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Letters to the Editor (850) 320-7806 Tallahassy@Gmail.com TallyVillager.com Joe Berg Publisher

Natalie Minish Too Much For a Title Andy Francis Staff Writer Paul Haney News Intern

Contributors In This Issue: Adam Bois, Nora Bonner, Agnes Furey, Tracy Horenbein, Louise Reid Ritchie, Allie Marini, Natalie Minish, Dr. Andy Opel, Jennifer Wells, Matt Willey, and all of our advertisers and the hundreds of businesses who distribute Villager. About Us:

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More Credit For American Legion In response to the recent Villager article on Veteran organizations [“Generation Lost?”, Vol.1 Iss.3, March 28,1012] American Legion Post 13 (Tallahassee) would like to suggest a correction. The article implies that because our city’s local Legion does not attract high numbers of younger veterans, that it therefore does not serve them. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Let’s start with the 2009 Tallahassee Veterans Village/Volunteers of America grant, and 2011 Home Front Apartments/ Big Bend Homeless Coalition grant. With [Post 13] Vice Commander Bob James in the lead, the Legion secured the basic furniture and food needed for these programs. Indeed, these programs would not even exist had it not been for the leadership and hard work of your local Legion. These programs served, and continue to serve, many young veterans who were in critical need of medical care, alcoholic and drug abuse rehabilitation, job placement, and transitional housing. They both enjoy success rates that are unheard of for such programs, literally grabbing young men from the jaws of despair and giving them a second chance at life. The Legion also sends representatives to work with the VA Hospital and local and state agencies to do “health /job fairs” that include younger veterans. It’s important to know and distinguish the purposes of the various veterans organizations discussed in the article. The American Legion is not meant to be a campus support group. Although it does other things -- Boys and Girls State/Nation, recognition for promising Junior R.O.T.C. students, etc. -- it has been the primary bastion of support for the most needy veterans among us, those for whom support groups were not enough and

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who have fallen out of society’s reach. Some literally show up at the front door asking for basic food and shelter and a little human dignity. Every citizen of Tallahassee should be extremely proud of the work done by its local Legion. And yes, the Legion sponsors dances and rents the dance hall to raise operating funds for its charitable and service programs. But to suggest that’s all it does is irresponsible at best. We hope this brings some balance to the discussion and clarifies the facts. Thank you for the opportunity to respond to the article. David M. Frank, Judge Advocate General, American Legion Post 13.

PUBLISHER’S REPSONSE:

Thank you for your response, Mr. Frank. Let me begin by saying that there is an ever-widening disconnect between the general population’s awareness of veteran’s issue and the actual experiences of those who serve – both during service and after discharge. And our goal with veteran’s affairs – as with many of the topics we cover – is to bridge that gap of understanding so that the public may be better informed (and hopefully more engaged in solutions). This article is just the beginning of our coverage on this critical topic, and future features are in development. However, there is a presupposed level of knowledge and familiarity with the work these organizations perform in the community – established through time and other sources of record. These are established and known institutions (and if they weren’t readers would have no idea what the article was about.) But I would agree that there is room for more understanding. But respectfully, I don’t agree that the article “implies that because our city’s local Legion does not attract high numbers of younger veterans, that it therefore does not serve them. “

The scope of this story’s interest was limited to the membership challenges facing American Legion, et al., not to the services they have provided to modern vets (or all vets, for that matter.) These, I believe, are two separate discussions. One is a discussion of the mechanics and condition of a machine – to create a metaphor – and the other is a discussion of what that machinery does. The fact remains that these organizations are facing unique survival challenges due to aging member populations and lagging recruitment of modern vets. Here is why it matters: in the longterm view, this issue is critical to the ability of these groups to continue providing services as they have in their rich past. And we feel that these are pertinent questions to explore. I feel the article’s scope was accurately portrayed in the headline and subheading: “Generation Lost? As Two Wars Come To a Close, the American Legion and VFW Organizations Struggle to Attract Modern Vets.” The scope is clearly identified, there and throughout the article, to membership issues. Not to services. Services, and other topics, will be explored in follow-up features that further illuminate the existing support structures for veterans, the needs for services and gaps that exist, and the efforts being made to address those needs. And ultimately, our hope is to explore deeply what military sacrifice really means in America. Your letter has given us some great suggestions about where to go next. And finally, I feel that author Matt Willey did an outstanding job reporting on a sensitive issue, and bringing it to the public’s attention. As a result, I believe productive dialogues will be had (as we are having right now.) We look forward to working with the American Legion as we explore these important issues. Joe Berg, Publisher.

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Members of the SAIL Robotics Team work on their robot “The Farrell Beast” on February 2, preparing for the regional competition in Orlando in March. (Photo by Andy Francis.)

Competitive robotics is to SAIL High School what varsity football is to others.

he magnet School of Arts and Innovative Learning (SAIL) is the proud home of the Octo-Pi-Rates, a robotics club which -for the past two years -- has participated in the Orlando regionals of the nationwide F.I.R.S.T. Robotics Competition. And they are the only such team in the Tallahassee area to compete. This year’s meet took place March 8-10, and, despite some obstacles -- the faculty sponsor’s truck broke down in Orlando, and the robot’s main arm had to be completely retooled onsite to add more torque -- the Octo-Pi-Rates were in first place for about four hours on the first day of competition, eventually finishing 7th out of 63 teams. Staff writer Andy Francis charted both the progress of the Oct-PiRates in the days leading up to the competition, and the ways in which SAIL’s traditionally humanities-based community has embraced science through the team’s growing talent and commitment. / CapitalCityVillager/ Apr 11, 2012/ vol. 1 iss. 4

