From: owner-small-repairs-digest@smoe.org (small-repairs-digest) To: small-repairs-digest@smoe.org Subject: small-repairs-digest V3 #108 Reply-To: small-repairs@smoe.org Sender: owner-small-repairs-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-small-repairs-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk small-repairs-digest Monday, May 24 1999 Volume 03 : Number 108 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [none] [jeer@juno.com] [s-r] New ???? Book ["Neil Hepburn" ] Re: [s-r] NSC (Negligable Shawn Content) Carbondale History ["Larry Ladd"] Re: [s-r] NSC (Negligable Shawn Content) Carbondale History ["Larry Ladd"] [none] [jeer@juno.com] [s-r] RE: The Other Town Shawn Grew Up In [Shelly Murphey Subject: [s-r] New ???? Book Pulled from a Lucy Kaplansky website : And if that wasn't enough, Lucy is also featured in a new book titled Solo: Women Singer-Songwriters in Their Own Words edited by Marc Woodworth and with photographs by Emma Dodge Hanson. The book features interviews with artists like Shawn Colvin, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Lucinda Williams, Sheryl Crow, Rosanne Cash, and many others. In fact, Lucy's chapter is right between Joan Osborne and Jewel. The book is available at all bookstores and from Amazon.Com. It also features some amazing photographs! - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub scribe small-repairs' in the message body. FAQ & other info: http://www. tisd.net/~casey/shawn/small_repairs.html *REMEMBER* all posts not directly related to Shawn must have the tag 'NSC:' is their subject line - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 11:50:56 -0700 From: "Larry Ladd" Subject: Re: [s-r] NSC (Negligable Shawn Content) Carbondale History - ---------- > From: Anna Jasmin Petersons > To: small-repairs@smoe.org > Subject: [s-r] NSC (Negligable Shawn Content) Carbondale History > Date: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 6:46 PM > > I was reading a lovely editorial rant on college-student activism > in the local underground newspaper here at Western Washington University, > and it mentioned a war protest at a university in Carbondale in the late > 60's in which a historical building was blown up by the students. Now, > knowing that there are people on this list who went to school w/ Shawn in > Carbondale in the late 60s (if I have my history right here), I can't help > asking if the writer of this editorial was completely delusional or if it > really happened. It sort of really happened. Southern Illinois University was targeted by the national anti-war movement because it was the location for the "Center for Vietnamese Studies," a large AID/CIA operation where Green Berets learned the language and customs of their Southeast Asian clients. The "big kids" that the adolescent Shawn hung around with were long-haired, army-fatigued members of the Peace and Freedom Party that dominated the high school student council. In the summer of 1969 at Southern Illinois University the Old Main Building burned down when the college student body president set fire to the indoor firing range used by the Air Force ROTC. Demonstrators were repulsed from the President's office in an effort to ransack student discipline records. In Cairo, IL (50 miles to the south of Carbondale) the white police force of a town of 10,000 people was using an armored car to battle black snipers; in the 9th grade our school bus was rerouted one day while Carbondale police had a shootout with the local Black Panthers. We, of course, had no idea why the bus was taking a different route -- but I do remember the novelty of it inspired a festive mood and we were all singing "Jeremiah had a Bullfrog" on the bus that day. During the invasion of Cambodia and Kent State in May-June 1970, students took control of the main intersection of town; when the police gassed the crowd they stoned every window on the train heading for New Orleans (Can't remember if it was the 'City of New Orleans' or the 'Panama Limited.') Every window in the stores downtown was broken, as were all the windows in our school. Up until that day our junior high was an open campus, and hip kids like Shawn would go hang out with the college students during lunch. After the riots the junior high became a closed campus forever. There was the smell of teargas in the air, the National Guard moved in and established a 7 p.m. curfew. One acquaintance of my family was arrested and put in jail for standing on the sidewalk in front of his house after 7. The local Klan was mobilizing to re-establish "Law and Order" in Carbondale. The Chancellor of SIU, who was interviewing for the job of president at the University of Oregon at the time, and was afraid bloodshed would ruin his chances of getting the job, closed the campus and let seniors graduate without taking final exams. The riots irrevocably changed the town Shawn grew up in. The higher insurance costs shut down most of the stores in downtown Carbondale where she hung out as a teenager, and business moved out to a new mall at the edge of town. The college president who built up SIU as a major educational institution resigned under charges of corruption, and was replaced by Nixon's pollster, who also was indicted later on. Southern Illinois University declined into a second-rate regional institution; prior to 1970 SIU was like the University of Texas: an up and coming university paying top dollar for big name professors that also happened to rank high in Playboy's list of party schools. Carbondale dreamed of becoming another Austin, but the oil crisis and recession of 1973-1974 killed Rust Belt prosperity and dried