Song of Scampy
Although I loved Lil and Tom, I was somewhat discomfited when they insisted I meet Scampy, a displaced squirrel who recently had relocated to their back yard. How could they know small rodents made me uneasy? However, since it seemed important to them, I accompanied Tom onto the patio. A Bruno Walter phonograph of Beethoven’s Pastorale Symphony Number 6 played on the turntable in the den. It was a personal favorite of the...
On Hot Days After the Dusty Mexican Squirrel Fight…
On hot days after the dusty Mexican Squirrel Fight, no one likes Yazoo — nor does he expect them to. He has been an incendiary and worked hard at it: heckling the mean, little Latin-tongued squirrels, tossing hickory nuts onto the mat breaking up the game…No one likes that; and when we go to Peggy’s for good lemonade and fried raising pie, he is not invited. Yet, he is there anyway — with Dwayne. I remember...
The Art of Integration
In late February, the Alabama State Council on the Arts employed award winning Livingston, Alabama songwriter Jacky Jack White to work with students at Robert C. Hatch High School in Uniontown, Alabama. Their mission was to construct an original musical play using the techniques of “arts integration.” The deadline was May 16. Jacky Jack White with student. Diana Green of the State Council explains that White and Hatch teacher Darren...
No Kin to Elvis Comes to Dixie
THE MARSHALL COUNTY COMMUNITY THEATER JOINS NASHVILLE AND ATLANTA THEATRICAL GROUPS IN DEVELOPING NEW PLAY No Kin to Elvis is a musical comedy based on a book by the same name. The story is set 1957 in the fictitious town of Marlburn, Georgia, a small community situated in the heart of a burgeoning carpet industry, still enjoying a postwar boom. Emmer Lee Prestley, a young woman transplanted from the mountains of North Carolina, must...
D. Man: My Life and Boxing
D. Man, a new book based on a memoir by Richard Paul Westcott and written by Dr. John White, is available at BarnesandNoble.com and Amazon.com CLICK ON THE DESCRIPTION ABOVE Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/D-Man-Boxing-Richard-Westcott/dp/1504911105/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1432917034&sr=1-1&keywords=D.+Man%3A+My+Life+and+Boxing%3A+Based+on+a+Memoir Barnes and Noble:...
No Kin to Elvis, the audio book
No Kin to Elvis the Audiobook — coming soon! We shall keep you...