By Andy Francis Staff Writer Junior Emily Gardner cannot wait for the school day to end. Not because she’ll then be free to go home and play video games, browse the Internet, or do whatever it is that most high school students do after the final bell rings. Emily won’t be going home. Not after school today, or the next day, or the next day. Instead, the endlessly encouraging, perpetually smiling team leader of the Octo-Pi-Rates will be sleeping in the classroom of her SAIL High School physics teacher along with roughly twenty other members of the magnet

school’s robotics club. The girls will be in one room and the boys in another, with their teacher, Jasun Burdick, and his wife Wendy also sleeping in the classrooms. It’s near the end of Build Season, after all, and the Farrell Beast still needs some late-stage adjustments. SAIL High was founded in 1975. Its open-air campus is adorned with murals of Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr. and other seminal figures, as well as works of art by SAIL students. SAIL’s emphasis traditionally was on — as the name suggests — the arts and creative expression. But the Robotics Club is changing how the school is perceived entirely. “I guess the local community thinks about SAIL as a strong school for the arts,” said Principal Dave Crandall. “I’d like to think that [the club] shows that our students are also involved in some pretty sophisticated math, science, and technology.” The status of her school’s reputation, though, is not what drives Ms. Gardner to work all afternoon and night before sleeping on a hard floor for four hours and then waking up, going to classes, and doing it all again the next day. It’s not the reason why senior Hazel Moore has dyed her hair purple and green — the team colors — nor why she gives inflamed, passionate speeches about the need for more women in science and math fields. It’s most definitely not the reason why the two girls — and many more Octo-Pi-Rates — have decided to pursue engineering degrees, a thought that would have never crossed their minds before the Robotics Club entered, shook up, and — for six weeks a year — dominated their lives. To understand that kind of drastic transformation you need to start with a physics teacher who lives in a co-op, the life-altering question he asked his class in the fall of 2010, and a student-built, studentoperated robot that shoots basketballs better than most human beings.

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Jasun Burdick was a student at the University of Central Florida when he was introduced, through happenstance, to the manic subculture that is the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC). “I didn’t really know what it was,” said Burdick. “I just thought it was this cool thing that would be fun to help out with.” What Burdick helped out with then — and what his team is working towards now — is the regional branch of a competition that last year saw 2,075 teams from 11 countries participate. The winners of the regional competitions held around the country go on to nationals, held in the Edwards Jones Dome in St. Louis, Missouri. There they vie for the mythical title of FIRST Championship Winner. The FRC is hosted by the nonprofit charity FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), which was founded in 1989 by Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway personal transporter. The competition — billed as “The varsity sport for the mind” — started in 1992 in a Pennsylvania high school gymnasium. Since then, the competition — and competitive high school robotics as a whole — has grown by leaps and bounds. To say that the competition has spawned a subculture is no exaggeration: Online businesses such as andymark.com have sprung up to accommodate the need for parts; Burdick, who is in his fourth year teaching at SAIL, regularly communicates with other teams in Florida; and an Orlando-based squad will be treating the Octo-Pi-Rates and teams from Austria and Brazil to a large banquet-style dinner before the competition. The Octo-Pi-Rates have two team members that constantly check and post on an eight-year-old online discussion forum dedicated to all things related to the competition. Overall, thousands of students are on the forum every day, asking and answering questions to and from other teams. But Burdick knew none of this when he applied for a $6,000 grant from JCPenney in 2010. Burdick applies for several grants every school year, but he was surprised when his application

to JCPenney was accepted. It wasn’t until later that Burdick realized that the competition the money applied to was the same one he had volunteered for years ago. He simply knew that he suddenly had thousands of dollars at his disposal, dollars that would only be useful if students committed to the cause. So Burdick asked that fateful question. “I said, ‘Hey’, to my physics class, ‘want to build a robot?’ And they were all for it.” Burdick and his students did not know exactly what they were getting themselves into. FIRST Robotics Competitions feature a single game, lasting two minutes, which teams play repeatedly over the three days of competition. This year’s game requires that the custom-built robots shoot a basketball into hoops placed at three different heights to earn points. Teams learn the game format and receive their standardized parts kit at the beginning of January; they have a strictly enforced period of six weeks, called “Build Season”, to design and construct their robot. Last year Burdick’s team was not ready for the intensity of those six weeks. “We weren’t prepared for everything that was going to go wrong,” said senior Dylan Phelps, the chief driver on the team both this year and last. “We thought ‘Oh you know, you put a few pieces together and it’ll work!’” Phelps now shakes his head at such naiveté. The team also wasn’t ready for the long hours of commitment that building Roger — last year’s robot — would take. Sleeping at school as Build Season winds down may be considered normal in the world of FIRST Robotics, but the Octo-Pi-Rates were at school until late at night last year for a majority of the six weeks. “We tried to leave earlier this year, basically for the janitors’ sanity,” said Gardner. At last year’s competition the OctoPi-Rates had to deal with a multitude of mechanical failures and an entirely new programming code that had been installed only days earlier. FIRST Robots are controlled by a joystick which sends

signals to a wireless internet router attached to the bot. The computer code must be written by the teams themselves. Because the code determines whether or not the robot even moves, the team’s failure last year to grasp the new code meant Roger could only sit there, hundreds of hours of work left stationary on the competition floor. “By the end of the first day, when the robot still hadn’t moved, there were kids crying,” said Burdick. “Kids were breaking down in the parking lot. We were doing lots of therapy.” Still, the Octo-Pi-Rates were able to overcome these problems to finish fifth out of the fifteen teams that made their FIRST debut in Orlando in 2011. That would not have been possible if not for the help of other teams at the competition. FIRST places heavy emphasis on what it calls “Gracious Professionalism,” which is the idea that any and every team in the competition is working towards a common goal: learning. To best achieve that goal, then, every team helps one another whenever possible. Perhaps the most surprising manifestation of Gracious Professionalism came at the competition itself: Last year the Octo-Pi-Rates faced mechanical failures that could have been crippling until teams of strangers heard about their problems and happily donated parts — over $300 worth — to help the team get back on track. If a FIRST team comes across a problem and doesn’t have the know-how to fix it, experts from other teams come directly into their “pit” — the 10’x10’ space assigned to each team for onsite robot repairs — and walks them through the process. It’s not like the sportsmanship mantra that other high school sports claim to strive for; the robotics teams really buy into Gracious Professionalism throughout the whole process. The Octo-Pi-Rates are eager to use the knowledge they’ve obtained over these two years to help this year’s new crop of rookie teams. “That’s what I like about FIRST,” said Cory Jackson, a calmly confident senior who specializes in the mechanics of

