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Patrick Swanson and George Emlen transport audiences to Scotland as directors of this annual performance. With amazing performances from The Auld Reekie Singers, The Laird’s Consort, The Revels Bairns, soloists David Coffin and Jayne Tankersley, Emerald Forman, Highland Dance Boston, The Pinewoods Morris Men and The Cambridge Symphonic Brass this promises to be a breathtaking event. Be prepared to sing and dance as audience participation is more than encouraged. 8:00 pm. Tickets $40, $30, $20 for Adult, children under age 12 $32, $22, $12. Sanders Theater...
Some ranchers are returning to a technique that was used by the Indians who followed their buffalo across the land for centuries before Hal Noelke's great-great-grandfather, R.F. Tankersley, became the first white man to settle in the area, in 1864. They are attacking the mesquite with fire: bulldozing fire guards and then setting a careful blaze when the wind is right to take down an entire pasture of mesquite at one time...
Monte Noelke, a rancher and another of Tankersley's great-great-grandchildren, is a raconteur with Homeric talents and the family's sidelong sense of humor. Monte has decided that he ought to start a business transplanting mesquite trees and selling them as immense houseplants to people in New Jersey...
...Tankersley dynamited the 60-ft. tower, then abandoned a cache of explosives just ahead of the police and made his way to Montreal. There, as a fugitive, he began to rethink his political role: "I was far enough away from the movement to reflect on my own actions without interruption. Nobody was there to remind me whom I could talk to and whom I couldn't. I drew on liberal ideas and conservative ideas and found that I didn't know everything. I had been wasting all of my energy figuring out how to destroy, when I could...
Although he could have stayed in Canada, reasonably secure from imprisonment, he chose to return. For Tankersley, return has been a "rebirth. I feel freer now in prison than I did when I was a radical...