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to do the same in the hopes of recruiting new mem
bers and possibly raising some funds through the sale or
edibles a other festive goods. The entire festival is a ben
efit for the Lyndon House Arts Foundation, a non-profit
organization created to support visual arts through a coa
lition of alists, businesses, schools, local government and
the community at large. Individual artists are asked to pay j
a table fee of $20 and will be charged a lOpercenl com- j
mission from all goods sold at the festival Tne table fee is
waived fa non-profit arts aganizations.
The Lyndon House wants to show all of Athens its
fun side. The Art Center will Le shut down sometime in
the spring/summer of 1997 to undergo a massive
SPLOST-funded $6 million renovation and expansion
scheduled to be completed by the end of 1998. The
plans for this project will be on display upstairs in the
house during the festival, and the public is invited to
catch a glimpse and share their thoughts on what the
Lyndon House will soon be. In the downstairs gallery
rooms the public can vie.v the waks of a variety of
Athenian artists showing in the Fall Juried Exhibition,
also co-sponsored by the Lyndon House Arts Founda
tion and the Cooperative Arts Union
Athens is a town blessed with artists of a seemingly
endless variety of backgrounds and abilities. The Lyndon
House plans to showcase at least a few. There is still time
fa performers, individual artists and arts aganizations to
get involved. Anyone interested in performing, call
Madelyn at 613-7882. Artists interested in demonstra
tions or setting up a table call Maria at 549-3563. Arts
aganizations interested in selling food or providing
children's activities call Mplissa at 546-7021. For gen
eral information, call the Lyndon House Art Center at
613-3623. (Melissa Jane Link)
EDITOR'S MOTES
Everybody Loves
To Hate Politicians
I wish everybody would stop telling me to hate Bob
Dole ‘n’ Bill Clinton 'n' Max Cleland 'n' them Politicians are
about the most likable people I’ve ever met, and most of
them have the uiusual ability to be friendly even if you
disagree with them, especially at election time
We've just finished another season where the candi
dates' ad agencies try to portray their opponents as not
jjst wrong but bad to the bone The candidates have to
go along with this approach, because they paid a iot of
money fa focus groups to find out that peopie like to watch
politicians fight, ard the-agencies have to outdo each other
with attack ads.
This tactic accounts fa much of the public distrust of
politicians. Millions are spent convixing us what a vicious
and terrible fellow a candidate is. Then, after the election
— win a lose — he turns out to be no wase than any
body else and peopie are disappointed in him. Take
Geage Bush — no matter how much you were condi
tioned to hate him last time around, you've got to admit
he's a pretty likable fella Shoot, you’d probably even en
joy a round of golf with Dan Quayle. Who knows, after a
few quiet drinks in some dark West Palm Beach bar, you’d
probably come to a: not a menacing liberal but a con
genial, even witty, regula r guy in Teddy Kennedy
Politicians, almost by definition, are likeable people
because they like people. Sure. Richard Nixon was a Liner,
but even he in intimate groups of friends was said to be
expansive and entertaining. Most people who endure the
slings and arrows of the political life are outgoing types
who genuinely enjoy, at least in the moment, pressing your
flesh and telling you how much they would like it if you
| 'would vote fa them.
Such human contact, even on the local level is hard
to come by, but behind all the yard signs and radio spots
j and billboards somewhere out there is a gregarious hu-
: man being willing to take time away from work and family
to knock on your doa and ask you to vote fa her. If you've
ever walked up to a stranger's doa and knocked and
faced whoever answered and tried to keep on smiling
while you offered them a leaflet and rushed to finish your
spiel befae tney slammed the doa, you know a little of
what it takes to run fa office and why those who do it are
hard to hate no mater what their politics.
Shoot Herman Taimadgestote my 41G shotgun oack
m 1952 when he was running fa Governa, and I finally
fagave him even that, because it tauglit me early not to
put too much stock in political promises.
Thai was befae there was any such thing as a Re
publican in the state of Geagia: Talmadge and anti-
Talmadge were the only parties around. My folks were
anti-Talmadge and were enthusiastically fa their friend M.E.
Thompson. M.E. came to town to speak at the courthouse
and afterward he came by our house and sat on the sofa
m the parky and visited with his supporters My mother
got uncharacteristically carried away with the political ex
citement and confidentially assired me that she thought if
M E won, my' father would buy me the 410 shotgun fa
which I longed.
M.E. lost. I never did get that .410. Herman went on to
be governa fa two tarns and senata fa a long time and
whenever I heard his high-pitched drawl I was reminded
of n iy own loss But personally. Herman could be charm
ing, too. I’ll bet I would enjoy an afternoon of turd hunting
with him—if I had a shotgun
Pete McCommons
Edita, Flagpole Magazine
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