“By the end of the first day [last year], when the robot still hadn’t moved, there were kids crying,” said Burdick. “Kids were breaking down in the parking lot. We were doing lots of therapy.” the robot. “It’s more about cooperation than anything else.” “People were coming by every ten minutes saying ‘Do you need help?’” explained Burdick. “If their team didn’t have a guy who knew how to [solve a problem], they knew someone else who did, and they’d bring him over. It was,” Burdick paused a moment, searching for the right word, “astonishing.” Still, the Octo-Pi-Rates hope that they won’t have to rely on Gracious Professionalism as much this time around. The team has experienced tremendous growth and development in this, their second year of existence. One can see this just by comparing Roger with this year’s robot, nicknamed “The Farrell Beast” after John Farrell, a technical designer from FSU’s renowned Magnet Lab who helps out with the club. The club will always be proud of Roger — their very first robot — but the Farrell Beast looks as though it was built by an entirely different group. Roger is basically a flat base covered in a tangle of wires and supporting thin wood pieces that hold a hook (which was used for last year’s game); The Farrell Beast is a shining structure of Plexiglas, motors, conveyors and a powerful flywheel. It shoots basketballs with ruthless efficiency. The club has developed so well most-

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ly because of last year’s learning experience. Students have a better idea of what they’re doing this year. Burdick’s room during Build Season becomes a busy nest of quizzical yet confident voices batting around ideas and solutions. Students rush to and fro from station to station, where different problems are being tackled by different groups. Saws buzz and grind sporadically, with Burdick as the mobile hub of this activity - he’s constantly fielding questions or working on various problems. Sometimes his toddler-aged daughter comes up to him with a newfound trinket. He takes the time to pick her up and give her attention before she wanders off to be alternately looked after and played with by the high-schoolers. Tea and Indian food is simmering in one section of Burdick’s room; the club sits down for dinner everyday like a family. The routine is more comfortable and expectations are better understood. Burdick attributes some of the club’s rapid development to the learning atmosphere at SAIL. As a magnet school, SAIL often does not have the same type of burdensome bureaucratic difficulties that other schools deal with. The Octo-Pi-Rates have received donations of heavy-duty machinery without having to go through the paperwork and subsequent waiting period that other teams might. Burdick stresses that SAIL’s accommodating environment makes the entire building process easier for the club: “At a normal school there’s so many steps you have to go through that it’s just frustrating,” said Burdick. “It’s not like that at SAIL. [For example,] I want to bring three kids over to Lively [Technical Center] to learn how to weld. I go to [Principal Crandall] and say ‘Is it okay if they’re welding?’ And he says ‘Sure. Just make sure they’re safe.’” Inhibitive bureaucracy, Burdick explained, is the reason why many FIRST clubs do not directly associate themselves with high schools, choosing instead to meet and work outside of school. My second visit to the club came on the very last day of Build Season, February 21. This was the end of the

four-day period that saw students and teacher sleeping at school, working obsessively for hours to make last-minute adjustments that would make the Farrell Beast as good as it could possibly be. The excited countenances I had witnessed on my first visit were replaced by furrowed brows and tired eyes. “It’s been hard physically and mentally,” said Gardner. “But it’s getting done.” On this day, the club saw the Farrell Beast shoot a ball for the first time. The mood was a bit tense; surely some thought about the pain and frustration of working hundreds of hours last year only to see Roger freeze up for a day in Orlando. The ball was loaded and started making its way towards the spinning flywheel. There was a hearty cheer when the Farrell Beast’s very first shot went in. “I made the announcement today: we’re going to Nationals,” said Gardner, smiling at her own boldness. “We’re going to Nationals.” While the Farrell Beast has been the center of these students’ universe for the past six weeks, there’s an element of the FIRST Robotics Competition that goes beyond even that beautiful basket-shooting machine. Student after student was eager to explain. From Gardner: “I was always a poor student at math because I’m dyslexic. Then I got in here and I could see it, see how it would work. [The club] made math important to me. I went back to math class and started going better, started applying myself.” From Hazel Moore: “I was always good at math, but I didn’t really like it. I had the equations memorized, but then Build Season started and I could see it everywhere: This is what we talked about in physics! This is how you solve for torque!” Three weeks after this conversation Hazel would receive, through FIRST’s scholarship program, $5,000 to attend Embry-Riddle University, a school that specializes in aviation and aerospace technology. Victoria Rogers grew up in Washington, where she participated in her high school’s FIRST team for three years.

Rogers, now a freshman at FSU, visits the Octo-Pi-Rates daily, helping the club in any way she can. During my first visit with the club, Rogers — a soft-spoken yet articulate girl — entered the room with a cheery announcement: “I made vegan cupcakes for everyone!” When Rogers moved to Florida to attend FSU, she says that one of the first things she did was look up local FIRST teams on the Internet. She’s still learning things through the SAIL club that surpass the intricacy of her college mechanical engineering classes. Rogers gushed about the impact FIRST has had on her life. “I initially wanted to be a doctor, go into biology,” says Rogers. “I wouldn’t have even thought about being an engineer without this program. FIRST is probably the best thing that’s happened to my life thus far. It’s shaping the rest of my life.” Gardner, standing nearby, chimes in. “Same here, same here.” Anyone who visits the Octo-Pi-Rates will inevitably hear these types of stunning, sweeping remarks made by one of the students. The first impulse is to skeptically check them for disingenuousness; one might expect any eager student to make this sort of optimistic, grandiose statements to someone who

says they are from a newspaper. But the team members will look you in the eye and nod, tell you emphatically again and again that yes, it’s true. “It’s very hard to understand unless you’re in it,” said Rogers. “I didn’t have that many friends in high school; when I joined the robotics team, they became my best friends. I didn’t have very good grades before [joining the robotics club]. I ended up graduating salutatorian of my high schoolby because this.” Photos Darlaof Winn Burdick points to the fact that five out of seven of the Octo-Pi-Rate seniors are planning on studying in engineering fields. His team leader, Gardner, is also planning on studying engineering. Though only a junior, she has a more detailed career plan than many people five or six years her senior. “I’m personally looking into Florida Institute of Technology,” said Gardner, “because I know I want to come back to SAIL and teach. I’m going off of the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) scholarships and the FIRST scholarships so I can come back here and do this.”

