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In 1961, the Freeport Players’ Guild was officially formed with the board members including Sir Jack Hayward as president; John Slack as vice president; Patricia Bloom as secretary; Betty McConville as treas urer, and William MacNeill, David Brooks, Peter Aston, Raymond McNeill, Martin Sinsley as directors.
02 | The Tribune | Weekend Friday, August 12, 2022 entertainment AFTER being out of operation for nearly three years, the Regency Theatre in Grand Bahama is close to reopening. But in order to see the return of what has been an entertainment staple for the island’s community for over 60 years, it requires the generosity and kindness of those who are able to volunteer their time, resources, or both. The board of the theatre is appeal ing to members of the public to lend a hand in any way they can as they reach the final stretch to repair and restore the theatre. The Regency suffered devastat ing damage as Category 5 Hurricane Dorian swept through the islands. Since then, the board, as well as private and corporate citizens have come together, working endlessly to ensure the theatre can reopen, Having been providing the Grand Bahamas with entertainment, arts and culture for 60 years, the institu tion is near and dear to the islands’ residents.“Welost all of our infrastructure in terms of sound and lighting. Every thing else we had to pretty much get rid of,” current president Preston Knowles told Tribune Weekend. “Were able to save our chairs, our curtains, because that would have been a big cost we would have to incur. But as for our other equipment like our grand piano, drum set, audio equipment, audio board, we lost all of Asit.”the monster storm hovered over Grand Bahama in the first week of September 2019, the Regency took on about nine feet of water. As a result, everything in the building was“Whencompromised.wefirstcame in, our presi dent at the time Paulette Russell who was ending her presidency, initi ated a clean-up. We had members of the community come in and assist. We cleaned and took out everything that was wet. Mould was starting to grow everywhere,” said Mr Knowles. “We also lost years and years of history. We lost documents, we lost old pictures from the beginning days of the theatre. The process from then to now has been just cleaning up and rebuilding.”Thetheatre also sustained major electrical damage. “When we first assessed the damage, we had no money. Facing that was very challenging, so imme diately we put out appeals to the community,” said Mr Knowles. “We contacted a variety of organi sations and private entities. That process was a long one but thank fully through the help and support of one of two major companies we were able to receive a substantial amount of money. Then through the proceeds of a former member who passed away (his family donated funds), we were able to get a great dealThedone.”Regency now needs just a little more assistance on the home stretch.“Money would be the best help, but we are not just asking for funds because we know we still have people rebuilding their lives from Dorian. The theatre is kind of looked at as recreation, so some people may not take to us taking funding when people are trying to repair their homes and their lives,” he acknowl edged. “We will take manpower… we will take materials. We will take money and even people sharing the word or pointing us in the direction if you know any grants for funding.”
Mr Knowles said he excited about the return of the Regency. “The unique thing about it is we are the only full purpose building. It is a professional theatre, it is not just an outlet for the performing arts, but we have done countless things. We have had pageants, summer camps and business expos. We have had meetings and every event that you can think of can happen at that building,” he said. “I’m sure the majority of the com munity has used the theatre at some point. So, it is not just a loss to our membership or people who like to watch shows or be a part of theatre; it was loss to the community of live entertainment in terms of just being a professional venue.”
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It wasn’t until 1971 that the Regency Theatre was built, opening with the Guild’s production of “The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde. In 1973, the Freeport Players’ Guild was proud to welcome Prince Charles as a visitor to the Regency Theatre.
Janet said they are also hoping to bring in craft beer from the two local tap houses – Rip Ty’d and Pirates Republic. Guests will be able to sample the different brews to see what appeals to the palate. With the Bahamas Humane Society being just next door to the festival venue, and considering the fact that they are having challenges with the amount of rescue pets being turned in, the ICWFF team decided to host a sip and paint party as a fundraiser.Another new addition to the festival is the transition from the “Festival Dollar” to a digital wallet system.“Weare very excited about this innovative ‘fin-tech’ solution to make festivals safer because vendors are not accumulating cash, and custom ers feel free to spend because it’s like a credit card transaction. Parents can load up their kid’s digital wallet on the cell phone so they can wander off and go enjoy themselves,” said Janet. “ICWFF is ever-evolving, paying tribute to the past and bringing in the new techniques.” In 2016, they introduced an electronic guidebook, but they were clearly before their time, Janet added, as patrons preferred to go to the large map of the festival to locate where their favourite vendors were. “This year, we are bringing the virtual guidebook back with all the bells and whistles and guests can download the app onto their phones. Festival-goers will be able to click on the site map and click within the map on vendors and their displays will pop-up and tell you all about their presentation of food, drink, jewel lery, toys, and where to find them.”
