WEBVTT 00:00:24.514 --> 00:00:33.657 - Welcome, everyone. My name's Michael Hamburger. I'm a geologist and I'm a professor at Indiana University. 00:00:33.657 --> 00:00:42.202 - I'm a 14-year resident of Bloomington and, well, a friend of Lake Griffey. On behalf of the Protect 00:00:42.202 --> 00:00:50.918 - Griffey Alliance and on behalf of the 500-plus faculty members and 2,500 or so students and staff and 00:00:50.918 --> 00:00:52.542 - community members, 00:00:52.706 --> 00:00:59.620 - who have stepped forward to speak out on behalf of Lake Griffey and on behalf of just a few endangered 00:00:59.620 --> 00:01:06.534 - Indiana bats and Cerulean warblers and coppers hawks and about 25 or so red-backed salamanders and 200 00:01:06.534 --> 00:01:13.582 - box turtles and 7,000 bullfrogs and 500 bluebirds and about 8,000 bluegill and a couple thousand crappie 00:01:13.582 --> 00:01:20.429 - and a bunch of wild onions, orchids and ginseng and all the other wild grasses and trees and reptiles 00:01:20.429 --> 00:01:22.174 - and amphibians and birds. 00:01:23.010 --> 00:01:31.565 - and even a couple hundred thousand chiggers that live in the Lake Griffey watershed. I want to welcome 00:01:31.565 --> 00:01:39.456 - you to the first annual, that's my idea, Concert for Lake Griffey. Let's hear it for the great 00:01:39.456 --> 00:01:47.844 - Commander-in-Chief. I want to tell you that it is a magnificent honor for a humble geologist like me 00:01:47.844 --> 00:01:51.582 - to be up here with some of the bright lights 00:01:51.970 --> 00:01:58.324 - of Bloomington's cultural landscape and for all of us to celebrate the beauty of one of the jewels of 00:01:58.324 --> 00:02:04.180 - our natural landscape, the Lake Griffey watershed. So what we're going to do tonight is share 00:02:04.180 --> 00:02:10.534 - an extraordinary array of spectacular entertainment. We're going to use this evening to celebrate the 00:02:10.534 --> 00:02:16.951 - incredible beauty of Lake Griffey. We're going to educate a little bit about the environmental hazards 00:02:16.951 --> 00:02:21.374 - that are facing this fragile watershed. We're going to try to motivate 00:02:21.602 --> 00:02:30.837 - try to stimulate, try to vibrate, consecrate, and perhaps, if absolutely necessary, we're gonna castigate, 00:02:30.837 --> 00:02:39.468 - humiliate, and or repudiate. Before we move on to the details of the vibration portion of the show, 00:02:39.468 --> 00:02:48.185 - I wanted to take a few minutes to share with you a little bit of the complicated history of the Lake 00:02:48.185 --> 00:02:49.566 - Griffey debate. 00:02:49.730 --> 00:02:55.601 - and about why many of us feel so strongly about it. This is just a few minutes of kind of primer about 00:02:55.601 --> 00:03:01.416 - Lake Griffey. There are some wonderful, very well-informed, very intelligent people out there manning 00:03:01.416 --> 00:03:07.116 - the boots, and I encourage everybody to take a few moments to read a little bit, talk a little bit, 00:03:07.116 --> 00:03:12.874 - and learn as much as you can about this important debate. Okay, first a little bit of background for 00:03:12.874 --> 00:03:17.662 - those of you who haven't heard it before, and I apologize to those of you who have, 00:03:18.530 --> 00:03:24.824 - This piece of land that we're arguing about is part of an enormous, at least to us, 900-acre tract of 00:03:24.824 --> 00:03:31.056 - land that's just north of the bypass that was purchased by IU in the 1950s during the administration 00:03:31.056 --> 00:03:37.350 - of President Herman B. Wells, anticipating what has come to be correct, that the campus is continuing 00:03:37.350 --> 00:03:43.891 - to grow north and east of the present campus. What is remarkable about this land is not just its position 00:03:43.891 --> 00:03:45.310 - on the edge of campus, 00:03:45.410 --> 00:03:51.906 - but also that it's contiguous with a remarkable tract, 1,200 acres of preserved wild land in the middle 00:03:51.906 --> 00:03:58.340 - of a Midwestern city. This is something I don't know if I've appreciated until now. There are very few 00:03:58.340 --> 00:04:05.086 - cities around the country of our size that can boast this wonderful resource within the bounds of the city. 00:04:05.890 --> 00:04:12.226 - Now, this 900 acres, half of the land is currently used, the present golf course, university school, 00:04:12.226 --> 00:04:18.688 - the cross-country facilities and so on. There's about 450 acres remaining that were considered, quote, 00:04:18.688 --> 00:04:25.025 - unused. Of course, the land is used by lots of animals and plants and birds and a few biologists and 00:04:25.025 --> 00:04:31.486 - geologists and so on. But to the administration of IU, this may have been considered to be unused land 00:04:31.486 --> 00:04:34.686 - that's long been sought after for a site for a new 00:04:34.850 --> 00:04:42.600 - championship golf course and this is what happened in the summer of 1999 the IU administration announced 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:50.129 - plans with very little warning to anybody on the academic side of campus that 311 of these acres were 00:04:50.129 --> 00:04:54.558 - to be leased in an unusual quote public-private partnership 00:04:54.914 --> 00:05:01.607 - with a private developer that has incorporated only about a month or two ago, according to the reports, 00:05:01.607 --> 00:05:08.300 - with a very strong reputation in history. It's called Indiana Club LLC. And the idea is that they would 00:05:08.300 --> 00:05:14.994 - build a Jack Nicklaus signature golf course, perhaps a clubhouse, perhaps swimming pool, perhaps tennis 00:05:14.994 --> 00:05:21.751 - courts, perhaps condominiums. We don't really know because the plan has never been laid out on the table 00:05:21.751 --> 00:05:22.974 - for us to examine. 00:05:23.618 --> 00:05:30.530 - The idea is that this private organization would operate the cost, operate the course. They would pay 00:05:30.530 --> 00:05:37.646 - for the development. They would control the operations. They would provide access to the IU's golf team. 00:05:37.646 --> 00:05:44.423 - And they, for a small number of members of the community, with a four-figure membership fee limited 00:05:44.423 --> 00:05:51.200 - to about 2,400 members, would become part of this Indiana club. Monthly rates anywhere from $100 to 00:05:51.200 --> 00:05:52.894 - several hundred dollars. 00:05:52.994 --> 00:05:59.505 - And profits from this great proposition are to be shared with IU, returning money back not to the academic 00:05:59.505 --> 00:06:05.711 - part of the university, but back to the athletic department for perhaps the next layer of development 00:06:05.711 --> 00:06:11.795 - out in this part of the campus. It's intended to provide a site for the golf team. It's intended to 00:06:11.795 --> 00:06:17.941 - put us on a par with some of the other great golf schools like Alabama and Auburn and the University 00:06:17.941 --> 00:06:21.470 - of Tennessee. It's to make Bloomington a golf destination 00:06:21.698 --> 00:06:27.635 - where wealthy visitors will come to play golf and perhaps spend a few dollars at our restaurants and 00:06:27.635 --> 00:06:33.514 - hotels. And perhaps it's intended to bring wealthy alumni back to Bloomington where they may put in 00:06:33.514 --> 00:06:39.569 - their estates some money for the university. So what's the big problem with this? What's all the fuss? 00:06:39.569 --> 00:06:46.035 - To put it simply, it comes down to three principal questions. First of all, there's a series of environmental 00:06:46.035 --> 00:06:51.326 - questions that come down to the question, is this appropriate stewardship of public land? 00:06:52.066 --> 00:06:58.985 - Make no doubt about it, when people tell you that they build golf courses in other sensitive places, 00:06:58.985 --> 00:07:05.835 - there are probably few places as sensitive as this Lake Griffey watershed. A habitat to hundreds of 00:07:05.835 --> 00:07:12.753 - species of plants and animals, a site where there's very thin soils, karst topography and very rapid 00:07:12.753 --> 00:07:18.302 - flow of contaminated water through the groundwater system and into Lake Griffey. 00:07:18.498 --> 00:07:26.098 - a site with very high risk for toxic contaminations from the tons of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides 00:07:26.098 --> 00:07:33.697 - that are applied to the golf courses annually. And it's an environmental hazard because the waters that 00:07:33.697 --> 00:07:41.224 - flow from this heavily fertilized land flow downstream into the Griffey watershed to feed nutrient and 00:07:41.224 --> 00:07:42.174 - algal blooms 00:07:42.306 --> 00:07:48.605 - in the waters of Lake Griffey, and anybody who's been there in the summertime knows that the lake is 00:07:48.605 --> 00:07:54.841 - already choked with algae, probably largely from nutrients from the current golf course. If you get 00:07:54.841 --> 00:08:01.078 - into discussion with anybody about them, remind them that this is not the 1950s anymore. It doesn't 00:08:01.078 --> 00:08:06.878 - do, it isn't enough to simply say we're going to use the best techniques available. To date, 00:08:07.010 --> 00:08:13.872 - None of the detailed management plans for this course have been laid out on the table for even the most 00:08:13.872 --> 00:08:20.602 - rudimentary environmental scrutiny. Don't let anybody get by with the phrase, it'll all be taken care 00:08:20.602 --> 00:08:27.464 - of. Second, we ask the institutional question, is this an ethical and appropriate use of the university 00:08:27.464 --> 00:08:28.190 - resources? 