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How to Buy a $160 Textbook for <$10. or “How I Recently Bought a $185 Textbook for 43 Cents and, So Can You!” By Natalie Minish First, you’ll need to get the ISBN along with the book title; that way you can be sure it is the exact book for the class. If it’s not listed on the course’s registration site, just call the bookstore; even if they don’t have it in yet, they can look it up. It’s best to do this as soon as you register; it can sometimes take two weeks to get a book in. If you’ve waited and the class has started before the book is in, the library keeps copies of textbooks for most classes. You can’t check them out, but you can read at the library or photocopy till the book comes in. You can get even better deals if you’re not worried about having the exact edition. If the class has a ninth edition book listed and you find a used copy of the eighth edition (or even the fourth!), just check the table of contents. I’ve found there to be no difference at all in most cases between older and more recent editions. (One textbook that was an edition behind actually had double the chapters of the required book. The chapters were in the same order, it just also carried the chapters for part two of that class, so I didn’t have to buy a second book for the next course!) You may not be able to see the table of contents on the site with the best deal. Just type the title name with “table of contents” and search until you find a site that has it (Barnes and Noble usually shows it under the Details tab, but their used copies usually aren’t the cheapest you can find).

Then, price-match. Once you’ve played around with the possible editions you can get away with buying for the course (or not, if you prefer the exact book, though that often only means exact cover art), then you can pricematch around on the different textbook sites. Typing in the name or ISBN with “used” or “rent” will pull them all up. Here are some ways and sites, but which works best depends on the book:

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Mickee Faust Turns 25 Chain of Parks Festival with “Best of” Cabaret Celebrates 12 By Terry Lester The Mickee Faust Clubhouse – Tallahassee’s signature underground, risqué, no-holds-barred theatrical company, lead by the chewed-up-and-spit-out namesake “cousin” of Mickey Mouse -- is in the midst of its 25th anniversary season, and it is celebrating with the “Best of Faust, Worst of Faust” cabaret running April 13-14 and 20-21. To describe Faust as a theatrical company in the modern sense of the word hardly does it justice. Whether they are performing works of Shakespeare, hosting workshops with legends of experimental theater, or behaving naughty in their all-original sketch-comedy style cabarets, there is a certain sense of rawness you would expect to experience in an experimental theater venue under a bridge in Greenwich Village. Shows in their Railroad Square mansion (by Railroad Square standards, anyway) might more resemble – with their raucous crowds, mish-mash décor, and barn-style ambiance – a traveling cabaret in a Wild West bawdyhouse than shows you would expect at a theater with posh modern amenities like carpeting and air conditioning. But even those descriptions fall

We would compare the cabarets to a Saturday Night Live episode ... if every sketch in the two hour show was actually funny. short, because Faust productions are also of a certain true quality. We would compare the cabarets, for example, to a Saturday Night Live episode – if every sketch in the two hour show was actually funny. The crowd loves it and reacts. And the players respond in kind, fueling the flames of their impish antics ever higher with each wave of growing audience mania. Sometimes political, controversial, and unapologetic? yes. At times in your face and provocative? You betcha. Occasionally adolescent and derelict? More than occasionally. But if there is a theatrical group that best defines raw culture in Tallahassee, it’s Faust. And you can’t say that you have experienced Tallahassee until you have taken in at least one Faust cabaret.

Read interviews with co-founder Terry Galloway and members of the troupe online at TallyVillager.com. More information about the group and their upcoming shows can be found at MickeeFaust.com.

The Lemoyne Center for the Visual Arts is hosting its 12th annual juried Chain of Parks Art Festival in downtown Tallahassee on April 21 and 22, featuring more than 125 artists from across the country and attracting large crowds from throughout the region. Villager asked Kelly Dozier – former president of the board at Lemoyne and current co-chair of the Chain of Parks Festival Executive Committee – about the festival and its value to our local arts and culture.

cate your service to the festival? I think it is one of the best cultural events in Tallahassee. I have travelled to other cities just to attend their art festivals and this one is right here! If you love art, or just want original art on your walls instead of store bought, mass-produced-in-China stuff, this is a wonderful opportunity to see a wide variety of art. It is also a place for aspiring artists to see a lot of different styles and techniques which they may incorporate into their artwork.

CCV: What is the history of the festival? KD: The LeMoyne Chain of Parks Art Festival was started in 2000 by the then Executive Director of LeMoyne, Mary Beth Foss. It began as a smaller festival with a goal of providing a beautiful venue for artists to show and sell their works while bringing a unique cultural experience to the Tallahassee community. It is also designed to be one of LeMoyne’s major fundraisers, providing support for LeMoyne education and exhibition efforts all year. Through the past 12 years, the festival has grown in size and reputation. It is recognized as a high quality festival that brings fine art to our region every third weekend in April.

The festival will be held on April 21-22, from 10am to 5pm, and is free and open to the public. It also features live music and entertainment, food vendors, and what organizers describe as “artful fun”. More information can be found online at ChainOfParks.com

Capital City Villager: We hear it said often and in many ways -- arts and culture build strong communities, etc. But that has almost become cliché and 2-dimensional through repetition. Do you agree, and how would you explain it to, say, a 6th grader? Kelly Dozier: Wow! What a question! I think that art is a universal language. It speaks to everyone, young and old. It touches our inner beings and can give us joy or allow us to feel the sorrow of others. Without art of all forms, there is nothing left but work.