One of the Bahamas’ biggest and most popu lar festivals is set to return after a two-year COVID hiatus. This Fall, the International Culture, Wine and Food Festival (ICWFF) will be celebrating its 25th anniversary at the Botanical Gar dens, October 22-23, with a haunted house for the Halloween season, a new digital wallet system, explora tions of ancestry, and much more. Over the years, the festival has fostered friendly relations and understanding between Bahamians and the international resident com munity. It has become a signature event that serves to demonstrate just how diverse and cosmopolitan the Bahamas has become. Since its reinstatement in 2009, the festival has attracted up to 25,000 visitors each year, adding exciting new features, more booths and more stageJanetpresentations.Johnson,ICWFF president, said it’s an exciting feeling to be back in action at the Botanical Gardens. “Vendors are rushing to register. Attendance at Zoom meetings and the WhatsApp chat is off the chain. Loyal patrons are delighted that the festival is coming back,” she said. However, she said they are being very discerning in their choice of vendor. “We are seeking businesses that we think will do well at the festival and that patrons would want to engage with in a festival setting,” she said.“Patrons are interested in know ing if there are new attractions, they want to know about the digital wallet, they just generally want to come and dine around the world.”
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Janet said the ICWFF has always tried to stay on the cutting edge, and every year the team tries to add new elements to the festival’s offerings. This year, with the event being so close to Halloween, they will be introducing a haunted house for the first time and will be partnering with a costume vendor. “We wanted to engage youngsters and so the proposed craft pavilion has evolved to a Junkanoo shack where they will be making Hal loween masks and headpieces to be showcased in a kids’ parade,” said Janet.“The festival is all about culture, heritage, and Bahamians all mixed up like conch salad. Our lineage is British, Caribbean and American, so we thought it fitting to have a talk about ancestry and DNA and will be introducing our version of 23&Me. Cooking demos are of interest to visitors wanting to learn about the culture through food, and so we will have culinary demos by our very own celebrity chefs who are in the tourism trenches and on the frontline every day catering to our visitors and preparing Bahamian dishes.”
Having recently achieved nonprofit status and now doing things differently, Janet said the organisa tion decided the ICWFF needed a business plan, which meant doing a forensic overview of all aspects of theTheirevent.deep dive highlighted the longevity, sustainability and authen ticity of the festival. It also illustrated how flexible the festival was, and how seamlessly the team is able to pivot in a cashless environment. The festival is welcoming back countries like South Africa, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Turkey, Ghana, Nigeria, Greece and Ger many. Janet said further testament to the festival’s growth is the request by destinations like Haiti, Jamaica and others to create their own cultural villages within the main festival, complete with music from their countries.
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Amaani’s works reflect her environment, relics, fauna, flora, and the people of those spaces. She uses patriarchy as a lens to explore her community and rethink her own female identity. “I love painting; I think for me it is a healing process. For me, the focus is not on being hyper realistic, but it is more about capturing a memory or feeling. It is about taking an object and capturing something that relates to myself or my community, the warmth and the delicateness of Atit.”just 22, she knows her artistry will evolve over time.
Growing up, Aamani was one of five daughters, who always stood out due to her love of art.
At just 22 years of age, this up-and-coming creative has grand dreams for her art. But for now, she is more than content displaying her work alongside other young artists at a prestigious local gallery. She tells Cara Hunt how painting is a healing process for her, and how she hopes to evoke a sense of belonging and a feeling of home with her pieces.
Hepburn uses her art to find some thing special in everyday ordinary objects.
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“My parents and my sisters have careers in areas such as accounting, engineering and medicine, while I was interested in art,” she told Tribune Weekend.
The university experience broadened her views, not just when it came to the different genres of art, but also to the possible careers in art administration as well.
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“It widened my view of what a career in art could look like. I was able to actually study with artists in person. When I entered UB, I didn’t really have a clear vision of what I wanted to do career wise. I just knew that I wanted to study art. And in school, I was really able to develop myself as an artist,” she said. She also had the opportunity to volunteer on a number of art projects, such as working on murals and gaining experience in art administration.
Th 22-year-old emerging artist is currently participating in “FIVE”, an art exhibition which also includes the works of fellow new artists Brent Fox, Dia Neilson, Matthew Rahming and Keith Thompson at the TERN Gallery.
“So, in our home, it was more STEM (science, tech nology, engineering and math) than STEAM (science, technology, engineering the arts and maths). However, I was really interested in art and my parents fostered that interest, and because I was homeschooled, most of my initial art training was self-taught. It was not until I was in the University of the Bahamas, that I actually started taking formal art classes.
Amaani said some of her artistic influences include Tessa Whitehead, Heino Schmidt, Khia Poitier, Eddie Minnis, Jodi Minnis and Cydne Coleby. And she has honed in on her own artistic style preferences.“Iamworking in oil painting right now. I would say my style is more experimental and non-traditional.”
