Throwback Thursday: The Dylan Effect -- A Panel Discussion from 2012 Duluth Dylan Fest

Revisiting the 2012 Duluth Dylan Fest. It's interesting that I'd been invited to be on this panel of people whom I hardly knew at the time. It was the beginning of a number of good relationships with manifold insights.

22 May 2012
The Dylan Effect: Panel Discussion Is Rewarding and Insightful

It's Dylan week here in Duluth, an annual celebration of all things Bob that takes place in the North Country where he was born and raised. The banner over Duluth's activities is called Dylan Fest and in Hibbing it is Dylan Days. So much is happening that by week's end we'll all be dazed.

Last night's event in Duluth was billed as The Dylan Effect. The event took place at Tycoons Alehouse and Eatery in the old City Hall Chambers, beginning at 7:00 p.m. and finishing about 8:30 p.m. Following the discussion, Jim Hall, longtime musician and featured performer of Duluth and Hibbing Dylan Festivals for the past five years, played Dylan songs and at 10 PM, Dirty Horse continued the music with its rendition of Dylan and original tunes. I had to bail after John Hall completed his first set upstairs while we dismantled the room.

Essentially, the Dylan Effect was a panel discussion moderated by Karen Sunderman, producer and host of The Playlist, a local PBS show that covers the local arts scene among other things. The panel was comprised of  • John Bushey, longtime host of Highway 61 Revisited, educator, historian and professional magician • Don Dass, poet and preservationist, and one of the people responsible for the establishment of Bob Dylan Way • Susan Phillips • Nelson French • Tim Nelson, musician, local music promoter, and business owner, producer of the three Duluth Does Dylan CDs • David Everett artist and educator • and myself, Ed Newman. Behind the scenes manifold thanks are due to Zane Bail who helped put this all together.

Sunderman began by asking each panelist to briefly identify themselves and then say something about Dylan's influence on them personally. The answers varied but I was especially touched by David Everett's experience. Most of us in the room remembered Dylan's heart infection in the late nineties in which there was a concern that he might die. At the time 19-year-old Everett nearly despaired because he might never have the chance to hear Dylan live. Dylan survived and the very next year came to Duluth to do a concert, a richly rewarding experience for the young artist.

The second question, which we dove into with more vigor now that the dicussion was flowing, had to do with Dylan's influence on the broader culture. The way she worded the question was especially interesting. In what ways to do we see Dylan's fingerprints on the culture around us, locally, nationally and globally? Nelson French noted that everything Dylan does has been newsworthy almost his entire life. "Bob has always been in the news." He also mentioned that he has created a legacy, in the full meaning of the word.

In his own initial remarks John Bushey, host of Highway 61 Revisited, mentioned how he was impressed that Dylan had the courage to not be pigeon-holed.

Musician Tim Nelson described the way Dylan, even in all his permutations, carries something of the "Duluth sound" in him. "I hear it in Dylan....ecclectic... organic."

When I have more time I will elaborate on my own thoughts on this part of the discussion but my first notion, which I shared, was that Dylan's pervasive influence is far beyond what we see and hence we don't always see his fingerprints. It's much like the fashion industry. Insiders know that what appears on the Paris "Runway" will filter down over the next year into the chic styles and hip colors of boutique fashion down to the mass-produced styles and colors that fill clothing racks all across the continent. Dylan has been a seminal creative force in this same manner.

In preparation for the panel discussion we had been asked to assemble three words that we felt summed up who Dylan was, if such things are possible. One set was Bard, Passion, and Nature. David Everett said, "Pioneer, Dynamic, Fearless." (If you are reading this you will notice my blog here resides at PioneerProductions.blogspot.com, so I inwardly smiled at this word selection.) Tim Nelson's three words were, "Individual, Philosophical, Sassy....  in a devil-may-care kind of way. John Bushey used the word Multi-Dimensional, which also was assented to by all. There were many other good sets of word to which I added my own three and then a fourth:  Catalyst (someone else said this), Reservoir, Touchstone and Justice.

The discussion included questions from the audience and insights from there as well. While on his recent trip to China there were some critics who said he should have been more vocal about the oppression of artists and done more protest songs. John Bushey forcefully pointed out that Dylan opened his concerts there with the song "Change My Way of Thinking," and he urged all of us to really listen to the lyrics of that song. It very pointedly speaks to today's situation there.