CCV: Why have you chosen to dedi-

CCV: What is it that you think people are least aware of about COPF and Lemoyne? KD: A lot of people think that the CoP is put on by the City, which is not the case. A lot of people think that LeMoyne is about to shut its doors, and that has not been the case for 3 years. LeMoyne pulled it together and survived the economic crisis, and has come out the other end quite well. Some people think that LeMoyne does not need members or contributions because the City or County support it, or there is a large Foundation from which LeMoyne gets its funding. That is not true. LeMoyne gets VERY little money from grants. Most of LeMoyne’s support comes from memberships and sponsorships of events.

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The following is a submission to our Fiction in 500 Words Challenge, an ongoing series. Read submission guidelines and terms online at TallyVillager.com, and email you submissions to Tallahassy@Gmail.com (subject line: “500 Word Challenge.”)

Submitted By Douglas Baker Jon felt a creeping tickle up his arm and awoke with a start. The arm jerked, and something small hit the wall with a light thump. He quickly sat up, trying to take stock. There wasn’t a single sound over the fan’s blow. Had he been dreaming of bugs? Dreams briefly insert themselves into reality all the time. Jon looked toward Leslie – not that he could see her. The new black curtains really did the trick in keeping the room dark. She had rejoiced the day they were installed, and slept like a rock ever since. “Good for her,” he thought. “Someone really should be sleeping, anyway.” He took the pillow again, but thoughts didn’t leave him. Did that just happen? Does it matter? His mind wandered to psychology’s classic reality vs. appearance argument, and found it calming. “It’s likely that my dreams are playing games again, there were no bugs. This time.” Unwillingly, Jon recalled torturous memory of the tickling when it wasn’t just his mind. Creeping touches up the

leg, up the thigh. Creeping touches toward his crotch (before Jon ever knew its pubertal values) awakened him then. He had leaped out of bed, frantically stripping clothes and flailing at himself in the nightlight’s shine. The sheets settled back to reveal several cockroaches scurrying off the bed. “Molestation by six-legged sewer dweller,” Jon surmised, “is the rudest awakening.” That was the worst of them, but living near the Everglades brought several other, similar incidents. “I hate those disgusting, loathsome things.” His mind wandered, seeing them in sewers. He saw them in his mind’s eye, scurrying away from light and into the dark. Jon’s skin crawled; he shivered, sweating. Heard them scratching as – Scratching. Jon’s eyes opened, straining his ears and trying to focus. He held his breath and listened for Leslie’s. The soft rustle of sheets said she was breathing long and deeply. He exhaled, rolled over and heard his own hair scratching the pillow familiarly. The scratching seemed to extend. Jon froze, and his ear felt a tickle. Jon vaulted out of bed, his panic awak-

ening Leslie. She mumbled a swear, and winced with the blinding light. He looked around and saw Leslie’s long hair across their pillows. Pillow: clear. “What are you doing?!” Leslie howled. Jon didn’t relent in his search. Headboard: clear. Under the pillow: clear. Side of the bed: clear. Under the sheets: clear. “I just had a bug on me,” Jon asserted. He’d thought Leslie would also jump at this; it seems instead a lame excuse for interrupting her sleep. Jon didn’t bother arguing to check her hair. “Just… turn off the light.” She rolled over. Jon dutifully, slowly, took a step to the lamp, and reached to the switch. Briefly he considered leaving it on, took a deep breath, and turned the lamp off. He stood in the dark, looking in the direction of his pillow. Eventually he laid down, closed his eyes, and slept not a wink.

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WVFS Epic Battle by Devin B., age 9. Freehand with color pencils.

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Our Hidden History

FLASHBACK TO 1940 On August 2, the United States Census Bureau, after a 72-year wait required by law, released the data from the 1940 census. The information found within reveals a nation easing out of the Great Depression and about to stumble into World War II. In an era of expanding government, this census was the most comprehensive to date, asking 65 questions and including the first housing census. It also included the first income question, renounced by the nation’s wealthy class who hadn’t yet been asked by the government to give financial information. For this reason, Americans were only asked whether they earned more than $5,000 in a year. 25% fell into this group. Whereas the 1940 census was the first to extrapolate data for the whole population from smaller samples, nowadays politicians debate the validity of such statistical methods when drawing up boundaries for the Electoral College. According to the Census Bureau Director’s Blog, “[This release] is an odd event for an organization devoted to keeping every data record we collect confidential, in fulfillment of our strong laws protecting those data.” Indeed, no one has seen this data except for officials who may have taken advantage of the War Powers Act in effect from 1942 to 1947, a law that made personal records available for the sake of national security. The 1940 census is now the first to be fully digital and available online. Nowadays, the census accounts for nearly 10 times the number of households as in 1940 and hires nearly 6 times the number of enumerators. It uses optical scanners that can read your handwriting, and the 2010 census utilized Facebook, Twitter and other electronic media to spread its “10 Questions in 10 Minutes” campaign. In 1940, officials instructed enumerators to visit “every house, building, tent, cabin, hut or other place where a person might be living or staying.” 24.5% had gradu-

ated high school and 4.6% had at least a bachelor’s degree, compared to 85.6% and 28.2% today, respectively. On top of the 65 questions, enumerators asked 1 in 20 people an additional 16 questions, whether that random person was an infant or adult. One out of every six people polled in 1940 also participated in the 2010 census. The 1940 census included detailed information for Florida at large, as well as Jacksonville, Miami and Tampa/St. Pete. Following are some of the more interesting data available for the lesspopulated Leon County and Tallahassee.

