Making It In The Hollywood Of The South

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Chelsey Willis

Chelsey Willis is an aspiring arts and culture journalist with a Master of Arts degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Georgia. Chelsey is a longtime passionate supporter of the arts with particular interest and experience in theater and the performing arts. She currently contributes to ArtsATL.com and resides in Athens, GA.
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Sights & Sounds

Making It In The Hollywood Of The South

by Chelsey Willis | 10, Add your Comment | Jun 14, 2012

John Paul Marston sits at a piano surrounded by lights, cameras, microphones and about a dozen or more production crewmembers. Nervous and anxious of performing, he touches the piano’s keys. A voice yells out, “Don’t touch the keys! Just pretend to play!” Marston is relieved. Another direction comes, “Remember, you’re under a spell so ignore everything.” It goes against the most basic skill of any professional actor—reaction.

“Action!” yells the director. The scene begins. It’s Marston’s big moment.

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Interpreting at the Free Clinic

I had an interesting morning yesterday at the Free Clinic. Once a week I’m a Spanish interpreter in an organization supported by over 400 volunteers who give a few hours a week of their particular expertise in a smoothly run team. We cater for patients with chronic conditions needing regular medication, having no access to health insurance. Yesterday we met a new patient who is deaf and mute since birth. We took her through her eligibility interview with a social worker, then a nurse took her health history, followed by a doctor's consultation and a laboratory test. In the seven years I Read on →

Music Legend’s Scott Joplin’s Fight Against Racial Discrimination

When music publisher John Stark first heard Scott Joplin play his piano, he knew that ragtime was the music of hope for a new America. But Joplin would never be content with popularity and fame. Joplin committed himself to racial justice in the early 1900’s. He was inspired by Booker T. Washington and the Dahomeyan defeat in West Africa. But due to this earnest pursuit, he was ignored by the masses for writing the music of Civil Rights fifty years before America was ready to listen. King of Rags, by Professor Eric Bronson, is a historical fiction account of the quest for r Read on →

A Sick and Broken Spirit

As it says in my by-line, in the several items I've posted previously on "Like the Dew," I recently ran for Congress. But I am not a politician, nor possessed of a personal ambition to hold public office. I ran, rather, because for the past nine years I have had a message that I regard as so urgent that I've been willing to do whatever I can to spread it far and wide in order to persuade my fellow citizens of its truth and importance. I believe that for the past decade or so America has faced a crisis as pr Read on →

The Zero Sum Business Plan

In 1916 the Argent Lumber Company commenced work in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Beginning in 1904 several whaling and sealing operations commenced along the northern shore of South Georgia Island in the far South Atlantic Ocean. Argent was one of a number of similar lumber companies that operated in South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia beginning in the 1880's. The various whaling operations began on South Georgia somewhat later, the first and most successful being the Argentine Fishing Company (Compañía Argentina de Pesca). At its height, Argent Lumber was reputed to operate the largest, by volume of wood produced, lumber mill in t Read on →

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Interpreting at the Free Clinic

Music Legend’s Scott Joplin’s Fight Against Racial Discrimination

A Sick and Broken Spirit

The Zero Sum Business Plan