#penn&pauper

[motownfiction]

dirty blade

Sadie stands in the kitchen of her new apartment, chopping up a tomato. She’s making pesto penne for dinner tonight. It’s Thursday, the night when Daniel’s mother used to make the best dinner of the week – the night where she still makes the best dinner of the week, just not for Daniel anymore, on account of his marriage to Sadie two months ago. But Sadie wants to make it feel the way it used to, so she puts on “That’s Life” and gets to boiling water and chopping up tomatoes. Daniel will be home from his last class any minute now.

Really, Sadie should have started making dinner an hour ago. But Lucy dropped by with Elenore, and she’s not one to turn away from an impromptu visit with her best friend (and her best goddaughter). She probably would have had them stay longer if she hadn’t looked at the time. In fact, she knows she would have.

It’s not that Daniel expects dinner on the table when he gets home from school or work. He didn’t grow up like that, except for on Thursday nights. He didn’t grow up like that, and he didn’t decide to get married for the antiquity. They might be the only couple in the world who proposed to each other. Sadie thought that when they got married, that’s how life would be: equal and even, just like when they got engaged at the mall. Most days, it’s just like that.

But then, there are Thursdays.

And Sadie finds herself playing the role of a mother hen with no chickens.

She finishes chopping up the tomato and looks at the dirty blade before she drops it in the kitchen sink. She’s not sure how much time passes as she stares at the little red flecks. Probably not that long. It doesn’t matter because it feels like an hour. She can hear Frank Sinatra in the back of her thoughts.

I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet / a pawn and a king …

As she stares at those little red flecks on the knife, she wonders how many little hats she puts on during the week – during a single day. She wonders if anybody even notices her changing those hats … if it’s appreciated, or if she’s doing it all for nothing. Nothing but the expectation of Sadie. That’s just what Sadie does, she thinks, feeling almost out of her body. Sadie is whoever you need her to be.

Daniel’s happy to see pesto penne on the table tonight. He tells Sadie she didn’t have to do that. Sadie can tell he really means it, too. He’s not the kind of guy who needs dinner on the table as soon as he walks through the door. He wouldn’t even know how to be.

But Sadie thinks she has to be the kind of woman who can put it there.

And she’s just not sure what she’s supposed to do with that.

(part of @nosebleedclub february challenge -- day xx! it is technically still monday in my time zone, so i am technically still on time)

[canvaswolfdoll]

things i’m learning today

(from wikipedia, because i’m not going to bother with primary sources are kidding me)

1. columbus did his whole thing in 1492, which is super disorienting since my history class experience made the whole space between europe finding the place and the revolutionary war feel like it was a couple years at most. 2. europe started poking around california in the 15th century, but spain didn’t really buckle down there until 1769. 3. the dutch first opened trade with japan in the very early 1600s. 4. due to the trade routes not really utilizing the american continent, i don’t have a short cut for a hypothetical ‘japanese explorers land in california’. 5. despite what a sports team name claims, the gold rush started in 1848, not 49. 6. my hometown county is, in fact, part of north cal, not so cal, so that ends that bafflement from my youth. 6.5. though all my contemporaries wore so cal swag, and i never felt a draw to either the ‘north cal’ or the ‘so cal’ labels over ‘bay area’. 7. there’s a county named butte.

anyways, i was trying to figure out how ridiculously long i could say an inn has been owned by a character’s family, and my conclusion is a shrug with a confused raspberry.

[orbemnews]