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Nicknamed “Sue”, the dinosaur’s skeleton is 90 percent complete and the bones are extremely well-preserved. It was 42 feet long from head to toe, with a 2,000-pound skull and 58 teeth. After a long legal battle, in 1997, Chicago’s Field Museum purchased the skeleton at public auction at Sotheby’s in New York for $8.36 million, financed in part by McDonald’s and Disney.
Friday, August 12, 2022 The Tribune | Weekend | 05 “I consider myself an emerg ing artist in two facets, the first of course my actual art, and the second is that I am a gallery assistant at the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas.”Shenoted that a lot of the work that she has done career wise has been in just the past two to three years, the majority of which of course included the COVID-19 pandemic.Although she did virtual showings during the pandemic, the “FIVE” exhibit is the first in-person show case she has done in quite a while. Curated by Jodi Minis, this exhi bition aims to highlight the work of painters, sculptors and printers whose work expands and defies our ideas of “island-life” and pushes our understanding of the limitations of visibility.Amaani submitted eight pieces for the exhibit. Three of them were pieces that she had created over time and the remaining five were works she completed after she received the invitation to participate in the exhibit. She explained that she chose mun dane, ordinary objects as the focus of her work. “I want people to get a sense of belonging and a feeling of home when they view these pieces,” she said.“A tree, a chair, a washing machine in the backyard, it may seem mundane, but when you take another look, you can see some thing special in its ordinariness; it gives that sense of warmth and homeliness.Amaaniwants her work to remain honest as she continues her artistic evolution.“Iwon’t say a goal like, oh, I would like to see my work hung in the Tate museum in London. Those achievements happen naturally as you grow as an artist. But I see myself redefining my work as I grow. I don’t want to feel obligated to remain on a certain trajectory. I want it to grow honestly and I think that would make me satisfied.”
• In 1792, the last royal family of France – Queen Marie Antoinette, King Louis XVI and their three children – are imprisoned in the tower of the Temple in the Marais. In September of that year, the French monarchy is officially abolished and the National Convention becomes the governing body of the French Republic.
AMAANI’s work for the “FIVE” exhibit at the TERN Gallery.
The “FIVE” exhibition is on display at the TERN Gallery, Mahogany Hill, Western Road, until August 27.
• In 1961, around midnight, East German soldiers begin physically dividing the Soviet-controlled eastern part of the city of Berlin from the democratic western section. They lay down more than 100 miles of barbed wire, which is soon replaced by the six-foot high Berlin Wall – an iconic symbol of the Cold War. It effectively seals off all access between the two parts of the city. The following morning, many residents find themselves unexpectedly cut off from family and friends on the other side of the barrier. The Wall is not dismantled until November 9, 1989.
• In 1990, the Tyrannosauruslargest-everrexskeleton ever is discovered by fossil hunter Susan Hendrickson in South Dakota.
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• In 1945, Imperial Japan unconditionally surrenders to the Allies to effectively end World War II. The day becomes known as V-J Day (Victory over Day). The news did not go over well in Japan. More than 1,000 soldiers storm the Imperial Palace in an attempt to find the proclamation and prevent its being transmitted to the Allies. Japan formally surrenders in writing two weeks later, on September 2. weekend in history
• In 1751, Englishwoman Mary Blandy, 26, the daughter of a well-off family from Henley, outside of London, poisons her father, Francis Blandy. She claims she thought the arsenic she used was a love potion that would make her father approve of her relationship with William Henry Cranstoun, a married army officer and son of a Scottish nobleman. Mary is convicted and hanged outside Oxford Castle prison for the crime of parricide on Easter Monday, April 6, 1752.
• In 30 BC, Cleopatra commits suicide at age 39. The famous Egyptian queen, who was the lover of both Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, takes her own life after her military forces are defeated by Octavian, great-nephew of Caesar and the future first emperor of Rome. Legend has it that the method of suicide was by means of a poisonous asp, which was a symbol of divine royalty in Egypt. After her death, Egypt becomes a province of the Roman Empire.
