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Reminder about checks
by Mike Godwin 01 Oct '22

01 Oct '22

First of what I hope will be a very short series of reminders to send Doc your Reunion checks (if you're attending the full Reunion weekend in November): As Gail noted in her August 17 email, “Doc strongly prefers to receive payment in the form of paper checks, made out to him, and sent to the following address: PO Box 202 Round Top Tx 78954” Right now, Doc has received 20 checks; my own check, which I sent by priority mail yesterday, will make 21. The rest of the Nerdy Thirty should take note--Doc needs to have all the reunion checks in hand by October 15. I will remind you all again about this in a few days--unless you all send your checks in at once and save me the trouble! Love, Mike

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Reunion Update For Ancianos--Nov. 3-6, 2022
by Mike Godwin 16 Sep '22

16 Sep '22

Dear Ancianos: This email aims to answer some questions a number of our merry band have asked about the 52ndAnniversary Shakespeare at Winedale Reunion Event set for Saturday afternoon and evening, November 5, at Winedale. You may ask: “Just what are those questions?” (And thus add to our total question-answering!) But before we get into the questions and answers, we want to share what this particular “short-form” reunion is about. Specifically, *Doc’s students who participated in his Shakespeare at Winedale classes between 1970 and 2000 are invited to honor and celebrate Doc and our shared experiences with Shakespeare and Winedale.* About 30 of these “Ancianos” (we’d give you an exact count but that requires math!) are meeting for four days and three nights, leading up to performances of a few selected scenes on the Saturday night. Think of them as the Nerdy Thirty? *Saturday evening, our weekend activities will culminate in a PERFORMANCE OF selected scenes on the theme of Reunion, chosen and cast by Doc. All Ancianos are invited to attend.* Now for the 52nd Reunion Q&A! *Question 1:* “What if I’m not one of the Nerdy Thirty?” *Answer:* “WE WANT TO SEE YOU AT WINEDALE ANYWAY! COME JOIN US ON SATURDAY!” Our collective arms are wide open to Ancianos who want to come out on that Saturday, both to show Doc their love and to see their friends. We are keeping this intimate, so we respectfully request that spouses, partners, children, friends who weren’t at Winedale wait for the next landmark reunion in 2025. This particular off-year gathering centers on remembering and communing with Doc and with one another—not just the Nerdy Thirty who are performing, but also the veterans of the First Nerdy Thirty Years of Shakespeare at Winedale. *Question 2:* “Okay, if I can make it to Winedale for the festivities on Saturday, Nov. 5, what are the rules, if any? What are the ‘best practices’ we should follow?” *Answers:* • Remember, remember, it’s on the Fifth of November! (Saturday, that is.) • Please arrive *2pm or later on Saturday* • We will be working all day Saturday on a handful of scenes for Saturday evening so we may not be able to visit much before dinner. *But we know many Ancianos who come on Saturday for the BBQ might want to participate more directly, so we may welcome you to sit in and offer ideas and feedback as we work on the scenes!* • We hope you will come for the BBQ *(@ $25/person—and we will need payment in advance)* at 6 pm, and that you’ll arrive early enough to be present for *Roll Call* as we all line up for BBQ. • *Scenes will be at 8 pm.* • After the scenes, we’re aimin’ to move the chairs aside and convene a *Barn Dance!* Bring instruments or favorite music to dance to! (You probably have some playlists with something special on them that you want to share!) Time for joyful exultation! Join Doc and JoAnn in some Texas Two Step! Or fake it! *Question(s) 3*: “Okay, there’s performances and a Barn Dance, and also some food. Plus some Winedale rituals, I’m guessing. But what else is planned? Should I bring my own stuff to eat or drink or share with others? What if the Thirty make us Thirsty?” *Answers: * • We’re going to send out invitations via Eventbrite or email or some similar 21st Century tool *so we’ll know how much BBQ and fixins to order. * • (Yes, we’re repeating this one because we really want your help in this. *)* Pre-performance, as people line up for the BBQ pit, the Ancianos will start *the roll call of class years* at Shakespeare at Winedale, *and ask you to call out your names, ex-student by ex-student.*) • *After the performances you will be required to participate—or at least raptly observe—the dance partay and mingling. * • Prepare to bring instruments and recorded music for the after–BARN DANCE. • Bring your phones/cameras (what’s the difference, really?). *We want to preserve this reunion for the ages!* • If history is any guide, some attendees will bring potent potables. *Ancianos are by definition adults, but please be prudent and plan to allocate your driving responsibilities safely.* Also, if you plan to avoid the late-night drive by staying over in one of the nearby B&Bs, identify the place you plan to stay and make those reservations now. (We can’t put you up or make stayover plans for you!) We expect lots of good moments at the 52nd Reunion, both small and large. Plenty of happy memories and plenty of new memories to create together! We can’t wait to see you there! Sincerely and with all love, Your Faithful Border Collies *P.S., if you know Ancianos who aren't paying attention to this particular mailing list--the one dedicated to students from the 1970 class through the 2000 class--please feel free to email this update directly to them. But don't broadcast it to other lists--we're trying to be somewhat focused on the Anciano alums and Doc's tenure as director of S-at-W.*