All in all, I only wish my notes could do a better job of conveying here the richness of the dialogue that was shared. It was a very special time.

All pictures and paintings on this blog are my own unless otherwise indicated. Click images to enlarge.

Lessons from the 1976 Swine Flu Outbreak (A Reminder from History)

Jet injector immunization, 1976. CDC photo, public domain.

Yesterday I published a story on Medium about vaccinations, triggered by Alex Araz's appearance on Face the Nation this past weekend. The Secretary of Health and Human Services discussed a new program being fast-tracked called Operation Warp Speed, a massive effort to get 300 million people vaccinated by year's end.

At the end of last year I got my first vaccinations since the last time I stepped on a rusty nail, and in the process I learned some things. Even the most touted vaccines have their limitations. (Yesterday's article was titled So We Get A Vaccine, Then What?)

Afterwards I was contacted by a journalist friend whose mother was a public health nurse in 1976 when the Swine Flu outbreak occurred. I was sent a pair of article links that were quite eye-opening.

President Ford takes his turn. Photo: David Hume Kennerly. Public domain.

Very briefly, here is what happened back then. There was a flu outbreak at Fort Dix in New Jersey. As a result of a death, everyone at Fort Dix was tested and it turns out that two had what appeared to be a strain of the Spanish Flu that wiped out over 100 million people worldwide in 1919. There was suddenly a sense of panic and urgency to address this.

Before long it became a political issue as Gerald Ford put pressure on congress to fast-track a vaccination program. Merck and other drug companies balked at the initial pressure to create vaccines because they did not want to be held liable should there be negative ramifications.

Nevertheless, indemnity clauses were created to exempt the the drug companies from lawsuits, and President Ford pushed Congress to approve the program. In order to encourage the masses to get vaccinated the president himself went through with the procedure on national television.

Gagging the Whistleblower
Here are the two stories the journalist sent to me detailing the events of 1976.
The Public Health Legacy of the 1976 Swine Flu Outbreak
The 1976 Swine Flu Outbreak

The second of these articles includes information about an FDA researcher who publicly raised concerns about the safety of the vaccine. His fears were not unfounded. As it turns out hundreds of people who took the flu vaccine became paralyzed by the Guillain-Barré syndrome.     

Bruce Dull stated at a flu conference on July 1 that there were no parallels between the 1918 flu pandemic and the current situation. Later that month, J. Anthony Morris, a researcher in the Food and Drug Administration's Bureau of Biologics (BoB), was dismissed for insubordination and went public with findings that cast doubt on the safety of the vaccine.

45 million people were vaccinated before the government reversed course on the mandatory vaccinations for every man, woman and child.

My friend's email adds an interesting dimension to the story, anecdotal but revealing.
My mom spent her career in public health. She was passionate about her career. To her public health was a mission, not just a job. In 2016, two to three years before the COVID-19 pandemic, I was taking care of my physically failing mother. Her memory was fine and I asked her questions about her career, thinking I might write a book. She was a specialist in maternal and child health, which included vaccinating children before entering school. I recalled a time I was a teenager, and she was called away from her usual work to give vaccinations to the general public at the YMCA. I asked her for more information on that incident. She told me that there was a swine flu scare. The president had asked her to be among the hundreds of public health workers to give vaccinations to the general public.

She stated that she didn't really believe in these particular vaccinations. Shocked, because I knew of my mom's integrity, I asked why she would do this. She said, "Because the president asked me to." I think this is indicative of a simpler time. Even though the nation had just gone through an impeachment, people, no matter what political stripe, still respected their political leaders.

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These stories are instructive on many levels. Today, more than ever, it seems like any statement that anyone makes is turned into a politically driven matter instead of considering that it may come from a good conscience and earnest doubts about a direction things are going.

I myself am not an expert, so am reliant on mediated information to draw conclusions that I can base decisions on. What I do know is that experts are not always reliable. I also know that the higher the stakes, the more challenging it is for whistleblowers to find an ear that will hear their concerns. I am thinking here of the engineers at Morton Thiokol who were concerned about the Space Shuttle Challenger's O-rings on that fateful and tragic day.

Lest anyone missed it, the incidence of Guillain-Barré was four times higher in vaccinated people than in those not receiving the swine flu. This is why the Discover article connects this 1976 incident with the Anti-VAX movement.


