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IN THE KITCHEN
HIDDEN PASSAGES | 46
HISTORIC VIEW
THE PLAY’S THE THING | 50
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LOVE FOR MYANMAR | 54
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October gets its name from the Greek word okto, which means eight, because in Roman times—before January and February were slipped into the year—it was indeed the eighth month. Since the okto part really doesn’t apply anymore, I’m proposing a new spelling: Aah-ctober. Because, aaah, cold fronts finally dip down from the north to shoo away the dog days (another Roman designation, having to do with the Dog Star, Sirius) that linger long past summer officially ends in September. I’m ready to say goodbye to shorts and watermelons and hello to jeans and pumpkins. Our centerpiece story this month, “Burying the Old Man,” concerns goodbyes and hellos of a different sort. Writer Mikaela Cain delves into a challenging program at Oak Ridge Discipleship House, where substance abusers learn how to bury their past selves and embrace a new self and a fresh start. Emily Treadway writes about farewells and greetings of another kind in her article on East View High School’s annual celebration of Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. That event has grown beyond celebrating loved ones who have passed on. Now, the exuberant and informative event celebrates the ties between family and education, too. No October issue would be complete without a light-hearted nod to Halloween, with articles about an anthology of spooky stories and a book about haunted jails. If you love the dark, then you’ll want to read about how Inner Space Cavern has opened a new cave for touring—no lights except your flashlight! If stage lights and costumed characters are more your speed, then read Nancy Bacchus’s article about the couple for whom the Palace Theatre’s Springer Stage is named. Aah, there’s so much to welcome in October: pumpkin patches, golden afternoon light, harvest festivals, high school and college football. I intend to enjoy every ounce of autumn this year—and I hope you do, too.
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to feel like they’re part of our East View family,” says Mr. Garza, “so when we were thinking of a name for our organization, La Familia East View came to mind and just stuck.” They’re still trying to figure out the name of their signature event, however. “La Familia Dia de los Muertos Hispanic Heritage Celebration is kind of long!” Regardless of what the event is called, the word is out. Last year 400 people—students and their families—attended. “It was the biggest one we’ve ever had,”
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Mr. Garza raves. “We had the most attendance, the most speakers, the most music.” Last year’s program featured live music and Stony Point High School’s mariachi band. Families brought a covered dish to share, and Georgetown High School teachers Ramiro Luna and Jesse Howell brought GHS students to help serve the attendees. With the growth of the program, La Familia East View has also connected with local restaurants willing to donate food. “We always have a bunch of great food,” Mr. Garza says. He adds that the Georgetown Health Foundation “has provided tremendous support.” The program is always held in Spanish. Initially, this was a way for students of the Spanish language to practice their skills, but an unexpected yet wonderful outcome of East View’s Day of the Dead celebration was the inclusion of parents whose primary language is Spanish. “These parents care,” Mr. Garza states, “but some of them haven’t been as involved as we’d like them to be or as they’d like to be. They want to help. These parents also want to receive the same quality of service as anyone else, so it’s important for them to get out there and be involved with the kids, but also to get out there with other parents and to be a part of the school.” Although the food and entertainment may be what gets the students and their families through the door, says Mr.
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he sun’s summer rays beat down on her as she sat on the boulder, gazing across the San Gabriel River and contemplating her self-imposed goal. Holly Moore, an avid photographer, had chosen the river as her theme for this Photographic Society of America (PSA) course, so she had no one to blame but herself. What had she been thinking? Holly had taken several PSA courses and loved the challenges they presented, but this course posed the most difficult set of tasks yet. To pass, she had to create a collection of 12 to 15 photos that best encapsulated her chosen theme, get her instructor’s approval on each photo, and showcase the photos in an ex-
hibit. Also, the river project would involve capturing a number of sweeping landscapes rather than the close-up, more abstract photos that Holly typically favored. Landscapes were way out of her comfort zone, as was the August heat in Texas! On her first visit to the river, Holly finally got herself up off that hot rock and began taking pictures, but “I got nothing. I was very hesitant at first because of fear of failure.” Her instructor told her to “become one with the river,” and all she could think was “Okay, I just
want to go home, cool off, and have a sandwich.” It took four or five visits to the river and repeated reminders to “look down, look up, look behind you” before Holly gradually “started seeing.” In fact, the very first photo that became part of her collection was not a landscape but a close-up. As she looked around, she noticed a little bit of water trying to push its way around a rock and through some cream-colored mud. The result was a beautiful textural blend of mudflow and
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rock—and an excellent photo opportunity. “It was right by my feet, waiting for me all the time. When I got home and saw the photo, I was so excited!” She titled the photo Against the Flow. Another abstract close-up in the collection is one Holly calls Pizza because the compositional angle Holly chose for the image and the rough surface of the rocks combine to create a shot that resembles sliced pizza. But Holly still needed those landscape shots. She says, “My eyes see detail rather than the overall picture because I’m always searching for that unique hidden subject to photograph. So for me to get the overall feeling of the river, I had to open my mind.” And though there were a few rocky moments, with her instructor’s encouragement and direction, she captured the scenic beauty and expanded her technical skills as well. She used Helicon Focus software that allowed her to overlay multiple images of the same landscape taken with different focal points. The resulting photos 26
showed every detail in focus, from foreground to background. She also learned about high dynamic range imaging, (HDR), which allows photographers to produce a greater range of luminosity. For instance, one of Holly’s photos includes shaded, dark green trees and sunlit river rocks. The sharp lighting contrast posed a prob-
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lem. If she set her exposure to read the colors in the bright rocks, the trees looked black, and vice-versa. Using an HDR program, Holly took multiple shots of the image, setting different exposures, and then meshed those photos to create one image in which all of the colors are visible. Holly had four to six months to
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want to keep their attention.” A second unexpected photo appears in the collection as well. Its subject looks like a rock, but look closely—it’s alive! At the end of the project, Holly chose and framed 15 approved photos and exhibited the collection at Sun City this past February. After that, she displayed the photos at St. David’s Georgetown Hospital and then at the Williamson Museum to enhance the museum’s presentation on water conservation. Holly says, “I’m thrilled it came together and that people are actually enjoying the exhibit.” As to the PSA course—she passed! And she learned to love working against the flow—challenging herself to chart new courses on her journey as a photographer.
