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EGM Network. Hi, good morning. I am Janine Barrows. I
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am your host here on Silver Linings, usually joined by
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my friend and co host Raoul. He's playing hooky today.
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What a terrible day for him to miss. We are
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still here in the studio and we are bringing Silver
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Linings to you. And with that being said, today we
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have Sarah Wilson and Jackie Grady who are joining us
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from the Laura Writing Jackson Foundation. I said it right right, slowly,
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but right right, okay, and they're going to share with
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us exactly what that foundation does in our community, the mission,
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where it began, and their roles with it. So first
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and foremost, thank you for your time this morning. I
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appreciate it. Thanks for having indeed tell us and you
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can do rock paper scissors. It's up to you. Who's first.
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A little bit about your role and how you came
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to be in that role, and about the foundation itself,
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how it came to be and who it serves. Okay,
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Jackie is looking at me, so I'll go for it.
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Okay. I'm Sarah Wilson. I'm the executive director. I've been
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in that role for coming up on four years now,
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and I mean the foundation is a nonprofit. Nonprofits have
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executive directors who are kind of the administrators. And we're
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a very small nonprofit. We have been in existence for
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almost thirty five years. And yeah, so I've only been
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here for a very small part of that, but the
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organization has been around.
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For a long time doing baby things in the community.
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My role is to manage the organization to keep our
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programming going. I mean I do since we are such
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a small organization, kind of a jack of all trades, marketing,
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you name it. So and then of course we have
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a whole host of volunteers volunteer board, and Jackie is
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the president of that board, and so the work is
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done by me and all those other.
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People as well. No no single pirate happening here to
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run this ship. It takes many, right, It's correct. So
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she kind of handed it off softly.
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Yeah, she said, I am the president of the board
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of directors. My term started in July, but I actually
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or last July. I actually joined the board in November
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twenty twenty one and was just a member at large
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on the board and then sort of got more and
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more involved, as one does when you're joined a nonprofit board.
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So the board is responsible for sort of preserving the
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mission and making sure the mission is carried forward of
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the organization. And one of the things that attracted me
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to the Laura Running Jackson Foundation was the fact that
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thirty almost thirty five years ago, when Laura Rinning Jackson
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passed away, she lived in one of the what we
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call a cracker style house and she had lived there
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for almost fifty years and hadn't made any changes to it.
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So we had this wonderfully preserved home and a few
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wonderful members of our community recognize the historical significance of
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that home, and a developer wanted to tear that house down,
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so they started the foundation to preserve the home, and
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over the course of the thirty five years, it is
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not just for preserving the home, but we now have
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the Florida Friendly Garden. And what we've really have gone
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into are the writing programs for basically anyone of any age.
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We have programs for children all the way up to adults,
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and that's really sort of become the focal point of
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our organization. And we do have like other literary type
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offerings for people who.
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Don't want to write but want to talk about literature.
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So we really have expanded our scope, and that's what
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our board sort of makes those decisions of what we're
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doing and the forward path of our organization.
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So for the average community member, what is the connection
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between being a writer and Laura writing Jackson?
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Sure?
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So Laura Writing Jackson.
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I know a lot of people don't know who she was,
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but she was a very acclaimed poet back in the
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nineteen twenties in the thirties, and she really had a
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very strong opinion about literature and the words and how
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we communicate, how we use our words, and so we
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kind of got this, like bogo, if you will, with
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the house. We also have the fact that we had
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this really acclaimed poet who lived there and had such
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a strong view about language in using that language.
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So that's kind of how this all kind.
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Of turned into writing and literature as well.
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She wasn't just a great homestead and keeper of a
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great historic piece that represents that Florida Cracker style home,
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but she was also a well known poet who was
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able to express herself in an age and time where
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women often were silenced or not considered to be educated
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enough to be a writer and recognized as that such
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just brought a lot to the table in a period
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of time that really the table was often not even
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available to women. Correct. Yeah, that's pretty cool. I love that.
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So with that being said, today you kind of touched
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on some of the things that you all do before
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we get into a lot of what you said is
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the well known part. I want to go back on
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the historic building. Can you share with our listeners where
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that building is? Where that house exists today.
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It is currently on the campus of Indian River State
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College here in Vero Beach. I say currently because it
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not only moved there once, but we've moved it twice.
