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OUR 1643RD ISSUE 08.20.20 About 11 months ago, my wife and I became grandparents to twin boys. It was a joyous occasion, and we flew up to Brooklyn, where they live, just after their birth, last September. In the subsequent months, we flew back to Brooklyn twice, and the parents and their boys have made the trek to Memphis a couple of times.

That was mostly in the Before Times — before New York went through its horrendous A Patio in Brooklyn bout with the coronavirus, and in the process, became the model for how states should handle the disease: Shut down non-essential businesses, issue a mask mandate, test relentlessly, trace infections to their source, and provide daily — honest — briefings from the chief executive.

Once the epicenter for COVID-19 in this country, New York has now gotten its infection rate under control to a remarkable degree, and it’s obvious that the state has no intention of going back to the horrible days of late winter and early spring, when its hospitals and morgues were overwhelmed and bodies were being kept in refrigerated trucks. The state of New York has mandated that visitors from states with rising infection rates register with the state before they come and, once they get there, quarantine for 14 days or until they leave the state — whichever comes first. That would include visitors from Tennessee.

My wife and I had basically resigned ourselves to not seeing the newbies for a while. We didn’t want to chance flying, and taking a road trip, staying at motels, eating fast food, and then quarantining once we got there didn’t sound like much fun. Then, last week, there was a bit of a crisis: My step-daughter had just taken a new job with another law firm, and almost simultaneously their in-home daycare provider had a bike accident and couldn’t come to work for a few days. After hearing about how her daughter sat in her first Zoom meeting at her new firm with a squirming, crying baby on her lap, my wife went into Mama Lion mode: “We have to go up there and take over childcare for a week!” Yes, ma’am.

This was last Thursday. Fortunately, we’d both recently tested negative for the virus. The plan was to hit the road very early Saturday, drive all day, park in a rest stop in Virginia to sleep for a few hours, then drive into New York on Sunday. No fast food, no going into gas stations, no human contact. Friday evening, we packed a couple of suitcases, filled a large cooler with fizzy water, juice, fruit, sandwiches, cookies, chips, etc. and put it all in the back of the Subaru.

“We should probably try to go to sleep really early, so we can get up at the butt-crack of dawn,” I said. There was a moment of silence, then: “I’m too excited,” Tatine said. “I won’t be able to sleep tonight. Let’s just leave now.”

Realizing that this was no time for common sense, I just said “okay,” and we hit the road at 7 Friday night, not a particularly logical time to leave on an 18-hour road trip. But we found some great podcasts and drank a lot of coffee and energy drinks, and before we knew it, it was 3 a.m. and we were pulling into a rest stop parking lot in Bristol, Virginia. After three hours of restless sleep in reclined seats, we hit the road again.

We had it down to an art: If we needed a “rest stop,” we looked for exits with no signs for gas or food and drove to a farm road or quiet spot. If we got hungry or thirsty, we hit the cooler. We were road warriors. By Saturday morning, I was driving like water through a garden hose, sluicing through the hills of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and finally, the Holland Tunnel into the city.

New York City has changed. While working our way through modest traffic across Manhattan, we saw maybe two people without masks. Pedestrians, joggers, cyclists, sidewalk cafe diners, skateboarders, scooter-riders, cops, taxi drivers, dog-walkers, baby buggy pushers — everyone was masked. It was the N E WS & O P I N I O N same in Brooklyn. New Yorkers aren’t THE FLY-BY - 4 messing around with this thing.

NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 6 There’s a lesson here, and we need to VIEWPOINT - 8 pay attention.

FINANCIAL FEATURE - 9 I’m writing this from the sunny COVER STORY “BESIDE STILL WATERS” back patio of my step-daughter’s

BY MICHAEL DONAHUE - 10 ground floor apartment. I can hear WE RECOMMEND - 14 the sounds of the city around me, but MUSIC - 15 because of the patio walls, I can’t see CALENDAR - 16 much … except maybe the future.

FOOD - 19 I think I have to go change a TV - 20 diaper now.

C L AS S I F I E D S - 21 Bruce VanWyngarden LAST WORD - 23 brucev@memphisflyer.com

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A roundup of Memphis on the World Wide Web.

Protests, Masks, and Police

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Lawmakers beef up protest laws, masks help hospitlizations, and cops rated in poll.

M O N D AY • Shelby County added 281 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 23,810.

Three new deaths were reported.

A baby doll taped to a post by the CVS at Union and Cooper held a sign last week that read: “fix these fucking roads.”

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“So, I’d love to know who dumped their ‘dad collection’ in my recycle bin on north Autumn,” wrote Nextdoor user Doug Barnes of the Evergreen Historic District.