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any people recognize the clank of a jail cell door, even though they haven’t heard it in person. Having toured many historic jails in Texas for her book Just Visitin’ Old Texas Jails (2007), local author Joan Upton Hall confirms, “It’s a very real sound. It has such an awful note of finality. I would hate to be put in jail and hear that sound because you know you’re not leaving unless [your jailers] want you to leave.” It seems that Joan can’t escape prison, either. Shortly after she finished Just Visitin’, her editor suggested she write about jails all over the country, but Joan put her foot down. “‘Whoa!’ I said. ‘I’m not traveling all over the United States to visit old jails.’” But her editor had a better plan. Unlike
Just Visitin’, Joan’s book Ghostly Tales from America’s Jails is an anthology. Joan is the editor and also a contributing writer. From the comfort of home, she collected stories from around the country regarding historic jails and the inmates who perhaps never quite left their mortal confinement. Just Visitin’ includes one or two scary ghost stories. “It wasn’t intended,” Joan says. “That’s just what happened.” She had encountered a few “feelings” of the prickling-on-the-neck variety while researching jails with her husband, Don. But one particular run-in with an oppressive spirit in a Texas jail left the normally unflappable Don exclaiming, “What was that?” Joan says, “He never laughed at me again.” It was that event and other “prickles” that gave birth to the idea of Ghostly
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Tales from America’s Jails. As in Just Visitin’, the chapters in Ghostly Tales are arranged by the age of the prison, oldest to newest, with the oldest dating from 1610 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which is 70 years older than the Old Salem Witch Jail in Salem, Massachusetts. To be included in the book, the jails had to be open to the public for visiting. Many are museums that highlight a building’s unique history, but others house offices, shops, or bed and breakfasts. Stories were contributed by ghost hunters, tour guides, teachers, and grandmas. Some of the stories are just what a reader might expect of a ghost story—sobbing apparitions, scurrying sounds, cold spots in an otherwise warm room. But other stories, according to Joan, “are downright scary.” Some, such as the story of The Old Slave House, resonate with historical travesties. The majority of the hauntings in the stories involve prison-
ers determined to wreak unhappiness in the next life, while “some ghosts,” Joan writes in the book’s introduction, “seem to think they’re employees—if not owners—of whatever business has found new digs in an old jail. At the 1872 jail, turned B&B, in Arkansas, the long-deceased sheriff checks the locks for his guests—or does he think they’re prisoners?” And no book about jails, spiritchallenged or not, would be complete without a chapter about “The Rock,” Alcatraz Prison. Before its inception as a prison facility in the mid-1800s, Alcatraz Island was already known as “Evil Island” by Native Americans. Housing some of the 20th century’s most dangerous and infamous criminals only
For more information about Joan and her books, visit her website at www.joanuptonhall.com.
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ary Ellen Butler’s foray into theater began with a crash. Literally. In 1987, she was a United States Army captain stationed in Germany. One evening as she was driving home from a farewell celebration for a comrade, her seven years in the army came to an abrupt halt, courtesy of a drunk driver, a blind curve, and a year of rehab. Since then, Mary Ellen has taken the management skills she learned in the army and scripted a life for herself in theater. Georgetown View talked with her to learn about her work as the Palace Theatre’s artistic director and about how the Palace benefits Georgetown. DESCRIBE YOUR WORK AS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR. I am the person who is supposed to be the visionary for the future. As the demographic of individuals living in Williamson County grows and changes, I find ways to develop and grow our theatrical offerings. Every spring I research and select our shows,
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and schedule the placement of shows for the upcoming year. I also hire the other directors and supervise each show that is performed in the theater. HOW MANY SHOWS DOES THE PALACE THEATRE OFFER YEARLY? We put on shows for five weeks and then are off between shows for two weeks. That totals eight shows on our main stage. Also, our education program puts on additional performances. All in all, if you count the kids’ shows, we’re putting on almost 40 shows per year. “OFFERING THE COMMUNITY OPTIONS TO PARTICIPATE IN QUALITY COMMUNITY THEATER” IS PART OF YOUR MISSION STATEMENT. HOW DOES PALACE THEATRE LIVE THAT OUT? Through our education pro-
gram, we have classes for children and adults. We also have an “Acting with Autism” class that is doing quite well. And every second Tuesday, we have a “Dancing with Parkinson’s” class that we do with Scott and White. People with Parkinson’s are given a therapy session through dance; it’s wonderful. WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE SURE THAT GEORGETOWN RESIDENTS KNOW ABOUT THE PALACE? People may not be aware that we have an induction hearing loop. If someone has a hearing aid, they can sit in the body of our theater, flip the switch on their hearing aid, and hear the show with that special device on our soundboard. Also, the first Saturday of every performance, we put on a special show for individuals who are blind or sight-impaired.
For more information, including Palace Theatre’s season calendar and education opportunities, visit www.georgetownpalace.com/.
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n a field about forty-five minutes down a winding, bumpy road west of Georgetown, a man kneels to read a metal plaque on a cement block beneath scraggly oaks. The tombstone bears the man’s own name, cause of death, and when he died: “Joshua Harris. Cocaine. May 22, 2005.” When Joshua visits his tombstone today, he remembers how it became the first of a long line of tombstones in this unusual graveyard, located in the middle of a former campground that is now part of a discipleship program for men with substance abuse: Oak Ridge Discipleship House. At Oak Ridge, Joshua helps men overcome addiction. Through his work, he’s found that surrendering, rather than changing behavioral habits, often allows people to leave substance abuse behind. Joshua’s own story of his death starts with a vicious fight during what he had thought was a normal childhood.
