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The not-singing bird With endless silence. —David Olney People say it was a poetic exit. I assure you, NOBODY wants to die onstage — figuratively or literally. On Jan. 18, Americana pioneer, singer-songwriter, recording artist, pre-pandemic streamcaster, actor, and my longtime client and good friend David Olney died of an apparent heart attack midsong. He was center stage between Amy Rigby and Scott Miller at the 30A Songwriter Festival in the Florida panhandle. His last words: “I’m sorry.” His mantra, however, was, “Always be true to the song.” Understanding the covenant between the audience and performer, David earned rapt attention from folks wondering how to classify what they were witnessing. Was it country? Folk? Blues? Vaudeville? Scottish newspaper
The Inglewood Branch Library is hard to describe, architecturally. Is it meant to evoke a Swiss chalet? Polynesia by way of Walt Disney? Whatever the designers had in mind, they nailed it. Its whitewashed walls and russet roof meet in sharp angles. Its numerous windows doubtless offer soothing natural light in copious amounts, no matter the sun angle. The central fireplace, its smoke rising to a chimney from yet another vernacular architectural school â National Park Service rustic â surely crackles, offering warmth both metaphysical and actual physical. The library, on Gallatin Pike and Winding Way, opened in 1969 on land donated by Newman Cheek, son of Joel Cheek of Cheekwood and Maxwell House Coffee fame, and fronts a neighborhood, officially known as Jackson Park, that bears Cheek