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HAPPY TRAILS, RICK: Superstardom is not confined to the
music world. Rick LaFleur wrote "finis" to 39 years of teaching
Latin at the University of Georgia Sunday, amid the accolades
of friends and colleagues. Rick is also an avid, lifelong music
fan and is almost as familiar a sight in Athens clubs as he is
in the classroom. His everyday speech references The Beatles
even more than Cicero, and the lines "Will you still need me,
will you still feed
me, when I'm 64?"
were running through
his head Sunday as
he contemplated
"retirement" (he's
actually 65—he has
always been vain).
Chances are he's not
retiring fiom the
Latin empire he has
erected through his
nine books, countless
"articles and corner
ing the market on
self-teaching through
online applications.
One of Rick's
former students,
Patrick Yaggy, who
now teaches Latin at
North Gwinnett High
School in Suwannee,
in his tribute
Sunday told Rick, "I
channel you every
day." Afterward,
he explained why
Rick LaFleur LaFleur is such a
colossus in his field.
Yaggy said his students study from textbooks written by Rick,
they attend colloquia headed by Rick; they study his materi
als online, and they can (until now) attend the university and
study in a department headed (for a long time) by Rick. "He
has vastly changed the teaching of Latin in Georgia, in the
United States and in the world," Yaggy declared.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BOB: Two Bob Dylan aficionados, Jeff
Fallis and Todd Kelly, have put together back-to-back shows
honoring Bob Dylan on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Their
great idea is to invite some of Athens' best musicians to play
some of their favorite Dylan songs, and they've divided them
up just like Dylan's playing career is split: acoustic on Tuesday,
May 24 (actual birthday) at The Manhattan and electric on
Wednesday, May 25, at Little Kings. Both nights the music
starts at 8 p.m., and they hope it'll be over by midnight. Since
you're reading this column, you may not recognize all these
names, but maybe enough will register with you to convince
you this is a party you want to attend.
Tuesday night playing acoustic at The Manhattan we've got
Justin Evans, Daniel Aaron, The Campbell Sisters, Kaitlin Jones,
Clay Leverett, The Corduroy Road, Andy Dixon, Dave Marr,
Don Chambers, Half Dozen Brass Band and Klezmer Local 42
(formerly The Lokshen Klugel Klezmer Band) w/ Dave Dowless
8. Santa Claus. Good Lord! All this talent under one roof! And
birthday cake, too.
Wednesday night, plugged in down the street at Little
Kings, you get Dana Downs and Bobby Eberhart, Ruby Kendrick,
Jeremy Wheatley (w/ Matt Stoessel, Nate Nelson and Josh
McCauley), Daniel Aaron, Jacob Morris, Jim Willingham, Kevin
Lane, Jay Gonzalez, The 8-Track Gorilla and Andrew Rieger (w/
John Fernandes & Megan Louise Freeman).
Is there any other town without subways that could muster
such an array of performers? There will be some readings of
Dylan poetry and liner notes, and there is of course still the
possibility of some of those special guests we always hear so
much about. (Why can't we just come right out and say that
Michael Stipe will be tap-dancing on the bar and whistling
"Blowin' in the Wind?") And, who knows? Bob his own self may
catch wind of all this and beat it on down.
Pete McCommons editor@tlagpole.com
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