midwest thoughts

occasional musings from the heartland, removed from distractions like mountains, seacoasts, and any elevation of the land -- flat other than the several glacial ravines that run through the area.

Friday, September 15, 2006

Playwrights and campaigning

First, family. Daughter Kathryn and husband Patrick here for short visit prior to departure for three years in Japan. Celebrated their first wedding anniversary with us--



and at the Clintonville Arts and Music Festival





where they bought a mosaic dog

and we talked politics with a couple wearing stickers for Ted Strickland; we're, of course, in our Kilroy shirts

In August, hosted the third annual retreat for the International Center for Women Playwrights. Here Robert Monoghan and Carol Shelton read from a work in progress


and Scottish playwright Margaret McSeveney, Maine playwright Carolyn Gage, and Boston playwright Geralyn Horton sing to Andrea Jill Higgins's playing a song from a new musical she and Carolyn are writing.


Geralyn makes a point

and volunteer actors Greg Fusco and Bev Brewton read a scene in progress