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A video shot Saturday by Reddit user u/trailsonsmountains found dozens of people swimming in the Wolf River near Wolf River Boulevard and Germantown Parkway (under the bridge near Chick-fil-A).

The debate ranged from the Wolf being totally safe for swimming to some saying it’s “absolutely disgusting,” citing syringes, pollution, and dead bodies.

T U E S D AY • Shelby County added 247 new cases of the virus for a total of 24,057. Four new deaths were reported.

• State lawmakers returned to Nashville last week for a special session called by Clockwise from top left: Alex Grisanti, Malco, 901 FC, new protest laws, Tennessee Governor masks work, mini-golf at The Orpheum, virus averages fell Bill Lee. The governor wanted to ensure liability F R I D AY protections were in place for businesses and organizations • Shelby County added 200 new cases of COVID-19. New against any lawsuits stemming from the COVID-19 crisis. data showed that the average positivity rate fell for the third Lee also wanted to ensure Black Lives Matter protesters straight week. and others would face heftier fines and jail times for The total number of virus cases was 24,547. The death toll damaging state property or camping on it illegally. Versions was 319. of his bill to do this were passed by the House and Senate.

• Malco Theatres announced the reopenings of more movie Conservatives said the law punishes bad apples. But theaters in the Memphis area last week, with several opening critics said the legislation tramples free-speech rights.

Friday, August 21st.

• Orpheum Theater officials opened the stage for a nine• Respect for law enforcement in Memphis was at an allhole, Broadway-themed, mini-golf course last week. time high, but confidence in law enforcement and their Orpheum president and CEO Brett Batterson said it “may ability to effectively police their communities was lacking well be the wackiest idea” he’s had, but the shuttered theater among African Americans, according to poll results had to get creative. announced last week by the Memphis Shelby County Crime Commission.

W E D N E S D AY Fifty percent of African Americans felt that local law • Shelby County added 119 new cases of COVID-19 for a enforcement is doing an excellent or good job enforcing total of 24,176. Five new deaths were reported. the law in their communities. Among white respondents, • A new report from public health researchers at Vanderbilt confidence in local law enforcement was at 80 percent.

University linked masking requirements to lower Only 45 percent of African Americans responding said hospitalizations. they felt local police were doing an excellent or good job Masking requirements are now implemented in 26 of being honest and trustworthy. Worse, only 37 percent of Tennessee counties, covering nearly 68 percent of the African Americans felt that local police are competent at state’s population. In those areas, hospitalizations have solving crimes that occur across Shelby County. flattened or declined.

• Restaurateur Alex Grisanti said last week he’d open a S AT U R D AY new restaurant, Elfo Grisanti’s Northern Italian Cuisine, in Amid thunderstorms, Memphis 901 FC traveled to Southaven in September.

Matthews, North Carolina, to challenge Group G rivals Charlotte Independence. But despite an excellent first half T H U R S D AY performance, Memphis fell 3-2 to a Dane Kelly-inspired • Shelby County added 171 new cases of COVID-19, Charlotte comeback. marking two days of new cases below 200 for the first time recently. The total number of active cases dipped below Visit memphisflyer.com for fuller versions of these stories and 4,000 for the time recently also. Three new deaths were more local news. reported.

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institutions in an expanded and unified campus vision. 35 Liberty Park will include existing assets such as the Liberty Bowl, Tiger 39 of Lane, the Children’s Museum Memphis, and the Kroc Center. No mention was made of the now-vacant 42 Mid-South Coliseum. The goal of the project is to link these existing assets and make them part of an overall 46 destination.

“I think we all agree that this is a deeply appreciated yet underutilized 50 piece of property, and we are ready to introduce a comprehensive platform for all Memphians 52 to use as a resource,” said Paul Young, director of the city of Memphis Division of Housing and Community Development (HCD). “While each PUZZLE BY space is absolutely an individual destination to some, we want to bring them together to create17 a collective destination for all.”

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An 18-acre private development inside Liberty Park will40 include a public plaza, 90,000 square feet of family entertainment venues, 90,000 43 44 square feet of commercial office space, 100,000 square feet of retail and dining, two hotels, comprising 200 47 48 total rooms, and 100-150 apartments.

The private development will be built along Central Avenue in a space that currently houses a track and football field. The city will spend $3 million to move those assets to Tobey Park along Flicker Street. The money will be spread over three years in the city budget.

“Despite the issues we’re dealing KAMERON AUSTIN COLLINS with head-on, stemming from COVID-19, we have to simultaneously plan for the future,” said30 Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland. “Building on the spirit of an iconic past, known for years as the Fairgrounds, Liberty Park is a destination that moves a historic site into its next century to 31 one day bring Memphians and visitors together.

“A visiting family can 33check into their hotel, tour the Children’s Museum, and grab a bite to eat, all 34before their within walking distance, sports tournament even begins. Every user and element of Liberty Park can benefit from and contribute to all of the experiences that have traditionally happened on the property.”

