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...young Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland were making a movie about stagestruck kids today, they probably wouldn't mount a musical in the backyard and wait for lightning to strike. Nor would they necessarily look for a summer-stock barn or tent, like so many fledgling players of times past. Instead, the tyro tap dancers, crooners and thespians would probably hie themselves to the nearest theme park or cruise ship to audition for a job. Theme parks may be more conspicuous for flume rides and cotton candy, and cruise ships may be best known for bingo and buffets. But they...
...stop by a small farm where a woman shows us the barn where she keeps her three riding horses. MacAllister gives one mare a pregnancy check and discovers that the horse, 45 days pregnant, is bearing twins. He works to convince the owner, quite clearly anti-abortion, that the unborn foals must be aborted. It is dangerous for a mare to give birth to twins, he tells...
...developing chemicals and enlarger in my trunk, I feel a little like a Civil War photographer travelling with a darkroom in his covered wagon. I'm headed for an old eight-bedroom farmhouse that saw its heyday fifty years ago when, according to my mother, it boasted the largest barn in the valley. Now, only the first floor is occupied by tenants who come and go. I'll live there for four weeks while I photograph the people I meet and learn about the rural valley where my mother was born and raised...
...children stand in bare feet in the straw of the barn, and like me, listen quietly to the elders discussing important matters. I wonder if the boys next to me, dressed like their father in white shirts, black pants and suspenders, will be able to withstand the encroachment of the modern world as well as their parents...
...childhood and the musky outskirts of puberty." Boatner's boys can "smuggle farts like anarchist bombs into the highest and most sacred scenes of camp life," wet the bed one minute and display extraordinary bravery the next, be ruled by their burgeoning sexuality to the point of visiting the barn animals but soar to great spirituality when one of the last members of the camp's old Indian tribe imparts his wisdom...