Family's lockdown adaptation of Les Misrables song

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1. I'm reminded of William Browning Spencer's "How to Praise an Author," written before

all our words ended up online. He gives such sage advice as "Don't compare an author to another writer, whom the author probably considers an overpaid typist." And "saying that you and your family dress up as his characters and act out scenes from his books every Friday night might be a bit over the top, but most authors will buy it. And lo and behold...they're doing it.

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2. Awesome!

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3. I loved this! Thanks for posting!

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4. When's the road cast start touring? Good stuff!!!

[Hekate]

5. This is fabulous. I'm gonna send the link to so many people!

This family rocks.

[Yavin4]

6. Great. Now, do Phantom! n/t

[Ksudem]

7. Ohio thanks you

You folks are so original and you have such great singing voices! Cheers!

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10. How are things in Kent?

[Ksudem]

11. Sad cancellation of Kent State May 4th Commeration

Very disappointed when 50th Anniversary Commeration of May 4 had to be cancelled. Hope they can hold it next year!

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12. I remember it every year. And Jackson, too. I'm too far away to get back, but my ...

heart and mind still is there. I have friends who still live in Kent and Brimfield, I'm from Akron, in Texas now. My son has a bee business in Ravenna.

[Ksudem]

13. Hello, Akronite

Hi, I also grew up in Akron, went to Garfield Highschool. Where did you attend? I was student at Kent on May 4th, 1970. Did you get e-mail re KSU doing memorial on-line?

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14. Buchtel. I was a senior but snuck to Kent the night after Nixon announced the invasion into ...

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Cambodia. We went to the basketball game. Our car was west of downtown and we were east, I didn't get home that night because the sheriff and the OSP were trying to clear the town after somebody rolled a car and set it on fire.

I did know a guy who cut firehoses when the barrack bldg used for the art dept got burned.

I was in school Monday when the shooting happened.

[Ksudem]

15. May 4 memories

Well, nice to connect with you! My mom graduated from Butchel. I remember that Thursday night, hearing of the uproar on N. Water St. And I saw the flames from the art building on fire from my dorm building, just 1 building over from the commons. I remember waking up to have the Guard on campus - pretty creepy. On Monday morning, I tried to go to English class. I was in restroom in Saaterfield Hall and young woman came in with blood on her hands saying, "They are shooting at us!" We all had to clear campus by 3pm. How did you react on Monday morning in Akron?

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16. Total fucking shock. That Saturday I was laboring for my dad in Richfield, coming down ...

Cleveland Massilon road, we turned east on Rt 303 which goes through Streetsboro (northside of Kent) we were going to Peninsula and go south on Peninsula Rd to Akron. About a mile or so down the road was a BIG Nat Guard bivouac. That was my first shock.

Rhodes tried to shut down the campus while the President of KSU was out of town - well you know the rest.

Did you know there was a shooter and he was ID'd? He was an informer who was given a cover as a photographer and was given a .38. I just read about it a year or two ago.

I understand he's still in the area.

I was a member of the Mobilization Against the War as well as a Junior Bomber, and I was kicked out of school the last day of my junior year for publishing an underground paper. They tried to force me to go to Firestone, we actually lived on Wooster Rs behind the South Hawkins Shopping Center, I insisted because I lived in the South HS district - that's where I wanted to go, they gave up and I finished at Buchtel and went onto 'Polymer High' aka 'Hilltop High' aka University of Akron. I worked in some of the head shops - Glass Onion, Zap, Hung around the Avondale - sold tiedye, pot and hash.

Great days. In '72 some of the Weathermen were enlisting so I did to, mainly so my dad couldn't shut me up at Thanksgiving when the conversation turned to the war. This was in the day of FTA and Navy personel mining American harbors with beach balls after Nixon mined Haiphong over Christmas '72.

I still get searched going on any flight. So I don't fly anymore. "Random" searches, my ass. My first search was at O'Hare traveling in class "A" uniform by the FBI. They said I matched the hijacker's profile. Bull shit.

Its been a wonderful life with few regrets, there are no do overs I want to do. Except my four year foray into Corporate type "A" asshole I made that I ended at 38 with a heart attack. Now except for the cancer thing, I feel great. On no prescriptions and I feel healthy.

[Ksudem]

17. Interesting news about guy with with .38 at May 4th

Do you think that guy was the trigger guy to start the firing? I can believe it because , why not? Stranger things than that have been done. Where did you hear about him? Also, how about them still searching you every time you flew? I did some protesting in the early '80s, like at the Nuclear Freeze March in N.Y. City and figured I'm on somebody's list but perhaps not. When you said you enlisted, I assume you mean the armed forces? By the way, this year's May 4th Commemoration will be done virtually and the web address is www.kent.edu/may4kentstate50. It includes David Crosby and Graham Nash, Jerry Casale from Devo plus a new play starring Tina Fey and her spouse, who is a KSU alumnus. Cheers. Stay safe in Texas. (My husband is on the underground a lot, sort of knows you!)

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18. I hung around the Devo when they lived in Highland Square, lived in one of the Mothersbaugh ...

Dad's apartments by St V, Devo recorded their first EP with "Mongaloid" in the BushFlow Studios when Tim Huey's bass player Mark Price ran it from his basement on Oakdale, still in contact with Harvey Gold. Mark passed about five or six years ago from cancer.

Connections.

If you start here and keep searching the web, you'll get to a blog that documents its claims.

https://www.cleveland.com/science/2010/12/kent_state_shootings_does_form.html

[Ksudem]

19. Thank you for documentation!

That was exceedingly interesting! It is amazing what they are able to hide, isn't it? I had never heard of this before - here I am sitting in Columbus. That Cleveland Plain Dealer is remarkable! Imagine if that stupid guy got the guardsmen firing! Sadly, it makes some sense that he did. Of course, it is disgusting, in any case, about an informant there with a loaded gun! No wonder there were not public hearings wherein the guardsmen, police, Norman and others were interviewed! (Coincidentally, I can picture Highland Square - I hung out there a lot, granted much later, around 2003 when my mom was in a nursing home a few blocks from there. And my grandparents lived near St. Vincent's. Also, around 2010, saw an art show, perhaps in Chicago, of the visual and 3-dimensional art by that main guy in Devo who graduated from Kent State about when I did. Was that Mothersbaugh?) Anyway, thank you so much for the info and detailed documentation! Take care and stay safe!

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20. Devo started as an art project. I remember four of them going to Kent '73, 74 ish. They ...

started out a sort of jazz band, they had a vibraphone and found a synthesizer from a dumpster. They had another drummer, Rich Roberts (I went to Simon Perkins with his brothers) who went on to drum for Chi Pig.

I miss Akron. My son has a bee business in Ravenna - Blue Sky Bees and Lazy Bees.

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8. In a word

Fabulous!

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9. WOW - WOW - WOW

Thank you for posting!!!!