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There were stars etched in the sidewalk outside the Driskill Hotel in memory of some Austin celebrities - this is a collage I made from a picture I took of Janis Joplin's star.
Meet Christy
Lived in Joplin: Christy has lived in Joplin her entire life
Setbacks in Rebuilding: Six years before the tornado, Christy spent a lot of money paying a recommended contractor to fix her flat roof. Being pregnant with her daughter, she never got on the ladder and checked to see how the work was looking. The poor quality of work became apparent only after the tornado, when it began to leak. The humidity and particles caused health problems for her young daughter.
Tornado Experience: Christy and most of her family were at Walt Disney World on vacation when the tornado struck. They were scheduled to come home on Monday, and the tornado struck Sunday night. The only family member left in Joplin was her grandmother. The family called her the night of the tornado. As Christy finished speaking with her grandmother, the tornado sirens wailed in the background. Her grandmother hung up the phone, and headed into the closet, the safest place in her house during a tornado.
Christy and her family returned to Joplin a day after the tornado. They found the chaos that comes with natural disasters, but wanted to check on their grandmother. Although, they were told they couldn’t go near her grandmother’s house, Christy and her family were determined to check on her. A police officer friend gave Christy a ride to her grandmother’s house. It was completely destroyed, and they found people stealing her grandmother’s jewelry from the rubble. Her grandmother was one of the 161 people killed by the tornado. Christy and her family mourned the loss of her grandmother, but kept busy running Stogey’s.
Goals/ Hopes for the Future: Christy simply wants to raise her daughter the best she can. She’d like to pay it forward, and is thinking of joining the Peace Corps when her daughter gets a little older.
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Operator: J.R. Joplin
Fleet No: --
Registration: B12FAH (YN04WTE, CJE32)
Body/Chassis: Volvo B12B Transbus Panther
Chassis No: YV3R8G1134A014427
Seating: C49Ft
New: April 2004
Ex: E.H. Elcock & Son
Livery: E.H. Elcock & Son
Date: Tuesday 1st December 2015
Location: King’s Lynn Bus Station, Market Street
Route: King's Lynn Market Day Service
This cardboard cut-out of Janis Joplin merchandizes some t-shirts at one of the vintage goodie shops in Woodstock, NY. For more information on shopping, dining and living in Woodstock visit www.villagegreenrealty.com.
Meet Beverly.
Lived in Joplin: She lived in Joplin for 5 years, before renting her house out and moving to Albuquerque, NM to be closer to her mother and sister. After the tornado, she decided she wanted to return to Joplin and fix her house.
Occupation: Beverly works in retail selling jewelry.
Relatives: She has a daughter and a son, and a total of 4 grandchildren.
Rebuilding Needing Done: She had paid for much of the work to be done already. She needs Rebuild Joplin’s help fixing some of the electrical, plumbing, and securing the overall structural integrity of the house.
Currently Living: She currently lives in her house in Joplin.
Setbacks in Rebuilding: Beverly spent all of her insurance money, plus all of her savings trying to repair the house after the storm. She had not been aware that programs like Rebuild Joplin existed, and wishes she had heard about them earlier. She appreciates all of the help and support of the community and volunteers.
Tornado Experience: Beverly was renting out her home in Joplin to a nice young couple, when the tornado hit. Fortunately, they were not at home. The bedrooms, located in the back of the house, had their windows blown out, and would have injured anyone in the room. After the storm, the house was so badly damaged, they were not able to return. Beverly came back from New Mexico to make the repairs.
Goals/ Hopes for the Future: Beverly had become part of the community in Albuquerque, and looks forward to doing the same here in Joplin. She wants to start volunteering in the community, and join the art community.
Meet Thomas, an American Red Cross worker and amateur radio enthusiast. Thomas has lived in the Midwest his entire life, finally settling in Joplin in 2003. Thomas holds a unique perspective on the tornado, seeing as both his home was damaged and he was called to provide disaster relief services through the Red Cross within hours of the storm hitting. He certainly has seen a lot of disasters in his time, but as he puts it the Joplin tornado was “definitely the worst I have ever seen”.
On May 22nd, Thomas spent much of his afternoon weather spotting prior to the tornado’s arrival. When the storm started to turn severe and radio communication mentioned that the tornado was heading toward his neighborhood, he knew that his life was about to take a drastic turn. Within hours of the disaster, Thomas was called into the Red Cross to aid in the communications side of search and rescue operations. From the Sunday the tornado hit until the following Tuesday, he remembers phone services were so backed up that people couldn’t even get their call through to request assistance. He continued to work selflessly throughout the emergency relief process, contributing much of his time to help others when parts of his own home had been ripped apart by the storm.