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It seems all so obvious now.

Last January 31st, Lamar Alexander, Tennessee’s senior senator, voted to dismiss John Bolton’s testimony at the Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump. Had Alexander voted for presentation of further evidence, several others in the Republican Party may well have joined him. And we as a country might be in a very different place than where we are today.

Now that everyone knows the contents of Bolton’s book, The Room Where It Happened, the testimony that the former National Security Advisor was willing to give might well have tilted the Senate toward a Trump conviction, resulting in a Pence presidency.

Six months later, there is no point crying over spilt milk. But it is worth taking a moment to think about what might have been, had Donald Trump been removed from office last winter.

The past six months under a Pence presidency would have been difficult — the pandemic couldn’t care less who’s in the White House — but perhaps he would have handled the virus’ omnipresence differently. He’s no favorite of mine, but I believe a President Pence would have approached the crisis altogether differently. He certainly would have listened more closely to the doctors. And he wouldn’t have played so much golf.

Pence would have made mistakes; after all, everyone on the front lines did at first. But he and the governors, I feel confident, would have put together a cogent federal/state pandemic plan.

Having been a governor himself, he would have worked closely with others from both parties.

I also believe that a President Pence would consider hourly tweeting beneath the dignity of his new position.

And he would know that his new job was way bigger than his ego, well aware of where the buck stops.

By now, President Pence’s policies might have saved 25,000 lives, maybe more. At the moment, he would be in the middle of a closely contested election race, just 77 days away. The outcome would be a toss-up at this point.

The interim president would be well liked, and so would Lamar Alexander, the man who demanded that John Bolton’s testimony be heard. The retiring Tennessee senator forever would be remembered for not letting the Bad Cat out of the impeachment bag.

Lamar Alexander was our governor for eight years in the Eighties, our senator now for the past 18. I don’t know a Democrat in Tennessee who hasn’t voted for him a time or three.

Alexander’s public service reflects competence, dedication, and civility.

Sad, isn’t it, then, that his distinguished Senate career is ending on an ambiguous note. Sad that all but one GOP senator chose to ignore evidence of the president’s criminal behavior regarding the Ukraine.

Shortly after his acquittal, Donald Trump rode a victory lap in his limo at the Daytona 500, and the rest is history.

Real history, unfortunately, not whatmight-have-been.

Things have gone from bad to worst this past week, with President Trump’s blatant attempt to disrupt the USPS so completely in the weeks and months ahead as to make voting by mail well nigh impossible. This president’s bald attempt to steal the 2020 presidential election goes far beyond what any of his 44 predecessors had ever contemplated.

Most contemporary American historians now speak with one voice, already calling Trump’s blatant power grab one of the darkest political gambits in our country’s history.

Here’s how I think our state’s senior senator could achieve a degree of redemption for his January vote. Lamar Alexander could recover much of the integrity for which he has always been admired, if he simply announced his retirement now, rather than waiting until January 2021, and by just stating the obvious: “I have lost confidence in Mr. Trump’s ability to govern these United States.”

He need not say another word; let others whose political futures are in the balance slice and dice Donald Trump’s decidedly dangerous behavior. I believe a one-sentence resignation would be well-received by most Americans, a large percentage of whom remain terrified by this human loose cannon still rolling around in the White House.

It’s a small gesture, but perhaps Senator Alexander’s resignation would inspire others in his party to stand up to the president’s blatant attempt to meddle with our country’s electoral process.

We find ourselves now in a very dark place; our retiring senator has a genuine opportunity to make things inside that place a little bit brighter.

Kenneth Neill is publisher emeritus of the Memphis Flyer, which he helped launch in 1989.

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For each year that I defer taking my benefit past my FRA of 67 up to age 70, I will get an 8 percent increase in my monthly check, guaranteed! This would amount to a 24 percent bump, which is a fun benefit … if I live that long. Of course, I can start any time during that three-year period and still get the raise for the months I defer.

Here is the easy math: If I begin my benefit at FRA of 67, I will get $1,000 per month. If I begin my benefit at age 62, I will get $700 per month. And if I begin my benefit at age 70, I will get $1,240 per month. How do I know which door I should choose? The only way I can give you a definitive answer is if I know exactly when I am going to die. That makes the math very easy.

Other than that, my life and lifestyle will hopefully give me enough clues to make an educated decision. Here are some things I will consider: How much money do I have saved?

How much money do I spend?

How much money should I spend?

What other income will I have during retirement?

Am I married?

Am I divorced?

Am I still working?

How’s my health?

The answers to these questions will help steer me to the optimal option available for my circumstances. I shouldn’t assume that starting at age 62 always makes the most sense “before Social Security runs out of money.” Nor should I assume that waiting to the age of 70 will always make the most sense.

