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The Brautigan Library
11/10/1992 | 28m 13sVideo has Closed Captions
A one-of-a-kind library located in Burlington, Vermont that many Vermonters are not aware
A one-of-a-kind library located in Burlington, Vermont that many Vermonters are not aware of. It has received national as well as international attention, including a feature on "Good Morning America." The Brautigan Library accepts manuscripts from all over the world, binds the manuscripts into books and places them on its shelves to be read and enjoyed by all who stop in.
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Crossroads
The Brautigan Library
11/10/1992 | 28m 13sVideo has Closed Captions
A one-of-a-kind library located in Burlington, Vermont that many Vermonters are not aware of. It has received national as well as international attention, including a feature on "Good Morning America." The Brautigan Library accepts manuscripts from all over the world, binds the manuscripts into books and places them on its shelves to be read and enjoyed by all who stop in.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>> TONIGHT WE'LL VISIT THE ONLY LIBRARY OF ITS KIND IN VERMONT FOR A UTOPIAN GLIMPSE OF PUBLISHING AT ITS MOST HUMANE.
IT'S THE STORY OF THE BRAUTIGAN LINE REAR, THEN OFF TO TOUR THE MULTI-COLORED HILLS AND DETAILS THAT MAKE US THE AWED UP CAPITAL OF THE WORLD AND ANOTHER TALE OF EVERY DAY LIFE SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF THE TRUE VERMONTNER ALL OF US.
WELCOME TO CROSSROADS.
I'M ENOZO DIMAIO.
FOR MOST CREATIVE ARTISTS ULTIMATE GRATIFICATION COMES FROM KNOWING THEIR WORK HAS HAD AN IMPACT HOWEVER LIMITED AND BELIEVE IT WILL BE AROUND FOR A LONG TIME N. THE CASE OF WRITERS SUCH IS HARD TO COME BY SINCE IT DEPENDS ENTIRELY ON THE WHIMS OF PUBLISHERS.
FOR ONE LOCAL VISIONARY THAT WAS INTOLERABLE SITUATION.
HIS NOVEL SOLUTION CAUGHT THE ATTENTION OF VANESSA SMITH.
SHE IS CONSTANTLY AMAZED AT WHAT HER NEW HOME SAID TAKE TO HOFFER.
THE EXISTENCE OF A SO-CALLED VANITY LIBRARY WAS NO EXCEPTION.
>> HERE IT IS.
VERMONT'S LARGEST CITY.
EVERYTHING YOU WOULD EXPECT A CITY TO HAVE BURLINGTON'S GOT T. THEATERS FOR PLAYS AND FILMS.
BEAUTIFUL HISTORIC CHURCHES.
CAFES WHERE ALL THE INTELLECTUALS HANG OUT.
A LAKE TO SAIL ON OR WATCH FOR A GENUINE LAKE MONSTER.
BURLINGTON HAS SOMETHING NO OTHER CITY IN THE WORLD CAN CLAIM, A LIBRARY FOR UNPUBLISHED BOOKS.
NO, NOT THAT LIBRARY.
THIS ONE.
TUCKED AWAY BEHIND A HEDGE WHERE YOU'D ALMOST MISS IT.
THE BRAUTIGAN LIBRARY.
I HAD TO SEE WHAT WAS IN HERE ANDED TODD LOCKWOOD, WHO CREATED THE LIBRARY, TOOK TIME OUT OF HIS BUSY SCHEDULE TO GREET ME.
I ASKED HIM WHO BRAUTIGAN WAS.
>> PROBABLY MORE THAN ANY OTHER AMERICAN WRITER THAT I CAN THINK OF BRAUTIGAN INSPIRED PEOPLE WHO HAD NEVER WRITTEN TO WRITE FOR THE FIRST TIME.
BECAUSE THERE WAS SOMETHING ABOUT HIS WORK THAT MADE YOU FEEL -- I CAN DO THAT.
>> HE CAME UP WITH THE IDEA FOR THIS LIBRARY IN SPIRIT.
>> YES.
WELL, IN FACT HE DESCRIBED IN ANOTHER BOOK, THE ABORTION, A LIBRARY IN GREAT DETAIL, AND IN THIS BOOK HE WAS ACTUALLY THE LIBRARIAN.
THE LIBRARY THAT'S PRESENTED IN THERE WAS SUCH A UNIQUE AND INTERESTING IDEA.
I JUST THOUGHT, WHY HASN'T SOMEONE DONE THIS?
