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I know I can be (confusing)

by Hannah Van Sciver on Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 5:56am

I don’t stare at mirrors too long,
because I’m afraid of the ghosts living under my skin.
They creep out to haunt me each time I presume to look in.
I don’t stay in one place too long
Because I’m afraid of the shape my bare feet make.
Before I step, I test my weight.
I take a minute and identify my means of escape,
So, if I break anything, I can
Disappear before someone wonders.

I’m not afraid of endings anymore, I’ve just
Forgotten how to begin.
I would let you in if I could
Find a door.
I’m not afraid of falling, but I
Find myself avoiding ledges and
Cutting corners to avoid the steep edges.

See, this hourglass heart leapt off the tabletop, and
time stopped and I dropped and rolled,
but it didn’t put out the fire.
So I sat in the theatre with my eyes closed
And my hands froze and I chose
to bask in your indecision, rather than my own.

You know these lips used to
Spring open like spring roses at every potential kiss, but
The overwhelming sense that I was missing something
replaced that with this.
I know I can be confusing sometimes, but
It’s honestly the first time I’ve been honest since
the first time.

So draw me a line and I’ll draw you a square
And I’ll point to where the page ends, and I’ll
scribble there.

The only thing keeping me sane is the hope
that one day you’ll
Stop asking me to pick apart my brain
like the smoking remains of some
totaled automobile, but rather
Give me a canvas and some
red paint and wait and
See together what we can create.

If it comes out wrong, kiss me anyway,
hold me like the
crescent moon, and watch my phases without
counting them.

I don’t stare at mirrors too long.
I cast my net in all directions,
looking for a love that defies reflections.

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 Copyright ©  Hannah Van Sciver 2010

The Hills of Harwich Come alive with the Sound of Music!

By Jamie Balliett

Harwich Oracle

Posted Sep 15, 2010 @ 07:59 AM

HARWICH —

A rarely used and little-known wooded hollow just steps away from the heart of Brooks Park will soon be filled for two days with folk music as part of the Harwich 
Cranberry Festival.

The music will feature up to 20 performers, including the locally popular Parkington Sisters, the Ticks, Randy and the Oak Trees, Squidda, the Flakes, Katie Flynn, and Cape Cod bluesman George Grizbach.

The first day of music, on Saturday, Sept. 18, is called Cranberry Jam. 

Sponsored by radio station WOMR (Outer Most Radio, 92.1 FM), the event celebrates the construction of its new radio repeater antenna in Brewster, which will be known as WFMR (Further Most Radio, 91.3 FM). 

On Sunday, Sept. 19, a second day of performances, organized by Cranberry festival staff, will feature established as well as up and coming local performers. (The music events are just one piece of the Harwich Cranberry Festival. Turn to Page 2 for details.)
 The hollow, a dried ancient lakebed, is part of Brooks Park. 

While it is town owned, it has been used very little for recent public events and is mostly filled with mature trees.  A public works cleanup of the overgrown brush in the heart of the basin was performed to open up a performing space, roughly 175 yards long by 75 yards wide. 

This natural amphitheater is considered an excellent space for a musical event because of the way sound is cradled by the sloping basin. “When I first went down, I thought this was really excellent place to have an event,” said John Nelson, station manager at WOMR, which organizes similar events across the Outer Cape, including one called Boogie By the Bay in Wellfleet.  “Acoustically, it will be quite unique.”  


Nelson said the Cranberry Jam on Saturday includes six performers, spanning from noon to about 8:30 p.m. “We’ll be adding about 80,000 possible listeners (with the new repeater) to our (radio) programming and this is very exciting,” he said, explaining that the repeater cost almost $100,000 to install.  “It has been about 10 years since the project began.”

Cranberry Festival organizers Ed McManus and John Bangert noted that the creation of the folk festival signals a shift in emphasis to highlight musical abilities in the community and move away from the traditional emphasis on a fall carnival, which for years had been held each September at the high school fairgrounds.

McManus explained that his vision for the new folk concert is “to give a new start to the Cranberry Festival for the community, something that can be built on in the future and done in a way that involves Harwich and Cape Cod rather than importing people from around the country.”

Bangert added, “Carnivals can be held anywhere, and given the traveling nature of the business, they are held everywhere,” he said.  “The cultural backdrop to the Cranberry Festival is a celebration of the completion of another summer by the community and as such should reflect community things. Some of these things are our artistry, craftsmanship, and musicality.”