I would recommend consulting with my personal wealth strategist (me) to help devise my plan, and would advise you to do the same.

Kathy Williams, CFP, CDFA, is Principal and Senior Wealth Strategist at Waddell & Associates. She can be reached at kathy@waddellandassociates.com.

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s we head into the last stretch of summer, my thoughts go to my favorite part of August — my birthday! This year, I will be one year away from my ability to start drawing my Social Security benefit, albeit reduced since I would be starting at the earliest age of 62. And so I will begin the decision-making process: Should I draw, or do I wait?

Let’s start with a quick synopsis of Social Security. If you have earned income, you pay a percentage of that income into the Social Security system.

The amount that you contribute over time will dictate what your monthly benefit will be when you begin receiving payments. Your primary insurance amount (PIA) is the benefit you will receive if you begin benefits at your normal retirement date (also known as your full retirement age, or FRA).

Let’s pretend I was born in 1960.

Currently, if you were born in 1960 or later, your FRA is 67. What if I want to start receiving my benefits as early as possible, which is at the age of 62?

Since this is five years prior to my FRA, Social Security will reduce my benefits a little for each month that I begin receiving benefits before age 67.

Why? Because they will be paying me a benefit for a longer period of time than if I waited until my full retirement age of 67. A five-year (60-month) reduction is 30 percent of FRA. If my age 67 benefit is $1,000 per month, my age 62 benefit will drop by 30 percent to $700 per month. Except for certain circumstances, this is a permanent reduction in my benefit. Yikes!

What if I want to get a bigger Social Security benefit? Maybe my handsome husband is rich and I don’t need to begin taking benefits until later. Well, Social Security has a plan for that, too.

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BESIDE STILL WATERS THE LIFE AND ART OF JEANNE SEAGLE. C OVE R STO RY BY M I C HAE L D O NAH U E

JEANNE IN FOG

BY FLETCHER GOLDEN

August 20-26, 2020

JEANNE SEAGLE’S favorite Bible verse begins, “He leadeth me beside still waters and he restoreth my soul.”

“I’m not religious; don’t get me wrong,” Seagle says. “But I had to learn my Bible verses as a kid. And I remember them. I really like that one.”

Her own still waters are found at Dacus Lake, the subject of “Beside Still Waters,” Seagle’s first one-person art show at L Ross Gallery.

“My subject matter is the land inside the levee right across the Mississippi River from Downtown. Dacus Lake,” she says. “I have a great affinity for that land.

I’ve always loved to go across the river, from the time when I first moved to Memphis. It was so much fun to go ride around in the fields and go down to the sandbars. I go over there a lot. It’s just a great getaway from Midtown Memphis.

I can drive over the bridge and be over in the wilderness in 20 minutes.”

Seagle’s show includes 11 large black-and-white drawings and 11 watercolors of the Dacus Lake area. She takes photographs, which she uses for her drawings. “They’re very precise.

Very photo-realistic drawings. It takes 10 me about a month to do each one.”

During her art career, Seagle, 72, has

worked as an illustrator for ad agencies and publications, including the Memphis Flyer, where her cartoons illustrated News of the Weird for many years.

Her public art can be seen at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, and Methodist University Hospital. Books that feature her illustrations include Mickey and the Golem by Steve Stern and Mommy Without Hair by Selene Benitone.

But Dacus Lake has flowed through her artwork for decades.

IN THE mid-1990s, before they were married, Seagle and Fletcher Golden spent a lot of time at Dacus Lake, where Golden lived for a while in a mobile home. “I’d just go over every Friday night and ride through the bean fields. I really got to know the land over there. I housesat for him, and I would just go down to the river and paint and draw.”

The area was a new world for Seagle, who was born in Pueblo, Colorado.

“All of my art was about going out to Colorado to visit my family,” she says.

“I just did brightly colored paintings of mountains and canyons and mesas and that kind of thing. I’d go out there every year and ride around and paint.”

When her elderly relatives died and she stopped making the trip to Colorado, Seagle was at a loss for subject matter. “I was not all that crazy about the flat Delta land. But little by little I started seeing all the subtle beauty and the surprises you find when you get up close in the swampland and the waterways. And I started making pictures of this Delta land.”

It never stays the same, she says. “It floods every year. It’s inside the levee, and that makes the landscape change.

The waters rise and recede. It’s a great place for all kinds of water birds and animals to live. And because it floods every year, it’s not developed. It keeps the humans away. Because of that, there are animals that just roam up and down the Mississippi for hundreds and hundreds of miles.

“If you go early in the morning, you see these animals. I saw a panther one time when I got up early and was sitting quietly doing some watercolor painting.”

And then there are the trees.