00:08:28.642 --> 00:08:35.440 - This is a very valuable piece of land, and this is a great public university. And there's a big question 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:42.302 - whether we should be using one sixth of the available land on this university campus to support a private 00:08:42.302 --> 00:08:48.970 - country club. This effort was done without even the slightest pretense of paying heed to the tradition 00:08:48.970 --> 00:08:55.573 - of faculty governance on this campus to examine impacts that might affect the academic mission of the 00:08:55.573 --> 00:08:56.350 - university. 00:08:56.802 --> 00:09:02.920 - How will this affect the image of our great public university to the prospective students and the taxpayers 00:09:02.920 --> 00:09:08.755 - and the legislators of this state if we are giving away our land for private development? One question 00:09:08.755 --> 00:09:14.590 - that has not been answered is, what is really the viability of this economic proposition to build this 00:09:14.590 --> 00:09:20.539 - private resort on our campus? We have to get the message across that we expect more from America's great 00:09:20.539 --> 00:09:25.694 - public university, and we're not going to let this move forward as it's currently planned. 00:09:26.978 --> 00:09:34.144 - Finally, the one that really burns us up on the faculty is the most simple question, how does this golf 00:09:34.144 --> 00:09:41.241 - resort serve IU's academic mission? The primary mission of the university, we're told again and again, 00:09:41.241 --> 00:09:48.545 - is to educate our students, is to advance knowledge through academic research, and to serve the residents 00:09:48.545 --> 00:09:51.646 - of the state and country with our knowledge. 00:09:52.066 --> 00:09:57.720 - This is an extraordinary resource to have a piece of wild land that's contiguous with a great campus 00:09:57.720 --> 00:10:03.543 - and we should be using it as an outdoor classroom for our students to learn and as a natural laboratory 00:10:03.543 --> 00:10:06.622 - for our researchers to learn about natural ecosystems. 00:10:07.554 --> 00:10:13.584 - We have to be cognizant of the existing uses of the land by the departments of biology and geography 00:10:13.584 --> 00:10:19.972 - and geology and psychology and the School of Public and Environmental Affairs. And we have to look forward 00:10:19.972 --> 00:10:26.002 - to the 65 years of this land lease and make sure that this land is preserved to advance the academic 00:10:26.002 --> 00:10:27.614 - mission of the university. 00:10:40.034 --> 00:10:45.800 - finish up with a couple of thoughts that just came to me today. I think you'll see as you walk around 00:10:45.800 --> 00:10:51.058 - town and as you're in the elevators and the ladies rooms and the grocery stores you're gonna 00:10:51.058 --> 00:10:56.881 - hear conversations about the golf course coming up again and again and you're gonna hear a few phrases 00:10:56.881 --> 00:11:02.704 - repeated over and over again that I've heard over the past couple months and I want to ask each of you 00:11:02.704 --> 00:11:08.414 - when you hear this phrase to perk up your ears and stop somebody and make them explain. The first is 00:11:08.610 --> 00:11:16.433 - This golf course will improve the environment. This is the 21st century, and we need to educate our 00:11:16.433 --> 00:11:24.569 - colleagues and friends and neighbors that the environment means more than bumping into a flock of geese 00:11:24.569 --> 00:11:32.158 - around an artificial water trap in a pesticide-ridden monoculture of foreign-introduced grasses. 00:11:37.538 --> 00:11:45.608 - to teach them that a healthy environment consists of stable, sustainable ecosystems rich in diversity, 00:11:45.608 --> 00:11:53.442 - from microscopic organisms to fungi to native grasses to healthy, that means not cut down trees, to 00:11:53.442 --> 00:12:01.669 - insects and birds and frogs that only have four legs, to fish without high levels of lead and pesticides 00:12:01.669 --> 00:12:04.254 - and herbicides in their systems, 00:12:04.386 --> 00:12:11.110 - to a lake that is not filled with sediment and algal blooms and toxic chemicals. We need to teach that 00:12:11.110 --> 00:12:17.639 - all of the elements of the ecosystem are interconnected and that you can't put a golf course on the 00:12:17.639 --> 00:12:24.167 - top of the hill and not expect it to influence the plants and animals that live downstream from the 00:12:24.167 --> 00:12:25.342 - top of that hill. 00:12:32.386 --> 00:12:39.516 - We should not be arguing about whether or not Griffey is formally recognized as a secondary water supply. 00:12:39.516 --> 00:12:46.377 - The fact is that there is no such legal definition of a secondary water supply. The fact is that this 00:12:46.377 --> 00:12:53.103 - is a valuable jewel in our community and we should insist that the water quality of Lake Griffey is 00:12:53.103 --> 00:12:55.390 - good enough that we can drink it. 00:13:02.530 --> 00:13:09.717 - Bottom line is, don't just say this will improve the environment. Put the cards on the table. Let it 00:13:09.717 --> 00:13:16.833 - be subjected to a standard environmental impact assessment, and then let us decide whether it will, 00:13:16.833 --> 00:13:24.020 - in fact, improve the environment. Second, phrase number two, this is just a golf course. This is not 00:13:24.020 --> 00:13:29.214 - just about a golf course. This is about 311 acres of university of prime 00:13:29.314 --> 00:13:35.731 - public university land. It's the most valuable resource we have and we're making plans for the decades 00:13:35.731 --> 00:13:42.023 - ahead. It's part of a fragile, endangered, and important ecosystem. And it's part of a resource that 00:13:42.023 --> 00:13:48.377 - could be extraordinarily valuable for the academic mission of this university. This is not just about 00:13:48.377 --> 00:13:55.230 - a golf course. This is about the heart and soul of the university and the jewel of the Bloomington community. 00:14:01.346 --> 00:14:10.151 - the last one that I've heard so many times the last few months and it drives me crazy. This is a done 00:14:10.151 --> 00:14:19.387 - deal. There is no such thing as a done deal. The trustees and the corporate administrators and the lawyers 00:14:19.387 --> 00:14:28.019 - thought that this was a done deal a few months ago, but when 500 faculty members and 2,000 students 00:14:28.019 --> 00:14:29.918 - and community members 00:14:30.082 --> 00:14:35.956 - And hundreds of people turned out for a public forum and faced them with our rage about destruction 00:14:35.956 --> 00:14:41.889 - of this valuable place. They backed off for two months and gave us a chance to look at this question 00:14:41.889 --> 00:14:48.057 - a little more. I want each of you, whether it's something big or something small, putting a safe Griffey 00:14:48.057 --> 00:14:53.990 - sign in your yard, writing a letter to a trustee, signing a petition, talking to a neighbor, calling 00:14:53.990 --> 00:14:59.806 - up Terry Claypacks or one of the trustees at home and having a heart to heart discussion about it. 00:15:00.002 --> 00:15:10.318 - Take a minute to make sure that this is not a done deal. OK, that's enough inflammatory rhetoric. I 00:15:10.318 --> 00:15:21.253 - want to close with something that perhaps Chancellor Gross-Lewis would appreciate, a 19th century English 00:15:21.253 --> 00:15:29.918 - poem. But if you listen a little carefully, I think it's a little bit inflammatory. 00:15:30.050 --> 00:15:36.573 - And I think it's pretty much written about the story we're talking about right here. It's a poem by 00:15:36.573 --> 00:15:43.291 - the great English nature poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and it's called Inverse Nate. And I have not had 00:15:43.291 --> 00:15:50.075 - a good translation, but I'm told by one friend who studies Gaelic that it has something to do with take 00:15:50.075 --> 00:15:57.054 - your golf course and stuff it something else. Okay, so what I want you to do as you listen to this poem is 00:15:57.186 --> 00:16:02.771 - You can close your eyes if you want, but I want you to imagine walking from the top ridges of the Lake 00:16:02.771 --> 00:16:08.301 - Griffey watershed down along one of those little ravines into the Griffey Creek, not into the Griffey 00:16:08.301 --> 00:16:13.777 - Creek, along the Griffey Creek and ending up by the shores of Lake Griffey and imagining the flow of 00:16:13.777 --> 00:16:19.470 - the water through that watershed. And I want you to listen carefully to the last line because I'm hoping 00:16:19.470 --> 00:16:24.350 - that this is going to be one that people are going to be chanting for months ahead at the 00:16:24.482 --> 00:16:32.428 - the sample gates in front of campus. Okay, here we go. This darksome burn horseback brown, his roll 00:16:32.428 --> 00:16:40.374 - rock high road roaring down in coop and in comb, the fleece of his foam flutes and load to the lake 00:16:40.374 --> 00:16:48.637 - falls home. A wind puff bonnet of fawn froth turns and twindles over the broth of a pool so pitch black 00:16:48.637 --> 00:16:53.246 - fell frowning. It rounds and rounds to spare to browning. 