McManus said he’s optimistic that the folk festival is a solid fit with the cranberry festival and looking ahead, noted that the hollow could be an excellent site for other future events.
“It can easily function as a performance space for others, (such as) the Harwich Junior Theatre or the Cape Cod Symphony, to suggest a few,” he said.

Bangert noted that local musicians really need a place to perform to help develop their careers and this festival is an ideal vehicle.
“(It) is not about just one gig,” he said.  “It's about reaching deeply into our community to find young folks who need to have community helpers, to help and assist them to develop their craft, and have a sense of accomplishment and expression.”

 “We now have a forum,” said Bangert of the folk festival.  “And now a new radio station (WFMR) to get the word out.  We’ve never had this in Harwich.  This has become a win-win for (the) community and community radio.”
 
 
Free music events this weekend
 
Saturday
What: Cranberry Jam
When: Noon to 8:30 p.m.
Where: Hollow behind Brooks Park
Organizer: WOMR and Harwich Cranberry Festival
 
Sunday
What: Harwich Music Festival
When: Noon to 8:30 p.m.
Where: Hollow behind Brooks Park
Organizer: Harwich Cranberry Festival

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This is the weekend that was!

Dear Friends of Harwich Music Festival,


Thanks to the hundreds if not thousands of attenders of the First Annual Harwich Music Festival. 

As we get access to the thousands of images we will share them with you here on this blog.  


Here are a few! 

• http://www.capecodreflections.ifp3.com/#/gallery/2010-harwich-cranberry-festival/

• http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=87866&id=1129719351&ref=mf

• www.capecodchronicle.com

With the hundreds of comments and positive feed back we want to every improve our beloved community. Thanks to our new community Radio Station WFMR FM 91.3 of your dial and always available on line at http://womr.org/


We need to build up our community support for this event for next year. But first let us all pause and take some time to thank each and every one of our planners and workers and volunteers. We could not have done any of this without the direct and  dedicated hours from The Harwich Cranberry Festival Committee, and The Harwich Music Festival Committee.


But we see we WILL NEED MORE VOLUNTEERS NEXT YEAR! We will need a massive and concerted effort from both Cape Cod Technical High School, Harwich and Chatham High Schools to earn community service credits, as well applying the principle of Cape Cod TimeBank of paying it forward.


We start this year buy planning a "community pot luck dinner" at a location to be announced soon in October! Who wants to host this event? Please let us know.


Thanks,

John Bangert & Ed Mc Manus for the committee.


Find us on facebook - Harwich Music Festival


http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=112817535405384&ref=ts


http://harwichfolks.blogspot.com/


Email: harwichfolkfestival@gmail.com


Phone: (508) 470-8587




Please read this Editorial from the Harwich Oracle below, and if you agree, please write letters to the various editors expressing your own thoughts and support for this community event.




Letters to the Editor


Harwich Oracle/ Cape Codder
5 Namskaket Road
Orleans, MA 02653-3202
dtunney@cnc.com


Cape Cod Chronicle
60C Munson Meeting
Chatham, MA, 02633
twood@capecodchronicle.com


Cape Cod Times,
319 Main St.,
Hyannis, MA, 02601
letters@capecodonline.com




~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~THANK YOU CNC!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Harwich Oracle


Posted Sep 15, 2010 @ 08:21 AM
HARWICH —


This could be the start of something big.


The first folk music festival the town has ever seen is about to come to life in Harwich Center this weekend, and to its organizers the event is much more than just a good time. It’s a turnaround, an about-face, from the traditional carnival that for years was the hallmark of the Harwich Cranberry Festival.


That was a place, constructed on the high school fairgrounds, created by out-of-towners. It was field rented by a bunch of people nobody knew, and with kiddie rides and cotton candy dispensers that looked like they’d seen better days.


But now, the launch of a locally sponsored and organized musical festival and craft show promises to bring Lower Cape residents in touch with their friends and neighbors – and to provide a unique venue for local musicians, who will gather at the hollow behind Brooks Park and jam for nigh on two days.


