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Poet and Polemicist
an interview with Jerome Rothenberg
by Sarah Suzor
Poet, translator, and polemicist Jerome Rothenberg is the author of more than 80 books of poetry, and has edited or co-edited ten major anthologies/assemblages, including Shaking the Pumpkin, Technicians of the Sacred, and three volumes of Poems for the Millennium. In his lifetime, Rothenberg has lived with the Seneca Indians, and was the first to bring major works such as Paul Celans Death Fugue into English. His own poetry has been translated into more than a dozen languages, ranging from French to Lithuanian. I celebrate / reversals, Rothenberg writes. While he has remained adamant about investigating a counter-poetics—a re-visioning of works by some of the most recognized poets in history—he also established and nurtured the study of ethnopoetics, which has created a forum for tribal poetry, song, and artistry, some of which may have never otherwise existed in print.
Rothenbergs career as an editor began around 1960 when he founded Hawks Well Press, which produced a 3x4 inch, 16-page magazine called Poems From the Floating World. Nearly fifty years later, Rothenberg and I sat down during Naropa Universitys Summer Writing Program to discuss his journey from mimeograph to Internet, from 16 pages to 1600.
Sarah Suzor: Having come to an established point in your career, has your motivation for writing poetry changed? Do you still approach writing poetry with the same intention?
Jerome Rothenberg: I think, I think, that my underlying motivation is the same or similar, although I write differently than I did. One of the things I am presently engaged in is a collection of uncollected poems, which is similar in its scope to doing a full volume of collected poems. So I am in the process of going back into the late 1950s and arranging my poems from then and now in a roughly chronological order, and in doing that I can see the way the work has changed.
From very early on some of the other activities, like the anthologies and the work on ethnopoetics, have taken up a lot of my time, energy and interest. Until the mid to late 1960s anthologies had not entered the picture as what they would come to be: a place of composition. I came very quickly, once I got started with them, to think of the anthologies, beginning with Technicians of the Sacred, as large, epical constructions or compositions. So, for me, Technicians of the Sacred wasnt an anthology in the old sense because, like many other poets, I didnt have much use for anthologies. Then suddenly I was commissioned to do an anthology and it opened up to me as a new form, a chance to do something not unlike what I and the others were doing with our magazines, but also sometimes in our poems. There were opportunities in the 1960s for poets or groups of poets to make their own magazines; it was in the air. A lot of self-publication was going on at that time, and I was part of it.
The ethnopoetics represents something that was an interest for me from the first time I got a look at transcriptions and translations of American Indian poetry in certain WWII and postwar anthologies of the 1940s and 1950s. By the end of the 1960s ethnopoetics was the name I gave to it, and having named it, it was something for which I carried some responsibility. That has continued to be an interest. Things that have been important to me earlier along I tend to carry with me into later work, though they may be playing less and less of a role in what Im doing. Even up to the latest anthology, Poems for the Millennium Volume Three, theres a whole area of ethnopoetics that comes into the book. Other things that were concentrations of mine early along continue to show up in the poetry, but they are transformed or concealed because I am writing poetry in a different way. There was a time when all of us knew very little about chance operations except perhaps those games played by Surrealists and Dadaists. Knowledge of that came to me in an ongoing discourse with Jackson Mac Low, who, with John Cage, was bringing that to our attention. I never wrote chance or aleatory poetry in the way that Jackson did, but I found it useful to compose poems with devices that drew a vocabulary and structures from previous poetry or from sources outside of poetry. That ties in also with my interest, going back a long time, in translation as a form of composition.
SS: Lewis MacAdams once said, One does not make a living out of poetry, one makes a life. He was speaking about finances, of course. Do you think you are somewhat of an exception to that rule?
JR: You mean making a living out of poetry? (Laughs) In poetry itself theres not a living to make. There are obviously offshoots of poetry, not only for me but also for many of us, which can provide a livelihood. There are grants, or very commonly teaching, in which the validation comes from the work as a poet. I had a tangential relationship to teaching; in the beginning it did not make for much of a living. Back in New York in the 1960s I was a one-man English department for the Mannes College of Music, where I was also able to provide adjunct work for David Antin, Diane Wakoski, Jackson Mac Low, and maybe a couple of other people. It paid very little, while at the same time I was watching friends of mine going into the actual universities and making what seemed like lots of money. But there was also a demand on their time, whereas with this lesser teaching there was less demand on mine. Also, my wife and I were part of part of a generation that was learning to live minimally (or so we thought). The idea was always that one was committed first and foremost to poetry, which is not only the making of my own poems, but some notion that there was a responsibility to the life of poetry beyond that. I hope that's what the anthologies and the efforts Ive made to expand the field of poetry are about.
SS: In a previous interview you use the term culture brokers and you go on to say that you and your cohorts combated this culture broking mentality by taking charge of your own publishing and, as far as possible, utilizing whatever means of production were then available. Now, with the Internet as the clear advantageous means of production, has your opinion of culture broking changed? In other words, do you feel contemporary poetry needs some sort of credibility filter?
JR: The Internet is overall advantageous. To me, Internet publication—blogs, websites and so forth—is the equivalent to what in the 1960s we called the mimeograph revolution. And the Internet is available technology, although, I should point out, not available to everyone, but it's very widespread at this point and it allows poets with a niche-audience to publish or disseminate their work and the work of others outside of a commercial nexus. So in terms of the question do you earn a living through poetry? the answer is still no, but through the Internet there is the possibility of publication with a minimal financial investment. The expenses of printing a book, and all the marketing and distribution questions are taken out of the equation. Before the Internet one would have to contemplate, Where are the bookstores that will take these books? That was part of the adventure of small press publishing and part of the frustration.