CHILDHOOD BETRAYAL Ten-year-old Joshua hoisted himself up to look out his bedroom window. He’d heard a lot of yelling, and then the door slammed. He watched his father get in his car and drive down the road. Little did he know, as he watched the taillights disappear, that he would never see his father again. All he knew was that his hero had left and that he was alone with his abusive stepmother. The “step-monster” beat Joshua daily with “high heels and brushes and anything that was close.” His father, who had never touched him, was his source of comfort— until the worst night of Joshua’s life. “Did you ever have a time in your life that was so chaotic and crazy that you just felt like everything was moving in slow motion?” Joshua asks. “This night felt like that.” A few days after his father left, Joshua learned that his father
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had been sexually abusing Joshua’s fourteen-year-old sister for years, and she finally told her stepsisters, who told their mother about it. Soon after Joshua’s dad left, the stepmother, blaming the children in some way for the mess, kicked Joshua and his sister out. Joshua lived in an orphanage in Houston, estranged from his siblings, for the rest of his childhood. Years later, Joshua found out that his brother had also been a victim of his father’s abuse. When he was nineteen years old, Joshua went out on his own “with a huge, gigantic hole in my heart and with a ‘poor me’ chip on my shoulder as big as could be,” Joshua said. “When you have a big sore on your heart, you’ll do whatever you can to make it feel better.” And for Joshua, that looked like using cocaine. ANGRY AND ADDICTED From the first time Joshua sniffed a line of white powder, when he was twenty-one, he felt numb and lost. He began drinking as well and frequently would drive under the influence. One day, he got set up and busted for dealing drugs. When he got parole, Joshua returned to his old lifestyle. “For years, I rode that roller coaster of drugs and alcohol and stealing and all of the things that come along with that life,” he says. He tried to fake a drug test but didn’t pass and was given five years of jail time, so he ran to Florida. While he was there, he says, “God put this conviction in me to come back.” That feeling got stronger and stronger until he came back to Texas and turned himself in. “I said, ‘I don’t want to be a mess, I don’t want to live like this anymore.’ And I had said that lots of times throughout this process. But this was the first time I said, ‘Lord Jesus, I don’t want to live like this anymore,’” he recalls. He found a Gideon New Testament and said, “If there’s really a God who loves me, help me!” He also met Pastor Bob Davis, who helped Joshua understand the Bible and invited Joshua to live with him when he got out. Joshua was stunned, but he seized the opportunity and became a Christian two months after his release. 42
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FINAL SURRENDER Everything looked better for many years. Joshua married and the couple had two children. But old wounds reopened. As a father himself, Joshua couldn’t understand why his father had abused his older siblings and left him. He hired a company to find his dad. The search was successful, but two weeks before Joshua could meet with him, his father vanished again. Two weeks after that, Joshua was snorting cocaine again. For a year and a half, he returned to drug addiction, devastated by anger and a lack of closure. His wife left a voicemail saying he was not welcome at home nor in his children’s lives. Intensely ashamed, he took enough cocaine, doctors later told him, to have killed five men. But instead of dying, he heard a voice asking him over and over, “Are you ready?” “Ready for what?” Joshua shouted. He felt the response: “Are you ready to change?” Then, Joshua says, “I heard God say audibly, ‘Pick up the phone and call Pop,’ which is what I called Bob Davis.” He called and Bob answered, saying, “Son, I’ve been waiting for you to call for three weeks.” He suggested that Joshua go to Denver City, Texas, to a six-month discipleship facility called Trinity Baptist Men’s Home. “When a man has come to the end of himself, when he’s hit rock bottom and his spirit is broken—whether through drugs, alcohol, or other life hurts, habits, and hang-ups—he must be completely ready and willing to dedicate at least six months of his immediate future to burying his old former self and becoming a new creation through Christ Jesus,” Joshua says. That’s exactly what happened at the discipleship home. Joshua attended chapel several times a day and memorized forty-five Bible verses. One of the passages stood out to him: John 15:5, in which Jesus says, “Apart from me, you can do nothing.” He believed that he needed to surrender to Christ in order to get free from addiction. “At chapel one day, I literally said, ‘Jesus, I’m not getting up from here until you take all this pain in my heart,’” Joshua recalls. For an hour, Joshua knelt in front of
“We try to remove, not so much by behavior modification, but by getting in their hearts and getting all the bad roots out. The ultimate goal is for participants to heal relationships: with God, themselves, and others.” the chapel’s altar, “crying, snotting, and giving it up.” He forgave those who had hurt him and let go of his anger toward his father—and when he got up, it was all gone. With the pain went the desire to ever use cocaine again. OAK RIDGE DISCIPLESHIP The experience changed Joshua, who wanted to offer a safe place for men to undergo the same transformation and freedom he felt at the altar. In 2009, he started Oak Ridge Discipleship Home, a residential Christian character-building course designed to remove bad habits and develop good ones, to do just that. “We try to remove, not so much by behavior modification, but by getting in their hearts and getting all the bad roots out,” Joshua says. The ultimate goal is
for participants to heal relationships: with God, themselves, and others. They hope to conquer substance abuse and reunite their family—just as Joshua was restored to his children and wife within a few months of leaving Trinity Baptist Discipleship Home. OLD MAN CEMETERY Joshua was touched by another passage in scripture in which Paul uses an analogy of burying an old lifestyle and starting a new one, and Joshua uses this passage to describe the type of surrender he experienced. The Old Man Graveyard—what Joshua calls the “pride and joy” of the discipleship program— helps men encounter this mystical experience in a tangible way. It is important for the participants and
their families to see their tombstone to provide closure on the old patterns and to give the man a chance to be a new person. Many of the men, including Joshua, take time every year to go back to look at their old tombstone and remember what “God has done in their lives.” Currently, there are fifty-seven engraved tombstones among the oak trees. Of the fifty-seven graduates of the discipleship program, seventy-five percent continue to live substance-free lives and fifty percent are involved in ministry. Joshua’s goal is to see the “Old Man Cemetery” filled—not to have accomplished the goal, but because the accomplishment would represent more people given new chances at life.