up the funding for SIU from Chicago. Many of our high school classmates went to Texas in search of jobs. If it did, I'd have to agree with the writer of this > editorial-- political activist college students nowadays are tame. Well, nobody is asking them to jeopardize their lives and middle class status by going into combat. And the activism back then was not particularly well-informed. The SIU student riots were a mixture of a North-South, black-white tension and a sex-drugs-Rock & Roll rebellion against Mayor Daley and Joe Student's parents back in suburban Downers Grove, IL. The anti-war operatives from Berkeley adroitly achieved their goal by exploiting the conjunction of the banning of a big Midwestern Woodstock-style rockfest called Mayfest, the shooting of students at Kent State and Jackson State, and blunders by poorly trained local police: the Center for Vietmanese Studies was shut down after the riots, and Shawn would move on with this spirit of rebellion to Austin. Hey, > I'll try to give this a little more Shawn content-- d'you think this event > could have inspired "Sunny"? I haven't noticed any Carbondalian allusions in the lyrics of Sunny, but I am also an eternally clueless nerd. Larry Ladd Rancho Cordova, California Carbondale Community High School Class of '74 I pulled the curtain when Shawn debuted as Anna in the "King and I" school musical: I can die a happy man knowing I had my brush with greatness : ) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub scribe small-repairs' in the message body. FAQ & other info: http://www. tisd.net/~casey/shawn/small_repairs.html *REMEMBER* all posts not directly related to Shawn must have the tag 'NSC:' is their subject line - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 13:48:32 -0700 From: "Larry Ladd" Subject: Re: [s-r] NSC (Negligable Shawn Content) Carbondale History - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Imagine Woodstock being held in Mississippi -- that's what Shawn Colvin grew up in. Larry Ladd - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub scribe small-repairs' in the message body. FAQ & other info: http://www. tisd.net/~casey/shawn/small_repairs.html *REMEMBER* all posts not directly related to Shawn must have the tag 'NSC:' is their subject line - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 14:10:26 -0700 From: jeer@juno.com Subject: [none] Does anyone have any info on Shawn, Bonnie, and Jackson (James?), touring together? I also heard someone say the new album was due out in September. Is there any thruth in that? ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub scribe small-repairs' in the message body. FAQ & other info: http://www. tisd.net/~casey/shawn/small_repairs.html *REMEMBER* all posts not directly related to Shawn must have the tag 'NSC:' is their subject line - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 16:50:54 -0700 From: Shelly Murphey Subject: [s-r] RE: The Other Town Shawn Grew Up In Now, living in a small South Dakota town, we have very little to brag about musically, except for the fact that Shawn spent her first 12 years here! She came back for her first concert in Vermillion last December. Did anyone catch it? She was wonderful of course. She told great stories about her and her family, and even rattled off the names of all of her elementary school teachers. Delightful! - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub scribe small-repairs' in the message body. FAQ & other info: http://www. tisd.net/~casey/shawn/small_repairs.html *REMEMBER* all posts not directly related to Shawn must have the tag 'NSC:' is their subject line - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 14:52:14 -0700 From: "Larry Ladd" Subject: Re: [s-r] RE: The Other Town Shawn Grew Up In - ---------- > From: Shelly Murphey > To: small-repairs@smoe.org > Subject: [s-r] RE: The Other Town Shawn Grew Up In > Date: Sunday, May 23, 1999 4:50 PM > > Now, living in a small South Dakota town, we have very little to brag about > musically, except for the fact that Shawn spent her first 12 years here! > She came back for her first concert in Vermillion last December. Did > anyone catch it? She was wonderful of course. She told great stories > about her and her family, and even rattled off the names of all of her > elementary school teachers. Delightful! > > Going through puberty while you are a new kid moving from rural South Dakota to "Woodstock in Mississippi" might be a good way to develop artistic tension. Larry Ladd - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub scribe small-repairs' in the message body. FAQ & other info: http://www. tisd.net/~casey/shawn/small_repairs.html *REMEMBER* all posts not directly related to Shawn must have the tag 'NSC:' is their subject line - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 00:12:38 +0100 From: Angela Garry Subject: [s-r] ... new subscriber with CDs for sale... Hi. I am a new subscriber to this list and am currently in the process of cleaning through my CD and vinyl collections at the moment as I have SEVERELY run out of space in my small apartment. Hence, I am selling off a lot of my collection, including my Shawn Colvin CD singles (I will keep all my CD albums - I can't bear to part with EVERYthing!). If you're interested, please email me off the list (angela.garry@virgin.net) and I'll let you know what I have availble. Thank you. Angela Garry Angela Garry angela.garry@virgin.net http://freespace.virgin.net/angela.garry/hanff.html - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub scribe small-repairs' in the message body. 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