What Should Museums Do With the Bones of the Enslaved? The Morton Cranial Collection, assembled by the 19th-century physician and anatomist Samuel George Morton, is one of the more complicated holdings of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Consisting of some 1,300 skulls gathered around the world, it provided the foundation for Morton’s influential racist theories of differences in intelligence among races, which helped establish the now-discredited “race science” that contributed to 20th century eugenics. In recent years, part of the collection was prominently displayed in a museum classroom, a ghoulish object lesson in an infamous chapter of scientific history. Last summer, after student activists highlighted the fact that some 50 skulls had come from enslaved Africans in Cuba, the museum moved the displayed skulls into storage with the rest of the collection. And last week, shortly after the release of outside research indicating roughly 14 other skulls had come from Black Philadelphians taken from pauper’s graves, the museum announced that the entire collection would be opened up for potential “repatriation or reburial of ancestors,” as a step toward “atonement and repair” for past racist and colonialist practices. The announcement was the latest development in a highly charged conversation about African-American remains in museum collections, especially those of the enslaved. In January, the president of Harvard University issued a letter to alumni and affiliates acknowledging that the 22,000 human remains in its collections included 15 from people of African descent who may have been enslaved in the United States, and pledging to review its policies of “ethical stewardship.” And now, that conversation may be set to explode. In recent weeks, the Smithsonian Institution, whose National Museum of Natural History houses the nation’s largest collection of human remains, has been debating a proposed statement on its own African-American remains. Those discussions, according to portions of an internal summary obtained by The New York Times, have involved people who have long prioritized repatriation efforts as well as those who take a more traditional view of the museum’s mission to collect, preserve and study artifacts, and who view repatriations as potential losses to science. In an interview last week, Lonnie G. Bunch III, the secretary of the Smithsonian, declined to characterize the deliberations but confirmed the museum was developing new guidance, which he said would be undergirded by a clear imperative: “to honor and remember.” “Slavery is in many ways the last great unmentionable in American discourse,” he said. “Anything we can do to both help the public understand the impact of slavery, and find ways to honor the enslaved, is at the top of my list.” Any new policy, Dr. Bunch said, would build on existing programs for Native American remains. It could involve not just the return of remains to direct descendants, but possibly to communities, or even reburial in a national African-American burial ground. And the museum, he said, would also strive to tell fuller stories of individuals whose remains stay in the collection. “It used to be that scholarship trumped community,” he said. “Now, it’s about finding the right tension between community and scholarship.” The quantity of enslaved and other African-American remains in museums may be modest compared with the estimated 500,000 Native American remains in U.S. collections, which were scooped up from burial grounds and 19th-century battlefields on what Samuel J. Redman, an associate professor of history at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, termed “an industrial scale.” But Dr. Redman, the author of “Bone Rooms,” a history of remains collecting by museums, said the moves by Harvard, Penn and especially the Smithsonian could represent a ���historical tipping point.” “It puts into shocking relief our need to address the problem of the historical exploitation of people of color in the collecting of their objects, their stories and their bodies,” he said. The complexities around African-American remains — who might claim them? how do you determine enslaved status? — are enormous. Even just counting them is a challenge. According to an internal Smithsonian survey that has not previously been made public, the 33,000 remains in its storerooms include those from roughly 1,700 African-Americans, including an estimated several hundred who were born before 1865, and so may have been enslaved. Some remains come from archaeological excavations. But the majority are from individuals who died in state-funded institutions for the poor, whose unclaimed bodies ended up in anatomical collections that were later acquired by the Smithsonian. In addition to the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, which requires museums to return remains to tribes or lineal descendants that request them, the Smithsonian allows remains from named individuals of any race to be claimed by descendants. While many African-American individuals in the anatomical collections are named, none have ever been reclaimed, according to the natural history museum. Kirk Johnson, the museum’s director, said that the anatomical collections, while disproportionately gathered from the poor and marginalized, included a cross-section of society in terms of age, sex, race, ethnicity and cause of death, which had made them extremely useful for forensic anthropologists and other researchers. But when it comes to African-American remains, a broader approach to repatriation — including a more expansive notion of “ancestor” and “descendant” — may be justified. “We’ve all had a season of becoming more enlightened about structural racism and anti-Black racism,” he said. “At the end of the day,” he added, “it’s a matter of respect.” Dr. Bunch, the Smithsonian’s first Black secretary, said he hoped its actions would provide a model for institutions across the country. Some who have studied the history of the trade in Black bodies say such guidance is sorely needed. “It would be wonderful to have an African-American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,” said Daina Ramey Berry, a professor of history at the University of Texas and author of “The Price for Their Pound of Flesh,” a study of the commodification of enslaved bodies from birth to death. “We’re finding evidence of enslaved bodies used at medical schools throughout the nation,” she said. “Some are still on display at universities. They need to be returned.” Penn’s Morton collection vividly embodies both the sordid side of the enterprise, and the way the meanings of collections change. Morton, a successful doctor who was an active member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, has sometimes been called the founder of American physical anthropology. He was a proponent of the theory of polygenesis, which held that some races were separate species, with separate origins. In books like the lavishly illustrated “Crania Americana,” from 1839, he drew on skull measurements to outline a proposed hierarchy of human intelligence, with Europeans on top and Africans in the United States at the bottom. Morton’s skull collection was said to be the first scholarly anatomical collection in the United States and, at the time, the largest. But after his death in 1851, it fell into obscurity, even as his racist ideas about differences in intelligence remained influential. In 1966, the collection was relocated to the Penn Museum, from the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. And it quickly became a useful tool for all sorts of scientific research — including studies aimed at debunking the racist ideas it had helped create. In a famous 1978 paper (later adapted for his book “The Mismeasure of Man”), the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould argued that Morton’s racist assumptions had led him to make incorrect measurements — thus turning Morton into a symbol not just of racist ideas, but of how bias can affect the seemingly objective procedures of science. Gould’s analysis of Morton’s measurements has itself been hotly disputed. But in recent years, the appropriateness of possessing the skulls at all has been sharply questioned by campus and local activists, particularly after student researchers connected with the Penn & Slavery Project drew attention to the remains of the enslaved Cubans. Christopher Woods, who became the museum’s director earlier this month, said the new repatriation policy (which was recommended by a committee) would not change the collection’s status as an active research source. Although there has been no access to the actual skulls since last summer, legitimate researchers can examine 3-D scans of the entire collection, including those of 126 Native Americans that have already been repatriated. “The collection was put together for nefarious purpose in the 19th century, to reinforce white supremacist racial views, but there’s still been good research done on that collection,” Dr. Woods said. When it comes to repatriation, he said, the moral imperative is clear, even if the specific course of action may not be. For the skulls of Black Philadelphians taken from pauper’s graves (a major source for cadavers of all races at the time), he said the hope is they can be reburied in a local African-American cemetery. The enslaved remains from Cuba, however, would require future research and possibly testing, as well as a search for an appropriate repatriation site, possibly in Cuba or West Africa, where most of the individuals were likely born. The Black remains may have become a particularly urgent issue, he said. But repatriation requests for any skulls would be considered. “This is an ethical question,” he said. “We need to consider the wishes of the communities from whence these people came.” Source link Orbem News #Bones #enslaved #Museums

[peterguralnick]

Roe Erister (Rick) Hall, 1932-2018

photo by Jacob Blickenstaff http://www.33-13.com/

Rick Hall may have been the most determined (some might say stubborn, Rick might even have owned up to bull-headed) man I ever met.

The first time I met him, I almost didn’t meet him at all.

Jimmy Johnson was the vehicle for my initial introduction in 1981. Jimmy was the guitarist with the second rhythm section at Rick’s FAME studios in Muscle Shoals (all of his rhythm sections were brilliant, this one was perhaps his most brilliant), and there had been a falling out when he and fellow members David Hood, Barry Beckett, and Roger Hawkins had decamped in 1969 to set up their own studio, Muscle Shoals Sound, in direct competition with FAME. There had been bad blood for a while, but everyone survived and thrived, and Jimmy, as affable a figure as you’re ever likely to meet in or out of the music business, had long since re-established a good, almost filial relationship with Rick.

I was just starting out on my book, Sweet Soul Music, at the time. Songwriter Donnie Fritts, a Florence native (Florence and Muscle Shoals are two of the area’s Quad-Cities), had introduced me to nearly everyone in Muscle Shoals except for Rick the year before, and now Jimmy took it upon himself to approach Rick on my behalf. Rick, Jimmy reported back to me, would be glad to do it – but when I arrived in town a few weeks later, all of a sudden, don’t ask me why, all bets were off.

This was something I could certainly live with (it was not an uncommon occurrence – very few of the people I was talking with had done interviews before, and, this may come as a shock, but not everyone is thrilled to be interviewed) – I could wait, I told Jimmy, it wasn’t the end of the world. Jimmy, however, was stricken. He saw it as a matter of honor, and he called Rick right away from his office. “I gave the man my word,” he told Rick, while I was sitting there. “You know, we’ve been friends a long time, Rick, but you gave me your word, and I gave Peter my word, and if you don’t stick by it, we’re not going to be friends anymore.”

I was more than a little mortified (and more than a little touched by Jimmy’s loyalty), but after hanging around Muscle Shoals for a few more days without hearing from Rick, I set off for Macon to talk with Phil and Alan Walden, and Otis Redding ‘s brother Rodgers, and his wife, Zelda, along with various friends and associates of Otis’.

That was where I got the call from Rick, on December 2, 1981, a Wednesday. He was, he said, willing to see me. Great! I said. When? Tomorrow, he said. I laughed, I’m going to imagine it was a kind of heh-heh-heh. Well, I’m in Macon, I said, and I’m sure I could make it by – Tomorrow, he said, making it clear by the tone of his voice that any modification was out of the question. At 7AM, he said. At my ranch.

Now Macon is at least a five-hour drive from Muscle Shoals, and it was already late afternoon, but I didn’t hesitate – and I’d like to think I still wouldn’t. (I mean, you do anything at the service of your story, right?)  7 AM tomorrow, great! I said. And I wrote down Rick’s very specific directions to the ranch (“43 South from Littleville, one mile on the right-hand side of the road, Kennedy Road 18”) on my hotel stationery.