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s I walk the long ramp to the underground cave, the cool, humid air hits my face, and I take a sudden breath. While a large tour group follows another guide on the original tour that’s been open to the public since 1966, Dawn Stanco, assistant manager at Inner Space Cavern, guides me on a different path to a brand-new tour, Hidden Passages. She offers a flashlight and ushers me through the entryway. “Will you install lights like the original tour?” I ask, pointing the flashlight at my feet, then back up to see where I’m going. “It’s not the plan,” Dawn says with a laugh. “This tour is a more intimate and quiet look at the cave,” she explains. Inner Space dug out paths for the Hidden Passages tour so that a person of average height can stand up and walk to see something new and different. “We always knew the rooms were there. Hidden Passages was part of our Wild Cave Tour, which is our spelunking tour. Before we built a path connecting the rooms, you
had to climb and crawl through to them,” Taunya Vessels, general manager of Inner Space, explains. The Wild Cave Tour is still offered as well. Five miles of available cave provide plenty of crawling and climbing for the more adventurous types. “We did some surveying, and this entry is actually under the I-35 access road,” Dawn says as we walk further into the dark tun-
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nel. She points her light to where the floor was formerly shoulder high. I envision the cramped space spelunkers once had to crawl through and am thankful to be walking upright. Dawn explains that we can’t touch any formations inside the cave: “They grow one cubic inch per one hundred years. If we deposit oils from our hands, it will destroy a thousand-year-old formation.” Stalagmites, stalactites, flow stones, and soda straws formations sparkle, icicle-like, in the glow of our flashlights. We see white and tan formations with names like Mountain Range, Stair Step Column, Squid, and—my favorite—the Dragon’s Mouth. We come across a rim pool covered in “lily pads” of calcite. I stop walking to hear each drip of water in the darkness. It’s hard to believe such serenity lies just beneath the chaos of Interstate 35. The new walkways for Hidden Passages took just under three years to excavate for tours. “It was basically a three-man job. These guys used jackhammers
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and hand tools. Inch by inch, they cracked away rocks,” says Brandie Clark, assistant manager of Inner Space. They also built a bridge over a small canyon and carved out stairs for easier access to several areas. If you’ve taken the Adventure tour, the Hidden Passages tour will extend your knowledge of the cave. “Hidden Passages is a quiet, intimate look at the cave. You get different information than from the Adventure tour,” Brandie says,
“and you get more time to look with your flashlight and see the delicate, untouched areas in the cave that haven’t been generally opened to the public.” After making a loop back and connecting with the tunnel leading out, Dawn and I turn off our flashlights and make our way up the ramp to the sunlit world. For me, the thrill was in taking the path less traveled and experiencing the cave in its more natural, dark, and untouched state. Each time the beam of
Runs daily at 11:00, 1:00, and 3:00 Tour is 1½ hours long No more than 10 people per tour Must wear closed-toed shoes Not recommended for children age 6 and under • Persons with physical limitations are discouraged from this tour. (If you are unable to walk a mile comfortably on an unpaved surface, climb stairs, and walk yourself down the ramp and back up again, this may not be the tour for you. Please ask about our Adventure Tour.) • Hidden Passages Tour tickets: Adult $24.95; Children $15.95 For information on all available tours at Inner Space Cavern, please visit www.innerspacecavern.com.
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The Play’s the Thing
The Springers helped theater shine for “town and gown” BY
NANCY BACCHUS
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bove the Palace stage, bold letters proclaim their names: Frances and Angus Springer. Georgetown newcomers can only guess at the Springers’ impact on local theater, but many students of Georgetown High School or Southwestern University remember with fond certainty. From 1950 to 1965, few students graduated from GHS without taking speech, drama, or senior English from Mrs. Springer. And from 1943 until retirement in 1978, Dr. Springer directed a cornucopia of stage productions through Mask and Wig Players. Robert Bruce Sterk (SU ’71) recalls Dr. Springer demanding and
getting “the best out of us … forcing us to think about the words spilling out of our mouths … he and Frances taught us where to find our own soul’s home.” The Springers opened their adventure by eloping on April Fool’s Day, April 1, 1933; Angus often commented on the date with a wink and smile, “It’s been a joke ever since.” Angus taught in Kansas after completing his master’s degree at Northwestern University. World War II was in full swing when they moved to Georgetown with eight-yearold Mary Ann, four-year-old
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Bill, and a Southwestern contract for only one year. When a neighbor asked what his father did, young Bill replied, “He cleans the stage at Southwestern.” This stage, centerpiece of the Cullen Building’s old auditorium, offered special challenges. Only nine feet deep with no backstage, it was Southwestern’s only theater until 1956. Mary Ann Whitfield recalls her father creatively extending the stage, utilizing his third-floor classroom for some productions, and doing “amazing things” with lighting. She says, “Daddy would’ve had a ball with today’s digital capabilities.” Both Springer siblings remember their childhood being “out of the ordinary,” filled with students coming and going from
Linda Scarbrough, executive editor of The Williamson County Sun and author of Road, River, and Ol’ Boy Politics: A Texas County’s Path from Farm to Supersuburb, recalls Frances Springer teaching her to “walk like a guy” for her role in A Little Prince and serving as a “task mistress” who inspired her to master critical writing skills.
