January 23 2007 Fab Times

The (These Are Still) Fabulous Times February 10, 2007

Life as lived (with some exceptions) in a somewhat remote corner

Sunrise, February 7 About 3 degrees Fahrenheit

Macomb Peace and Justice Protested the Surge on January 1.

The Fab Times Attended the Fabulous (but ill attended--as always) MLK March

On November 18, the Fab Times took a haunted Macomb tour. We didn't see any ghosts but we did get to see the interior of the old LaMoine Hotel, a place we've been curious about. The picture above was taken in the hotel basement while Rod Shumaker, one of the tour guides, was trying to detect a ghost electromagnetically.

Robin Thomas had an art show the night of the first snow. Robin is well known for photography, but this night was showing his paintings.

A week later we returned to attend a reception for Larry Jarvis, pictured above with Mary Warnock. Larry manages the local cinema and for 25 years has brought foreign films twice a week to Macomb along side films (like Saw III) the company sends him. The town would much poorer culturally without him.

Heather Brady gave a talk at Monmouth College on Marseilles' Literary Culture. Monmouth has very cush meeting rooms.

Andrew Bidney at Peter and Heather's going away party. They are going to Dar es Salaam for a semester to teach. Andrew had just returned from six months in the wilds (and we mean the wilds) of Maine, where he was doing conservation work.

Peter Cole with Laurette and Byron at the aforementioned going away party. Note Peter's radically shortened locks.

Obligatory picture reminding our southern friends why they don't live up here

Shoveled by Elisa Rasmussen, snow hater

Gayla performing to the Charlie Brown Theme music during "Dickens on the Square," a pre Christmas shopping festival.

Elisa Rasmussen takes the veil

Kate Joswick, stalwart of the Reference Desk, retired in December. This picture was taken at the end of one of her last desk shifts on the 22nd of December.

One hellishly cold, snowy night we waited for Adam Chacksfield (the Great Abstainer) at the Amtrak station. He had been visiting the compartively balmy Anchorage, Alaska.

The eerily reverent Amy Carr, poses at the proposed site of a parking deck.

Former Macombian, Sharon Wrobel, and her co-conspirator, Len, spotted in Little Rock, Arkansas, where Sharon now teaches Public Administration and lives in one of our old neighborhoods, Capitol View.

The water tower behind the Fab Times headquarters turns 50 this March.

The Rugby House

Bryan, Molley, and Annie

Tim Weaver (looking ghostly) at the County Courthouse during the Ghost Tour

Macomb ala Rauschenberg

Santa as seen on Madison Street.

Dr. Sarah Sullivan M.D. and Ph.D. (polymer science) posing at her clinic in Mountain View, Arkanas--the Ph.D. came first by the way.

Note the chair made from tires and and old car seat .

Todd Price tres bon vivant

The autobiography of Todd Price

Todd Price boulevardier

Jeffrey Darensbourg photographed on I-80: Latinist, Chess Champion (recently played an blind-folded exhibition match in New Orleans), Tea Connoisseur, Food Snob, Frequenter of Monasteries, Former Insomniac, Former Librarian, Confidante of Amy Carr, Controversialist, Devourer of Books, and plays pick-up guitar in numerous bands in Lafayette, Louisiana. He defends his Ph.D. (cognitive science) on April 4. Next stop, law school.

Snow

Olsen Hall seen on Thanksgiving Day. At one time Olsen Hall was what the future was supposed to look like. We still think (we know) Olsen Hall is fabulous.