THE FIRST STORIES from EXCURSION, SITUATION and OBSERVATION originating in YELLOW SPRINGS ~~ A PREFACE: Mark Twain’s characters, Tom and Huckleberry, and the writings from especially two of his Mississippi River, small town characterizations had held it out for me: The brilliant and elegant spirit of adventure. Then, within those late-1960’s, and because of my newfound connections to "my own" Antioch College (and of course, while still being held inside these moments of my having read and experienced that fine ol’ literature), this new-felt adolescent propensity for the achievement of interesting deeds had also ‘now’ become accentuated by a bunch of new, and entertaining human beings and occasions whom had then readily wandered into my own small, hometown world. This simple, whole idea of adaptable endeavor (which was also then becoming actual circumstance inside my young world) easily, and rather readily became representative of a brand new adventurous reality: A reality which was now directly accessible to myownself, and even perhaps opportune for while this kid was still at his very young age. ~~
In these Vietnam war era years of the late-60’s, there existed a fairly-universal focus for many young folks developing there. This "rebellion" simply sent many of us into a new search for alternative paths: avenues (hopefully) taking us to more than the typically homogenized or draft-required militarized versions of life. Within this time period, I happened to have become acquainted with many of the characteristic anti-war-inclined people there; thus, my own personal outlook also became very much affected by, and influenced in this new predilection. ~~
Within these pages, one will simply find written interpretation of diversified occasion directly related to this particular era. The circumstances described, characters encountered, feelings held, and some of the roads traveled through the course of these histories, also simply represent one particular individual’s realities: my own. I have purposely attempted this text as if written from that kid’s account, and from within these markedly acclimated, late-60’s points of view; as these are important ones—of the many ingredients—making up the concrete’s of both my own young character at that time, and of the table from where this script can be naturally written today. ~~
Please note that I do not pretend to have mastered the English language in the ways my favorite writer is entirely accomplished: I fully admit, I am but a novice next to him. The narratives within these pages does, though, represent a dance through many of the human fundamentals (not unlike Twain’s own characters); and with this script being set into the later-60’s, and this young fellow being mostly a bit older than Sawyer or Finn: this kid was traveling perhaps a more modernly diverse river, as Huck’s, but also one joining a flow containing so many bends and new adventure along its rapids and currents: So—by this account—"this young fellow" may have simply been tripping into the more contemporaneous, conceivably even deeper potholes. ~~~ Thanks for listening.
BRSchumacher ~ ~
~ A TABLE OF ITS CONTENTS ~
~ A Brief Introduction ~
~ One Barber ~
~ Young Genius ~
~ One Story-Tellin’, Pennsylvania, Turnpike Road-Mechanic ~
~ Women, the Pinnacle; Goddesses ~
~ Romantic Literature ~
~ Cigarettes ~
~ One fellow with an Aeroplane ~
~ New Hampshire Mountains ~
~ Yellow Springs Newspaper Co., of 1968 ~
~ Dancin’ ~
~ Drinkin’ ~
~ Bushes and Associates ~
~ The River ~
~ Neanderthalers and Pigs ~
~ One Cow Wounded in Battle ~
~ One Dog in Massachusetts ~
~ Mike ~
~ Florida; in a low State ~
~ One Bug, Ride to a slow Tempo ~
~ Mach-7 ~
~ Parachute ~
~ Musical Genius ~
~ Sports Car ~
~ One Very Interesting Excursion ~
~ An appendix (sort of) ~
~ My Dad ~
~ One Fine Violinist of a Mom ~
~ Appleberrys ~
In these Vietnam war era years of the late-60’s, there existed a fairly-universal focus for many young folks developing there. This "rebellion" simply sent many of us into a new search for alternative paths: avenues (hopefully) taking us to more than the typically homogenized or draft-required militarized versions of life. Within this time period, I happened to have become acquainted with many of the characteristic anti-war-inclined people there; thus, my own personal outlook also became very much affected by, and influenced in this new predilection. ~~
Within these pages, one will simply find written interpretation of diversified occasion directly related to this particular era. The circumstances described, characters encountered, feelings held, and some of the roads traveled through the course of these histories, also simply represent one particular individual’s realities: my own. I have purposely attempted this text as if written from that kid’s account, and from within these markedly acclimated, late-60’s points of view; as these are important ones—of the many ingredients—making up the concrete’s of both my own young character at that time, and of the table from where this script can be naturally written today. ~~
Please note that I do not pretend to have mastered the English language in the ways my favorite writer is entirely accomplished: I fully admit, I am but a novice next to him. The narratives within these pages does, though, represent a dance through many of the human fundamentals (not unlike Twain’s own characters); and with this script being set into the later-60’s, and this young fellow being mostly a bit older than Sawyer or Finn: this kid was traveling perhaps a more modernly diverse river, as Huck’s, but also one joining a flow containing so many bends and new adventure along its rapids and currents: So—by this account—"this young fellow" may have simply been tripping into the more contemporaneous, conceivably even deeper potholes. ~~~ Thanks for listening.
BRSchumacher ~ ~
~ A TABLE OF ITS CONTENTS ~
~ A Brief Introduction ~
~ One Barber ~
~ Young Genius ~
~ One Story-Tellin’, Pennsylvania, Turnpike Road-Mechanic ~
~ Women, the Pinnacle; Goddesses ~
~ Romantic Literature ~
~ Cigarettes ~
~ One fellow with an Aeroplane ~
~ New Hampshire Mountains ~
~ Yellow Springs Newspaper Co., of 1968 ~
~ Dancin’ ~
~ Drinkin’ ~
~ Bushes and Associates ~
~ The River ~
~ Neanderthalers and Pigs ~
~ One Cow Wounded in Battle ~
~ One Dog in Massachusetts ~
~ Mike ~
~ Florida; in a low State ~
~ One Bug, Ride to a slow Tempo ~
~ Mach-7 ~
~ Parachute ~
~ Musical Genius ~
~ Sports Car ~
~ One Very Interesting Excursion ~
~ An appendix (sort of) ~
~ My Dad ~
~ One Fine Violinist of a Mom ~
~ Appleberrys ~