the Olive Street bungalow. The youngsters appeared in campus productions, Mary Ann in Watch on the Rhine and I Remember Mama, and Bill in Our Town. Angus, whose students sometimes called him Papa, directed Our Town multiple times. During several summers, Angus pursued his doctorate at New York University, and in 1948, Angus and Frances performed in summer stock at Cooperstown, New York. The kids watched rehearsals, nine-year-old Bill serving as unofficial (and unappreciated) prompter. Throughout high school, Mary Ann and Bill participated in UIL competition under Frances’s tutelage. Bill represented Georgetown at state debate finals, and Mary Ann appeared in the first of Frances’s many one-act plays that advanced to state. Later, Angus served as Bill’s major professor, preparing his son for a television career. Mary Ann describes her parents, especially Frances, as “progressive, even-handed, nonjudgmental. Mother would meet troubled teenagers, give them a hammer to build [stage] sets, and they would follow her anywhere.” Frances found time to produce an annual GHS senior play, nurture a sorority chapter at Southwestern, and support Georgetown’s early Friends’ Library. Together, they enjoyed Angus’s sabbatical at Westminster Theater in London. They were the only couple in Texas who both received the Texas Educational Theater Founders Award. In 1982, shortly before his death, Angus published Exits and Entrances about Southwestern theater. To the Springers, educational theater meant more than entertainment as they guided students to magical heights on stage. Later, when Linda Scarbrough and Laura Weir Clarke were finalizing work on the restoration of the Palace Theatre, Laura suggested honoring the Springers’ contributions to theater in Georgetown. They created a brochure about the campaign, which garnered generous donations large and small, along with many heartfelt testimonials. When the stage bearing the Springers’ names was dedicated, one former student came all the way from Detroit for the occasion. These and other memories linger, and the show goes on.
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en years ago, Reed and Glenna Iwami entered Myanmar, a sovereign state in Southeast Asia that’s about the size of Texas. After nearly 30 hours of continuous travel, their bodies were drained, but their hearts fluttered with excitement. Soon, they’d reunite with their eldest son, who, along with his family, was living out his calling in Myanmar by working as a missionary with the International Mission Board. “At that time, we knew very little about the country,” Reed recalls, “so when we landed, we were struck with this overwhelming feeling of oppression—the military were in the streets holding rifles and guns, the monetary and educational systems were in shambles, the vast population was surviving on very little… . I later learned that the military junta—which rules the country—is regarded as one of the top five most repressive human rights violators in the world.”
Despite the many hardships and injustices that Reed witnessed, he couldn’t help but admire how the Myanmar people continued to present themselves with grace, love, and compassion. “On that first trip, my daughter, who was in high school at the time, wanted to stop and take a photo. So we pulled along the side of an old dirt road. It was raining, and we saw an old man sitting by a tree, cooking his lunch with charcoal. When he saw my daughter coming down the road,
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he pulled leaves off the tree and put them on the path so her shoes wouldn’t get dirty. Then, he offered her part of his meal,” Reed remembers with awe. “During that two-week visit, we fell in love with the people and began to better understand the issues they faced.” When the Iwamis returned home, they began scheduling mission trips into Myanmar; and in 2007 Reed banded together with fellow Georgetown resident Gary Watkins to start Love For Myan-
mar, a nonprofit humanitarian organization that “provide[s] comprehensive aid, support, and programs to the people of Myanmar.” Since then, Love For Myanmar has partnered with churches throughout Georgetown— including Crestview Baptist Church, their “home base”—to bring about positive change by raising money to provide food, clothing, education, and medical supplies to orphaned children in Myanmar. The organization has also started a neighborhood school, set up three micro-finance teams, and supported yearly mission teams.
Reed, who leads the mission trips, says that when teams visit the orphanages, “we’ll take them food, sing songs, eat with them, do crafts, and mentor them. And we always strive to bring a little laughter into their lives.” After 10 years and more than 15 trips to Myanmar, Reed has seen more and more people take an active part in helping to improve the country’s human rights landscape. “Things are still pretty rough, but we’re seeing positive change,” says Reed. “Last year, Obama visited Myanmar; he was the first American president to visit the country. … And I think we’ll see more support in the future.”
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ust about the time that backyard summer barbeques give way to fall festivals and football tailgating, Gary Davis will fire up his new custom barbeque pit. He may joke around when asked where he bought it, but don’t be fooled by his quiet humor. Unlike the mass-produced metal behemoths lined up at local stores, Gary’s pit is the result of his own design and efforts. As a child, Gary yearned to design and build things. Machines and gadgets fascinated him—often to the consternation of his parents. “My mom and dad used to come home, and I would’ve taken the toaster apart. They would say, ‘Oh, dear, put that back together.’ That was the common phrase in my house. I was always a tinkerer and a builder,” says Gary. One day, Gary found his medium—metal. His high school’s agriculture department offered a welding class. Mesmerized, he watched from afar as dancing beads of light fused two pieces of metal into one and a pile of
scrap metal slowly turned into a finished creation. But Gary wasn’t able to fit welding in among the sports, band, and college prep classes. In 1987, after earning a degree in electrical engineering, Gary finally had free time to pursue a hobby seriously. He set up shop on the ranch first owned by his grandparents and bought a welder. Like any good engineer, he studied his craft. “I learned to weld by reading the instruction
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book that came with the welder,” Gary says, “that, and by making a lot of mistakes.” For nearly three decades, Gary has honed his skills, taking a methodical approach to his work. “The creation process for me is something that extends over a fairly long period of time,” Gary explains. “I don’t wake up one day, decide what I’m going to build, and then go build it the next day. I’m not that kind of guy.” His latest creation, aptly named “The Chameleon Pit,” is a massive barbeque pit with a set of interchangeable emblems and grills. He used his CNC Plasma Cutter—a computerized tool that cuts precision designs into metal—to fabricate them. From grills displaying the Panther logo of Liberty Hill, where his children attended school, to the Methodist flame, Gary incorporates one-ofa-kind touches to personalize his work and share it with others. “One of my favorite things to do is to find a productive communityor charity-driven outlet for my talents,” Gary says. Gary started researching and
Come see the Chameleon in action as Gary smokes brisket at Wellspring United Methodist Church’s fall festival, Saturday, October 18. Go to www.wellumc.org for more information on the festival.