I arrived at 7 o’clock sharp the next day, with my notebook and brand-new Sony stereo cassette recorder TCS-310 in hand. I started out, as you often do, by asking some generalized, conversational questions, just to try to establish a little rapport, but I knew immediately I had gotten off on the wrong foot just by the way Rick was shaking his head. This was clearly not the way to begin. “Well, let me start at an earlier point of my life [which turned out to be his birth],” he declared without hesitation, “and tell you what happened to me.” And he did. Four or five hours later he was still telling me, and I was exhausted. I hadn’t gotten into the Holiday Inn in Sheffield until late the previous night, and I left for Rick’s home earlier than I needed to because I knew if I didn’t make that 7 o’clock deadline, the whole thing could be off. Finally I held up my hand for the first and I think only time in my life and said, in effect, No mas. But we would go on talking, in what would eventually turn into a two-way conversation, for the next 35 years.

Read Rick’s book, Rick Hall: My Journey from Shame to Fame. Or try Sweet Soul Music for an abbreviated version of the story of a boy who grew up in the “deep sprawling, isolated woods of the Freedom Hills with the whiskey makers and whiskey runners and saw millers,” raised by a father who could barely eke out a living (“he was a pauper”), after his mother left, when he was four, to become a prostitute in his Aunt Es’s house of ill fame in the city. In all the years I’ve known Rick and his wife, Linda (the home that I visited has since become the FAME Girls Ranch, dedicated to help victims of abuse and neglect “overcome the adversity they have endured”), the conversation has never changed. In fact, it was renewed and deepened in the ten years that he worked on the book, first with Florence TimesDaily reporter Terry Pace, then with Robert Gordon.  He wanted it to be raw, he said, something like a cross between Tobacco Road and Harry Crews, whose work he (like many of us) was introduced to by Atlantic Records head Jerry Wexler, a genuine polymath whom Rick alternately resented (their business relationship came to an end with Aretha Franklin’s disastrous 1967 Muscle Shoals session, and Jerry was the one who encouraged the second rhythm section to leave) and, more often than not admired.

The last time I saw Rick (though we always continued to speak on the phone) was about a year ago, when Rick was awarded an honorary degree by the University of North Alabama in Florence, and I was scheduled to give the commencement speech. He was already sick, although he wasn’t publicly acknowledging it, but he was in buoyant spirits, with an undiminished determination to continue to make his mark. There was a dinner the night before graduation at the president’s house, next to the lions’ cage (“Go lions,” is the university motto), where Rick exchanged fond reminiscences with old friends, none more fond than with State Representative Johnny Mack Morrow, whose father, Grover, taught Rick agriculture at Phil Campbell High School and gave Rick his first instrument, a mandolin. Rick always kept a picture of Mr. Morrow on his desk, on which he had written, “To the man who believed in me and my music when nobody did.”

The next day, in Rick’s name, and in the name of Sam Phillips, Rick’s original role model (and a native Florentine), I urged the graduates of the Colleges of Nursing and Arts and Sciences and Business and Education to hold on to their individuality, to identify and seize upon their dreams, not to let themselves get pushed around by disappointment or others’ expectations of them. And I cited how Rick, after a particularly devastating blow to his ego early on (he was fired by his partners from the musical enterprise that became FAME – it’s a long story, you’ll just have to read about it elsewhere), never gave up, barely even wavered.  “I thought it was the worst thing that ever happened to me,” Rick said. “It was like they’d put the roller skates under me and pushed me out the door.” But, I told the graduates, he was determined not to be left on the shelf for long. As he described it, “I just went home to Phil Campbell to lick my wounds – but then after a few months I took kind of an arrogant attitude and dug in for the kill.” And the next time twenty-year-old songwriter Dan Penn, who was part of the firing cabal, saw him, Dan said, “He was standing on this concrete slab he’d just poured for the studio that now stands, and he said, ‘Hey Penn, why don’t you come over here and go to work for me.’”

That was Rick, to the end. It didn’t always make for smooth sailing – and there were, unquestionably, lots of ruffled feelings along the way – but you never had any doubt about where Rick stood. And you never had any doubt that he had a good heart.

He was the furthest thing from the back-slapping, easy-going caricature of a good ol’ boy – I mean, Rick was driven from the start. “I was so very aggressive and fired up at the beginning,” he told me, trying to explain why he got ousted by his friends. “I was the guy who was beating and banging and slinging sweat over everybody else, and it got to the point where they thought, This guy’s crazy! Because, you know, IT WAS LIFE TO ME.”  It was not lost on him that the ferocity of his determination could overwhelm everyone around him sometimes, but in the end, I think, it was the lingering self-doubt, the crippling insecurity of a young boy who grew up lonely, impoverished, motherless in the Freedom Hills of rural Mississippi and Alabama, that proved to be his saving grace. As much as anything else, I would imagine, that was the innate quality that allowed him to focus on the improbable hopes and dreams of all those artists and musicians, black and white, who found their way to the studio he built with his own hands in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

The enhanced e-book of Sweet Soul Music includes this short video piece with Rick. Available at iBooks: http://bit.ly/ssmusicee  or Amazon: http://a.co/iwiMZC9

[shirlleycoyle]

Your Favorite Park Is Probably Built on Dead Bodies

Standing in Washington Square Park in New York City, it’s hard to believe the cobblestones and iconic archway are built on bones. But beneath the feet of NYU art majors and the paws of spoiled Greenwich pups, are the remains of a massive pauper’s grave, which interred more than 20,000 corpses between 1797 and 1825, many killed in successive yellow fever epidemics.

The city’s parks may be welcoming the dead once again. As the coronavirus death toll ticks up, New York is considering “temporary interments,” according to city councilmember Mark Levine. “This likely will be done by using a NYC park for burials (yes you read that right),” Levine tweeted Monday. “Trenches will be dug for 10 caskets in a line.” While a spokesperson for the Office of Chief Medical Examiner told BuzzFeed it has no plans for park interments, and Mayor Bill de Blasio said he doesn’t want to talk “publicly” about the city’s plans, the possibility of such grim history repeating has captured many New Yorkers’ attention.

While Lower East Siders may fancy Washington Square Park’s ghostly origins unique, they’re actually part of an international trend in land reuse. From Washington Square in New York to Cemetery Memorial Park in Ventura, California to Postman Park in London, cities have been transforming graves into gardens for centuries. The decisions have been motivated by everything from money to poor memory, but local activists and archaeologists have shown that every park has its own special legacy—and there are many more bones to uncover.

Elizabeth Meade is an archaeologist with AKRF, one of the biggest environmental engineering firms in the northeast. She’s also wrapping up her Ph.D. student at the City University of New York, where she’s spent the last few years painstakingly documenting 527 cemeteries in the five boroughs. The roughly 200 resulting maps show the boundary lines of graveyards still open for business, historic sites just beneath the surface, and tombs 30 feet deep.

“There were quite a few that were reclaimed specifically to make parks,” Meade said. Washington Square, Madison Square, and Bryant Parks are the best known, given their well-documented histories as 18th and 19th century as potters’ fields—a plot where the city held indigent burials. In these cases, “the city owned [the land] already, and they could easily convert it,” Meade said.