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So when Laura lived in the house, it was actually
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located in Wabaso. It was on thirteen acres that included
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a citrus groves or there's a connection to the County
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Citrus Pass as well. And as Jackie alluded to, after
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Laura died, someone else had purchased the land and didn't
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the home. So a group of people formed the foundation
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to save the house. Originally, but they had to immediately
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move it, so they did and they moved it to
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the grounds of the Environmental Learning Center.
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They offered some space there, so.
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It was there for over twenty years, and throughout that
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time it was not only preserved, but you know, available
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for tours so people could come and see what it
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would be like to live in a house like that.
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And then the Environmental Learning Center had plans for their
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space and our lease was up and they said, sorry,
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but the house has to go. So luckily for us,
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the college agreed to give us some space out there,
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and so since twenty nineteen that is where the house
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has been and we do give tours. We have the
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house open from November to April. We close it for
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hurricane season to kind of seal it up and preserve.
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So we're coming up toward the end of the tour
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season now that it's already April.
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Wow, I panic when I have to think about moving
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and that doesn't include my house.
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Yeah, the entire house. It's a fight endeavor. There's a
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video on the website for people who are interested in
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that sort of thing, because I mean, it's a it
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was a huge endeavor.
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What is the website if somebody wants to go, and.
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You can go to Laura Riding Jackson dot org or
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just l RJF.
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All right, so it's easy enough to get to read
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a little bit about the history and the preservation of
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the house, I'm presuming, and that's nice. And how many
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how many individuals were involved, like groups coordinating to move
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that house.
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That was a it was a massive undertaking.
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Obviously we had a board member.
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Who took the lead on that, and it was it
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was a bunch of volunteers. I mean, we had to
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hire obviously a company to actually put the house on
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flatbed trucks and move it.
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So and I imagine there was a lot of regulation
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in reference to keeping the historic value of the home
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preserved while doing that move and then securing the foundation
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for where it was going to be moved to.
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The Cracker Homes, one of the architectural hallmarks is that
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they're raised up off the ground. You know, it used
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to be on literally pine stumps, and that's how her
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house was when it was originally in Moabaso. When we
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moved it to the campus, it's now on sort of
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cinder block, so it's raised up off.
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The ground modern support. Yeah.
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But yeah, the house had to be taken apart into
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pieces and put back together again, kind of like humpty dumpty.
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Yes, And one interesting thing to note, we talked about
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how she didn't make any changes to the house.
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We're preserving it.
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She didn't even have electricity until the very end when
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she had some nurses come in and say they needed
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to have electricity. So when we say there was nothing done,
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there was nothing done. So it's a great way if
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you go on a tour, it's you really get to
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see how old Florida once was, and how this house
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was architect designed to sure.
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The flow of the air from the river. I'm sure exactly,
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very organomically designed, although seeming so simplistic in its physical nature.
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How exciting, What a great thing to be part of.
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And then you're not only preserving the history of a
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Florida style home and highlighting how they were built and
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why they were built a certain way, but again preserving
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her work as well and giving her a light to
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work under for as long as people speak her name right. So,
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I think that's beautiful and wonderful. And those are how
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you kind of got those beginning steps to where the
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foundation serves openly and is mostly known for today, as
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Jackie was talking about, which is how I originally came
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to get familiar with the LJF group. I'm going to
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use your key words, I save myself from stumbling. And
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it has grown significantly outside of that as well, not
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just serving the children. I think initially it was a
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foundation with kids. Maybe maybe I'm wrong and then you
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can clarify, but it has, as you said, serving all
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kinds of potential writers and creatives and offering a safe
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space and an educational piece because it's not always natural.
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Sometimes we have blockers that keep us from that. So
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I know I want to talk about that being Poetry
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Month and what you all have upcoming in your summer camps,
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but we have a little break ahead of us, so
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if you don't mind, just hold those thoughts. We're going
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right direction. So back to our conversation that we were
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having before our break, I am learning so much because,
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like I mentioned early on, I only knew one specific
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spec of the LGF Foundation and what it kind of
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provided in the community, and it covers many people and
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it offers many opportunities to drop into your creative being,
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and that is something that we were talking about before
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this show that is not always so easy to do.
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We as human beings, in every season of our lives,
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take on responsibilities that become very heavy on us and
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sometimes stifle those creative voices and juices that I think
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a lot of us have and we just don't tap into.
