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Survival Kit Archive
August 2004
Jimmy Dale Gilmore
Sunday, August 22, 2004
Country music singer Jimmy Dale Gilmore has had some experience in the area of spiritual retreats: he dropped out of the music scene for 10 years to study eastern religions and medetations. He's still singing and writing country songs about love and loss. Now he'll share the contents of his survival kit!
Studs Terkel
Sunday, August 15, 2004
Studs Terkel has been called the voice of Chicago; for over five decades he had a popular radio show in that city, and his bestselling oral histories, including Division Street: America, Hard Times, Working, Race, and The Good War have examined our national experience from the Depression, through World War II, to the lives of contemporary Americans, and their thoughts on a wide range of subjects. Now I’ve asked him to leave behind the two things he loves most - the city of Chicago and people - at least in imagination, for a long stay in a remote place, and to figure out what he would need to get him through the ordeal.
Wendy Wasserstein
Sunday, August 08, 2004
Wasserstein is such a die-hard city dweller that her idea of a retreat is to move from her Manhattan apartment to a luxury hotel across town in order to write without distraction. In plays like The Heidi Chronicles (which won both a Pulitzer and a Tony Award), The Sisters Rosensweig and An American Daughter, and her essay collection Shiksa Goddess, she examines the lives of urban professional women and their struggles to balance career and family. And although our retreat does not offer room service, she has gamely agreed to pack up her survival kit for the adventure.
Garth Fagan
Sunday, August 01, 2004
Garth Fagan has always been seen as something of a recluse in the dance world. He and his company have won all of the major dance awards and have toured the world, but they are based in the relatively out-of-the-way city of Rochester, New York. Now I’ve asked him to take his isolation a step further, and spend some time in a remote cabin in the mountains, or perhaps a desert island, and to decide what he would put in his cultural survival kit.
