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Photo Derek Burritt
Dressed as a spectral deer, 13-year-old Emily Gluck (right) walks with her mother Karen Billard, executive director of The Living Arts Institute, to lead a group from Wellfleet Town Hall to the library Saturday as part of the Two Old Women Project. |
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Photo Derek Burritt
Dressed as a spectral deer, 13-year-old Emily Gluck (left) takes part in the Two Old Women Project walk held in Wellfleet. |
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Reconnecting the generations
Banner Daily Update posted Mon. June 4
By Derek Burritt
Banner Staff
WELLFLEET—On Saturday afternoon a procession of mostly mature women followed a young woman dressed in a spectral deer costume down Main Street from Town Hall to the library. The purpose of the event was to simply walk and talk, but outside the linear experience, participants were part of a growing feminine movement to re-establish the powerful bond between old and young that has become torn and frayed in our modern society.
The event was part of the ongoing Two Old Women Project, started by Karen Dowcett, founder and president The Living Arts Institute and artistic director of the institute’s theatrical production arm Big & Small Mask Troupe. The project is centered around its namesake book “Two Old Women”, written by Velma Wallis, that retells an Alaskan folktale about two Athabascan tribeswomen who are left to die for the greater good of the starving tribe. Although the women had become used to complaining and having people do things for them, they found the strength to keep themselves alive and eventually saved their entire tribe.
Barbara Stafford, of Eastham, says for her the Two Old Women Project is “a call in the biblical sense.” The former high school teacher began her involvement in November 2006 as a participant in a seven-month program that lets seniors work artistically with students at the Lighthouse Charter Middle School in Orleans. As she approaches 70 years old, Stafford says she’s starting a new life, and through her involvement with young people week after week, she says “the child in me is being reborn.”
For more on this story seek the June 7 Provincetown Banner.
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May 31st, 2007