SS: The Internets instant accessibility takes away the tangibility of publishing, and therefore eliminates the effort that is put into producing that tangibility. Basically, there are no restrictions in publication these days. Do you feel this has made publishing too easy?
JR: In a way it has. Obviously the Internet gets flooded with self-published poetry. Although, that must have been the case during the mimeograph period also: there was a lot of, if you look at it in those terms, second-rate poetry that was being produced and distributed. I think that no harm came out of that. A lot of very wonderful things happened during that time because the poets who were doing interesting work would have been cut off from publication if they were going to depend entirely on those who I guess I was calling the culture brokers—the commercial publishers, trade publishers, university publishers, and so on. For a while in the 1960s the trade publishers began to take an interest in the so-called alternative, experimental or avant-garde forms of poetry because they thought there was something in it for them. It didnt last for long, however.
SS: In the introduction to Poems for the Millennium Volume Three you say that you and Jeffrey Robinson feel freed here and elsewhere from the need to conform to canonical restrictions. Could you explain how you see those restrictions—the guidelines that you were able to avoid?
JR: If we just think in terms of anthologies, there is a tendency for anthologies to build on anthologies; that's part of the process of canonization. Not only are certain poets identified as canonical figures, but there are also anthology-type poems. More and more, what might be the massive work of poets like Shelley, Wordsworth, or anybody else for that matter, gets reduced to the canonical favorites: the certified poems of the certified poets.
In our case, as a result of how I learned to operate with a press like the University of California Press, and because the first two volumes of Poems for the Millennium were successful for them, we had an absolutely free hand in what we were doing. With Volume Three we were going into much more academic territory, much more the territory of the canonical than what Pierre Joris and I had encountered with the first two volumes. But for Jeffrey Robinson and me there was none of that canonical rigidity, and we found ourselves free to include any poets and any poems by those poets we wanted. We were really looking for new configurations.
In Volume Three there are not as many surprising poets in the three sections of the book that are chronologically ordered, so the familiar figures are there, but, in some cases—most cases—with an unfamiliar presentation. Then there are some others that are uncommon figures, who are, to our thinking, doing something extraordinary for their time; and there are some other special sections that are full of surprises. But all in all there was no one looking over our shoulders and saying this or that cannot be done, so it was a very happy circumstance. I dont think either Jeffrey or I felt any inhibition; in fact, if anything we were eager to break down certain barriers.
SS: What about the process of anthologizing is different when you set out to create an anthology of contemporary work?
JR: If youre speaking for a group, say one of the language poetry anthologies, you know who the participants are and you can do a pretty good selection from the work of each of them. You might however forget or disregard the work of one or two and there could be unhappy or bruised feelings coming out of that. That much is fairly obvious. If you set out to do an anthology as I guess we were doing with Poems for the Millennium Volume Two, where we were not working with a particular group, there is the pain of selection, especially because a volume like Millennium was as wide-reaching as it was: a global anthology that included poetry from not only the United States, which is tough enough, but also all of Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, the Caribbean. All of that had to come into the picture, but very schematically. We made what choices we could and certainly made some choices that we would handle differently if we were doing it again. One thing for sure is that we couldnt overdo the American part of it. It couldnt be 80 percent United States poets and 20 percent the rest of the world—not as a matter of diversity but as an acknowledgement of where the experimental action really was. Some people may still feel that everything of real importance was happening in America, but we just didnt feel that way.
With that in mind, for example, when it came to dealing with the San Francisco/Berkeley Renaissance, there were three who comprised it in the narrow sense: Robert Duncan, Robin Blaser, and Jack Spicer. We figured that we couldnt or shouldnt include all three of them, so we decided to go with Duncan, who was absolutely crucial for both Pierre (Joris) and me, and either Blaser or Spicer. So we finally went with Blaser and left Spicer out. But, oh lord! (Laughs) Some people were simply unforgiving about that, but what can you say? Things like that come up, and they're going to come up again and again, when you're dealing with contemporary poetry. With the nineteenth century its different, its a different kind of territory, but when you're into the contemporary you get that, and my response has been: well, you know, everybody should do their own anthology; this is simply the one we did. David Antin's definition of the artist is a person that does the best he or she can, so thats it: you do the best you can with what you have. It has recently occurred to me in fact that with the Internet everybody can do their own anthologies. An anthology is literally a collection of flowers, so let a thousand flowers blossom, like the man said; flood the Internet with anthologies.
SS: In the past, generally one of the problems with anthologizing/canonization has been the under-representation of both gender and cultural diversity. Your work with ethnopoetics is clearly one way of combating this problem; however, just to look at this dilemma through a different lens, I want to read you a passage from Joan Retallacks The Poethical Wager:
One would think [Harold] Blooms romantic image of the male writer in an age of belatedness might be exotic or irrelevant for those of us to whom language appears devoid of precedents created in the image of a woman, low on materpieces. Instead many of us have found it enviable—a condition to emulate. Hence, the effort to establish a rival, mirror-image womans canon.
I am curious how you approach giving a voice to these underrepresented groups without, as Retallack says, establishing a rival, mirror-image canon, and without perpetuating an old archetype.
JR: If I were doing a contemporary anthology, at this point, it would probably be top-heavy with women. My sense is that, at present, you can think of women as being in the forefront of avant-garde, experimental poetry in the United States. I can't speak about outside the United States, but here, where we are, a lot of major texts—books, poems, mixed and intermedia—are being created by women. If you go back into the nineteenth century, as we did with Poems for the Millennium Volume Three, certainly there were many women writing and publishing poetry then, and there's certainly been an attempt to re-surface a lot of that: anthologies in many languages of women poets of the nineteenth century. For Volume Three, which is an anthology of inventive, groundbreaking nineteenth century poets, if we focused (as we had to) on the experimental or groundbreaking aspects, we were not left with that many women. Could we break our exploration of avant-gardism to bring more women into the picture? By thinking in those terms, which was truly what the series was about, we may have deluded ourselves, but I dont think so.