IT'S SUCH A NATURAL THING WHEN YOU CONSIDER ALL OF THE CLOSET WRITERS, PEOPLE WHO DON'T EVEN CALL THEMSELVES WRITERS, WHOSE NEXT DOOR NEIGHBORS DON'T EVEN KNOW THEY WRITE.
THESE PEOPLE WHO HAVE MANUSCRIPTS IN THEIR ATTICS AND CLOSETS.
WHY ISN'T THERE A PLACE FOR THIS WORK TO GO?
>> AT SOME POINT ALONG THE WAY I CHANGED MY THINKING FROM WHEN IS SOMEONE GOING TO DO THIS TO WHEN AM I GOING TO DO THIS.
[LAUGHTER] [APPLAUSE] ON OPENING DAY WE HAD ABOUT 200 PEOPLE PACKED IN HERE.
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN'S DAUGHTER FLEW OUT FROM CALIFORNIA TO BE WITH US.
>> WHEN I FIRST MET TODD, IT WAS IN THE BURLINGTON AIRPORT WITH MY HUSBAND, AND TODD IS VERY TALL LIKE MY HUSBAND IS.
AND HE REMINDED ME OF JIMMY STEWART.
[LAUGHTER] KIND OF LIKE -- HE WAS LIKE A FRANK CAPRA CHARACTER.
HE IS JUST SO ENTHUSIASTIC AND HIS IDEAS COME TO LIFE, AND THAT'S KIND OF SCARY TO SEE SOMEONE WHO JUST KIND OF PUTS THINGS INTO EXISTENCE.
>> SHE'S A WONDERFUL PERSON.
SHE'S IN HER 30s.
IS ACTUALLY AN ASPIRING WRITER HERSELF.
WE HAD A LITTLE CEREMONY WHERE WE READ SOME EXCERPTS OUT OF THE ABORTION THAT WERE DIRECTLY CONNECTED TO LIBRARY AND THEN WE READ SOME SIMILAR EXCERPTS OUT OF SOME OF THE BOOKS THAT HAD ALREADY ARRIVED THAT WE WERE GOING TO BE PUTTING ON THE SHELF.
I TOOK THE FIRST BOOK, CARRIED IT ACROSS THE ROOM AND PUT IT ON THE SHELF FOR US, AND THEN REALLY WITHOUT WARNING SHE TURNED AND GAVE US THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY SOLILOQUY ABOUT HOW HER FATHER WOULD HAVE REALLY ENJOYED BEING HERE.
IT WAS JUST AN EXTRAORDINARY MOMENT.
>> I LIKE TO KIND OF IMAGINE MY FATHER MEETING TODD.
I THINK THEY WOULD HAVE HAD A GOOD TIME TOGETHER.
I THINK IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A SHOCK TO TODD BECAUSE THE REAL RICHARD BRAUTIGAN -- [LAUGHTER] IS VERY -- WAS A VERY INTERESTING PERSON.
I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT KIND OF SHOWS WHAT MY FATHER STOOD FOR IN A WAY OR WHAT HE MEANT TO OTHER PEOPLE, I THINK WHAT THE BRAUTIGAN LIBRARY SHOWED ME WHAT HE MEANT TO OTHER PEOPLE.
THAT I THINK WAS MY FATHER'S GIFT, MAKING WRITING SOMETHING DOABLE AGAIN TO SOMEONE WHO MIGHT NEVER BE A WRITER.
I THINK THAT EVERYONE HAS THAT -- SHOULD HAVE THAT FEELING THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO HAVE A COLLEGE EDUCATION IN CREATIVE WRITING TO BE A WRITER.
YOU CAN COME FROM AN EXTRAORDINARILY POOR BACKGROUND AND HAVE SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE WANT TO HEAR.
>> IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY MAKE FAMOUS PEOPLE OUT OF THE WRITERS, IN FACT IT MAY NOT MOVE THEM ONE IOTA CLOSER TO BEING PUBLISHED, BUT THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT HAVING YOUR WORDS, ONLY ONE COPY OF THOSE WORDS NA PUBLIC PLACE THAT IS SORT OF EXCITING AND GRATIFYING FOR THE WRITER.
THIS IS THE MACHINE THAT BINDS THE BOOKS FOR US.
WHAT I'M DOING HERE IS PUNCHING THE PAGES.
WE DO THEM A FEW AT A TIME AND THEY STACK UP HERE THAT WE'RE SORT OF LIMITED TO ABOUT AN INCH AND A HALF IN THICKNESS.
