Pat O’Neill yet again led the club in some holiday fun! We played a little more “To Tell the Truth”.
In case you missed it from December 17th’s meeting, the game works this way - each person tried to convince us that they were telling the truth with their story. Storytellers were very, very complete and creative in their tales. Deciding who had actually experienced it in real life was no easy feat. [Editor’s note: truth tellers are in blue.]
Story #1 - One summer my brother and I left home and took a bus 1400 miles to Miami, FL. From there, we hopped a flight to Lima, Peru and stayed with our aunt and uncle who lived there. I was 15 and my brother was 13.
Was it Jim Loe, David Wolf, or David McKee?
Story #2 - My father played on a basketball team that defeated the Harlem Globetrotters.
Was it Richard Schulte, Todd Thompson, or Scott Richardson?
Story #3 - I am the oldest of six kinds and grew up in a town that is the birthplace of Osteopathic Medicine…
Was it Brad Frago, Rachel Morey, or Charlie Cogan?
Story #4 - On a fishing trip to Canada, we were lost and separated from our party. We found a bar in the middle of the forest. We found a bull moose in our path. We found the river and launched our canoes. We got lost again. We survived because we had all the food. The other party survived because they had all the beer.
Was it John Stull, Janice Lehmhuhl, or Dan Stager?
Story #5 - I scored the first goal in my high school varsity soccer team’s history.
Was it Chris Weber, Jean Wakely, or Matt Hillman?
Story #6 - postponed to another time…
Story #7 - After a lecture in the middle of the week, about 100 audience members came to my apartment where we introduced High Balls. The last guest left at 3:30 am leaving behind 13 empty bottles of Jim Beam and all the ginger ale in the house.
Was it Bruce Morlan, Yogi Reppmann, or Richard DeBeau?
Jim Pokorney also wowed us with his card trick talents! And Richard Collman played us out once more on his harp, named Sarah.
January 14 — Holly Schoenbauer, Project Friendship: From Yesterday to Today. A brief look at Project Friendship and where we are today. How we have weathered the COVID storm and are emerging stronger and more defined than ever before. Hosted by Rick Estenson.
Maggie Milano
January 21 — Maggie Miland, Rotex, Graphic Recording: Building Equity and Community in a Virtual Age. As a community builder, has this past year left you feeling disconnected and Zoomed out? What if there was something that could help us reconnect in a meaningful way? Graphic recording, or visual note-taking, is a powerful tool that puts people and their voices at the center of every conversation.
Cecilia Cornejo
January 28 — Cecilia Cornejo, At Home as a Perennial Outsider. Artist, filmmaker, and educator, Cecilia Cornejo, will share her experience as an immigrant living in Northfield, her residence since 2010. Drawing on her ongoing project, The Wandering House, Cecilia will discuss how she finds both a sense of purpose and belonging in a community-engaged artmaking practice. Hosted by Jean Wakely.