SS: I guess my question is more centered on your work with Technicians of the Sacred or Shaking the Pumpkin, where you exhibit work from an underrepresented population of writers. In these books you are able to maintain the integrity and the importance of the work by avoiding this notion of creating a rival canon. Im interesting in your techniques when you approach this territory.
JR: I don't like the notion of establishing yet another canon. I know what Joan is saying in relation to the writing of women, and it would be interesting. What would one do then? A canon limited to women? It seems as arbitrary as a canon limited to men.
SS: I think that's exactly what she's saying.
JR: Some of that kind of poetry from Technicians of the Sacred and Shaking the Pumpkin—American Indian, Asian—comes into Volume Three of Poems for the Millennium. We arbitrarily have a section called Some Asian Poets and another, largely ethnopoetic section called A Book of Origins. It took a little thinking on our part: should we do that or shouldn't we? The Origins section was filled with ethnographic and archaeological material that had come in along with Romanticism (or maybe because of it), but with the section of Asian Poets we intended to have it act as a corrective, to show parallel areas in the nineteenth century (Chinese and Japanese and Indian and Persian) outside the reach of Romanticism as such. But also one of the two terminal poets—at the end of the nineteenth century—was Yosano Akiko of Japan, who was already aware of symbolism, say, as a form of post-Romanticism. And because of the way we named our sections, she appears in the subtitle of our final chronological section: From Hopkins & Nietzsche to Yosano & Apollinaire. So it's an Asian and woman poet at the end of the book.
SS: Say youre living in 2109 and compiling material for Volume Four of Poems for the Millennium—what would you say is the most prevalent element in contemporary poetry that is being trivialized or overlooked?
JR: I think we still have to come to terms with technology and poetry. We also have to come to terms with any kind of sorting out of the impact of the Internet and the forms that come from it, for example, audio or visual components that serve as alternative ways of presenting or perhaps making poetry.
Prior to the Internet we could talk about poetry and performance by describing the performances; we could give stage directions, create scores, write accounts in retrospect, but there was no ready way of disseminating performance beyond its actual occasion. More than recordings or films, which were hard to come by, the Internet offers the possibility of a new and enhanced form of dissemination. What would be the impact from all of that a hundred years from now? It doesnt matter but I sometimes think about it, and then I have to take account of the intervening 99 years and whatever changes outside of our control would have taken place by then.
Looking into the future, though, there are also dystopic views about the future of poetry itself, which one doesnt need to brood about, though there could certainly be a discussion about whether there is a future for poetry, or a discussion about what kind of poetry there might be a future for. Poetry, as we're speaking of it in this interview, remains very much a niche-phenomenon. There are other, more popular forms of poetry than ours, and occasionally theres an interchange between what we're talking about here and those more popular forms, but there's also a division, and so 100 years from now, someone might ask, will it all be a lost art? I certainly hope not, but it certainly comes to mind. You probably shouldn't worry about that, and I shouldnt either.
SS: There are no talent scouts in the field of poetics; no one is actively seeking out the next poet cash cow. Having said that, how important is it that the poet contribute to other aspects of the field of poetry, for example, creating small presses and magazines, etc.
JR: I think that remains essential; I would not give up on that under any circumstances.
SS: Is it one of the most essential elements to a poets future?
JR: I think that one should make every effort to keep alive an active, non-commercial tradition for poetry. When you say no talent scouts that brings to mind a number of things. You know, here we are at Naropas creative writing program, and theres another creative writing program a few blocks away at the University of Colorado, and hundreds throughout the country. Talent aside, its a kind of training ground for poets that hadnt existed previously. There werent any schools for poets, although poetry was a part of a certain kind of education (beyond that, of a certain kind of life); you know, poets started writing poetry because they were reading poetry or they were being encouraged to practice poetry in another language like Latin or Greek, as a way to learn their chops. Now, if there's an overabundance of materials today on the Internet, then that must have something to do with an overabundance of poets coming out of the creative writing programs. Personally, I was never in a creative writing program; I never experienced a protracted period of writing for a degree, writing for grades, or for the approval of a poet instructor. I think that students in creative writing programs should be very cautious about that. There can be too much encouragement in one direction, one way of writing, even when the poet in charge isn't intending that. And creative writing instructors are far from the best mentors or models.
SS: It seems, with MFA and PhD programs in creative writing spouting up across the country, credentials are now, more than ever, increasingly important for the poet and the poets career.
JR: Do you mean credentials to get into the creative writing programs or the credentials that creative writing programs give you to make the livelihood thats offered to poets and writers who teach in creative writing programs?
SS: Both. Its becoming a world of credentials.
JR: On the other hand, faculty may inevitably feel a certain genuine responsibility toward their students. Although faculty and students have come together almost fortuitously, certain favors are going to be asked for and extended. In all good conscience you want to do the right thing for people who have studied with you and who are in a competition with others who havent. That part of it is a little bit like the talent scout you were asking about, or the literary agent; its not without that aspect. On the other hand there's nothing I would suggest in replacement, and I certainly would not suggest disbanding the creative writing programs on that basis. But there's some question too about what youre actually teaching in a creative writing program, especially in a time thats gone away from fixed-metric and rhyme and so forth (although I might still prefer to teach them). Maybe, given what we actually do today, poets should be taught (in addition to everything else) to master the Internet and related digital techniques. Now that would be teachable.
