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She gave “Blake’s Barn” to Jacob’s Pillow as a fitting tribute to the son she loved so much. Once when our boy, Jonas, was about twelve (don’t hold me to it, he’s forty-five now) he was in a children’s dance class and Blake was starring in a dance and he used Jonas as a kind of prop, throwing him around the stage. It was terrific and Marge and the I Publius Chartocks always talked about that moment. I knew Marge Champion, who passed a few days ago. In any case, she knew everyone in show business and they knew her. She gave wonderful parties at her house I thought she was a great lady. She was tough, bright in Stockbridge. Some were centered on the Oscars (even brilliant) and lived through a lot of years that most and she made each of us fill out a ballot to encourage people don’t remember or weren’t around for. When conversation about who would win. As I recall, she was a Marge and Gower Champion were on stage or television terrific cook and a great friend to so many of us including or the movies, they were equivalent in popularity to the and especially her dear friend, proprietor of Dreamaway greatest rock stars of today. When I first brought Marge Lodge in Becket, Danny Osman, who called her “mother.” into WAMC so many years ago, there were a few middle aged women sitting in the reception room and when I There were so many stories she liked to tell, not the least introduced them to Marge, I thought they were going to of which involved her being the model for Snow White in faint. When someone dies at 101, as Marge just did, they the Disney production of the same name. have often outlived their fame. I keep meeting people who know little of my personal hero, Pete Seeger. But make One can go to the New York Times obituary and hear no mistake about it -- if you watched television in the days her telling the story of her incredible life in her own of Ed Sullivan or Milton Berle or Steve Allen, you knew words, live to film. But, for those of us in the Berkshires, Marge and her then husband, Gower Champion. Marge Champion was ours. When it came to CATA or Community Access to the Arts which serviced the folks I don’t know how I fell in with her, but I did. I interviewed that too many people have forgotten, she would appear her a lot on the radio. She was bright, candid and quick. year after year at their annual events. To put it mildly, she was tough as nails. She told the truth about everything, from the sexual mores of the time to all She was quite a woman and we were lucky to have her those people who she knew so well. When she liked you, among us. she stood by you. One story that I am loath to tell but that exemplifies this point has to do with a former friend of mine who I introduced to Marge and who, with his wife, became Marge acolytes. Well, I had a falling out with this now passed semi-celebrity and everywhere that Marge went, he and his wife went, too. One night we were eating at the Castle Street Cafe in the rear of the room when Marge and this couple came in. “Uh oh,” I said to Roselle. 2 WAMC PROGRAM GUIDE NOVEMBER 2020 3 PROGRAM NOTES TINA RENICK With the election, the rush to fill the vacant Supreme REGULAR PROGRAMMING Court seat, Veterans Day and enjoying food and family time, November proves to be a busy time. As we focus This month on The Academic Minute we’ll feature on important matters and our duties as citizens, we also segments ranging from Baby Boomers losing their status look forward to holiday traditions – even if they have to as the biggest voting bloc in the U.S. to documentary be adjusted. WAMC has all the news and entertainment filmmaking and a lot of topics in-between. Stay tuned you’ll need this month, fit for every occasion. each weekday at 7:30 a.m. and 3:56 p.m. to hear the full spectrum of research covered by our researchers SPECIAL PROGRAMMING: and professors. We’ll also be featuring takeover weeks from Renssealaer Polytechnic Institute and Oxford On Tuesday, Nov. 3, WAMC will provide election coverage College at Emory University. Lastly, we’ll have a special from beginning to end starting at 7 p.m. Join us as we week of segments from SUNY Distinguished Professors anxiously await results from the race to the White House from all over New York. Listen online any time on to state races across the Northeast. academicminute.org. Thursday, Nov. 26 This month on “Person Place Thing,” host Randy Cohen The Splendid Table’s “Turkey Confidential” is back this speaks with author David Sedaris. Sedaris incorporates year for two hours of food and fun at 9 a.m. Join host his humor into best-selling books like “Me Talk Pretty Francis Lam and his kitchen friends as they cure all One Day” and “Calypso.” Cohen also speaks with actor your turkey woes. Prior to the show, you can submit Alec Baldwin of “The Departed,” “30 Rock” and who’s questions regarding any food related topics to contact@ recognized most recently by his Trump impressions on splendidtable.org or leave a voice message at 800- 537- “SNL.” “Person Place Thing” airs Friday at 10:30 p.m. and 5252. Saturday at 7:30 a.m. We’ll also hear the traditional airing of "Alice's On “Earth Wise,” host Dr. Randy Simon explores the cost Restaurant," the satirical talking blues song by singer- to combat climate change. A survey conducted in the U.S. songwriter Arlo Guthrie. The epic talking blues tale kicks in August found that more than two-thirds of Americans off Midday Magazine at noon. indicated willingness to donate a percentage of their personal income to support the fight against climate On Friday, Nov. 27th WAMC will air “A Legend of Sleepy change. We’ll also hear how alien species is on the rise, Hollow” written by Mary Jane Hansen and produced by why September was the hottest September since 1880 iTheatre Saratoga with a full cast featuring Broadway’s and how essential oils may be used as pesticides. “Earth Jeff McCarthy as well as a consortium of Capital District Wise” airs daily at 11:10 a.m.