Welcome to Perspectives from WFSU Public Media I'm Tom Flanigan using the Zoom platform we're pre-recording this on Tuesday May 25th for playback on Thursday May 27th with the program to air on WFSU FM we'll also archive it on WFSU.

well Tallahassee's Frenchtown really has a long and a and a storied history particularly when it comes to a creative culture that has really flourished since the beginning of the community and today there's a concerted effort to not only celebrate what was but also to develop and nurture what is and what is yet to be and so on today's Perspectives as part of that and going beyond that topic as well we are honored to welcome Wanderlust On Location these are folks who are involved in this cultural renewal effort and a whole bunch of other really neat stuff and I wanted you to meet them so let's get right to that we'll uh say hi first to the person who helped to organize this whole effort maura Hope London actor producer writer academic and I love this all around creative maven that is do you have that on a business card or what Laura uh funnily enough in my early days as a creative I did in my like early 20s but the feedback on that was mixed but uh so it's an unofficial title okay well it's so good to have you thanks for coming on board here and and you brought some some friends too and this one we know real well Royce Lovett singer songwriter a speaker motivational type person and uh formerly uh Tallahassee represent on the voice and just all over the place and doing so many things Royce thanks for coming on deck today I appreciate it thank you so much Tom what's up everybody how you doing well let's see let's let's find out how uh jakailia is doing to kelly escape who is a poet here in town we are going to hear you recite some poetry a little bit later on in this program jacalya and thanks for joining us today thank you Tom it's a pleasure to be here and we'll wind up here with the founder of black on black rhyme Keith rogers is in the house Keith thank you for being part of the conversation today on Perspectives yeah I i thank you for having us you know I'm kind of shy so this is new to me well we're going to be hearing a lot more from you man throughout the hour so thank you again for coming on uh Laura Hope London why don't you give us the little 30 000 foot thumbnail overview here of Wanderlust On Location and your current project what's up with that yes okay so uh Wanderlust was founded in 2018 um while I was still actually a phd student at florida state so um was created as a nonprofit theater and sort of began its mission as a site-specific theater company so what that means is that we don't perform our shows on traditional stages or in traditional theater spaces we actually use existing local spaces as the backdrops for all of our shows which allows us to use theater as a way of community building and community engagement and also a reflection of local identity so that's really our mission is telling community stories through the theater that we create on location in the community so um when we started we we began actually we debuted with a project called musicals on the move in 2019 which utilized six local businesses in midtown Tallahassee as the locations for a series of mini pop-up musicals which was a lot of fun and then after that we were commissioned to create an original site-specific adaptation of a christmas carol as part of thomasville's victorian christmas festival that they do every year which was also a really fantastic community building experience and then after christmas carol we started planning our programming for the summer of 2020 and we had actually announced a site-specific production of into the woods which was going to be staged on location in the woods at lich gate park which you know ties in very nicely with the sort of fairy tale-inspired history of that that space and that location so we were really excited about that but then of course cobia 19 hit and as the severity of the pandemic started to unfold we very quickly realized that live theater was pretty much on pause indefinitely live performance of any kind so you know like many artists that were grappling with all of those uncertainties you know when would we be able to have any kind of live performance we realized that we needed to adapt and find new ways of bringing a site-specific experience to Tallahassee that remained true to our mission of community engagement and using the community as a site of theater but could also be safely enjoyed with any covert related restrictions and also in the midst of our planning uh the murder of george floyd occurred which is actually today's the anniversary of that tragedy and um you know as we all know the black lives matter movement really gained a global awareness and that really shown a glaring light on the racism and inequality that that permeates our society and our institutions and as theater artists um we were now taking a hard look at the way those systems function in the theater and you know our primary mission of one as Wanderlust is to tell stories that reflect community and we felt that now more than ever it was a time to look at whose stories were being told and who was telling those stories so that's kind of how the Frenchtown project came to fruition so yeah between the the pandemic and the questions and concerns raised by that and also the black lives matter movement that's where the idea for the Frenchtown project came to be so um we started thinking you know how can we create a site-specific theater experience that Maybe