Poetics & Polemics, 1980-2005
Jerome Rothenberg
University of Alabama Press ($29.95)
Poems for the Millennium,
Volume Three
The University of California
Book of Romantic & Postromantic Poetry
Edited by Jerome Rothenberg
and Jeffrey C. Robinson
University of California Press ($34.95)
by Harry Polkinhorn
Poetics & Polemics, 1980-2005 and Poems for the Millennium Volume Three (co-edited with Jeffrey C. Robinson) present us with the two poles of a dynamic continuum, giving us a solid basis for understanding Jerome Rothenbergs unique contribution to poetry. In the matrix of the poets mind both defining and discovery ensue, mutually influencing each other through a creative clash and blending.
The first of these two titles collects a number of the poets prose texts, originally published as prefaces, interviews, or generous commentaries on the work of others; it sharply reflects Rothenbergs thinking, in its full maturity, on his own multilayered work, on poetics, and on the history of poetry. The second book extends the reach the first two volumes of Poems for the Millennium, those landmark anthologies assembled with Pierre Joris. Indeed, both of these new books are usefully approached in connection with each other, first, and then as they add depth and scope to the poets life work.
In the opening section of Poetics & Polemics, 1980-2005, Rothenberg brings together seminal essays that simultaneously illuminate the subjects upon which they focus and the poets work, broadly conceived. In fact, these two thrusts are inseparable and full of conflict and energy. A listing of the subjects points to the sweep and richness of Rothenbergs interests over the years: performance, anthologizing, shamanism, ethnopoetics, the historical avant-gardes, Jewishness, transnational poetics, the book, the oral tradition, experimentation in poetry and other arts, translation, tricksters, revolution, and the small press, among others. Part Two is poet-focused and includes probing considerations of a series of writers who have been important to Rothenberg: Pound, Jabés, Rilke, Cage, Stein, Blake, Hopkins, Lorca, Picasso, and many others. What is the line that runs through these materials? It is the poets theorizing, consistently helping us to a more generative and inclusive vision of the possibilities of the art. Rothenberg says in his Poems for the Millennium: Two Prefaces, in explaining the emphases the guided the anthologists selections, that they were premised on
an overall sense that what has characterized the centurys poetry has been an exploration of new forms of language, consciousness, and social/biological relationships, both by deliberate experimentation in the present and by the reinterpretation of the entire human past.
This captures his orientation towards poetry as a field of action that through its radical embeddedness in time/space (emphasis on the body, common speech, performance, Blakes minute particulars) breaks through into the visionary and sacred dimensions of our birthright as humans, transcending narrow national traditions and opening out to a planetary heritage. To comprehend Rothenbergs purpose, we need new critical tools, which he provides—a Deleuzian model of ramification and non-hierarchical interconnection. The immense scope of the poets interests and activities offers itself as an implicit paradigm for an expanded notion of human reality, returning the poet to a social/political/spiritual role long since rejected in Western societies. In Poets & Tricksters, Rothenberg identifies the poets role more explicitly:
It is from this world of disruptions and reversals, of dreams, of sacred clowns and shamans, of the marvelous and surreal, as well as from an old and new understanding of the maximally human, that the trickster emerges for us. . . .
. . . the radical transformers and self-transformers (chameleon poets in John Keatss earlier words).
Thus, Rothenberg transforms himself from creative visionary to translator of the works of others to editor to anthologist to performance artist to commentator to rescuer of lost traditions, and so on, shape-shifting both for the sheer joy of it and to present us with a real-life manifestation of the ideas about which he is writing throughout these pieces.
Poems for the Millennium Volume Three is likewise a monumental achievement. It extends Rothenbergs long string of anthologies by means of which he has brought about a redefinition of the scope and thrust of poetry worldwide. At the same time, this collection establishes visionary Romanticism as the ground of contemporary poetry in its transnational, prophetic, and experimental dimensions. Of course, Blake presides over this conception:
Poetry Fetterd, Fetters the Human Race! wrote Blake (1804), in whom we find, then, a first act of mental liberation & a recall to the oldest function of poetry & of the poet as inspired prophet; later as a shamanistic seer (Rimbaud) & technician of the sacred. And it is Blake who also turns transmitted Wisdom on its head, working out a poetics of oppositions, a new dialectic in which desire [= energy] can have a central place alongside reason.
The editors excellent, probing, and polemical introduction usefully contextualizes a view of Romanticism, the full impact of which has not been sufficiently appreciated by academic interpreters. The political basis for the editors conception and choices for what to include are made clear in the introduction, where parallels are drawn between the social conditions of European Romanticism (revolution, class struggle, proto-nationalism) and those of the 20th century. Of course, a highlight of our time has been ethnic and religious violence. The anthology is especially strong on the subject of experimentation in poetic forms, as can been seen, for example, in the inclusion of Hölderlins Palimpsest: Columbus, Solomoss The Woman of Zante, Rimbauds Bad Blood, and Smarts Jubilate Agno, among many others infrequently anthologized. Also, the rich commentaries and prologues provide context for materials that can be challenging to readers whose sense of Romanticism has been limited to the canonical inclusions of the so-called great tradition. An advantage of a work of this scope is that the editors have been able to include many longer selections as well as material heretofore considered outside the canon, whether conceived of formally or in terms of content or medium.
Reading Poems for the Millennium Volume Three back through Poetics & Polemics, then, its clear that Rothenberg the canon-extender sees himself (and us) as both the instrument of discovery and the instrument of definition (Olson). But for him these two processes are not separate. Taking the poet as prototype for human being as creative energy, the joyous, full engagement with experimentation at the maximum pitch of the potentialities of language becomes the most authentic stance one can adopt.
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Theres some houses that are market queens that hang on forever, it seems like, he said. And there are others that come and go in 30 days. It all depends on the price and the location.
Transactions can also take longer to complete because of all the additional steps now involved in the process, Willer said. Lenders now demand much more documentation from buyers, and its become more common for an appraisal to come in below an agreed-upon price, he said.
Stacey Anfindsen, a Cary appraiser who analyzes MLS data for area real estate agents, said buyers remain both patient and picky.