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And so our purpose today was to kind of highlight
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one that this is poetry month, right and that you
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all have some really exciting and fun things happening at
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the Foundation and specifically at your brick and mortar. So,
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who wants to talk about Poetry Month? Okay?
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and although Laura Writing Jackson herself was a poet, she
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teens around the year, but because it's April, we're doing
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one on poetry this Saturday.
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A teen Writer's workshop or spoken word spoken Okay, spoken
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word poetry is more performative, so you of course have
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and performance. So still space sign up and then it's
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our teen programs are they're free. We do ask for
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mic night. This is for adults because it's actually being
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about the the performance. So these are poets who have
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written poetry who will they'll read their poetry, and so
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it's a little bit of a performance, but not quite
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the same as spoken word, So people to come to that.
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so I'm saying, so that's really great, and and that
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is open to the general public. And is that have
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fourteenth Avenue, and it just so happens that the Verau
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very exciting, even if you're not speaking out that day.
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Someone stopped in to see me recently who had gone
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to a previous open mic and said, I'm not interested
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in poetry. I don't read poetry. I didn't know anything
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about it, but she said, I just happened to go
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that night, and she said, it's a really great way
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to be exposed to poetry without you know, it's not
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just sitting quietly reading a book.
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a lot. So, as you mentioned, it's not just poetry.
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She wrote across multiple genres, and the foundation hopes to
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support multiple genres. Right. So with that in mind, you
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have some great summer programs that you have coming up, right,
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So talk about that a little bit. Tell me who
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wants to Jackie.
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I'll let you talk about the summer programs, and I'll
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talk about our adult writing programs.
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years that we've been in existence, as we said, it
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started to preserve the house. Then it expanded into these
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writing programs, and we expanded and we now program through
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for all ages. So in the summer we have a
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middle school writing camp and so it's for kids who
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are going into sixth grade through going into ninth grade.
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so different kids call each of the three weeks in June,
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and it's there's all kinds of activities. So it's not
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just you know, okay, sit at your desk and write
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for six hours. You know, the instructor is great and energetic,
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and we take walking, field trips, we do crafts and it.
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at the end we put out a book actually of
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the kids writing, so that everybody becomes a published author.
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I love that. I'm gonna I'm gonna add something to this.
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It was last summer that I went in and you
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all had some kind of group in there of young
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people and I'm guessing you had a volunteer writer that
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comes in and does these education pieces. And it caught
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my ATENSI I came in for a minute and I went, oh,
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they're in the middle of something. I should leave, And
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they were like wait, And I stood there for a
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minute and I listened to this leader in the group
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proceed to guide the kids down the perspective of being
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an inanimate object living as an inanimate object. And I
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was there going, oh, this is a fun way to
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get a new perspective. And I thought I'd love to
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have been there a week later to see what they
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produced and what they created and what they felt like
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as this particular object. But a great, great education piece
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I can only fathom. And I only saw a snippet
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in that moment of being there, So I can only
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imagine the outcome when they get that one to one,
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when they get those new opportunities of new perspectives, and
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how they can come out writing the piece down and
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sharing their thoughts and words. That's wonderful.
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we always say that our focus first is on imagination
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and creativity. So we have kids who come to our
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summer camp and say, am I going to be graded
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on this? Or what if I don't know how to spell?
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This is to just really just let loose and write
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and use your imagination. That's what editors are for.
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True, as Sarah said, So there's you know, they become
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published authors. And we do a book launch. And what's
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really cool is one you get to see how creative
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and intelligent these kids really are when left to just
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not being graded right. But then I was they We
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were at the book launch and the kids went to
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have a group picture taken and all the parents are
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sitting there and everyone had that book open and they
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were that with the intent look of like my kid
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wrote that, or you know, look at So it was
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really a great moving experience, just to see how.
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Touching all sides of it. I love that I did
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see something about the book launch or a bunch of
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authors getting together. What is that about?
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a publication press. So we published a book called On
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Foreign Soil, and it came from one of our adult
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writing groups. We have eight adult writing groups and we
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have two of them for poetry, six or sort of
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you know people, we have people writing novels, memoirs, screenplays.
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It covers everything and in fact, so I'm going to
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toot my own horn here, it was the Tuesday Writers.
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I'm a member of that group.
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foreign Soil at some point, so we all wrote these
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stories about what it was like living on foreign soil
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from this American perspective.