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fashion Far from what is implied by the brand name, Miquel Sturrup’s earring designs are actually for the more daring, bold fashionistas out there. Her ‘Basik’ jewel lery is anything but basic. What started out as handmade earrings for personal use, created during the pandemic last summer, has evolved into a unique jewellery brand whose Independence collection is currently on display in Guanajuato, Mexico. Miquel’s Basik brand offers a range of colourful earrings, made using pearls, stones, beads, wires and yarns. Her signature creation at this time are the fun tassel designs, which are made with a distressed yarn-like texture available in 11 shades ranging from earth tones to bolder colours and mixed blends. Also available are hand-painted wooden earrings inspired by Miquel’s love for bold colour-blocking.“Istarted(Basik) in late June 2021, days after creating an earring that I thought would be for personal use only, and while dining I received so many compliments and questions on how to pur chase, I quickly felt the creative urge to fulfil those requests and by the very next day this idea became a business,” Miquel told Tribune Weekend. “Basik has grown significantly and organically since launching, in a way that I’ve never imagined. Seeing my products expand to different islands of the Bahamas brings about an unspeakable motiva tion to continue to strengthen my brand. The goal for Basik is to become available in stores, not only domestically.”Whenasked about her artistic process, she said, “Designing can start anywhere from a sketch to observing the way an animal’s print naturally flows that turns into an abstract of patterns and colours that complement each other. My current favourite way of designing would be the wirewrapping technique; I start by wrapping bending and manipulating the metal wire around itself with other elements like gemstones, crystals and beads to achieve my desired shape.” Her customers, she added, also have the luxury of customising and designing any earring of their choosing.“Ilove the expression ‘Miquel, do your thing; I trust you.’ This is allows my creativity to natu rally flow to put together a piece that reflects the lifestyle, mood and personal fashion of a client,” she“Assaid.acreative I’ve spent months praying on my recent designs, perfecting my craft through sleep less nights of research, failed attempts, trial and error to ensure growing success for my brand.” She said one of the many goals for Basik is to work closely with other Bahamian artists and entrepreneurs to create seasonal collections. “I’ve had the opportunity of collaborating closely with an amazingly talented client to create a Bahamian national symbol inspired collection.
overallThe goal for Basik is to continue to afford Bahamians with at-reach purchases and also to become an international employer brand, a brand that allows the world to experience a feel of authentic Bahamian craft, a brand that’s show cased in major stores worldwide and a brand that will walk the runways,” she said. Basik
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• Adam Boorman is the nursery manager at Fox Hill Nursery on Bernard Road. You can contact him with any questions you may have, or topics you would like to see dis cussed, at gardening242@gmail.com
Syngonium is nice to add splashes of colour to the indoors, and it is also used in the landscape in shade or partial shade situations. When used in the landscape, the creeping and vining habits of this plant will have it climbing and rambling throughout the garden. If the more restrained or contained look is desired, then keep syngonium confined to plant ers or pots. They are much more manageable in pots than when planted in the ground. As with any indoor plant, syngonium will filter the air and provide a nice aesthetic to the interiorscape or the land scape. As a starter plant, these do well-positioned on a windowsill or a hanging basket in a corner of a room. Water once a week, or if the plant shows signs of wilting. Allow indoor plants to dry somewhat between waterings, as most plants do not want to sit saturated for extended periods of time. If you’re seeking to add a splash of color or if there is a budding gardener in your life, then syngonium may be a great plant to start with! As always, I wish you happy gardening!
Good day, gardeners. As we try to beat the heat in the garden, many of us retreat to the indoors. There are many great options for indoor plants, but the syngonium is one of the best for beginners to get their green thumb in training. Also called nephthytis, the syngonium is a hassle-free plant that is very tolerant of indoor conditions. These plants are available in a variety of leaf colours and patterns. White Butterfly is patterned white and green shades, Berry Allusion has pink to orange and different shades of colour. These plants can be kept trimmed to be bushy and they can also be grown in hanging baskets and let to sprawl. For something fun, they can also be trained to grow upwards on a trellis or a pole or post. These are as tolerant as they get in regard to indoor plants. The only thing to really avoid is too much direct sunlight, as the foliage tends to be a bit Whensensitive.itcomes to watering, the syngonium is quite tolerant of drier conditions, and it will signal that it is too dry by showing a slight wilting of the leaf. These plants are not pest free; no plant is. There is always a chance of whitefly or mealybug, and indoor spider mites can sometimes be an issue. When an indoor plant is badly affected by pests and it is moveable, it may be best to take the plant outside, spray it off with a hose, let it dry and then treat with an appropriate spray for the issue. If the plant is too big to be moved, then it is often recommended to apply appropriate systemic treat ments for the specific pest issue. It may take a few weeks for the systemic action to really kick in and to have an effect on the pests, but as with anything, patience is required. To help the process along, the pests can be wiped off with a leaf cleaning solution, even if it is just a bit of alco hol or vinegar, it can help the issue from getting too out of hand before the systemic pesticide can make its way through the plant.
Syngonium – A great indoor plant for beginners
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— AP Entertainment Writer Mark Kennedy week: ‘Day Shift’, plus Black Thought and Danger Mouse team up The Associated Press “Black Thought and Danger Mouse”“Day Shift”“Belle”
— AP Film Writer Jake Coyle —MUSICWhat do you get when you combine two of the coolest people in music? Something to check out. The Roots’ Black Thought and superproducer Danger Mouse have partnered for the album “Cheat Codes,” with the first single being “No Gold Teeth” and the immortal lines: “Yo, I’m at the top where it’s lonely/I got everybody mean-mugging like Nick Nolte.” Some of the collaborators include Run the Jewels, A$AP Rocky, Raekwon, Joey Bada$$, the late MF Doom and Michael Kiwanuka on the superb “Aqua marine.” Danger Mouse and Black Thought had collaborated on music in the early 2000s, but shelved it. They rekindled their collaboration for the new album, out Friday.