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If your home is damaged by storms this hurricane season, take action quickly to make repairs before secondary damage occurs.
"If something needs (repairs) immediately, the best thing you can do is get a contractor out to your house and have them assess how they can start the work as soon as possible," said Justin Woodard of Woodard Cleaning & Restoration Services in St. Louis.
That doesn't mean, though, that homeowners should choose the first contractor that comes calling, or just go with whomever their insurance provider recommends. Homeowners should do their homework and hire a company with whom they are comfortable.
"The homeowner has the right to choose a contractor that they want to provide the services for an insurance claim," Woodard said. "I don't feel like many people are fully educated about what their rights are as a consumer."
The contractor you choose to hire to help repair damage from a storm is as important as addressing the damage quickly. Though many companies that deal with storm damage – from water remediation, to roofing, to tree removal – are honest and do good work, there is a segment in the industry known as "storm chasers" that often go to storm-ravaged areas knocking unsolicited on doors looking for work.
Unfortunately, these companies often prey on homeowners in need, ask for cash up front and then do shoddy, little or no work before they disappear to the next unsuspecting customer.
Before hiring anyone for storm repair work, be sure to investigate the company's history and get a contract in writing. Never pay in cash and never pay in full up front.
Remember that when storms hit, the best companies are often the busiest. Even if a top-notch company can't make the necessary repairs right away, they often will address urgent issues to prevent further damage until they can get in to make the full repairs. Water mitigation is usually the most important step in preventing secondary damage, such as mold.
"Homeowners need to understand that storm water is not a clean source of water," said Chris Nowak of PuroClean Emergency Property Restoration in Linwood, N.C. "It's what we call 'black water' or 'Category 3' water in the industry. Black water can carry with it everything that was outside the house; potentially pesticides, lawn fertilizers, chemicals and contaminates from oil. All of these things have the potential to come in the home and create an unhealthy environment."
Homeowners who experience storm damage should make sure their home is safe before attempting to assess or address it themselves.
"The first thing with a flooding situation is safety, of course," Nowak said. "They want to turn the power off, the breakers off and get their family to a safer level and away from that water. They don't want to have (live) electrical cords (in) and children and pets running through the water."
Once safety issues have been addressed, homeowners can do things themselves to minimize the damage, from extracting water from floors to removing furniture and belongings in areas affected by storm damage.
"If there are ways to … block the water from getting to other parts of the house, that can be helpful," Woodard said. "If you can't control where the water is going, you can sometimes control what is in the water's way. If you have chairs, boxes or other contents of the house in harm's way, you can move those out of the way so they don't incur damage."


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And just what is that lurking under the bed?
"When I was 12, I suddenly woke up a little past midnight," said Carol — she asked that her real name be withheld — who still remembers a strange occurrence in 1962, with what she thinks was the paranormal.
"I sat up in bed and distinctly saw a black hand floating down the hallway," she said. "My dad was away, and I woke up my mom and my brother, trying to describe what I saw. I would not stay in the house, so in the middle of the night my mom drove us out to my grandparents.
"I remember later my parents talking about it and saying it must have been a nightmare, but it wasn't. It was real. Today, I can still see that hand."
Belief in the supernatural is beside the point; strange things happen that cannot be explained. At least that's the philosophy at Midnight Paranormal, an Oklahoman answer to TV's Ghost Hunters.
"Our research and investigation team comes from all walks of life," said Lindsey Miles, founder and president. "We have one common goal: to better understand paranormal phenomena, and to help those who feel their lives may have been touched by those who have passed on."
Miles said that in each case, Midnight Paranormal members conduct research and educate themselves and their clients, emphasizing professionalism.
Three types of free investigation are offered: business, residential and abandoned sites; for a small donation, the group will take you on a private investigation.
Bridges and basements
It was nearly a decade ago when an unearthly encounter led to Miles' fascination with the supernatural.
"I was about 20, and working at Foley's when I heard some of my coworkers talking about an old bridge that was supposedly haunted," she said. "After work, we made a trip out to the bridge, and took some cameras and recorders. Once we got there, I really wanted to stay in the car because the bridge itself was very spooky. Reluctantly, though, I joined my friends."
Noticing an eerie quiet on the bridge, they took photos and made audio recordings before returning to the car.
"On the way home, we listened to the tape and heard the distinct sound of a baby crying. I couldn't get it out of my mind," she said.
Miles was compelled to return to the next day.
"While I was exploring underneath, I looked up to see a woman on the bridge with a blanket, and then she just disappeared, vanished," she said. "If you had asked me before that experience if I believed in ghosts, I would have laughed and said, 'No.' Today the answer is a definite 'yes.'" Using electromagnetic field detectors, sophisticated voice recorders and other ghost-hunting tools, the group has collected a ton of evidence and had some spooky experiences.
One such occurrence happened recently at the old mercantile in Guthrie.
"We learned about this 'woman in white' who was haunting the basement," Miles said. "We set up our equipment and positioned ourselves in an L shape where we could all see each other. The lights on the electromagnetic field detectors were supposed to change from clear to green if any movement was detected, and then red if something came close to us."
She and her team watched as the lights turned green one by one, indicating a presence getting closer.
Then all the lights went red. "I felt a hand touch my hand, and it was really cold," said Miles. "Then it felt like someone hit me on the back of the head and I had difficulty breathing. I have a set of rules I live by when I'm doing investigations, and I had to quickly remember the first one: 'Don't run.'" She was scared but determined to finish the investigation.
"Experiences like that make me sometimes question if this is the field for me, but I'm pretty stubborn and realize it is just part of the business," Miles said.
Reel vs. real
Stories of haunted spaces might make many people think of movies like Poltergeist and The Amityville Horror, but Miles said rickety old mansions and creepy little women squealing, "Go into the light, Carol Ann!" are mere Hollywood concoctions.