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last month in March, we did the big book launch
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at our Writing Center and that book is now you
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can buy at the Writing Center. It's at the Via
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Beach Book Center on the shelves there as well.
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So guidance throughout the process, support throughout it, highlighting, and
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education on how to get your words printed. I love this.
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There is a win win win all the way around,
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whether you're young or a little bit more seasoned.
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People in our adultt groups. I mean they cover they
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span all age groups, so it's not just retirees, but
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there are people who have retired who come and they
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always wanted to write a book. I have a story
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to tell and give them an opportunity.
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I think we all have a story to tell. It's
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just recognizing the value, forming it into a thought, and
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then being encouraged and having a space to do that.
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I think that's amazing and you all have done exactly that.
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The Board of Directors and the Foundation have worked hard
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to expand the options and opportunities that have grown from
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the LGF Foundation over the years. So we have only
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a few moments left and some of our listeners are
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only going to be listening and not video today. So
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if somebody wanted to call out to your organization and
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get some additional information and make contact with another person,
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what is a phone number that they would use?
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Seven seven two five six' nine six seven.
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Eight Wonderful and obviously you do a lot of things
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that are free for the. Community are you accepting donations
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or are you accepting volunteers to help make this foundation
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run smoothly for these? Programs what does that look? Like, yes, yes, yes.
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Yes every nonprofit always needs resources and time and treasure
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and that's always. Needed so, absolutely you can go onto
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the web put, page, donate you can sponsor a kid for.
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Camp we have all sorts of different ways that people
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can get. Involved volunteers are always, needed so we're always open.
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Do we're looking for grants and any sort of anyone
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who wants to get.
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offer your, experience do you accept that and how does that?
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email and talk to us about what it is you
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do and how you can.
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HELP i love. That so you've got hands on individuals
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help mentoring that new. Growth that's a beautiful. Thing so
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we accept. Donations we do have programs like The summer
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program that have, costs but you want to be able
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to offer scholarships and so somebody can specifically for those,
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programs adopt a kid and pay for. That how much
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so for two hundred and twenty five dollars a donor
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can sponsor somebody for an entire week of having this
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grand experience and tapping into their. Creativity and what is
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the age group? Span so it's it's grade six through,
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am so grateful that you all had the time today
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to come and share that with. Me i'm going to
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it was the, website so THAT i can encourage people
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to go, out call, them reach out on the, website
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send an email if you know student bodies that could
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benefit from this because they already are tapping into their
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creativity or they need a break to be able to
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tap into their. Creativity that this is a local on Fourteenth,
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that and helping our community members and our children as
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well do. That so please reach out over To sarah
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can be involved and be party to the foundation and
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exposing creativity and helping it grow right here In Indian River.
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County thank you so much for joining us and sharing
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such positivity for what goes on here In Indian. River thank,
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You we will see you in two. Weeks be well.
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EGM Network. Hi, good morning. I am Janine Barrows. I
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my friend and co host Raoul. He's playing hooky today.
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Linings to you. And with that being said, today we
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from the Laura Writing Jackson Foundation. I said it right right, slowly,
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and foremost, thank you for your time this morning. I
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appreciate it. Thanks for having indeed tell us and you
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A little bit about your role and how you came
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Okay. I'm Sarah Wilson. I'm the executive director. I've been
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programming going. I mean I do since we are such
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a small organization, kind of a jack of all trades, marketing,
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you name it. So and then of course we have
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a whole host of volunteers volunteer board, and Jackie is
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the president of that board, and so the work is
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done by me and all those other.
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People as well. No no single pirate happening here to
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run this ship. It takes many, right, It's correct. So
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she kind of handed it off softly.
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of directors. My term started in July, but I actually
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or last July. I actually joined the board in November
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twenty twenty one and was just a member at large
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on the board and then sort of got more and
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more involved, as one does when you're joined a nonprofit board.
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mission and making sure the mission is carried forward of
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the organization. And one of the things that attracted me
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to the Laura Running Jackson Foundation was the fact that
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thirty almost thirty five years ago, when Laura Rinning Jackson
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passed away, she lived in one of the what we
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call a cracker style house and she had lived there
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for almost fifty years and hadn't made any changes to it.