But others were taken by force. Central Park mowed over “several” cemeteries, Meade said. The best known is Seneca Village, a free black community the city cleared away to build the first public park in the United States. Downtown, in Greenwich Village, James J. Walker Park was built on the former St. John’s Burial Ground, which buried more than 10,000 bodies between 1799 and 1858. In 1895, “the city just took it by eminent domain,” Meade said. Only the bodies of well-known New Yorkers were moved. The rest remained.

At the time, city dwellers “started to blame cemeteries for urban diseases,” which led officials to pass a series of laws that banned interments in Manhattan. In 1823, they banned burials below modern Grand and Canal Streets. But soon, the ban extended to 14th Street, then 86th Street, until you couldn’t break new burial ground in Manhattan at all.

“There were always people who fought against it,” Meade said of this development. They lost. “I don’t know if that was just capitalism and land value winning over, but the city had a lot of power.”

In Pennsylvania, historic burial grounds have undergone a similar transformation, said Doug Mooney, the president of the Philadelphia Archaeological Forum, a non-profit organization that educates locals about the history beneath their streets. He said there are at least 14 parks and playgrounds built on former cemeteries in the city of brotherly love.

“Each one has their own story,” Mooney said.

William Penn designed Philadelphia from scratch in the 1680s. His original plan organized the Center City district around five squares. At least three of them—Washington, Franklin, and Logan Squares—now contain human remains.

“Washington Square was initially laid out as a public space,” Mooney said. But in 1705, the family of Joseph Carpenter, who had leased the land so his animals could graze, got the city’s permission to bury their kin in the center of the square. “Certainly thereafter it became the city’s primary potters’ field.” It accepted thousands of burials—few of them marked by headstones, and instead commemorated with wooden crosses and stones—before closing in 1794. Within a decade, locals were agitating to transform it back into a public park.

“Without any kind of visual ways of setting this out a cemetery, it was very easy for the city to say, ‘Yep, this is going to be a park,’” Mooney said.

The same thing happened less than a mile south, at Weccacoe Playground. In 1810, Richard Allen of Mother Bethel AME Church founded the city’s first non-denominational Christian cemetery on the site. “It was in constant use until 1864,” Mooney said, accepting the remains of black Philadelphians whose bodies were banned from other, segregated burial plots. The church buried an estimated 5,000 bodies in just a quarter-acre. Once it closed, it rented out the land for different uses, until all evidence of a graveyard was beaten down by people, draft animals, and carts. In 1890, the church sold the land to the city for use as a pocket park.

For more than a century, few thought twice about the ground beneath Weccacoe. But in 2013, Mooney and his crew were able to show there were still thousands of bodies on the site—some of them under a community building that currently houses toilets for playground visitors. “This became a cause célèbre,” Mooney said. “There was a group of influential people who went to the city of Philadelphia and said, we need to commemorate this site.”

The city eventually appointed a committee to reevaluate the use of the land, said Kelly Lee, Philadelphia’s chief cultural officer and executive director of the Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy. It’s already closed the community building, which will eventually be dismantled by hand. It will move a tennis court, which currently stretches over the burial lot, to another part of the playground. And it’s currently evaluating submissions from artists around the world for a piece of public art that will commemorate the history of the site. “It’s great to believe in it, but it’s another thing when… you create the funding to get this project done,” Lee said.

Even out west, where land can seem limitless, the municipal reuse continues. In California, beach towns like San Diego and Ventura have memorial parks, following a 1957 law that allowed the government to mow down tombstones in abandoned cemeteries and easily convert the land into public greenspace. Colorado has one park with an unusually dark backstory: In the 1890s, Denver decided to turn a cemetery into the sprawling Cheesman Park. It paid undertaker E.P. McGovern $1.90 for each body he and his crew removed, but McGovern split up the bodies and put the parts into several child-sized caskets to make more money. Rather than hire someone new to finish the job, the city fired McGovern and leveled the land. By current estimates, at least 2,000 bodies remain.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with turning a cemetery into a park. Often, it’s done as a sign of respect to the bodies there, as parkland is seen as welcoming, restful, and in keeping with democratic values. New York City’s current potter’s field, Hart Island, is the final resting place for more than 1 million bodies. It’s traditionally been run by the Department of Corrections, which operates it like a “prison of the dead,” where visitation is strictly controlled and Rikers Island inmates dig the graves (now in personal protective equipment, due to the pandemic). But in December, city council passed a law that will eventually transfer the land to the Department of Parks.

“This is about giving respect and dignity to the people who are buried on the island,” Councilmember Ydanis Rodriguez said in a committee hearing.

Whether Hart Island succeeds as a park or not depends on how the city chooses to acknowledge the sordid history embedded in the earth. Instead of throwing tombstones away or obscuring the stories of the dead, a successful cemetery-to-park transition requires planners to bring this buried knowledge back to the surface. Everyone who walks here should know about the bones beneath.

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[rolandfontana]

How One Massachusetts DA is Changing the Way Court Views Bail

Isaac, a slight-framed 19-year-old from Lowell, Mass., stood before a weathered wooden railing in his city’s district court one day this month, waiting to learn if he would keep his freem.

He had been arrested the day before and charged with a felony count of selling crack cocaine. It was his first arraignment, and he was strapped for cash.

He had spent nearly his last $40 getting bailed out of the police station, and if the judge set hundreds of dollars in bail he would not have been able to afford it, he said in an interview — meaning he would be locked up until either his case was resolved or his friends and family scraped together the money to get him released.

“If I wasn’t able to pay it, mostly likely I’d lose my job,” said Isaac, who asked that only his first name be used out of concern for his job and his privacy.

It did not come to that. Middlesex County prosecutors did not request any bail, and he was released with a commitment to attend his next court date.

Isaac’s release was not an isolated case.

For the last 18 months, Massachusetts’ most populous county has sought to abolish the use of cash bail for low-level defendants, who otherwise can languish in detention before trial if they cannot pay their way out of lockup.

Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan announced in January of last year that her office would not seek cash bail for offenses that would not typically lead to a jail sentence, including some drug and property crimes.

Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan speaking in April about a lawsuit she and Suffolk County DA Rachael Rollins filed against Immigration and Customs Enforcement over the legality of its arrests at local courthouses.. Photo courtesy MassLive

It was a stand that placed Ryan in the company of a nationwide chorus of criminal justice reform advocates, months before the underdog elections of Suffolk DA Rachael Rollins and Berkshire DA Andrea Harrington made clear that progressive prosecutors were having a moment in Massachusetts.

Now, with a year-and-a-half of bail reform under her belt, Ryan says the policy is working – and has not led to a spike in missed court dates

“It was really looking at where the impact was falling on bail and how bail could sometimes be the beginning of a bad spiral,” Ryan said in an interview. “You have cash bail set you can’t make, you get held, you lose your job. Your housing was probably a bit tenuous anyway, then you lose your housing.”

In criminal justice reform, talk can be cheap. But Lynda Dantas, the attorney in charge of Lowell District Court’s public defender agency, said in an interview that Ryan appears to be following through.