NOW WE TAKE ANOTHER ON EACH END OF THIS IS A COVER SHEET.
PUT OUGHT COVER IN THERE AND THE MACHINE GOES AHEAD, I JUST PUT A LITTLE PRESSURE ON HERE, THE MACHINE CUTS THOSE TEETH OFF AND ACTUALLY SEALS THE ENDS, MELTS THEM A LITTLE BIT.
THERE IT IS.
WE'RE ALMOST DONE.
THERE OF COURSE IS OUR TITLE PAGE THAT WE PRINTED OFF THE COMPUTER FOR THIS PARTICULAR BOOK.
HERE, THIS IS THE MACHINE THAT ACTUALLY PUTS TE HARD COVER ON, CRANK IT IN THERE AND THIS MACHINE TELLS US WHICH OF THE VARIOUS COVER SIZES WE NEED.
GO AHEAD AND PUT THE COVER IN.
TAKE OUT THE STRIP IN THE CENTER HERE.
BRING THIS DOWN.
BUT THERE WE ARE.
SO IT'S ALL NICELY BOUND.
AND THERE IT IS.
>> THERE ARE 300 BOOKS SITTING ON THESE SHELVES.
I WANTED TO MEET ALL 300 AUTHORS BUT DECIDED TO NARROW MY SEARCH TO FOUR OF THE VERMONTERS WHO HAVE STORIES HERE.
FOR SHEILA LAWRENCE A SNOWY MORE THAN'S RUN WAS INSPIRATION FOR A STORY.
>> AS I WAS DRIVING THE BUS ON A DAY IN FEBRUARY IT WAS RAIN NOT GUILTY STANFORD.
WHEN WE GOT TO HARPERVILLE IT HAD BEEN SNOWING FOR SOME TIME.
IT WAS LIKE DRIVING THROUGH A CLOUD.
THERE WAS SNOW EVERYWHERE.
UNDER, OVER, ALL AROUND.
IT WAS BEAUTIFUL.
EVERYTHING WAS WHITE.
SO CLEAN AND PURE LOOKING, BOY, IT WAS A DREAM LAYING ON THE GROUND.
AS YOU GOT UP TO AND OVER THE MOUNTAIN ALL THE TREES HAD ICE ON THEM, THE WHOLE AREA SPARKLED.
IT WAS LIKE A DIAMOND PATCH GROWING.
IT WAS LIKE THAT FOR ABOUT A MILE THEN EVERYTHING CLEARED UP AND ALL YOU SAW WAS RAIN.
THE KIDS ON THE BUS THOUGHT THAT WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST THINGS THEY HAD SEEN IN A WHILE.
>> GARY OF BURLINGTON IS DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF VERMONT'S DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH.
HIS ONE AND ONLY BOOK HAS BEINCLUDED IN THE BRAUTIGAN LIBRARY.
IT'S BASED ON SOME OF HIS EXPERIENCES IN PUBLIC LIFE.
>> IN 1982, THROUGH 1988 I SERVED THREE TERMS ON BURLINGTON CITY COUNCIL.
SERVING AS AN INDEPENDENT ALIGNED WITH THE PROGRESSIVES ON CITY COUNCIL.
FOUND THOSE FASCINATING YEARS, ENJOYED ALL OF THE LONG MEETINGS AND THE HARD WORK.
CAMPAIGNING DOOR TO DOOR THROUGHOUT THE OLD NORTH END TO THE PART OF TOWN THAT I REPRESENTED.
FOUND IT PROBABLY ONE OF THE IF NOT THE GREATEST HONOR THAT I HAVE HAD IN MY LIFE TO BE ELECTED BY PEOPLE AND TRUST ME WITH THE RESPONSIBLE OF TRYING TO REPRESENT THEIR VIEWS ON THE CITY COUNCIL.
>> SPEAK TO OUR COUNTRY'S DESIRE OR LACK OF TO MODIFY PRESENT POLITICAL SCRIPT.
THE TWO PARTIES HAVE LEFT AMERICANS ALIENATED, DISENFRANCHISED AND HOPELESS FOR A BETTER LIFE.
McCARTHY -- CORPORAIONS MORE CONCERNS WITH AMASSING BILLIONS IN PROFITS AT THE EXPENSE OF THOSE WHO HAVE PENNIES TO BUDGET.