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wonderful members of our community recognize the historical significance of
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that home, and a developer wanted to tear that house down,
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so they started the foundation to preserve the home, and
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over the course of the thirty five years, it is
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not just for preserving the home, but we now have
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the Florida Friendly Garden. And what we've really have gone
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into are the writing programs for basically anyone of any age.
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and that's really sort of become the focal point of
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our organization. And we do have like other literary type
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offerings for people who.
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So we really have expanded our scope, and that's what
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our board sort of makes those decisions of what we're
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doing and the forward path of our organization.
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So for the average community member, what is the connection
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between being a writer and Laura writing Jackson?
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Sure?
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So Laura Writing Jackson.
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I know a lot of people don't know who she was,
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but she was a very acclaimed poet back in the
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nineteen twenties in the thirties, and she really had a
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very strong opinion about literature and the words and how
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we communicate, how we use our words, and so we
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kind of got this, like bogo, if you will, with
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the house. We also have the fact that we had
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this really acclaimed poet who lived there and had such
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a strong view about language in using that language.
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So that's kind of how this all kind.
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Of turned into writing and literature as well.
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She wasn't just a great homestead and keeper of a
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great historic piece that represents that Florida Cracker style home,
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but she was also a well known poet who was
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able to express herself in an age and time where
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women often were silenced or not considered to be educated
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enough to be a writer and recognized as that such
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just brought a lot to the table in a period
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of time that really the table was often not even
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available to women. Correct. Yeah, that's pretty cool. I love that.
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So with that being said, today you kind of touched
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on some of the things that you all do before
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we get into a lot of what you said is
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the well known part. I want to go back on
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the historic building. Can you share with our listeners where
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that building is? Where that house exists today.
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It is currently on the campus of Indian River State
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College here in Vero Beach. I say currently because it
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not only moved there once, but we've moved it twice.
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located in Wabaso. It was on thirteen acres that included
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a citrus groves or there's a connection to the County
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Citrus Pass as well. And as Jackie alluded to, after
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Laura died, someone else had purchased the land and didn't
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the home. So a group of people formed the foundation
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to save the house. Originally, but they had to immediately
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move it, so they did and they moved it to
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the grounds of the Environmental Learning Center.
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It was there for over twenty years, and throughout that
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time it was not only preserved, but you know, available
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for tours so people could come and see what it
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would be like to live in a house like that.
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And then the Environmental Learning Center had plans for their
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space and our lease was up and they said, sorry,
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but the house has to go. So luckily for us,
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the college agreed to give us some space out there,
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and so since twenty nineteen that is where the house
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has been and we do give tours. We have the
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house open from November to April. We close it for
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hurricane season to kind of seal it up and preserve.
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So we're coming up toward the end of the tour
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season now that it's already April.
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Wow, I panic when I have to think about moving
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and that doesn't include my house.
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Yeah, the entire house. It's a fight endeavor. There's a
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video on the website for people who are interested in
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that sort of thing, because I mean, it's a it
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was a huge endeavor.
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What is the website if somebody wants to go, and.
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just l RJF.
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All right, so it's easy enough to get to read
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a little bit about the history and the preservation of
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the house, I'm presuming, and that's nice. And how many
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how many individuals were involved, like groups coordinating to move
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that house.
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Obviously we had a board member.
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Who took the lead on that, and it was it
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was a bunch of volunteers. I mean, we had to
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hire obviously a company to actually put the house on
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flatbed trucks and move it.
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in reference to keeping the historic value of the home
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preserved while doing that move and then securing the foundation
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for where it was going to be moved to.
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The Cracker Homes, one of the architectural hallmarks is that
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they're raised up off the ground. You know, it used
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to be on literally pine stumps, and that's how her
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house was when it was originally in Moabaso. When we
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moved it to the campus, it's now on sort of
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cinder block, so it's raised up off.
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The ground modern support. Yeah.
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pieces and put back together again, kind of like humpty dumpty.
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how she didn't make any changes to the house.
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We're preserving it.
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She didn't even have electricity until the very end when
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she had some nurses come in and say they needed
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to have electricity. So when we say there was nothing done,
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there was nothing done. So it's a great way if
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you go on a tour, it's you really get to
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see how old Florida once was, and how this house
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was architect designed to sure.
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The flow of the air from the river. I'm sure exactly,
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very organomically designed, although seeming so simplistic in its physical nature.
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How exciting, What a great thing to be part of.