"Some of the American public’s hesitance to embrace vaccines — the flu vaccine in particular — can be attributed to the long-lasting effects of a failed 1976 political campaign to mass-vaccinate the public against a strain of the swine flu virus. This government-led campaign was widely viewed as a debacle and put an irreparable dent in future public health initiatives, as well as negatively influenced the public’s perception of both the flu and the flu shot in this country." 

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A maxim that I heard four decades ago rattles in my head as I consider these things. Sincerity is not truth. People can be sincere and also be wrong. Going faster may give the appearance of assurance, but if you go faster the wrong way, it will not get you to the destination you want to arrive at. 

We should take care not to be blind to the lessons of history. 

Disclaimer: I am not here advocating that no efforts be made to find a vaccine. I am (a) pointing out that there may be good reasons for being cautious about rushing the solution, (b) and legitimate reasons for why anti-VAXers have become uncomfortable with mass immunizations. 

Related Links
Who Are Your Experts (This was written as a marketing article, but applies to other situations including this one.)
So We Get A Vaccine. Then What?

Dylan-Themed Art from the Heart--Virtual Dylan Fest Continues

Masked and Anonymous.

For the past several years Duluth Dylan Fest has had a number of regular features. Lots of music, a trivia night, poetry, more music, a wonderful singer/songwriter contest (in keeping with Hibbing's Dylan Days), a birthday cake on the front yard of young Bob's Duluth Hillside home, and an art event. The art opening has traditionally been on Monday evenings, i.e. last night.

For 2020 we had conceived a student art show in which we'd planned to have young people from three area high schools create work in response to the music of Bob Dylan. The idea was to share the power of Dylan's prose, music, stories with another generation while continuing to affirm the importance of visual art in Bob Dylan's creative oeuvre. 

Then, the pandemic came and shut down all the schools. 

In lieu of this I am sharing some of my own Dylan-themed creative expressions, plus links to posts from previous Dylan-fest art-related events. 

Meantime, art goes on all around you. Get into it.

Dylan as Wizard of Oz

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"Blowin' in the Wind" -- 24"x 36" acrylic on panel. $300

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Related Links
Inspired By Scorsese's Biopic on Dylan, Skye's Art Inspires Others in Duluth
Local Arts Scene Intersects With Dylan Fest To Produce Rewarding Event @ Zeitgeist
Duluth Dylan Fest Art Exhibit at Zeitgeist... and the Week Rolls On


DULUTH DYLAN FEST 2021 
Next year the Northland will be celebrating Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday. In anticipation, we’re desirous of making it The Year of Bob here in St. Louis County, where Bobby Zimmerman spent his youth. The dates for Duluth Dylan Fest 2021 have been finalized for May 22-30.

Virtual Duluth Dylan Fest Events

May 20--Virtual Dylan Fest Performance by Marc Gartman -- 7:00-8:00 PM

May 23--Virtual Bob Dylan Revue Reunion Concert Revisited (YouTube)

May 24--Al Diesan, Streaming Live from Rome Italy
Noon-2:00 P.M. CST  Diesan, a Bob Dylan sounds-alike and performer will be streaming live from Rome.

Danny Fox Livestream Virtual Duluth Dylan Fest Event
5:00 p.m. CST--Two-time winner of the Dylan Days Singer/Songwriter contest will be streaming live from Chicago

Gene LaFond and Amy Grillo

7:30 p.m. CST--Bob Dylan Birthday Bash Livestream with Gene LaFond & Amy Grillo
According to Geno, the event "will be a lot of lesser heard Bob tracks, a smattering of stories from my experiences on the road with Bob & his gigs buddy Larry Kegan & a couple of our new originals. It will be big fun honoring the maestro on his 79th!"


IN A SEMI-RELATED EVENT:
May 22 there will be a Cookin' At the O Covid 19 Live Stream Benefit
Benefiting COVID-19 healthcare workers across our region, specifically the Min No Aya Win Clinic on the Fond Du Lac Reservation, Riverwood Hospital in Aitkin, St. Luke’s in Duluth, Mercy Hospital in Moose Lake, Cloquet Community Memorial Hospital in Cloquet.
How does this related to Dylan Fest? Bass player Billy Peterson, who recorded with Bob in Minneapolis (Blood on the Tracks), is in the mix. The jazz trio also includes Andrew Walesch, piano & vocals, & Glenn "Swanny" Swanson on drums.

