Carole Sikes Artist / Writer in Austin, Texas

STORY CORPS Never heard of it ?  Neither had I until my diughter Laura Barrow called to proposition me to be interviewed by her for this national non profit oral history project.  Since 2003 more than 30,000 interviews have been collected form all over the U.S. to be preserved at the American Folk Life Center in the Library of Congress. Story Corps' mobile taping booth is in Austin, TX for this month. So Laura and I made an appointment and went to the Bob Bullock State Museum where the Story Corps sound proof, state of the art recording booth is located in a tiny air stream trailer. For 40 minutes I answered her questions about growing up in Austin during World War II and about advice I might pass on to my grandchildren that included marriage, family, God and country. She directed and I rambled. Our photograph was taken by one of the two Story Corps staff persons and we were given a C.D. like the one to be archived in the Library of Congress. It was fun, pain...

I'll be brief because I am having technical trouble with blogging. It is either the Google Blog's problem or my computer's recent bout with a Trojan virus. Hope that never happens to you!      The big news continues to be AUSTIN MUSEUM OF ART (AMOA) and ARTHOUSE. Front page news on the Austin American Statesman's Friday, May 27th issue was entitled "ARTHOUSE, AMOA TO BEGIN MERGER TALKS". I recommend you go the the Statesman's website for details. Look either on the Friday front page or in the Thursday 360 section. It appeared in both places.      Although I have been contacted by "insiders" from both organizations, there is very little to know at this time except what appeared in the article by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin. Because each group has what the other needs and does not have, I am hopeful the merger will work. One has money but soon will give up their Congress Ave. location. The other has a ...