— Fans of Goo Goo Dolls will ignore supersti tion as the band releases its 13th studio album, “Chaos in Bloom.” Frontman John Rzeznik produces for the first time and the band says it is an album of “biting sarcasm, stadium-ready choruses” and “spear-sharp songwriting.” The first single is “Yeah, I Like You” is a critique of celebrity online culture, with the lyrics “You’re so conceited but you’re insecure/You’re always busy but you look so bored.” Rzeznik and bassist and songwriter Robby Takac say the album grapples “with observations about our dystopian modernity while searching for optimism and pushing for a more empathetic world.” Another single is the stunning anthem “You Are the Answer.”
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—MOVIESOneof the best movies of the year is finally streaming. “Belle,” Mamoru Hosoda’s tour-deforce anime of startling emotional depth, is now up on HBO Max, playing in an English dub. You may have missed it when it arrived in theat ers back in early January, but “Belle” is worth catching up to. In his eighth feature, Hosoda, the Japanese Oscar-nominated director of “Mirai,” aims for perhaps his most ambitious film yet, combining a modern-day riff on “Beauty and the Beast” with a digital metaverse realm called “U.” It’s maybe more story than Hosoda can neatly marshal, but “Belle” is intimately grounded in the life of its 17-year-old protagonist, Suzu (voiced by Kylie McNeill in the English version), a teenager grappling with guilt, virtual-verse-real identity and self-expression. When I reviewed “Belle” earlier this year, I wrote that Hosada’s films “even at their most elaborate, can reach such staggeringly emotional heights that they seem to break free of anything you’re prepared for in an animated movie.”—In“Day
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Shift,” premiering today on Netf lix, Jamie Foxx plays a blue-collar pool-cleaning father with a secretive side-gig: hunting and killing vampires for money. Dave Franco and Snoop Dogg co-star. “Vampires, they live amongst us,” Foxx tells Franco in the trailer. “And all they are is murderers. It’s not ‘Eclipse, New Moon, Breaking Dawn Part 1’ — it ain’t like that.”
The New Yorker published Updike through out his career and had the right of first refusal for his short story manuscripts – some of which were rejected as being too explicitly sexual. The Maple stories, collected in Too Far To Go (1979) reflected the ebb and flow of Updike’s first mar riage: Separating (1974) and Here Come the Maples (1976) related to his divorce. They also describe the use and abuse of alcohol in 1970s America. Alfred A Knopf published Updike’s short stories in several volumes over five decades. His sequel to Rabbit, Run called Rabbit Redux (1971) reflected Updike’s resentment towards the social and political changes that plagued America in the Updike1970s.steered away from his early novels and wrote about infidelity, adultery, marital unrest, and the breakdown of social mores in suburban Amer ica. Couples (1968) concentrated on adultery in a small Massachusetts town Tarbox and prompted a feature article in Time magazine “The Adulterous Society”. A novel The Coup (1978) about African dictatorship was inspired by a trip he made to the Dark Continent. The following book Rabbit is Rich (1980) won three American literary prizes: the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. “It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are in front of you.”
Literary lives – John Updike (1932 -2009)
Sir Christopher Ondaatje writes about the American novelist, poet, and short story writer, who is one of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice. He published more than 20 novels, including children’s books, during his career.
Updike was prolific and enjoyed writing series books. In the 1970s he had added to the Rabbit and Maples stories by starting to write about an unprolific Jewish novelist – an alter ego and even tual Nobel Laureate Henry Bech in three comic short-story cycles. Bech, a Book (1970); Bech is Back (1981); and Bech at Bay: A Quasi Novel (1998). The stories are a comical self-conscious antithesis of Updike’s own literary persona.
- John Updike The Witches of Eastwick (1984) was Updike’s playful novel about witches living in Rhode Island. It was his most popular novel and was adapted into an even more popular film. Twenty four years later he returned to The Widows of Eastwick, about the witches in old age. It was his last novel.
– John Updike
Updike’s last Rabbit novel Rabbit at Rest (1990) is probably his most celebrated. It won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2000, he published the novella Rabbit Remembered which brought the Rabbit saga to a close. He is one of only four writers to have won two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction, the others being William Faulkner, Booth Tarkington, and Colin Whitehead.AfterRabbit at Rest Updike spent the 1990s and early 2000s publishing a whole series of novels in a wide range of genres – frequently experimen tal; Memories of the Ford Administration (1992); Brazil (1994); Toward the End of Time (1997); Gertrude and Claudius (2000); and Seek My Face (2002). While writing these he published In the Beauty of the Lilies (1996), exploring several
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– John Updike
– John Updike John Hoyer Updike was born on March 18, 1932, in Reading, Pennsylvania, the only child of Linda Grace and Wesley Russell Updike, and was raised in the nearby town of Shillington. Updike’s mother was ambitious to become a published writer, and had an enormous influence on the young Updike. “I admired the writer’s equipment, the typewriter eraser, the boxes of clean paper. And I remember the brown envelopes that stories would go off in –and come back in.”
