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Volume 16, Number 46 Thursday, November 23, 2000 Page 2 November 23, 2000 911 Franklin Street • Michigan City, IN 46360 219/879-0088 • FAX 219/879-8070 In Case Of Emergency, Dial e-mail: News/Articles - [email protected] email: Classifieds - [email protected] http://www.bbpnet.com/Beacher/ Published and Printed by THE BEACHER BUSINESS PRINTERS 911 Delivered weekly, free of charge to Birch Tree Farms, Duneland Beach, Grand Beach, Hidden Shores, Long Beach, Michiana Shores, Michiana MI and Shoreland Hills. The Beacher is also Subscription Rates delivered to public places in Michigan City, New Buffalo, LaPorte and Sheridan Beach. 1 year $26 6 months $14 3 months $8 1 month $3 “On your marks.” and ironic that the meal that we use to mark the begin- “Get set.” ning of the holiday race puts us to sleep. There’s a rea- “Go!” son why the retail stores aren’t open on Thanksgiving Welcome to the fall to winter sprint, otherwise Day. No one would be able to stand up long enough known as the holiday season. Christmas ornaments to make any purchases. The holidays begin with a hol- have been on the store shelves since Halloween. iday nap. Let’s face it; it may be the last good sleep Some of you will purchase Christmas trees this week- you get for a while. end. And let’s not even mention Christmas cards. Often, the best way to start is to stop - to stop and I’m still working on mine from last year. In light of think about what is about to happen. So let’s do that the speed with which the holidays approach and the for just a few moments on this Thanksgiving Day. fury which surrounds them, I think that it is both telling A Thanksgiving Thought by Courtney Robertson When you think about it, there has to be more to There has to be more to Thanksgiving than: Thanksgiving than: Long afternoon naps Cozy fires Turkey and stuffing A walk on the beach Football and parades Grandma’s green bean casserole Aunt Betty’s pumpkin pie. There has to be more to Thanksgiving than: A day in the kitchen An afternoon on the couch Touch football in the back yard A monopoly tournament in the basement. There has to be more to Thanksgiving than: A six hour drive Long lines at the tollbooths A mini van loaded with children and toys Missed exits Wrong turns. There has to be more to Thanksgiving than: There has to be more to Thanksgiving than: A house full of family Three generations gathered around the dining A house full of friends room table There has to be more to Thanksgiving than: Cousins crowded around wobbly card tables The day. Paper napkins Or does there? Linen tablecloths Eating off of Mother’s china Must there be any more to Thanksgiving than Eating off of plastic plates. these, now that we stop and think about it? November 23, 2000 Page 3 The Land of Plenty Open ‘til 7 p.m. Long ago the Pilgrims came Evenings Across a darkened sea, To pave the way for freedom And for our democracy. 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Priced Merchandise 1:00-5:00 It is fun to go to Grandma’s Any day of the year.... 409 Alexander Street LaPorte, IN 326-8602 But that wonderful time of Thanksgiving On Hwy 35 - 5 Blocks South of Lincolnway Turn Right on Alexander Is to me so very dear. Monday - Friday 9:30 to 7 Saturday 9:30 to 5 ——Florence Strouse Page 4 November 23, 2000 Feasting On Fine Craft at SOFA by Paula McHugh The SOFA exposition at Navy Pier is not about the home fur- nishing that a person often associates with relaxation, a remote control in one hand, perhaps a bowl of popcorn in another. No. In this case, SOFA stands for Sculpture Objects and Functional Art, which just completed its 7th year of showcasing the crème de la crème of fine craft from around the globe. Glass, metal, wood, and fiber, transformed in the most ele- gant and innovative creations imaginable filled the Exposition Hall at Navy Pier for three short days in early November. Ninety galleries presented a dazzling visual display for serious collectors, curators, sophisticated artists and students of art, and just plain appreciators, too. large sculptures in an area with more spreading-out room. They, like me, carried cameras and though nothing of snapping away at displays that caught their excitement. Signs were posted forbidding any type of filming. So I followed the crop of future artists and took my photo cues from them. Except for a few frowns, we were mostly ignored. The day began at the Chesterton Art Gallery as 25 of us boarded a comfortable bus for Navy Pier. Debarking within footsteps on the expo hall, we scat- tered like the wind to follow our own stars of the show. Occasionally over the next four hours we would bump into one another at a particular booth. Most agreed by afternoon’s end that four hours was not enough time to fully peruse the singular sensational offerings of Look closely: it’s a teapot! the ninety galleries on the site. The cavernous exhibition hall hummed with hun- dreds of lookers, meaning both people and objects d’art. Glass—slumped, fused, raw, sculpted, cut, —appeared to dominate the booths lined up one beside another and spread out row after row in what seemed to be the length of a football field. Ceramics, too, held the crowd’s fine-tuned interest. People poured over the delicate and whimsical, some hardly-recognizable-as teapots that you and I would never consider using for an afternoon gathering. These beauties are meant for display only. Or at least that would be my guess, considering the pric- etags. One could hop on British Airways and enjoy tea and scones in London for the price of many of these pieces of functional art. Art Students “Treasure Hunt” Eunice Peters, John Mullin, Judy Gregurich, and Vivian Twait marvel at a cut glass display. Fiber and wood objects were less obvious at the expo- sition, but these media samples were even more Fritz Olsen Displays “Lake Michigan Bench” stunning because of their rarity at the exposition. So, What a pleasure to discover Lakeside-based sculp- too, were the metal objects, if you don’t include the tor Fritz Olsen exhibiting his large-scale “Weathered fine jewelry. Vanes” and a freshly executed “Lake Michigan Bench” The most carefree among those who came to collect, in the SOFA expo! Fritz’s Texas red granite bench mag- gush, drool, and/or ask the artists the hows of their netized a throng of admirers who politely took turns work were the art students. Set loose among the sitting on the smooth and sensually wavy seating. throngs, students from Maine West High School went “I just finished this Monday morning and delivered on a teacher-assigned “treasure hunt” to find and assess it here Tuesday,” Fritz said, adding that he “went through their favorites. Most of the teens settled beside the a lot of chisels” while creating the piece. November 23, 2000 Page 5 Fritz’ works were represented by Niemi Fine Art Gallery of Lake Villa, soon to move to Bristol, Wisconsin. At the Niemi booth, Fritz’ talented wife Martha Cares introduced me to Bruce & Suzie Niemi. Bruce’s stainless steel “Interim 9” stood a short dis- tance from Fritz’ bench and larger stainless and mar- ble Weathered Vane. The Niemi booth displayed bronzes, ceramics, marble, and stainless sculptures representing the works of Kevin Robb, Eileen Shabazian, and Paul & Claudette Gerhold in addition to Bruce’s and Fritz’s fine art.