“I would say that generally that is absolutely the truth,” Dantas said. “Where they would usually ask for a minimal bail for $200 or $500, the DA’s office is not asking for bail with those individuals.”

Dantas and her colleagues have seen more of their clients accused of drug possession, motor vehicle offenses and other misdemeanors go free after their arraignments. That is no small thing, Dantas said. While many cases end in dismissals or not guilty verdicts, defendants who cannot afford bail can spend months in jail awaiting trial.

‘Not Guilty’ Doesn’t Mean ‘Unpunished’

“Not guilty” does not mean unpunished when pretrial detention can cost people their jobs, their housing or even their children, according to Dantas. Because of those costs, some innocent defendants take quick plea deals that leave them with criminal records rather than fight their charges, she said.

“I think a large percentage of these individuals would rather plead guilty to something they did not do than spend another day in jail,” she said.

When Ryan announced her office’s changing approach to bail, it was paired with a promise of transparency. The DA’s office has launched a web page displaying some of the numbers behind its prosecutions, in what it describes as an effort to give Middlesex residents a clear look at how their criminal justice system functions.

And it has shared raw data with Northeastern University, which will produce reports designed to illuminate any disparate enforcement among the county’s racial and ethnic groups, genders and municipalities.

Among the numbers publicly released, some stand out. The DA’s Office did not request bail in 72.86 percent of district court cases that continued after arraignment, and 88.82 percent of such juvenile cases. And at any given time, district and superior courts were handling about 9,000 active cases, with 5% of defendants being detained pretrial.

But while Ryan’s office appears committed to collecting and sharing data, determining the exact effects of the new bail policy has proved difficult.

The DA’s Office only began collecting data on bail requests and pretrial detentions in 2018, officials told MassLive – meaning that comparing those numbers to the old, stricter bail policy is not possible. And there is no central data clearinghouse in Massachusetts that allows the public to compare cash bail statistics, default rates or detention rates – either over time or between counties.

In 2017, the Massachusetts Trial Court conducted a study on statewide bail practices following the Supreme Judicial Court’s landmark decision in Brangan v. Commonwealth – a ruling that requires judges to account for a defendant’s ability to pay when setting bail.

That study found that 80.7 percent of defendants in district court, where low-level offenses are typically prosecuted, were released without bail, 16.1 percent were set bail and 3.2 percent were ordered detained.

But those numbers do not help understand where Middlesex ranks in its approach to bail.

While the statistics provided by Ryan’s office report on bail requests made by prosecutors, the trial court’s study looked at bail outcomes – including cases where a prosecutor may have requested bail, but a judge ordered the defendant released. That makes comparing those numbers impractical.

MassLive did find some independent evidence that suggests the policy is working as intended.

16 Percent Decrease in Pretrial Detainees

According to information from the Middlesex Sheriff’s Office, the average number of pretrial detainees in the county jail decreased about 16 percent from 2017 to 2018. The data shows that the number of people held decreased month-to-month in each month except December, where the population held steady.

“There’s a lot less people being held pre-trial that should never have been held in the past,” Dantas said. “I think this is making a dent.”

The DA’s Office said that the elimination of bail requests in many low-level crimes has not led to a spike in people skipping court dates. The county’s district court default rate has remained roughly the same since the policy was implemented, Ryan’s office said.

When Ryan announced in January 2018 that her office would no longer seek bail for offenses that would not lead to a jail sentence, she said it was part of an “evolving practice” that followed meetings with law enforcement and community stakeholders.­

And it came amid a national movement to reduce the use of cash bail that has created an alliance of sorts between activists, criminal justice researchers and progressive prosecutors.

A growing body of scholarship has shown that cash bail creates hardships for poor defendants who often face a difficult and inescapable choice: sit in jail awaiting a day in court, risking jobs and housing, or plead guilty, receiving a blemish on their record that can also lead to problems with employers and landlords.

 Research from Penn Law School’s Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice found that defendants who cannot make bail are convicted more frequently and receive worse plea terms than those who can pay.

Ryan said that her office does not have data on whether guilty pleas have decreased since her reforms were implemented.

“It stands to reason that is a factor in some cases,” Ryan said.

In 2017, New Jersey essentially eliminated money bail, replacing it with a focus on offenders that judges deem dangerous to the community. Despite funding challenges, state officials say the system has been a success. The numbers of people detained before trial plummeted, while recidivism and default rates did not significantly rise, according to a report released in April.

In California, reformers have faced stiffer resistance. Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill eliminating cash bail last year, but the measure has been put on hold pending a referendum backed by the bail bond industry.

And in 2017, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling in Brangan v. Commonwealth led to a shift in how judges assess bail. In the Brangan decision, the SJC ruled that judges must consider a defendant’s ability to pay when setting bail – and that cash bail can only be used to ensure that a defendant returns to court, not as a way of jailing defendants without a dangerousness hearing.

“A bail that is set without any regard to whether a defendant is a pauper or a plutocrat runs the risk of being excessive and unfair,” Justice Geraldine S. Hines wrote in the decision.

Suffolk County DA Rachael Rollins was elected last year on promises to overhaul criminal justice in Greater Boston. She quickly became one of the state’s most visible advocates of progressive prosecution, and in March released a policy memo that addresses cash bail – and goes much further.

Suffolk prosecutors now work from the presumption that all defendants will be released without bail, unless there is “clear evidence” of a flight risk or the need for a dangerousness hearing. Rollins’ memo lists 15 misdemeanors that her office will divert or decline to charge, except in exceptional circumstances – ranging from drug possession with intent to distribute and petty larceny to breaking into a vacant property and driving with a suspended license.

Those policies – and Rollins’ focus on the harms inflicted by the criminal justice system – have drawn aggressive pushback from law-and-order factions of the criminal justice community. The National Police Association – a conservative Indiana-based nonprofit that is not affiliated with individual police departments – filed a bar complaint against her.

And Cape & Islands DA Michael O’Keefe wrote an opinion column in the Boston Globe that did not name Rollins but blasted her approach, attributed the campaigns of “social justice” DA candidates to support from George Soros and said the criminal justice system has been wrongly blamed for racial disparities in incarceration.

“It’s harder to blame, for example, the disintegration of the family, a lack of respect for discipline and education, and the glorification in some communities of a culture that celebrates disrespectful language and misogyny under the guise of art,” wrote O’Keefe.

“I suspect that these factors are more influential regarding who is in jail or prison than an inert criminal justice system.”

Ryan’s more modest reforms have escaped such public controversy.

“I am very fortunate to have good, solid relationships with our chiefs of police, with our local officials. This wasn’t something that we did abruptly,” she said. “We’ve done this in a measured way. We’ve been fortunate. The results have been what we hoped.”

MassLive reached out to several Middlesex County police departments for this story, none of whom responded with criticisms of Ryan’s bail policy.

“We have not taken a position on this, nor have any Middlesex chiefs voiced concerns directly to me,” Mass Chiefs of Police President Mark Leahy wrote in an email.

