Predictions of snow -- overcast, steel-gray skies, so it just might happen. Pick a canyon, any canyon, and Spring just turns to Winter. We saw a Merganser on Middle Foy's Lake yesterday -- hope it finds a mate and nests there.

Footbarn's Celebration of Theatre: Theater X-Net

Starring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
Ida's Places in Paris -- from my first jet-lagged day by the Seine.
Read more about Ida in Sisters of Salome by Toni Bentley

Visit: Michael's Montana Web Archive
Theater, Art, Flash Gordon, Funky Music and MORE!
NEW! Spitfires of the Spaceways
Watch Dale Arden rescue Flash Gordon for a change!

Charity Alert: Make a Spring resolution to click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: Check out our new design at the Hockaday Museum of Art's Website. Still scrambling to do that multi-media presentation about the late Walter Hook for Thursday night's members' reception. We have a PUBLIC reception on Friday too. I'll be there. Men and Women in the Military is the subject of our last Honors Symposium, with Lt. Colonel Kevin Farrell tomorrow evening. Last week's symposium was interesting for it's review of findings known by Piaget and other honest researchers for a couple of generations. There was none of the feared right-wing cant, either.
In another workshop about the human brain we learned that Developmental Psychology can been reinforced by empirical brain studies now, for the first time in history. Functional MRI's continue to back up ethically-done studies which once had to be based on statistics, plus allow new theories and investigations. I'm glad to say that ideology and political fads largely lose-out when examined by scientific techniques.

Media Watch: Real Books -- I picked up and read a paperbound photo-book from 1978 about the origins of Big Apple Circus on a sand-spit near New York City's Battery Park. This organization still thrives twenty-nine years later! Read the Wikipedia article. My acquaintences Hovey Burgess, Judy Finelli, and Phillip Pettite played a part in making their first season a reality. I might as well include their Website. Good going!


The Fratellini Brothers -- real-life archetypes of modern circus clowns. One of their grandaughters, Annie Fratellini was important to the genesis of the Big Apple Circus, and she trained many other fine performers as well.