people could experience in a socially distant way on their own in a way that they would feel comfortable and uh we were aware that um the city had unveiled uh recently the Frenchtown heritage trail which if the listeners don't know it's a series of 13 historical markers that tell the history of Frenchtown which is of course Tallahassee's historic neighborhood a lot of historians uh call it florida's oldest black neighborhood you know we can trace it back to the marquis de lafayette and you know during the revolution as a place for for free blacks to to live and work so Frenchtown has an incredible history and we thought you know what if we were able to create sort of a socially distant audio musical that guests could download free and listen to as they walk the heritage trail so the idea is you know once you're on the heritage trail which are you know marked and lined in this order guests would listen along to these songs and stories and poems and scenes that were about the very place that they were standing so that keeps it true to a site-specific theater experience that you know is our mission to create and it also reflects our community identity and and really kind of um highlights the the rich history of Frenchtown that is you know often overlooked and um the community of course continues to you know face um hardships and gentrification and you know the borders of fsu kind of pushing on it all the time so we really wanted to amplify um the neighborhood stories and invite audiences to learn and celebrate our local identity through a new and socially distant safe creative experience and then the other component of this which then I will hand off to my wonderful collaborators on this piece is uh in thinking about you know what stories get told and who tells those stories it was really important for Wanderlust to commission exclusively local black artists to create this work uh we wanted to serve basically as the stewards of the the piece and the creation of the site specific element of it but we really it was very important to the mission of this piece that the creative components of this all come from local black artists who are connected with the with the community community one of those artists Laura certainly is is Royce Lovett and uh Royce we're gonna hear a uh a part of your demo here the uh the living uh segment here in just a second but uh before we do that could you kind of set that up for us and also include how you got involved in in lara's overall project here yeah definitely um this uh project has definitely been exactly what I needed especially during you know I think everything happens for a reason but especially during this covet time where originally I would have been on tour um promoting a new record that I just put out but all those things just kind of you know fell through the cracks um and Laura and I started talking on the phone I'll get a phone call every once in a while kind of talking about this idea and to be completely honest with you um the first few conversations although I know her to be a very genuine person sometimes ideas for doing something for black communities often fall through the cracks often get left out or forgotten and so I didn't put too much money on this thing happening or um getting a call back and saying that hey we're moving let's write these let's write these songs um and that was a blessing for me I think just as a black son black father black citizen in um in Tallahassee who frequent um a Frenchtown barbershop since I was a kid every other saturday um getting um uh homemade dill pickles from the candyman that walked around and going to the drugstore my mom my grandmother and hearing stories um I think it was just such a blessing for me um at the same time pancaked with this new kind of identity i've been finding um the past six years of storytelling and to be a honest and a true storyteller you have to go get stories and then as you're gathering these stories you're finding humanity in yourself that you never knew and you're finding humanity and other people that you never knew and um it just becomes adventurous so this whole project for me has just been like such a grateful adventure gift i've been able to talk to beautiful people like ann roberts my dad i've been getting stories from my dad that he's never ever told me um you know like I'm was like hey dad you ever um heard of something called uh lead bread and he just gets his biggest smile on his face he was like let bread I love lemon bread who told you about lemon bread and ice cream and he's just like telling me all these stories about Frenchtown and what used to happen my dad is uh will be 74 this year and um just speaking to you know people speaking to you know his elders that are still living trying to get stories um it's just been incredible um so setting up this first record um most likely this this demo right here will be what what kind of intros um this this journey that you'll go on I definitely wanted to make sure you felt Frenchtown in the music I wanted you to feel um the the the hope and the pain and the gratitude and this and the safety-ness and the fear and the the creative um elements I wanted you to feel all those things because to be quite honest with you you can't see it anymore and so for me it was a big um pressure on my heart to make sure that we're feeling these things so in these lyrics and any stories that you'll kind of hear in some of these demos um have just been you know when I listen to it I just turn on I just turn it on and I smile and um so this this first