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Walter Parks
Since moving to Webster Groves last spring, Walter Parks has spent much of his time writing and recording.
After Walter Parks began researching his musical and cultural roots in southeast Georgia, he found a treasure trove of material in the Library of Congress’ American Folklife Center. The library had preserved early field recordings of homesteaders in the Okefenokee Swamp region, where Parks remembers camping and exploring as a kid.
“In 1945, somebody went up there [to the Okefenokee] with equipment borrowed from the Library of Congress, and they recorded them making the music that they make,” the writer, guitarist and vocalist told
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ERIC ROTH It was a major disappointment, particularly the way it was presented. I hope it will rectify itself, but it s a much longer conversation. I m an advocate of streaming in many, many ways because of the opportunity for many, many people to see things that they wouldn t have seen. On the other hand, I grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant and went to the Brooklyn Paramount Theater at 8 years old and was enveloped in the theater experience. So, I think it s a complicated thing.
MARC PLATT
Chicago 7 was intended for a theatrical exhibition. One of our goals in making that film was to actually get it out before the election. The acceleration of the business to a streaming business was actually a gift in certain ways, for that particular film, in our ability to get it out this past October through Netflix, as opposed to a theatrical market that was not existent at the time.
Renovation to begin on iconic Bull Street building damaged in fire Author: WLTX Updated: 6:29 PM EST December 17, 2020
COLUMBIA, S.C. The iconic red dome on the Babcock Building will rise again over the Columbia skyline. Developers of the BullStreet District announced Thursday, Dec. 17, that funding has been secured to start the reconstruction of the building that was heavily damaged by fire on September 12.
Clachan Properties of Richmond, VA., the owner of the building, closed on the tax credit equity and a U.S. Housing and Urban Development’s long-term, low interest loan last week that was required to help finance the costly renovation of Babcock, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.