00:16:54.306 --> 00:17:02.051 - Digged with dew, dappled with dew are the groins of the braze that the brook treads through, wiry heath 00:17:02.051 --> 00:17:09.498 - packs, glitches of fern, and the beebunny ash that sits over the burn. What would the world be once 00:17:09.498 --> 00:17:17.169 - bereft of wet and of wildness? Let them be left. Oh, let them be left, wildness and wet. Long live the 00:17:17.169 --> 00:17:20.222 - weeds and the wilderness yet. Thank you. 00:17:45.890 --> 00:17:52.123 - It's another great honor for me to be here to introduce Vida. Vida has moved Bloomington audiences for 00:17:52.123 --> 00:17:58.357 - many years with their expressive vocal blend of world music compositions. They've recently been signed 00:17:58.357 --> 00:18:04.651 - by a New York management company which should open many more ears to their wonderful music. Please join 00:18:04.651 --> 00:18:05.982 - me in welcoming Vida. 00:21:34.946 --> 00:21:42.369 - It may be when I build a golf course on the top of the Union. Or like building to building, like have 00:21:42.369 --> 00:21:49.647 - little bridges going over campus. Yeah, wouldn't that be an exciting golf course? Skip the bridges, 00:21:49.647 --> 00:21:57.361 - just put them down. So we want to sing the next song in honor of this event. This is one of my favorites. 00:21:57.361 --> 00:22:03.038 - It's a wonderful song by Gene Richie. It's called Now Is the Cool of the Day. 00:26:47.682 --> 00:27:07.664 - One last one, and it's called Somsei. Som, somsei, som, somsei, som, somsei, som, somsei, som, somsei, 00:27:07.664 --> 00:27:15.230 - som, somsei, som, somsei, som, somsei, 00:27:16.738 --> 00:27:30.643 - Some say, some say, some say, some say, some say, some say, some say, some say, some say, some say, 00:27:30.643 --> 00:27:34.814 - some say, some say, some say, 00:28:51.970 --> 00:28:54.782 - Some say, some say, some say 00:30:41.506 --> 00:30:48.447 - My name's Kara Reagan. I'm an IU student. I'm also among the few group of people that was so infuriated 00:30:48.447 --> 00:30:55.121 - at the first public forum that we just had to get together, do something about it, form the Protect 00:30:55.121 --> 00:31:01.862 - Group Alliance, and the rest is history, I guess. I want to make sure that everybody is aware of all 00:31:01.862 --> 00:31:08.537 - the opportunities we have here tonight for you to get involved, things you can do here tonight that 00:31:08.537 --> 00:31:11.006 - are going to make a huge difference. 00:31:11.266 --> 00:31:16.496 - And I want to emphasize how important it is that these things get done tonight, that these things get 00:31:16.496 --> 00:31:21.777 - done this week. Because in all likelihood, the trustees are going to be voting on this land lease this 00:31:21.777 --> 00:31:27.007 - week. So they need to hear your voices. And they need to hear your voices loud and clear. And if they 00:31:27.007 --> 00:31:32.134 - make the wrong decision on Friday, the governor needs to hear your voice. The Commission for Higher 00:31:32.134 --> 00:31:37.312 - Education needs to hear your voice. Your state representatives need to hear your voice. And all that 00:31:37.312 --> 00:31:40.286 - information is here for you tonight, how to contact them. 00:31:40.642 --> 00:31:47.745 - In fact, you can even email them from here. We have email stations set up in the lobby and upstairs. 00:31:47.745 --> 00:31:55.200 - I also want to make sure that everybody here signs that petition. That's one of the most important things 00:31:55.200 --> 00:32:02.373 - you can do. We also have paper for those of you who are adverse to computers. I know some people are. 00:32:02.373 --> 00:32:09.406 - So write a letter. That works, too. Make sure you get a button. Make sure you wear it all the time. 00:32:10.146 --> 00:32:16.596 - We also have yard signs. The yard signs, we're asking for donations for those if you can. If not, take 00:32:16.596 --> 00:32:22.920 - it anyway. Put it up in your yard. It's important that those get sewn, too. Also, make sure that you 00:32:22.920 --> 00:32:29.558 - pick up all the information that we have. We have a trifold flyer that says protect her beyond the front, 00:32:29.558 --> 00:32:35.819 - and it has all the talking points. If you want to write a letter, if you want to make a phone call, 00:32:35.819 --> 00:32:39.326 - that should be helpful. Also, in the second half of our 00:32:39.458 --> 00:32:45.128 - program tonight, you'll be hearing a lot about other events that you can attend this week, things that 00:32:45.128 --> 00:32:50.632 - are part of our effort to stop this golf course. One last thing, and I hope that everybody's made a 00:32:50.632 --> 00:32:56.247 - sign. We have poster making tables in the lobby as well. So if you could all make a sign and bring it 00:32:56.247 --> 00:33:01.751 - back in here, because after intermission, we're going to have a photo op where everybody's going to 00:33:01.751 --> 00:33:06.430 - hold their signs up. And we're going to get a picture of everybody with their signs. 00:33:06.690 --> 00:33:12.695 - and also bring those signs back to the rest of our events this week, to the vigil tomorrow, and to the 00:33:12.695 --> 00:33:18.875 - rally on Friday, so that they could get reused. And so now, I guess I'm gonna introduce our next speaker. 00:33:18.875 --> 00:33:24.996 - We're all really excited that he's here to talk to us. Scott Russell Sanders has been a writer, teacher, 00:33:24.996 --> 00:33:31.292 - and devoted citizen of Bloomington for 29 years. His writing captures the limestone country, the woodlands, 00:33:31.292 --> 00:33:33.566 - and the landscape of southern Indiana, 00:33:33.922 --> 00:33:46.363 - evoking both dedication and a call to action on behalf of this place that we call home. Please welcome 00:33:46.363 --> 00:33:58.441 - Scott Sanders. Thank you. It's wonderful to look out on so many faces, so much energy. I wonder why 00:33:58.441 --> 00:34:02.910 - so many of us are here this evening. 00:34:03.682 --> 00:34:13.731 - I wonder why so many people get so riled up about protecting woods and a lake. I can't speak for you, 00:34:13.731 --> 00:34:23.682 - but let me tell you why I'm here. I'm here because I want to live in a community that makes room not 00:34:23.682 --> 00:34:32.254 - only for people, but also for foxes and butterflies and hawks, for sycamores and oaks, 00:34:32.930 --> 00:34:42.955 - for ferns and bats, dog-toothed violets, mayapples, big bluestem grass, warblers, eagles, salamanders, 00:34:42.955 --> 00:34:51.326 - frogs. I'm here because I want to live among people who believe there are some things 00:35:05.954 --> 00:35:15.668 - water, for example, or clean air, rich topsoil, and wild land within walking distance of our homes. 00:35:15.668 --> 00:35:25.382 - I want to live among people who take care of the land as they take care of their children lovingly, 00:35:25.382 --> 00:35:35.582 - tenderly, faithfully, with an eye for the long future. People who want to leave this place undiminished, 00:35:37.154 --> 00:35:47.506 - those who will live here after we are gone. I want to live among neighbors who understand progress to 00:35:47.506 --> 00:35:57.757 - mean improving the conditions of life for all people in the community and for the wild creatures who 00:35:57.757 --> 00:36:05.470 - share this place with us. I want to live among neighbors who measure wealth 00:36:06.562 --> 00:36:14.387 - not by the size of bank accounts, not by the height of buildings or the number of motels and cars, but 00:36:14.387 --> 00:36:22.060 - by the health of the citizens, by the beauty and safety of our streets, the quality of our libraries 00:36:22.060 --> 00:36:29.884 - and schools and parks, the atmosphere in our workplaces and homes, the delight we feel in greeting one 00:36:29.884 --> 00:36:35.582 - another after we've been apart, the joy we feel in returning to this place 00:36:35.714 --> 00:36:47.044 - after we've been away. That is true wealth. I want to feel proud of Indiana University, where I have 00:36:47.044 --> 00:36:58.375 - spent my adult life working and where I hope to work as long as I'm able. I want my university to be 00:36:58.375 --> 00:37:02.974 - celebrated for its devotion to research, 00:37:03.170 --> 00:37:16.134 - and teaching above everything else, above athletics, above entertainment, above profit. I want my university 00:37:16.134 --> 00:37:28.741 - to remain truly public, refusing to sell off pieces of itself to the highest bidder. I want my university 00:37:28.741 --> 00:37:32.190 - to be a responsible citizen, 00:37:32.706 --> 00:37:41.459 - respecting the laws of this city and this county and respecting the opinion of its neighbors. I want 00:37:41.459 --> 00:37:50.299 - my university to be known as a place that recognizes the earth is precious and sacred and endangered. 00:37:50.299 --> 00:37:59.398 - I want my university to lead the way in showing how to honor, protect, and restore the wildness on which 00:37:59.398 --> 00:38:00.958 - all life depends. 00:38:02.338 --> 00:38:09.712 - The Indiana University trustees have the chance to show us, to show everyone, this Friday, that they 00:38:09.712 --> 00:38:17.524 - are worthy of our trust. By voting against the golf course proposal, they can show they honor the academic 00:38:17.524 --> 00:38:24.971 - mission of the university. They can show they recognize how beautiful, fragile, and irreplaceable are 00:38:24.971 --> 00:38:32.126 - the Griffey woods. The trustees also have a chance on Friday to consider an alternative proposal. 00:38:32.898 --> 00:38:43.461 - drawn up by a number of faculty members, a proposal to establish the Griffey Watershed Research Preserve. 00:38:43.461 --> 00:38:53.426 - This preserve would occupy land surrounding Sycamore Valley and University Lake, including the land 00:38:53.426 --> 00:39:01.598 - proposed for the new golf course. It would be protected from development forever. 