Dantas, the public defender, said she has noticed an increase in the Middlesex DA’s use of dangerousness hearings to deny bail entirely, now that the use of cash bail has decreased.

While judges are currently only allowed to consider a defendant’s pending charges when assessing dangerousness, a coalition of law enforcement officials and political leaders are pushing for legislation that would make those detentions easier.

A bill filed by Gov. Charlie Baker would allow judges to consider criminal histories when deciding dangerousness and grant prosecutors the right to appeal bail decisions by district court judges.

Dan Glaun, a staff writer for MassLive, is a 2019 John Jay/Guggeheim Justice Reporting Fellow. This article was produced as part of his Fellowship reporting project. The complete version is available here.

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Reasons to Stop Eating at Night

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Reasons to Stop Eating at Night

I remember getting into a night-time eating habit during one pregnancy. It’s easy to justify when you’re growing a human, but these habits can stick around later on. Though it may be helpful during pregnancy and nursing to have a snack before bed, at other times it may actually be unhealthy.

An easy way to get the benefits of fasting (without doing a longer, more extreme fast) is to simply avoid eating a few hours before bed.

Is Eating at Night Bad for You?

Research is showing that intermittent fasting has many benefits, but for some, even a short 16-hour fast is tough to stick with. Luckily, just eliminating night-time eating can have many of the same results.

Here are some reasons to brush your teeth early and call it a night when it comes to eating!

Digestion

According to Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), our digestive system aligns with the sun. When the sun rises, so does the digestive system and when the sun sets the digestive system slows down. Modern science backs this up. According to a study in Arquivos de Gastroenterologia, the digestive system basically sleeps when we sleep. It makes sense that the body doesn’t need fuel when trying to rest.

Our bodies also need to sit upright to digest, so eating before lying down can cause digestive problems. Research shows that eating late can contribute to acid reflux.

Memory

Late-night eating may also affect the brain. One study found that mice that ate during their normal sleep time (since mice are nocturnal that would be during the day) had significant decline in memory.

Another study showed that mice even forgot scary situations, which could mean that eating when they should be sleeping could be serious. (If a mouse doesn’t remember there is a danger he won’t avoid it). Researchers also found that the shifted eating schedule affected the mice’s ability to learn.

It’s hard to tell how humans would do in a similar experiment, but it does raise concern for how a shifted sleep and eating schedule could affect the brain.

Sleep

Stopping the food train a few hours before bed can be beneficial for sleep — something we as moms are always trying to optimize.

Researchers have found that eating late at night may influence dreaming. Four hundred college students were surveyed about their eating habits and dreams. These surveys showed that one factor for causing bizarre or disturbing dreams was eating late at night. Researchers further theorized that the reason was likely due to bad digestion.

Metabolism and Weight

According to an article in Penn Medicine News, research shows that late-night eating increases weight, but that’s not all. They found that late-night eating likely encouraged the body to metabolize more carbs and fewer lipids (fat). Researchers also found that insulin, fasting glucose, cholesterol, and triglyceride levels increased.

The same study found that late-night eating affects hormones too. During daytime eating the hormones ghrelin (which stimulates appetite) peaked earlier in the day. Leptin, the hormone that makes you feel satiated, peaks later in the day. These findings suggest that eating earlier in the day is not only normal and optimal, but may help reduce late-night snacking.

Human hormones follow the ebb and flow of the circadian rhythm too. At night when the body thinks it should be sleeping, the body’s cells become more resistant to insulin. An article published in Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics shows that eating according to circadian rhythms is important for optimal metabolic function.

Late Meals vs. Late Snacks

There’s an old health adage that says, “Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.” The idea is to eat more during the time of day when the digestive system is performing best.

Though there is plenty of reason to stop eating before bedtime, a small snack may be ok. Research shows that small, nutrient-dense, low energy foods and/or single macronutrients (like a small portion of vegetables rather than large mixed meals) don’t have the same negative effects as night-time eating. In fact, it may even have some health benefits (like building muscles).

Basically, having a small, healthy snack before bed when you’re hungry may not be as harmful as having a full meal close to bedtime. If you often skip breakfast and also don’t have a substantial lunch (so easy to do on a busy day), we have to take an honest look at whether we are eating too large of a meal too late at night to compensate.

How to Stop Eating at Night

So, how far before bed to stop eating? The answer can vary depending on individual needs, schedules, and levels of activity, of course, but most experts seem to recommend at least two hours before bed.

Especially as parents who may only get some time to ourselves at night, this is a tough thing to ask! These are some ways I’ve tried to adjust my eating window (while still getting some me-time at night).

Identify Triggers

Often, late-night snacks may have nothing to do with hunger! Is it boredom, stress, or another emotional trigger behind the craving? Recognizing triggers can help us deal with the underlying cause of snacking.

Eat Enough During the Day

Sometimes late-night snacking is a result of true hunger because we haven’t eaten enough during the day. Eat nutrient-dense meals earlier in the day (and don’t skip any!) to avoid the hunger that happens at night. This is especially important (and tough) for parents of small kids who may “forget” to eat when busy with infants and toddlers.

Making a plan to sit down to a meal with your family at breakfast, lunch, and dinner (when possible) can help increase daytime eating and decrease night-time cravings.

Deal With Cravings

For many folks, carb and sugar cravings are what drive those late-night snacks. Balancing blood sugar levels by eating three nutrient-dense meals (with plenty of protein and healthy fat) during the day can help.

Other ways to avoid sugar cravings are:

Get moving – Exercise releases some of the same endorphins that eating sugary or salty food does.

Get enough sleep – Regular sleep is important for balanced blood sugar and hormone function.

Take supplements – B-vitamins and l-glutamine are both supplements that can help the body deal with blood sugar issues and cravings.

Have a regular routine – Having a regular eating and sleeping routine is critical. Waking and going to sleep at the same time everyday (even on weekends) helps keep hormones in balance (which will keep cravings at bay).

Eat at a regular time – Eating dinner by 6:00 pm is ideal but fasting for at least two hours before bed (with no snacking) gives the digestive system time to rest. The more regular the routine, the easier it is on the body and the easier it is to avoid late-night snacking.

Drink Instead!

And no, I don’t mean alcohol 🙂 I loved Nagina Abdullah’s tip from this podcast to satisfy late night cravings with the natural sweetness and flavors of spiced drinks like cinnamon tea or golden milk.

If Snacking, Make It Light

If I do have a snack, I try to choose something balanced and easy to digest. And if I have wine, I make sure it is low sugar as well.

Reasons to Stop Eating at Night: Bottom Line

There are many health benefits to closing the kitchen at least two hours before bedtime, including hormone regulation and healthy blood sugar. Having a consistent routine that helps folks eat more during the day and less at night can help shift a late-night snacker into a day-time eater.

Have you tried fasting at night? Do you notice any difference in how you feel? Please share!

Sources

Koufman, J. A. (2014, October 25). Opinion | The Dangers of Eating Late at Night.

Lewis, T. (2014, November 24). Late-Night Meals May Interfere with Memory, Research Suggests.