1,045,791

31,546

18,801,310

275,487

1940 Total population of Florida 2010 population

704,145

1940 Total population of Native Whites in Florida

54,178

1940 Total population of Foreign-Born Whites in Florida

14,109,162

2010 Whites in Florida (not specifically “native” or “foreign-born,” including Hispanic and Latino, which total 4,223,806)

287,047

1940 Total population of “Negroes” in Florida

2,999,862

2010 Blacks or African-Americans in Florida

421

1940 Total population of Other Races in Florida

1,692,286

2010 Other Races (nonwhite, Hispanic, Latino, Black or African-American)

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1940 Total population of Leon County 2010 population

8,380

1940 Number of occupied units in Leon County

110,945 2010 number of units

3,599

Number of units in 1940 with no running water

48.8

1940 Percept of all dwellings in Leon County with radio

16.6

1940 Percent of all dwellings in Leon County with mechanical refrigeration

4,634

1940 number of dwellings in Leon County with no cooking equipment at all

$3,395

3,354

1940 average value of an owner-occupied home

1,417

2010 median value for an owner-occupied home in Leon County

5,198

1940 average estimated monthly rent for Leon County

2.2

2010 Median cost of rent for Leon County

Number of units with an outside toilet or privy Number of units with no inside or outside toilet or privy Number of units with no bathtub or shower 2010 percent of housing units built prior to 1940

4.5

1940 percent of dwellings in Leon County with electric lighting

$190,300 19.59 907

$2,440

Average outstanding indebtedness on first and junior mortgages in Tallahassee

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These listings are a small sampling from COCA’s Weekly E-Mail Blast, a free e-mail newsletter for cultural organizations and amateur and professional artists, musicians, writers, dancers, actors, and creative people in all disciplines. To receive the complete COCA weekly e-mail, sign up at www.cocanet. org. COCA’s mission is to serve as a catalyst for development and support of arts and culture in Florida’s capital region.”

New! Volunteers Needed for MusicFest - Refuge House Benefit (Event Date: April 15)

pointment needed and no experience necessary. All ages welcome. Auditions must come from a selection of script sides provided. Auditions are at the FSU Film School in the University Center, Building A. For more info contact Tony Ciarlariello, Production Supervisor, at 850-644-7910 or email at tony@ film.fsu.edu.

MusicFest 2012: Sounds of Hope is seeking volunteers, including stage managers, an emcee, “roadies,” plus helpers with facilities, food area, children’s area and more. MusicFest is a fundraiser for Refuge House and they will certify volunteer hours. Sign up online at www.musicfesttally.org or call Chris at 339-5074.

New! LeMoyne Chain of Parks Call for Volunteers (Deadline: April 15)

Volunteers are needed for a variety of supporting positions during the 12th Annual Chain of Parks Art Festival April 21-22. To sign up or for more information about open positions visit www.chainofparks.org/volunteer.

Open Casting Call for FSU Grad and Undergrad Films (April 15 & 22)

The FSU Film School is hosting an open casting call for student films on two Sundays from 10 am - 7 pm. No ap-

8th Annual Sunday Afternoon with the Arts Poster Contest, Marianna (August 1)

The Artists Guild of Northwest Florida is accepting submissions for its poster design contest for the benefit of the 8th annual Sunday Afternoon with the Arts. The entry fee is $10 per entry. The winning design will win a $100 prize plus the design printed on promotional posters and displayed at the Fall Art Exhibit and Sunday Afternoon with the Arts Reception at Chipola College. Deliver entries to The UPS Store at 4415-C Constitution Lane in Marianna, FL 32448. For more info contact Judy Brooten at JDBrooten@aol.com or 850209-5747.

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Ten Dollar Daycations: SOPCHOPPY By Jennifer Wells Some people choose their travel destinations based on photographs they have seen; others are motivated by recommendations from friends and guidebooks; still others by the portrayals of those exotic places in movies. Then, there are those of us, rightfully quite few of us, who base our decisions almost entirely on the way the names of the places sound. This is precisely how I’d ended up in Borneo and Zanzibar, and how this past Saturday, with half a tank of gas in my car and $20 in my pocket, I ended up in Sopchoppy. I followed Highway 319 south through Crawfordville and turned off in downtown Sopchoppy. On the right, I saw Posh Java Organics and Gifts. In front of Posh Java, under an enormous oak tree, was what appeared to be a small farmers’ market. Organics? Farmers’ market? Did I fall into a wormhole and somehow end up back in Santa Cruz, CA? Curious, I walked up the steps and across a rocking chair–strewn porch into Posh Java, where the co-owner, Debbie, fixed me a cappuccino ($3.50) and offered me muffins she had baked herself. I pulled up a stool and listened as Debbie described other first-time visitors’ reactions to her cafe. “People come in here and say, ‘Oh wow! This feels like someone’s home,’” Debbie explained, “and that’s what we want.” It did feel like home, and it didn’t fit my preconceived ideas of small-town Florida. Chalk yet another one up for the benefits of travel. After finishing my coffee, I looked around and was no longer surprised to find a well-stocked natural foods pantry with specialized products like gluten-free baking mixes, Florida cane sugar, and Anson Mills heirloom grains. I browsed through a selection of locally made crafts, like woven rugs made

from repurposed clothing, as well as herbal soaps from Rose’s Botanicals, whose shop and garden, I learned, are just down the road and open to the public. Out front was indeed a small farmers’ market: the Sopchoppy Harvest Grower’s Market (Sat, 11am–3pm). I recognized Crescent Moon Farm from Lake Ella’s Wednesday Growers Market. Jack, Crescent Moon’s owner, came inside the café, and he described what he was selling: homemade bread, homemade seed crackers, and a variety of greens, including two kinds of kale (my favorite). Mindful of my budget, I made a mental note to buy from his booth at Lake Ella on Wednesday. After chatting with Debbie and Jack, I drove four miles down the road to Ochlockonee River State Park ($4/vehicle), where I continued in through a pine flatwood forest and past a campground until I reached a picnic area that overlooked the spot where the Ochlockonee and Dead Rivers merge. Others were enjoying the comfortable mid-70s temperatures, especially after last week’s 90s: Boats whizzed by, towing ski tubes and the children happily clinging to them; a nearby bean bag toss game apparently became quite competitive; sunbathers spread out on the floating dock that formed the outside edge of the swimming area. I saw a stack of canoes that Debbie had told me could be rented, but without anyone to rent them from, I laced up my running shoes and went on a short, slow jog through the pines, keeping an eye out for the endangered red-cockaded woodpeckers that live in the park. As the afternoon wore on, I regretted not stocking up on more snacks from the café and market, so I left the park and returned to town. A quick Yelp.com search led me to Backwoods Bistro and clued me in to their hummus plate. I once spent two weeks in the Middle

