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Art & Revolution This is just something that I put together to share our experiences with puppetmaking and the SOA protest with friends and family. I hope that it inspires people to learn more about the SOA and to write to their representatives telling them to close the SOA. You can click on many of the pictures here for a larger picture The puppetmaking workshop took place at a farm community called Koinonia - it is an interracial Christian community established in the 1940's. Koinonia is a remarkable place situated in the midst of miles of cottonfields in the deep rural South. I feel privleged to have spent time there. I hope that you will look at their website and find out more about it. We got to the puppet workshop a couple of days into it. Aidan had gotten sick the day we left and had thrown up on me the first night that we spent in a motel. He was totally better after that, but when we got to Koinonia, I was feeling nervous about camping with him for a week and so we got a motel room in Americus, about 10 minutes away. In retrospect I wish that we had stayed at Koinonia, because it turned out that the people there were all really wonderfull and interesting, and I would have liked to get to know them better. But I was feeling really apprehensive that first day - and Steve even more so, so a motel it was. We drove down with a woman who we had never met named Elspeth - it turns out that Elspeth lives in Columbia County (where we are moving next month) and is a Quaker. I figured that she must be the same age as Liz and maybe they would know each other from Powell House, the Quaker retreat center in Old Chatham. Elspeth says that the name is familiar but she's not quite sure. Its a pretty cool co-incidence and Elspeth by the way is pretty cool too which is lucky because we spent a lot of time in the car with her and shared a motel room with her and then trusted her to drive our car home while we went to Texas. And I love saying her name. Elspeth Elspeth Elspeth. I bet you're wondering where the pictures are. |