record that I believe you're gonna play is called um Frenchtown living and um it's it's been a lot of fun and uh yeah so that'll be all I say I guess let's go ahead and hear this is Royce Lovett's demo here from the Frenchtown demo series this is called living local references abound in that and the feel of it Royce I remember first moving down to Tallahassee many many years ago and the area of the downtown along mccalm street was still there you didn't have the renaissance center you didn't have the new construction but the feel of that tune you kind of feel that especially late night vibe along macomb street there was a lot of activity the rest of Tallahassee was closed up tighter in the drum but you'd go down on mccomb street and there would be people there'd be activities the poll hall was going there was music playing there was barbecue cooking I mean it was a really a vibrant scene and that's what living sounds like to me I appreciate that because that's what it is right living is is about um excitement it's about um safety it's about security it's about uh fear it's about you know love loss you know working your way through those situations and um so I'm really excited to get in the studio with you know just other amazing local artists um local musicians to really get the heart and the soul inside this full production that people will hear um you know I haven't I don't I don't like to create in a vacuum so as I'm gathering any stories I'll create and I will go walk the trail myself and just put my headphones on and listen to what's happening and Maybe it's me being biased who knows but I can when I'm walking down the street I have different feelings of of wow I wish i've could have you know experienced some of these things I'm hearing and sometimes I have a feeling of like oh I remember this and I remember this and so I'm pretty excited I'm pretty excited about Frenchtown living and being able to work alongside some favorite of mine wordsmith the these these poets that that just pull um history and characters together um inside this music um has has been just you know really fun you know yeah well that that that aural feel is there man beautifully beautifully done let's talk to Keith rogers one of your collaborators here on on the project and Keith talk about your involvement in in this particular deal and and what you brought to the table and how you see this playing out well first of all Laura made me do it and Royce made me do it so I was I was bound by the rhyme and the pressure appears okay um you know we as black on that rhyme we uh we love I'm I'm not gonna say challenge but we love having new things to write about that we didn't think of ourselves like everything out of your mind that you think of you think of but when somebody bring you something and this is historical is this hey it's like squeezing the historical orange the juices start flowing and we're gonna vitamin c what we produce so uh it's been a it's been a pleasure and getting in the studio with roy's actually not I actually been enjoying the Zoom calls with Laura like you know she she's so excited can't help but to get excited about it like you know it's it's been good you know the enrollments with his jokes and stuff like it it adds to your creativity like hold on I can right around better than that joke sometimes you can sometimes you can so now we're putting it on audio putting on paper we're putting it in history and it's it's good I told ross I went from french fries to Frenchtown right now porn so well the other thing though is the long and really illustrious history of of oral history in the african-american community because for years and years there wasn't a whole bunch written down and it was the stories that were passed on from generation to generation like Royce just said you know his dad's telling him stuff now he didn't even know existed but this was the prime way of of uh communication when you're talking people like you know altimis barnes or you know some of the folks who have been been around the area for a while and they're trying to kind of encapsulate and recapture all of that information before it vanishes and this is kind of part of what you're also doing you're perpetuating a lot of these stories and images and and feelings that otherwise might be lost right I had a friend about two years ago uh well not even a friend somebody I met I was in a good bread neighborhood it was his family they got a little area that's still there they was on the porch and they was telling us about why it was called good bread and uh I remember the story and I couldn't think of his name in about a month ago I saw him at the red light on adam street orange and adams and I remember his car and on the front of his car he got boss man that was his nickname boss man and I got his number and I called him and he retold me the story and I wrote a form it's not the one I'm doing today but one called good bread the real the real reason they call it good bread and it was it was I had told ross about I was like you know I know this man I'm gonna go find it but through traffic in Tallahassee I found without even searching for you know I got that story I put it in a poem and recall from the studio let him hear it he said make these few changes or whatever so it was good so that oral history is out there it's just who hears it and who knows about it to write it down and take take it to another next level that's what we're doing with this project so what's your contribution to the uh the Frenchtown project Keith talk about that