Watching the River Flow--Dylan Wrestles With His Complicated Inner Self

"All rivers run into the sea, and yet the sea is not full." ~Eccles. 1:7

Here's a place I like to go to watch the river flow. 

Some of the great books that I've read featuring rivers include Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through, Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Nobel Prize-winning author V.S.Naipaul's A Bend in the River, Thomas Wolfe's Of Time and the River, Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Herman Hesse's Siddhartha. This past year I began an interesting book called River of Doubt about Teddy Roosevelt's journey up the Amazon. Hollywood films featuring rivers include Deliverance, The African Queen, Apocalypse Now and The Man from Snowy River, among a host of others.

At one time rivers were the primary means of transportation. Before the infrastructure of highways and byways, of rails and roads, the rivers were our transportation routes, hence all the major cities that we find along bodies of water. In Herman Hesse's novella Siddhartha, the river is a symbol. As he encountered the river in various stages of his life, its wisdom was revealed to him as it reflected his soul.

By this river I want to stay, thought Siddhartha... Tenderly, he looked into the rushing water, into the transparent green, into the crystal lines of its drawing, so rich in secrets. Bright pearls he saw rising from the deep, quiet bubbles of air floating on the reflecting surface, the blue of the sky being depicted in it. With a thousand eyes, the river looked at him, with green ones, with white ones, with crystal ones, with sky-blue ones.

I think I associate this song with Siddhartha because I was reading Herman Hesse around that time of my life when this song, and then the album, came out. But Bob Dylan's "Watching the River Flow" is a different kind of contemplation.  Recorded in March 1971 it was released as a single after which it appeared on his Greatest Hits, Volume II. It's a more energized song than the one he wrote with Roger McGuinn for Easy Rider. "The river flows, flows to the sea, wherever that river goes I want to be." (I used to play a harmonica lick with that when I was in college. It was very relaxing.)

The power in "Watching the River Flow" comes from the inner conflict that sits at the core of this story. It appears to be an autobiographical sketch that correlates with theologian Paul Tillich's intimate autobiographical sketch On the Boundary. In it Tillich explores the various polarities of his life and how they influenced him in different ways, between city and country, between social classes, between reality and imagination, between theory and practice, etc.

At the beginning of the song the narrator's been all night at an all-night cafe, "walking to and fro." This to and fro is the first clue of his inner restlessness, his life on the boundary between competing desires, two competing selves. There's a universality in this image as we all must learn to manage the polarities in our lives.

I love the matter-of-fact storytelling, similar to "I went to see the gypsy...saw him in a big hotel, he smiled when he saw me coming..." --just telling what happened, simple things, yet so much more. And in that song to he's been up all night so as to see the sun coming up "on a little Minnesota town."

As dawn is breaking, he here heads to a bank of sand by the riverside to mull things and watch the river flow.

What’s the matter with me
I don’t have much to say
Daylight sneakin’ through the window
And I’m still in this all-night café
Walkin’ to and fro beneath the moon
Out to where the trucks are rollin’ slow
To sit down on this bank of sand
And watch the river flow

This is a person very different from Siddhartha. Dylan is youth, Siddhartha full of years. Dylan is restless, Siddhartha inwardly at peace.

Wish I was back in the city
Instead of this old bank of sand
With the sun beating down over the chimney tops
And the one I love so close at hand
If I had wings and I could fly
I know where I would go
But right now I’ll just sit here so contentedly
And watch the river flow

The real Dylan was raising a family at this time. He had some little ones to look after, a father role to play. He states he'll sit here contentedly, sharing this quiet life with the one he loves. And yet... As he notices people in disagreements, it might be that he notices this external feature because he has his own disagreements within himself.

People disagreeing on all just about everything, yeah
Makes you stop and all wonder why
Why only yesterday I saw somebody on the street
Who just couldn’t help but cry
Oh, this ol’ river keeps on rollin’, though
No matter what gets in the way and which way the wind does blow
And as long as it does I’ll just sit here
And watch the river flow

We live in a world today where there's more verbal conflict than ever. It might be best for all of us to get off social media and read more books, or sit on riverbanks.