“The artist brings something into the world that didn’t exist before, and he does it without destroy ing something else.”
– John Updike Updike spent his early years in Berks County, Pennsylvania, where the environment eventually influenced many of his early novels and short sto ries. He graduated from Shillington High School as co-valedictorian and class president in 1950 and received a full scholarship to Harvard College. At Harvard he became well known as a talented contributor to The Harvard Lampoon, of which he was president. He graduated summa cum laude in 1954 with a degree in English. Intent on becoming a cartoonist, he went to the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at the University of Oxford, but when he returned to New York he became a regular contributor to The New Yorker as a staff writer, submitting poems and short stories. He wrote The Carpen tered Hen (1958) and The Same Door (1959) and seemed to forget about his drawing. He continued to write for The New Yorker, as well as The New York Review of Books, but disliked New York. He relocated to Ipswich, Massachusetts. There he wrote Rabbit, Run (1960) on a Guggenheim Fellowship, and The Centaur (1963). Rabbit, Run featured Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a former high school basketball star who would become Updike’s most enduring and critically acclaimed character. He continued his “Rabbit” series with the novels Rabbit Redux (1971), Rabbit is Rich (1981), Rabbit at Rest (1990), and Rabbit Remem bered – a novella. Both Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest were recognised with the Pulitzer Prize. He wrote about the American small town, Prot estant middle class, and was known for his careful craftsmanship, unique prose style, and his prolific output – he wrote on average a book a year He populated his fiction with characters who experi ence personal turmoil in crises relating to religion, family obligations, and marital infidelity. “I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody’s head.”
“Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom, but they dare to go it alone.”
“Most of American life con sists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wonder ing why the hell you went.”
UPDIKE in later years
THE 1960 novel was the start of Up dike’s successful Rabbit series
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– John Updike
• Sir Christopher Ondaatje is the author of The Last Colonial. He acknowledges that he has quoted liberally from Wikipedia; and In Memoriam John Updike: That Pennsylvania Thing (2010) by Sylvie Mathé.
Friday, August 12, 2022 The Tribune | Weekend | 13 generations of religion and cinema in America. This last book might well be the most successful of his late career, overlooked in its day because of scenic depictions and spiritual malaise. His novel Terror ist (2006) of a young Muslim extremist in New Jersey got little critical praise.
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Updike married Mary Entwistle Pennington, an art student at Radcliffe College, in 1953 while still a student at Harvard. She went to Oxford, England with him, where their first child was born in 1955. The couple had three more children. They divorced in 1974. In 1977, Updike married Martha Ruggles Bernhard with whom he lived for more than 30 years in Beverley Farm, Mas sachusetts. He died of lung cancer in Danvers, Massachusetts on February 27, 2009, at the age of 76. At the end of his life, Updike was working on a novel about St Paul and early Christianity. The New Yorker published an appre ciation of him by Adam Gopnik of Updike’s lifetime association with the magazine, referring to Updike as “one of the greatest of all modern writers, and the first American since Henry James to get himself fully expressed, thus breaking the curse of incomplete ness that had haunted American writing.
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- John Updike In 2003, Updike published The Early Stories, a large collection of his short fiction spanning the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, in which he traces the trajectory from adolescence, college, marital life, fatherhood, separation and divorce. It won the TEN/ Faulkner Award for fiction in 2004. He worked in a wide array of genres, including fiction, poetry, essays, a play, Buchanan Dying (1974); and a memoir SelfConsciousness (1989). He produced a larger mass of fiction than any other respected novelist of his time. His wide array of awards include two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction, two National Book Awards, three National Book Critics Circle Awards, The 1989 Medal of Arts, the 2003 National Humanities Medal, and the Rea Award for outstanding achievement in a short story. The National Endowment for the Humanities selected him to present the 2008 Jefferson Lecture, the US government’s highest humanities honor. “Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.”
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A WOODCUT of ‘Calico Jack’ from Charles Johnson’s 1725 edition of A General His tory of the Pyrates THE COAT of arms declares: Pirates expelled; commerce restored.
Resituta commercia!