“Because it floods, the roads are elevated so that trees grow up around them, but the trees take on very strange shapes, too, because of the Delta tornadoes that come through and tear off the limbs of

the trees. They’re all raggedy-looking trees that are so unusual.”

The area does attract some eccentric people, Seagle says. “When Fletcher lived there and I was visiting on a regular basis, there was a bait shop on stilts. It was kind of a community gathering place.”

And, she says, “There were other people living over there at the fish camp — people who don’t like living in civilization. They were people who are close to the land, people who hunt for beaver tails. Just very earthy, country people who have known all about the country, and the last thing they want to do is live in civilization. We got to know them, and that was really interesting.”

SEAGLE’S LOVE OF nature

began when she was a child. Her family moved from Colorado to Mississippi when she was very young, then they moved to the woods of Arkansas when she was five. “My father worked for the department of forestry, and he got a job as a forest ranger in Western Arkansas in the Ouachita Mountains. As a little child, I was living in this forest. An only child.”

Seagle spent time drawing and walking through the woods by herself.

I C A N F LY R E F L E C T I O N S I N F L O O D W AT E R S charcoal pencil on paper

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GLASS TILE MOSAICS, DESIGN BY JEANNE SEAGLE, FA B R I C ATI O N BY L E A H O L L A N D, JEANNE SEAGLE AND POMEGRANTE STUDIO, PHOTO BY JEANNE SEAGLE Le Bonheur Hospital

F LO O D E D S H O R E LI N E

“Being all alone with no brothers and sisters out in the country was probably a big influence,” she says. “If I’d been living in town and had lots of people to play with, I might not have become an artist.”

She was known for her art ability in school. “I remember in the first grade I would draw tattoos on little boys and I’d draw paper dolls for the little girls. I charged a dime. I kept on doing that all through school. I was the class artist.”

In high school, Seagle took an art class trip to Memphis Academy of Art, which later became Memphis College of Art. “I saw these kids in there that were beatniks. I loved that. I really wanted to be a beatnik. So when I got old enough to go to college, I came up here.”

She moved to Memphis in 1967. “By this time, the Art Academy had all the great people: Ted Rust, Bill Womack, John Mcintire, Burton Callicott, Ted Faiers, Veda Reed, Bill Roberson.

Murray Riss started teaching when I was there. It was just wonderful to be around these people, and I got to take classes from all of them.”

Seagle majored in illustration.

“When I was a little girl, I loved looking at my mother’s magazines. I really was not exposed to art galleries. We lived in the forest ranger station in Western Arkansas, so the art that I saw was in my mother’s magazines. And I wanted to be a magazine illustrator, a children’s book illustrator.”

Her schooling was interrupted after she married her first husband, a medical student. “My first marriage was very brief — to somebody that I met here in Memphis, and we moved to Los Angeles.” That was “a different lifetime,” Seagle says. “He was gone most of the time, being an intern at the hospital.”

After her divorce, Seagle returned to Memphis, where she completed her degree at the Art Academy.

She took a job as assistant executive designer with Dobbs Houses. “I dressed like the young executives. I wanted to be a young executive. I worked at Dobbs Houses in the interior design department and went to work in a high-rise building and dressed up with

hose and skirts.”

Then, she says, “The director of my department was found to be embezzling from the company and the whole department was fired. That’s when I changed. I was fired from the executive track and so I just kind of totally changed then and relaxed and became more of a Bohemian, I guess.”

In 1973, Seagle got a job working with a couple of her classmates, Ellis Chappell and Jim Williams, at The Grafe, the in-house graphics agency for Stax Records. They created and produced Stax album covers.

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“We made a bunch of money,” Seagle says. “So I just went to Europe, traveled around, went to all the art museums. I came back and I started doing fine art.”

When her money ran out, she went to work for Malmo & Associates.

IN 1993, Seagle became a freelancer.

A major client was Contemporary Media, Inc., where she became a regular illustrator for the Memphis Flyer. She illustrated the Flyer’s News of the Weird column for 20 years. “That was great training for what I’m doing now,” she says, “which is obsessive black-andwhite drawings.”

Her Flyer illustrations were composed of “little tiny dots,” she says.

“You had to be obsessive-compulsive to do it. And that’s exactly what I’m doing now in my landscape drawings. I’m just doing these tiny little marks that take forever to do. Everybody looks at them and says, ‘Oh, my God. You just have such patience to do that.’”

Seagle also began doing public art, landing UrbanArt Commission grants to create mosaic murals on two trolley stops on Madison.

In 2012, she created the 16-foot sculpture, I Can Fly, at Le Bonheur: “It’s a giant obelisk with mosaics on all four sides depicting the seasons with children playing, climbing trees. On top is a giant bluebird about the size of a Volkswagen Beetle with a little kid riding on top of it.”