Nielsen, T., & Powell, R. A. (2015, January 09). Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: food and diet as instigators of bizarre and disturbing dreams.

Timing Meals Later at Night Can Cause Weight Gain and Impair Fat Metabolism – PR News.

Patterson, R. E., et al (2015, August). Intermittent Fasting and Human Metabolic Health.

Kinsey, A. W., & Ormsbee, M. J. (2015, April). The Health Impact of Nighttime Eating: Old and New Perspectives.

Dantas, R. O., & Aben-Ather, C. G. (n.d.). Aspects of sleep effects on the digestive tract.

Source: https://wellnessmama.com/400495/eating-at-night/

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Title:  Neosho Falls ("series pilot")

Genre:  Action/Sci-Fi/Thriller

Production Company:  Obvertere Limited

Independent/SAG

Screenplay:  Loron Hays, Eric Hyde

Music:  Matt Pelsma (Hell on Wheels)

Production Status:  GREEN

Release Date:  2018

SYNOPSIS:  Two families in small town Kansas find themselves in the path of an extra-terrestrial visitor.

Why Help?

No one has ever seen a film like this, made by a Kansan, and filmed by Kansans.

The short film stars George Dean (From Ashes to Immortality), Angela Nordeng (Viscious), and Andy Stowers (It Starts with Murder!). It has special appearances by Delilah Rose Pellow (Ex Somnia, From Ashes to Immortality), Paul Ford (Alien Nation), and an extra special guest appearance by Kelly Perine (Downward Hiro), T.V. host Mike Anderson (From Ashes to Immortality) of the Not So Late Show, and Shamrock FC professional MMA fighter Zak Bucia, who choreographed fight scenes in From Ashes to Immortality, and is returning to help in the production of Neosho Falls.

Badass Sinema Unearthed’s Loron Hays, a Kansas resident, is the author of Only When I Breathe and Either Side of the Same Street. He is an active member of the Kansas City Film Critics Circle and his opinions on film – which favor B-movies and drive-in flicks – can be read at Reel Reviews (www.franksreelreviews.com). Neosho Falls is his first co-written venture with filmmaker Eric Hyde; it won’t be his last.

Eric Hyde is an emerging director and writer from Lawrence, Kansas with a unique cinematic vision. He has worked with Emmy nominated Director of Photography Jeremy Osbern of Through A Glass Productions, SAG actors Wes Studi (Last of the Mohicans) and Blake Robbins (The Scent of Rain and Lightning), and Sundance nominated Director Kevin Willmott.

News, Advice, Comments

“People are going to take time out of their lives to watch this, and they are going to pay money. You have to tell a story, and you have to leave the viewer walking away with something." - Marc Havener

"Go make a film!  The only one stopping you is you!" - Blake Robbins

"A very ambitious fight sequence... You must have a very good fight choreographer." - Wes Studi on his fight scenes in From Ashes to Immortality

"I am very proud of you for making this happen... it takes a special gift to motivate and inspire.  I wish you continued good fortune and always remember that sometimes in filming things take a turn.  Try to embrace that it could be for the better." - Blake Robbins

Cast

George M. Dean is a versatile actor who started his career in theater. He was born George Earl Matchette in Dallas, Texas, on December 16, 1978 to Linda Pecina and George Matchette. His first major role was Fight Night where he played a bookie. From there, he went on to play a football coach in 32, a British doctor in Tales of the Interim Net, a police coroner in The Chosen series, and a drunken, abusive father in From Ashes to Immortality. George M. Dean is a character actor who has done Shakespeare, plays, film, commercial, and print work. He studied theater under Tony Piazza and completed three years of college under a full ride theater scholarship. George M. Dean is currently involved with two short films and the series pilot, Neosho Falls. When George M. Dean is not acting, he focuses on his music. He is the C.E.O. for Pauper Inc. and is a musician in the group D.I.D. which is due to release its second album, WOKE, in late 2017. George was raised around the country in a gypsy lifestyle. He dropped out of school when he was 16 to go to work on a pipeline to help out his family after his stepdad was hurt during a volunteer firefighter incident. He decided recently to leave the corporate world and to follow his dream of being a full-time actor.

Angela Nordeng was cast to play the role of Mary in Neosho Falls after meeting director Eric Hyde at Bare Bones Independent International Film and Music Festival, where she was awarded Best Actress. Angela has won awards at various festivals for her work in the feature film Vicious, in which she starred alongside Jason James Richter of Free Willy fame. She can currently be seen in FX's Married and Lifetime's My Crazy Ex, as well as the trailer for the upcoming Will Ferrell film, The House, which will debut later this year. She is excited to announce that she's currently in preproduction for Assembly Line Entertainment's upcoming feature, Arlington Road, with Bruce Dern and has just wrapped principal photography on RD Womack III's untitled film. Outside of acting, Angela enjoys playing guitar, swimming, backpacking, rock climbing, and aerial dance.

Andy Stowers has been working in theatre and film as an actor, writer, director, designer, and producer for over 20 years. He has performed all over the country but does most of his work in and around Lawrence, KS. He received theatre training at Wichita State and the University of Kansas. He co-founded E.M.U. Theatre of Lawrence in 1998, owns and operates The Invisible Hand Framing & Printing Inc., currently performs regularly as a member of Foxy By Proxy Revue, and is father to a beautiful and intelligent, young child.

Rebeca Anderson. No bio available.

Delilah Rose Pellow is so excited to be working with Eric Hyde again after working with him as Evie in From Ashes to Immortality. Delilah has been acting in theatre since the age of 3, and started acting in film/commercials around the age of 6. Some of her other film credits include: The Lucid Engine (Bruce Branit), Men Go To Battle (Zachary Treitz), and The Boy Who Stayed (Dan Hernandez). Delilah loves being on set or stage and can't wait to see where this exciting life of acting takes her!

Kaylin Mally was born in Kansas City. She is currently a sophomore in high school and is on their dance team. She lives with her parents and has a brother, sister and a dog. She has been in the feature film, American Honey, and several other local films and commercials. She enjoys taking acting classes, dance, modeling and just hanging out with her friends. She is planning to move to Los Angeles after high school and continue her education and pursue her dreams.

Alex Hurt is a Lawrence, KS native and senior at Lawrence High School. He is active band member, music producer, and has performance experience in theatrical production. Neosho Falls is his first film.

Henry Letner was born in Omaha, Nebraska on September 3, 1999. Attending Baldwin High School as an incoming senior. Worked small town productions as a child and as a sophomore in high school. Amateur guitar player and performer. Currently focusing on being a student and works at the Baldwin City Pool.