planning the Chameleon last year. His goal: construct a multiuse pit large enough to feed several hundred people at one time. What came out of his shop this past July is a handmade, 3,000-pound barbeque pit with eight 28×21-inch grills mounted to a custombuilt trailer. The Chameleon can cook 350 pounds of brisket at once—enough to feed 300 to 400 festival-goers or football fans—or a few hundred of Gary’s closest friends.
Gary’s the first to admit that his projects are more functional than artistic. Whether he’s building a barbeque pit or creating a new corral system for his ranch, Gary’s mission is to channel his hobby towards useful creations that serve the community. “I have my day job where I use my mind, my college degree, and my experience to earn a living. And when five o’clock comes, I can do a 180-degree
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glanced down at my hands, horrified—but not surprised— to see them trembling in fear. “You’re good to go,” said JD, one of two ziplining guides for our Lake Travis Ziplining Adventures group tour. He’d just finished securing me to the line. “Step off whenever you’re ready.” In that moment, I was a fledgling, learning to fly. Taking a deep breath, I walked off the block and surrendered to trust. The next few seconds were a blur of trees, nervousness, and excited energy, as I careened through the Texas Hill Country, landing swiftly on the ziplining block 300 feet across the way. “How was it?” asked Parker, the second tour guide, as he disconnected my gear from the steel cable. Adrenaline coursed through my body as I responded: “Exhilarating!” I’ve never been an adrenaline
junkie—admittedly, it’s been at least 15 years since my last rollercoaster ride—but you don’t have to be hooked on adrenaline rushes to enjoy ziplining. The scenic lakeside views alone are worth the experience. Sure, our group included some thrill-seekers—one younger couple was certified in ziplining, spelunking, and cave diving—but also among our group of 12 were kids, married couples, and grandparents, all wanting to experience the freedom of flight. Like any bird trying out her wings, with each flight my fear lessened; I became increasingly aware of the gorgeous greenery and Lake Travis backdrop. By the second line, I was flailing my legs as if I were running through air;
the third zipline, which spanned 1,800 feet, had me releasing one arm from the line and then the other. By the fifth and final zipline—this one running 2,800 feet and reaching up to 20 stories high—I’d built up the courage to release both hands from the zipline and hold them out to my sides, imitating Kate Winslet’s character Rose from the movie Titanic. The entire tour lasted about three hours, with opportunities in between zips to calm down from the adrenaline while we hiked uphill to our next line. Throughout the tour, our guides laughed, joked, offered us copious amounts of water, and put us all at ease. The bird-like experience is one I’ll never forget, but perhaps next time I’ll try their guided moonlight tour—then I’ll finally learn what it feels like to be a bat taking a night flight in the gorgeous Texas Hill Country.
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Relationship to the Rescue Nineveh Ministries mentors help teens at risk find hope BY
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huck Cutrer, a longtime Nineveh Ministries mentor, admits that he felt apprehensive the first time he met with teens at risk who chose to participate with Nineveh at the Williamson County Academy—an alternative education program for teens previously engaged in delinquent acts. He pictured dangerous gang members. That misconception soon faded. “It was scary at first, until I met the kids and realized they were just normal kids with a not-sonormal past,” Chuck explains. “They aren’t dangerous or gangster kids, just misdirected.” Chuck discovered that many of the teens lacked parental leadership because of incarcerated parents or parents caught up in substance abuse. In many situations, absent fathers left teens without male role models. That’s a fact
“It’s really simple. Just get to know them and let them get to know you in the hope that they open up and share. They have a tough road, and we need to show them that others care.” Chuck hopes to see changed as he encourages more men to get involved in mentoring. “It’s really simple,” Chuck advises. “Just get to know them and let them get to know you in the hope that they open up and share. They have a tough road, and we need to show them that others care.” At Nineveh Ministries—a Christian-based organization serving Williamson, Travis, and Tarrant counties and the Gainesville State
School—adults who have completed background checks and training are partnered with teens to accompany them on a path of self-growth. Teens get to know themselves through a three-step process, including testing via the MyersBriggs Type Indicator personality assessment and Strong Interest Inventory Test, a career aptitude guide. A spiritual gifts test is also
Nineveh Ministries hopes to raise enough funds to build a central meeting facility. The annual fundraiser, slated this year for October 28th, is hosted by Celebration Church. Events include a silent auction, a meal, and an opportunity for teens to share their testimony. To get involved, visit www.ninevehministries.com.