particular piece I wrote I wrote 30 poems they said they only needed two from me so only don't I'm just I didn't write 30 forms like no you didn't know you did um we uh what we did we uh rhymed with group of poets and uh there's 13 markers so we got two uh these quarters right two two point uh for two markers and one point is right in one and he's taking the longest I think I'm gonna go ahead and write that one for him um but we're we're doing it on our own with there is no criteria you know we want everybody to be their own creators but to kayla she wrote her two first and she covered everything and so he made his heart it made it harder for us to not repeat something so I had to come in with a different angle than she did because she came in with all angles so I was like huh I don't want them to do it so one time for my good friend story that she didn't know about so she couldn't write about that well you just name check shaquilla let's bring her in on this too and uh was this also a phone call from Laura how did you get involved in the project Jakaila well I wanna have a good bread paul Keith by the way but um well I was on I was actually um reading a book one night and Keith called me for a zone call with him and Royce talking about the project and they expressed their interest about you know documenting Frenchtown's rich cultural history and you know they asked me to write you know the two pieces so we went on a tour of the Frenchtown trail looked at the marquis read listen to some of those voices and listen to the stories that Royce told us about gathering those oral history interviews of the citizens who are allowed during that time so that in tandem I have a degree from famu about choice in history and a minor in african-american studies and my specialty is oral history so it was I kind of aligned perfectly I'm a professor who lives in Frenchtown who I'm working on uh oral history project around the experiences of formerly incarcerated black women so kind of aligned very perfectly and um my perspective is unique because I am looking at the position of women during that time as well in terms of how women were instrumental in keeping the community together so in my pieces you know I talked to Royce about taking on a character of sorts so honestly in the moment he was like you know he should name his character we named her eve eve emancipation so in a kind of um emancipation from slavery must patient from darkness emancipation from brutality and taking that micro lens of Frenchtown and broadening it's a microscope of the broader african-american experience and encapsulating that into pieces so I think it's beautiful how art can serve as that bridge from past and present but also serve as a healing mechanism to seal those wounds that were created from those who came before us so in turn that's how I kind of got my um start i've been a black home background member and poet since 2019 um and you know this has been a wonderful experience I was actually my first time recording anything ever and you know with Royce not him producing me and such so that was a beautiful experience and you know the first of many well you've been talking about it let's hear it this is Jakaila Scaife and this is called eve of emancipation such a great piece and they say timing is everything as our program here is coming right after the celebration of emancipation here in florida which if all goes as its advocates plan this will be a statewide celebration not dissing juneteenth but this is sort of florida's own personal celebration of emancipation what was going through your mind when when you actually read those words of yours Jakaila because you're right you put on a persona that is I just found that to be you know this is this is a lady I i need to know because there's so much power there's so much determination in her voice where did that come from that came straight from my grandmother actually how one of my signature pieces is called the grandmother spirit and it talks about the spirit in the of neutrality the spirit of righteousness the spirit of non-judgment the spirit of community building and that is what I was channeling as I was writing the stories you think about oral history have grandfathers and grandmothers who are sometimes serving as parents to their grandchildren if their fathers and mothers can't be there they are the people you go to when you're in need they are the I'm sitting on ceo boards and school boards and such they are non-profit owners they are you know giving scholarships to children and they are leaders in the community so it comes from my background I'm from polk county florida so it comes from my background there um the southern cultural history that I come from but also the enrichment activities that I engaged in in college and beyond so you know me being a historian thinking oh junior historian thinking about those those nuances of the black experience are sometimes getting missed in textbooks but art in theater they have the power to make it come alive and make it engaging for audiences which really helps to you know pass on the lessons and stories so as a storyteller you have the responsibility and role I feel to you know give your all to the project and make sure the essence of those people and those stories and experiences are passed down and you know certainly theater and performance and storytelling and oral studies are a great way to do that well Laura Hope London you were talking here as Jakaila and Royce and Keith were of a cultural continuity that you are trying to pass along to