The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 29, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 12, 2011 Page: 3 of 14
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♦ TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 2011
The BOERNE Star
PAGE 3
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COME AND TAKE IT
UNITY
Comfort Little Theatre plans
typical, zany spring production
That “Crazy Comfort Group” is at it again. Com- babies (no kidding).
fort Little Theater is ready and willing to make Beer, setups and food will be
laughter, love or war, whichever is called for. available.
“We are completely politically incorrect on every This year promises to be a clas-
subject and we know you love us for it,” said a sic with old favorites returning
spokesman for the group. and great new material that will
Newcomers to CLT may not know this non-profit knock the audience out of their
group of local volunteers for the last 78 years have seats,
gathered to slap together - and they do mean “slap
together” - a hilarious variety show to raise money
for local organizations and school scholarships.
This years show “Pleased To Beat You ... or ...
It’s Only A Flesh Wound,” will be presented in
Waring at the Waring Fire Department Hall on
Fridays and Saturdays, April 29 and 30 and May
6 and 7.
The show always starts at “dark:30” with doors
opening at 6 p.m. Early arrival is recommended as
admission is on first come first serve basis. Tickets
are $5 for adults, $10 for kids and $50 for crying
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Genealogists explore Texas Republic roots
Anyone who thinks
they may have ances-
tors who lived in the
Republic of Texas
but doesn’t know
where to look won’t
want to miss hear-
ing Teri E. Flack
speak on Saturday,
April 16, at St. John
Lutheran Church,
315 Rosewood Ave.
in Boerne.
Her talk “Finding
Your Ancestors in the
-
Flack
A sixth generation
Texan, Flack has
been . researching
her family history
for over 25 years.
She incorporates
that research into
her presentation.
She is an active
member of several
genealogical societ-
ies, treasurer of the
Austin Genealogical
Society and chair-
man of the Texas
2009 after working for the state search.
of Texas for over 26 years - most It’s resources are free to the pub-
recently as special advisor to the lie at 725 N. Main in Boerne. In
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is sponsored by the Genealogical
and Historical Society of Kendall
County. The meeting starts at 10
a.m. in Luther Hall, across Turner
St. from the main church building.
Even those who not have ances-
tors who came to Texas until after
it became a state will be interested
in her explanation of the various
Texas land grants. A free syllabus
lists many sources for early Texas
records.
State Genealogical
Society’s records preservation and
access committee. She formerly
served on the board of the Federa-
tion of Genealogical Societies.
Flack completed the Advanced
Methodology Course at the
National Institute for Genealogy
and Historical Research at Sam-
ford University and the National
Institute for Genealogical Research
at the National Archives in Wash-
ington, D.C. She retired in May
Commissioner of Higher Educa-
tion and Deputy Commissioner of
Higher Education.
Previously, she was director of
governmental relations and public
information for the Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board and
chief investigator for the Texas
Attorney General’s consumer pro-
tection division.
Flack holds a Bachelor of Sci-
ence degree in education with a
history major, an Master of Busi-
ness Administration degree, and a
graduate Paralegal Certificate from
Southwest Texas State University.
Flack returned to Texas State
University in fall 2010 to pursue a
Master’s in history with a concen-
tration in public history.
GHSKC Volunteer Genealogists,
available at The Family History
Place five days a week, are ready
to help family historians use Texas
books and Internet sources in their
addition to Texas resources, the
library at the place has Kendall
County books and records, as well
as those from most of the other
states from which the ancestors
of the Hill Country’s diverse resi-
dents came. The subscription site,
Ancestry.com, is free and avail-
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Oak Wilt
Poetry much more than rhyming words
Native Grasses
(do ''not adjust your reading
* glasses, this article is intention- _
ally not capitalized in homage to
the 20th century poet e.e. cum-
mings, who eschewed all things
grammatically “correct”)
THE BOOKWORM
Elisa Welder
BOERNE PUBLIC
LIBRARY
oh, poetry, you poor thing,
you’re overlooked, underappreci-
ated, misinterpreted, dissected,
analyzed, poked, prodded and
pulled every which way. if you
were a person we’d
say, “bless your
heart” and give you
a glass of sweet tea.
we wouldn’t really
know what else to do
with you. no one ever
does.
april is national
ture courses in high school and
college, and suddenly all of one’s
preconceived notions about poetry
are blown out of
the water.
high school is
where most stu-
dents encounter
homer’s odys-
sey, which
thoroughly
poetry month, and
while i wish i could
report that people
throughout the coun-
try are picking up
forgotten norton
anthologies in order
to brush up on their poet e.e. cummings,
byron, the fact of the to whom this article is
matter is that poetry dedicated.
quashes
notions
poetry
“short.”
high
all
of
being
school
is still pretty much
right where it was -
read only by literature majors and
largely ignored by most of the
public.
part of me suspects that this
is because people simply don’t
know what to make of poetry,
nursery rhymes teach us that
poetry is made up of short stories
that rhyme and have a specific
rhythm.
elementary school may extend
the horizons to include poems
which teach lessons and make cer-
tain concepts easier to remember.
: middle school introduces us to
the idea of different verse forms
- the sonnet, the limerick, the
dreaded hiaku.
still, poetry maintains its famil-
iar face, it’s short, easy to read and
/ understand, and follows a pattern.
then come the mandated litera-
is also where
most of us meet
shakespeare for
the first time
and realize that
the man wasn’t
just writing
plays, he was
writing plays
in verse, which is a whole new
ball game, sometimes it rhymed,
sometimes it didn’t, some char-
acters talked in prose, some in
verse, and hamlet’s monologues
(poems?) threw us all for a loop.
then teachers throw in whitman,
who evidently wasn’t ever taught
that poems have to rhyme, enter
e.e. cummings, who missed punc-
tuation day in first grade, mix in
some ezra pound waxing poetic
about petals on wet black boughs
and william carlos williams tell-
ing us about the importance of
white chickens and a red wheel
barrow, and it’s no wonder most
people run screaming from the
poetry section as fast as they can.
it’s too much, our cups runneth
over and thanks so very much, but
we’ll stick to novels from now on.
at least there’s some consistency
in prose.
appreciating poetry is a labor
of love, one has to be willing to
embrace the bizarre, the incon-
sistencies, and the sometimes
obscure meanings, one has to
accept that sometimes a poem
doesn’t have just one meaning - it
has two or four or none at all.
some poems were written to
send a message, others to demon-
strate the beauty of language and
others still for reasons no one can
quite figure out.
what is obvious about poetry,
however, is that it has given us
some of the greatest, most pro-
found works in literature.
“shall I compare thee to a sum-
mer’s day?” it has asked us. poetry
has counted the ways it loves
and it has seen the best minds of
its generation starving, hysterical,
naked and knows why the caged
bird sings.
it’s got a quiet beauty, one which
takes a little more time and effort
to appreciate, while you’re enjoy-
ing those april showers, delve into
a poem or two. they’re worth giv-
ing a second shot.
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