00:39:02.018 --> 00:39:13.621 - and would be dedicated to research, teaching, and community outreach. It would serve as an outdoor classroom, 00:39:13.621 --> 00:39:24.169 - as an outdoor laboratory, as a home for wild creatures and a wild space for future generations. The 00:39:24.169 --> 00:39:27.966 - Griffey Watershed Research Preserve 00:39:29.634 --> 00:39:37.138 - offers the university on parallel opportunity. It is within walking or bicycling distance of the center 00:39:37.138 --> 00:39:44.714 - of campus. It contains an extraordinary diversity of life forms and habitats. It borders on the existing 00:39:44.714 --> 00:39:52.001 - Griffey Lake Nature Preserve owned by the city and thus creates one of the largest contiguous blocks 00:39:52.001 --> 00:39:54.526 - of wild land in any American city. 00:39:55.298 --> 00:40:03.312 - It offers the opportunity for demonstrating how to clean up hazardous waste and heal damaged land. Already, 00:40:03.312 --> 00:40:10.881 - this land in the Griffey watershed is being used for classes, enrolling something over 1,000 students 00:40:10.881 --> 00:40:18.524 - every year. With the creation of this proposed preserve, that number could be significantly increased. 00:40:18.524 --> 00:40:25.054 - I know the trustees care deeply about Indiana University, and they want it to flourish. 00:40:26.466 --> 00:40:34.736 - If they vote against the golf course proposal this Friday, they will be showing their affection and 00:40:34.736 --> 00:40:42.593 - respect for the university and the community and for the land itself. If they decide to pursue 00:40:42.593 --> 00:40:51.028 - the alternative proposal for the Griffey Watershed Research Preserve, they will deserve our applause, 00:40:51.028 --> 00:40:55.742 - our gratitude, and our help. However the vote turns out, 00:40:56.290 --> 00:41:05.953 - On January 21st, I hope we can keep struggling to protect the Griffey watershed and every other wild 00:41:05.953 --> 00:41:15.615 - space left in our community. There's much work to be done and every hand and every mind is needed in 00:41:15.615 --> 00:41:25.278 - that work. So let's support the efforts of our city and our county to plan sensible use of the land. 00:41:26.082 --> 00:41:33.854 - Let's donate money and time and effort to the Sycamore Land Trust, to Heartwood, to the Indiana Forest 00:41:33.854 --> 00:41:41.550 - Alliance, the Sassafras Audubon Society, the Center for Sustainable Living, the Hoosier Environmental 00:41:41.550 --> 00:41:49.473 - Council, and so many other local and state and national groups dedicated to working on behalf of nature. 00:41:49.473 --> 00:41:54.302 - Let's work to heal the wounds in our community and in our land. 00:41:54.690 --> 00:42:05.813 - Let's keep this good energy going. Like Michael, I'll leave you with a poem. It's by one of my favorite 00:42:05.813 --> 00:42:16.508 - persons on earth, by Wendell Berry. It's called The Piece of Wild Things. Many of you no doubt know 00:42:16.508 --> 00:42:21.214 - it. When despair for the world grows in me, 00:42:22.242 --> 00:42:31.388 - And I wake in the night at the least sound and fear of what my life and my children's lives may be. 00:42:31.388 --> 00:42:40.626 - I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water and the great heron feeds. I 00:42:40.626 --> 00:42:48.766 - come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. 00:42:49.794 --> 00:42:58.523 - I come into the presence of still water, and I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their 00:42:58.523 --> 00:43:07.252 - light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world and am free. Let us do our work. Let us preserve 00:43:07.252 --> 00:43:14.846 - the still waters. Let us dwell in the grace of the world and the peace of wild things. 00:43:29.442 --> 00:43:34.046 - Thank you. And now please welcome the Fourth Street Irregulars. 00:44:00.866 --> 00:44:11.167 - The trustees decided they needed a golf course and so they hired a consultant to scout out a place for 00:44:11.167 --> 00:44:20.969 - it to go. Punch 18 holes with little flags and holes in the ground. They looked around and saw... 00:44:20.969 --> 00:44:28.670 - Grippy Lake. Piece of cake. Nobody ever uses it, at least no one who counts. 00:44:28.866 --> 00:44:37.063 - Now it's a few hikers and a handful of deer compared to our need for a golf course. It's clear. Start 00:44:37.063 --> 00:44:45.421 - up the chainsaws. Chomp down the trees. We'll build the clubhouse nice and comfy with the fairway fees. 00:44:45.421 --> 00:44:53.457 - Oh, please. If you believe we'd rather have 60 acres of sand traps and manicured grass and rich old 00:44:53.457 --> 00:44:56.350 - farts quacking good at perchaballs, 00:44:56.450 --> 00:45:04.130 - around a special super duper jack-neckless design 18-hole-in-the-head golf course. Than woods and keys. 00:45:04.130 --> 00:45:12.032 - And trails. And slickers. And pink lady slippers in the spring. P.S. Where do you think all that herbicide 00:45:12.032 --> 00:45:19.638 - and fertilizer's gonna go when the rain hits the ground? It's gonna go in the water, you pucellanimous 00:45:19.638 --> 00:45:25.694 - pea-brained pedants. If you really think we'd rather have your private playground 00:45:25.986 --> 00:45:44.723 - public land, then you must think we're crazy. We don't want a golf course sacrifice. Maybe we value 00:45:44.723 --> 00:45:52.030 - what's already there. You can take all 00:46:08.546 --> 00:46:20.713 - your Indiana Club LLC partnership. The highway department said we need a new interstate, a ribbon of 00:46:20.713 --> 00:46:33.363 - progress. The profits will aggregate on lovely new terrain, a lane track. It's clear that this highway's 00:46:33.363 --> 00:46:38.302 - the thing we all lack. Connect the dots. 00:46:38.754 --> 00:46:48.028 - We'll bring in lots of urban sprawl and brand new Walmarts! Where? Over there! Pave the woods 00:46:48.028 --> 00:46:58.486 - and neighborhoods. Grade the hills. Sell the farm. There's no need for alarm. Think of the jobs. Consider 00:46:58.486 --> 00:47:04.702 - the boodle. The folks who oppose this are out of their noodle. 00:47:05.730 --> 00:47:14.144 - Round down the rebar, get the asshole hot. When we finish her front porch, we'll be a parking lot. Madam, 00:47:14.144 --> 00:47:22.479 - my name's McAddle. Wait a minute, wait a minute. Hold it right there. If you believe we'd swap our homes 00:47:22.479 --> 00:47:30.654 - and towns and farms and forests for eight lanes of triple-reinforced concrete and guardrails with five 00:47:30.654 --> 00:47:34.782 - parking lots, four Burger Kings, three truck stops, 00:47:34.946 --> 00:47:41.427 - Too many malls. And the Shishi boutique selling the late 20th century equivalent of snake oil 00:47:41.427 --> 00:47:48.529 - in biodegradable plastic vials made from recycled petroleum products. And P.S. What's all this twaddle 00:47:48.529 --> 00:47:55.562 - about progress? Since when is more of what we've already got too much of? More cars, more noise, more 00:47:55.562 --> 00:48:02.526 - air pollution. Progress. And is a savings of eight minutes off the road trip from Indy to Evansville 00:48:02.754 --> 00:48:10.633 - Really gonna give us more quality time? Why, you'd have to make that trip eight times a day to save 00:48:10.633 --> 00:48:19.064 - a single hour! Eight? If you truly believe we'd spend three million dollars a mile trying to pave paradise 00:48:19.064 --> 00:48:27.258 - while 40% of the people in this country can't afford to see a doctor when they get sick, you must think 00:48:27.258 --> 00:48:31.198 - we're crazy. We don't want a new terrain highway. 00:48:47.906 --> 00:48:59.098 - out of your notions of progress. Your jackhammers, backhoes, and slick-in-dot slideshows. And blow them 00:48:59.098 --> 00:49:10.289 - out your draft environmental impact statement. The suits in Seattle stood on the street corner outside. 00:49:10.289 --> 00:49:17.822 - They said there's a meeting, but we just can't get inside. They said, 00:49:17.922 --> 00:49:25.811 - You've got the right to demonstrate, but don't interfere with our corporate state. We're late. Bring 00:49:25.811 --> 00:49:33.856 - out the Trenjans. Call the riot police. We've missed our launch, and there's a planet to fleece. We're 00:49:33.856 --> 00:49:41.902 - the harbingers of wealth, making everything serene from Coca-Cola and Nike to the Terminator team. Now 00:49:41.902 --> 00:49:47.838 - here's the deal. You work the jobs in all our factories while we arbitrage. 00:49:50.370 --> 00:49:58.228 - Commodities? What are you calling commodities? Food? Shelter? Air to breathe and water to drink? While 00:49:58.228 --> 00:50:06.162 - the Makila doors on the border are dumping 800 gallons of chromium hydroxide sludge into the Rio Grande 00:50:06.162 --> 00:50:14.325 - and your paid lapdogs in the press tut-tut about violence while the mayor of Seattle calls on the National 00:50:14.325 --> 00:50:15.774 - Guard? Since when? 00:50:15.906 --> 00:50:24.560 - is forcing children to work 14 hours a day for 20 cents an hour, so the shareholders can see a 2% rise 00:50:24.560 --> 00:50:32.963 - in the value of their stocks, not violent. Since when is marketing war... How about this one? Since 00:50:32.963 --> 00:50:41.533 - when is marketing war not violent? And since when is hiring military thugs to kill teachers and union 00:50:41.533 --> 00:50:45.566 - organizers, and whoever else gets in their way, 00:50:45.858 --> 00:50:54.385 - not violent. And since when is exporting war and famine and poverty all over this planet not violent? 00:50:54.385 --> 00:51:03.079 - Yeah. And P.S. If you believe we're all in prison on Prozac and peeing in jars so we've forgotten about 00:51:03.079 --> 00:51:11.605 - Bo-Khal and Chernobyl and Three Mile Island and Love Canal and the Savings and Loans window and Agent 00:51:11.605 --> 00:51:14.782 - Gange and PCP's and the Exxon Valdez, 00:51:15.970 --> 00:51:35.768 - You must think we're crazy. We don't share your nightmare, a free train. Maybe we value the dreams and 00:51:35.768 --> 00:51:40.958 - the ends. You can take off 00:51:56.674 --> 00:52:05.119 - order with their semiotics do smet selling environmental fratricide. Traders, hell, you're nothing but 00:52:05.119 --> 00:52:10.366 - pirates with websites. And blow them out door. Gross, national. 