"Those kinds of movies are made to scare audiences, and are not an accurate representation of the paranormal," Miles said. "I have seen some frightening things, but a lot of what you see on a movie screen just doesn't happen."
Some folks are always going to be skeptical when it comes to the supernatural — and Miles said that's OK.
"Those who don't believe what they don't understand are always going to voice their opinion. We do not try to persuade people into believing; our only intent is to capture evidence and show what we have found. Skeptics just make us work harder to prove there is something out there beyond this world as we know it."


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- New brain pathways for understanding type 2 diabetes and obesity uncovered
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Before departing for the North Carolina mountains last week, I packed hiking boots and a few growlers.
The empty glass jugs clanked in the backseat as I navigated the tight turns that climb the mountains on westbound Interstate 40.
To taste the full extent of North Carolina craft beer, you need a growler a glass, steel or aluminum jug that holds 4 pints or less because some of the best breweries only sell their brews on premise, make small batches or dont distribute as far east as Raleigh.
Growlers are a mainstay for craft beer enthusiasts, allowing them to try beers not available on the shelves and adding a green reusable quality. The apothecary-shaped, 32-ounce bottle, or half growler, is increasingly popular because it fits 2 pints, a more manageable amount.
But days later, on my way back down the mountain, my growlers still clanked empty.
The states current laws allow only breweries to fill growlers, yet many are too stubborn, at best, to fill one purchased from another place. Its a frustrating policy and one that is rare in other states, such as South Carolina and Michigan, where breweries happily filled my Trophy Brewing growler on recent trips.
Many North Carolina breweries dont understand the law, erroneously saying they cant fill other growlers, while some want customers to buy branded growlers and only fill it with their beer. The latter is an impossible equation for craft beer fans. In our house, the unwritten rule is no new growlers; too many already take up precious closet space.
Not all breweries are closed-minded. Natty Greenes in Raleigh will put a label on any growler and call it their own, and Foothills has filled my half growler before. Still, they are the exception, rather than the rule.
Change on the way
But change may come soon. A law approved earlier this year will allow bottle shops, grocery stores and other retailers to fill growlers. The new law doesnt require breweries to accept all growlers, but the competition should force them to rethink their policies.
The states craft beer enthusiasts have waited eagerly for the new law to take effect. Two months after the bill signing, the Alcohol Beverage Control Commission is inching closer to rules that will allow the growler taps to flow. The commission accepted proposed language at its meeting Aug. 14, but officials said it will take another two to six months to get temporary rules in place.
As drafted, the rules would require all growlers to feature a label, whether a sticker or a tag, that includes the brewers information, type of beer, date of fill, alcohol content (if over 6 percent), and the standard government warning.
The definition of growler is adequately broad, allowing any with flip-tops or screw-on lids, refusing only plastic and pouch-like containers. It requires them to be filled from the bottom with a plastic tube, a move that will ensure the beer stays carbonated long enough to enjoy it. And the sanitation rules will put the onus appropriately on the consumers to clean and care for the growler.
It will make North Carolina a friendly place for craft beer, said Andy Ellen, who represents the N.C. Retail Merchants Association, the lead group that pushed the law this legislative session.
Shops are getting ready
At least one shop is basing its business model on the new law. Asheville Growler is opening as a place to fill with hard-to-find North Carolina brews and others from across the nation. Likewise, a number of bottle shops in the Triangle, many of which now sell pre-filled growlers, are preparing for the new law, eager to join the movement.
Before the proposed rules will take effect, the ABC Commission will publish the language in the official register and hold a yet-unscheduled public hearing in coming weeks, agency officials said.
Without major opposition, the commission could give the rules a final look and put temporary ones in place just in time for another trip to the mountains to bring home the deep, rich stouts that arrive in the colder months.
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To try one of North Carolinas newest breweries, no growler is needed. Hi-Wire Brewing opened in the former Craggie brewery in downtown Asheville and distributes to the Raleigh area. I picked up a six-pack of the Prime Time Pale Ale, an easy-drinking beer loaded with floral and piney hop flavor without an overpowering bitter bite. Stats: 5.5 percent ABV and 37 IBU; about $11. Info: hiwirebrewing.com.
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When you have a shitty internet connection. Mostly occurs at Lycoming college.
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Community Animal Rescue Effort is literally running for animals.
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Organizers encourage participants to enjoy the 1-mile fun run, with kids or a leashed dog, or compete for cash prizes in the 5K and 10K events.
The event takes place in Gordon, a town in southern Palo Pinto County that boasts no pollution, no traffic and a peaceful Texas countryside surrounding the historic town. The 5K and 10K routes follow a small country road amidst fields of cows, green grass and an old pecan orchard.
After the running and walking events, participants can enjoy live music, watch the awards ceremony for top finishers and stroll through the Gordon Farmer's Market.
To register for Run 4 the Rescue, visit www.Active.com or mail in a downloadable entry form from www.care4rescue.com. All race-day details are also available on those sites. Save money with early registration, which closes April 6. Same-day registration will be available 7-8 a.m. on race day.
Sponsored by Millsap Veterinary Clinic, the event will help CARE with its mission to aid abandoned, abused and neglected animals in Palo Pinto County. Proceeds from this event will help CARE fund a low-cost spay, neuter and vaccination clinic located in nearby Mingus. The clinic will help reduce the number of unwanted animals in the rural towns of Gordon, Mingus, Palo Pinto, Strawn and Santo, where the closest animal services are anywhere from 30-40 miles away.


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---- — BOXFORD — Boston Red Sox legend and Baseball Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski has a message for Detroit Tigers third baseman Miguel Cabrera and his "crowning" achievement last night.
Welcome to the club.