Born the son of a Penn State professor and a Chemical Engineer mother, Kelly Perine showed an innate ability for acting by the age of 5. Kelly’s love of performing kept him active throughout his upbringing, participating in numerous plays in community theatres around PA. His high-school days were spent at Lake Forest Academy on the North Shore of Chicago, where he got his first taste of the big time while doing work for numerous productions shot in the Windy City. After coming to California to attend Pomona College for a B.A. in Film Studies, Kelly continued his education and received an M.F.A. in Drama from the University of California: Irvine. For the past 2 decades Kelly has been a staple in film and Television. You may recognize him from his early appearances on: E.R., Seinfeld, The Practice, Mad About You; along with playing recurring characters on: The Drew Carey Show, Providence, The Parent 'Hood, Malcolm & Eddie, True Jackson V.P., & For Your Love. Kelly has also been a series regular on U.P.N.'s: Between Brothers where he played Weatherman Dusty Canyon, Under One Roof where he starred opposite Flavor Flav, and possibly most recognizably as a regular on U.P.N.’s hit comedy One On One playing the outrageous Duane Odell Knox. Kelly has also been featured in national ad campaigns for: Jimmy Dean Sausages, Go Daddy, H & R Block, Callaway Golf Balls, A.T.&T., Foot Locker, Kelly Tires, Bud Ice, Coors Light, Motel 6, Wendy's, Toyota, Wausau Insurance, Pizza Hut, Captain D’s. Kelly’s movies include “The Babymoon”, “The Wedding Pact”, “Dog Gone”, “Convincing Clooney” & “Speed Dating”. His recent television offerings included appearances on: The Crazy Ones, The Thundermans, Dog With A Blog, Let’s Stay Together, and Austin & Ally. Kelly is also proud to have starred in and Executive Produced “A Perfect Day”, an 18 minute short film which follows his postman character as he talks a troubled teen out of committing a desperate act. It is an award-winning dramatic piece, having been screened at 45 festivals. Kelly wrote/directed/stars in his latest short “Downward Hiro” which is just starting it’s festival run. Kelly also has 3 feature comedy scripts and various television projects in the works.

Television’s Mike Anderson has entertained the Kansas audience since 2011 with his late-night program the Not So Late Show. As the host and principle writer Mike has won several national awards. He was also named “The Most Interesting Character in Small Town America” by Readers Digest. Mike has been featured in local and national commercials but does the majority of his work in the Lawrence and Kansas City area. He has his doctorate from the University of Kansas and has even been published in academic journals and books. He appreciates the finer things and lives his life dancing close to the fire.

Paul Ford, born in Ahoskie, North Carolina on September 18th, 1967. Attended Millbrook High School in Raleigh, NC. Began acting as a child doing commercials for Easter Seals Society, and Jerry Lewis Telethon. Moved to Hollywood, California in 1987. Did some small parts and extra work. Was a professional guitar player from 1988-1998. Now lives and acts in Southern California. Representation KMR Talent Agency Gail Ford Williamson Gwilliamson@KMRTalent.com Manager; Gina Stoj Management ginastoj.usa@gmail.com

Zak Bucia, born Zakary Alan Bucia in Lawrence, Kansas, September 27th 1984, has studied martial arts for over 30 years. He moved to San Fransisco directly out of high school to then become a professional fighter in 2007. He has choreographed fight scenes for the film From Ashes to Immortality as well as acted in Valeo Hospital and Harley Davidson commercials. He currently resides back in his hometown of LFK - Lawrence, Kansas.

Eric Hyde is an emerging director and writer from Lawrence, Kansas with a unique cinematic vision. He has worked with Emmy award-winning Director of Photography Jeremy Osbern of Through A Glass Productions, SAG actors Wes Studi (Last of the Mohicans) and Blake Robbins (The Scent of Rain and Lightning), and Sundance nominated Director Kevin Willmott (C.S.A: The Confederate States of America, Chi-Raq). Neosho Falls is a series pilot/short film, and is his second film.

Badass Sinema Unearthed’s Loron Hays, a Kansas resident, is the author of Only When I Breathe and Either Side of the Same Street. He is an active member of the Kansas City Film Critics Circle and his opinions on film – which favor B-movies and drive-in flicks – can be read at Reel Reviews (www.franksreelreviews.com). Neosho Falls is his first co-written venture with filmmaker Eric Hyde; it won’t be his last.

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thought i’d share this spritework i’d been doing instead of being a good worker during job training.

also finally found a new name for the mage! yay!

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Penn&Pauper: Let’s Loot a Chest!

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i have put a lot of thought into Penn&Pauper, and i love all of it.

and like excuses to share.

(i’m particularly proud of that pun name.)

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down time at work means costume design time! is adding a chessboard design to the hems a dangerous level of detail? maybe. is it a cool nod to tabletop gaming? yes! (also, you see that left sleeve? such a nice arm!) #CanvasArts #Penbrook&Pauper

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me: i like werewolves. why do i never write them into my stories?

me, but different: well, i mean, you could. it's in your power.

me: what, in Penn & Pauper?

me2: sure

me1: but... the lore! the consistency!

me2: what about it?

me1: i'm trying to keep monster-slaying relatively untroubling by not actually giving the monsters inner lives, societal structures, or implying sentience!

me2: and that's a hurdle because...

me1: werewolves could only fit in the monster camp, so if i have a character who is one, suddenly there's a monster that has thoughts, feelings, and a home to go back to!

me2: okay, but consider: genki girl werewolf.

me1: strong counter-argument.

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7, 9, 13 For the world building meme.

7. How does the economy work in your world? What sorts of currencies do they use?New Staunton (penn&pauper) exists in a ‘Japanifornia’ version of our own world (thus it’s earth), so the economy is pretty similar. but it’s also an rpg world, so there needs to be a way to acquire money via dungeons. so they have bills and such, but it’s referred to as silver! (1 cent is a copper, 1 dollar is a silver, 100 dollars is a gold). some adventurers are flummoxed to find modern money in chests, but it’s legal tender so why worry?

the campaign setting (which i haven’t given a global name to) is fantasy 1910s europe, so currency varies between countries. the ‘good’ nation is going to just do the same $1 = 1 silver as recommended by GURPS (even though i’m using genesys), and thus probably be the same system as above. industrialization is starting up, so there should be exciting times for the economy! meanwhile, the evil empire has an emperor with a... weak understanding of economics and a love of IOU notes, so that’s going to south pretty soon. (luckily, i don’t think my players, or anyone, actually reads this blog, so i’m good!)

9. What are the religions and cosmology of your world?

New Staunton is much the same as our own, and going further is actually a massive spoiler! but, suffice it to say, christian, buhddist, shinto and so forth are all present in the culture.

the campaign setting is where this gets interesting. about 1900 years ago, nine sisters travelled about and developed philosophies and so forth. these nine sisters and their teachings spawn nine tribes the persist to today, defined by eye color and passed down matrilineally because that resolves cross-pollination easily. i’ve assigned eye colors and one cultural trait, and left the rest open to be developed by the players and the story.

sisters (and their tribes) are named after greek muses.

13. What plants cover your world?

New Staunton: earth ones. monsterous ones in dungeons.

campaign: didn’t really consider this much. as a fun detail, i’d decided to go the avatar route and mix the animals together for fauna, so flora might be similar.

don’t know, plants aren’t usually one of the things i develop much.