YOU MADE MY DAY THE DAY YOU K5U8D ME, GARY, I WAS READING YOUR BOOK AND IT WAS WONDERFUL.
WELL, FOR 15 YEARS HI FORGOTTEN ABOUT THAT BOOK THE THOUGHT THAT SOMEONE ELSE WOULD READ IT AND ACTUALLY ENJOY IT WAS JUST A WONDERFUL FEELING FOR ME TO HAVE.
>> I LEARNED A LOT FROM THIS BOOK.
I DID.
>> THANKS.
>> FOR EVERY VOLUME THERE'S ANOTHER FASCINATING STORY.
>> HIS BRAIN WAS POSSESSED AND DARKNESS TOOK OVER TO THE POINT WHERE THE HOOT CREATED A CURTAIN OF DARKNESS.
>> THE GREENERY DIDN'T LOOK RIGHT BEHIND THE STRIPES.
DORIS WAS ARRESTED AGAIN.
THIS TIME SHE WAS FISHING.
WE ALL KNEW SHE WAS THE BEST.
THAT'S WHY WE DIDN'T BELIEVE HER WHEN SHE SAID SHE MISSED.
FRED SAW HER DRAW BACK HERROD, PERFECT CAST.
HOOKED RIGHT IN.
RIPPED IT TO SHREDS.
THE FLAG THAT WAS PLANTED IN THE RESERVOIR AS IF MAYBE SOME SOLDIER WAS BLOWN THERE FROM IRAQ DURING THE WAR.
IT'S BAD ENOUGH ALL THE HOUSES AND CARS, SHE LATER ADMITTED.
IT WAS POLLUTING MY VIEW.
I COME TO GO FISHING.
>> MY NAME IS JOE DEROSA, I'M FROM THE TOWN OF WEST TOWNSEND IN VERMONT.
CHANGING LOCATION FROM A FASHION PHOTOGRAPHER IN NEW YORK TO WHAT I LIKE TO THINK OF MYSELF NOW WHICH IS NOT FAIR AS A WOOD-BE WRITER OR STRUGGLING WRITER.
>> MY NAME IS CARLA SCHWARTZ.
I LIVE IN WINOOSKI, VERMONT, AND I AM A PROFESSOR OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERINGS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT.
AND I HAVE TWO BOOKS OF POETRY HERE IN THE BRAUTIGAN LIBRARY.
>> I GUESS WHAT I HAVE LEARNED IS IN DOING THIS THAT WHEN YOU HEAR THE VOICE YOU SHOULD FOLLOW IT AND SEE WHERE IT GOES.
>> IT WAS AS IF IT WAS JUST A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE GIFT IN A SENSE THAT I GOT TO SEE HOW MUCH MY FATHER MEANT TO OTHERS.
AND I GOT TO SEE THE JOY OF WHAT HE HAD DONE.
>> IF YOU'RE A BUDDING WRITER WITH WORK YOU FEEL DESERVES TO BE PRESERVED FOR POSTERITY, YOU CAN CONTACT THE BRAUTIGAN LIBRARY BY ADDRESSING YOUR QUESTIONS TO 91 COLLEGE STREET, BURLINGTON, VERMONT, 05401 OR CALLING THEM AT 8 O2-658-4775.
EACH FALL WE OFFER OUR HUMBLE TRIBUTE TO NATURE'S POWERS OF MAGICAL TRANSFORMATION WITH THE AUTUMN.
WE ASKED CROSSROADS VIDEOGRAPHER RON CLARK TO SHARE HIS IMPRESSIONS OF THE RECENT FOLIAGE SEASON.
[MUSIC PLAYING] >> ANOTHER REGIONAL PHENOMENON AS DEPENDABLE AS THE TURNING OF AUTUMN LEAVES AND JUST AS INDIGENOUS TO VERMONT IS STORYTELLER MAX PARKER.
WHOSE INSPIRATION DERIVES FROM AN ABIDING RESPECT FOR THE VALUES HE GREW UP WITH.
HERE'S WHAT WE MEAN.
>> MY DAD NEVER WASTED TOO MANY WORDS ON ME.
CALLED ME BOY.
HEY, BOY!
RUN ON UP THERE AND HITCH ON TO THAT BAYLOR.
WELL, MY WIFE, SHE READ SOME BOOK OR SOMETHING, ANYHOW SHE GOT THIS IDEA IN HER HEAD THAT I OUGHT TO BE TALKING TO JAMIE MORE.
TILL HIM HE'S DOING A GOOD JOB AND ALL THAT.
