burrs? - Ha! - I laugh at sticker burrs! Just look at our program
cover from that year (attached) that I found in my old beat up complete works: Dark. . .
Edgy. . . kind of a satanic clown?...maybe a little bit? hmmm, seemed creepier at the
time.....Anyway, what did we know? . . just a bunch a crazy kids and a dream.. . .
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Spot on, Mike. I remember several of the '90 students who came back in '91
telling me that summer, with a somewhat wistful air, "Yeah, last summer... I
don't know... it was more.... INTENSE..." They missed it. It had really tested
them. And it was the first full performance there of 1Henry IV, which was a special
experience.
At times, I have to say, it was a "ring of fire" and I felt as if I were walking
on coals. But people pay good money to do that, I've heard. And Bruce is right,
every summer had its coal-walking moments. Those make the best stories to tell years
later.
Human beings can be difficult. O, what fools we mortals be.
Madge was there, her first summer, she can tell you more some evening...
cs
On Jul 29, 2010, at 1:11 PM, Mike Godwin wrote:
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Clay Stromberger
<cstromberger@mail.utexas.edu<mailto:cstromberger@mail.utexas.edu>> wrote:
What thuh...?
I was Doc's assistant that summer!
In the great imaginary competition that was going on a while back on these airwaves for
Best Summer Ever, I thought about claiming a special category of award for this summer:
Worst Summer Ever. None of you, I believe, can claim that title -- so there!
One of the things that surfaced when I met with Britt Block for coffee last weekend was
that 1981, which for me was my worst, most traumatic summer at Winedale, was for Britt the
best. And that in 1989, when Britt returned as Doc's assistant and I returned as
(merely) an older student. Britt had a tough summer, and I had a lovely one. I
wouldn't be terribly surprised if someone remembered 1990 as a peak experience.
By the way, Britt says a personal hi to all of us, and especially to Doc!
--Mike
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