00:52:28.162 --> 00:52:32.981 - you by the neighborhoods you live in, the air you breathe, and the water you drink. There's a lot of 00:52:32.981 --> 00:52:36.798 - work to be done in this new millennium neighbors and we need to get on with it. 00:53:27.682 --> 00:53:34.287 - How are we going to follow that? You start. We have so many people to thank. This has been a really 00:53:34.287 --> 00:53:41.089 - wonderful effort. I have never worked on a campaign before where so many people have come out together 00:53:41.089 --> 00:53:47.760 - to work toward a common goal, that goal being the protection of our beloved Griffey Woods. We have a 00:53:47.760 --> 00:53:54.365 - list here of people we do want to mention, and I'm sure that we will forget some of the many people 00:53:54.365 --> 00:53:56.478 - who have been working together. 00:53:57.250 --> 00:54:03.315 - First of all, why don't we introduce ourselves? Okay. I'll introduce you. This is Harry Ford. And this 00:54:03.315 --> 00:54:09.204 - is Leah Gerlach. Can I have the translation of that? Thank you. We have, obviously, to put together 00:54:09.204 --> 00:54:15.269 - an event of this scale is a lot of work. And we have so many people to thank. Not only, obviously, the 00:54:15.269 --> 00:54:21.275 - musicians and all of the people who have helped all the speakers, but lots and lots of businesses and 00:54:21.275 --> 00:54:23.454 - individuals around town have helped. 00:54:24.290 --> 00:54:31.143 - Sure, sure. WFHB has been very helpful in getting the word out. Susan Bogoski and Jonathan Pope and 00:54:31.143 --> 00:54:38.201 - Marty Crouch for the radio show, our crazy radio spot that they helped us with. It's a lot of fun. And 00:54:38.201 --> 00:54:45.328 - the Bloomington Independent, Lisa Sorg and Mark Stalkup have both been very helpful in getting the word 00:54:45.328 --> 00:54:51.838 - out. Great articles. Community Access Television is here tonight. Martin O'Neill and his crew. 00:54:55.778 --> 00:55:04.495 - Larry Mungan for all of his computer wizardry. Focus it, Larry, up at the email stations and friends 00:55:04.495 --> 00:55:13.212 - up there. Photographers Mitch Rice and Greg Raisman. Thank you very much for being here tonight. Ned 00:55:13.212 --> 00:55:22.101 - Shaw helped prepare our poster. I think we have one here. Beautiful artwork. Pygmalions donated poster 00:55:22.101 --> 00:55:25.726 - board and markers. Thank you, Pygmalions. 00:55:28.610 --> 00:55:34.702 - Photography also helped a lot. Greg has a wonderful flash unit that's a very expensive flash unit that 00:55:34.702 --> 00:55:41.089 - Roberts Photography loaned us for the evening and we thank them for that. We also have a lot of volunteers. 00:55:41.089 --> 00:55:47.358 - When you came in the door, you saw volunteer people taking donations. We have ushers, info table sitters, 00:55:47.358 --> 00:55:53.273 - sign helpers, flyer hangers, display makers, and correspondence helpers with letters and email. All 00:55:53.273 --> 00:55:57.886 - of those folks are out in the lobby and around and thank them when you go by. 00:55:58.274 --> 00:56:05.665 - We also want to thank our backstage crew and the staff here at the Indiana Theater. We want to thank 00:56:05.665 --> 00:56:13.202 - EJ and Wayne Jackson for helping out with sound and other people who are behind the scenes workers who 00:56:13.202 --> 00:56:20.886 - for various reasons are remaining anonymous, but we thank them very much for that. We also have a couple 00:56:20.886 --> 00:56:27.326 - of others. We have many faculty members. We won't go down the list, but there have been 00:56:27.426 --> 00:56:34.740 - 30 or 35 core faculty members who've been very involved in organizing the faculty, lobbying 00:56:34.740 --> 00:56:42.689 - the administration, and getting the word out. So thank you to all of you. And very importantly, the 00:56:42.689 --> 00:56:50.639 - Protect Griffey Alliance has been a group of local activists, students, faculty, staff, many people 00:56:50.639 --> 00:56:55.806 - who on a regular basis come out on Monday nights to our meetings 00:56:55.970 --> 00:57:02.695 - and have put an enormous amount of work toward getting the word out, writing letters, educating the 00:57:02.695 --> 00:57:09.555 - community, meeting with reporters. And it's just been an incredible effort, and it's been a wonderful 00:57:09.555 --> 00:57:15.070 - experience. And thank you to all of the people from the Protect Griffey Alliance. 00:57:22.850 --> 00:57:27.767 - Aside from playing this incredible music that we're having tonight, we also need to thank some of the 00:57:27.767 --> 00:57:32.635 - performers here tonight for another gift, which is that many of them have donated CDs. When you came 00:57:32.635 --> 00:57:37.504 - in the door, you might have seen the signs that there's a premium. We feel like we have public radio 00:57:37.504 --> 00:57:42.373 - or something here. There's a premium tonight. If you donate $25 or more, you can take your choice of 00:57:42.373 --> 00:57:47.289 - one of the CDs, Five Carry Newcomer or The Doodaddies or Malcolm Dalglish or Vita. And so that's just 00:57:47.289 --> 00:57:52.158 - a little incentive. So we have to thank them also for those donations. That's a really kind of gift. 00:57:55.138 --> 00:58:01.643 - It's a great chance to get some new music to take home with you. A couple more thank yous. We've been 00:58:01.643 --> 00:58:08.020 - teasing Michael Hamburger backstage saying that he's wasting his time talking to rocks. He's really 00:58:08.020 --> 00:58:14.462 - good at doing this work. He's just been incredible. We have to thank Michael Hamburger. We also have 00:58:14.462 --> 00:58:20.903 - a few other activists that are going to be talking tonight and sharing some words of wisdom. We want 00:58:20.903 --> 00:58:23.390 - to thank Kara Reagan, who was up here. 00:58:24.738 --> 00:58:34.089 - Josh Martin is going to be talking in the second half of the show, and we really want to thank Harry 00:58:34.089 --> 00:58:43.440 - Ford for all the work that he's been doing on this concert. And Leah, Leah has been also working for 00:58:43.440 --> 00:58:52.606 - the last few weeks on nearly a full-time basis preparing for tonight's concert, so thank you Leah. 00:58:59.906 --> 00:59:06.600 - a quick announcement. Natalie Karch, you lost your wallet. I have your driver's license. Your wallet 00:59:06.600 --> 00:59:13.361 - is behind the soundboard and I have your license, so come up and find me and I'll take it back there. 00:59:13.361 --> 00:59:20.056 - So other than that, we're ready to go. Sure, our next performer is Malcolm Dablish. Malcolm has been 00:59:20.056 --> 00:59:25.822 - composing and performing music for many years in Bloomington and all around the world. 00:59:26.146 --> 00:59:41.965 - He is a renowned dulcimer player and a composer and will be joined later by the Oolites. Please welcome 00:59:41.965 --> 00:59:54.590 - Malcolm Dalglish. I thought I would begin with a piece that's just about critters. 00:59:55.170 --> 01:00:01.880 - This is a song that I wrote a verse in it for Lotus Dickey, who's a beloved member of our community 01:00:01.880 --> 01:00:09.128 - and still is thought about often, especially in September when you have that festival. But we were visiting 01:00:09.128 --> 01:00:15.972 - him, and Lotus was a great observer of nature, and we were visiting him years ago, just before he was 01:00:15.972 --> 01:00:22.951 - going to the hospital for the first and last time, and he told us this story about looking at squirrels 01:00:22.951 --> 01:00:24.830 - once when he was very sick. 01:00:25.122 --> 01:00:34.090 - and seeing them flying about from the tree limbs to tree limbs and decided that the way he was gonna 01:00:34.090 --> 01:00:38.974 - heal himself was to eat a whole bunch of hickory nuts. 01:00:55.074 --> 01:01:05.576 - She's got a bushy tail, the possum tail is the bear. The raccoon tail is ringed all around it. Stompy 01:01:05.576 --> 01:01:15.975 - goes the bear. Stompy goes the bear. Stompy goes that old brown bear. The quail is a pretty bird and 01:01:15.975 --> 01:01:22.462 - she carries a speckled breast. But she steals off all the fun. 01:01:26.562 --> 01:01:27.038 - I'm 01:02:22.434 --> 01:02:32.894 - up our cemetery and rockin' on the ground. Look out brother down here below to shake some Simmons down. 01:02:32.894 --> 01:02:43.152 - Shake some Simmons down. Shake some Simmons down here to me. There's a little boy pickin' out hickory 01:02:43.152 --> 01:02:48.382 - nuts and pickin' them from the shelf. Wondering why 01:04:12.738 --> 01:04:21.932 - to take an opportunity to write a new poem, read a new poem, extolling the wonders of this place. And 01:04:21.932 --> 01:04:30.945 - there's no better time to do it in front of all of you who represent what the wonders of this place 01:04:30.945 --> 01:04:39.959 - is all about. You are truly the stewards of this wonderful place. So I wanted to, it's a poem about 01:04:39.959 --> 01:04:42.302 - bicycling and going slow. 01:04:42.594 --> 01:04:46.718 - which is the way I enjoy this place. Bloomington! 01:04:47.682 --> 01:04:54.408 - Every kind of people, preference, and persuasion. Every kind of employed and unemployed vocation. Every 01:04:54.408 --> 01:05:00.940 - kind of domesticity, family, and ethnicity, mentality, mobility, educational facility. Every kind of 01:05:00.940 --> 01:05:07.537 - fast food, slow food, or taste treat. Every kind of soup, sauce, pasta, plate, and pastry. Every kind 01:05:07.537 --> 01:05:14.004 - of weather, weather, in or out of season. And every kind of happening for any kind of reason. Every 01:05:14.004 --> 01:05:14.974 - kind of music. 