Letters et cetera

Just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed the clip from “Live from … the Hook.” I have some extremely vivid memories even after all these years. I lived in Echols, then in a smattering of apartments and cottages, farther and farther out into the country. I worked construction with Charlie P. one summer and ran into him later in the Outer Banks once (he remembered our summer as carpenter’s helpers or whatever the heck we were doing back then — I remember trapping snapping turtles with fish hooks tied to soccer balls in the pond, so that they wouldn’t terrorize the kiddies of the people who moved in). Good job at posting the film.

Derek Nelson (College ’71, MA English ’75)
Norfolk, Va.

 

Ian Harrison (’Hoos News, April 2007) might check with the physics department for answers to our energy “problems.”

One would hope that someone there would know that the cheapest, safest, cleanest way to mass produce electricity is nuclear. With reprocessing of spent rods, fuel availability is almost infinite. Waste disposal is a political, not technical, problem. If a hydrogen economy ever comes to pass, huge amounts of inexpensive electricity will be needed. Neither windmills, solar collectors nor chicken manure will ever provide for these requirements.

Bob Fay (Economics ’54)
Breckenridge, Colo.

 

Follow up

“Kin Flicks” is the theme of the 20th annual Virginia Film Festival, scheduled for Nov. 1 through 4, 2007. More than 100 speakers and films will address popular and alternative images of family life. According to festival director Richard Herskowitz, “We’re extending invitations to some classic movie moms (‘Mildred Pierce,’ ‘All About My Mother’ and ‘Mommie Dearest’) and dads (‘The Godfather’ and ‘The Shining’). Since movies do such a good job of depicting them, we won’t close the door on dysfunctional families, including ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ and the characters in two of this year’s Sundance highlights, ‘Crazy Love’ and ‘Joshua’ (produced by Charlottesville-based ATO Pictures).”

 

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