WELL, HE ALWAYS DOES ALL RIGHT I SAYS, WHAT THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED DO, GO DOWN ON MY KNEES AND THANK HIM EVERY TIME HE WALKS IN THE BARN?
IT WON'T HURT YOU TO SAY SOMETHING NICE ONCE IN A WHILE, SHE SAID, BUT THEM WORDS JUST DON'T COME EASY.
SHE SAYS, YOU LOVE HIM, DON'T YOU, BUT I DON'T SAY NOTHING.
WHAT THE HELL YOU GONNA SAY TORAH QUESTION LIKE THAT?
THAT BOY IS MY SON.
WE HAD A GOOD STRETCH OF WEATHER.
WE WAS MOWING HAY LIKE NO TOMORROW.
I WOULD LIKE TO FINISH UP NEXT WEEB IF THE WEATHER HOLDS GOOD.
TODAY I'M BAILING THE IN THE BIG FIELD AND JAMIE, HE'S MOWING DOWN IN THE VALLEY.
ONCE I LOOKED DOWN OVER THERE AND I SEE HE'S OFF THE TRACTOR AND STANDING THERE.
OH, HELL, MUST BE BROKE DOWN.
THE NEXT TIME I LOOKED HE'S BACK ON AND GOING ROUND.
COUPLE OF SWATHS AROUND I SEE HE'S LEFT THIS GREAT BIG PATCH, NOT CUT, AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HELL HE'S DOING.
WHEN HE'S ALL DONE MOWING THAT WHOLE THING HE COMES ON OVER TO GET A TRUCK TO START LOADING UP WHAT I BAILED.
THAT LITTLE BUZZARD IS ONLY 13 BUT HE GETS IN A TRUCK LIKE HE DROVE IT ALL HIS LIFE.
I LOOKED BACK DOWN OVER AT THAT PATCH HE LEFT STANDING RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIELD.
MY GOSH, IT LOOKS LIKE HELL.
SO I SHUT OFF MY TRACTOR AND I ASKED HIM, HEY, WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED THERE ANYWAY?
WELL, HE DON'T LOOK UP.
HE JUST KEEPS LOADING.
HE MUMBLED SOMETHING BUT I CAN'T HEAR HIM.
GOSH DARN BAYLOR MADE ME DEAF.
WHAT, I SAYS?
IT'S A BABY DEER.
IT WON'T MOVE SO I JUST LET IT BE.
I LOOKED BACK DOWN OVER THERE.
SOMETIMES THEM LITTLE BABY DEER, THEY WILL STAY RIGHT THERE WHERE THEIR MOTHER 4RE69 THEM.
AND YOU CAN'T GET THEM TO MOVE FOR NOTHING.
I SEEN THAT BEFORE.
WELL, I START UP BALING AGAIN AND JAMIE IS LOOKING BACK DOWN OVER THERE MAKES ME THINK THAT LITTLE FELLER MUST BE IN THERE.
BY THE TIME I GOUT THE UPPER FEEL ALL BALED HEED GOT THE DUMP TRUCK LOADED AND STARTED IN ON THE CHEVY.
DID YOU HURT IT, I ASKED HIM?
NO, HE SAID, I TOLD YOU, I LET IT BE.
LITTLE FAWN IS IT, I ASK HIM?
HE NODS.
IT'S ALL SHAKING AND EVERYTHING BUT I CAN'T GET IT TO MOVE.
IT'S LIKE IT'S JUST FROZE RIGHT THERE.
GOT SPOTS DOES IT, I ASK HIM?
YEAH, HE SAYS.
SO BOTH OF US JUST KEEP WATCHING, YOU KNOW, WHILE WE'RE LOADING.
JAMIE IS ON TOP OF THE TRUCK STACKING AND I'M THROWING BALES UP ONE AFTER THE OTHER.
I THROW ONE UP, IT HITS HIM IN THE LEG AND DARN NEAR KNOCKED HIM CLEAN OFF.
HE'S LOOKING DOWN ACROSS THE VALLEY THERE.
I WALK AROUND THE FRONT OF THE TRUCK AND I LOOK OUT THERE TOO, AND PRETTY SOON I SEE IT.
THERE'S A BIG OLD DOE, SHE JUST COME OUT OF THE WOODS DOWN BY THE FENCE LINE AND SHE'S WALKING UP THE SIDE OF THE FIELD.
JAMIE AND I JUST STAND THERE WATCHING.