Expulsis Piratis
PAUL ARANHAC FORGOTTEN FACTS
14 | The Tribune | Weekend Friday, August 12, 2022 history As an after effect of the War of Spanish Suc cession (1701-1715), many privateers who had fought in the con flict turned to piracy. One of them, Benjamin Hornigold, an English man, was the first to discover that Nassau, with a population of about 200, was ideal for piracy, so perfect, in fact, that Henry Jennings (English via Bermuda) abandoned Jamaica to make Nassau his base. Thousands of other pirates followed them. These loose, disorderly people, most of them sailors, became a reli able source of crew members for pirate ships. Nassau was the place to repair ships, pick up crews, sell booty, and spend money- booty from English, French and Spanish ships, which were the principal victims of these pirates. At first, these pirates concentrated on the seas around Cuba, Hispaniola and Jamaica, but before long they spread out along the whole Atlantic coast of North America and through out the Caribbean Sea. It was the golden age of piracy and Nassau was called the “Pirate Republic”. A British governor still lived on Mount Fitzwilliam, but he had the wisdom to co-operate with the thousands of pirates –both men, and women - including Charles Bellamy (English), Stede Bonnet, (English, from Barbados), Anne Bonny (Irish), James Bonny (Anne’s husband), Oliver la Bouche, (French), Nicholas Brown (English), Thomas Cocklyn (English), Howard Davis (Welsh), Edward England (Irish), Benjamin Hornigold (Eng lish), John Martell (French), Major Penner (English), John ‘Calico Jack’ Rackham (English; who became Anne Bonny’s lover), Mary Read (English), Charles Vane (English), Paulsgrave Williams (English), Christopher Winter (English), and many more, including Englishman Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard.OnSeptember 5, 1717, the backlash to the pirates’ atrocities had become so powerful that King George I issued the Proclamation for Suppressing of Pirates (also called the Act of Grace) promised a royal pardon for acts of piracy committed before the following January 5, to those pirates who surrendered themselves to the correct authority before the deadline. Originally, the surrender had to occur on or before September 5, 1718; this was later extended.Woodes Rogers was sent to Nassau by the King (making him the first Royal Governor of the Bahamas) with orders to offer pardons and put a stop to piracy. Some 209 pirates accepted amnesty, but 19 of them returned to piracy. Nine were found and cap tured – John Auger (40ish), George Bendall (18), Will Cunningham (45ish), William Dowling (24), Wil liam Lewis (34), William Ling (30), Dennis McCarty, Thomas Morris (22) and George Rounsivell (38). They were put on trial in Nassau. On December 10, 1718, all nine were found guilty and sentenced “to be hanged by the neck, till you shall be dead”.The executions took place on December 12 and, at the last minute, George Rounsivell was pardoned by Woodes Rogers, and released. The other eight were hanged at Fort Nassau, the present-day site of the British Colonial Hotel. There are three ships on the old crest of the Bahamas. In the fore ground is a Royal Navy ship, in the background two smaller pirate ships are being chased away.
”Good morning! My name’s Ciri (yes, like the virtual assistant, but I’m much cuter). I’m a royal Baha mian potcake, and I’m about seven months old. I’m going to be one of the pups available at Saturday’s Pop-Up Adoption Event at Super Value on Cable Beach.
The Bahamas Humane Society will be there from 11am to 3pm. I’m hoping not to be there quite so long as I really hope someone comes to adopt me. Will it be you? Have you been looking for the perfect paws in your life? Mine aren’t usually so muddy but we had fun tipping over the water bowl today. I’m your girl, so please do come out to meet me or call 323-5138 for more informa tion. I look forward to meeting you!” If you can’t adopt, foster. If you can’t foster, volunteer. If you can’t volunteer, donate. If you can’t donate, educate! Help make a difference!
By KIM ARANHA Animal Matters
DOGS rescue humans every day allowed’dogs
totally undesir able dog is not allowed in many office buildings, shops, restaurants. ‘No dogs allowed’ signs abound… until the unthinkable happens. An accident, a crash, and explosion or earthquake and then that same animal that was totally unwelcome is paraded in to dig tirelessly, sniff and listen for survivors, to save lives. Not good enough to be around in a time of good and plenty, but when there is need, bring him on. Put a vest on him and let him dig his paws raw to save that same person who said he should not be allowed to sit under your table behaving far better that the three kids sitting at the table next to Youyou.go to the beach with Rover. Stop, hang on, is he allowed? Quite possibly not. I get it that he needs to be on a leash because he may bark or be a bit aggressive, and that the human who is accompanying him must be equipped to clean up after him if needs be. Many places just don’t want him there at all. People frown and complain, but if there is an avalanche, who goes in first? Boy, are you happy to have that same animal save your life… darn right youSecurityare. needs, going somewhere that may be a target for terrorism, you see the bomb sniffing dogs doing their rounds calmly and immedi ately feel a wave of reassurance because if they give the “all clear” you can sit in relative confidence that you are safe from the unexpected because the sniffer dogs have been and done their job. Wait a minute? That can’t be the same animal who is not allowed into the arrivals area of the airport to greet my kid when he comes home from school… or maybe it is?Immigration and customs the world over depend on these magnifi cent canines of all sizes and shapes to find everything from firearms, drugs, food, illegal pills and stowaways. When at work they are welcome to sniff through our belongings, check our luggage and when they fail to sit in front of us with their little green jackets on waiting to indicate that there is something there of interest, we heave a sign of relief and go our ways. Wait a minute, if they take off their jackets and try to walk into the same arrivals hall will everybody be up in arms? “No dogs allowed”, you know.Itmakes me think and wonder at the double standards. More and more we rely on dogs to do things for us, to protect us, to save us; to diag nose if we have COVID or cancer. More and more we are depending on their assistance to keep us safe and get us out of trouble, as we evolve so does our understanding of what these companion animals are capable of and the more, we ask (or more precisely demand) of them the more they deliver. They have a superior sense of smell and hearing to ours. We question how much they remember, it is become very clear that they remember very well indeed and with great accuracy. They have a talent of recognising the true nature of a person. I do not know about you but if my dog doesn’t like somebody I am always on alert as to why he doesn’t, what did he sense that I missed?Inshort, dogs are pretty incred ible, they are honest and faithful, they are capable of unconditional love, they don’t give up on us and they don’t divorce us, they are there for us always and forever. What distresses me is that we accept all they give us and in return we deny them the simplest of pleas ures because “no dogs allowed”, you know, until something goes horrible wrong and then we beg them to come in and save us.