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52nd Anniversary Reunion Swag--what will be the substance of our style?
by Mike Godwin 13 Sep '22

13 Sep '22

This November will mark the unusually numbered 52nd anniversary reunion for Shakespeare@Winedale alumni. And of course the central question for so many of us will be ... what kind of T-shirt designs, quotable coffee cups, crowns, patches, and other items of "swag" will we be able to bring home with us? Well, there are some obvious choices. T-shirts with hand-drawn designs printed on them have been favorites over the years, for example. So we should ask ourselves if we want new designs. Or adaptations of old designs. Or both. Those of us who've gotten a bit balder (yet also bolder!) in recent decades may want decorative caps. Others may want patches they can sew on to favorite jackets and vests. Will the swag items be just for full-reunion attendees, or just for alums, or will anybody who wants some be able to buy some? How will we order appropriate sizes and colors in advance, etc.? Here I'm channeling both my own questions and Emily Ayres's questions, because we both are interested in things we can buy and take home .... assuming that others are interested as well. So this note is meant to spark a discussion of swag we might wish for, ideally in time to select a few good ideas and start producing items that capture something of our oddly numbered 52nd-anniversary reunion. What do you all think? Please feel free to respond to the mailing lists, but also feel free to send suggestions privately to me and to @Emily Ayres <emilymarionayres(a)gmail.com> Em, do you have anything you want to add here? Mike

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Elizabeth
by James Ayres 08 Sep '22

08 Sep '22

That very time I saw, but thou couldst not, <> Flying between the cold moon and the earth, <> Cupid all arm'd: a certain aim he took <> At a fair vestal throned by the west, <> And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, <> As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts; <> But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft <> Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, <> And the imperial votaress passed on, <> In maiden meditation, fancy-free. <> \

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Adding Tara Kirkland
by Mike Godwin 07 Sep '22

07 Sep '22

Dear folks, I've added Tara Kirkland (tarakkirkland(a)gmail.com) to the two Winedale-alum lists. I'd thought she was on one or both of the lists already, but apparently not. I hope I've fixed that omission. Mike

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Air travel to the Reunion: some advice
by Mike Godwin 07 Sep '22

07 Sep '22

Some Winedale have committed to attending the "50th Anniversary" Reunion for four days. (I use quotes because it's technically the 52nd Anniversary.) Others we expect will come in mainly to attend the Saturday gathering and Saturday night performances. This note is about anyone who's in either group who plans to use air travel to get (most of the way) to Winedale. Generally, the advice from seasoned travelers who have navigated pandemic-era travel already this year is this: Try to get to where you're going a day earlier than the day you plan to show up. We're currently living in a period of massive air-travel chaos and disruption, mainly because the airlines have struggled with ramping back up after earlier pandemic-driven cutbacks. (If you're a retired flight attendant, this may be a good time to consider coming out of retirement!) So, for example, if you plan to show up on Saturday at, say, lunchtime, it's best to get the flying part of your travel finished the day before. Please consider making your travel plans accordingly. Similarly, if you're one of the four-day attendees and you plan to congregate with the others in Winedale on Thursday afternoon/evening, please consider getting the flying part of your travel done at least by Wednesday. I'm nostalgic for the occasions when I had to travel during the pandemic--sometimes an airline like SouthWest would give me the whole plane. See photo, attached. Love, Mike [image: IMG-1056.jpg]

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Photoblasts from the past
by Mike Godwin 05 Sep '22

05 Sep '22

Take a look! https://www.flickr.com/photos/lstraverso/sets/72157624458195374/ Mike

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Request: can you donate photos for the Shakespeare@Winedale archives?
by Mike Godwin 05 Sep '22

05 Sep '22

Dear Teams and Fans and Hangers-On, Emily Ayres (emilymarionayres(a)gmail.com) has asked me to ask you if you have photographs--including both (a) old-style photochemical prints and/or negatives and (b) digital photographs--of S@W people and events and tableaux, etc., to contribute to the Shakespeare at Winedale archives that she has been working on. She's also interested in any newspaper or magazine clippings about S@W that you might be willing to share (or share copies of). I double-endorse this request, because like so many of the rest of us I love looking at the old (and not-so-old pics). In some of the ones I appear in, I have a lot more hair on my head and face. (More recently, that hair has migrated to my nose and ears.) But I think this Reunion and the Shakespeare-at-Winedale archives are a good opportunity to expand the visual records of our experiences, and I urge you to reach out to Emily to contribute. In addition, feel free to post digital photos, if you have them, in response to this request! Love to all, Mike

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*Reunion fee update* plus announcement of more frequent and regular updates (I hope!)
by Mike Godwin 03 Sep '22