The next year, she created the 16-foot-tall Genome Kids sculpture at St. Jude. She describes it as “a giant DNA helix with whimsical-looking little children climbing it.”

She then did a series of 6-foot square paintings, including “giant painted quilts,” at Methodist.

“I made a lot of money,” she says, “and I was able to, pretty much, retire from commercial art work and turn to fine art.”

She began booking shows, beginning with a one-person show at the Delta Cultural Center in Helena. Then, she says, “Linda Ross called me up and asked me to be in one of her shows.

That was really a great turning point in my fine art career, to be able to be in a well-respected gallery. I’ve been in shows with her for five or six years.”

Ross, now retired from the gallery, says, “What has always attracted me to an artist is the movement, the feeling, of the line work in their art. So it’s no wonder that I found Jeanne’s body of work so compelling. She has such a deft hand, whether it’s the broader brush strokes in her quietly moving

watercolors or the delicate-layered markings in her stunning penciled landscapes. Simply masterful.”

SEAGLE’S CURRENT show at

L Ross Gallery was supposed to open in the spring but was pushed back because of the pandemic. Originally, Seagle thought the “the fog, the water, and these stark winter trees” would be “too depressing” for a spring show. “Then, as it turned out, with the pandemic, I don’t think pretty pastel-colored pictures of things would be very appropriate for our world right now. These mysterious, dark pictures are very appropriate.”

“The level of detail and technical skill in these pieces speak for themselves,” says L Ross Gallery owner Laurie Brown. “But, to my mind, what really sets Jeanne’s work apart is her ability to capture the quiet, ephemeral moments of life so exquisitely. You can almost hear the breeze whispering through the branches or feel the cool dampness of the fog.”

As for future plans, Seagle says, “I want to make bigger pictures, and I really want to start being in museums.”

Seagle and Golden, who have been married almost 20 years, live on an acre of land in Cooper-Young. “It’s made the pandemic much more bearable to have all this land, all these trees in our backyard. It really looks like we are living out in the country.”

Seagle still makes the trip to Dacus

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Lake. “I’m still totally fascinated with this landscape. It’s always changing. The water conditions are always changing.

The floods and the water rising, morning and night, and the light — it’s just full of ever-changing subject matter that thrills me.”

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Maysey Craddock’s work was highlighted the first week in August. Her work focuses on the diminishing wildernesses of Southern wetlands that change and shift with the tides. Selected works on paper reference the natural environment of the Gulf Coast of Alabama. Abstract drawings are rendered and transferred onto sewn-together fragments of found paper bags, mirroring the natural and geological processes. Twenty-five percent of all proceeds sold from this exhibition will go to the Southern Environmental Law Center.

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So it’s very easy for me to come up with material, just based Alyssa on how Moore I’m treated sometimes.”

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et ready for The She with both of them.”

Shed to tootle down When the pandemic hit, Barth and the street.

Dunston were involved with Caritas’ The pink food Feed the Frontline program where chefs truck, slated to open fed more than 2,000 meals to front line in September, will be workers and people in the community. manned by Kathleen When she was 10, Dunston began Barth and MK Dunston. cooking for her siblings. “First thing “It looks like a little cottage on I ever made was country fried steak wheels,” Barth says. “Kind of a rosy with gravy,” she says. “I watched my pink. It’ll have ivy on the outside. Very grandmother make it 100 times. I was girly. But not girly food.” convinced I could do it. I screwed up They’ll specialize in “big-ass man the gravy at first, but I figured it out. sandwiches,” she says. “A sandwich that When I became a grown person and you’ve got to do the hunch. When you’re started having babies, I figured I’d betgetting ready to take a bite, you’ve got ter learn how to cook all these things to get your sandwich with both hands so I could feed the kids.” and make sure you’re not going to get it Last November, Dunston began all over your belly or your boobs. Brace making food people could order yourself, open up that trap, and munch. online. “I would just put out one plate, That’s the hunch.” and people would order that.”

This began last April when Dunston saw a photo of one of Barth’s creations on Facebook, and then saw Barth’s other food posts. Everything looked like something she would make. “We have exactly the same cooking style,” Dunston says.

“Rustic is a great word,” Barth says. “We plate our MK Dunston (back) and food the same. We stack Kathleen Barth and The She Shed things — your carb on the bottom, potatoes, rice, then your veggies and proteins on top.”

She worked as a bartender/manager After corresponding for a few at Blue Monkey until the pandemic hit. weeks, Barth asked Dunston if she “After quarantine started, I thought I wanted to go halves with her on a food should kick food into high gear. I wasn’t truck. The truck originally belonged sure how I was going to earn money. to a woman who planned to use it for That’s when I launched Barricade Breakher dog rescue business. “She turned it fast, Lockdown Lunch, and Quarantine into a giant-ass doghouse on wheels,” Cuisine. I started doing breakfast, lunch, she says. “It actually has a roof with and dinner every week.”