01:05:15.170 --> 01:05:22.814 - every kind of show and every kind of every and some you'll never know. And if you're looking for any 01:05:23.650 --> 01:05:30.426 - Well, that's just a 10-minute bike ride from here, there, or anywhere to the south side of the courthouse 01:05:30.426 --> 01:05:36.818 - square, there, and back, and back, and there, and back out to the outback and the outskirts of this 01:05:36.818 --> 01:05:43.210 - town, where one might gaze upon the hilly Hoosier landforms and lifeforms that are there to behold, 01:05:43.210 --> 01:05:49.922 - should you decide to reside, ride, and abide proximal to the vicinity, multiplicity, and diverse newness 01:05:49.922 --> 01:05:53.182 - of people, polity that we call Bloomington. Yasco! 01:05:54.210 --> 01:06:00.004 - Hold on to the handlebars, we're going for a ride, 15 miles per hour is the ideal speed for a human 01:06:00.004 --> 01:06:05.798 - being to capture a feel for the land and be totally swept away by the scenery. Any faster and we're 01:06:05.798 --> 01:06:11.708 - just punching in coordinates, waiting to get there and punching out anybody gets in our way. Have you 01:06:11.708 --> 01:06:17.270 - ever noticed, the slower people go, the more civil they are to each other? I ask you, how often 01:06:17.270 --> 01:06:19.646 - do pedestrians flip each other the bird? 01:06:27.842 --> 01:06:37.441 - Cyclers usually wave to each other, and when you ride your bike, you get a strong, eye-watering, breathless, 01:06:37.441 --> 01:06:46.511 - slow vision of where you are. The hills, nooks, brooks, rooks, creeks, crags, cloths and lofts, becks, 01:06:46.511 --> 01:06:55.317 - burrows, burrows and furrows, hillocks and hummocks and hammocks and lawn ornaments, the slacks and 01:06:55.317 --> 01:06:56.286 - the gills, 01:06:56.482 --> 01:07:05.328 - the wrens and the whipperwheels, the rigs, rails, trails, and trailers, and balers, and autos for parts, 01:07:05.328 --> 01:07:13.921 - mufflers, and brakes, and man-made lakes, pontoons, and ponds, and bluegills, and crapathons. Hollows 01:07:13.921 --> 01:07:18.302 - and wallows, the ticks and the licks, the hogbacks, 01:07:18.434 --> 01:07:26.739 - frothy mounds, bales and bailey-wicks, hedges and hinges and hinges on doors of dilapidated sheds and 01:07:26.739 --> 01:07:35.452 - barns without floors, slouching on hunches like cows in the fields and folds of fly-flicking tails waiting 01:07:35.452 --> 01:07:37.406 - for an afternoon storm. 01:07:39.202 --> 01:07:47.999 - Fens and ferns and colorful lichens, escarpments and escars and moss-covered trichens and gorges and 01:07:47.999 --> 01:07:57.319 - ridges and red-covered bridges and steep ravines with discarded fridges. Washeries and dryers and terminal 01:07:57.319 --> 01:08:06.203 - tires, locust trees, honeybees, landfills with PCBs, 10-year locusts and tenured teachers and hot air 01:08:06.203 --> 01:08:08.990 - balloons and hot air preachers. 01:08:10.338 --> 01:08:18.767 - Moraines, terrains, knobs, and gnomes, and names of yore like Buskirk, Chumbly, Knob-On, and Needmore. 01:08:18.767 --> 01:08:27.278 - And there you are, bicycle-borne, pedaling and spinning with all those forms moving slowly by with your 01:08:27.278 --> 01:08:34.398 - own two points of contact with the ground and your own brief freedom from the gravity. 01:08:54.210 --> 01:09:22.078 - One of the things that we're talking about with all our efforts is 01:09:22.498 --> 01:09:31.141 - is not just keeping this land that's in question as it is because it needs a lot of restoration. And 01:09:31.141 --> 01:09:40.383 - I'd like to dedicate the last two songs of this set to just a sort of a spiritual sense of what restoration 01:09:40.383 --> 01:09:49.026 - means and the planting of trees and the coming back of trees. And I want you to think of a vision 50 01:09:49.026 --> 01:09:51.422 - years to 100 years from now 01:09:51.554 --> 01:10:03.498 - when a tree really can establish itself, think of a vision of this town and what it will be if we do 01:10:03.498 --> 01:10:15.323 - our work and if we keep a vigilant to what the heart of this town means. And so do we want stewards 01:10:15.323 --> 01:10:21.118 - of this incredible place in our town to be those 01:10:22.146 --> 01:10:28.517 - which are represented by the people that would be coming and using a golf course and the kinds of things 01:10:28.517 --> 01:10:34.707 - that would be happening there. I'm sure that if it's there in 50 years from now, we'll all, maybe our 01:10:34.707 --> 01:10:40.896 - children will forget that we ever had this struggle. And they will walk amongst the wild preserve and 01:10:40.896 --> 01:10:47.328 - they'll see the golf course and they'll say, no, golf course. And they won't go, oh, yuck, a golf course. 01:10:47.328 --> 01:10:51.454 - But think of what it would be like, though, if we succeed in having 01:10:51.714 --> 01:10:57.407 - a nature center there where people are studying what is one of the most crucial issues of our time, 01:10:57.407 --> 01:11:00.254 - and that is how to balance ourselves with nature. 01:13:34.338 --> 01:13:43.561 - Oh, I need to tell you. That poem was a poem by Wendell Berry. And this next one is a poem by Wendell 01:13:43.561 --> 01:13:52.693 - Berry. And it's called Great Trees. And after, I just wanted to say after this last song, we'll have 01:13:52.693 --> 01:14:01.915 - an intermission. And here is your time to sign petitions, send letters, send emails, make posters for 01:14:01.915 --> 01:14:02.910 - the great, 01:14:03.298 --> 01:14:12.288 - Griffey photo session. So see if you can find a way to get to those things that this intermission. And 01:14:12.288 --> 01:14:21.016 - carry on throughout the week. I understand tomorrow is going to be a hike to Griffey Woods. So this 01:14:21.016 --> 01:14:26.078 - is about trees coming back and just the wonders of trees. 01:17:13.762 --> 01:17:20.611 - She lives within walking distance of Lake Griffey and regularly enjoys its beauty, often with her daughter, 01:17:20.611 --> 01:17:24.670 - husband and two dogs. Please welcome the great Carrie Newcomer. 01:17:48.738 --> 01:17:51.038 - the mystery and the memory. 01:22:08.226 --> 01:22:17.021 - It's about connections, it's called threads. It's about how we touch other people, they touch us. 01:22:17.021 --> 01:22:26.265 - I mean, how many of you have a person or a teacher or a place that you go to in your mind and has made 01:22:26.265 --> 01:22:33.534 - a big impact on you, you know? These are very special things, those connections. 01:22:36.866 --> 01:22:45.236 - I think some of the finest religious experiences I've ever had were when I was walking in a natural 01:22:45.236 --> 01:22:54.024 - area, really. Because I don't think you can walk in a place of beauty, of natural beauty, and not really 01:22:54.024 --> 01:23:01.054 - sense that there's something greater than ourselves, and greater than golf courses. 01:25:18.242 --> 01:25:27.487 - Like I do, no one knows you so well All the ghosts that still haunt you And all the secrets you won't 01:25:27.487 --> 01:25:31.838 - tell Let the wind blow like horses running wild 01:26:25.218 --> 01:26:35.153 - It's about what we give and it's what we leave behind. And about living with your heart on your sleeve. 01:26:35.153 --> 01:26:38.878 - Because some of us do that on purpose. 01:26:56.706 --> 01:27:07.825 - I stand with empty hands, just a spirit tired of wandering like a stranger in this land. Walking wide-eyed 01:27:07.825 --> 01:27:18.216 - through this world is the only way I've known. Wrapped in hope and good intentions and bared to the 01:27:18.216 --> 01:27:20.606 - bone, there is nothing 01:27:32.898 --> 01:27:40.606 - when I was hungry, when my spirit ain't grown, lay it wide open. 01:28:35.714 --> 01:28:36.318 - going home. 01:30:19.362 --> 01:30:30.274 - God, and Vita, and Malcolm, just everything has been just. That's right. That's right. Well, this song 01:30:30.274 --> 01:30:40.974 - is called When It's Gone, It's Gone. And it's true. Sometimes you can get things back that are gone, 01:30:40.974 --> 01:30:47.966 - and sometimes you can't. The town I lived in before I moved here, 01:30:49.282 --> 01:30:57.915 - had a big burst of unchecked development at a certain point. There was this road that led out of town, 01:30:57.915 --> 01:31:06.716 - and all it was was farms and pastures. By the time I left, all it was was baskets of places and Walmarts 01:31:06.716 --> 01:31:15.181 - and strip malls. It was the outer skin that you see everywhere. But there was this one little patch. 01:31:15.181 --> 01:31:18.366 - There was this guy who wouldn't sell. 01:31:18.786 --> 01:31:25.916 - had a little horse farm there. So they're right next to the Taco Bell, you know? It's this beautiful 01:31:25.916 --> 01:31:33.117 - little horse farm. And you go by there, and it's still there. And I got an interview with him once in 01:31:33.117 --> 01:31:40.318 - the paper. He said, well, you know, when I'm gone, they can have it. But for now, this is a reminder. 01:32:10.850 --> 01:32:22.114 - And the ghost of some old engineer Walks these aisles a new nightmare When you're looking down on all 01:32:22.114 --> 01:32:23.550 - those lights 01:33:01.826 --> 01:33:18.910 - And now I don't believe so much in everything. 