Loaded Quivers

AS A MAN “OF COLOUR” LIVING IN AMERICA TRYING TO GO TO SLEEP SO I CAN FIND THAT DREAM…

I, ONCE, HAD MY OWN ‘home’ THAT I MOWED THE LAWN FOR , BUT IT GOT SMOKED. AFTER GOING “HALF WAY” THROUGH A YEAR IN A ‘BUILDING ‘ SET UP FOR LIKE SITUATIONAL BEINGS I FOUND A WAY TO BE “REQUESTED” TO PROCEED TO “individual” LODGINGS. THE AREA I WAS BLESSED WITH IS ONLY 8 BLOCKS FROM WHERE MY ‘conception’ TOOK PLACE, AND IS A VERY HISTORIC ACREAGE, AS TO “african-american” EDUCATIONS, THEATRE AND MUSIC IN THE 20TH CENTURY. THERE IS A NEW WAVE RE SURGING ON THE ECONOMICAL FRONTS OF THIS AREA ONCE CALLED ‘bronzeville’. THE NAME CALLS THE HISTORIES OF THE “bronze age” TO MIND WITH THE INHABITANTS OF THAT TIME ACHIEVING SO MUCH WITH , SEEMING, SO LITTLE. QUITE LIKE WE DESCENDANTS OF THE STOLEN PEOPLE OF AFRICA HAVE DONE BIT -BY- BIT FOR THE PAST 232 YEARS. NINETY PERCENT OF THE MOST FAMOUS u.s. patent HOLDERS HAVE USED THE NASCENT BRAIN RESERVES OF AFRICA’S LOST GENERATIONS TO BOLSTER THE NATION’S CONCURRENT GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCTS.

THIS, WELL OBSCURED, FACT HAS MADE MANY OF THE ‘BLACK’ COMMUNITY WITHDRAW FROM THE MORE CIVIL AVENUES OF BEING A “citizen” IN THIS COUNTRY, BUT this IS no excuse. THIS ARENA OF “once upon a time” NON EUROPEAN MODELED business and commerce WAS A BASTION OF ART, EDUCATION, MUSIC AND THEATRE IN THE 20TH CENTURY, FROM THE 1900′S THROUGH ITS BEGINNING DEATH RATTLES IN THE 1970′S THE COMMUNAL BINDINGS WORKED A MAGIC THAT REVERBERATED AROUND THE world AS WELL AS THE NATION. THE THREE YEAR OLD sammy davis jr. STEPPED ONTO THE lincoln theatre stage AND, LATER, MADE HIS CASE AS THE NEWLY ELECTED “president of the united states” IN ‘rufus jones for president’ IN 1933.ETHEL WATERS LOOKED AND SANG “maauhvulously”, {http://youtube.com/watch?v=FrIafC5_HNo}. MR. DAVIS WAS BUT ONE OF THE ‘black hearaldry’ THAT GRACED THE lincoln theatre STAGE, THERE WERE counts AND dukes DRIVEN BY SOME OF THE MOST sumptuous CABS. AUDIENCES HAD THEIR THIRSTS SLAKED BY THE MOST POWERFULLY SATISFYING waters IN A TANTALIZINGLY TORCH IGNITING FROCK.

MANY OF THE MORE FAMOUS BUSINESSES HAVE GONE TO THE WRECKING BALL OF EXPANSION, ONE OF THE BUSINESSES WAS THE BARBERSHOP AT 483 E. LONG STREET, ITS OWNER… elijah pierce, MINISTER, WOODCARVER OF INTERNATIONAL RENOWN. HAVING CARVED AN ELEPHANT FOR HIS WIFE cornelia HER LOVE OF HIS WORK WAS TO INSPIRE HIM TO PROMISE HER AN ENTIRE ZOO. LATER SOLD OR GIVEN AWAY THE ZOO ANIMALS WERE A REMINDER OF HIS YOUTH IN THE CHURCH VIA THE BOOK OF genisis, THIS LED TO THE GENIUS OF HIS BAS-RELIEF ‘book of wood’. NOW ON DISPLAY IN THE eye spy exhibit AT THE columbus museum of art. THE martin luther king center NOW OWNS ABOUT 300 PIECES OF THIS MASTERS WORKS.

ANOTHER MAN WITH A STEADY HAND IS THE “GRAFFITI” MASTER WALT NEAL. THERE ARE STILL BUILDINGS WHOSE EXTERIOR WALLS CONTINUE TO GLOW WITH THIS MAN’S “afro-surrealist” TAPESTRIES OF SHAPE AND COLOUR. WALT HAS MOVED TO THE AREA OF ATLANTA GEORGIA OF LATE AND IS DOING QUITE WELL FOR THE SOUTHERN AFRO-CULTURE SO MONIED THERE.

FOR THOSE THAT THINK THAT THE lincoln theatre WILL BE LACKING IN DIRECTION THINK AGAIN, THE “DARK STAR” OF THE MOVIE ‘white nights”, ( THE LATE GREGORY HINES/ HINES, HINES AND DAD?), HAS HIS OLDER BROTHER MAURICE HINES LEADING THE CONTROLLING BOARD AS THE ‘ artistic director’ FOR THE REBUILDING OF A LEGACY. AND ALONG THE LONG STREET CORRIDOR, AT THE CORNER OF 17TH IS A PLACE THAT WILL TAKE YOUR TASTE-BUDS FOR A SAMBA WHILE THE NOSE MA-RENEGES FROM THE TEPID TATOOING OF ONE OF THE BEST COFFEE “SHOPS” IN COLUMBUS, OHIO… AND THERE ALWAYS SEEMS TO BE MUSIC IN THE AIR AS YOU LOUNGE AT THEIR SIDEWALK BISTRO TABLES. STOP ON OVER TO THE DIRECTION WHERE THE SUN BEGINS TO SHINE ITS LIGHT ON columbus, ohio!

IF YOU LIKE WHAT YOU’VE READ HERE THERE WILL BE MORE ABOUT WHAT THINGS should BRING SOME OF THE VIBRANT LIVING THERE IS HERE IN “bronzeville” HELP YOUR SELVES TO REMAKE THEN PRESERVE ITS BETTER HISTORIES TO COME! look at the picture below. LOOKS GOOOOOOD DON’T IT!?!