a larger community to say look what has been going on kind of make perhaps below your personal radar but this is a rich environment that you probably didn't realize was here we want to share this with you absolutely I mean I you know I went to the school of theater at fsu for my phd and actually a phd candidate there still and that's right across the street you know it's literally on the same street as friendship drive past every day past all these local businesses and see you know people outside and um you know a lot of people I think that that aren't you know familiar with the the history of Frenchtown or even just the current vibe in Frenchtown would just drive right past and not think anything of it but you know there's there's history and stories and those streets and all of those stoops and you know Royce you know took the time to visit with a lot of different people in the neighborhood and and we've been working with um the folks at the john g riley house center and museum um who have been really really helpful in connecting Royce with with people in the community who who could pass down those oral histories and be the inspiration for this theater piece because we wanted all of the characters in the piece that you'll hear to be based on real people uh that was also really important to the story to have those voices be heard because I think this is um it's it's it's always important but um you know there's there's a lot of um I think in general there's just like a culture of of erasure and it's important that that doesn't happen in our community and that really became very obvious to you know my collaborators at Wanderlust that if we are doing community engaged theater this this is exactly what it's about you know is is is preserving those stories and and kind of what shakayla was saying um using theater to do that in a way that a history book can't right a a theatrical experience brings it off the page and to life and you're hearing those stories you know in your ear or experiencing them right before you um right now this you know this was all planned in the era of kovids so it will be a listening experience that you'll walk the trail and be site specific but there actually are plans as things continue to open back up to have a kind of live performance experience of this piece uh in collaboration with the riley museum so we're hoping to do that sometime in the fall and um that will that will be an even more uh of an in-depth way that we can bring these stories to life and and kind of uh raise awareness and just celebrate celebrate the community there's so many interesting things that i've learned about Frenchtown through this project uh the history of the redbird cafe I knew nothing about all of the iconic musicians that came through there that are actually going to be inspiring some of the music that you'll hear that Royce has created which is fantastic really infusing the the cultural history of Frenchtown into the creation of the peace has been so fantastic yeah I want to see Royce if you cut that story about when uh ray charles uh came to town I think he played at the redbird and uh I believe there was some uh trouble perhaps not good trouble but there was trouble nonetheless he could be quite a character from what I understand yes yes yes there's so many awesome stories um knowing that like him coming to fringe town uh became a part of him actually like some people say he lived here because he would stay for so long in Frenchtown as well as like bb king would just sit and stay um I'm so excited about um there's a gospel record that possibly will transition from out of the gospel record into eve of emancipation and I'm so excited about the gospel record because um um the full circle kind of story with that is about james baldwin um the time that he spent in um fringe town and um he was from the stories i've been hearing is you know he wrote a really awesome article about how hot florida is and i've been looking for it i've been really close to finding it and a community member said that they actually have to cut out but as he was sitting in the tukes motel and learning that the tukes motel was a part of the green book and like all these amazing uh pieces of culture and history that you find here and and the thing well let me not get ahead of myself what I was gonna say about the gospel record is that one of my favorite books that james has written is called fire next time and so taking his concept of fire next time and applying it to um these street preachers that my family is full of um I remember growing up you know almost like are we going to Frenchtown again to like set up a tent and and preach and sing you know growing up as a kid um infusing that and then you know also taking this beautiful story um that I didn't know about all these other amazing people that have come out of the lincoln high school what the graduates did and became other people that came down the chitlin circuit like billie holiday and strange fruit and her being inspired by you know really atrocities very sorry very atrocity um things to lay your eyes on um as she was passing through um the south to get to um uh Frenchtown and just combining all these things is incredible because because what i've seem to learn is that as you uncover these amazing gems and you apply them um to the youth to the generation and I don't mean just youth as far as um age but just Maybe people who just didn't know um their didn't know that the shoulders that they're standing on you find this uh gratefulness and that gratefulness turns