The Frenchy, one of Dunston’s items, shingles.” will be included at The She Shed. “It’s A month later, Barth and Dunston like French dip and French onion soup met each other in person. “I just sent had a baby,” she says. “It’s a slowher a message via Facebook and asked roasted shaved prime rib topped with if she wanted to hang out one day and roasted black pepper, Gruyere cheese, cook together,” Barth says. and caramelized onion on sourdough, “We gave each other a hug like we served with a side of au jus.” knew each other forever,” Dunston says.

Another will be Barth’s signature Barth, owner of 901 Thyme Caterdish — a garden veggie pie, which she ing, began cooking at home about describes as “like a classic tomato pie,” eight years ago. “I like to cook Italian, but with zucchini, fresh herbs, and Mediterranean style. I like a lot of topped with a cheese blend.

Asian influences. I really like to cook Desserts will include Dunston’s all the regions.” pecan blondie with Southern pecan ice Last year, Barth worked with Spencream and a Khalua drizzle. cer and Kristin McMillin when they The She Shed will travel “wherever were at Caritas Village. “He’s kind of anyone will have us,” Barth says. “Anybeen my mentor. He taught me a lot where they want man sandwiches.” of technique. It was an honor to work

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Pulp Fiction Racism is the existential horror in Lovecraft Country.

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“elder god” alien hibernating on the bottom of the ocean, waiting for the moment when the stars align to devour humanity. But the real horror in Lovecraft is our own cosmic insignificance. The return of Cthulhu or the mysterious meteorite that brings a contagious, realitydistorting prismatic phenomenon in “The Colour Out of Space” are simply “natural” forces bigger than us. In the age of climate change and pandemics, Lovecraft’s appeal is clear: Everything we have worked for and worried about in our pathetic little lives is subject to being swept away by unfeeling forces beyond our comprehension.

But while Lovecraft may have been a genius and his work remains relevant, he was also, in his personal life and letters, racist as hell. While it’s true most privileged white men of his time held racial attitudes that would not pass muster today, Lovecraft wrote a friend that Hitler was “a clown, but God, I like the boy!” Once again, we are faced with the question of the content of the art vs. the character of the artist.

Black sci-fi fan Atticus Freeman (Jonathan Majors) will take the art. The bookish Chicagoan has just returned from serving in the Korean War to search for his disappeared father.

But his uncle, George (Courtney B. Vance), won’t let him forget the glaring flaws in Lovecraft’s character. George is the publisher of a guide for safe Negro travel through pre-civil rights era America. Even though Atticus celebrates leaving “Jim Crow Land”

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ne of the subtle jokes in HBO’s 2019 Watchmen series comes in the pilot episode. In an alternate version of 2019, Tulsa police chief Judd Crawford is called out of an all-Black production of Oklahoma! when one of his men is shot by a white supremacist terrorist.

Recasting the lily-white musical about love among the Sooners with African-American actors was a subtle dig at Hamilton — an alternate history commenting on the real world’s preferred revisionist history. The 2019 where Robert Redford is president for life was, on the surface, much more racially tolerant and liberal than the real 2019, but their biggest problems are still megalomaniacal rich people and racism.

With its masked police and white supremacist conspiracies — and a whopping 26 Emmy nominations — the sequel series to Alan Moore and David Gibbons’ landmark graphic novel is enjoying a second life during the pandemic. With no second season in sight (and frankly, none needed), HBO’s would-be Watchmen successor is Lovecraft Country. Loosely adapted from a short story collection by science-fiction writer Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country takes the revisionist scalpel to one of horror’s sacred cows.

H.P. Lovecraft’s stories from the 1920s are founding documents of modern horror. The villains of Lovecraft’s stories are epic monsters like Cthulhu, an

Jonathan Majors (left) and Jurnee Smollett face racism and white supremacist institutions in Lovecraft Country — and supernatural terror (below).

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“Sundown” is gorgeously shot, and showrunner Misha Green and director Yann Demange conjure some genuinely tense moments, such as a car chase with our heroes trying to beat both the law and the sunset. The series promises a Black, vintage version of The X-Files, with monsters of the week and an overarching Cthulhu cult conspiracy.

While it’s hard to judge a series by its pilot (with Watchmen’s “It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice” being the exception that proves the rule), Green and Demange muddy the waters by trying to bite off too many characters and plot threads at once. A pretty but meandering sequence involving Leti’s R&B singer sister feels glaringly out of place, for example. Lovecraft Country’s revisionist horror has potential, if it can just learn to focus.