THAT OLD DOE, SHE DISAPPEARS BEFIND THAT THE KNOLL, THEN YOU CAN SEE HER AGAIN.
SHE'S COMING ACROSS THE FIELD THROUGH THE CUT HAY HEADING FOR THAT PATCH.
ONCE IT SEEMS LIKE SHE MUST HAVE CAUGHT WIND OF US BECAUSE SHE STOPPED DEAD STILL LIKE THEY DO, YOU KNOW.
SHE STARTS SNIFFING THE AIR.
WELL, JAMIE AND I JUST STAND THERE, JUST AS STILL AS CAN BE.
DON'T NEITHER ONE OF US MOVE A MUSCLE.
FINALLY SHE KEEPS ON WALKING.
SHE DISAPPEARS INTO THAT PATCH OF LONG GRASS, AND JAMIE LOCKS DOWN AT ME KIND OF EXCITED AND SAYS, MUST BE HIS MOTHER, AIN'T IT?
MUST BE, I SAID.
PRETTY QUICK THAT OLD DOE IS BACK IN THE OPEN, PUSHING AND NUZZLING THAT LITTLE BUFFERED RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER.
AIN'T THAT PRETTY, ALL WHITE SPOTS AND WOBBLY LEGS LIKE A NEW CALF.
THEN THAT LITTLE BUZZARD STARTS BOUNCING AHEAD LIKE HE ALL OF A SUDDEN FIGURED OUT HE SHOULD BE SCARED OR SOMETHING AND THE TWO OF THEM ARE OFF AND RUNNING LIKE THE DICKENS ACROSS THAT FIELD.
YOU CAN HEAR THEIR HOOVES POUNDING ALL THE WAY FROM HERE.
THEY GO ALL THE WAY DOWN OVER ACROSS THE FAR SIDE THERE AND YOU CAN JUST HEAR A LITTLE CRACK OF BRANCHES WHEN THEY GO OFF INTO THE WOODS.
WELL, THAT'S GOOD, I SAYS.
JAMIE, HE REACHES DOWN AND KICKS A BALE IN TIGHT.
I DON'T SEE HOW YOU CAN SHOOT DEER, HE SAYS AFTER A LITTLE WHILE.
I KIND OF KNEW THAT WAS COMING.
I GOT TO ADMIT I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT ALL THE HORNS WE GOT NAILED UP OVER THE GARAGE DOOR THERE.
WELL, WE GOT TO EAT SOMETHING, DON'T WE, I SAID?
BUT MY GOSH, DON'T THAT SOUND AWFUL LAME?
WHEN WE'RE ALL LOADED UP JUST AS HIGH AS WE CAN GET, JAMIE JUMPS DOWN ALL THE WAY FROM THE TOP AND STARTS WALKING OFF ACROSS THE FIELD.
HE SAYS I'LL GO FINISH CUTTING THAT NOW.
WELL, I TAKE OFF MY HAT THERE.
TRYING TO THINK OF SOMETHING.
I SAYS, HEY, BOY!
I SAYS FINALLY, JUST LOUD ENOUGH SO HE WILL STOP.
WELL, HE DOES STOP AND HE TURNS AND LOOKS AT ME, AND I THINK, OH, HELL, NOW WHAT THE DICKENS AM I GOING TO SAY TO HIM?
YOU -- YOU GOT A GOOD EYE, BOY, I SAYS FINALLY.
IT'S GOOD YOU DIDN'T HURT THAT THING.
WELL, JAMIE, HE JUST STANDS THERE STARING AT ME.
NEITHER ONE OF US CAN THINK OF A DOGGONE THING TO SAY.
AT LEAST I SURE CAN'T.
A HORSE FLY LANDS ON MY ARM AND I SLAP IT DEAD.
WHEN I LOOK BACK UP, JAMIE, HE'S OFF AND RUNNING ACROSS THAT FIELD TO FINISH UP THE MOWING.
THAT BOY IS A GOOD LITTLE FELLA.
HELL, MAYBE I AIN'T DONE SUCH A BAD JOB AFTER ALL.
>> AND THAT'S CROSSROADS FOR THIS TIME.
WE HOPE YOU ENJOYED THE PROGRAM AND YOU'LL BE WITH US NEXT WEEK WHEN WE'LL MEET AN INNOVATOR ANLTD SHARE HIS VISION OF A FUTURISTIC WORLD.
I'M ENVO 'ZO DIMAIO.
SEE YOU NEXT WEEK.
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