into determination and that determination turns into education and then you have a new spiraling effect that you see inside your communities and that spiraling effect was will eventually you know change um the world as we see it doing now you know it's it's incredible um what's happening and so I'm really happy to be a part of this creative um expression of history you know i've been challenging myself as well um trying to take off you know a singer-songwriter hat and put on a more theatrical hat and and move those hats around sometimes and and you know not knowing too much about that style that billie holiday saying but studying that like you know I listen to a lot of nina simone so pulling out my nina simone vinyl that I can't believe I actually found a few weeks ago and um and listening and trying to find those notes and working with my pianist um trying to find those movements so it feels as authentic and as um as as true to the stories as possible so I you know I think when listeners hear this they'll they'll go on the walk they'll tell other people to take the walk too they'll they'll play this as they're cleaning their house they'll play it while they're riding down the street you know children will ask questions about it my kids are asking questions about it you know what what is this and what did this mean and and it's it's you know I think that's the the right time of day to wake somebody up when when they're asking questions you know so um well I'll tell you that is a great setup for the final tune that we wanted to pull off of the demo and let everyone listen because it captures those sentiments you're just talking about Royce this is called it is well again references abounding from the glory days of Frenchtown if you will but some of those locations some of those people are still here today and continue the uh the impact on on the greater community and the the great thing about this project just from from my attitude is there are so many communities that remember what was and they go into mourning and they they really can't muster I think the the emotional fortitude to say yes those those were great days but we still have great days yet to come if we all work together and and remember this this older vision and that's what our our future will will be based on and uh and Keith rogers let me get your take on that too as far as your poetic sensibility here is that kind of what you were we're trying to do again by saying hey let's let's remember the past but let's use that as a springboard for you know what's next well uh when I think about the past um the past is gone but it leaves uh residue that you can build on that you can remember like uh when you were saying the thing about the morning I never thought about it like that like some communities they're they're gone and the memories are going like the people that live that are gone uh Frenchtown you have people that was alive back back then that's still around it and they they've recorded the history and so in doing this like I wasn't alive back then so I have no idea how they are I can only go by words and we as poor's we can he we can hear something and we can expand on it and it felt good writing the poems like I actually felt good trying to think how they lived then and I know it was a lot of it was a lot of pain and struggling going on that time but those thoughts didn't come to my mind when I was thinking about it like even when they tried to creep into into the rhyme scheme the it wouldn't let me you know because like I said I had met this family about 10 years ago and the stuff that they were saying and they May have said some stuff that they were struggling but I don't remember anything negative they said you know I don't know if they left it out intentionally or or they did say it I just don't remember but I i had the tendency to look on the bright side of things on the other side and where I pulled from it was all good feelings and it felt good to have good feelings in the present you know because you know the state of the world or whatever I i didn't um I didn't uh have any bad feeling writing and then listening to roy's in other post poems like even when they mention stuff that May not have been good they made it sound good in the way they did it the creativity of it it made me feel alive again and I never not felt alive I never felt dead because I don't know how that feel but I felt alive again if that makes sense yeah it do it do and uh and you care yeah the same thing with your your poem eve of emancipation how that was you know we're looking ahead yes we have had all kinds of terrible experiences in the past but we are building on those we're trying to get beyond that and use that as as a positioner for something better to come to kill you any any final thoughts that you May have here time is growing short I want to give everyone a chance to to get in some some final comments here before we have to say goodbye and my final comments would be for any listeners to just keep an open mind and heart and get ready for the journey because it takes you on a journey and really take it as a learning lesson to infuse those pieces and infuse art or even to create your own art as well as a way to memorialize and honor that rich cultural history I think everyone should should write at least try to write a poem once in their life it's it's a broadening experience for sure and if you can't do that produce a record Royce Lovett because that's that's certainly your bailiwick and uh any final thoughts that you have here about the project