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East on a quest to find The Perfect Hummus, so I had to stop. The Yelpers didn’t lead me astray: The hummus, which came with raw veggies and still-warm, homemade tortilla chips, was delicious and, at $7.50, well within my budget. Not quite ready to return to Tallahassee, I remembered Debbie had said that Sopchoppy has its own campground, Myron B. Hodge City Park. I decided to check it out for future reference, and was thrilled to discover the park not only has a grassy campground, but also has a boardwalk trail that takes visitors literally over the river and through the woods. I walked along it as a couple was hauling their kayak up the boat ramp and a young boy was casting his fishing line from the bridge. The lateafternoon light was diffuse, and a white spider lily was reflected, like a Monet, in the dark glass of the river. The still reverie was eventually interrupted by a camper who decided it was essential to share AC/DC’s “You Shook Me All Night Long” with the rest of the park. Organic produce and AC/DC: My love affair with Florida’s small towns has officially begun.

If you go: Posh Java Organics and Gifts 64 Winthrop Avenue Sopchoppy, FL 32358 Wed–Sun 10–7 On Facebook

Ochlockonee River State Park 429 State Park Road Sopchoppy, FL 32358 www.floridastateparks.org Backwoods Bistro 106 Municipal Ave. Sopchoppy, FL 32358 Tue–Fri 5–9, Sat 11–10 thebackwoodsbistro.com

Myron B. Hodge City Park 220 Park Ave. Sopchoppy, FL 32358 www.sopchoppy.org

Sopchoppy Worm Gruntin’ Festival Saturday, April 14 www.wormgruntinfestival.com Wakulla Wildlife Festival April 20–21 www.wakullawildlifefestival.org

All Saints Cinema: The Hidden Gem By Elizabeth Hodapp Worthy trips to the movie theater are becoming increasingly scarce at a time when Netflix is a click away and the quality of commercial films is fast dropping. A certain magic is lost when a movie is viewed outside of the theater, making this an unfortunate trend. The womb-like darkness and the allconsuming nature of the theater experience is meant to plunge the viewer into another realm. Add popcorn and it should be as good as a done deal. However, not many people are aware that an affordable, unique theater experience is located right in the heart of the All Saints Art District. Housed in a building that was previously an Amtrak train station, the All Saints Cinema is home to a wide array of film screenings arranged by the Tallahassee Film Society. Films shown at the Cinema are mostly new and timely, but older historical films are also frequently screened. People looking to see critically acclaimed documentaries, foreign films and American independent films would repeatedly find their filmic needs satisfied. Each weekend yields new and uncommon films that are often playing concurrently in major centers of art and culture. The Cinema itself exudes a certain charm and authenticity that cannot be found at a commercial theater. Originally built in 1858, the building first functioned as a freight depot, and then as an Amtrak station. This history is evinced by the antiquated brick walls and ticket booth within the theater’s interior. Trains can even be heard (and felt) rumbling alongside the building from time to time. Theater seating, a projector and the smell of fresh popcorn cause the building’s transformation into a Cinema to be complete. Although the All Saints Art District

has only recently grown in prominence, the Cinema has existed for six years. Institutions like the Tallahassee Film Society deserve recognition. Initially emerging out of a group of cinephiles who showed films at their homes, the society branched out and began holding screenings at different venues around town. After partnering with Amtrak and Leon County, they acquired the location they currently utilize. A programming board of five members selects the films to be shown. When choosing the films, they often seek to commemorate anniversaries or to pair stimulating films together. The Cinema was packed with viewers of all kinds during a recent double feature screening of George Méliès’ A Trip to the Moon and a French documentary about its color restoration entitled An Extraordinary Journey. The Cinema’s diverse film selections are the result of careful research and often represent the passions of the members and the community. Themed screenings that feature entertainment along with a film are frequently held. “We try to enhance our films. We don’t think people want to just come down here and watch something on the screen,” says John Fraser, the All Saints Cinema coordinator. “So if we can enhance it with speakers or music, we try to, and we find those are well attended.” This entertainment is wide ranging. Whether a Charles Chaplin film is accompanied by a live quartet or “hobo stew” is being served along with a documentary about vagrants, the film-going experience will undoubtedly prove to be a unique one. To find out more information, check out www.tallahasseefilms.com or find the Tallahassee Film Society on Facebook.

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NIGHTLIFE EVENTS dates

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08:00 PM

Sun Hotel, El Cantador

Olde Fields Clothing Co

www.oldefieldsclothing.com

08:00 PM

Rendezvous Wednesdays!

Midtown Pass (formerly Cafe Cabernet) (850)224-0461

4/13/12

07:00 PM

Chevelle

Coliseum

find us on facebook

4/13/12

09:00 PM

The Official “Models & Bottles” After Party

Fifth Avenue Tap Room

tangotallahassee.com

08:30 PM

Phillip Solomon Stewart & the Palace Band

Amen-Ra

www.kingpent.com

4/13/12

07:30 PM

8th Annual Blue Ribbon Bash ~ dancing and entertainment plus silent auction Tallahassee Antique Car Museum

www.brehonfamilyservices.org

4/13/12

07:30 PM

Joe Mullins and The Radio Rambers in Concert

Thomasville Municipal Auditorium

www.thomasvillega.com

Sing Sing Karaoke

What ? Cafe

4/9/12 4/11/12

4/13/12

Each Wednesday

Each Friday

www.whatcafe.com

4/13/12

Each Friday

08:00 PM

4/13/12

Each Friday, Saturday

010:00 PM DJ and Dancing

Waterworks

www.waterworkstallahassee.com

05:00 PM

Firkenteenth - Casks!