Unfortunately, devastation continued to take a drastic toll on Thomas’ life. Shortly after the storm, his wife was diagnosed with breast, bone, and lung cancer and relocated to Mississippi to be with her family during treatment. Thomas has not been able to find steady work due to a disability after receiving a hip replacement. Crippled by the growing medical bills from his wife’s cancer treatments, it has been difficult to save enough money to repair the damage the storm left. After he met Rebuild Joplin he remembers, “just feeling relieved knowing that I was able to access a resource. It really takes off a lot of stress”.
Thomas is impressed by the motivation and selflessness that Joplin volunteers have demonstrated over the past year: “I really think that the number of people that came in and are still coming in wanting to help…it’s remarkable”.
Cat Stephani as rock legend Janis Joplin in the world premiere of One Night with Janis Joplin at Portland Center Stage. Created, written and directed by Randy Johnson. Produced in association with the Janis Joplin Estate and Jeff Jampol of Jampol Artist Management, Inc. Photo by Owen Carey.
May 24–June26, 2011 at Portland Center Stage. Tickets and information available at www.pcs.org/janis
Very deep, compared to regular Anachrome images. Probably twice the depth usually associated with Anachrome images.
This was Janis Joplin's Car as it is on dsplay at the Henry Ford Museum's Rock Stars’ Cars & Guitars 2
Shoulder bag, bell-bottom pants, feather boa, velvet shirt worn by Janis Joplin.
As the items of hers exhibited here suggest, Janis Joplin had a rebellious and flashy sense of style—something that started, in fact, when she was in high school in Port Arthur, Texas.
More info about "1968: The Year That Rocked America" exhibition: www.heinzhistorycenter.org/secondary.aspx?id=215&cont...
Watercolor & Ink.
Read about Janis Joplin: campsmartypants.blogspot.com/2012/01/sheroes-janis-joplin...
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Perhaps more than any other performer of the 1960s, Janis Joplin (1943-70) came to symbolize the rawness and drug-riddled abandon of the decade’s rock music. From 1966 to 1968, she fronted the psychedelic rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company. Their classic album "Cheap Thrills" was certified gold the moment it was released in 1968, and sold a million copies in its first month. Joplin left Big Brother in December 1968, and went on to appear solo and with other groups. She died of a heroin overdose on October 4, 1970.
More info about "1968: The Year That Rocked America" exhibition: www.heinzhistorycenter.org/secondary.aspx?id=215&cont...
Meet Roger. A Joplin resident for more than 25 years, Roger was familiar with the constantly shifting weather in Missouri. Three years before the storm, two of his brothers moved to Joplin to share his large home. Ronnie acted as the full-time caregiver for their younger brother George, who has a lifelong mental disability while Roger owned an advertising business.
Roger left his house for a meeting around 5pm on May 22, with Ronnie and George napping in their bedrooms. By the time he reached the meeting on the north end of Joplin, the storm was approaching. He called home to remind Ronnie to take shelter in the basement but could not reach him. At the time, he believed it was because he was sleeping, but he now understands the deadly tornado had already destroyed his home.
Panic surged through Roger as he learned just how severe the storm was. He needed to get home, but he would have to travel the difficult, debris filled path of the storm to do so. When Roger finally located his destroyed home he rushed up onto the debris to the basement entrance where he expected to find his brothers. Unable to locate them in the basement, Roger climbed over fallen walls and destroyed furniture to get to the back bedrooms where his brothers were sleeping when he left. Here, his greatest fear became reality as he found George reaching out for his brother Ronnie who was crushed when a large tree fell through the house. George suffered multiple broken ribs and a ruptured spleen, and was transported to a nearby intersection in an office chair to be taken for medical treatment including immediate surgery. Unable to care for him as he recovers, George lives in a nursing home more than an hour from Joplin.
Roger’s insurance paid off the mortgage that remained on the home and left him with a debris-filled lot. Initially, he lived with his stepson and struggled to find assistance to help him begin to rebuild. Now displaced to Oklahoma, he describes the grief that consumed him as “loss, combined with just being homesick. I just wanted to go home, to my brothers, to my own room – anything.” A friend recently gave him a puppy, which he calls Princess, to help him with the grieving process and he says he can’t wait to introduce her to George, knowing that the two will love each other. The other day Roger can’t wait for is the day he is able to tell George it is time to go home again – a promise that will help begin to rebuild not just a home, but a family.
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I didn't really have a title for this picture, so I just titled it Joplin, where I took it!
This was taken behind a gas station, we saw the flooded grass and had to take a picture. I was also running out of sunlight.
This is Laura! Thank you for modeling for me, you are so beautiful! She rode down with Shelby and I to Arkansas, where I assisted my first wedding! I'm trying to think of how to describe this wedding besides perfect. I think it ruined all other weddings for me. Claire and Nathan honestly were the cutest couple. It was even more amazing being my first wedding because I know Claire, she is the happiest most bubbly person I think I've ever met, she deserves perfection. I wish them both the best :)
I edited this picture Friday, it has been so hard without internet access to NOT upload it! GRRRR.