or or perhaps um you know some future adventures that are coming your way here well I'll just I'll keep this all centered around what we got going on here but um the future does look fantastic you know and I say that across the board um I think that a lot of times like you said there's there's places in our lives that we can um find mournful you know this past year has been pretty mournful for me um and i've been I think i've been more emotional than i've ever been um but inside of that um loss and hurt and pain that i've felt um there's a key element that I encourage everyone to to to rejoice about and that is self-awareness you know as we mourn and feel pain and to feel gladness and feel happiness and understand where we're content and understand where where we have weaknesses and strengths be happy that you are becoming self-aware because only a self-aware person can be a grateful person and then when you become grateful then the rest of the world just grows with you you grow and you and you allow other people to grow and I think that through um talking to one another through communication is the key thing you know I think some people May feel like hey I can't write a poem I can't write a song I can't paint a picture I'm not a photographer I can't act it is about communication music is communication writing is communication so use your stories communicate with those around you if you're listening to this and you want to be a part I'm pretty sure there's a call to action you can get in touch with wonderlust WFSU and we'll point you in some awesome fantastic ways use your voice and that's that's what that's where you're giving it you know um and you're giving ears to listen and so I think that um that would be like my final words to everyone you know out there listening um is to continue the conversations continue to communicate you know um and I'll and I'll end with this you know communication isn't just talking communication is is understanding how to communicate with someone so that that's going to take a lot of listening it's going to take a lot of digesting yourself becoming self-aware to who you are and then and then allowing someone to speak so um ah I i mean I don't know time I don't know what else I can really say because like and I'm just thinking back to you know last week when I was you know in Frenchtown stopped at the barber shop and um we're taking pictures to help with some promotions and just seeing the joy of uh the barbers coming out being like hey you taking pictures this is awesome I'm so excited that we can we're sharing the story and then to see you know um the daughter of the original owners of the drugstore come out and say hey do you need me to move something like I don't need you to move anything I'll move it everything's fine we're taking this picture this is awesome like just seeing people in the community saying like hey thank you so much for pointing some eyes and some ears over here and so I implore everybody to do the same um I'm pretty excited about this and so I i thank you so much Tom for having me this has been awesome well thank you rosenwa historian and philosopher to the resume there and it's a final word from you Laura Hope London as far as the the Wanderlust On Location the uh this project in the future for you quickly if we can please uh I don't know if I could put it any better than Royce the philosopher just did um but Wanderlust you know we're continuing to uh we have a couple other projects in the pipeline that we're excited about that also will reflect community and the community identity through science pacific theater uh in in you know north florida south georgia area so stay tuned for that but as roy said you know we we are still looking for collaborators and people to get involved in this project uh we have received fortunately some wonderful support from from some people in the community and from the leon cares foundation but in order to give this project you know make this worthy project everything that it could be we're still looking for some community support so if you would like to get involved or have any questions about the project any of us would be happy to talk about it with you and you can visit Wanderlustonlocation.org or get in touch through WFSU and they can point you towards us uh we would be honored to have you involved in bringing this story to life because it really does um honor the citizens of Frenchtown but it also shares these often overlooked stories with the broader Tallahassee community and allows people to listen because what Royce just said is so true we we learn the most and we learn how to communicate by listening so only fitting that this is an audio uh theater experience yes and we have been honored to listen to all you folks today on our Perspectives uh Laura Royce shaquille yen Keith thank you for being part of the program and all the best to all of you thanks for for being uh so accessible in this regard here perspective is by the way produced by WFSU public media in Tallahassee thanks going out to evan rossi and Paul Dam along with Amy Diaz de Villegas, Brandon Brown, Devin Bittner, Trisha Moynihan and Lydell Rawls, our director of content Kim Kelling is executive producer I'm Tom Flanigan well next week we plan to talk about construction as in the increasing need for more housing particularly the affordable variety also the fact that construction supply chains are in deep trouble have you priced plywood recently it's kind of insane we'll talk about it next 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