People disagreeing everywhere you look
Makes you wanna stop and read a book
Why only yesterday I saw somebody on the street
That was really shook
But this ol’ river keeps on rollin’, though
No matter what gets in the way and which way the wind does blow
And as long as it does I’ll just sit here
And watch the river flow

Watch the river flow
Watchin’ the river flow
Watchin’ the river flow
But I’ll sit down on this bank of sand
And watch the river flow

Copyright © 1971 by Big Sky Music; renewed 1999 by Big Sky Music

He began by asking, "What's the matter with me?" This is interesting because his accusation is turned inward. He's not saying, "Why are you so screwed up?" He's not finger-pointing. (He's not finger-painting either, but I'm curious if he'd paint his masterpiece with brushes or some other tool.)

He ends by taking a seat at the riverside. There's something refreshing and healing about rivers and water. They can be dangerous, too, when they rage and overrun their banks. But rivers, like people, have their rhythms.

Dylan has played this song 500 times live. Here is a YouTube video that has the first two of these live performances from 1978, courtesy someone who calls himself Mr. Tambourine Man. This is not a high-end production, but it's historical value can be underscored.

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Love the energy Joe Cocker delivers in his version of the song.

Rivers are cited more than three dozen times in Dylan's songs. His Hibbing home wasn't that far from the headwaters of the Mississippi and a rare triple watershed. Every river begins somewhere.

You can find insights from Robert Shelton, Greil Marcus, Clint Heylin, Christopher Ricks and others here on Wikipedia.

For a nice closure here, let's borrow these lines from Oscar Hammersteiin.

Ol' man river,
Dat ol' man river
He mus' know sumpin'
But don't say nuthin',
He jes' keeps rollin'
He keeps on rollin' along. 

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This week is Duluth Dylan Fest, a virtual event this year due to the literal disruption caused by the pandemic. For the first time you can participate from anywhere without being here. For the schedule of event, culminating Sunday on Bob's 79th birthday, visit Duluth Dylan Fest Goes Virtual

Masked, But Not Always Anonymous: Virtual Dylan Fest Kickoff

When we first announced the schedule for this year's Duluth Dylan Fest in February, one of the scheduled events was a film night at Zeitgeist featuring Jack Fate and a host of stars in Masked & Anonymous. Little did we know that within weeks we would be hit by a life-changing tsunami-level event that would turn our worlds upside down.

It used to be that masks were something only the bad guys wore when robbing trains and banks. (It used to be that quarantine was something only for people who were ill, as with tuberculosis.) Now, it seems masks have become fashionable again for anyone leaving home and heading into public.

I began asking myself "What would Bob wear?" (WWBW) Here's a smattering of ideas, along with a John Updike mask as well as masks for a few others, some of whom will remain anonymous.

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Painting of Bob based on Greatest Hits Volune III

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Bob Dylan's Tarantula Mask.

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Elegant velour or fur. Something soft and warm.

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John Updike wearing mask made from a Bob Dylan Chimes of Freedom T-Shirt.

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Anonymous. She wishes to remain anonymous.

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Environmentallly tasteful Leaf Motif.

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Superhero motif. (Illustration from cover of Communication Arts back issue.)

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Anonymous actress from Fortitude. Crimson mask courtesy Calvin Klein.

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The disruption hasn't stopped people from trying new ways to hear live music. For example, in Denmark they have been trying some Drive In Concerts in parking lots where you listen to the show on your FM radio. I doubt we'll see performers leap from the stage to body-surf across the crowds, but who knows?

In February it was a Tentative schedule for Dylan Fest that we announced. In the end, we had no idea how tentative it would turn out to be as communities battened down the hatches and went underground.

Fortunately, in our hyper-connected world, it may even be possible for more people to participate in one or more of our virtual events. Unfortunately, we're all going to miss the hugs and smiles we always share when we have face-to-face real world festival activities. I know more than one person who is heartbroken that we're not going to have our Singer/Songwriter Contest at the end of the week.

In the meantime, here's our schedule of Virtual DDF Events once more.