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Florida style home and highlighting how they were built and
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why they were built a certain way, but again preserving
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her work as well and giving her a light to
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work under for as long as people speak her name right. So,
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I think that's beautiful and wonderful. And those are how
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you kind of got those beginning steps to where the
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foundation serves openly and is mostly known for today, as
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Jackie was talking about, which is how I originally came
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to get familiar with the LJF group. I'm going to
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use your key words, I save myself from stumbling. And
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it has grown significantly outside of that as well, not
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just serving the children. I think initially it was a
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foundation with kids. Maybe maybe I'm wrong and then you
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can clarify, but it has, as you said, serving all
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kinds of potential writers and creatives and offering a safe
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space and an educational piece because it's not always natural.
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having before our break, I am learning so much because,
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spec of the LGF Foundation and what it kind of
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provided in the community, and it covers many people and
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it offers many opportunities to drop into your creative being,
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this show that is not always so easy to do.
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one that this is poetry month, right and that you
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all have some really exciting and fun things happening at
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the Foundation and specifically at your brick and mortar. So,
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who wants to talk about Poetry Month? Okay?
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So April is National Poetry Month, and so every April
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we focus on poetry. We do all kinds of writing
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wrote in many genre.
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about the the performance. So these are poets who have
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written poetry who will they'll read their poetry, and so
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it's a little bit of a performance, but not quite
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the same as spoken word, So people to come to that.
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so I'm saying, so that's really great, and and that
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is open to the general public. And is that have
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a fee to it?
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fourteenth Avenue, and it just so happens that the Verau
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Wine Bar is in our shopping plaza and they're good neighbors.
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plaza many times.
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just because they yes.
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very exciting, even if you're not speaking out that day.
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Maybe you can come and enjoy and support them. Right. Yeah.
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Someone stopped in to see me recently who had gone
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to a previous open mic and said, I'm not interested
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in poetry. I don't read poetry. I didn't know anything
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about it, but she said, I just happened to go
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that night, and she said, it's a really great way
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to be exposed to poetry without you know, it's not
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just sitting quietly reading a book.
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It was fun nice. I like that. I like that
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a lot. So, as you mentioned, it's not just poetry.
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She wrote across multiple genres, and the foundation hopes to
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support multiple genres. Right. So with that in mind, you
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have some great summer programs that you have coming up, right,
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So talk about that a little bit. Tell me who
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wants to Jackie.
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I'll let you talk about the summer programs, and I'll
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talk about our adult writing programs.
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Yeah, So we now have programming over the thirty five
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years that we've been in existence, as we said, it
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started to preserve the house. Then it expanded into these
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writing programs, and we expanded and we now program through
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for all ages. So in the summer we have a
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middle school writing camp and so it's for kids who
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are going into sixth grade through going into ninth grade.
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Yeah, and it's a week long camp. There's three sessions,
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so different kids call each of the three weeks in June,
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and it's there's all kinds of activities. So it's not
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just you know, okay, sit at your desk and write
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for six hours. You know, the instructor is great and energetic,
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and we take walking, field trips, we do crafts and it.
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But it's all to inspire the kids to write. And
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at the end we put out a book actually of
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the kids writing, so that everybody becomes a published author.
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I love that. I'm gonna I'm gonna add something to this.
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It was last summer that I went in and you
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all had some kind of group in there of young
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people and I'm guessing you had a volunteer writer that
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comes in and does these education pieces. And it caught
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my ATENSI I came in for a minute and I went, oh,
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they're in the middle of something. I should leave, And
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they were like wait, And I stood there for a
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minute and I listened to this leader in the group
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proceed to guide the kids down the perspective of being
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an inanimate object living as an inanimate object. And I
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was there going, oh, this is a fun way to
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get a new perspective. And I thought I'd love to
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have been there a week later to see what they
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produced and what they created and what they felt like
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as this particular object. But a great, great education piece
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I can only fathom. And I only saw a snippet
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in that moment of being there, So I can only
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imagine the outcome when they get that one to one,
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when they get those new opportunities of new perspectives, and
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how they can come out writing the piece down and
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sharing their thoughts and words. That's wonderful.
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we always say that our focus first is on imagination
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and creativity. So we have kids who come to our
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summer camp and say, am I going to be graded
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on this? Or what if I don't know how to spell?
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This is to just really just let loose and write
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and use your imagination. That's what editors are for.
