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...Because of the complex and painstaking nature of printing, student work takes the form of a sort of one-on-one apprenticeship with the Adams House tutor in charge of the press. Hulsey is working now under the mentorship of Katherine McCanless, a non-resident tutor in Adams House. McCanless is unabashedly passionate about the literature she loves to print and insists on working "from the text out." Her own recent projects include the printing of eleven lines from a new translation of 'Beowulf' by Seamus Heaney. McCanless has been delighted with the enthusiasm of her students, but laments that...
...Despite these limitations, McCanless' guidance has certainly made its impact. Hulsey is finding herself more and more wrapped up in the art of book-making, and printing slips into the track of her higher ambitions. Though she speaks cautiously of the future, she is considering pursuing an education in print-making. At any rate, her passion for "art on paper," is becoming at the Bow and Arrow Press much more than a hobby or an extra-curricular...
...defense of the anti-nudism statute, Tennessee Attorney General George McCanless argued: "The ultimate issue is whether the general assembly may require members of the opposite sex to wear clothing in the presence of each other except where the persons are joined in a family relationship." If the court decides against them, the nudists have an obvious last resort - a strip...
...Fence." The grandson of a pioneer, Scandalous John was once a gifted college veterinary professor; after years of research he had succeeded in keeping a cow alive with a four-stomach picture window. But McCanless' impersonal superiors didn't care enough to look through it. Then John's wife died. Then he lost his teaching chair after he took to packing a Colt .44 to class. He fell behind on the mortgage on the family ranch...
Over a bottle of sour mash with Houseboy Paco, McCanless succumbs to a vision. That ventilated cow out in the barn, Old Blue-she is actually a vast, milling herd of white-faced steers. Like a latter-day Don Quixote, McCanless lays out his inspired plan to Paco: "We grass-fatten the herd on the trail, and then we sell it at top market. And when it's all over . . . we'll buy each of us a scarlet sweetheart and honky-tonk our tails...