Virtual Duluth Dylan Fest Events
      (click on blue text at the time it starts)

May 17--Cowboy Angel Blue Facebook Live (6:00 - 8:00 PM)

May 20--Virtual Dylan Fest Performance by Marc Gartman (7:00 - 8:00 PM)

May 23--Virtual Bob Dylan Revue Reunion Concert Revisited (YouTube)  (7:00 - 10:00 PM)

May 24--Danny Fox Livestream Virtual Duluth Dylan Fest Event
5:00 p.m. CST--Two-time winner of the Dylan Days Singer/Songwriter contest will be streaming live from Chicago

Gene LaFond and Amy Grillo

7:30 p.m. CST--Bob Dylan Birthday Bash Livestream with Gene LaFond & Amy Grillo
According to Geno, the event "will be a lot of lesser heard Bob tracks, a smattering of stories from my experiences on the road with Bob & his gigs buddy Larry Kegan & a couple of our new originals. It will be big fun honoring the maestro on his 79th!"


Be cool. Wash your hands.

Backstage Passes for Duluth Dylan Fest Virtual Events 2020

Sunday evening Cowboy Angel Blue is kicking off our 2020 Duluth Dylan Fest with a Live Virtual Concert from 6 - 8 PM. William Earl Maxwell, James Paavala, and Bill Bulinski will be playing the Dylan tunes we all so love, from right here in the Northland.

With the exception of the first and last, all photos below are backstage passes from various shows at different time periods, courtesy the Bill Pagel Archives.

HOW TO USE THE BACKSTAGE PASSES
1. Download the pass you would like to use.
2. Insert/paste image into a Word document.
3. Size the pass in accordance with backstage pass guidelines, and print.
4. Cut out pass and laminate.
5. Use a hole punch to make hole and affix to lanyard. If you do not have a lanyard, use a shoelace.

And here's your General Admission Ticket which you can recycle
for our Virtual Events this week in our 2020 Duluth Dylan Fest.

Virtual Duluth Dylan Fest Events

May 17--Cowboy Angel Blue Facebook Live (6 - 8:00 P.M.)

May 20--Virtual Dylan Fest Performance by Marc Gartman (7:00-8:00 P.M.)

May 23--Virtual Bob Dylan Revue Reunion Concert Revisited (YouTube) (7:00-100 P.M.)

May 24--Al Diesan, Streaming Live from Rome Italy
Noon-2:00 P.M. CST  Diesan, a Bob Dylan sounds-alike and performer will be streaming live from Rome.

Danny Fox Livestream Virtual Duluth Dylan Fest Event
5:00 p.m. CST--Two-time winner of the Dylan Days Singer/Songwriter contest will be streaming live from Chicago

Gene LaFond and Amy Grillo

7:30 p.m. CST--Bob Dylan Birthday Bash Livestream with Gene LaFond & Amy Grillo
According to Geno, the event "will be a lot of lesser heard Bob tracks, a smattering of stories from my experiences on the road with Bob & his gigs buddy Larry Kegan & a couple of our new originals. It will be big fun honoring the maestro on his 79th!"


Be cool. Wash your hands.

Local Art Seen: Tara Lynn Austin's Boreal Ornament III at the Joseph Nease Gallery

No, it's not a robbery in progress.

While walking past Joesph Nease Gallery on Thursday I peeked inside and saw two people wearing masks robbing the place. One was rolling up Kathy McTavish's tapestries and the other had a dolly to carry off Joe Nease's filing cabinets full of papers and important documents.

No, it was actually Joe himself moving newly acquired filing cabinets with Amanda McElray Hunter packaging the McTavish pieces.

Like many other establishments, the gallery is eager to re-open. Simultaneously they have been trying to define their new policies so as preserve a safe space when they do.

In March I was very much looking forward to seeing Tara Austin's new show, Boreal Ornament III. I'd written about her exhibition at the Duluth Art Institute two years ago this month. At that time I was curious where her vision would take her and I'd marked off the March 27 opening as one I didn't want to miss. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 earthquake intervened a couple weeks earlier.

Schedules for JNG have been adjusted and I'm guessing that just around the time the show was slated to come down the doors will open again. For this reason Joe says Tara Austin's unique work will remain on the walls for an extended period.

Here are some images from my Thursday solo saunter through the gallery. Her ornate work defies easy categorization. I was masked, but not anonymous.

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Related Links
Artist Interview: Tara Lynn Austin--Without Limits
Exhibitions at the Joseph Nease Gallery
Tara Lynn Austin's Wordpress Site