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True, as Sarah said, So there's you know, they become
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published authors. And we do a book launch. And what's
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really cool is one you get to see how creative
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and intelligent these kids really are when left to just
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not being graded right. But then I was they We
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were at the book launch and the kids went to
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have a group picture taken and all the parents are
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sitting there and everyone had that book open and they
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were that with the intent look of like my kid
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wrote that, or you know, look at So it was
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really a great moving experience, just to see how.
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Touching all sides of it. I love that I did
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see something about the book launch or a bunch of
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authors getting together. What is that about?
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a publication press. So we published a book called On
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Foreign Soil, and it came from one of our adult
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writing groups. We have eight adult writing groups and we
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have two of them for poetry, six or sort of
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you know people, we have people writing novels, memoirs, screenplays.
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It covers everything and in fact, so I'm going to
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toot my own horn here, it was the Tuesday Writers.
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I'm a member of that group.
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And we did a book. We all had lived on
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foreign Soil at some point, so we all wrote these
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stories about what it was like living on foreign soil
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from this American perspective.
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And so that was published.
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And we had the book launch I think was in
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last month in March, we did the big book launch
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at our Writing Center and that book is now you
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can buy at the Writing Center. It's at the Via
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Beach Book Center on the shelves there as well.
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So guidance throughout the process, support throughout it, highlighting, and
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education on how to get your words printed. I love this.
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There is a win win win all the way around,
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whether you're young or a little bit more seasoned.
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There are a lot of.
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People in our adultt groups. I mean they cover they
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span all age groups, so it's not just retirees, but
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there are people who have retired who come and they
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always wanted to write a book. I have a story
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to tell and give them an opportunity.
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I think we all have a story to tell. It's
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just recognizing the value, forming it into a thought, and
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then being encouraged and having a space to do that.
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I think that's amazing and you all have done exactly that.
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The Board of Directors and the Foundation have worked hard
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to expand the options and opportunities that have grown from
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the LGF Foundation over the years. So we have only
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a few moments left and some of our listeners are
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only going to be listening and not video today. So
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if somebody wanted to call out to your organization and
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get some additional information and make contact with another person,
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what is a phone number that they would use?
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Seven seven two five six' nine six seven.
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Eight Wonderful and obviously you do a lot of things
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that are free for the. Community are you accepting donations
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or are you accepting volunteers to help make this foundation
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run smoothly for these? Programs what does that look? Like, yes, yes, yes.
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Yes every nonprofit always needs resources and time and treasure
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and that's always. Needed so, absolutely you can go onto
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the web put, page, donate you can sponsor a kid for.
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Camp we have all sorts of different ways that people
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can get. Involved volunteers are always, needed so we're always open.
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To those possibilities and we.
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Do we're looking for grants and any sort of anyone
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who wants to get.
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Involved and if you're an artist and you want to
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offer your, experience do you accept that and how does that?
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Happen if that's the, case.
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Sure just get in touch by calling or sending an
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email and talk to us about what it is you
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do and how you can.
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HELP i love. That so you've got hands on individuals
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help mentoring that new. Growth that's a beautiful. Thing so
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we accept. Donations we do have programs like The summer
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program that have, costs but you want to be able
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to offer scholarships and so somebody can specifically for those,
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programs adopt a kid and pay for. That how much
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is it for a? Week it's twenty five a, Week
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so for two hundred and twenty five dollars a donor
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can sponsor somebody for an entire week of having this
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grand experience and tapping into their. Creativity and what is
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the age group? Span so it's it's grade six through,
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nine six through.
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Wonderful oh how. EXCITING i love learning about. THIS i
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am so grateful that you all had the time today
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to come and share that with. Me i'm going to
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it was the, website so THAT i can encourage people
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to go, out call, them reach out on the, website
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send an email if you know student bodies that could
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benefit from this because they already are tapping into their
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creativity or they need a break to be able to
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tap into their. Creativity that this is a local on Fourteenth,
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Avenue central vera organization that is focused on doing exactly
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that and helping our community members and our children as
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well do. That so please reach out over To sarah
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Or jackie and the team there and see if you
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can be involved and be party to the foundation and
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exposing creativity and helping it grow right here In Indian River.
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County thank you so much for joining us and sharing
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such positivity for what goes on here In Indian. River thank,
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You we will see you in two. Weeks be well.
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