03 Sep '22

Dear Ancianos, Border Collies, other Reunion enthusiasts and motley fool crew members, et al.: I’ve suggested to our Reunion planning committee that — as we move closer to key dates in preparing for our 2022 Reunion meetup on November 3 through November 6, — I circulate regular email reminders for those planning to attend, informing them what they need to do in preparation for the Reunion. This email is the first of these reminders, which I expect to send out at least weekly and maybe more often as needed. This reminder centers on sending money to Doc so that he can make the necessary payments and arrangements for the Reunion. You may recall that Doc calculated a while back that everyone who plans to participate in the full multiple-day Reunion needs to send Doc a check. As has sometimes been the case in the past, the checks typically take a while to start rolling in. (I’ve been tardy sending mine in more often than not.) This year, a couple of people have already sent in checks to Doc (thanks!) based on an earlier estimate of what the total cost per person would be. Here’s an update: after further review of the costs and calculations, we’re now asking everyone who’s attending the Reunion to *send in a check for $465*—40 dollars more than Doc had originally estimated. (Doc is inordinately apologetic for having set his estimate too low, but I forgive him!) If, like me, you haven’t sent your check in yet, please do so now or as soon as you can. The deadline for having all the money collected is October 15. As Gail noted in her August 17 email, *“Doc strongly prefers to receive payment in the form of paper checks, made out to him, and sent to the following address:* *PO Box 202 Round Top Tx 78954”* (I had to order new paper checks from my bank just for this. The twenty-something bank clerk snickered. “I need it for our Shakespeare reunion,” I meekly explained. She snickered again.) Just to recap some other key details, I’m reposting other sentences from Gail’s Aug. 17 email: *‘Doc has solidified housing and food arrangements for our gathering in November. We'll be staying at Festival Hill in rooms of three beds each and having breakfasts and dinners at Menke House, with lunches bought from the Mercantile. We will have a catered barbecue on Saturday evening. The first meal will be at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, 3 November, and the last will be breakfast on Sunday morning, 6 November, at 9:00. Check in for the weekend will begin at 2 p.m. on Thursday.’ * Gail noted in that email that the money we’re sending in covers all “creature comforts.” So all of us creatures will be comfortable! There may be no clocks in the forest, but our clocks everywhere else are ticking away. And I now have new checks I can fill out. (Oh, wait, where do I keep my pens? Do I even have any pens?) More notes soon, and feel free to circulate these details to others in our Company who may miss this particular email. Doc, Gail, and other planners should feel free to supplement and/or correct what I've written here. Love to all, Mike

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*Reunion fee update* plus announcement of more frequent and regular updates (I hope!)
by Mike Godwin 03 Sep '22

03 Sep '22

Dear Ancianos, Border Collies, other Reunion enthusiasts and motley fool crew members, et al.: I’ve suggested to our Reunion planning committee that — as we move closer to key dates in preparing for our 2022 Reunion meetup on November 3 through November 6, — I circulate regular email reminders for those planning to attend regarding what they need to do in preparation for the Reunion. This email is the first of these reminders, which I expect to send out at least weekly and maybe more often as needed. This reminder centers on sending money to Doc so that he can make the necessary payments and arrangements for the Reunion. You may recall that Doc calculated a while back that everyone who plans to participate in the full multiple-day Reunion needs to send Doc a check. As has sometimes been the case in the past, the checks typically take a while to start rolling in. (I’ve been tardy sending mine in more often than not.) This year, a couple of people have already sent in checks to Doc (thanks!) based on an earlier estimate of what the total cost per person would be. Here’s an update: after further review of the costs and calculations, we’re now asking everyone who’s attending the Reunion to *send in a check for $465*—40 dollars more than Doc had originally estimated. (Doc is inordinately apologetic for having set his estimate too low, but I forgive him!) If, like me, you haven’t sent your check in yet, please do so now or as soon as you can. The deadline for having all the money collected is October 15. As Gail noted in her August 17 email, *“Doc strongly prefers to receive payment in the form of paper checks, made out to him, and sent to the following address:* *PO Box 202 Round Top Tx 78954”* (I had to order new paper checks from my bank just for this. The twenty-something bank clerk snickered. “I need it for our Shakespeare reunion,” I meekly explained. She snickered again.) Just to recap some other key details, I’m reposting other sentences from Gail’s Aug. 17 email: *‘Doc has solidified housing and food arrangements for our gathering in November. We'll be staying at Festival Hill in rooms of three beds each and having breakfasts and dinners at Menke House, with lunches bought from the Mercantile. We will have a catered barbecue on Saturday evening. The first meal will be at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, 3 November, and the last will be breakfast on Sunday morning, 6 November, at 9:00. Check in for the weekend will begin at 2 p.m. on Thursday.’ Gail noted in that email that the money we’re sending in covers all “creature comforts.” So all of us creatures will be comfortable!* There may be no clocks in the forest, but our clocks everywhere else are ticking away. And I now have new checks I can fill out. (Oh, wait, where do I keep my pens? Do I even have any pens?) More notes soon, and feel free to circulate these details to others in our Company who may miss this particular email. Doc, Gail, and other planners should feel free to supplement and/or correct what I've written here. Love to all, Mike

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