So this program is all about the local people, and we think that deserves a round of applause. Particularly noteworthy are the efforts of the staff of WOMR, which is sponsoring the Saturday jam, and the hard work by cranberry festival volunteers, who have arranged for the Sunday entertainment.


Two organizers who took the lead in bringing this event together, John Bangert and Ed McManus, deserve a lot of credit for their vision – it was they who “discovered” the old hollow behind the bandstand and recognized it as a perfect natural amphitheater.


Now all that’s to be done is to hope for good weather, so we can all make our way to the hollow and hear some terrific music.


Congratulations to all of the organizers. We hope this will become a successful annual event.




Copyright 2010 Harwich Oracle. Some rights reserved






http://www.wickedlocal.com/harwich/highlight/x827972347/Editorial-Folk-music-for-local-folks

Revised song lyrics to the tune of RESPECT by Aretha Franklin 

♪♫  R-E-C-Y-C-L-E Find out what it means to me

Revised lyrics by Paul Lagg – No rights reserved 

(ooh) What you want

(ooh) Baby, I got

(ooh) What you need

(ooh) Do you really need it?

(ooh) All I’m askin’

Is for a little  recyclin’when you get home (just a little bit)

Hey baby (just a little bit) recycle when you get home (just a little bit) 

I ain’t gonna sort the plastics wrong while you’re gone

Ain’t gonna sort it wrong ‘cause I don’t wanna

All I’m askin’

Is for a little recycling when you come home (just a little bit)

Baby (just a little bit) recycle when you get home (just a little bit) 

------ instrumental break ------ 

I’m about to give you potential money

And all I’m askin’ in return honey

Is to turn my trash into profits

When you get home (just a little bit)

Yeah baby

When you get home (just a little bit) 

Ooo, your glass jars

That once held honey

Now guess what

Its recycled money

All I want you to do for me

Is recycle your trash when you get home (re, re, re, re)

Yeah baby 

R-E-C-Y-C-L-E

Find out what it means to me

R-E-C-Y-C-L-E

Find out what it means to me

Plastics 1 thru 3 

Oh (sort it for me, sort it for me, sort it for me, sort it for me, sort it for me)

Whoa, babe (just a little bit)

A little recycling (just a little bit)

If you get tired

Keep on tryin

You’re runnin out of excuses

For not recyclin’

When you come home

Or you might walk in

And find out all the recycling bins are gone

I got to have (just a little bit)

A little recycling  

R-E-C-Y-C-L-E

Find out what it means to me

R-E-C-Y-C-L-E

Original Song Lyrics 

R-E-S-P-E-C-T
 

(oo) What you want
(oo) Baby, I got
(oo) What you need
(oo) Do you know I got it?
(oo) All I'm askin'
(oo) Is for a little respect when you come home (just a little bit)
Hey baby (just a little bit) when you get home
(just a little bit) mister (just a little bit)

I ain't gonna do you wrong while you're gone
Ain't gonna do you wrong (oo) 'cause I don't wanna (oo)
All I'm askin' (oo)
Is for a little respect when you come home (just a little bit)
Baby (just a little bit) when you get home (just a little bit)
Yeah (just a little bit)

I'm about to give you all of my money
And all I'm askin' in return, honey
Is to give me my profits
When you get home (just a, just a, just a, just a)
Yeah baby (just a, just a, just a, just a)
When you get home (just a little bit)
Yeah (just a little bit)

------ instrumental break ------

Ooo, your kisses (oo)
Sweeter than honey (oo)
And guess what? (oo)
So is my money (oo)
All I want you to do (oo) for me
Is give it to me when you get home (re, re, re ,re)
Yeah baby (re, re, re ,re)
Whip it to me (respect, just a little bit)
When you get home, now (just a little bit)

R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Find out what it means to me
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Take care, TCB

Oh (sock it to me, sock it to me,
sock it to me, sock it to me)
A little respect (sock it to me, sock it to me,
sock it to me, sock it to me)
Whoa, babe (just a little bit)
A little respect (just a little bit)
I get tired (just a little bit)
Keep on tryin' (just a little bit)
You're runnin' out of foolin' (just a little bit)
And I ain't lyin' (just a little bit)
(re, re, re, re) 'spect
When you come home (re, re, re ,re)
Or you might walk in (respect, just a little bit)
And find out I'm gone (just a little bit)
I got to have (just a little bit)
A little respect (just a little bit)