01:34:41.378 --> 01:34:41.854 - No. 01:36:21.378 --> 01:36:30.769 - everyone doing? I just wanted to first start out by having everyone here give each other a round of 01:36:30.769 --> 01:36:40.535 - applause for taking the time to come out tonight. That having been said, now that we have the pep rally 01:36:40.535 --> 01:36:47.390 - tonight, we're gonna have to get out there this week and kick some butt. 01:36:47.714 --> 01:36:53.024 - This is a great feeling tonight. I'm so filled with joy and hope by this. But we can't get complacent 01:36:53.024 --> 01:36:58.438 - now. And just right on this, we've still got a lot of work to do. We can't hold any illusions that just 01:36:58.438 --> 01:37:03.747 - because we came together, and as we can see, it's obvious to all of us how clear it is that this plan 01:37:03.747 --> 01:37:09.005 - is not right. The trustees that are going to vote on it, they still don't know. And I have a feeling 01:37:09.005 --> 01:37:14.471 - that they're probably going to vote the wrong way, unfortunately, as much as I hate to say the bad news. 01:37:14.471 --> 01:37:17.438 - So we really got to push them. We really got to get out. 01:37:17.730 --> 01:37:23.871 - And I'm going to talk tonight about a few things that we're going to do this week where everyone can 01:37:23.871 --> 01:37:30.317 - get out and help. And we're trying to move this along, so I don't want to say too much. But I just wanted 01:37:30.317 --> 01:37:36.458 - to take this time to say how proud I am to live in Bloomington where there's people like all of you. 01:37:36.458 --> 01:37:42.721 - Where everyone comes together on issues like this. We've seen it time and time again with I-69 and the 01:37:42.721 --> 01:37:46.430 - cell phone towers and the underpass issue we just had and PC 01:37:53.282 --> 01:38:00.316 - We're not the type of people that are just going to sit here and take what the fat cats at the top give 01:38:00.316 --> 01:38:07.215 - us. We want to stay in our community. As a whole, we can all work together. So coming up, I just want 01:38:07.215 --> 01:38:14.046 - to mention again, at 12 o'clock tomorrow, down at Griffey Lake, where the boat ramp is, Steve Coller 01:38:14.046 --> 01:38:20.877 - from Parks and Rec is going to lead a nature hike. Later on that night, at 6 o'clock, we're going to 01:38:20.877 --> 01:38:22.974 - meet for the candlelight vigil 01:38:24.194 --> 01:38:30.401 - square, then we're going to march towards campus after that and get together. We're going to try to 01:38:30.401 --> 01:38:36.795 - keep it short, half hour, 45 minutes, or something like that, because there's an event here for Martin 01:38:36.795 --> 01:38:43.188 - Luther King Day. And I want everyone to be able to attend that if they choose. So also for that night, 01:38:43.188 --> 01:38:49.458 - bring a candle if you have one. Also, maybe bring a flashlight if you'd rather do that. There's some 01:38:49.458 --> 01:38:53.182 - bad news. Unfortunately, there might be some rainy weather. 01:38:54.722 --> 01:39:02.622 - So don't be scared away by that. Please still come. We'll bring a flashlight. And next after that, on 01:39:02.622 --> 01:39:10.987 - Wednesday, the city council is going to have a meeting at 730. And at that meeting is going to be presented 01:39:10.987 --> 01:39:18.810 - a resolution opposing the golf course. And some of the city council members told me that they really 01:39:18.810 --> 01:39:23.070 - need everybody to get there and have another chance to 01:39:27.138 --> 01:39:34.367 - be able to speak and hopefully we'll get this passed and get one more message to the trustees. And then 01:39:34.367 --> 01:39:38.398 - on Friday is the big day where it's going to all go down. 01:40:10.882 --> 01:40:16.344 - James Alexander Tom is an author and lifelong resident of our area, telling stories of the land and 01:40:16.344 --> 01:40:21.914 - of the people who walked here before us. Jim also uses the power of his pen in defense of wild places 01:40:21.914 --> 01:40:25.246 - and common sense within. Please welcome James Alexander Tom. 01:40:40.322 --> 01:40:48.779 - I'm happy to see so many of Bloomington's elite here tonight. And I don't mean it facetiously. I'm not 01:40:48.779 --> 01:40:57.154 - sure how long my voice will hold out. I've been down for a while, but I'll talk as long as I can take 01:40:57.154 --> 01:41:05.365 - for me to get something said. I used to be very, very afraid of getting up and speaking in front of 01:41:05.365 --> 01:41:09.470 - people because I was afraid I would say something 01:41:09.890 --> 01:41:21.493 - Really stupid. But I don't worry about that anymore. The threshold is down. Somebody says that building 01:41:21.493 --> 01:41:33.319 - a golf course will improve the environment. A guy named Donald Trump says that if he spends $100 billion, 01:41:33.319 --> 01:41:39.678 - it will entitle him to become president of this country. 01:41:40.130 --> 01:41:50.810 - So I shouldn't worry about saying something that's going to sound real fluid. Now, Donald Trump is a 01:41:50.810 --> 01:42:01.596 - rich, smug playboy of a man. He's used to having his own way, which brings me right to the subject at 01:42:01.596 --> 01:42:09.950 - hand. It's a scheme of rich, smug people who are used to having their own way. 01:42:11.266 --> 01:42:21.121 - They want to build a Jack Nicklaus, is that pronouncing that right? Jack Nicklaus Signature Deluxe Golf 01:42:21.121 --> 01:42:30.786 - Course to replace 300 acres of woods. In other words, 300 acres of woods cut down to give financially 01:42:30.786 --> 01:42:38.462 - privileged few a golf course of their own. Well, how many of you here play golf? 01:42:43.746 --> 01:42:53.993 - Don't be ashamed to admit it. Don't be ashamed to admit it. OK. Are the golf courses around here good 01:42:53.993 --> 01:43:03.838 - enough for you? I think for the vast majority of golfers, or at least for the half vast majority, 01:43:13.730 --> 01:43:22.183 - Apparently, they're not good enough for these privileged few. Or maybe the golf courses are good enough, 01:43:22.183 --> 01:43:30.636 - but the other people aren't good enough for them to play with. Well, anyway, after they began developing 01:43:30.636 --> 01:43:38.848 - this idea to build this private country club or golf club or whatever it is for these people, a bunch 01:43:38.848 --> 01:43:43.678 - of people showed up and protested. And they were surprised. 01:43:43.970 --> 01:43:52.369 - The IU people were surprised, and they started immediately putting spin on and saying, well, well, well, 01:43:52.369 --> 01:44:00.847 - well, you know, it will improve the environment of that Griffey watershed. It'd be better than the woods, 01:44:00.847 --> 01:44:09.006 - you know? So as I see it, a golf course is a developer's way of showing how God could have landscaped 01:44:09.006 --> 01:44:10.846 - if he'd had the money. 01:44:24.674 --> 01:44:33.351 - OK, I'm here tonight on behalf of my Scottish ancestors. We invented the game of golf. Give you a brief 01:44:33.351 --> 01:44:42.028 - history. Can you picture us? My shaggy ancestors, beards on their faces, gnarled legs, wearing shields, 01:44:42.028 --> 01:44:50.538 - batting a feather-filled leather ball around the countryside with a gnarled shillelagh. Or maybe they 01:44:50.538 --> 01:44:52.958 - used their shepherd's crooks 01:44:53.282 --> 01:45:00.194 - bat that ball around. Anyway, they invented the game. It was a pretty good game for them. It was OK 01:45:00.194 --> 01:45:07.382 - for them. It was cheap. They were poor. There weren't any trees around. All the trees had been cut down 01:45:07.382 --> 01:45:14.433 - to make sheep grazing places to make wool for the rich mill owners. So there weren't any trees to cut 01:45:14.433 --> 01:45:20.446 - down. You could just bat that ball just about any place. Then an awful thing happened. 01:45:20.994 --> 01:45:28.880 - The Americans came over and stole our national game. They figured out how to make it really expensive. 01:45:28.880 --> 01:45:37.149 - Clothes and equipment, golf courses, make it a consumer sport, cost thousands of dollars to outfit yourself 01:45:37.149 --> 01:45:44.805 - to play golf in style. They brought it over to America, and America was covered with trees. So they 01:45:44.805 --> 01:45:49.246 - had to count them all down and make golf courses to play. 01:45:50.434 --> 01:46:01.338 - Now, what are my sentiments as a Scotsman? We want our game back. Golf courses should be built only 01:46:01.338 --> 01:46:12.677 - in Scotland. Not in Indiana. Build them in Scotland. There are no trees over there to be cut down. Now, 01:46:12.677 --> 01:46:18.238 - this would be good for my people in a lot of ways. 01:46:18.818 --> 01:46:28.242 - Scottish people are kind of poor. It's probably because they aren't on an interstate exit. They could 01:46:28.242 --> 01:46:37.757 - use some tourist dollars, greenspies, employment as caddies. They could sell single malt scotch at the 01:46:37.757 --> 01:46:47.181 - 19th home. It would be good for them. Now, these rich golfers that are going to come here and play at 01:46:47.181 --> 01:46:48.382 - this private 01:46:48.642 --> 01:47:03.304 - country club on the Indiana University, they're willing to put out enough membership money. They could 01:47:03.304 --> 01:47:15.262 - go over to Scotland and play over there. Remember, I'm a Scotsman and I'm for golf. 01:47:16.450 --> 01:47:26.810 - But I think the dolphin costume should be kilts instead of red sweaters. Now, I'm also here on behalf 01:47:26.810 --> 01:47:37.271 - of my Druid ancestors. To the Druids, the trees are sacred. To me, they're sacred. I live around here. 01:47:37.271 --> 01:47:44.990 - I've lived here all my life. I've known some trees personally for 65 years. 01:47:48.674 --> 01:47:59.144 - I'm a member of Heartwood, Forest Alliance, all those things. I've spent most of my life savings protecting 01:47:59.144 --> 01:48:09.322 - the wooded valley over in my part of the country from being destroyed for stupid reasons. In my opinion, 01:48:09.322 --> 01:48:17.950 - you need a really good reason to cut down one living great tree. Cut down a whole woods. 