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Thinking about dogs. Thinking about dogs the world over and dogs right here in our own country. The more I think about the disparity of dogs and what we expect of them, what we ask of them and then what we return to them, I almost feel incapable of putting it intoJustwords.stop for a short while and think of all the places that your dog cannot go, all the things that he cannot do, so many of them silly futile rules based on fear or stupidity. Let me remind you of some of the restrictions and the contrasts of value put on the dog. Your dog cannot travel as a pas senger on an aircraft unless he is a very small dog in a carrier and has to be stuffed under the seat in front of you, or you have to cook up some phobia that your animal alone is able to protect you from. Fear of safety belts, anxiety of PA systems, what everNowworks…thatsame
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By JEFFARAH GIBSON | Tribune Features Writer | jgibson@tribunemedia.net
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The conversation about modesty and women’s attire in the church almost always sparks heated debates. Some women believe they should have the freedom to dress any way they choose to, while others maintain that there is a standard to abide by. Then there are those who strive to dress modestly, but the options are limited at best. Women who fall into the latter category might find a new faith-based apparel store helpful.
Advocate for modesty launches faith-based boutique
The House of Deborah is a new clothing boutique that aims to offer women modest cloth ing that transcends the trends while remaining elegant, classy and stylish. The store is the brainchild of Latoya Forbes, a trained speech and language pathologist. To officially launch the House of Deborah, she is inviting women to attend the grand opening this Saturday, August 13, at Kamalame Place at 3pm. The shop’s first collection of clothing will be available at the Shop & Toast event for purchase and viewing. There will also be several other female-owned business and community partners present. Bristol Wines & Spirits will be there and live entertainment will be offered by Alia Coley, Das Quay, DJ Godson, MyzGiggles and others. Mrs Forbes said she became a strong advocate of modest dress only in recent years, following several heated discussions at her church. “In the latter part of 2021, my church’s pastor, Pastor Uriah Alexander Davidson, began preach ing and teaching very strongly about how women in the church should dress. He spoke constantly about the types of attire, hair colour and styles, jewellery and makeup (women wear),” she told Tribune Weekend. “The conversation became so frequent that it became intriguing. It got my attention and prompted me to do my own biblical and spiritual research. During this time, women in the church were continuously being charged to monitor their dress code. In fact, there were individual meet ings with the pastor and some of the ministers and deacons’ wives. It became so controversial and the debates got very heated at times. So, I began talk ing to the women in the church and getting various perspectives. I found myself, without even realis ing it at first, reiterating much of what my pastor had been preaching and teaching.” Modest dressing, she said, is not deemed fash ionable in many women’s eyes. “Modest attire is very difficult to find in the local market. It appears as if clothing that is short, tight, skimpy or revealing are what sells and these are readily and easily available. So, women have very few options when trying to maintain the modest standard,” she said. “This then meant two things for me. In order for women to follow the Bible standards, there has to be a change in mindset. Women need to be informed, enlightened and encouraged to dress modestly. Women would need to have an understanding of why it’s so important to dress modestly.”Houseof Deborah, Mrs Forbes said, essentially began with a talk show that airs live on Facebook every Tuesday at 7pm. The show, ‘The Circle of Queens’, is used to educate and empower women. “We live in a time where the church is becom ing more and more like the world. The church has become more accepting of many things…We even see the older women in the church, who should be setting the example for the younger women to follow, wearing the same inappropriate outfits as the younger women. We also have more female pastors, and unfortunately many of them do not subscribe to the principles of modest dressing. Many of them have welcomed the new age trend. The church seems to be walking on eggshells. We don’t want to offend. We want large memberships. We don’t want to chase away the young people… But this causes the church to compromise so often.”
For more information about the House of Deborah, contact 242-822-8463.