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available upon request. Nineveh hosts multiple job training opportunities, which draw on the skills of professionals from the community, and encourages social gatherings to promote positive community relations. In Williamson County, Nineveh director Lorie Goggins witnesses the impact of Nineveh’s life applications at work. With the help of mentors, teens discover a brighter future. “At the last cookout, I glanced over at a table with three teens,” Lorie reflects. “Each of them represented a different gang. Anywhere else they would have been fighting each other, but at this safe place, they are able to sit down, eat dinner, and laugh.” The freedom to feel safe remains a challenge for many teens who grew up
in at-risk environments, and it takes dedication for mentors to build trust. Chuck got a chance to lay a foundation of trust when he recently went above the call of his mentorship to help two brothers. As he began mentoring the boys, he struggled to connect. On the younger child’s birthday, he took the brothers shopping and chaperoned while the older child tried to convince the younger to spend his birthday money. The little brother had $90 to spend, yet as he considered various toys, he shook his head in despair. He confessed to Chuck that he really wanted his dog, which he believed to be at a Georgetown shelter. Though Chuck knew an effort to find the dog might prove futile, he also knew the boy
needed help. The child had one parent in jail and another battling an addiction. Chuck seized the opportunity to show his devotion. He drove the boys to several shelters and found the dog, just minutes before it became adoptable to the public. “I often see the kids disappointed by circumstances and people,” Chuck explains. “I was determined not to do that. If I hadn’t been there, his dog would have been given up for adoption.” Chuck’s dedication is a common trait of Nineveh Ministries’ mentors, who carry out the ministry’s mission—to form bonds with teens and help them to gain a positive vision of their future—as they walk alongside teens on a challenging path.
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I’ve been Trolled Sometimes, parents don’t feel the “empty nest” effect until long after the chickens have flown the coop BY
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any of my friends had separation anxiety the day their kids left for college. I didn’t. I felt as free as a baby bird taking its first solo flight. Free as a mare let out to pasture. It had been a nerve-wracking year for all of us, trying to decide which college was best for our daughter (and affordable), making sure all the admissions paperwork was finished on time, that the SAT and ACT tests were taken and other miscellaneous deadlines met. And then there was that group of essays in my inbox waiting to be reviewed. Finally, the coveted acceptance letter to one of my daughter’s top choice colleges arrived. Now that the whole admissions process was over and a college chosen, she was happy and I could breathe. I gallivanted around with my friends without a care in the world. I tried out the new
restaurant downtown. I went to the movies. I read books from cover to cover. No dashing off to the post office to get that last application in. No essays to read. No more drilling on SAT questions or reminding her to fill out scholarship applications. No tax returns to hunt down and photocopy. Now that she was settled and happy on campus, I didn’t have to cook or drive as much. I was a free woman indeed. But after a year of so-called freedom and as I neared the bottom of my bucket list, I became keenly aware of the eerie silence in my home. I’d think I heard her footsteps, but it was just the dogs scrambling after a ball. An occasional bark or the whir of the refrigerator was the only sound I heard. No one asked me, “What’s for dinner?” anymore. I remember the Nutella I sprang for the day before she left for college. It’s still sitting on the pantry shelf. I wish I had bought it while we were scurrying to finish the college forms. Maybe we would have taken more snack breaks
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and just enjoyed one another’s company while licking chocolateladen spoons. She’s a young adult now, and “Where’d the time go?” is more than a cliché. People warned me, when she was a toddler, that time would go fast. But it really feels like it was just yesterday that we were playing with Legos and fishing for worms in the rain puddles. Sometimes now, when I’m in HE-B and hear a young voice calling “Mommy,” I think it sounds just like her. I’ve even answered on a few occasions, much to the knowing amusement of the other mothers who also turn around to see who’s calling. Then I remember one of my daughter’s favorite sayings: “You’ve been trolled, Mommy.” Yes, I’ve been trolled. Trolled into thinking I had this “daughteraway-at-college” thing under control. Trolled into believing that once my child left for college, I could breathe easy. I don’t breathe easy; I breathe differently. My breaths now are full of prayers for her safety and her happiness and faith and for the restraint not to call her every day—prayers that our hearts will be held together until I see her again. In the meantime, would someone please send me a college essay to review? It’s lonely over here.
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EXTRA VIEW
Flashes of Fear San Gabriel Writers’ League’s flash fiction anthology BY
EMILY TREADWAY
Flashes of Fear will soon be re-released on Amazon. For more information on it and other SGWL projects, visit www.sgwl.net
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our Halloweens ago the San Gabriel Writers’ League published a flash fiction anthology—Flashes of Fear: 41 Chilling Short Stories & Poems. Flash fiction is an abbreviated form of storytelling, sometimes called “short short fiction,” in which a short story must be written in 1,000 words or fewer. Taking brevity even further, Joan Upton Hall challenged the writers in Flashes of Fear to tell their stories in 100 words or fewer. “I had learned in a project one time how much you really can say in a onehundred word piece,” she says. Sam Holland, who was president of the San Gabriel Writers’ League at the time the book was written, says, “I always felt that my job as president was to set the vision for the group.” He and his board had known they wanted to write some kind of book and, while Joan set the parameters, it was Sam’s idea to
tackle flash fiction. “[You] throw suggestions out to the group, particularly to the board, and see what we can get some traction on.” Flashes of Fear had that traction. The writers didn’t think it was possible. Some didn’t see the point of the exercise. Many insisted they needed at least 200 words to write a story. Joan says, “I told them I would help and they would be able to do it.” And they did. With Joan’s guidance, 41 writers completed the task. “The people who did it were very pleased,” she says. “They learned how to limit their words to make them more powerful.” In short, potent doses, Flashes of Fear has something for every reader, not just the horror lovers. Joan wrote a limerick, “Three Ways to Make a Ghost of Yourself.” Poems capture the childhood joy of Halloween and the happy, simple grin of a jack-o’-lantern. Vampires, goblins,
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ghosts, and clawed monsters all make appearances, and readers will also find flashes of humor in stories such as Glenda Dickey’s A Tale with No Tale or Vicki Jordan’s darkly satisfying Trick or Treat. Interspersed among the stories and poems are eerie lines from authors such as William Shakespeare, Bram Stoker, and Edgar Allan Poe and original artwork created by SGWL members and professional artists Jason Minor and Ross Carnes. Carnes also designed the book’s cover art. “Both are extraordinary artists,” says Sam, who also contributed stories to the anthology. The San Gabriel Writers’ League is proud of their book. “It was a challenge, but it was fun,” Sam says. “It was fun,” Joan agrees, “because you were wondering, ‘How much more idea can I get in there?’” Sam adds, “[As a writer] you’re getting outside of your comfort zone doing something like Flashes of Fear, but it’s very rewarding.” The same could be said for reading the book. Just don’t read it alone at night. You never know what the next page will bring.