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when he rides in the back of the bus from his Army base in Florida across the Illinois border, George knows there are still “sundown towns” all through the Midwest, where Black people are unwelcome, to say the least.

George agrees to take Atticus along on his latest travel writing trip to investigate a mysterious message his father left behind. He was obsessed with finding the secret of Atticus’ mother’s mysterious parentage. Before he disappeared, he traced the family tree to Ardham, Massachusetts, one letter away from Arkham, the base of Lovecraft’s mysterious Cthulhu cult. The third person along on their journey is Leti Lewis (Jurnee Smollett), a childhood friend who has fallen on hard times.

Lovecraft Country’s pilot “Sundown” begins strongly enough. Atticus’ dreams about his battle experiences in Korea are interrupted by invaders from Mars. As H.G. Wells’ tripods spray heat rays across the battlefield, the red Martian princess Dejah Thoris descends from a flying saucer to save him.

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What’s up, Memphis? How is everybody doing six months into the coronavirus pandemic?

Well, anybody with an ounce of common sense — or a Black mama — knows deep down that America has not responded well to this situation. “Men lie, women lie, numbers don’t lie” — the data speaks for itself. While many other countries are slowly opening their respective societies because they practiced strict COVID-19 safety measures based on science, we Americans are stuck spinning our wheels with no clear or sensible national leadership from the federal government.

If 2019 was the “Hot Girl Summer,” then I don’t know what to call 2020. Maybe the “I Did Not Comb My Hair Today Because There is Nowhere to Go But Kroger Summer”?

Yeah it sucks; movie theaters are closed, can’t hang out at bars and get publicly drunk like you used to, no Memphis in May, no sports, no amusement parks (my bad, we literally don’t have those anyway), and the kicker — Yo Gotti canceled his annual birthday concert in August! Oh Lawd, how will Memphians Black and white get to let loose and express their inner ratchet?

Well, on the bright side, Memphis has a plethora of cool city parks all over the city: Tom Lee Park, Overton Park, Shelby Farms, and the Wolf River Greenway to name a few, plus dozens of miles of protected bike lanes.

I admit, when former Mayor AC Wharton first announced the major initiatives for the Green Lane Project in 2013, I thought such significant resources were misdirected, but I now see the added value of this investment to the city — enhancing the way we use and enjoy our parks system. As COVID-19 has interrupted our regularly scheduled summer, the city’s commitment to expand and aesthetically improve the parks we enjoy really seems to bring us together.

So, let me rant about a few other things: In May, I was living in close proximity to the Wolf River Greenway and would often go for four- to five-mile powerwalks on those wooded trails. There are lakes, streams, and quaint little bridges that attract all types: runners, new mommies pushing strollers, people trying to fish, individuals and families on bicycles. Some days it can get rather busy — traffic looking like I-240 out there — so I am mindful of staying on my side (the right side) of the walk path.

So, I am out for my usual walk one Saturday afternoon, with my headphones on blasting, walk-dancing to Megan Thee Stallion — sometimes pausing in the middle of the path to see if today is the day that my old ass has figured out how to twerk. But it is not, so I keep it pushing. A few feet ahead I see a big puddle on the path, and there are two things I don’t do — step in grass (because of dog poo) and get my socks wet — so I am hop-scotching left and right. Next thing I know I am on the ground; a lady on a bicycle ran over me.

She crashed out too, and when we both get up, she had the nerve to go off on me. Key Glock was bumpin’ in my headphones at that moment, so I was already hyped and “On My Memphis Shit” properly cussing her out. Here’s the thing: If you out here on the Greenway with your Tour de France bike and Spandex outfit getting your Lance Armstrong on — then shouldn’t you be riding on these protected bike lanes?

Come on, mane.

Then, two weeks ago, I am on a morning walk Downtown through Tom Lee Park, along Riverside Drive toward Bass Pro. The city had blocked off the street to car traffic, and it felt exhilarating to just walk down the middle of the street (but not like those idiots you know you have considered hitting walking randomly across Poplar between 201 and Cleveland). Anyway, I have moved to the sidewalk as I pass that pretty AutoZone building, headphones on, when I get clipped by a young dude ballin’ out on one of those Birds or Spins or whatever kind of scooter. He crashes into the side railing, almost flipping over the side — which would have been tragic. Again, I got to square up. A fool on a motorized vehicle doing 20 mph should be on the streets (or perhaps those bike lanes), not the damn sidewalk with pedestrians, Memphis! Come on, mane.

Main point: 2020 has been an extraordinary year, with COVID-19 forcing us to find new ways to safely come together and enjoy ourselves in the Bluff City. Take care of each other, wash your hands, and wear a damn mask!

Live Strong, Memphis — November 3rd is on the horizon!

Kemba Ford is a politician/consultant in Memphis.

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