01:48:18.594 --> 01:48:28.685 - So rich men can play there. That's not only stupid, that's sacrilege. You'll have to be ready to fight. 01:48:28.685 --> 01:48:38.486 - We'll have to be ready to fight because these are, as I said, money men who are accustomed to having 01:48:38.486 --> 01:48:48.286 - their way. I'll be surprised if we win. But it's time to make rich men fight for every inch of God's 01:48:48.418 --> 01:49:01.219 - hand your work that they try to take away from you. God's signature is on every tree. God's signature 01:49:01.219 --> 01:49:14.270 - is on every woods. Would you erase God's signature and put Jack Nicklaus' signature on the golf course? 01:49:18.850 --> 01:49:27.591 - That's how I feel about it as a Scotsman and as a man who loves this community and this countryside 01:49:27.591 --> 01:49:36.420 - and all you people. Now, in the past few years, the civic-minded country and Western doodaddies have 01:49:36.420 --> 01:49:45.599 - put some twang into concerts benefiting citizens for appropriate rural roads, Wonder Lab, FHB, and other 01:49:45.599 --> 01:49:46.910 - worthy causes. 01:49:47.618 --> 01:49:53.150 - They're here tonight to do the same for the Protect Griffey Alliance. Please welcome Bloomington's Doodaddies. 01:50:12.066 --> 01:50:19.714 - We have a special guest do-daddy today, Chris Gall. Chris is on the city council now, as you probably 01:50:19.714 --> 01:50:27.287 - know. Most of you probably voted for him, I hope. And if you have any problems, anything you want to 01:50:27.287 --> 01:50:35.159 - talk about, just call him. No, this is great. I was out front watching Capshaw's daughter do the clicker 01:50:35.159 --> 01:50:39.358 - on the attendance roll, and the thing was just smoking. 01:50:39.682 --> 01:50:47.880 - And there was like, it was up to about 700 or something. I thought, wow, this gives me the opportunity 01:50:47.880 --> 01:50:56.318 - to thank like 40% of the people who voted for me. I'll tell you, following Carrie Newcomer is no enviable 01:50:56.318 --> 01:51:04.357 - position. I'll tell you that. But we're going to do our best. You know, I remember probably a lot of 01:51:04.357 --> 01:51:08.894 - you seeing movies in this place when I was a little boy. 01:51:09.058 --> 01:51:15.533 - And I grew up on the north side, and I spent literally, in the summers particularly, every day, all 01:51:15.533 --> 01:51:22.007 - day at Griffey Lake. We would fish in the mornings until it got too hot to fish, and we'd swim. And 01:51:22.007 --> 01:51:28.546 - we'd swim until it cooled off and got too cold to swim, and we'd fish some more. So I hope you enjoy 01:51:28.546 --> 01:51:35.086 - what we're going to do. And thanks again for being here. And those are the old go swimming days, not 01:51:35.086 --> 01:51:36.510 - the no swimming days. 01:51:53.250 --> 01:52:00.020 - When I hit the brakes when I heard the cry of a metal steel guitar. For the fish don't bite the fish 01:52:00.020 --> 01:52:06.722 - around here like they did years before. And the wine don't let me like she used to do when I walked 01:52:06.722 --> 01:52:13.626 - in the door. Cause it's the one thing I can count on to get me up when I'm feeling down. That's a good 01:52:13.626 --> 01:52:19.390 - corp here in the country bar where they play the honky-tonk sounds, play some beaver. 01:52:40.066 --> 01:52:42.334 - getting old just a little bit faster than me. 01:52:42.690 --> 01:52:48.326 - And it ain't exactly what I used to say when I grew up, I wanted to be. I've been thinking about taking 01:52:48.326 --> 01:52:53.908 - some night school and music started on a new career. It means I had to spend my nights playing country 01:52:53.908 --> 01:52:59.327 - songs and drinking new beer. With a fish on bite, the Greeks are out here like they did eight years 01:52:59.327 --> 01:53:04.854 - ago. And I wound up like Jesus when I walked in the door. This is one thing I can count on to pick me 01:53:04.854 --> 01:53:10.599 - up when I'm feeling down. And that's a good cold beer and a country ball. They play the honky-tonk sound. 01:53:10.599 --> 01:53:12.062 - Little metal steel guitar. 01:53:32.354 --> 01:53:37.920 - Some folks say, get better and better with time. But the country song is one of those things, in the 01:53:37.920 --> 01:53:43.541 - opinion of mine. There stands the glass, my old wet piercer, sounds good every night. And when George 01:53:43.541 --> 01:53:49.162 - Szynski stopped loving her today, I could see that my life's all right. Well, the fish don't bite the 01:53:49.162 --> 01:53:54.838 - bricks around here like they did in years before. And the wife don't love her like she used to do, and 01:53:54.838 --> 01:53:59.742 - I wanna be in the door. There's one thing I can count on and feel, and I'm feeling down. 01:54:00.002 --> 01:54:23.201 - Thank you very, very good. Here, we're going to slow it down and do one that, well, it's got a little 01:54:23.201 --> 01:54:29.342 - bit of Griffey Lake in it. 01:54:44.834 --> 01:54:55.794 - I go out walking alone to a place where we used to go when our love was young and we made those plans. 01:54:55.794 --> 01:55:06.647 - The moon is full and I was holding your hand in the moonlight. I can see your face and I can feel the 01:55:06.647 --> 01:55:12.286 - warmth of your embrace, the night wind in the trees. 01:55:12.770 --> 01:55:23.915 - grass on my skin sometimes I just wish I could live it all over again the other day I drove past my 01:55:23.915 --> 01:55:35.393 - old school back where me and my friends thought we were so damn cool and I saw a lot of these hometown 01:55:35.393 --> 01:55:39.294 - kids and remembered all the stupid 01:55:39.714 --> 01:55:54.502 - And I felt like something in this town I never thought much about Where I'd never been And sometimes 01:55:54.502 --> 01:56:00.798 - I just wish I could live it all over again 01:56:08.866 --> 01:56:18.206 - The seasons change and so does my mind, but I don't think I'll be living it over again. 01:57:09.442 --> 01:57:19.533 - my grandparents far. You know my grandma's changed. Since my granddad died, she don't have much to keep 01:57:19.533 --> 01:57:29.430 - her occupied. I can smell the hogs and see miles of corn. We'd go fishing down by the reservoir where 01:57:29.430 --> 01:57:36.222 - he'd laugh with me. And I'd laugh with him. And sometimes I just wish 01:57:36.898 --> 01:57:47.776 - You can live it all over again I can't believe how you've grown And I'm thinking each day I love you 01:57:47.776 --> 01:57:59.299 - so much I don't know how I can say How I feel when I watch you laugh and cry For a while I start wondering 01:57:59.299 --> 01:58:05.438 - how and why Things are how they are And all I want to be 01:58:06.498 --> 01:58:19.432 - Father and friend, they're not starting to see that in a way, you're where I begin. In a way, I might 01:58:19.432 --> 01:58:30.590 - live some of it over again. But the rain falls and the sun shines and the seas of shame 01:59:03.266 --> 01:59:20.191 - Okay, I want to remind people of a couple things. Tomorrow night is the vigil, right? Tomorrow night, 01:59:20.191 --> 01:59:27.326 - Sample Gates, what time? Courthouse, okay. 01:59:31.330 --> 01:59:37.545 - Okay, correction on the contact, the trustee contact. Walda's phone number is wrong on your information 01:59:37.545 --> 01:59:43.819 - slip. The correct phone number, there's no way you'll be able to write this down in the dark room. We'll 01:59:43.819 --> 01:59:49.974 - see if there's a way you can remember this in demonic device. It's 436-2132. Like I said, I don't know 01:59:49.974 --> 01:59:55.949 - how anyone's gonna remember that, but that was the best. And on maybe afterwards, someone will have 01:59:55.949 --> 02:00:00.670 - it on the way out the door and pick it up on your way out. And then of course, 02:00:02.306 --> 02:00:11.801 - Please call the trustees. I'm being told that that is critical. That is a way to take care of this thing. 02:00:11.801 --> 02:00:20.222 - Once again, the number is 219, is the air code, 219-436-2132. An old Hank Williams tune here. 02:00:34.498 --> 02:00:39.836 - something up with me. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, 02:00:39.836 --> 02:00:45.070 - hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, 02:00:45.070 --> 02:00:50.304 - hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, 02:00:50.304 --> 02:00:55.537 - hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, 02:00:55.537 --> 02:01:00.771 - hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, 02:01:00.771 --> 02:01:04.382 - hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey 02:01:04.738 --> 02:01:09.662 - Well, how about cooking something up with me? Cook it up, fellas. 02:03:52.322 --> 02:03:59.253 - wacky, four-speed irregular type, so I didn't have time to put anything together for the Griffey event. 02:03:59.253 --> 02:04:05.984 - But we put together a song, I did a song with you last year to perform at a different benefit event. 02:04:05.984 --> 02:04:12.649 - And I think it'll do here just fine, because they're related. They're connected. We're talking land 02:04:12.649 --> 02:04:19.780 - use, the issues, land use policy, impacts on the community, a sane, sensible, sustainable attitude towards 02:04:19.780 --> 02:04:22.046 - communities and towards the land. 02:04:22.594 --> 02:04:28.664 - and autocratic, authoritarian decision making from top down, things like that. We're all involved in 02:04:28.664 --> 02:04:34.673 - this issue, too, and it's going to impact this community tremendously. So we're going to do a title 02:04:34.673 --> 02:04:37.918 - track from our first CD and then segue into this one. 02:12:44.194 --> 02:12:46.622 - Anybody else? This land is your land.