Cabrera finished the job last night on the final night of the regular season for Major League Baseball. He clinched the Triple Crown — the American League leader for highest batting average (.330), most homers (44) and runs batted in (139).
The last major leaguer to do it was Yastrzemski, who averaged .326 with 44 homers and 121 RBI in 1967. Before that, Frank Robinson copped the honor in 1966, Mickey Mantle in 1956 and Ted Williams in 1942 and 1947.
And Andover's Yastrzemski has no animosity that this personal record of sorts has been broken.
"I am really happy for him because I know how hard it is to accomplish," said Yastrzemski, before heading out to a Cape Ann marina yesterday to get his boat out of the water for the season. "A lot of guys have been close. Albert Pujols has been close a few times. (Matt Kemp) was last year, winning two out of three. But (Jose) Reyes got hot the last year and won the batting title. It's really hard to win."
Besides having the talent — Cabrera is "big, strong and has a powerful swing without having to over-swing" — Yastrzemski says Cabr era had the same two prerequisites he had 45 years earlier.
One is support in the lineup, as in the next batter in the lineup.
"He had (Prince) Fielder hitting behind him. He's an MVP candidate. I had Tony Conigliaro hitting behind me for most of the year (until he got hurt). Then I had George Scott and Ken Harrelson. It gives the pitcher less of a chance to pitch around you with a dangerous guy behind you. With a guy like Conigliaro or Fielder, you have to challenge the guy in front of them."
And two, which probably is most important, says Yastrzemski, is being on that makes a run at the pennant/playoffs.
"It is so much easier when you are focused on winning and not on statistics," said Yastrzemski, who had 12 RBI over his last five games.
"I remember just focusing on playing well. That means getting on base or making a nice play in the field. When your team is going well, you can get in that zone. You don't even realize you're putting up the stats you're putting up. People talk about pressure, but I don't remember feeling pressure. I remember having a lot of fun."
Yastrzemski admits he only started paying attention to Cabrera's pursuit of the Triple Crown a few days ago.
"Cabrera had some very good years where he's been in the running in all three categories," says Yastrzemski. "But so much can happen in a few days. Everything changes from day to day. He only had a one homer lead on Josh Hamilton ... So you never know. That's the thing I love most about baseball. Every day is different. You never know what's going to happen."
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Yaz on 2013: In Ben I trust Red Sox legend and baseball Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski isn't about to abandon ship on his favorite major league team. In fact, to the contrary. "They obviously didn't play well, but you have to look at all of the injuries they had (even before the trade)," said Yastrzemski. "It was everywhere in the lineup, including the pitching staff and relievers. Sometimes it happens. You have to move on." Yastrzemski believes this ownership and, in particular, this general manager, have what it takes to fix what ails this team sooner rather than later. "I believe in Ben Cherington," said Yastrzemski. "He's a good baseball man. I talk to him every spring. He will fix it. I like the fact that Ben listens to people and asks for their opinions. Believe me, nobody in this business knows it all." Yastrzemski also believes that the Red Sox will spend the resources, be it in free agency or the minor league system, to make the Red Sox a contender as soon as is humanly possible. "All I know is that before this ownership came in, there was nothing in the minors," said Yastrzemski. "I've been around the organization every spring in Fort Myers. I've seen the talent they've brought it. And if there is a high draft choice, and they really like him, they will entice a kid to sign because they're not afraid to pay."


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Oakley Supports The Inagrual Ricky Carmichael Amateur Supercross At Daytona International Speedway
An amateur supercross at Daytona the day after the pro race? That's a near perfect fit, but it took the connections of 15-time National Champion Oakley's Ricky Carmichael to complete the link. When Carmichael stepped away from racing motorcycles in 2007, he promised to give back to the sport, even though he was about to dive into a whole new career in car racing. Indeed, RC has not gone away, in fact, he's giving back to the sport at a massive new level, and using his new connections in car racing to do it.
On Sunday, Daytona International Speedway opened its doors to amateur racers for the first-ever Ricky Carmichael Daytona Amateur Supercross, which gave work-a-day riders and up-and-coming stars a chance to compete on the same track the top riders in the world raced on the night before. That's a rare chance to hone supercross skills at the amateur level. But since this was Daytona, the track had a bit more of a motocross feel to it than a standard stadium supercross track, making it less intimidating. And with the massive Daytona infield providing first-rate camping and pit accommodations, the riders and families had to be excited to work out of the same facilities used not only by the pro supercross teams, but also the same spots used by the NASCAR teams just a month ago.
MX Sports, the same crew than runs the AMA Amateur National at Loretta Lynn Ranch, served as the event organizer. All that experience running races ensured the racing part of the program went smoothly, but there were some rough spots during sign up on Saturday, namely with long lines. This race runs in the midst of the massive Daytona Bike Week, which includes a ton of racing in and around the Speedway, so there's a lot of action going on, and now the amateurs were mixed right in. There are always hang ups in first-time events, and after Saturday, it seemed like the race would end up being a little chaotic. But once the engines fired on Sunday morning, everything went like clockwork, just like Loretta's.
"This is a supercross country, the sponsors and manufacturers put their support into that sport. So if you want to go somewhere, you have to ride supercross," explained the GOAT at the rider's meeting. Indeed, the track had the same layout as Saturday night's, only with the jumps tamed down to suit the amateurs. Also, the format was the same, with heat races and LCQs determining gate picks for main events, which crowned champions in 24 classes, ranging from two 50cc classes to a 45 Plus Master's class.
The event only came to life in January, by which time many of the top amateur riders and teams had already committed to racing for two-straight weeks in Lake Whitney and Oak Hill, Texas. And there's no way to move the schedule for the RC Am SX, because the event is based around racing the day after the big supercross. So a few top Ams rode the Daytona race and then headed off to Texas for practice on Monday.