Fermentation Lounge

www.fermentationlounge.com

07:00 PM

Food Truck Fridays

All Saints Hop Yard

www.allsaintshopyard.com

Jazz Journalist Association jazz awards

B Sharp’s

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Each Friday

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Each Friday, Saturday

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Each Friday

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Lon and Lis Williamson

Mockingbird Cafe

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The Moon

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07:00 PM Each Friday

010:00 PM Stetsons On The Moon

4/14/12

08:00 PM

Local Bands Gorgeous & Mystery Date along with Small Bones from New Orleans & Bird Calls from UK Franklin Manor

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4/14/12

06:00 PM

GO RADIO (The Lucky Street Tour, This Providence, Tyler Carter, It’s A Trap, Ivory Lights

Gaines Street Station

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4/14/12

010:00 PM Gorilla Thrilla: 2012

North Florida Fairgrounds

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4/14/12

09:00 PM

Tallahassee Antique Car Museum

www.tacm.com

AJ Sports Bar and Grill

www.ajsportsbar.net

98145.452

4/14/12

Each Saturday

4/14/12

Each Saturday

2012 Champagne Sip

010:00 PM Karaoke Dance Party

4/14/12

08:30 PM

Room Full of Blues

Bradfordville Blues Club

www.bradfordvilleblues.com

4/14/12

08:30 PM

The Boxer Rebellion

Club Downunder

www.up.union.fsu.edu

4/14/12

07:00 PM

Scott Campbell, Randy Barnhill and Leon Anderson

Mockingbird Cafe

www.mockingbirdtallahassee.com

Paradigm

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4/14/12

Each Saturday

010:00 PM Out & Out LGBTQA Party

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4/15/12

09:00 PM

CMB, CAG, VonWolfe, MSE, Frameworks

Bomb Shelter

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4/15/12

04:30 PM

Lazy Sunday Matinee

Fermentation Lounge

www.fermentationlounge.com

4/15/12

07:00 PM

Irish Music Gathering

Fermentation Lounge

www.fermentationlounge.com

4/15/12

Each Sunday

98145.452

4/15/12

Each Sunday

04:00 PM

Ukulele jam session - open session for all levels

Finnegan’s Wake

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4/16/12

Each Monday

05:00 PM

Hospitality Night

Waterworks

www.waterworkstallahassee.com

4/16/12

Each Monday

010:30 PM Booze and Brains Trivia with Hank - Every Monday

Mockingbird Cafe

www.mockingbirdtallahassee.com

4/16/12

Each Monday

07:30 PM

Tallahassee Ballroom Dance w/ DJ

American Legion

www.floridalegionpost13.org

4/16/12

06:00 PM

Mimi and The Hearndogs

Mockingbird Cafe

www.mockingbirdtallahassee.com

4/17/12

010:00 PM Getter & Captain Panic

Club Rehab

www.facebook.com/ClubRehab

4/17/12

Each Tuesday

07:00 PM

Tallahasse Swing Band

American Legion

www.floridalegionpost13.org

4/17/12

Each Tuesday

07:30 PM

Trivia Night with John France and his Orchestra

Bird’s Aphrodisiac Oyster Shack

www.birdsoystershack.com

4/17/12

07:00 PM

Danielle Gasparro

Mockingbird Cafe

www.mockingbirdtallahassee.com

4/18/12

07:00 PM

Rock of Ages Intergenerational rock concert

Tallahassee Senior Center

www.talgov.com/seniors

06:30 PM

Sue Boyd Country Dance Lessons

American Legion

www.floridalegionpost13.org

07:00 PM

Scenic Roots

Mockingbird Cafe

www.mockingbirdtallahassee.com

4/18/12

Each Wednesday

4/18/12 4/19/12

Each Thursday

06:00 PM

Food Truck Thursday Live Music

Food Truck Hub

find us on facebook

4/19/12

Each Thursday

09:00 PM

Science Salon

Waterworks

www.waterworkstallahassee.com

4/19/12

Each Thursday

010:00 PM Open House Conspiracy

The Warehouse

(850) 222-6188

4/19/12

Each Thursday

09:30 PM

Karaoke with DJ Shower

Bird’s Aphrodisiac Oyster Shack

www.birdsoystershack.com

4/19/12

08:00 PM

Margot and the Nuclear So & So’s

Club Downunder

www.up.union.fsu.edu

4/19/12

07:00 PM

Roy Schneider and Kim Mayfield

Mockingbird Cafe

www.mockingbirdtallahassee.com

Pixies Cover Show by The Popheads

Club Downunder

www.up.union.fsu.edu

4/20/12 4/20/12

08:00 PM

The Blues Take Flight Stone Cold Blues Band

Bird’s Aphrodisiac Oyster Shack

www.birdsoystershack.com

4/20/12

09:00 PM

A Big Fun Show w/ The New 76ers & The Silver Daggers

Krewe de Gras

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4/20/12

07:00 PM

Girlz Rock Pride Event

Fermentation Lounge

www.fermentationlounge.com

4/20/12

08:30 PM

Local Covers

Club Downunder

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4/21/12

08:00 PM

A Benefit Concert for the Refuge House - $5 show

The Warehouse

(850) 222-6188

4/24/2012

09:00 PM

The Back Room

LIT

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4/26/12

08:30 PM

Street Violence (ATL)* Tam Tam (Orlando)*The Fuzzlers* Gorgeous*

The Fuzz Hole

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4/26/12

08:00 PM

Beats Antique with Laura Low aka DJ Laura

The Moon

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Fri, Apr 13

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