Greater Prairie-Chicken: The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and hippies (in 2016!) in the Ashland Food Co-op in a small southern Oregon town are an interesting co-development, New plays may already have emerged there from this dance... And here's a view on the history of the Shakespeare Festival there ... Seems that British-informed theater and stage in English have in part probably attracted an alternative set of folks going back centuries, as history changes, - if only because people could put on different clothes and explore interesting roles created by writers? :) What hath Shakespeare wrought with his playwriting?, Heard that some Harbin folks moved to Ashland after the Harbin fire of Sept 2015 too, Actual~Virtual Harbin Hot Springs' Ethnographic Book ~ http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html

Hi M,

Sounds like you have a very nice trip coming up, and so glad that T will be at the ranch for all 3 days that you're there (although as A says, it will be a lot of work:)!

I may explore composing a 16 or 32 bar piece for Scottish small pipes, flute and trombone and seek to play this in a fundraiser next June 2017 with C and S. Music-making was fun on Monday night.

Re my call to you from Ashland, Oregon on Sunday, and your call back ... The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and hippies (in 2016!) in the Ashland Food Co-op in a small southern Oregon town are an interesting co-development, even kind of from the Oregon trail, don't you think? New plays may already have emerged there from this dance... And here's a view on the history of the Shakespeare Festival there ... https://www.osfashland.org/about/our-history.aspx ... which began in 1935, and with the building, and talk of re-building, of a dome as a stage - https://www.osfashland.org/en/about/our-history/ashland-and-the-festival.aspx - as a Chautauqua building (and as a precursor to 1960's and 1970's folks in Oregon - (eg http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/60s-spin-on-Shakespeare-warms-up-Winter-s-Tale-2804512.php).

It seems that British-informed theater and stage in English have in part probably attracted an alternative set of folks going back centuries, as history changes, - if only because people could put on different clothes and explore interesting roles created by writers? :)  What hath Shakespeare wrought with his playwriting?  (See, too: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Shakespeare,_William and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Theater_Arts at WUaS).

I've heard that some Harbin folks moved to Ashland after the Harbin fire of Sept 2015 too.

Applying now for the MIT Media Lab junior faculty position among much else in preparing to depart for Cuttyhunk today. Moving on from the "L"s in indexing my Harbin book, and getting the minutes out further from my big WUaS project and monthly business meeting on Saturday.

Have a great trip to Oregon, M!

L,
Scott

Actual~Virtual Harbin Hot Springs' Ethnographic Book ~ 

http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html

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