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UWG theatre company
performs classic novel
By Miranda Byrd
Staff Writer
mirandajbyrd @ yahoo, com
Last week The West
Georgia Theatre Company
presented John Steinbeck’s
“The Grapes of Wrath” at
the Townsend Center for
the Performing Arts.
Performances were
held each night from
Wednesday until Saturday
with a matinee performance
on Sunday.
“The Grapes of
Wrath" is a story about a
family that travels from
the east coast to California
after being chased off
their land.
The story outlines the
struggles and joys they
faced along the way.
It is set in the period
of the Great Depression in
America, which proved to
be difficult for the family
to find work because there
are no jobs.
The play involved
Book features old store, housing for students
By Rebecca Bargharm
Staff Writer
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Foster’s Store is
a conglomeration of
assorted non-fictional
essays, pictures and
drawings that have been
edited by Peter Bryg
and are dedicated to the
store's owner Lounie R.
Foster and his daughter
Ethel.
The style can be
compared with our literary
and fine arts journal, The
Eclectic.
These essays were
written by former store
workers and friends of
Mr. Foster, such as Wayne
Eliot Lankford, Richard
Duncan, Dean McCarthy
and Roger Hornsby.
It also has an index
of key terms at the back
of the book.
Some of these terms
include: alien attack,
bathroom, bells, campus
crisis center, are you
getting curious, deaf and
dumb, Dog Meditation,
Foosball, Ground zero
(no, it is not an essay
about the Twin Towers),
Lovvorn Road , 0.J.,
Party, Tyus Dorm, Wal-
Mart and many more.
Howe ver, the glossary
is more intriguing. It lists
uncommon carefully
expressed definitions.
Some of these are:
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serious situations such
as murder, losing a child,
poverty and natural death,
but contained humor
despite the shortness
of luck that the family
encountered.
Before the show, the
audience was advised of
adult language and partial
nudity. Assistant Stage
Manager Shelley Hubbard
said of the content, “It
really added to the realism
of the play. I mean, these
people were struggling
to just survive and make
it through. That’s not
anything you want to
censor or ‘dull down.’”
The cast and crew
spent many hours working
on their final project. Late
night practices and physical
labor from the technical
crew helped to produce a
memorable performance.
Hubbard also shared
her experience as a part of
the crew.
“I work in the scene
“Army - Not where most
people wanted to be during
the era of the Viet Nam
war.” This definition (as
well as others, e.g. South
Vietnam. Viet Cong,
Vietnam,) referring to the
Vietnam War, indicates
when most of the plots
Photo by Bobby Moore
Foster’s Store, seen above, used to serve as housing for West Georgia College students and is now the subject of a
new book by Wayne Eliot Lankford.
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shop, so I helped a lot
with the building and
construction of the set.
I was also the assistant
props designer, so 1 helped
a bit in getting all the props
together.”
She also said her
biggest challenge was her
role as stage manager.
“It required me to be
very organized and on top
of things because basically
I was the stage manager’s
eyes backstage.”
A string band played
songs throughout the
performance each night.
Musicians Johnny Wright,
Joel Auble and Jinibo
Wright sang and played
country and bluegrass
songs that were originally
written by Michael Smith.
Hubbard added.
"There was a lot of hard
work and late nights, but
it definitely paid off in the
end, I think. You can tell
how much work was put
into the play.”
took place.
The next definition
is quite amusing,
such as Baptists.
Baptists are defined
as “the predominant
denomination in Georgia
and the South." According
to the book, they could
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Say hello to SGA!
Photo by Tiffany Cross
Student Government Association Judicial Chair Niager Herndon, left, greets Josh
Campbell as they discuss getting involved with the Student Government Association
and the upcoming elections. SGA holds meetings every Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in
Campus Center Room 302.
be very strange people
sometimes.
Like, instead of
going into a liquor store
and buying a bottle of
whiskey themselves,
often they would call a
taxi and have the taxi
driver buy them their
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liquor and then deliver
it to them at their home
address.
Another definition
in the book is girlfriend.
Girlfriend is defined as
a less than super serious
relationship with a
woman; a romantic if not
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sexual friendship.
According to the
book, having more than
one girlfriend, such as
having one in Carrollton
and one in Atlanta, can
be hazardous to your
health.
Foster’s Store was
founded in Carrollton
around the 1970’5. It
stood close to UWG on
Maple Street toward
Bowdon.
Originally, it was a
small country store and
was then changed into a
residence of sorts in 1966
for UWG students.
Both the former
customers of Foster’s
Store and the authors
of these essays describe
their experiences while
living in this “broken
down shotgun shack of a
general store” in the book
as well.
Alotof the mentioned
sites, street names, and
places are well known
and thus can be easily
visualized by the reader
in the book as well.
On the other hand,
the stories get stuck in
a never-ending circle
of reoccurring and
subjective tales.
This book is available
in two versions. As of
September 30, the prices
for hardcover are $19.77
and for paperback are
$16.47 at Amazon.com.