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By TEDDYE SNELL
Staff Writer
As the weather turns colder, one way to guarantee having a "snuggle buddy" is to adopt a dog from a shelter.
October is Adopt-A-Dog Month, sponsored by the American Humane Association, and the Humane Society of Cherokee County has plenty of canine companions to choose from.
"At any given time, we have about 150 dogs awaiting adoption," said HSCC volunteer Lou Hays. "We keep 90 at the shelter, and the rest are cared for by foster families."
The Humane Society of Cherokee County operates a no-kill shelter, making adoption crucial considering the number of animals it takes in each month.
According to HSCC Secretary Rachel Ranallo, the organization receives hundreds of calls a month about unwanted pets. On average, about 15-20 are adopted each month.
"It's about a 1-7 ratio of calls to adopt versus people seeking help with unwanted animals," said Ranallo.
Hays coordinates with organizations in other states to transport dogs out of the area, and about 50 local canines a month find happy homes elsewhere.
Feeding and caring for all those animals can be costly, too. The Humane Society is a nonprofit organization, and relies on donations to keep it afloat. The HSCC resale shop at 17736 S. Muskogee Ave., is open Tuesday through Saturday, 12:30 to 4:30 p.m., and is across from the Cherokee Nation Complex, All proceeds benefit the shelter, and donations, except clothing, are always welcome.
The organization also partners with a number of local restaurants, which sponsor monthly fundraisers. A portion of each meal sale is donated to HSCC.
To facilitate adoption, HSCC has teamed up with Pet Sense, which hosts a "Doggie Date Night from 6 to 8 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month at the shop in the shopping center behind Chili's. The cost to adopt an animal from HSCC runs between $65 and $85.
All animals available through HSCC are spayed or neutered and vaccinated.
According to the American Humane Association website, an estimated 3.7 million animals are euthanized in shelters every year. Adopting an animal not only saves its life, but also reduces overpopulation.
HSCC is offering a spay and neuter clinic Saturday, Oct. 13, which includes all cats and a limited number of female dogs, weighing no more than 35 pounds
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Groundwater levels for our area are average to above average thanks to TS Debby in late June and recent rains, according to the Suwannee River Water Management District.
According to SRWMD's Senior Professional Engineer, Megan Wetherington, groundwater levels in Suwannee County are average compared to the last 30 years. "Levels have been high in Lafayette County since the tropical storm last year, and they're average to above average in Hamilton County thanks to the rivers being up," said Wetherington. "Last year at this time, wells were setting record lows."
Those river levels are soon to fall, though.
Wetherington said that over the last 80 years, the levels on the Alapaha, Withlacoochee and Suwannee have usually been higher in the spring than during any other time of the year and river conditions right now are "typical of normal spring levels."
"The Suwannee is falling very slowly, but that should pick up by the end of the month assuming we're done with the big storms," said Wetherington.
Flows on the middle Suwannee springs should be improved once the river drops some more, Wetherington stated.
"Assuming it doesn't flood again, May and June should be great for people who enjoy the springs," she said.
Of course flooding chances pick up again during hurricane season, which is June 1 through Nov. 30.
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Those in the Suwannee Valley area can expect to see below-normal precipitation and above average temperatures through June, according to the Climate Prediction Center for the National Weather Service. The amount of rainfall have made conditions quite desirable for keeping the grounds moist and good levels for the rivers and lakes.
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High Country News August 16, 2004
Journey of Rediscovery: The living, breathing natives who made Lewis and Clark
For all the heroism of their achievement, Lewis and Clark would not have survived without the help of the many Indian peoples they encountered across the West
Editor's Note
Commemorate or celebrate?
In this issue of High Country News, four essayists take a thoughtful look at the Lewis and Clark expedition and its impacts – past and present — on Indian America
Dear Friends
Dear friends
Blake Chambliss walks for affordable housing; visitors; farewell to Charlie Butcher; corrections
Uncommon Westerners
Taking the load off the environment
Jonathan Fox-Rubin believes his western Colorado company, Fiberforge, holds the key to creating an environmentally responsible car
Feds pass roadless headache to states
The Bush administration gives governors 18 months to ask the Forest Service to protect roadless areas in their states, but the states will have to pay for the costly and complex petition process
More than 33,000 fish died in Klamath River in 2002; Bill Barrett Corp. gets go-ahead for seismic testing near Utah's Nine Mile Canyon; Building 771 at Rocky Flats demolished; Kennewick Man will not be reburied
National parks pinching pennies
Former Park Service workers say the agency is being hurt by budget cuts, but that employees are under orders from headquarters to hide the problems
Park police chief canned for candidness
U.S. Park Police Chief Teresa Chambers is reprimanded, and then fired, after she speaks openly about the Park Service's budget problems
Truce holds on the Platte River
In an effort to avoid litigation, environmentalists and farmers come together with federal and state agencies to address a wildlife crisis on the Platte River
Court says Yucca Mountain design unsafe
Yucca Mountain's 10,000-year safety standard is ruled arbitrary by a federal court, but the Energy Department remains determined to open the site as planned
Tribes turn out to vote
The Indian vote could decide tight races in this year's elections, including contests in key Western states
California tribes fight California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger over gambling; Vice President Cheney requires loyalty oath at speech; Brian Schweitzer campaigns for Montana governor's office
'Conservation' strategy is a wolf in sheep's clothing
The Bush administration's doublespeak on roadless areas may alienate one of its constituencies: the hunters and anglers who love our wild country
Heard Around the West
Heard around the West
Forest Service fire liaison busted for tossing cigarette butts; Interior decorator Gale Norton; horse slasher; cell phones vs. snakes; neighborhood with the slurry on top; tough on crime at Yellowstone; and Bonner County, Idaho, is quiet
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