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IN THE KITCHEN
Don’t Go Breakin’ My Heart
A love-hate relationship with the delicious but demanding artichoke
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all weather treats those of us living in warm climates to a second harvest of artichokes. An essential item in the Italian diet, the perennial vegetable presents itself as hearty and durable but requires a patient and delicate hand. Choose artichokes that are firm and heavy, with stiff, tightly-packed leaves. The outer color may be bright green, blue-green, or even violet, according to the variety. Because the artichoke is a flower bud, open leaves are a sign that the vegetable is over-ripe and will be hard. Uncooked artichokes may be kept fresh for up to three days if their stalks are put into water, like flowers. Once cooked, they will keep for 24 hours. Using fresh artichokes means learning to “turn” them—rotating the artichoke as you trim the leaves and choke away to reveal the delicious bottom of the flower.
How to turn an artichoke bottom: 1. Snap or cut off the stalk and remove all the large outer leaves with a knife. 2. Remove the slightly loose, large leaves that cover the small clump of tender leaves on top of the choke. 3. Carefully cut away the small clump of tender leaves, sliding the knife over the top of the choke and leaving it in place on the bottom. 4. Pull or scoop out the inedible hairy choke, taking care to remove it completely. Use a small spoon to scrape the bottom clean. 5. Drizzle or rub the bottom with lemon juice to prevent discoloration.
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Artichoke Dip Ingredients: 2 jars (28 oz.) of artichoke hearts, drained and chopped ½ cup mayonnaise or Greek yogurt ½ cup plus 1 Tbsp grated Parmesan cheese 1 Tbsp lemon juice 1 garlic clove, minced 2 green onions, chopped Preparation: 1. Preheat oven to 425° F. In a food processor, combine artichokes, mayonnaise or Greek yogurt, ½ cup parmesan, lemon juice, and garlic. Pulse until smooth. 2. Add green onions and pulse to combine. 3. Place in a small baking dish and top with additional Parmesan cheese. 4. Bake 30 minutes until golden and bubbling. Serve with pita chips.
Artichoke and Tomato Salad Ingredients: 5 large tomatoes, cut into wedges ¼ tsp salt ¼ tsp black pepper 1 jar artichoke hearts, marinated, quartered, and drained ½ cup red onion, sliced thin 1 can black olives, sliced and drained 2 Tbsp parsley, chopped 1 Tbsp olive oil ½ Tbsp balsamic vinegar 2 garlic cloves, minced ½ cup feta cheese, crumbled Preparation: 1. Arrange tomato wedges on a serving platter. 2. Combine remaining ingredients in a small bowl and spoon over tomatoes.
Grilled Artichokes with Chipotle Cream Dip
Sausage and Artichoke Stuffed Tomatoes
Ingredients: 4 large artichokes 1 lemon, cut in half 4 Tbsp butter 4 Tbsp olive oil 2 Tbsp white wine 2 Tbsp lemon juice Salt Black pepper
Ingredients: 2 pounds ground pork 8 large tomatoes 2 jars artichoke hearts, drained and chopped 1 cup Panko bread crumbs 2 cups Parmesan cheese, grated 3 whole eggs 2 cloves garlic, minced Salt Black pepper 1 Tbsp fresh mint, chopped Olive oil
Preparation: 1. Preheat outdoor grill to medium. 2. Cut small leaves off artichokes. Cut off the top point of the larger leaves with scissors, and rub edges with cut lemon as you go. Squeeze the juice of the lemon halves into a bowl with cold water, and soak artichokes for 10 minutes. Then rinse. 3. Place artichokes in a large steamer over boiling water and steam about 25 minutes. Allow to cool. 4. Cut artichokes in half lengthwise and remove choke with a spoon. 5. In a small saucepan over medium heat, melt butter and olive oil. Add white wine and lemon juice, and hold warm. 6. Grill the artichokes and baste with the butter and white wine mixture. Grill until golden and heated through, about 5 to 10 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Chipotle Cream Dip Ingredients: 1 cup mayonnaise 1 chipotle chili, from can of chipotle en adobo 2 tsp adobo sauce, from can ½ lime, squeezed and juice reserved Preparation: 1. Combine all ingredients in a food processor. 2. Pulse to combine. Serve with grilled artichoke. 76
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Street Maintenance Sales Tax November 4 Election in Georgetown
In 2002, 2006, and 2010, Georgetown voters approved a quarter-of-onecent sales tax to be used only for street maintenance. This dedicated 0.25 percent sales tax has a four year sunset provision. Reauthorization of the street maintenance sales tax is on the November 4 ballot in Georgetown. Growth of Street Network. Since 1994, the City’s street network has grown from 222 lane miles to 610 lane miles. That’s 275 percent larger in 20 years. Street Maintenance Funding. The quarter-cent sales tax provides the majority of funding for street maintenance in Georgetown. Quarter-cent sales tax revenue of $19.2 million has been dedicated to street maintenance in Georgetown since it went into effect in 2003. No Increase to Tax Rate. This proposition does not increase the sales tax rate. It does generate revenue to pay for maintenance on streets all over the city. Shoppers Pay Sales Tax. Unlike a property tax, anyone shopping in Georgetown pays the 0.25 percent sales tax for street maintenance. This includes people shopping in stores, eating at restaurants, or making other retail purchases in Georgetown. Voter Approval. If approved by voters, quarter-cent sales tax revenue for streets continues until March 2019. If it is not approved, revenue stops in April 2015.
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