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Athens News and Views
Residents cf the ARMC neighborhood fared last week new infiii development
would threaten an ancient and beloved tree.
Write Like Faulkner, and Listen
Athens Rising <
.What's Up in New Development
T-SPLOST may be our only way to fund its slate of transportation protects, but do
we even want them?
Grub Notes
Hit the Deck . ^ ? '
Did every business in the Washington Street parking deck have to be a chain?
Movie Pick 11
The Cobblestone Jungle
The KM with a Bike 's unflinching in its observations, but there are slivers of hope.
MUSIC
Threats & Promises
Music News and Gossip
Junker re-emerges! New release from The Corduroy Road! Patrick Morales
residency at Highwire! And more
Record Reviews.
Our Takes on the Newest Releases
Werewolves, Visualizations, Wowser Bowser, Reptar and more,
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Okay, Faulkner fans, the 50th anniversary of his death is
upon us. The Byhalia Society and Flagpole sponsor two events:
a write-like-Faulkner contest and readings from his works.
'As I Lay Writing,' is a contest to see who can sling
together a Faulknerian rendition sufficient to impress our panel
of judges, who will pick first second and third-place winners'
to be published in the July 4 issue of Flagpole. Email your
entry to editor@flagpole.com no later than 5 p.m. Tuesday,
June 19 and no more than 500 words. Imitation is the sheer
est form of flattery, so here's your chance to honor the master
by showing how well you have learned his lessons.
"The Sound and the Faulkner live Readings at Cin£,” pres
ents local people reading selections from Faulkner, 5 to 7 p.m.
on Thursday, July 5, the very eve of the 50th anniversary of
his death. This is a rare opportunity to hear Faulkner being
read aloud. Come to Cin6, sit back, listen and immerse yourself
in the experience of hearing Faulkner's words in the melliflu
ous accents of your friends and neighbors. The contest is also
an homage to the Faux Faulkner Contest founded in 1989 by
Yoknapatawpha Press co-publishers Dean Faulkner Wells and
Lawrence Wells.
Sudden and Sad
Word last week that Sky Hertwig, the towering ex-Georgia
Bulldog and NFL football player, longtime bar owner and ubiq
uitous Athens fixture, had died of heart failure at the age of 60
moved more quickly through town than any piece of news since
R.E.M.'s breakup. Everybody knew Sky, not just because he was
a walking local landmark, but because he was one of those
guys you mark down as a friend the first time they shake your
hand. There aren't many people who exist at the intersection of
as many of the strands of Athens life as Sky did, and this town
is a little bit less connected for his passing. R.I.P. [Dave Marr]
A Tribute to Joe Fail
Joe Fail, an old friend to many of us in Athens, died last
week of pancreatic cancer at the age of 67. He was a scholar,
a teacher, an environmentalist— husband to Meta Thompson
and father to their daughters, Katherine Thompson arid Robin
Fail. After they left Athens, Joe was a longtime faculty member
at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, and he was, above
all, unflinchingly his own man, true to his own self and false to
no one, no matter how unconventional he appeared and was.
Joe, Meta and the girls have long loved some wooded
land they own over in Elbert County, which they call, simply,
"Elberton." They buried Joe out there in Elberton last week in
the woods he tended, and a gathering of friends celebrated
him on Saturday, which after Friday's rain was a cool, breezy,
sunny day, as if made by nature just for Joe.
Among the many tributes to Joe was this one by Molly
McCommons, a childhood friend of Katherine and Robin and a
first-grade Chase Street school classmate of Katherine's. Molly
couldn't be there, but her mother read the words she sent in
tribute to Joe. Here's an excerpt that sums him up.
"When I think of him, these are the images that flash in my
mind: Joey taking us for seemingly endless walks in the woods
with lots of commentary about trees and plants. Joe taking
us swimming in the creek. Joe riding on his tractor in circles
around a tree and some rocks to create a life-sized Zen rock
garden, which he was very proud of. Joe was always telling us
to go have some adventures. He liked it when we made up our
own fun, when we went exploring or wrote plays and acted out
stories. He was completely uninterested in conventional soci
ety's tenets of consumerism and manufactured comfort, and to
know someone like that made a lasting impact on me when I
was young, even though I didn't always 'get it.' Joe also had
an understated yet hilarious sense of humor. Once he told me
that he considered the sitcom 'Full House' pornography. That
nugget has stuck in my mind ever since. He meant, of course,
that television, advertisements and a fake glossy lifestyle are
essentially obscene, but the way he phrased it was perfect The
older I get, the more thankful I am for individualists like Joe,
who unapologetically focus on what they think is important;
for Joe, this was education and nature and exploration and his
family. 1 am forever thankful to have had his worldview in my
life at a formative time.'
Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com
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